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2020-10-07 23:00:00
Illuminations of the Beyond - Messiaen - Mahler - Silvestrov - Panufnik - Rachmaninov - Glass
Olivier Messiaen Eclairs sur l´Au-Dela... Orchestre de l´Opéra Bastille Myung-Whung Chung DG 1994 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 Kindertotenlieder Rückert-Lieder Christa Ludwig mezzosoprano Berliner Philharmoniker Herbert von Karajan Recorded 1974, 1975 and 1977 DG 1998 Grand Prix du Disque Andrzej Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra Arbor Cosmica Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra New York Chamber Symphony Andrzej Panufnik Nonesuch 1990 Franz Schreker From Eternal Life Irrelohe: Preludes Four little Pieces for orchestraPrelude to a Grand Opera Claudia Barainsky soprano Deutsches SO Berlin Peter Ruzicka Koch 1997 Valentin Silvestrov Metamusik Postludium Alexei Lubimov piano RSO Wien Dennis Russell Davies ECM 2003 Journey to the Stars Movie Music by Blomdahl, Herrmann, Goldsmith, Barron, Waxman, Corigliano, Strauss, Ligeti, North, Williams, Elfman and Bliss […]
2020-04-03 08:08:39
A new recording of Handel's first version of Messiah (Dublin 1742) with a largely German speaking cast
Handel Messiah; Dorothee Mields, Benno Schachtner, Benedikt Kristjansson, Tobias Berndt, Gaechinger Cantorei, Hans-Christoph Rademann; Accentus Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 1 April 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The quirky first, Dublin version of Handel's masterpiece from a German choir with a long history of performing Baroque musicAnyone with a moderately long memory will associate the name of the Gaechinger Cantorey with the conductor Helmut Rilling who directed the choir (then called the Gächinger Kantorei) for several decades and developed an impressive pedigree in Baroque music albeit in a style which was larger scale and less attuned to period practice than is the case nowadays. Founded in 1954 by Rilling, since the 2013 the ensemble has been directed by Hans-Christoph Rademann and the choir was refounded and re-named as a smaller ensemble with a period instrument orchestra, rather more in the contemporary historically informed style. Whilst Bach remains the […]
2020-02-05 00:00:00
Bruckner - The Three Masses - Te Deum - Symphony 00 - String Quintet
Mass No 3 in F MinorTe DeumJane Eaglen sopranoBirgit Remmert contraltoDeon van der Walt tenorAlfred Muff bassMozart-Chor, LinzThe London PhilharmonicFranz Welser-MostEMI 1996Few passages in music afford such an open view of the heavens as the first bars of Bruckner's Te Deum. So much is riding on those oscillating fourths and fifths, those sky-high choral unisons - a universal belief: one voice, one faith. It's plainchant finding power in proclamation, it's the musical embodiment of the words "And it came to pass". The power of suggestion is greater than mere dimension, far greater than the sum of the notes on the page. But it was ever thus with Bruckner. Simple man, simple means. Huge conviction. When the solo violin takes flight in seraphic embellishments during the opening "Kyrie" of the Mass in F, it is not Beethoven's Missa Solemnis you think of - nothing so visionary, so lofty, so far-reaching. Bruckner's […]
2016-12-01 02:53:00
Johann Sebastian Bach´s Mass in B minor is a marvel paradoxically born of earthly needs and made up mostly of remodelled earlier music of the composer. But it sounds absolutely unitary! Moreover, it is so long that it can´t be used liturgically. It stands with the two Passions as the greatest monuments of the German Baroque. Now two Argentine groups have given us a great night at the Auditorio de Belgrano. First, some necessary background. There are four short protestant masses of his (only Kyrie and Gloria) quite beautiful but rarely done. The big Mass is the result of Bach´s tensions with his Leipzig employers and the desire to be named court composer to the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland; he wanted […]
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