Magnus Lindberg - Expo - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Al Largo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Das Lied Von Der Erde, for Alto (Or Baritone), Tenor & Orchestra Das Trinklied Vom Jammer Der Erde 2. Das Lied Von Der Erde, for Alto (Or Baritone), Tenor & Orchestra Der Einsame Im Herbst 3. Das Lied Von Der Erde, for Alto (Or Baritone), Tenor & Orchestra Von Der Jugend 4. Das Lied Von Der Erde, for Alto (Or Baritone), Tenor & Orchestra Von Der Schönheit 5. Das Lied Von Der Erde, for Alto (Or Baritone), Tenor & Orchestra Der Trunkene Im Frühling 6. Das Lied Von Der Erde, for Alto (Or Baritone), Tenor & Orchestra Der Abschied

The major work on this recording is the Chromatic Fantasy Sonata, a composition that emerged from a commission by the chamber music group, An die Musik (violin, viola, cello, oboe, piano). The original commission stipulated that I open the work with a few bars from my favorite composer. I chose Johann Sebastian Bach, and the exciting, dramatic rising scales of Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor (BWV 903) as an opening for my own Chromatic Fantasy. Various allusions to B-A-C-H (the German note names for B-flat, A, C, and B natural) are heard throughout, most obviously in the Allegro molto movement and appear in various disguises in other movements as well. The influence of Bach carries over into the titles of the movements. Chorale starts out in a four-voice that suggests the SATB choral texture of Bach's own chorales. Fugue is actually a triple fugue in four voices whose three subjects are woven throughout the four movements. Two of these subjects are tone rows, one of which starts out with a kind of inversion of the B-A-C-H motif. Chaconne uses a left-hand ostinato and a right-hand melody, similar to a piece I had written for jazz ensemble, called Jazzanians. With it's lively triplet feel and blues riffs Chaconne is the jazziest of the four movements. A string quartet version of Chromatic Fantasy Sonata was recorded by the Brodsky Quartet of England. John Salmon subsequently transcribed the fugue movement written for the string quartet to the present solo piano version. Tritonis, like so many of my more extended, written-out compositions, has a varied history. Originally written on commission as a piece for guitar and flute (1978), it then became part of my jazz quartet repertoire using the theme as the basis for improvisation. (This jazz quartet version can be heard on the Columbia/Legacy CD box set Time Signatures A Career Retrospective.) In the piano solo v

The world is looking forward to seeing Paris's Notre-Dame restored to it's familiar physical glory. In the meantime, the musical joys of the great cathedral can be experienced with the singers of it's choir school, Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris. Backed by more than 800 years of choral tradition, the Maîtrise offers training and performance opportunities to talented children, teenagers and adults. On Cathédrale d'émotions they and the professional singers of the Ensemble vocal de Notre-Dame de Paris perform music that spans the entire history of the cathedral, including works premiered at Notre-Dame in the 21st century. Album Tracks 1. O Magnum Mysterium 2. Circa Canit 3. I Saw Three Ships (Arr. Rutter for Choir & Organ) 4. Magnificat, Op. 50 I. Magnificat 5. Magnificat, Op. 50 II. Et Exsultavit 6. Magnificat, Op. 50 III. Quia Respéxit 7. Magnificat, Op. 50 IV. Quia Fecit 8. Magnificat, Op. 50 V. Et Misericordia 9. Magnificat, Op. 50 VI. Fecit Poténtiam 10. Magnificat, Op. 50 VII. Deposuit 11. Magnificat, Op. 50 VIII. Esuriéntes 12. Magnificat, Op. 50 IX. Suscépit Israël 13. Magnificat, Op. 50 X. Sicut Locutus Est 14. Magnificat, Op. 50 XI. Gloria Patri 15. Hui Matin a L'ajournée 16. Organum a 3 Benedicamus Domino 17. A Babe Is Born 18. Christmas Day 19. Occidentem Illustrat Oriens (Responsory for the Office of the Crown of Thorns) 20. Vêpres de la Vierge Marie III. Psaume CXXI 21. Veni Sancte Spiritus