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Audiofile / Tveitt, Geirr
« on: January 11, 2011, 07:52:51 PM »
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Geirr Tveitt




Geirr Tveitt - Piano Concerto No. 4 'Aurora Borealis' / Variations on a Folk Song
Gunilla Sussmann & Havard Gimse, piano
Bjarte Engeset conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Geirr Tveitt - Baldurs Draumar op. 81, Telemarkin (2003, Ruud, Stavanger SO)

Geirr Tveitt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 op. 1 & 5 op. 156 (2001, Gimse, Engeset, RSNO)

Geirr Tveitt - Prillar op. 8, Solgud-symfonien (2001, Ruud, Stavanger SO)


Geirr Tveitt plays Geirr Tveitt
Piano Concerto No. 3 op. 126 (1947), Piano Sonata No. 29 op. 129 (1955), Eolsharpa op. 132 (1949), Morild WoO (1952)
Geirr Tveitt, piano
Albert Wolff conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Geirr Tveitt - Hundrad Hardingtonar (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes), op.151, Suites Nos. 1 & 4 (2000, Bjarte Engeset, Royal Scottish National Orchestra)

Geirr Tveitt - Hundrad Hardingtonar (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes), op.151, Suites Nos. 2 & 5 (2001, Bjarte Engeset, Royal Scottish National Orchestra)


Geirr Tveitt - Piano Concerto No. 4 'Aurora Borealis' / Variations on a Folk Song
Gunilla Sussmann & Havard Gimse, piano
Bjarte Engeset conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

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Audiofile / Telemann, Georg Phillipp
« on: June 04, 2010, 02:27:17 PM »
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Georg Phillipp Telemann

German Baroque composer.


Georg Phillipp Telemann - Double & Triple Concertos
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, conductor

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Audiofile / Salonen, Esa-Pekka
« on: September 14, 2009, 12:56:58 AM »
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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Contemporary Finnish composer and world-renowned conductor.


Esa-Pekka Salon - Wing on Wing (2005, Rapidshare)
Performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer.


Esa-Pekka Salonen - Helix for Orchestra / Piano Concerto / Dichotomie for solo piano (Rapidshare)
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Audiofile / Locatelli, Pietro
« on: August 26, 2009, 12:14:26 PM »
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Pietro Locatelli

Baroque violinist and composer


Pietro Locatelli - Concerti grossi, Op. 1 (Harmonia Mundi, 2006)
Performers: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz


Locatelli, Pietro - Art of the Violin Volume II
Performer: Susanne Lautenbacher
Orchestra: Mainz Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Gunter Kehr
Audio CD (November 4, 1992)

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Audiofile / Stravinsky, Igor
« on: October 06, 2007, 04:22:36 PM »
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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring
No info on conductor, orchestra, year, etc.

Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps (Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, 1992, DivShare)

Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird (complete 1910) / Jeu de Cartes
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.
Sony 1989

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Audiofile / Ligeti, György
« on: October 01, 2007, 03:04:45 AM »
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Ligeti, György

Modern Hungarian composer

György Ligeti - Etudes for Piano
Toros Can, piano

György Ligeti - Atmospheres/Requiem

Salvaged from the blogosphere:

Collected here for you to study are two of Ligeti’s more well known pieces, “Atmosphères” and “Requiem.” Ambient enthusiasts will be interested in “Atmosphères,” because, as is written in everyone’s favorite online encyclopedia, Wikipedia:

Out of the four elements of music, melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre, the piece
almost completely abandons the first three, concentrating on the texture of the sound, a technique known as sound mass. It opens with what must be one of the largest cluster chords ever written - every note in the chromatic scale over a range of five octaves is played at once. Out of the fifty-six string players ushering in the first chord, not one plays the same note. The piece seems to grow out of this initial massive, but very quiet, chord, with the textures always changing.

    Ligeti coined the term "micropolyphony" for the compositional technique used in Atmosphères, Apparitions and his other works of the time. He explained micropolyphony as follows: "The complex polyphony of the individual parts is embodied in a harmonic-musical flow, in which the harmonies do not change suddenly, but merge into one another; one clearly discernible interval combination is gradually blurred, and from this cloudiness it is possible to discern a new interval combination taking shape."


But, in my mind, “Requiem” is his masterwork. I’ll let AMG’s Jeremy Grimshaw take the stage here:

    Ligeti's Requiem, which he began composing in 1963 and finished two years later,
in many ways bears the edgy, modernist characteristics general to his most prominent works. At the same time, as the title suggests, it also positions itself in relation to musical tradition, as if applying the composer's pioneering sonorities to the service of "expression," in a more visceral and subjective manner than modernism usually admits. Perhaps the most striking feature of the work, which is scored for two choirs, orchestra, and two soloists (soprano and mezzo-soprano) is its vibrant, quivering surface. The individual parts comprising his chromatic clusters are often too close to each other to be individually discerned, but their motion adds a distinctive, acoustical glimmer. Melody, then, is generally subsumed by the work's texture, but contributes crucially to its character. This technique also becomes a variant in and of itself, as the pace of the work and the character of the various liturgical sections or texts are often established by the register and relative opacity of the contrapuntal clusters. One startling effect, perhaps inspired by the creepy bass intonations of Varèse's Nocturnal from a few years before, is the use of two low men's voices in near unison, their pitches offset enough to create a hauntingly beating effect. Likewise, when one of the high female solo voices breaks through the thick chromatic pall of the orchestra and chorus, the lucidity of her line is cast in brighter relief. These contrasts, coupled with extremes of dynamics and articulation, reach their apex in the carefully disjointed Dies Irae. Thus, despite Ligeti's unique and complex musical language, the ultimate result of his work is not entirely different in principle from the large-scale requiems of previous centuries, which projected grandeur, intensity, and intimacy through the careful deployment of their vocal and instrumental forces.

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Commerce / Loreena Mckennitt U.S. Fall Tourdates announced
« on: August 16, 2007, 10:32:49 PM »
http://www.quinlanroad.com/performances/performances.asp

Oct. 5th       Paramount Theatre
Denver (CO)

Oct. 6th       Pikes Peak Center
Colorado Springs (CO)

Oct. 8th       Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
Houston (TX)

Oct. 9th       Nokia Theatre
Grand Prairie (TX), Dallas Fort Worth area

Oct. 11th       Fabulous Fox Theatre
Atlanta (GA)

Oct. 12th       Tennessee Theater
Knoxville (TN)

Oct. 13th       Palace Theater
Columbus (OH)

Oct. 14th       Lakewood Civic Auditorium
Cleveland (OH)

Oct. 16th       Fox Theatre
Detroit (MI)

Oct. 17th       Shea's Performing Arts Center
Buffalo (NY)

Oct. 18th       Patriots Theater at the War Memorial
Trenton (NJ)

Oct. 19th       The Lyric Opera House
Baltimore (MD)

Oct. 20th       Providence Performing Arts Center
Providence (RI)

Oct. 22nd       Merrill Auditorium
Portland (ME)

Oct. 23rd       Flynn Center
Burlington (VT)

Oct. 24th       Harrisburg Forum
Harrisburg, (PA)

Oct. 25th       Venue TBA
Pittsburgh (PA)

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Audiofile / Ravel, Maurice
« on: July 12, 2007, 09:44:05 AM »
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Maurice Ravel


French Impressionist composer

Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor

Complete Works for Solo Piano
Disc 1, Disc 2
Walter Gieseking, piano; 1954

Piano Concerto in G minor
Martha Argerich, piano
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Berlin Philharmonic; 1967


Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F major
Emerson String Quartet; 1984
Philip Setzer, David Finckel, Lawrence Dutton, Eugène Drucker

Maurice Ravel - The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany

Maurice Ravel - Bolero, Rapsodie Espagnole, Pavane pour une Infante Défunte, Ma Mère l'Oye
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio ABBADO, cond.
DG 1986

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concert in D major for the left hand, Gaspard de la Nuit, Jeux d'Eau
Werner HAAS, piano
Orchestre national de l'Opéra de Monte Carlo
Alceo GALLIERA, cond.
Philips 1969/1965

Maurice Ravel - Berceuse, Habañera, Tzigane
Augustin DUMAY, violin
Maria João PIRES, piano
DG 1995

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Audiofile / Handel, George Frideric
« on: July 11, 2007, 08:31:47 PM »
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Handel, George Frideric

German baroque composer.
"Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave" - L.v. Beethoven

Handel, George Frideric - An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day / Cecilia, Volgi un Sguardo
Robert King conducts The King's Consort

Handel, George Frideric - Arias from Theodora & Xerxes
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo-Soprano
Harry Bicket conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Handel, George Frideric - Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast"; Oboe Concertos; Sonata a cinque
Trevor Pinnock conducts the English Consort

Handel, George Frideric - Messiah (The Scholars Baroque Ensemble)

Handel, George Frideric - Organ Concerto #2 in A major

Handel, George Frideric - Sonatas for Violin and Continuo
Rachel Barton, violin

Handel, George Frideric - Water Music/Music for the Royal Fireworks (Andrew Mogrelia, Prague Chamber Soloists)

Handel, George Frideric - Alcina, HWV 34
Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie
Renee Fleming as Alcina
Susan Graham as Ruggiero
Natalie Dessay as Morgana
Kathleen Kuhlmann as Bradamante
Erato Disques 3CD, 2000


A beautiful and inspired performance of one of Handel's most creative operas. The patience needed for the large file to download is trivial compared to the pleasure one will experience in listening to this in its entirety. Renee Fleming's voice is exquisite as always and Les Arts Florissants' period instrument performance together with Christie's detailed directions sets the standard for Handelian and baroque opera.

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Audiofile / Saariaho, Kaija
« on: July 09, 2007, 05:56:11 PM »
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Saariaho, Kaija


Modernist Finnish composer

Kaija Saariaho - Du cristal...à la fumée ("From Crystal Into Smoke")
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Kaija Saariaho - Nymphea, for string quartet & electronics
Kronos Quartet

Kaija Saariaho - Sept Papillons, for solo cello
Anssi Karttunen, cello


Kaija Saariaho - Notes on Light / Orion / Mirage
Orchestre de Paris
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

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Audiofile / Buxtehude, Dietrich
« on: July 08, 2007, 06:52:15 PM »
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Buxtehude, Dietrich


Danish-German baroque composer

Dietrich Buxtehude - Seven Trio Sonatas, Op. 2
John Holloway, Violin
Jaap ter Linden, Viola da gamba
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Harpsichord

Quote
Having been born half a century after Heinrich Schütz, the ‘father of German musicians’, and a little less than half a century before J. S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude was a living link between the founder of Protestant Baroque music and its greatest master. Buxtehude’s Seven Sonatas, Op. 2 possess a very personal stamp of unpredictability, virtuosity and expressive power. Of particular note are Buxtehude’s use of stylised dances in Sonata No. 1 and his quasi-improvisatory passages in the ‘fantastic style’ as used in Sonata No. 5.

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Audiofile / Dutilleux, Henri
« on: July 02, 2007, 09:30:40 AM »

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Audiofile / Barton, Rachel
« on: April 10, 2007, 01:38:53 PM »
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Rachel Barton, classical violinist

Rachel Barton - Instrument of the Devil

Featuring the music of Stravinsky, Paganini, Berlioz and more

original liner notes

Rachel Barton Stringendo - Storming the Citadel

Rachel Barton - Homage to Sarasate
performing the music of 19th century virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, including the famous fantasy on Bizet's Carmen. Barton's debut recording.

Joseph Joachim - Violin Concerto no. 2 'In the Hungarian Style'
Rachel Barton, violin
Carlos Kalmer leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

a favorite of Brahms, which in turn inspired his own concerto for the instrument. Has been referred to as "the Holy Grail of Romantic violin concertos."

Trio Settecento - An Italian Sojourn
Rachel Barton Pine,violin; John Mark Rozendaal, cello; David Schrader, harpsichord

A beautiful collection of italian music from the baroque era, with sonatas by Locatelli, Corelli, Tartini, Handel, Veracini, Castello, Stradella, & Marini.

Rachel Barton Pine - Solo Baroque


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