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Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano This new recording by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano bears the title “Transmigration”, and is a collection of hymns and requiems for those we wish to honour and remember. The featured pieces are Samuel Barber’s universal expressions of loss, “Adagio for Strings” and the vocal transcription “Agnus Dei”, John Corigliano’s “Elegy” to lost youth, Jennifer Higdon’s setting of poetry about Abraham Lincoln, “Dooryard Bloom”, and John Adams’s reflection of personal grief for the victims of the World Trade Centre tragedy on September 11, 2001, “On the Transmigration of Souls”. The ASO is joined on this piece by the Gwinnett Young singers and the soloist in “Dooryard Bloom” is the baritone Nmon Ford. Robert Spano is recognised internationally as one of the brightest and most imaginative conductors of his generation. His achievements include a 2005 Grammy Award (“Best Choral Album”) for Berlioz’s Requiem and two 2003 Grammy Awards (“Best Classical Album” and “Best Choral Album”) for Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony. “Using street-sounds and voices alongside the choir and orchestra, Transmigration, one of Adams's finest works, eschews anger, bitterness and condemnation, yet presents stark depictions of grief, loss and terror before the music subsides into a recognition of the integral part sorrow played in everyday life after 9/11.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Winchester Cathedral Choir, Jukka-Pekka Saraste & David Hill | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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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. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Barber: | Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 Violin Concerto, Op. 14 Three Essays for Orchestra, Op. 12, 17 & 47 Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a Summer Music, Op. 31 Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5 Cello Sonata, Op. 6 Canzone for Flute & Piano Op. 38a Excursions Op. 20 Nocturne, Op. 33 Pas de deux arr. from Souvenirs, Op. 28 Two-step arr. from Souvenirs, Op. 28 |
Elmar Oliveira (violin), Israela Margalit (piano), Alan Stepansky (cello), Jeanne Baxtresser (flute) Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Philip Scriven (Organ of Lichfield Cathedral) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Isaac Stern (violin) New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Wendy Warner (cello) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop "Though Barber won the Fifth Circle of New York for the engaging cello concerto, it is far less known than the violin concerto - all the more reason to give it a hearing."
- Jason Serinus, The Advocate | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Xavier Darasse (Organ), Andrei Gavrilov (Piano) Various orchestras | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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