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ID: KAI0013242
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Percussion
Last year celebrated the 85th birthday of Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha, best known for his orchestra cycle Spiegel and the completion of the third act of Alban Berg s Lulu. This new record combines two orchestral pieces from recent years, both played by one of the finest orchestras in the world the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös. The demanding solo part of the Konzert for Percussion & Orchestra is played by young percussion star Martin Grubinger. |
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ID: OA0817D
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Documentary
Actors: 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: GM4.0040
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
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ID: SIGCD173
CDs: 2
Type: SACD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Acknowledged as the UK’s foremost musical pioneers, with an extraordinary recording legacy, the Philharmonia leads the field for its quality of playing. Together with its relationships with the most sought-after artists, most importantly its Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra is at the heart of British musical life.
Esa-Pekka Salonen made his London conducting debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in September 1983 and he has returned to conduct the Orchestra on a regular basis ever since. This is the first in our series of Philharmonia releases that feature Salonen as conductor and is a hybrid SACD/CD in both stereo and surround. Forthcoming recordings as part of Salonen’s new partnership with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Signum include Mahler’s 6th and 9th symphonies and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.
“[Salonen] brought this extravagant manifestation of late Romanticism to a suitable blazing climax.”
The Evening Standard
“The Philharmonia played as if the music really mattered, with beautifully moulded textures and impeccable attacks.”
The Financial Times |
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ID: IDIS297-98
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Mozart: Symphonies Nos.5, 35, 40, 41; Beeethoven: Overtures |
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ID: IDIS307-08
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Symphony No.6 / Romeo and Juliet / Brahms, J.: Symphony No.1 |
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ID: IDIS277-78
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Orchestral Music - Dvorak, A. / Bach, J.S. / Rossini, G. / Brahms, J. / Weber, C.M. Von and etc...(Chronological Edition of Recordings, 1926-45) |
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