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1) Thrive
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Riopy's album is for those who feel, consciously or unconsciously, the need to build something else, to seek out new horizons. For those who wish to turn their backs on the things that oppress us and aggress us, on meaningless demands.
Pub. Date
℗2005
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (2 hr., 35 min., 05 sec.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (182 pages ; 13 x 15 cm).
Description
Discover Music of the 20th Century is a comprehensive and easily digestible guide, leading us through the diverse, innovative and controversial musical history of this era. By describing the many different musical styles that flourished in the 20th century and putting the music in its historical and social context, this booklet and CD set demystifies the whole subject of "modern music".
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Over the past 40 years there have been many pieces by Steve Reich that could legitimately have been called Pulse, but when he finally did get round to using the title in 2015, it was for a work in which “pulse” is by no means the raison d’être of the music. It’s the seamless, intertwining canons in the woodwind and strings that give the shape and character to this ravishing quarter-hour movement, with airy, weightless textures. Only one instrument...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (52:51) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The eighty-seven musicians, one conductor, and one piano soloist for the New York Youth Symphony overccame the challenges of not being able to record in the same room to release their first album on April 8th of 2022 and Hit #2 on the Billboard Charts. The New York Youth Symphony (NYYS), founded in 1963, is a tuition-free music organization for the youth in New York City, widely reputed to be one of the best of its kind in the nation and world. Its...
10) The mazurkas
Author
Description
Pavel Kolsenikov performs a selection of 24 of Chopin's delightful miniatures. These are some of the composer's earliest examples, with some pieces written during his teenage years.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (71 min., 16 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After their acclaimed recording of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, La Nuova Musica and David Bates expand their PENTATONE discography with Handel’s Unsung Heroes, in which the instrumentalists of Handel’s operas are put centre stage. Traditionally restricted to an “invisible” existence in the orchestra pit, La Nuova Musica’s obbligato instrumentalists – violinist Thomas Gould, oboist Leo Duarte and bassoonist Joe Qiu – are now in the limelight....
13) Nasty women
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (79 min., 30 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is an album of important compositions for piano by women composers, composed between the early 20th Century and the 1940s. Joanna Goldstein is Professor of Music at Indiana University Southeast. She was also formerly the Dean of the School of Arts & Letters until 2001. In addition to her piano studio, she directs the Indiana University Southeast Orchestra.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : CD audio, digital, stereo, surround ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet(27 pages : color, black and white photographs ; 12 cm)
Description
Up until around 1900, the clarinet repertoire was dominated by music from the German-speaking lands, largely due to the influence of three outstanding clarinetists. Inspired by Anton Stadler, Heinrich Bärmann, and Richard Mühlfeld respectively, Mozart, Weber, and Brahms composed some of the finest clarinets works ever written. But especially after the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French cultural establishment became...
15) Works & reworks
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The latest release from Vikingur Ölafsson, this two-CD album combines the original Bach album, a collection of both well-known and rarely performed pieces by the famous Baroque composer, including transcriptions by Busconi, Rachmaninov, Siloti, and Vikingur himself; and Bach Reworks, an album of new arrangements of Vikingur's Bach transcriptions from electronic artists such as Valgeir Sigurösson and Ben Frost, Peter Gregson, and Ryuichi Sakamoto....
16) Farinelli
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (1:15:30) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli's new album of Baroque arias written for the famed castrato Farinelli is an operatic tour de force.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Leif Ove Andsnes releases a second Mozart Momentum album with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, presenting a portrait of the master composer during the years in which his writing for the piano was at its most revolutionary, creative and game-changing. Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra follow their “triumphant” (Gramophone), “sparkling” (New York Times) and award-winning Mozart Momentum 1785 release with its partner album, focusing...
19) Eden
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (1 hr., 8 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
According to opera star Joyce DiDonatao, her new album is 'a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new eden from within.'
20) Piano music: 9
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spanish Classics series. This is the ninth and final volume in the Albéniz pano music series. The focus here is on Albéniz's compositional evolution and his use of inspired folk-based melodies, Hispanic nostalgia and vivid dance rhythms, encapsulated by the intoxicating Chants d'Espagne. The album also includes five works heard in exciting new arrangements for two pianos made expressly for this recording. Miguel Ángel R. Laiz is joined by Santiago...
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