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Foss: Symphony No. 1 & other Orchestral Works / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic

Foss: Symphony No. 1 & other Orchestral Works / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic

“…marvellously dispatched here by soloist Amy Porter… Crisply recorded, the Buffalo Philharmonic plays with the passion and precision expected of any ensemble fortunate to be conducted by JoAnn Falletta.”

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Handel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music / Mallon, Aradia Ensemble

Handel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music / Mallon, Aradia Ensemble

Two of George Frederic Handel’s best-known works on one album, the Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music. Both works were composed for outdoor events--heaven knows what their first performances sounded like. The Water Music (1715, 1717) was used to entertain royalty floating up and down the Thames; some of it may have been played indoors with supper. The Royal Fireworks Music dates from 1749 and was to be performed in Green Park to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle; the rehearsal, a week earlier, was attended by 12,000 people. At the performance itself, the fireworks were unimpressive, but one of the pavilions caught fire. Talk about excitement!

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Frank Dupre plays Kapustin

When the music of Nikolai Kapustin was discovered by a wider audience in the West, it was positively shocking: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else – but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes?! As we discover more and more of his music (and there’s so much more yet to discover!), a very distinct, always wholly charming voice emerges, whether in a freewheeling outright-jazzy work like his Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion, the more symphonic Fifth Piano Concerto, or the frisky Sinfonietta which transports us into a smoky 1940s bar in Manhattan.

  • Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Dupree, Beykirch, Berlin RSO

    $21.99

    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 03, 2023

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