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ID: PTC5186140 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Kolekce: BaroqueMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: KAI0013242 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Percussion Last year celebrated the 85th birthday of Austrian composer FriedrichCerha, best known for his orchestra cycle Spiegel and the completionof the third act of Alban Berg s Lulu. This new record combines twoorchestral pieces from recent years, both played by one of the finestorchestras in the world the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted byPierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös. The demanding solo part of theKonzert for Percussion & Orchestra is played by young percussion starMartin Grubinger. |
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ID: OA0817D Disk: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolekce: DocumentaryActors: Judith Howarth, Christopher Robinson, BBC Philharmonic
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, PAL
Language: French
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 27 Mar 2002
Run Time: 78 minutes
Francis Poulenc was a tantalising character, part-monk and part-rascal according to the critic Claude Rostand. As in Stabat mater his music reflects this Janus-like persona, tears never far beneath the surface of even his most jovial offerings. Early on he had renounced the devout Catholicism of his family but rediscovered his faith after the premature death of a close friend, the composer and patron Pierre-Octave Ferroud. It was this event that prompted Poulenc's pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Rocamadour, who nestles benevolently, high up in the rock face.
An important body of sacred works ensued, not least his Stabat mater, a personal memorial to Ferroud. This is performed here by the combined Cambridge choirs of St John's, Clare and Gonville, and Caius; they're pleasingly mellifluous and disciplined but sound utterly un-French. The work can take it, but this is not the most tender performance. The strange and haunting Motets (Claire and Gonville and Caius Choirs) are dramatically the high point of this concert, while the otherworldly beauty of the ethereal (female-voice) Litanies tugs at the heart-strings. As a visual experience, we get two different locations but there's not a great deal you can do with a bunch of singers. The best things are the close-ups of a fabulous Chagall window (which comes from another church entirely, but who cares?). |
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ID: NMCD104 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr One of two releases to mark the centenary of Michael Tippett in 2005, this disc was the composer's last recording, and his only commercial one of any of his Symphonies. Originally issued with BBC Music Magazine in 1995, the booklet features a memoir of the sessions by producer Martin Cotton. |
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ID: NMCD162 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr This colourful disc showcases Richard Ayres’s melodic, eclectic and theatrical style, which owes as much to the exuberance of Janacek as Kagel’s experiments: Ayres explains “I want to use consonance, dissonance, melody, texture, elephants, clouds, snowballs, anything, from any time and whenever it is needed.”
1 - 4 Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra / Roland Kluttig, conductor
5 - 17 Wim Timmermans, horn / ASKO Ensemble / Roland Kluttig, conductor
18 - 20 Marco Blauuw, trumpet / Musik Fabrik / Roland Kluttig, conductor |
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