Detroit Symphony Orchestra News
American orchestra
Commemorations 2024 (Inception: Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
- Symphonic orchestra
- United States of America
social networks
streaming
Last update
2024-03-29
Refresh
2024-02-29 18:34:39
[…] The post appeared first on World's Leading Classical Music Platform.
2024-02-23 17:14:54
[…] The post appeared first on World's Leading Classical Music Platform.
2023-11-23 04:30:00
Recent Releases No. 66 (CD Reviews)
by Karl Nehring Amazônia. Villa-Lobos: Suite Floresta de Amazonas; Glass: Metamorphosis I (from Aguas da Amazonia). Camila Provenzale, soprano; Philharmonia Zürich; Simone Menezes, conductor. Alpha Classics ALPHA 990This release pairs two works infused with the energy and exotic sounds and colors of the Amazonian jungle, brought to you courtesy of the creative imaginations of two composers of different times and hemispheres, the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) and the American Philip Glass (b. 1937). Villa-Lobos wrote this music in 1958, late in his career, originally conceiving it as “a symphonic poem, a long, abstract narration that nevertheless stimulates visual echoes,” according to the CD booklet essay, which goes on the explain that the music was intended to accompany a film titled Green Mansions. Not surprisingly, the film’s producers brought in a team of Hollywood arrangers who effectively destroyed Villa-Lobos’s music. As a result, “Villa-Lobos took back his music, and made an independent concert work […]
2023-10-30 08:10:08
[…] The post appeared first on World's Leading Classical Music Platform.
or
- Symphonic orchestras (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): D...