Philip Glass-Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra /Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Опубликовано: 6 дек. 2014 г.Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra
01. Duet No.1
02. Part 1 2:51
03. Duet No.2 8:27
04. Part 2 11:39
05. Duet No.3 20:25
06. Part 3 22:29
07. Duet No.4 27:28
Tim Fain, violin
Wendy Sutter, cello
Residentie Orkest
The Hague Philharmonic
Jurjen Hempel, conductor
Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
08. Movement I 31:29
09. Movement II
10. Movement III
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies, piano & conductor
The album brings together two artists with enormous followings: Valentina Lisitsa, with her dazzling artistry and hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube; and Philip Glass, with his hugely popular minimalist piano music.
Here is Glass at his best – using the building blocks of minimalism to achieve a huge, inventive soundscape of musical richness and contrasts. Richly harmonic, this is a deeply evocative listening experience with revelatory performances from Lisitsa; a wonderful artist with exceptional musicality and a stunning technique.
Saint-Saens: The Swan ( Le Cygne ) — Carnival of the Animals
Дата загрузки: 5 окт. 2008 г.Title: Saint-Saens: The Swan
From Wikipedia:
Le Cygne, or The Swan, is the thirteenth movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. This piece features a solo cello in tenor clef and two accompaniment pianos.The piece is in 6/4 time, with a key signature of G major. It makes use of legato and slurring, the music should flow like a swan gliding through the water. This piece is often played using much vibrato.
This is the only movement from the Carnival of the Animals that the composer would allow to be played in public during his lifetime as he thought the remaining movements were too frivolous and would damage his reputation as a serious composer.
The piece was written in tenor clef, although there are some arrangements in bass clef.
Because the high range of the cello is displayed in this piece, the voice is often misnamed as the violin. The cello, however, has an extremely large range and can play in this register, and its tones are rounder and more mellow…
Опубликовано: 11 февр. 2014 г.Following Glass's early operas, the conductor Dennis Russell Davies had been urging the composer to write more orchestral pieces, and the concerto marks Glass's first full-scale venture into non-theatrical orchestral composing.Glass's original concept was for a five-movement work, and Zukofsky requested a slow, high finale. As the composition process developed, however, Glass decided that five movements were too many and settled for a more conventional three-movement format. According to Glass, this traditional structure was not a concession to formality but simply a result of the work finding «a voice of its own» as the first and second movements developed into longer pieces than he had originally conceived. The work was composed with Glass's father, Ben, in mind, despite the latter's death some sixteen years earlier: «I wrote the piece in 1987 thinking, let me write a piece that my father would have liked. A very smart nice man who had no education in music whatsoever, but the kind of person who fills up concert halls. It's popular, it's supposed to be — it's for my Dad.»
The Hours is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Based on Michael Cunningham's 1999 Pulitzer Prize--winning novel, the film interweaves the stories of three women—a book editor in New York (Meryl Streep), a young mother in California (Julianne Moore), and the author Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman). Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Philip Glass's ravishing, Oscar- and Grammy-nominated score was a key element in this acclaimed triptych of dramatic tales. «The inter-cutting of personal stories over a wide span of time, » says NPR, «is held together by a single music approach.»
Опубликовано: 15 нояб. 2014 г.In memory of our friend, Josef Trávníček (23.5.1970 — 9.11.2014)
— great teacher, follower of Comenius way (educating while playing), who was easily able to get attention and interest of his students at any time, showing them history of their own district, city, region, country and the whole world in the way they would love to see — in context… with accent on culture, folklore and true traditions.
This is my condolence to his family — my very good friends.
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Philip Glass — «The Hours» (soundtrack from the movie «The Hours»)
Dušan Holý — piano
Grandpiano: Feurig — produced +- 1920 (truly beautiful instrument)