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Czech composer and violinist (1874-1935)
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2024-01-27 09:59:00
A winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival
[…] the idea of an on-going journey so things may change.Central to the 2025 festival is pianist Evgeny Kissin's Shostakovich 2025 project where, over two nights, he and friends explore Shostakovich's songs and chamber music with piano. Other visitors will include Fazil Say performing Bach's Goldberg Variations, chansonier HK Gruber with pianist Kirill Gerstein, Leif Ove Andsnes in two Norwegian composers, Grieg and Geirr Tveitt, and Kiveli Dörken in chamber music by Mahler, Brahms, Dvorak and Suk. Pianist Yunchan Lim will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Martha Argerich will be performing, with friends, in as yet undecided programmes and there will be a recital from one of the finalists of the Concours Geza Anda 2024. Argerich is on the jury of the competition and will select one of the finalists to perform. She will also be performing in Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals twice, once in an adult concert with […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] conductor Sir Dan Godfrey."Leoš Janáček:01 - 04 Dunaj 'Danube'. Symphonic Poem * [17'10]05 - 06 Incidental Music to 'Schluck und Jau' [9'16]07 - 11 Moravian Dances [8'55]12 - 15 Suite, op.3 [13'18]Jana Valášková- soprano*, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Libor PešekMarco Polo 8.220362 [recorded December 1985; CD issued 1986][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Bratislava, Slovakia.Recording engineers: Gustáv Šoral and Ladislav Krajčovič; Producer: Leoš Komárek.Josef Suk:1.01 - 1.05 Asrael. Symphony in C minor, op.27 [62'09]2.01 - 2.05 A Summer's Tale, op.29[51'56]Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Libor PešekErato 50999962853026 [recorded May and December 1990 and May 1994 for Virgin Classics; this reissue 2010][digital downloads; flacs, cover and inlay scans with booklets for the original Virgin Classics releases sourced from internet]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: Mike Clements; Producer: John H. WestDownload from Mega.
2023-11-24 00:00:00
Bruckner, Pettersson, Prokofiev, Rawsthorne, Suk: Mainly Orchestral Works (Handley, Lloyd-Jones, Nelsons, Pešek et al)
Josef Suk:1.01 - 1.08 Zrání 'Ripening'. Symphonic Poem, op.34 [41'21]1.09 Praga. Symphonic Poem op.26 [25'22]2.01 - 2.08 Epilogue for soprano, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra, op.37 * [40'38]2.09 - 2.12 Pohádka 'Fairy Tale', op.16 [29'24]Luba Orgonasova- soprano, Ivan Kusnjer- baritone, Peter Mikulas- bass, Royal Liverpool Philharnonic Choir *; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Libor PešekErato 5099991257659 [recorded August 1992 and June 1997 for Virgin Classics; this reissue 2013][digital downloads; flacs, cover and inlay scans with booklets for the original Virgin Classics releases sourced from internet]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: Mike Clements; Producer: John H. WestAlan Rawsthorne:01 Street Corner Overture (1944) [5'36]02 - 05 Madame Chrysanthème. Ballet Suite (1957) [8'25]06 - 12 Practical Cats. An Entertainment for Speaker and Orchestra (1954) * [22'48]13 Theme, Variations & Finale (1967) [15'13]14 - 15 Medieval Diptych for Baritone and Orchestra (1962) ^ [14'09]16 Coronation Overture (1953) [5'33]Simon Callow- speaker *; Jeremy Huw Williams- baritone; […]
2023-08-22 16:39:30
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