Lang Lang, the Chinese super-virtuoso pianist, can do anything he wants with the piano. The question is: what does he want to do? In this Deutsche Grammophon coupling of Beethoven's First and Fourth piano concertos with Christoph Eschenbach leading the Orchestre de Paris, Lang plays the right pitches in the right rhythms -- and plays them with ...
While he was held in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, Olivier Messiaen composed the Quartet for the End of Time in response to his "colored dreams," which had been induced by hunger. Apocalyptic visions of the angel Gabriel, surrounded by a swirling rainbow, inspired this deeply mystical and elevated work. The timbres of the instruments ...
Recording has long been recognized as part of the lifeblood of symphony orchestras; in terms of publicity, satisfying the needs of patrons, and spreading the gospel about orchestras of high caliber, nothing beats a good recording. When the bottom fell out at BMG Classics in 1999, the illustrious Philadelphia Orchestra found itself without a ...
Pairing Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3 in C minor, "Organ," and Francis Poulenc's Concerto for organ, strings, and timpani in G minor is common enough in practice, but the growing popularity of Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva for organ and orchestra, Op. 36, may signal a change from the usual way of programming these works. The arrangement on ...
This set is a remastered issue of Eschenbach's recordings from the mid-'70s. His reading of these great, late Beethoven sonatas is fascinating. The slower movements, such as the Adagio of the Hammerklavier, and even places within the second movement of the Sonata No. 32 and the Bagatelles, become almost stream of consciousness music, but these are ...
For the most part, Schubert's music for piano duet is music meant to entertain. Perhaps he wrote it to entertain his dancing friends as in his Deutsche Tänze or maybe he wrote it only to entertain only the two players seated next to each other at the keyboard as in his many Marches militaries, Marches funèbre, Marches héroïque, and Marches caract ...
For listeners who know only Christoph Eschenbach's later work as a conductor in Houston and Philadelphia, this four-disc set from 1978-1979 of Schubert's music for piano duet may come as a surprise. But those with longer memories may recall that before he took up the baton, Eschenbach had made a career for himself as a virtuoso pianist with ...
The music of Albert Roussel is not easy to pigeonhole, due to the evocative Impressionism of his early compositions and the more abstract neo-Classicism of his later works, composed after World War I. With its emphasis on timbres and textures over themes and development, the Impressionist style may not seem particularly well suited to symphonic ...
The music of naval officer turned composer Albert Roussel has undergone a renaissance: although first eclipsed by the work of his contemporaries Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky, Roussel's hidden jewels have recently begun to attract attention. Though a definitive Frenchman, his expertly crafted music is French only in flair: his compositional style ...
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