John Salmon - John Salmon Plays Brubeck - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

From the Russian fairy-tale enchantment of The Firebird to the austere ritual at the end of his Requiem Canticles composed over half a century later, Stravinsky's extraordinary creativity embraces a range of styles and tributes to composers of the past. He started under the guidance of Rimsky-Korsakov in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg and ended his life in America having made a very special kind of peace with the rigorous (serial) techniques of Schoenberg and Webern. Yet his homage's are always heartfelt, and he always remains himself truly the most comprehensive and wide-ranging musical genius of the twentieth century. Album Tracks 1. Introduction 2. Scene I Night. Kashchey's Enchanted Garden 3. Scene I The Firebird Enters, Pursued By Ivan Tsarevich 4. Scene I The Firebird's Dance 5. Movement 1 Danse Russe 6. Movement 2 Chez Pã©Trouchka 7. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. Introduction 8. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. the Augurs of Spring (Dance of the Young Girls) 9. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. Ritual of Abduction 10. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. Spring Rounds 11. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. Ritual of the Rival Tribes 12. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. Procession of the Sage 13. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. the Sage 14. Part I The Adoration of the Earth. Dance of the Earth 15. No. 1 16. No. 2 17. On the Stove 18. At Home 19. Dodo 20. The Cat Has 21. Tango 22. Valse 23. Ragtime 24. Scene 4 The Wedding Feast 25. Act 1. Polidoro. Il Flaminio (Serenata - Larghetto) 26. Act 1. Trio Sonata. Movement 2 (Scherzino) 27. Act 1. Trio Sonata. Movement 3 (Allegro) 28. Act 1. Trio Sonata. Movement 8 (Andantino) 29. Act 1. Vanella. Lo Frante 'Nnammorato. (Allegro) 30. Movement 2 Adagietto 1. Epilogue 2. Pas de Deux Apollo and Terpsichore 3. Coda Apollo and t

Son of the distinguished Swiss composer, pianist, and teacher Ernst Levy, Frank Ezra Levy was born in Paris on 15th October, 1930, and came to New York in 1939. He began cello lessons at the age of ten, and at twelve he began studies in theory and composition with Hugo Kauder, which continued for nine years. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art, Levy attended the Juilliard School of Music and the University of Chicago. His major cello teachers were Leonard Rose and Janos Starker. A former member of the St Louis Symphony and the Feldman Chamber Ensemble, Frank Ezra Levy is still a professional cellist, and continues to compose. Large works include a four-act comic opera, a cantata, four symphonies, several other orchestral pieces, and eight concertos. All the rest of his 88 published works are chamber music, an extraordinary variety of pieces for 1-15 instruments, often in highly unusual combinations. Notable premières of Frank Levy's music include his Third Symphony at Carnegie Hall (1989), the Holocaust Triptych at Manhattan School of Music (1993), his First Cello Concerto at Lincoln Center (2002) and Apostrophe No. 3 for 15 solo strings, at Music Festival of the Hamptons (2004). Currently available among his recorded works are the Fourth Symphony and First Cello Concerto. LP recordings include the Violin Duo, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Suite for Horn and Piano, Adagio and Rondo for Two Clarinets and Bass Clarinet, and the Brass Quintet. Album Tracks 1. Vivace 2. Allegro Moderato 3. Molto Adagio 4. Allegro 5. Allegro Molto Vivace 6. Lento 7. Vivace

2023 marks 25 years since the death of British composer Paul Reade. He is remembered for his delightful Victorian Kitchen Garden music (Ivor Novello Award) and television themes such as Antiques Road-show. However, he also wrote a huge range of equally wonderful but less well-known pieces, full of melodic invention, wit and fabulous energy. They are previously unpublished and unrecorded works that deserve to be heard. These are premiere recordings (except for the Chants du Roussillon) and show Paul's music at it's best tender, poignant, humorous and uplifting, full of wonderful melodic and dramatic invention. Philippa Davies has been hailed as a 'first-rate virtuoso', with 'winning charm', 'exceptional eloquence' and an 'almost electrical response to technique'. Since her celebrated performance of Mozart's Concerto in D major at the BBC Proms in 1988, she has gained an international reputation as one of the finest flautists currently performing. Album Tracks 1. Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden for solo flute, harp and strings~I. Prelude. Andante pastorale 2. Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden for solo flute, harp and strings~II. Spring. Allegretto 3. Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden for solo flute, harp and strings~III. Mists. Lento melancolico 4. Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden for solo flute, harp and strings~IV. Exotica. Allegro ritmico 5. Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden for solo flute, harp and strings~V. Summer. Flowing 6. Chants du Roussillon, 5 Catalan folksongs~I. Are vé lo mes de maig (May) 7. Chants du Roussillon, 5 Catalan folksongs~II. De matinet me vaig llevar (The Nightingale's Advice) 8. Chants du Roussillon, 5 Catalan folksongs~III. Tot anit som caminat (A Frog in the Moonlight) 9. Chants du Roussillon, 5 Catalan folksongs~IV. El pare m'ha casada (The Defiant Bride) 10. Chants du Roussillon, 5