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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 Hollywood […]
2017-04-12 17:00:55
How do you solve a problem like Medea?
Made cautious by the endless coloratura laments of the woman in red, groveling in a stage-wide sandbox and packing up her gilded rawhide fleece (soprano Claudia Barainsky, in a role created by Marlis Peterson), I was puzzled by my initial exposure to the Medea of Aribert Reimann, a work of 2010. The opera is Reimann’s latest so far, but hey, the guy is only 80. On Tuesday, I attended a performance at the Wiener Staatsoper, where it is being revived in its world premiere production. The orchestration is highly involved but the atonal leitmotiven do not, at a first hearing, linger in the ear. Like most “modern” scores for traditional forces, it features more percussion than strings or winds, and they make their points in the theater. But the entrance of Kreusa (Stephanie Houtzeel) gave notice that Reimann, probably the most distinguished living German opera composer, had many theatrical and […]
2016-06-30 16:30:07
Barainsky/WDR Radio Choir & SO Köln/Rundel (Wergo)Morton Feldman composed his only opera, Neither, in 1976. The text – all 87 words of it – was written by Samuel Beckett, but before Feldman had even made contact with the playwright to discuss a collaboration, he had begun his preparations for the stage work by composing a trilogy of pieces. All three – Orchestra, Elemental Procedures and Routine Investigations – were completed within a month, and all are based upon what Feldman called his “Beckett material”, a nine-bar sequence that repeats a collection of adjacent semitones in irregular patterns. In the event, Feldman never used this material in the opera itself, though it does recur in a number of his pieces from the late 70s and early 80s, beginning with those in the trilogy. It’s quoted towards the end of Orchestra, among the displaced, shifting pianissimo chords and stuttering chorales. It […]
2015-04-07 09:00:00
[…] 9/1/14 La Chasse: Mozart, Vogler, Haydn, Endler Added new links 9/1/14 Alla Turca: Music by Mozart, Gluck & M. Haydn Added new links 8/11/14 String Quartets by Vanhal, Wranitzky & Jadin Added new links (Old links were missing tracks, cue, logs etc) 7/23/14 Handel: Tolomeo Added new links 7/20/14 Mozart: Piano Quartets Added new links 7/19/14 Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Paris version, 1841) Added new links 7/14/14 Webern Lieder with Piano (compl.): Barainsky, Doufexis, Hesse and Geçer (1994) 7/12/14 Mozart: Piano Concertos Hogwood/ Levin/ AAM New link for Concertos 1-4 7/4/14 Orfeo Ed Euridice: Kuijken-Bernius-Minkowski-Gardiner-Haenchen New link for Haenchen by Saoshya 7/3/14 Debussy #1 +1CD Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien by Daniele Gatti with Isabelle Huppert as récitant 7/2/14 Gluck Megapost (Happy 300th Birthday!) New links for Echo et Narcisse added courtesy of Saoshya 7/2/14 Beethoven: Quintet Arrangements (Symphonies-Overtures-Chamber Music) Added a new EAC […]
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