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A fabulous new box set comprising the complete Glass works from the Naxos catalogue, all of them immensely successful in their own right. | 
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| |  | Dvorák - Symphony No. 9
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop This recording by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Marin Alsop is the first of three discs of Dvorák symphonies taken from live performances at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. “The unashamed brassiness of the orchestra's sound marks it out as the work of an American ensemble, but alongside that there is plenty of subtlety to the wind-playing, not least the marvellous cor anglais in the famous slow movement, as well as the cameos given to flute and clarinet elsewhere in the work. The strings, on the other hand, bring a sheen more in keeping with the music's European roots.
The recorded sound is particularly warm and welcoming, and both that and the superlative performances mean that the two promised successors to this disc - more Dvorák recorded under the same circumstances - cannot arrive soon enough.” Matthew Rye, Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2006 Disc of the Week “It’s hard to understand why a work as enjoyable as the Symphonic Variations, by a composer as popular as Dvorak, should be so neglected. Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony remind us of its charms and richly inventive colours in this vivid, incisive account. They also do the symphony proud, proving that a warhorse such as the New World is hackneyed only in the minds of jaded performers and listeners.” Sunday Times, 22nd June 2008 **** |
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| |  | A Dancing-Play in One Act
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop Though outwardly sunny in its subject matter, The Wooden Prince has a mystical side that may explain Bartók’s attraction to the story. |
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| |  | Turnage: | Twice Through the Heart Premiere recording, Blackheath Concert Halls, 16 Apr 07 Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Hidden Love Song Premiere recording and performance, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 30 Jan 06 Martin Robertson (soprano saxophone) The Torn Fields Premiere recording, Watford Town Hall, 11 Feb 07 Gerald Finley (baritone) |
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop This latest release documents premiere recordings of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage,
the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Composer in Residence.
Ten years after its rst performance at the Aldeburgh Festival, Marin Alsop conducts a
studio performance of Turnage’s remarkable work for mezzo-soprano and chamber
ensemble, Twice Through the Heart. The piece is a collaboration with poet Jackie Kay
and explores the real-life story of an abused woman imprisoned for the murder of her
husband. The music is lyrical but abrupt, painful but often quiet and re ective; one of
the composer’s most nely crafted, intensely moving and technically accomplished
works. ‘It’s almost made for Sarah’s [Connolly] voice’, says Turnage, ‘she gets very close
to the heart of it’.
The Torn Fields was also recorded in the studio, and is sung by baritone Gerald Finley, for
whom Turnage wrote the work in 2000-02. This often nightmarish, vivid glimpse of the
destruction of war using poetry from 1914-1918 is another example of the composer’s
extraordinary ability to create vocal lines that embody their texts. Turnage has himself
commented on the huge challenges he experiences when writing vocal music, but
concedes that ‘writing for Gerald Finley makes it easier…he is, in my view, one of the
greatest baritones around’.
Sandwiched between these works is a recording made live at the world premičre of
Turnage’s Hidden Love Song in January 2006. The soloist, Martin Robertson, is another
close friend and regular collaborator with Turnage, and this performance reveals the
sensitive, delicate nature of Turnage’s musical gift to his wife Gabriella Swallow. “Played with arching smoothness by Martin Robertson…Ultimately the piece is a love song, and a beautiful one.” The Guardian |
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| |  | (Opera in One Act - Libretto by Béla Balázs) Sung in Hungarian
Gustáv Belácek (bass) & Andrea Meláth (mezzo-soprano) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop This recording was made after the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s end-of-season concert, described by The Times as “a spectacular finale… A knockout dramatic punch; feverishly beautiful orchestral playing; two characters, the Duke and his new wife Judith, tactile and writhing, deeply felt… Alsop inspired the Bournemouth players to excel”. “Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra prove worthy interpreters of Bartók’s psyco-drama. Alsop bathes the score in an impressionist glow, dark and glistening. She gives her excellent soloists… ample room to define the drama, while tightening the screws where appropriate, making for a suitably chilling climax.” Financial Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Joshua Bell (violin) Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop Composer, John Corigliano and violinist Joshua Bell - two of biggest names in classical music - teamed up to create one of 1999's best soundtracks, ‘The Red Violin’. The composer and violinist have joined up once again to create this album, a brand new concerto inspired by the aforementioned soundtrack | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Philip Glass - Heroes Symphony
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop “Marin Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony give it big licks with terrific playing on this new recording, as they do in Glass's more personal essay, The Light, from 1987, where everything turns to Glass.” The Herald | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Claire Rutter, Tom Randle & Markus Eiche Highcliffe Junior Choir (Director: Mary Denniss), Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus (Director: Andrew Knights) & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Director: Greg Beardsell), Marin Alsop | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop “Marin Alsop's reading is certainly fine: dark of hue, lyrical and long drawn, though never, even for a moment, comatose. Rhythm is good, articulation keen, phrasing exquisite, the reading's crepuscular colours glowingly realised by the LPO. The reading has a quality of melancholy, a wistfulness crossed with a sense of incipient tragedy, which is almost Elgarian” Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop “This is a late-summer idyll of a performance, easily paced, nicely judged and warmly played. For first-time buyers it will provide unalloyed pleasure”. Gramophone on 8.557429: “Nonetheless, these are humane, affectionate performances from which browsers and bargain-minded first-time buyers should derive a good deal of pleasure”. Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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