Ella Jane Fitzgerald (ur. 25 kwietnia 1917 w Newport News, zm. 15 czerwca 1996 w Beverly Hills) – amerykańska wokalistka jazzowa, zwana „pierwszą damą piosenki” (ang. First Lady of Song). Jedna z najwybitniejszych śpiewaczek w historii tego gatunku. Odznaczona Medalem Wolności przez prezydenta George’a Busha.
Although generally known as the ‘Vespers’ in English, Rachmaninov’s great contribution to the history of Russian sacred music is, in fact, a setting of the services of Vespers, Matins and the First Hour as they are celebrated in the Russian Orthodox Church and known as the Vsenoshchnoe Bdenie, the ‘All-Night Vigil’. The services of Matins and the First Hour are those of the following day, sung directly after Vespers (which is begun approximately at sunset) ‘by anticipation’. This procedure is characteristic of the Russian rather than the Greek Church, since in the latter the Divine Liturgy is celebrated directly after Matins, served early in the morning. In cathedral and parish churches the Vigil is generally celebrated in an abbreviated form (lasting, nevertheless, for two hours or more) on Saturdays and the eves of major feasts – it is only in monasteries that it is celebrated fully, thus meriting its name.
Tracklista:1. Waterland2. Clouds3. La Giara Di Gesturi4. Three Bridges5. The Song of the Masked Man6. Underwords7. First Time Ruth Saw the Sea8. Goodbye Kisses9. Thames Water Authority
Each instrument is primus inter pares, every note is significant …’ is how the scholar Alfred Einstein described W.A. Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat major for string trio. What other work could then be more suitable for the first disc of a star-studded ensemble such as Trio Zimmermann, in which each member is very definitely first among equals? Composed in the same year as the three final symphonies, Mozart’s only real trio for violin, viola and cello is a weighty work – six movements and close to 50 glorious minutes of music – and the fact that Mozart chose the title Divertimento (from the Italian divertire: to amuse) for a piece of these dimensions has often been remarked upon. But to Mozart, there was no real dividing line between ‘serious’ art and pleasure or amusement – and so, to quote Einstein once more, he gave us ‘the most perfect, finest thing that has ever been heard in this world’. To round off the disc, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra have chosen to record Franz Schubert’s first contribution to the string trio genre, the opening – and only complete – movement (Allegro) of his String Trio in B flat major, D 471, written in 1816 when the composer was only nineteen.
Tracklista:1. Permaculture2. Hourglass3. No V4. First Time On the Moon5. 12th Street6. Far West7. Rogers Ave8. Moments in Time9. Vibey 7
Kotaro Fukuma Born in Tokyo, Kotaro Fukuma started learning piano at the age of 5. He studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Bruno Rigutto and Marie-Francoise Bucquet, then at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Klaus Hellwig and at the International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. He also has studied with several pianists, including Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Maria Joao Pires, Leslie Howard, Dominique Merlet and Aldo Ciccolini. In 2003, at the age of 20, Kotaro won both First Prize and the Chopin Prize at the 15th Cleveland International Piano Competition. Since then his concert career has developed on five continents. He has performed in major concert venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Salle Olivier Messiaen in Paris, AuditorioNacional in Madrid, Sala Mozart in Zaragoza, Suntory Hall in Tokyo. His performances with orchestras include the Cleveland Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Ile de France National Orchestra, Brazilian Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic. Passionate about contemporary music, Kotaro has performed world and national premieres of works by Toru Takemitsu, Mutsuo Shishido, Renaud Gagneux, Thierry Escaich, Thierry Huillet, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Francesco Milita… Iberia 12 nouvelles impressions en quatre cahiers T.105 (1905-1908) Albéniz, initially an incomparable virtuoso, acquired a wonderful mastery of composition. Although he was nothing like Liszt, his generous abundance of ideas reminds us of him. Albéniz was the first to capture the widespread melancholy and special moods of his native country (he was Catalan). Few pieces of music approach ‘El Albaicín’, in the first book of Iberia, with its atmosphere of a doleful guitar in the night and its sudden arrousals, like nervous jolts. Without actually reproducing popular themes outright, this music comes from one who grew up with them, heard and assimilated them to the point of including them in his music with no perceptible line of demarcation. Eritaña from the fourth book of Iberia, portrays morning joy, the fortuitous finding of an inn with cool wine. A constantly changing crowd goes by, tossing out bursts of laughter to the rhythmic jingling of skirts. Never has music attained such varied, colourful impressions: one’s eyes close as though dazzled by too many images. Claude Debussy, in his review of the Concerts Colonne, 29 Octobre 1913, published in the Journal of the Société Internationale de Musique, 1 December 2013.
Tracklista:1. Bronic2. Motor Seppie Freak3. Indomine Rhittiger Plans By Four4. Lackey Remand7. Holtzen Anger Mire6. Walker's Ret-ret Hive5. Anterbine On Hote8. Beckerton First Draft9. Rackdown Dent10. Turton Hacks
Tracklista:1. First Music - First Aire 00:01:27 2. First Music - Second Aire 00:01:05 3. Second Music - First Aire 00:01:00 4. Second Music - Second Aire (Hornpipe) 00:00:57 5. Curtain Music And Overture: Overture 00:03:35 6. Prologue and Act I: Trumpet Tune 00:00:39 7. Act I - Solo (Boy): Wake, Quivera, Wake 00:02:24 8. Act I - Solo (Girl): Why Should Men Quarrel 00:01:26 9. Act I - Solo (Boy): By Ancient Prophesies 00:00:50 10. Act I - Duet (Boy and Quivera): If These Be They 00:03:38 11. Act I - Trumpet Tune 00:00:46 12. Act II - The Masque of Fame and Envy: Symphony 00:04:06 13. Act II - Solo (Fame) and Chorus: I Come to Sing 00:01:16 14. Act II - Trio (Envy and Two Assistants): What flatt'ring noise 00:00:52 15. Act II - Solo (Fame): Scorn'd Envy 00:00:57 16. Act II - Solo (Envy): I Fly from the Place 00:01:16 17. Act II - Solo (Fames): Begone, Curst Fiends of Hell 00:01:05 18. Act II - Dance, Solo (Fame) and Chorus: I Came to Sing Great Zempolla's S 00:02:02 19. Act III - Dance 00:00:58 20. Act III - Solo (Ismeron): You Twice Ten Hundred Deities 00:05:01 21. Act III - The God of Dreams Rises 00:01:11 22. Act III - Solo (God of Dreams): Seek Not to Know 00:03:07 23. Act III - The God of Dreams Descends 00:01:15 24. Act III - Trumpet Overture 00:02:40 25. Act III - Duet (Aerial Spirits): Ah! How Happy We Are 00:02:05 26. Act III - Duet (Another Two Aerial Spirits) and Chorus: We the Spirits of the Air 00:01:35 27. Act III - Solo (Zemoalla): I Attempt from Love's Sickness 00:03:23 28. Act III - Third Act Tune (Rondeau) 00:02:06 29. Act IV - Prelude and Song (Orazia): They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers 00:06:13 30. Act V - Symphony 00:00:33 31. Act V - Chorus: While Thus We Bow 00:01:13 32. Act V - Solo (High Priest) and Chorus: You, Who at the Altar Stand 00:01:17 33. Act V - Symphony and Chorus: All Dismal Sounds 00:02:37 34. The Last Act - Trumpet Symphony 00:00:59 35. The Last Act - Solo (Hymen): To Bless the Genial Bed 00:01:13 36. The Last Act - Solo (A Follower of Hymen) and Chorus: Come, All, Come at My Call 00:01:39 37. The Last Act - Duet (Two Married People): I Am Glad I Have Met Him 00:00:43 38. The Last Act - Solo (Hymen): Good People 00:00:32 39. The Last Act - Duet (Two Married People): My Honey 00:01:08 40. The Last Act - Solo (Cupid): The Joys of Wedlock 00:02:43 41. The Last Act - Solo (One of Cupid's Followers): Sound the Trumpet 00:01:47 42. The Last Act - Two of Cupid's Followers: Make Haste to Put on Love's Chain 00:01:08 43. The Last Act - Trumpet Air 00:00:37 44. The Last Act - Chorus: Let Loud Renown 00:01:31
Tracklista:1. Arcana 00:18:36 2. I. Assez lent 00:02:31 3. II. Tres vif et nerveaux 00:01:55 4. III. Grave 00:02:20 5. Chanson de La - haut 00:03:29 6. La Croix du Sud 00:03:44 7. Integrales 00:11:00 8. Deserts 00:03:57 9. First Electronic Interpolation (beginning) 00:02:58 10. First Electronic Interpolation (conclusion) 00:08:18 11. Second Electronic Interpolation (beginning) 00:02:11 12. Second Electronic Interpolation (conclusion) 00:01:54 13. Third Electronic Interpolation (beginning) 00:04:12 14. Third Electronic Interpolation (conclusion) 00:03:41
Sony Classical ma zaszczyt zaprosić do wysłuchania 12-płytowego zestawu nagrań zatytułowanego John Browning - The Complete RCA Album Collection, dokonanych w latach 1965 - 1996). Sześć zarejestrowanych utworów publikowanych jest po raz pierwszy.Urodzony w 1933 roku w Colorado pianista naukę rozpoczął w wieku 5 lat pod kierunkiem swojej matki. W 1950 roku podjął naukę pod kierunkiem Rosiny Lhévinne w słynnej nowojorskiej Juilliard School. Jest zwycięzcą Leventritt Competition z 1955 roku, a rok później odbył się jego debiut z orkiestrą Filharmonii Nowojorskiej. Browning prowadził bogate i intensywne życie koncertowe (ponad 100 koncertów rocznie). W latach 70-tych postanowił nieco zmniejszyć ich ilość, by powrócić w latach 90tych. Ostatni koncert artysty odbył się w United States Supreme Court w maju 2002 roku.Tracklista:CD 11. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 382. Songs of Orpheus (Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra) performed by Leonard Rose, celloCD 21. 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 (first release on CD) CD 31. Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor, Op. 16 2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Flat, Op. 10 CD 41. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110 (first release on CD) 2. Symphonic Etudes, Op.13 (first release on CD) CD 51. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op.26 2. Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-Flat, Op. 53 CD 61. Sonatine, M. 40 (first release on CD) 2. Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (first release on CD) 3. Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55 (first release on CD) CD 71. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 in B Flat Minor CD 81. Piano Concerto No.5 in G Major, Op. 55 2. Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, performed by the Boston Symphony OrchestraCD 91. Etudes, Op. 10 2. Etudes, Op. 25 CD 101. Concerto for Piano, Violin and Orchestra, Op.56 2. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 38CD 111. Souvenirs, Op. 28 (For Piano Four-Hands) 2. The Carnival of the Animals3. Préludes, Book 2, L. 123 (previously unreleased)CD 121. Pour le piano, L. 95 (previously unreleased)2. Images, Set I, L. 110 (previously unreleased) 3. Images, Set II, L. 111 (previously unreleased)4. Estampes, L. 100 (previously unreleased)