Since Pluto has been deprived of planetary status by the International Astronomical Union and designated with the asteroid number 134340, there is no longer any need to append Gustav Holst's The Planets with Colin Matthews' Pluto, the Renewer. Never mind that Holst's conception was based more on astrology than astronomy, or that his out-of ...
You might expect that a disc called Britannia with a photograph of the white cliffs of Dover on the cover would start with a Pomp and Circumstance March by Elgar. And so it does on this 2007 Telarc release with Donald Runnicles leading the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. But while the disc starts with a Pomp and Circumstance March, it's not No. 1 but ...
Brass bands began emerging throughout Great Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century, and by the first decades of the twentieth century, England alone boasted almost 20,000 groups. For much of their first 100 years, they had to rely primarily on arrangements and transcriptions rather than original works. Edward Elgar was among the first ...
Even though the phrase piano possibile means "as soft as possible," the contemporary music ensemble that adopted that term for its name is far from muted or laid-back. To the contrary, this Munich-based group of 20 musicians enjoys playing loud, abrasive works with flamboyant, complicated parts that seldom venture into the quiet end of the ...
This 2005 SACD of the brilliant orchestral music of Mark-Anthony Turnage is significant for being both a compilation of premiere recordings (in two instances, first releases of world-premiere performances) and for being a collection of four astonishingly vivid concert renditions by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, under three conductors. Turnage ...
Trombone virtuoso Christian Lindberg has had over 80 concertos written for him. Lindberg admits that there are parts, sometimes large parts, of the three concertos recorded here that are virtually unplayable, but he has mastered them and offers no indication of stressful exertion; he and the Oslo Philharmonic, conducted by Peter Rundel, play with ...
Virtuoso trumpeter Hĺkan Hardenberger's skills are prodigious and seem made to order for the three cutting-edge concertos presented on this 2006 Deutsche Grammophon release. These are not the flashy crowd-pleasers that most players trot out, but serious modern works that derive equally from the avant-garde and neo-Romanticism, as well as from jazz ...
You might expect that a disc called Britannia with a photograph of the white cliffs of Dover on the cover would start with a Pomp and Circumstance March by Elgar. And so it does on this 2007 Telarc release with Donald Runnicles leading the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. But while the disc starts with a Pomp and Circumstance March, it's not No. 1 but ...
For Oliver Knussen's 50th birthday, the London Sinfonietta collected 13 musical tributes to the composer/conductor from among the many composers with whom he had worked. The results are these brief pieces, all between one and five minutes long, scored for solo instrument, small ensemble, or full orchestra by some of the world's most famous ...
The irresistible title of Prelude, Fnugg & Riffs refers to the opening work on this delightful disc of wind music, Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for clarinet and jazz ensemble of 1949. The Bernstein touches off a high-spirited and pleasingly international collection of wind pieces that keep the listener engaged and entertained even ...
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