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Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | 
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London Symphony Orchestra & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin & Michael Tilson Thomas Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is best-known today for his Adagio for Strings, which was originally written as the slow movement for an early string quartet, and has become one of most played pieces of classical music. The Adagio was first perfomed in its orchestral form by Toscanini, with the Essay for Orchestra in the same concert. These works are typical of Barber's output, being overtly European in outlook and language.Barber composed music in most genres: two symphonies; concertos for piano, cello and violin, two grand operas; ballets; choral works; chamber music and a great number of songs. This selection of works includes the beautifully reflective Knoxville: Summer 1915, written to a sensitive text from James Agee's unfinished novel A Death in the Family. Also included is the Violin Concerto with it's lovely slow movement and the Overture to a School for Scandal, which was the first of Barber's works to be performed by a major orchestra. |
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| |  | The American Virtuoso
American pianist Paul Barnes performs his own solo transcription of Philip Glass’s Piano Concerto No 2 in a virtuosic recital devoted to US composers. Besides this premiere, he plays the landmark 1950 Sonata for piano and the haunting Ballade and Nocturne by Samuel Barber, and two short colourful pieces from Joan Tower’s No Longer Very Clear |
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| |  | Michael Sheppard
The American Pianists Association was founded in New York City in 1979 by Tony Habig and Victor
Borge. Its mission is to discover and support young world-class pianists through competitions,
performance tours and educational programmes.Winners receive assistance for two years, including a
cash award and career services valued at $75,000. Currently, the APA awards three Fellowships:The
DeHaan Classical Fellow; the Max I. Allen Classical Fellow; and the Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano) The Aronowitz Ensemble The wonderful Gerald Finley, described recently as ‘the best living baritone currently at the peak of his powers’ (The Globe and Mail), brings his ‘glorious sound and great dramatic instinct’ to this fascinating selection of songs, sensitively accompanied by Julius Drake. This is a pretty stunning achievement. At his most mellifluous and focused, Gerald Finley has beauty of tone to spare. But he is also at his most expressive – hollowing out the voice for the hopelessness of the song “Bessie Bobtail”, letting it splinter with anger at the climax of the brief, furious “Sea Snatch”.
Throughout, Julius Drake proves a predictably accomplished, thoughtful partner. The pair move easily and logically from the prettiness of the very early songs through the complexities of the Hermit Songs and the pensive Mélodies passagères.
It’s a canny move
to place Dover Beach
as the final track. The introduction of the string quartet to close the disc shifts the mood, sending us off in another direction. It comes as a hopeful reminder of the wonder of love, even with a sting in its tail. Entirely appropriate for a bittersweet, marvellous collection. - Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Celia Nicklin (oboe & cor anglais) & Michael Laird (trumpet) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner Recorded: Smith Square, London, October 1975 “Few anthologies find room for a symphony; but this one does, and in doing so offers us a very good one, Ives's Third: three gently affectionate movements (for once no jokes, no revolutions) ... it is music of great charm, and given exactly that quality in the continuously eloquent performance of Neville Marriner's Academy... there is also playing of the very first order in Barber's Adagio, with an intensity of string tone at the climax hardly to be believed possible with the number of players likely involved. The Copland is splendid too, trumpet and cor anglais exceptionally well balanced with each other - projecting their solos with a long-lined beauty matching that of the string players. Creston's A Rumour is in a sense a party piece for the orchestra... perhaps in this little piece Creston has produced the record's second triumph of good nature; hardly comparable in scope with the Ives, but an effective one nevertheless. Its performance and recording are of an equal standard to that of the whole disc: impeccable”. Gramophone July 1976 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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James Ehnes (violin) Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey “an outstanding release in every way” Edward Greenfield in Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Barber & Walton - Violin Concertos
Joshua Bell (violin) Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman Recorded: Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, January 1996 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Barbara Hendricks London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas | | EMI Encore - 3452872 (CD) Normally: £5.99 (£5.10 ex. VAT) Special: £4.19 (£3.57 ex. VAT) |
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| |  | Barber - Orchestral Works
Elmar Oliveira Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | | EMI Gemini - 5865612 (CD - 2 discs) Normally: £8.49 (£7.23 ex. VAT) Special: £5.94 (£5.06 ex. VAT) |
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