The big news here is the presence of The Butterfly Lovers, a work known to Western audiences in fragments from Olympic figure skating performances and the like, but not so often heard in full from a violinist of the caliber of Gil Shaham. It is sometimes paired with the notorious Yellow River Concerto in concert, but it is slighter, less extreme ...
While Zhou Long's colorful orchestral music purportedly reflects Chinese aesthetics and culture, particularly the nation's music and poetry before the Cultural Revolution, it is almost equally a product of Western orchestral tradition and exoticism, in which things Chinese are imagined and romanticized. By his own admission, Long hearkens back to ...
For this 2007 disc -- their 16th for the BIS label -- conductor Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony have turned to a subject quite congenial to musicians of an island nation: the sea that surrounds them and shapes their lives. Thus, three of the four works bear the same title -- Debussy's La Mer, Bridge's The Sea, and Glazunov's The Sea -- and one ...
Sweden's BIS label has focused a series of releases on creating a modest revival of the virtuoso ideal, focusing especially on music of the early twentieth century. Several have been successful, both in purely technical terms and in making a convincing case for abandoned repertoire, but none has offered as much sheer fun as this album of saxophone ...
Swedish label BIS has undertaken a number of extended surveys of certain composers in need of attention, such as Jean Sibelius, Kalevi Aho, Nikos Skalkottas, and Alfred Schnittke. One of its most exciting projects, a decade in the making, is a cycle of the major orchestral works of cosmopolitan Russian Alexander Tcherepnin with the Singapore ...
The concept here is to take Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, his hour-long symphonic song cycle setting Hans Bethge's translations of Chinese poetry, and translate the texts back into the original Chinese. The spin is that the resulting work is performed here by all Chinese forces. How well either the concept or the performance succeeds depends on ...
Since the only competition for this recording at the time of release -- a pair of Olympia discs featuring pianist Murray McLachlan with Julian Clayton leading the Chetham Symphony Orchestra -- can be hard to come by, it is tough to say how Noriko Ogawa's recording of Alexander Tcherepnin's First and Third piano concerto compares. But it is hard to ...
The booklet notes for this Swedish release are superbly done. Did you know that Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, André Previn, Jerry Goldsmith, and John Williams all studied with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco? Williams' Concerto for tuba and orchestra is one of four little-known but delightful works for tuba and orchestra brought together here. Williams ...
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