Adrian Boult - Orchestral Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Soghomon Soghomonian (1869-1935) took the name Komitas (or Gomidas) when he was ordained a priest in 1894; a year later he became Komitas Vardapet (doctor of theology) - one of the two names by which he is known to history. The other is 'father of Armenian music', since he collected thousands of songs from his compatriots, his fieldwork preserving and identifying the accent which makes the works of Armenian composers readily identifiable - as these piano trios prove one twentieth-century classic and three new works, one of which completes the circle by recasting six of Komitas' own folksong arrangements.

Adrian Boult - Orchestral Works [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/09/2007

Robert Schumann and Jörg Widmann - a musical dialogue between a modern and a Romantic composer. WERGO juxtaposes four piano works of the two composers and takes a look at Schumann on his 200th birthday from a somewhat different perspective His works InchNachtstückeInch and InchGesänge der FrüheInch as well as Widmann's InchToccataInch and eponymous sonata InchFleurs du malInch are interpreted by the Sicilian pianist Fabio Romano, whom the magazine Fono Forum has recently chosen as Inchbest up-and-coming artist of the yearInch.Seeing himself deeply rooted in the classical-Romantic tradition as a composer and interpreter, and regularly entering into a dialogue with Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert as a world-renowned clarinettist and experimental composer par excellence, Jörg Widmann has discovered in himself and developed a special affinity particularly towards the music by Robert Schumann. It is particularly in his chamber music works that Widmann repeatedly makes direct references to works of the great Romanticist; but there are also subtle hints at related moments breaks - and bridges into the unknown, on either side. And not seldom are they fields of twilight, of nightmares, of the dark side of the Moon which are explored.