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Illuminations of the Beyond - Messiaen - Mahler - Silvestrov - Panufnik - Rachmaninov - Glass
[…] Naxos 2002 Ludwig van Beethoven Christus am Ölberg Maria Venuti soprano Keith Lewis tenor Michel Brodard bass Gachinger Kantorei Bach Collegium Stuttgart Helmut Rilling Hänssler 1994 Georges Bizet Symphony in C P. I. Tchaikovsky Francesca Da Rimini Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Munch Chesky 1962 Gavin Bryars String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 2 The Last Days Balanescu Quartet Argo 1990 Gerald Finzi Intimations of Immortality Dies Natalis John Mark Ainsley tenor Corydon Singers and Orchestra Matthew Best Hyperion 1993 John Adams Harmonium Sergei Rachmaninov The Bells Renée Fleming soprano Karl Dent enor Victor Ledbetter baritone Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Robert Shaw Telarc 1996 Nikolai Miaskovsky Symphony No. 6 Gothenburg Symphony Chorus […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-10-21 16:31:30
Did you see the string quartet at Paris Fashion Week?
You can see them here, exclusively. It’s the Bălănescu Quartet. Anyone recognise the music? Michael Nyman? Classic FM: try not to steal another Slipped Disc story. You can find your own if you try really hard.
2015-10-01 15:06:11
[…] Roger Sessions’ Symphony No. 7 was premiered in Ann Arbor, Mich., by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Jean Martinon conducting. In 1975 Dmitri Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata was premiered in Leningrad by Fyodor Druzhinin (viola) and Mikhail Muntyan (piano). In 1979 Roy Harris died at age 81 in Santa Monica, Calif. In 1992 Michael Torke’s “Chalk” for string quartet was premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (U.K.), by the Balanescu Quartet. In 1998 Charles Ives’ “Emerson Overture” for piano and orchestra (arr. David G. Porter) premiered with soloist Alan Feinberg and the Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi conducting. In 2005 John Adams’ opera “Dr. Atomic” was premiered by the San Francisco Opera with Donald Runnicles conducting. Wikipedia contributors, “Henry Clay Work,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Clay_Work&oldid=682929676 (accessed October 1, 2015).
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