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ID: PTC5186017 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186090 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Subcollection: OpéraMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186077 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Subcollection: OpéraMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186089 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Subcollection: OpéraMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Highlights of the Russian opera
During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. Musical life at the court of the Czar was predominantly oriented towards the West and attracted, for example, many Italian composers to St. Petersburg. The works they wrote there were also mostly based on Italian libretti, and if a Russian opera was ever performed, it followed on musically in the tradition of the operas that could be heard in Naples, Milan or Vienna.
A slow change came about in this situation during the first half of the nineteenth century, after Russia also began to be influenced by the sense of nationhood which was spreading through great parts of Europe in that period. Furthermore, this was the time during which the well-to-do middle class began to participate increasingly in the cultural life, and therefore, it is not just a coincidence that the birth of the national Russian opera more or less concurred with the opening of the ‘Great’ or ‘Bolshoi’ Theatre in Moscow in 1825. |
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ID: PTC5186330 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Collection: Ballet Music Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: NMCD009 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraAntony Pay, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen - Harrison Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment
This disc couples two major works composed in the 1970s, Melencolia I and Meridian, a setting of love poetry, with Ritual Fragment, written in 1989. The works display Birtwistle's distinctive and forceful voice and range in mood from austere introspective journeying to moments of unbearable intensity. |
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ID: NMCD014 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe enigmatic and intensely charged music of Bill Hopkins reflects the avant-garde sound-world of the 1960s with characteristic immediacy and quiet energy; Nine or Ten Osannas, by Anthony Gilbert - a close friend and ally - completes the disc. |
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ID: NMCD030 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThree recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears. |
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ID: NMCD070 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraHugh Wood's Symphony is his most ambitious work to date: its four movements refer to musical sources as diverse as Mozart, Wagner and Janacek while never detracting from its coherence and power. It is coupled with Wood's dramatic setting of Milton's poem, the story of a wanderer lost in an enchanted wood. |
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ID: NMCD081 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraBuller's dramatic score Proença sets the lyrics of Troubadour songs for orchestra and two soloists: mezzo-soprano and electric guitar; while The Theatre of Memory takes its inspiration from ancient Greek drama.
Originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1985.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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