Tracklista:Disc 11. Act I: Vorspiel (Prelude) 00:03:18 2. Act I Scene 1 00:08:06 3. Act I Scene 2 00:04:59 4. Act I Scene 3 00:17:53 5. Act II Scene 4 00:09:58 6. Act II Scene 5 00:06:47 7. Act II Scene 6 00:17:31 Disc 21. Act III Scene 7 00:09:52 2. Act III: Nachspiel (Postlude) 00:03:49 3. Act III Scene 8 00:08:00 4. Act III Scene 9 00:21:23
Ever since his sensational breakthrough some twenty years ago, Håkan Hardenberger has been breaking new ground for the trumpet, commissioning new works from the world’s foremost composers. On the present disc he shows a different side – one that may surprise those who know him as the intrepid interpreter of fiendishly complicated contemporary scores or the impeccably elegant performer of the classical repertoire such as the trumpet concertos by Haydn and Hummel. Not that Hardenberger is less intrepid or elegant than usual – but now he is finding use for these qualities in a programme of his own favourite songs and film themes, in imaginative arrangements made especially for this recording. Continuing a tradition begun by Chet Baker, Hardenberger’s trumpet-and-strings disc is as smooth as any, with the soloist relishing the opportunity to play the most meltingly beautiful tunes, in the most meltingly tuneful way. It also brings him together with some long-standing musical collaborators of his – the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the pianist Roland Pöntinen, who has made several of the arrangements and who also appears as guest performer in Michel Legrand’s Sans Toi and Kurt Weill’s Speak Low.
Disc 1 - Claude Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande2. Act One [3:09]10. Act Two [6:52]15. Act Three [7:45]23. Act Four [10:38] Disc 2 - Claude Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande1. Act One [8:27]
Tracklista:1. Not So Quiet Please2. A Man And His Drum3. Artistry in Percussion4. Orange And Lemons5. Wire Brush Stomp6. Bring On the Drums7. Liza8. Skin Deep9. American Patrol10. Kick Off11. Leave Us Leap12. Fur Trappers Ball13. Jungle Drums14. Air Express15. Disc Jockey Jump16. Trip to Mars17. Sun Valley Jump18. Quiet Please19. Leap Frog20. Bongo Riff21. Crew Cut22. At the Woodchopper's Ball23. Delaney's Delight24. Up An 'Atom25. Knock Out
“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.
Disc 1 1 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) 5:42 2 Crime in the City 6:32 3 lowin' in the Wind 6:49 4 Welfare Mothers 7:04 5 Love to Burn 10:01 6 Cinnamon Girl 4:45 7 Mansion on the Hill 6:14 8 F*!#in' Up 7:09 Disc 2 1 Cortez the Killer 9:46 2 Powderfinger 5:58 3 Love and Only Love 9:17 4 Rockin' in the Free World 9:22 5 Like a Hurricane 14:00 6 Farmer John 5:00 7 Tonight's the Night 8:45 8 Roll Another Number (For the Road) 5:19
72 TRACKS FROM V-DISC SESSIONS+ 24 PAGE BOOKLET
Disc 1 of 2:1. Into the Lungs of Hell2. The Warcult3. Enemy of the State4. Soul Sweeper5. Slaughtering the Faithful6. Subliminal7. The Tombstone8. Gods of Terror.Disc 2 of 2:1. God Dethroned - God Dethroned,2. Satan's Curse - God Dethroned,3. The Execution Protocol - God Dethroned,4. The Grand Grimoire - God Dethroned, Beef5. Nocturnal - God Dethroned, Beef6. Under a Silver Moon7. The Somberness of Winter8. Serpent King.
Tracklista:Disc 11. Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26: I. Prelude: Allegro moderato 00:07:27 2. Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47: II. Andante con variazioni 00:11:44 3. Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 00:08:43 4. Violin Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne 00:14:40 5. Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53, B. 96: III. Finale: Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo 00:09:15 6. I. Andante 00:03:32 7. II. Poco adagio cantabile 00:06:11 8. III. Rondo all'Ongarese (Presto) 00:03:13 9. Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22: I. Allegro moderato 00:11:51 Disc 21. Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61: I. Allegro 00:17:25 2. I. Allegro maestoso 00:04:20 3. II. Andante tranquillo 00:04:23 4. III. Allegro moderato 00:04:16 5. Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19: I. Andantino - Andante assai 00:09:14 6. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: II. Adagio 00:09:08 7. Viennese Rhapsodie Fantasietta 00:08:38 8. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto 00:09:17 9. Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82: I. Allegro 00:07:16
Po ogromnym sukcesie ostatniej płyty, Chris Botti - najprzystojniejszy trębacz świata - zaskakuje nas tym razem płytą z duetami. Wielkimi duetami! Na liście zaproszonych do współpracy gości można znaleźć takie gwiazdy jak Sting, Michael Buble, Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Gladys Knight, Paula Cole czy Jill Scott. Artystom towarzyszy London Session Orchestra - wszyscy oni są jednak tylko tłem do perfekcyjnego i uwodzącego brzmienia trąbki Botti'ego. Na płycie znajduje się 13 znanych standardów, takich jak 'Smile' czy 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?'. Ciekawostką może być fakt ze Chris Bottti i wszyscy goście na płycie sprzedali razem łącznie 52 miliony płyt! Płyta ukazuje się również w wersji Dual Disc (CD i DVD na jednym krążku). Krążek CD wydany w wersji Dual Disc zawiera 2 strony - CD (płyta w wersji audio) oraz DVD - a na nim fragmenty koncertu 'Live From Studio A' z Los Angeles, podczas którego Chris wraz ze swoim kwartetem wykonuje 4 utwory ("To Love Again" i "I’ll Be Seeing You" z nowej płyty, oraz dwa utwory niedostępne nigdzie indziej: "Flamenco Sketches" and "Milestones") - w sumie ponad 23 świetnie brzmiącego (i wyglądającego!) jazzu. W "Flamenco Sketches" dodatkowo udziela się słynny saksofonista David Sanborn.