Coverage of the 2011 Centennial Opening Night Gala of the San Francisco Symphony. The event was overseen by the San Francisco Symphony's current Music Director, Michael Tilson Thomas, and featured performances by musicians including violinist Itzhak Perlman.
The Yorkshire Baroque Soloists and Yorkshire Bach Choir were formed in 1973 as the basis of the famous York Early Music Festival, and have built a firm reputation as one of the finest ensembles in the world in their performance and interpretation of 17th and 18th century music. Under their director Peter Seymour they return to disc with a fine selection of soloists to perform Bach’s Mass in B Minor, BWV 232.
REPERTUAR:1. Rider's March2. Troika3. Partisan Song4. NIghtingales5. Songs of the Volga Boat Man6. 'Let's drink"7. Black Eyebrows8. Kossack's Song9. Kamarinskaya10. Amapola11. Ukrainian Folk Song12. Shenandoah13. Escamillo Couplets from Carmen14. Kalinka15. Russian Song The Red Army Chorus Live At The OrpheumArtistic Director: Major- General Boris AlexandrovConductor: Colonel Anatoly MaltsevChief Of Choir: Lieutenant- Colonel Yuri Petrov Orchestra Director: Vyacheslav KorobkaChoir- Master: Viktor FedorovOrchestra Leader: Vladimir Ogarkov
The period instrument ensemble Barokkanerne presents Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in a debut recording with LAWO Classics. Led by Alfredo Bernardini, the group performs ground-breaking symphonies and concertos of this ardent next-eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. The music spans more than 30 years of C.P.E. Bach’s life as a composer - from his engagement as court musician in Berlin to his last years as director of music in Hamburg. This is Sturm and Drang and Enlightenment at its fieriest. Reason and feelings are distilled in a contrast-laden musical universe - Empfindsamkeit, sensitivity - in which humans and things human are the new wine of the age. Italian baroque oboe specialist Alfredo Bernardini, one of the world’s leading performers of early music, has garnered a number of international prizes for his many recordings. He is, among other things, the founder and artistic director of the ensemble ZEFIRO. Principal harpsichordist Christian Kjos is a sought-after performer who as a member of the quintet Ensemble Meridiana has won a number of prizes at international early music competitions. Barokkanerne, which debuted in the summer of 1989, has remained a Norwegian early music ensemble with an extensive concert schedule - including its own concert series in Oslo. The orchestra is a frequent guest at festivals throughout Norway and has been involved in a number of productions for Norwegian Radio and Television (NRK).
Tracklista: 1. Probably Nothing 2. Missionary Position 3. Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) 4. Scandinavian Design 5. Giddy Giddy 6. What The Hell Is It This Time? 7. Unaware 8. Hippopotamus 9. Bummer 10. I Wish You Were Fun 11. So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln, Aside From That How Was The Play? 12. When You're A French Director 13. The Amazing Mr. Repeat 14. A Little Bit Like Fun 15. Life With The Macbeths
In a very short time, Yannick Nézet-Séguin has become one of the most sought-after young conductors in the world, popular with orchestras and audiences alike. Recently named as Music Director Designate of the Philadelphia Orchestra, he succeeded Valery Gergiev as Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, and has since then taken the orchestra on acclaimed tours to Asia, the USA and his native Canada, as well as making a high-profile appearance during the BBC Proms in London and undertaking a residency at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. For the first of four projected discs with BIS, Nézet-Séguin and his Rotterdam players have recorded Hector Berlioz’ masterpiece Symphonie fantastique, in a full-blooded and luxurious performance which at the same time respects the work’s classical proportions: the conductor himself has described the work as being the last Classical symphony as well as the first Romantic one. The first performance of the largely auto-biographical Symphonie (originally entitled ‘An Episode in the Life of an Artist’) formed the composer’s great break-through, and was applauded by luminaries such as Franz Liszt. In his Memoirs Berlioz relates how the closing movements, March to the Scaffold and the Witches’ Sabbath, in particular caused a sensation. The work is here followed by the ‘lyrical scene’ Cléopâtre (often referred to as La Mort de Cléopâtre), composed shortly before as Berlioz’ entry in the competition for the prestigious Prix de Rome. The dramatic potential of the text – Cleopatra’s farewell to the world before committing suicide by snakebite – led the young composer to write music of the highest possible drama, which thoroughly scared off the academicians of the Prix de Rome-jury from awarding it a prize. Performing – or rather embodying – the part of Cleopatra is the electrifying soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, in one of her rare appearances on disc.
Live performance of original punk rockers The Ramones on the West German television show 'Der Musikladen' in 1978. The band's 50-minute set features some of their best-loved hits such as 'Blitzkrieg Bop', 'Sheena Is a Punk Rocker' and 'Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment'. The title also includes an interview with assistant director of the show, Mike Leckebusch.
Zubin Mehta leads the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in this production of Puccini's final opera staged at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in May, 2008. This visually spectacular production from Chinese film director Chen Kaige features performances from Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou, and Alexander Tsimbaliuk
“L´amore mi fa sollazar” (love gives me solace), is a pun invented by Leonardo that plays on the names of the notes in the musical scale. Amo (bait/hook) re, mi, fa, sol, la... The title itself of this CD has been our guide in this work.The selection of music chosen for this recording demonstrates the sonority of the instruments designed by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), which have been specially reconstructed for the occasion: the hand organ, the lyra da braccio and the viola organista. The repertoire concentrates on music that is contemporary to this universal genius, and to accompany these unique instruments, a small renaissance chamber orchestra was created to include lute, vihuela de mano, vihuela de arco (bowed vihuela), viola da gamba, recorders and a hearty group of percussion instruments, as well as the voice. This recording is a continuation of the 1998 edition entitled “Concierto de Música Europea del siglo XV interpretado en el extraordinario Órgano de papel de Leonardo da Vinci” (“Concert of 15th Century European Music played on Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinary paper organ”) published in Madrid in 2000 on a Villamonte Editores’ CD book. The reconstructed instruments invented by Leonardo belong to the itinerant exhibition “Leonardo and Music” shown and produced in 2003 by Alfredo Melgar, director of Villamonte Editores in Madrid. Eduardo Paniagua has conducted and performed early music since 1966 in ensembles that include Atrium Musicae and Cálamus. He currently leads Música Antigua and Ibn Baya (Arab- Andalusian music). He is the founder and director of Pneuma record label and winner of the Spanish Academy of Music’s 2009 Classical Music award.
Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour and Tunisian-born pianist Moncef Genoud take their music on a journey beginning in New Orleans and ending in Goree in Senegal. Travelling, in reverse, the route taken by the millions of slaves exported from West Africa to the Americas, N'Dour uncovers a musical legacy, which has had an enormous influence on the music of today. Director Pierre-Yves Borgeaud's film climaxes with a final concert in Goree.