Berlioz / Baker / Hickox / London Sinfonia - Nuits D'ete/Belle Voyageuse/Ca - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Chromatics is a word derived from the Greek noun meaning color. During the Renaissance, new music was composed in the Western world, opening up a palette of (timbral) colors for the first time. Before the Renaissance, music (in Gregorian chant) existed only to convey the word, not to make an appearance itself; this changed completely after the 15th century. Music, like painting, exploded into new forms and colors, and the era of the modern age was ushered in.Strange harmonies, mysterious voices - tones of passion and desire, of terror and fear, of the confusion of the sublime or of divine apparition... This is the world of musical colors that opened up in the age of the Chromatic Renaissance, giving rise to a music that is daring, adventurous and timelessly modern.

Sonantes - Sonantes [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/31/2007

Tenor Ian Bostridge joins Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony in an album exploring the music of iconic French composers renowned for their inventive spirit Berlioz, Ravel and Debussy. Hailed by The Seattle Times for his Inchwarm tone quality and beautiful expressionInch during the performance of Berlioz's Les nuits d'ete, the live-in-concert track is paired with studio recordings of Ravel's imaginative Sheherazade and Debussy's colorfully rich Le livre de Baudelaire, orchestrated by John Adams. With naturalistic imaging, depth of field and dynamic range, all Seattle Symphony Media recordings have been engineered to audiophile standards and aim to capture as realistically as possible the sound of the orchestra performing on the Benaroya Hall stage. The present was mastered by 2017 Grammy Award Winner Dmitriy Lipay.