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NOSFERATU: SYMPHONY OF HORROR
NOSFERATU: SYMPHONY OF HORROR
RAVEL: COMPLETE WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO
ANGELS & DEMONS
SCHUBERT
DREAM REQUIEM
SAINT-SAENS: CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1 / DELIUS: CELLO
LISZT: PIANO CONCERTOS + TOTENTANZ
Baroque Concertos / Alison Balsom
MORNING / EVENING
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR
Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies, Cello Concertos & Piano Concertos / Mariss Jansons
Movements / George Li
In choosing Movements as the title for this album of piano works, George LI highlights both their structure and their dancing spirit: the 18 movements of Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze (supplemented by his Arabeske in C major) are followed by Ravel's eight Valses nobles et sentimentales and three movements from Stravinsky's score for the ballet Petruskha. "There are intriguing and intoxicating elements in this dance programme that captured me from the outset when crafting it," says the Boston-born pianist. "Broadly speaking, I love the effects of color and harmony in these works, as well as the general feeling of an evolution, or perhaps a continuous battle, between the introverted and extroverted impulses... The Davidsbündlertänze embodies the full spectrum of human emotion - despair, anxiety, sorrow, triumph, bliss, or pure love, to name a few... Another fascinating element in this program is the motivic and harmonic threads which connect the smaller pieces into a cohesive whole. Recently, I've developed a great obsession with learning how to weave musical moments into a single overarching architectural narrative. This program offers a different challenge - giving space for each musical moment to be it's own distinct individual voice, while also still maintaining the narrative arc..."
SOUND OF HEAVEN
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ALL WE GET IS LIFE
FALCON
3 PSALMS FOR STRING ORCHESTRA
BABYLON HOTEL
BABYLON HOTEL
MY ITALIAN SOUL
GREATEST OPERATIC RECORDINGS
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ / Kearns, Prazak Quartet
Joseph Haydn was commissioned by a canon of Cádiz, José Sáenz de Santamaría, Marquès de Valde-Íñigo, to compose a work for performance on Good Friday 1787 in the city's Oratorio de la Santa Cueva. The result was the orchestral version of The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, which Haydn arranged shortly afterwards for string quartet, a version that was to prove an enduring success. More recently, in 2008, the composer José Peris Lacasa, a student of Milhaud, Boulanger and Markevitch, provided a version for string quartet and soprano voice, with the latter singing the Latin text originally written by Haydn under the first violin part. Far from distorting the original piece, this version, performed here by the Prazak Quartet with the Irish soprano Helen Kearns, sheds new light on one of Haydn's great masterpieces.
LEGACY OF SERGIU CELIBIDACHE
