Leon Fleisher - Klaviermusik Mit Orchester / Sym 9: From New World - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Giuseppe was composed by Mayr in 1829 for graduation concerts at the academy of music in Bergamo over which he presided. His inspiration was a Biblical opera that had won great popularity, Méhul's Joseph, which had premiered in Paris in 1807, featuring prayers, hymns, and unassuming arias. Mayr, however, drew on a much wider musical canvas to include grand arias, duets, a cavatina, and a final chorus. He also repeatedly references popular melodies by his contemporaries Donizetti, Rossini, and Bellini, as befits a pasticcio oratorio.

Lukas Nelson came of age in the dives and diners of this country and his itinerant life showed him America as few others get to see it. Nelson ponders his relationship with the country with all it's joy and heartbreak on American Romance, his first solo album and first under Sony Music Nashville. - Recorded by Grammy Award-winning producer Shooter Jennings, it shows the singer-songwriter expanding his sound while doubling down on the fundamentals of his artistry. InchIt's been a long and inspiring journey in the band,Inch he says. InchThis is an opportunity to experiment with some new colors in the palette.Inch - American Romance brings out those new colors in dazzling fashion, demonstrating Nelson to be a singer-songwriter of uncommon dexterity. He's just as likely to wrestle with heady existential matters as he is to lament his losses, and he's steeped in tradition without being strictly bound to it. Much like the land that provided it's name, American Romance is a novelistic album teeming with great complexity and beauty that plays out like a series of chapters from his life.

Described by the New York Times in 1944 as InchOne of the most remarkably gifted of the younger generation of American keyboard artists,Inch Leon Fleisher was born in San Francisco in 1928. In 1944, at age 16, he played the Brahms first Piano Concerto as soloist with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Monteux. In 1952 he won the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. He played the Brahms and Beethoven Piano Concertos often and recorded them with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra. DOREMI is proud to offer here a hitherto unreleased live recording of Brahms First Piano Concerto with Pierre Monteux and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 1964, he noticed that two fingers of his right hand were beginning to involuntarily curl up. He tried every therapy that existed then, but his solo career was effectively ended. He continued to teach, and conduct and in 1967 began to perform works for the left hand. In 1995 he succeeded to regain the use if his right hand and began performing and recording with two-hands. Leon Fleisher passed away in 2020 at age 92.