Jonathan Phillips - Ballades & Nocturnes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Like all great composers, Bach wrote lively dynamic pieces forkeyboard as well as in his cantatas etc. But he also produced manywonderful gentle and peaceful works and many of these are collectedby pianist Jonathan Phillips in his new album 'Tranquillity'.This CD contains music for anyone hoping to gain an overriding senseof stillness, calm, contemplation and reverence. Bach's music hasradiance, luminosity, divinity, serenity, and timeless beauty.Jonathan Phillips (Incha musician of real quality and finesseInch - The Times) has broadcast for the BBC, Russian and Italian and SwedishTV and radio, and given recitals all over the UK, Europe and formerSoviet Union. Jonathan was interviewed by John Humphries andplayed live on Radio Four's Today programme following a full-pagefeature article in the Guardian Arts Section about the preparation andperformance of the Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto he gave inLondon in 2003.

This is a re- within the new SWR series InchSWR Century ClassicsInch. It contains two main works of Antonin Dvorak, his famous Symphony No.9 InchFrom the New WorldInch as well as the Carnival Ouverture, interpreted by the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR, conducted by it's former chief conductor, Sir Roger Norrington. Sir Roger Norrington was born in Oxford, and comes from a musical University family. He was a talented boy soprano, studying the violin from the age of ten and singing from the age of seventeen. He read English Literature at Cambridge University, and spent several years as an amateur violinist, tenor singer, and conductor, before attending the Royal College of Music as a postgraduate student of conducting, studying with Sir Adrian Boult. Norrington's work on scores, orchestral sound and size, seating and playing style has had a growing effect on the perception of 18th- and 19th- century orchestral music. He is in great demand as a guest conductor for symphony orchestras worldwide, working regularly with orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig, Salzburg, Amsterdam, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and London. He is Chief Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and of the Camerata Salzburg, and is closely associated with the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment (which has taken over the work of the London Classical Players) and with the Philharmonia.

Grigory Krein (1879-1955), a member of an astonishing dynasty of Russian-Jewish musician-composers, was recognized by his contemporaries as one of the major composers of his day. His piano music charts a stylistic evolution from the early influence of Grieg, Reger (with whom he studied) and Debussy towards a more complex and chromatic language with harmonies that synthesize the sound-worlds of Skryabin and Szymanowski; there's also an echo of the rhapsodic Celtic wildness of Bax. Indeed, all of these pieces are informed by a remarkable sense of energy - latent in some and given it's head in others.