45 Results for : sonorities
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Conductor's Guide to Prokofiev, Hörbuch, Digital, 74min
Gerard Schwarz examines the life of this impolitic composer who lived in the political world of revolutionary Russia. Prokofiev's failure to interest himself in political realities, together with his tremendous confidence in his own genius, led him to ignore the darkening climate for artists in the Soviet Union. When the Soviets arrested his first wife on charges of spying, Prokofiev issued a public apology for his failure to write in an appropriate socialist style. According to Aaron Copland, who met Prokofiev several times in the 1920s, "He was boyish, easily bored, and even impolite at times... He was very bright and outspoken, and I can't imagine that he would ever hide how he felt about anything." Once, when accompanying a singer in a performance of his songs, he reduced her to tears by berating her effort in front of the audience. Schwarz uses musical excerpts from Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony, Piano Concerto No. 3, and Romeo and Juliet to demonstrate how Prokofiev avoided the large scale and sweeping gestures of late-Romantic orchestral music in favor of lean sonorities, textural clarity, and concise architecture. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Schwarz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/musp/000019/sp_musp_000019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Conductor's Guide to Liszt's Les Preludes & More, Hörbuch, Digital, 72min
Franz Liszt came of age with the flowering of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts, and the Romantic spirit had a profound impact on his development as both a man and an artist. Indeed, Liszt, like Berlioz, Wagner, and Chopin, gave expression to that spirit in both his life and his music. Liszt cut a larger-than-life figure, and everything he did tended towards extravagance. As a performer he was one of the first great superstars, dazzling his audiences as much with his flamboyant dress and gestures as with his unprecedented virtuosity. Liszt's approach to music placed him in the vanguard of Romantic innovation. He greatly expanded the range of sonorities available from the piano, inventing both delicate figuration and thundering effects. By addressing dramatic and poetic themes in his compositions, he helped create instead a music that expressed those sublime, ecstatic, harrowing, and heroic feelings that the Romantics held to be the essence of life. The Musically Speaking Conductor's Guides are your link to an appreciation of the greatest classical music ever performed. Let Maestro Gerard Schwarz enrich your classical music listening enjoyment by illuminating the great works of the Masters with revealing commentary and educational insight. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Schwarz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/musp/000024/sp_musp_000024_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Conductor's Guide to Stravinsky's Petrouchka & The Rite of Spring, Hörbuch, Digital, 74min
As the 20th century winds to its close, Igor Stravinsky stands securely as its most important and influential composer. For more than six decades his works defined modernism in music, just as Picasso's canvases showed the essence of modernism in painting. Like that great Spanish artist, who was almost his exact contemporary, Stravinsky attained a dominating stature in his field. Only a handful of composers rivaled him in significance during his lifetime. None surpassed him. Stravinsky's pre-eminence among the modern masters rests in large part on the great originality of his work. The composer introduced exciting new rhythmic possibilities into concert music, made expressive use of dissonance, and conceived unprecedented instrumental sonorities. These novelties baffled some listeners early in the century and cemented the composer's reputation as a daring modernist. Yet for all his innovation, Stravinsky was no iconoclast bent on destroying the past. On the contrary, his art was in many ways rooted in tradition. He drew inspiration from legends and fairy tales, from old Italian comedy and classical myths. And he loved music from earlier centuries and paid homage to it in a number of his works. The Musically Speaking Conductor's Guides are your link to an appreciation of the greatest classical music ever performed. Let Maestro Gerard Schwarz enrich your classical music listening enjoyment by illuminating the great works of the Masters with revealing commentary and educational insight. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Schwarz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/musp/000011/sp_musp_000011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bach Klaviertranskriptionen 2
Following the success of Nikolai Demidenko's first disc of Busoni's transcriptions of Bach (CDA66566), here he completes the project. Busoni developed an individual approach to re-casting Bach's organ works for the piano, and utilizes a full range of sonorities to recreate the sound and effects of the organ. These transcriptions were so popular during Busoni's lifetime that his wife was once introduced by a society patron as Mrs Bach-Busoni!- Shop: odax
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Die Kammermusik Vol.3-Werke mit Bläsern
Lise Berthaud (Viola) - François Salque (Cello) - Florent Pujuila (Klarinette) - Joël Lasry (Horn) - Eric Le Sage (Piano) // After the piano quartets, the sextets and the quintets, this new double album keeps exploring Brahms sonorities, to which the tones of clarinet and horn give a dreamlike touch of melancholy.- Shop: odax
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Glowing Sonorities: Sonatas by Schubert, Reinecke, Franck
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Triosonaten
Hager Hanana (Cello) - Blandine Rannou (Cembalo) // The stylistic evolution in chamber music from Baroque to Classical can be traced on this delicious recording in which two flutes flutter like birds on the wing through music of fascinating polyphonic interplay, rich melodic invention and buoyant harmonies. "sumptuous counterpoint ... subtle sonorities" (Diapason)- Shop: odax
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Légende-werke Für Saxophon Und Orchester
London Symph. Orch. - Yuri Simonov (Dir) // Many composers have been seduced by the sound and wide range of colours and sonorities the saxophone produces. This CD gathers together French works with a very Mediterranean feel. The sultry sound of the saxophone is used to tremendous effect in Schmitt's exotic Légende. Tomasi's imposing concerto and the vibrant Tableaux de Provence by Paule Maurice will be discoveries for most listeners, and welcome ones as well.- Shop: odax
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The Tallis Scholars Sing Tudor Church Music Ii
"Of all the polyphony we have recorded, this early English style with its dazzling high treble parts and luminous sonorities is, for me, as good as it gets. Our pioneering performances of Sheppard and White have shown them to be the equals of Tallis and Byrd." (Peter Phillips)- Shop: odax
- Price: 15.67 EUR excl. shipping
