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ID: ACDBH049-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Saxophone
Internationally renowned Dutch classical saxophonist performs works by Fauré, Schuber, Scriabin and Folkert Buis.
There is often a thin line between composed and improvised music, and this recording mosaics the two styles to create a cross-section that is beautifully effective in its simplicity - often dramatic and melancholy but also light-footed and assured.
Since Guido of Arrezzo laid the basis for musical notation in the 11th Century, music aficionados have challenged each other with the question: Who is the best composer of all time? Although the answer is normally someone like Bach, Mozart or Schönberg, the composer Shane Fage has offered the most original answer: The writer Charles Dickens. “Your first job is that of the story teller. Owing to the power of Dickens’ language, one could see the room, smell the stale cigar in the ashtray, feel the warmth of the fire, everything.......And that is why Dickens is the best composer I have ever heard.”
Telling stories as the basis for music. An art form from long before Guido of Arrezzo, and one that is effective in all genres. The story behind El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds) is the birth of Christ, until the legendary cellist Pau Casals transformed it into the epitome of the Catalonian soul, “The birds in this piece sing “Peace, Peace, Peace!” And the music is a music that Bach and Beethoven and all the greats would have loved and admired. It is so beautiful, and it is also the soul of my country, Catalonia.” If you compare Schubert’s Adagio, Fauré’s Nocturne and the fourth Prelude of Scriabin with the ancient traditional Catalonian folksong, it is apparent that both Fage and Casals are right. For centuries the craftmanship of composers has been defined by the ability to base music on a simple but very effective melody.
A craft that is being carried on by Folkert Buis. In his “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” the requisite beautiful melody is constantly interrupted by cold dissonance and the violence of blows on the piano. In the middle of the piece it seems that peace and quiet have triumphed, but it quickly becomes apparent that this is no more than the eye of the storm.
That the craft is genre-free is obvious in Kirkland’s Dienda. Even in improvised music simplicity is often the trump card, but sometimes a masterwork can be brought to a higher plain by Jazz musicians. uch as Branford Marsalis’ version on his album Royal Garden Blues. His brilliant phrasing of this melody is only surpassed by the story that he brings to it with his own improvisation.
The final composition by Paquito D'Rivera, a musician who has based his carrer on a perfect mix of musical tradition and enjoyment of performance. Ultimately it is all about emotion. |
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ID: AQVR321-2
CDs: 5
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voice, Piano and Orchestra
5CD BOX
CD1: AQVR 286-2 - Obukhova Nadezhda - Opera Arias and duets
Composers: Rimsky-Korsakov N. A., Tchaikovsky P. I.
N.Ozerov, tenor (5); An.Ivanov, baritone (Gryaznoy); V.Shevtsov, tenor (Bomeliy) (8);
I.Kozlovskiy, tenor (10) Orchestras of the Bolshoi Theater and All-USSR Radio
Conductors: S.Samosud (2, 3), L.Shteinberg (4, 5), A.Melik-Pashaev (8, 10)
K.Kondrashin (9), A.Orlov (12-16)
Piano: M.Sakharov (1, 11);
Violoncello: F.Luzanov (11)
Recordings dating 1937-1947
CD2: AQVR 287-2 - Obukhova Nadezhda - Italian Songs
Nadezhda Obukhova mezzo-soprano
Composers:Leoncavallo, Tosti
Instruments Ensemble, N.Misailov artdirector
N.Sheremetev violin, V.Bochkov, N.Alexeyev guitar
M.Koreneva, M.Sakharov, O.Boshnyakovich piano
F.Luzanov cello
CD3: AQVR 288-2 - Nadezhda Obukhova, mezzo-soprano - Russian Folk Songs
Composers: (Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Yakovlev, Gliere, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rubinstein, Mussorgsky, Grechaninov, Ippolitov-Ivanov etc.)
Piano: M. Sakharov (1-5, 7-10, 16, 17, 19, 20); O.Boshnyakovich (18)
Guitar: A.Ivanov-Kramskoi (11, 14)
Trio: L.Furer (violoncello), B.Fishman (violin), M. Sakharov (piano) (6, 15);
I.Soloduev (violin), F.Luzanov (cello), M. Sakharov (piano) (12, 19)
Recorded 1940s-1950s
CD4: AQVR 289-2 - Nadezhda Obukhova, mezzo-soprano - Romances and songs
Composers: (Brahms, Massenet, Pergolesi, Gounod, Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Wagner, Godart etc.)
Piano: M.Sakharov; Violoncello: F.Luzanov (2)
Instrumental trio: I.Soloduev (violin), B.Reentovich (violoncello), M.Sakharov (piano) (15);
I.Soloduev (violin), F.Luzanov (violoncello), M.Sakharov (piano) (18, 19)
Neapolitan ensemble, conducted by N.Misailov (20)
Recordings dating 1930-50’s.
CD5: AQVR 290-2 - Nadezhda Obukhova, mezzo-soprano - Russian romances
Composers: (Melio, Curtis, Denza, Tosti, Leoncavallo etc.)
Piano: M.Sakharov; Violoncello: F.Luzanov (2)
Instrumental trio: I.Soloduev (violin), F.Luzanov (violoncello), M.Sakharov (piano) (17)
Recordings dating: 1930-50’s. |
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ID: BC3004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Trumpet
1. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Capriccio Espagnol
2. Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Gopak
3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Ballet Suite
4. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Prelude No 18
5. Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Capriccio
6. Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925) Moderato-Allegro
7. Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925) Bolero
8. Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925) Allegro brioso
9. Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Berceuse
10. Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925) Con Moto
11. Léo Delibes (1836-1891) Waltz
12. Léo Delibes (1836-1891) Passepied
13. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Sonatine (2nd movement)
14. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Passepied
15. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Song Without Words
16. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Rigaudon
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Carmen
17. Prelude and Chanson Bohème
18. Choeur des Gamins
19. Habanera
20. Entr’acte to Act IV
21. Seguedille
22. Overture
All arrangements by Paul Archibald |
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ID: BC3009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Organ
The magnificence of a cathedral organ, combined with the brilliance of the trumpet, stimulates the imagination of all music lovers. Australian trumpeter, John Coulton, along with English organist David Dunnett, give superb performances of this recital repertoire. The range of the program offered here gives an insight into the versatility of this musical combination: joyful and glorious music from the Baroque, beautiful and soulful melodies found in Faure and Gounod, and powerful forces of transparent colour found in the work by Petr Eben.
Albinoni: Organ Concerto in F major / anon.: Gloria in Excelsis Deo /Trad. Arr. Jean Thilde /Charpentier, M-A: Te Deum, H146: Prélude /Eben: Okna (Windows) /Fauré: Requiem: Pie Jesu /Franck, M: Suite de Danses /Gounod: Ave Maria /Hovhaness: Prayer of Saint Gregory, Op. 62b /Martini, G B: Toccata /Purcell: Sonata for Trumpet and Strings Z850 / Torelli: Sinfonia con tromba |
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ID: BNL30025
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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ID: BR0006
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Soprano Annette Celine and pianist Christopher Gould perform a selection songs transcribed for voice and piano. Includes Percy Grainger’s solo piano arrangement of Fauré’s ‘Après un rêve’. Other composers on this disc include Cui, Granados and Obradors. |
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ID: BR0011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Composers such as Sibelius and Tchaikovsky are more often than not, recognised as masters of larger scale works. This collection of songs expose their smaller masterpieces and demonstrates the art of the French masters; Fauré and Duparc. |
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ID: BR0015
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Great Performers
Subcollection: Piano
This CD partners the wonderfully Romantic Piano Concerto in A minor, by Grieg with the Rhapsodie éspagnole by Liszt, arranged by Busoni. Also on this disc is the charming and rarely recorded Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra by Gabriel Faure.
1 - 3: Felicja Blumental, piano / Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra - Hans Swarowski, conductor
4 - Felicja Blumental, piano / Philharmonia Orchestra -Rudolf Schwarz, conductor
5- 7: Felicja Blumental, piano / Prague Symphony Orchestra - Helmut Froschauer, conductor |
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ID: BRIL6323
CDs: 1
Type: DVD5
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
1 DVD 16:9
Total time: 01:25:23
Region: (All) PAL, 2.35:1 ALL FORMATS
Sound Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo 5.1 |
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