Tracklista: 1. Yeka Yeka2. Vuvuzela3. Seven Days Ago4. Dindela5. Kwabulawayo6. Clarinet Kwela7. Jikela Emaweni8. Tlhapi Ke Noga9. Ntyilo Ntyilo10. Ebhofolo (This Madness)11. Emampondweni12. Soweto13. Dembese5. Yeka Yeka1. Vuvuzela2. Seven Days Ago3. Clarinet Kwela4. Tlhapi Ke Noga6. Ntyilo Ntyilo7. Ebhofolo (This Madness)8. Soweto
This recording of wonderfully theatrical orchestral music by Scottish composer Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1945) revived an unfairly neglected composer’s profile when first issued in 1995. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins are on top form in these colourful showpieces, from the tuneful good cheer of The Cricket on the Hearth overture and the soaringly lovely Benedictus, to the characterful incidental music for two Shakespeare plays, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus, as well as the Burns-inspired Second Scottish Rhapsody. This reissue on Helios is certain to introduce a new audience to Mackenzie’s irresistibly tuneful sound world. ‘Another hugely enjoyable Hyperion rescue-act …all told, a delightful release’ (Gramophone)
‘A glowing culmination to another outstanding Hyperion project’ (The Independent) ‘New standards of excellence … stunning’ (Gramophone) ‘Highest honours must go to the outstanding 140-voice chorus who sing with earth-shattering conviction, utmost clarity of diction and enviable precision of ensemble and intonation … the combined strengths of this Hyperion version guarantee prime recommendation’ (BBC Music Magazine)
The Devine Vespers, a service of evening prayer in the Roman-Catholic Church, has provided both occasion and inspiration for some of the most sumptuous music ever composed. But not many churches in the seventeenth century could afford the lavish instrumental and vocal resources needed to play the likes of Monteverdi’s grandiose Vespro della Beata Vergine. For many of the smaller and more provincial churches, an acceptable compromise at evening service was the playing of smallerscale sacred chamber music. This led in the seventeenth century to a tremendous outpouring of sacred music for small groups of singers and instrumentalists, as performed by The Gonzaga Band on this disc. During Vespers, it became commonplace to alternate the obligatory psalms with a number of extra-liturgical instrumental pieces. This recording follows the same structure. The psalms, by Banchieri, Finetti, Petrobelli, and Monferrato, are complemented and framed by a variety of joyous instrumental works by Tarditi, Cima, Piccinini, Frescobaldi, Crotti, Sances, and Cazzati. The Gonzaga Band was formed by the cornettist Jamie Savan in 1997 to explore historical approaches to the performance of vocal and instrumental music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its line-up is project led: the very best vocalists and period instrumentalists are ‘hand picked’ according to the specialist requirements of each programme. On this recording, The Gonzaga Band is joined by the mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson and cornettist Gawain Glenton.
A chamber musician at heart, this is Margaret Little’s first adventure in recording solo repertoire. To bring out all the rich sonorities of her beautiful instrument on this recording, Margaret Little has chosen works for solo viola da gamba (without continuo) by Italian, French, and English Renaissance composers, including Giovanni Bassano, Tobias Hume, the Sieur de Sainte-Colombe, and Marin Marais. Margaret Little discovered the viola da gamba at the age of eleven and fell in love instantly with the instrument and its repertoire. Margaret has been performing since 1975 as a soloist and a chamber musician on the viola da gamba and baroque viola with various Montreal-based groups. Little founded the viola da gamba duo and consort Les Voix humaines with her colleague Susie Napper over twenty years ago.
Lista Utworów:1. Italian Song2. I'll Find My Way Home3. State of Independence4. One More Time5. Play Within a Play6. The Friends of Mr. Cairo7. Outside of This (Inside of That)8. He Is Sailing9. I Hear You Now
Tracklista: CD 1. This Ain't The Summer Of Love 2. True Confessions 3. (Don't Fear) The Reaper 4. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) 5. The Revenge Of Vera Gemini 6. Sinful Love 7. Tattoo Vampire 8. Morning Final 9. Tenderloin 10. Debbie Denise DVD 1. True Confessions 2. (Don't Fear) The Reaper 3. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) 4. The Revenge Of Vera Gemini 5. Sinful Love 6. Tattoo Vampire 7. Morning Final 8. Tenderloin 9. Debbie Denise Dodatkowo: This Ain‘T The Summer Of Love (Audio Only / Blu Ray Only) Band Interview Behind The Scenes Tv Spot Boc My Story Tv Spot Live On Audience Music Tv Spot
Tracklista: Side A 1. Power and the Glory 2. Redline 3. Warrior 4. Nightmare Side B 1. This Town Rocks 2. Watching the Sky 3. Midas Touch 4. The Eagle Has Landed
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)La Traviata. Opera w czterech aktach z prologiem. Libretto oparte na Damie Kameliowej Aleksandra Dumasa. Powstała w 1853 roku. Akcja rozgrywa się w Paryżu w drugiej połowie XIX wieku. Opowiada historię miłości pełnej zawiłości i nieszczęśc wynikających z konwenansów. Główna bohaterka - kurtyzana Violetta Valery poświęca się dla miłości, kiedy jej ukochany powraca historia nie może już zakończyć się happy endem.Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Violetta in La traviata in a new production by the French director Jean-François Sivadier at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This DVD captures her intense performance in the company of American tenor Charles Castronovo as Alfredo and French baritone Ludovic Tézier as his father, Giorgio Germont. “Her theatrical impact is devastating,” wrote the Financial Times.With this new production of La traviata at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival, Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Verdi’s Violetta, a pinnacle of the soprano repertoire. She made her debut in the role in 2009 at the Santa Fe Festival in the US, and subsequently sang Violetta in Japan. Dessay’s 2011-12 season will include La traviata at the Vienna State Opera (in this Aix-en-Provence production by French theatre and opera director Jean-François Sivadier) and the New York Metropolitan.Violetta makes tremendous demands on a singer, both vocally and dramatically, and signals Dessay’s transition from lighter coloratura roles to the more full-blooded lyric repertoire. “I’m tired of playing weeping girls,” she told the French magazine Télé 7 Jours, “Violetta is a real woman. That makes a nice change!” The change was clearly successfully achieved: describing Dessay’s performance, the Financial Times wrote that “her theatrical impact is devastating”.Sivadier’s production was staged in the open air, in Aix-en-Provence’s exquisite Théâtre de l'Archevêché with its huge spiral staircases, medieval arches and 18th-century wings. The stage décor was minimal, the simple costumes evoked the 1940s or 1950s, and the prime focus was on intense characterisation.“One left the theatre emotionally knocked out, but fulfilled,” wrote the magazine Télérama, describing the production as “a magisterial success ... It would be hard to think of a couple more ideally young and beautiful than Natalie Dessay and Charles Castronovo [the stylish American tenor singing Alfredo].” The writer went on to praise “the art with which Natalie Dessay embodies and transfigures the character,” concluding by saying that: “La traviata – literally, the woman gone astray – has never found her way better than at Aix-en-Provence this summer.”Le Figaro found that “Natalie Dessay overwhelms with her fragility and commitment … The singers have the roles in their every fibre … the characters exist with a palpable intensity,” and remarked on the refinement of Louis Langrée’s conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra: “Have we ever heard so many shadings and nuances in Verdi’s orchestration?”The role of Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s father, is taken by the superb French baritone Ludovic Tézier. In Act II, set at Violetta’s country house near Paris, he sings the touching aria “Di Provenza”, in which he urges his son to return home to his family’s native Provence. In this case, Alfredo would not have far to travel!
Tracklista:1. Run to Me2. Around My Dream3. I Love My Radio (Midnight Radio)4. How Old Are You5. Dial My Number6. Once More7. The World Is You8. Step By Step9. Two for Love10. Run to Me (Acoustic)11. Crossroads12. This Is You13. So Easy