Tracklista: Shostakovich 1. Chamber Symphony in C minor op110a Strauss 2. Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
Album został wydany przez wytwórnię Genuin (GEN 19648).
Tracklista:1. Rhapsody On Themes from 'Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg', WWV962. Siegmund's Love Song3. The Ride of the Valkyries4. Love Scene and Transfiguration5. Concert Fantasy Over 'La Forza Del Destino'6. Concert Paraphrase Over 'Rigoletto'7. Sacred Dance and Final Duet8. Concert Paraphrase On Themes from 'Il Trovatore'
Box jubileuszowy wydany z okazji 25-lecia działalności zespołu La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Box zawiera 4 płyty SACD z nagraniami z repertuaru katalońskiego - El Canconer del Duc de Calabria, Villancicos & Ensaladas, Cererols Missa Pro Defunctis. Wykonawcy to Montserrat Figueras, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall.
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary Carus has initiated a new series Carus Classics, featuring ten outstanding CD productions from the past library of recordings. This exclusive collection, designed by Friedrich Forssman and Cornelia Feyll, is presented in high-quality DigiPacs and each CD includes an extensive booklet.
Komplet utworów na gitarę solo barokwego kompozytora francuskiego Roberta de Visee, nadwornego kompozytora króla Ludwika XIV. Wykonawca to gitarzysta Rafael Andia wykonujący te utwory na instrumencie z epoki.
Tracklista:1. Jesu Sweet, Now Will I Sing2. My Soul Has Nought But Fire and Ice3. I Sing of a Maiden That Matchless Is4. My Leman Is So True5. Hymn to the Virgin, Op. 13, No. 26. Cradle Song, Op. 8, No. 17. Jesukin, Op. 4, No. 28. Variations On a Phrygian Theme, Op. 1059. A Prayer, Op. 17, No. 110. The Heart Worships11. Rune of Hospitality, Op. 1512. The Mystery, Op. 4, No. 113. Meditations On a Byzantine Hymn, Op. 11714. Rosa Mundi, Op. 215. Lord Come Away16. Who Is This Fair One17. Come Love, Come Lord18. Evening Hymn19. A Duan of Barra, Op. 20
Zrewolucjonizował muzykę dawną, nim zwrócił uwagę na repertuar XIX- i XX-wieczny – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, jeden z najważniejszych dyrygentów naszych czasów. Wyjątkowymi perełkami w jego dorobku są interpretacje muzyki Johanna Straussa Syna, pełne typowo wiedeńskiej błyskotliwości oraz – jak ujął to sam Harnoncourt – "wolne od nadmiernego sentymentalizmu".
“What This Silence, the Baudelaire Songs and the Elegy for viola and seven instruments show is that Turnage is often at his strongest when he surrenders to his lyrical impulses. His melodic lines may be too edgily contemporary for nostalgic tastes - more Miles Davis than Elgar or Puccini - but they have a poignancy and beauty that can't fail to move unprejudiced ears. The Nash Ensemble's fine performances are all very sympathetically recorded...”Gramophone Classical Music Guide2010“Here's yet another disc from the Nash Ensemble devoted to the music of Mark-Anthony Turnage and it is, in a sense, the most representative because it gives a fine indication of his range.Favourites come from opposite tendencies.Slide Stride (2002) is a noisily affirmative piano quintet based on James P Johnson's style of jazz piano and dedicated to Richard Rodney Bennett, whereas True Life Stories, unveiled as a group by Leif Ove Andsnes in 2000, are cool piano miniatures. As is usual with Turnage these days, not all the core material is new and the last in the sequence, the haunting tribute to To¯ru Takemitsu, cheekily reprises the final item on that Black Box anthology. Ian Brown plays it with more restraint and less pedal this time around – or it could be simply that the sound is not as resonant.While Turnage demonstrates a continuing ability to straddle disparate musical worlds, his startling fluency begins to look as much a problem as an asset. In Two Baudelaire Songs (2004) he sets poems already transmogrified by Debussy and Henri Duparc. Only here L'invitation auvoyage is deconstructed rather than indulged, a peculiarly dissonant close undercutting the 'Luxe, calme et volupté' of the text. As miked, the soloist Sally Matthews is very much one of the band. Lawrence Power's viola seems rather forwardly placed in the autumnal Eulogy (2003), an immediately convincing composition that doesn't strive for novelty.Turnage's world has dark, claustrophobic qualities, underlined here by the immediate, focused recording masterminded by Chris Craker. Barry Witherden's copious notes are helpful. Not perhaps a disc you would want to digest at one sitting though this generous selection of definitive performances is well worth sampling.
Pochodzący z Anglii wybitny kompozytor Henry Purcell, urodzony w 1659 roku w Westminster, zmarł w 1695 roku w Londynie. Artysta tworzył i był przedstawicielem epoki baroku, grał on również na organach i klawesynie. Jeden z twórców angielskiej muzyki narodowej. Album został wydany przez wytwórnię Signum Classics (SIGCD 586).