Muzycy: Christiane Höltge - flute Gert Lueken - clarinette Helga Warner-Buhlmann - fagott Tracklista: 1. Theodor Holterdorf (1910 - 1991) - Concertino 2. Wawrzyniec Zulawski (1916 - 1957) - Aria con variazioni 3. Johannes Simon Mayr (1763 - 1845) - Six Bagatelles a tre 4. Julio Perceval (1903 - 1963) - Serenata 5. Gerhard Maasz (1906 - 1984) - Divertimento
Glyndebourne Opera has a history of trend setting and pioneering opera productions and Donizetti’s opera L’elisir d’amore is no exception. Popular in Donizetti’s own lifetime, L’elisir faded into relative obscurity until the 1890s when Caruso championed the role of Nemorino: his dedication and conviction were such that Covent Garden arranged a production of the opera in 1902. L’elisir was a personal favourite of Caruso’s, so much so that in 1920 he played Nemorino in his last appearance with the Metropolitan Opera. Almost 60 years later, in 1961, it was Glyndebourne who staged a production of L’elisir d’amore designed and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Such was the success and acclaim for this production that Glyndebourne revived it in 1962, enhancing the production with the addition of the lively and capricious Mirella Freni.As the press noted: ‘Her [Freni's] looks and her cantabile singing melt, so to speak, on the tongue, and she acts her teasing charades with Sergeant Belcore as if nothing were farther from her mind than cruelty.’ (The Times, August 1962) and ‘Mirella Freni, the sparkling new Adina, rightly allowed real tenderness to shine through vanity and caprice.’ (The Sunday Times, August 1962)Mirella Freni was first engaged by Glyndebourne in 1960 (and sings Susanna in Glyndebourne’s own recording of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro GFOCD00162).Previously she had also performed at the opera house in Torino in the late 50s and sung with Netherlands Opera in 1959-60 season, but her international break and recognition came by virtue of her role as Adina in this 1962 production.This recording, released here for the first time, precedes Freni’s EMI recording of L’elisir d’amore with Nicolai Gedda as Nemorino in a Rome Opera production by some 5 years. In this recording, Freni has a cast of equals around her. As the besotted Nemorino, Luigi Alva vividly portrays the wounded innocent with The Daily Telegraph noting in August 1962 that ‘Alva’s Nemorino is a wonderful combination of rustic clowning and exquisitely finished bel canto’, with Enzo Sordello a baritone voice big enough to fill a stadium, providing a fresh virile and bold Belcore. Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario enjoyed a 60 plus year career and is remembered for his masterful interpretations of Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti operas and stands as one of the most singer-friendly conductors of all time.The 2CD set is packaged as a hard bound book containing a full libretto translated into English, French and German along with a commissioned article about the opera, and synopsis in English, French and German.
The Flower Kings powracają! Płyta "Waiting For Miracles" jest okraszoną okładką stworzoną przez Kevina Sloana. Krążek zapowiada się na jeden z najmocniejszy od lat. W składzie znajdują się Roine Stolt, Hasse Fröberg, Zach Kamins, Jonas Reingold i Mirko DeMaio. Tracklista: LP1 1. House Of Cards 2. Black Flag 3. Miracles For America 4. Vertigo 5. The Bridge 6. Ascending To The Stars LP 2 1. Wicked Old Symphony 2. The Rebel Circus 3. Sleep With The Enemy 4. The Crowning Of Greed 5. House Of Cards Reprise 6. Spirals 7. Steampunk 8. We Were Always Here 9. Busking At Brobank CD 1 1. House Of Cards 2. Black Flag 3. Miracles For America 4. Vertigo5. The Bridge 6. Ascending To The Stars 7. Wicked Old Symphony 8. The Rebel Circus 9. Sleep With The Enemy 10. The Crowning Of Greed CD 2 1. House Of Cards Reprise 2. Spirals 3. Steampunk 4. We Were Always Here 5. Busking At Brobank
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Benedict: Piano Concerto in C minor Op 45Piano Concerto in E flat major Op 89 Macfarren: Concertstück in E minor With Volume 48 of our groundbreaking Romantic Piano Concerto series we reach very uncharted territory indeed. Sir Julius Benedict has been all but forgotten today but he is yet another composer who gives the lie to the idea that Britain was ‘a land without music’ in the nineteenth century. Though born in Germany, Benedict settled in London in 1835, having already established a career as composer and pianist on the continent. He arrived in a city which had been the pianistic centre of Europe for the previous thirty years (though that role was shortly thereafter lost to Paris and the new generation of Romantic composers we remember today) and was soon performing his two concertinos in A flat and E flat, the latter work later being expanded into the E flat concerto recorded here. The C minor concerto was to follow in 1850. Both works are very much in the tradition of Hummel, of whom Benedict was a pupil, and combine brilliant virtuosity with an easy lyricism. The even-more-forgotten Walter Macfarren was the brother of better-known George, an early Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Walter was for many years a piano professor there, his pupils including Matthay and Henry Wood. His music is very much in the style of Mendelssohn and his Concertstück proves to be a very attractive work which could easily pass as one by the greater master.
Lista Utworów:1. The Song Of The Sun 2. Celtic Rain 3. The Hero 4. Women Of Ireland 5. The Voyager 6. She Moves Through The Fair 7. Dark Island 8. Wild Goose Flaps its Wings 9. Flowers of The Florest 10. Mont St Michel
Tracklista:1. Prelude2. Kiara3. Kong4. Eyesdown (Feat. Andreya Triana)5. El Toro6. We Could Forever7. 10098. All in Forms9. The Keeper (Feat. Andreya Triana)10. Stay the Same (Feat. Andreya Triana)11. Animals12. Black Sands
W 1988 roku, w czasach największych triumfów jednej z najważniejszych formacji brytyjskiej sceny alternatywnej, jaką bez wątpienia była założona przez braci Jima i Williama Reidów szkocka grupa The Jesus & Mary Chain, wydana została kompilacja jej rzadkich piosenek. Teraz "Barbed Wire Kisses" ukazuje się ponownie na podwójnej płycie winylowej.
Tosca to prawdziwy muzyczny fenomen. Nikt tak jak oni nie potrafi połączyć smooth jazzowego klimatu, z chilloutowym luzem, soulem i jazzem. Tak jest i tym razem o czym przekonuje fantastyczny singiel „Crazy Love”. Elegancja, styl i wykonawcza perfekcja „Outta Here” budzą podziw od pierwszego do ostatniego kawałka na płycie. Liczni w naszym kraju fani grupy z pewnością będą usatysfakcjonowani.
Tracklista: 1. 05_1975 B2. 05_1975 A3. 12_1975 A4. 14_1975 A5. 03_1975 A6. Lichtpunkte Und Schwarze Zeichen