The recordings on this CD offer a rare opportunity to get acquainted with both the beginnings of a composer’s growth and the mature works written at the summit of his artistic life.
Here we have Lutosławski in a nutshell with all the elements we find in his orchestral works. Motifs and harmonies, approach to borrowed material, textural organisation, rhetoric gestures, not to mention large-scale formal structures and - mutatis mutandis - ideas for orchestration.
Der fliegende Holländer ARTISTS: Antoni Wit - conductorWarsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and ChoirHans Sotin - bass (Daland)Christiane Libor - soprano (Senta)Endrik Wottrich - tenor (Eryk)Ewa Marciniec - alto (Mary)Ryszard Minkiewicz - tenor (Steuermann)David Pittman-Jennings - baritone (Holländer)Henryk Wojnarowski - choirmasterRELEASE DATE: 10/2007CATALOGUE NO. ACD 143GENRE: opera music DESCRIPTION LISTA UTWORÓW LISTEN DESCRIPTION LISTA UTWORÓW CD1 1. Ouverture 11:01ACT 1 2. Introduction. Choir: Hojohe! Hallojo! Hojoha! Ho! 1:273. Daland: Kein Zweifel! Sieben Meilen fort 3:434. Steuermann: Seit außer Sorg.! Schlaft ruhig, Kapitän! 5:015. Nr 2. Aria Holender: Die Frist ist um 3:356. Holländer: Wie oft in Meeres tiefsten Schlund 2:497. Holländer: Dich frage ich, gepriesner Engel Gottes 3:048. Holländer: Nur eine Hoffnung soll mir bleiben 3:279. Nr 3 Duett & Choir: He! Holla! Steuermann! 4:0310. Holländer: Durch Sturm und bösen Wind verschlagen 4:5311. Daland: Wie? Höre ich recht? 7:2512. Steuermann: Südwind, Südwind! 2:0413. Choir: Mit Gewitter und Sturm aus fernem Meer attaca ACT 2 14. Introduction 2:1915. Nr 4. Choir: Summ und brumm, du gutes Rädchen 3:4016. Mary:…
Tomasz Kaszubowski & Paweł Nawara Guitar Duo specializes in the traditional music of Latin America. Both artists are graduates of the Warsaw Music Academy and prizewinners in international guitar competitions with many recordings to their credit
This is the second record by the Polish guitarist, Robert Horna. On his debut album the artist recorded a number of compositions in different styles and from different periods, each played with a youthful passion, enthusiasm, and sensibility.
Stanisław Moniuszko is best known as the father of Polish opera and writer of songs with impressive circulation. However, he is also a true master of other genres e.g. church music.
The Romanticism saw a bountiful development of piano music. It was a century which brought not only an abundance of works by the most distinguished composers Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, and others but also added lustre to the century that followed.
The record features arias of the two most popular Italian composers, Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, for lyric soprano (Mimi, Lauretta, Liú) and lirico-spinto soprano (Tosca, Butterfly, Leonora, Desdemona).
What is it like to be a son of the musician of all times and still practise the same profession?
In Ubu Rex, Penderecki embraces Jarry's style: admitting that in this work he pokes fun at classical genres and at himself.