The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
One of the continuing appeals of Hans Werner Henze's music is his ability to use the formidable arsenal of twentieth century musical innovations in works that have immediate aural appeal, while probing ambiguous or disturbing layers of meaning lurking beneath the surface. The complexity of his music is generally not so much apparent on its surface ...
When he wrote these three works in the middle '50s, Hans Werner Henze was the rising star of German postwar music. While Hartmann was still toiling in the dodecaphonic mines and Stockhausen was rushing off to embrace electronic noise, Henze represented a way forward that embraced the past without being burdened by it. Better yet, Henze was not ...
Although not for every violin devotee, this disc of Hans Werner Henze's First and Third violin concertos plus his Fünf Nachtstücke for violin and piano will thrill those for whom the anguished Alban Berg and mournful Karl Amadeus Hartmann's concertos are the sin qua non of twentieth century works in the genre. The First Concerto of 1946 was the ...
The members of the brass section of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra created their own ensemble in 2003 in order to demonstrate the versatility of brass instruments to a wider public through performances and teaching residencies. These performances, conducted by Ivan Meylemans, display all the virtuosity and brilliance one would expect from the ...
The August 6, 1966, premiere of Hans Werner Henze's opera Die Bassariden at the Salzburg Festival has, over time, become regarded as a justly famous event. It isn't often that you can travel back in time and take a front row seat for such a show, but in the case of Orfeo's first-time release of the recording of this event, you can. This production ...
Like many modern works for the guitar, the two expansive sonatas of Hans Werner Henze's Royal Winter Music were instigated by Julian Bream. But guitarist David Tanenbaum has become their strongest advocate, both in concert and on two important recordings; this 2003 disc from Stradivarius is Tanenbaum's second recording, the first having been ...
Often described as one of Europe's foremost living composers, Hans Werner Henze could perhaps more accurately be described as Europe's greatest living composer. Born in 1926, Henze's career spans sixty years, his style encompasses everything from neo-classicism to post-modernism, his works include everything from grand operas to intimate quartets, ...
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