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NEW PICKS: Choices of New Classical CDs, DVDs, Books
Sunday, 11 December 2005
Saturday, 10 December 2005
Topic: BOOK choices Composers Voices from Ives to Ellington: An Oral History of American Music The first decades of the twentieth century were a fertile and fascinating period in American musical history. This book and the two CDs that accompany it present an exceptional collection of interviews with and about the most significant musical figures of the era. Tapping the unparalleled materials contained in the Oral History American Music archive at Yale University, Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellington is a unique account of what it was like for musicians and composers to live and work in those years. It is also the story of the making of this archive, as told by Vivian Perlis, who personally conducted many of the interviews.
New Arrivals for Christmas
Topic: CHRISTMAS Baroque Christmas-Masques-Analekta AN 2 9908 Charpentier tunes. Analekta website | Consumer Information
A Mediterranean Christmas-Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen-Warner Classics 2564 62560-2.
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Topic: CHANDOS The best of modern British music is represented in three excellent new recordings, from Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) and Michael Tippett (1905-1998) to the 21st century voice of Mark-Anthony Turnage. Consumer Information Michael Tippett: "The Rose Lake," "Ritual Dances"BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox, cond. (Chandos)****
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Updated: Thursday, 8 December 2005 10:42 PM EST
48th Annual GRAMMY? Awards
Now Playing: Final Nominations List Topic: GRAMMYS THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES, INC. For recordings released during the Eligibility Year October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005 Note: More or less than 5 nominations in a category is the result of ties. ...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Topic: METIER RECORDS Reflections-Elizabeth Maconchy and Nicola LeFanu-Metier MSV CD92064 New French Song-Alison Smart and Katherine Durran-Metier MSV CD92100 ...LINK to complete news story OTHER NEW RELEASES
Winter Rose (Music inspired by the holidays)-Ottmar Liebert-SSRI (no number)
Twelve Girls of Christmas-Twelve Girls Band-Domo 79401 73056 2 2
Christmas Music played on Chinese instruments. Unusual, tuneful, surprising and enjoyable. (A new slant?)
"All I Want for Christmas is You" is FUN!
Now if Santa would just satisfy my fantasy and fill those 24 stockings I put up.....Yum Yum.
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Updated: Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:58 PM EST Tuesday, 6 December 2005
Topic: BRANA Releases www.branarecords.com ON THE WAY TO PRAGUE - CAT # BR0027 - STREET DATE: 10TH JANUARY 2006 Timely release to coincide the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in January 2006.This delightful CD features the finest piano concertos of Mozart and his contemporary/rival Leopold Kozeluch. Kozeluch Piano Concerto in D major features Felicja Blumental - with the Mozarteum of Salzburg under the direction of Leopold Hager Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 presentsFelicja Blumental with conductor Alberto Zedda and The Prague New Chamber Orchestra. FRIENDS AND RIVALS: MOZART AND CLEMENTI - CAT # BR0008 - STREET DATE: 10TH JANUARY 2006 On Christmas Eve 1781, Mozart and Clementi took part in a music contest in Vienna, which consisted of improvisation, sight-reading and performance. It was this event started a rivalry between the two composers that lasted for many years that forms the inspiration for this CD. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat, "Jeune homme" (K271) features Felicja Blumental - with the Mozarteum of Salzburg with conductor, Leopold Hager. Felcija Blumental performs the Clementi Concerto for Piano in C with The Prague Symphony Orchestra and conductor, Alberto Zedda. See: http://www.branarecords.com/product_info.php?products_id=34 WAS IT A DREAM? - CAT # BR0011 - STREET DATE: 10TH JANUARY 2006 Although the composers on this CD didn't quite reach the heights of Robert Schumann or Franz Schubert, there is certainly no lack of beauty in the songs here. Composers such as Sibelius and Tchaikovsky are more often than not, recognised as masters of larger scale works. This collection of songs exposes their smaller masterpieces while at the same time demonstrates the art of the French masters; Faure, and Duparc. A touch of spice is added by the exotic Zarzuela composers Pablo Luna and Sorozobal. ...LINK to complete news story
Monday, 28 November 2005
Topic: Philadelphia Orch The first recording to result from the Philadelphia Orchestra's partnership with the label Ondine debuted on the Billboard classical chart last week at number 25. ...LINK to complete news story | Consumer Information The recording couples Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra with Bohuslav Martinu's Memorial to Lidice and Gideon Klein's Partita for Strings. The Philadelphia Orchestra is conducted by its Music Director Christoph Eschenbach.
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Updated: Monday, 28 November 2005 11:31 PM EST Thursday, 24 November 2005
The Music of Elliot Carter
Mood: amorous Topic: BRIDGE Releases The Music, of Elliott Carter, Volume Seven (premiere recordings) Dialogues (2003) for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, Nicolas Hodges, piano, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen, conductor; Boston Concerto (2002), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, conductor; Cello Concerto (2001), Fred Sherry, cello, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, conductor; Asko Concerto (2000), Asko Ensemble, Oliver Knussen, conductor BRIDGE 9184 DDD This highly anticipated recording, a Bridge co-production with the BBC, presents first recordings of four major Elliott Carter compositions, all composed within the past six years. Conducted by the distinguished British conductor, Oliver Knussen, these recordings tell the amazing tale of an American composer, well into his nineties, composing at the peak of his powers. Malcolm McDonald writes that “Carter is not far short of his own centenary, and continuing to produce highly complex, sophisticated scores with an energy that would hardly be conceivable even in a much younger man.” The composer traveled to London and Amsterdam to oversee the performance and recording of these four works. Dialogues for piano and chamber orchestra was a BBC Radio 3 commission for the brilliant young British pianist Nicolas Hodges and is scored for piano solo and a chamber orchestra comprising 18 instruments. Carter writes that “Dialogues is a conversation between the soloist and the orchestra: responding to each other, sometimes interrupting one another or arguing.” Hodges, Knussen and the London Sinfonietta give a reading of electrifying intensity. Boston Concerto was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and is based on a William Carlos Williams poem, “Rain”, a verse chosen to convey the composer’s enduring love for his wife Helen, the dedicatee of Boston Concerto. Describing the diaphanous textures of this work, Bayan Northcott writes of Boston Concerto that “despite occasional deep sonorities, the whole work has a kind of distanced lightness, seeming to hover in mid air.” Carter’s Cello Concerto is a twenty minute span introduced by the soloist alone, playing a cantilena that presents ideas later to be expanded into a series of linked movements. The concerto is played by long-time colleague and valued Carter interpreter Fred Sherry who, during the composition of the work, consulted with Carter about the finer details of the cello writing. Scored for a large orchestra that frequently plays with intimately drawn orchestral textures, the Cello Concerto was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was first performed by the CSO with Yo Yo Ma, cello soloist and Daniel Barenboim, conductor. Carter completed the concise 12 minute Asko Concerto in January 2000 to a commission from the Asko Ensemble of Amsterdam and the recording on this disc is of its first performance in the Concertgebouw on April 26 of that year. The composer writes: “Although the music is in light-hearted mood, each soloistic section approaches ensemble playing in a different spirit.” Bridge has also just issued Volume Six of this series which features Rolf Schulte’s performance of Carter’s Violin Concerto (BRIDGE 9177).
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