Mark Bebbington - Complete Piano Music 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

?This second and final volume of Olga Solovieva's complete edition contains all of Alexey Stanchinsky's published piano pieces composed after 1910, as well as recently discovered early works and numerous world premiere recordings. 'Stanchinsky's music is like an exposed nerve, all at the limits of the senses. It reveals the innermost feelings, expressing what is in the soul.' - Olga Solovieva. Released in November 2019, Volume 1 of Stanchinsky's piano works (GP766) received wide critical acclaim. Album Tracks 1. Allegro in F Major, Op. 2 (1911-12) 2. Canon-Preludes (1911-14) 3. Prelude in C (Minor) (1912) 4. Variations (1911) 5. Three Sketches (C. 1912) 6. Twelve Sketches, Op. 1 (1912-13) 7. Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Major (1911-12) 8. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Major (1912) 9. Musical Sketch (C. 1904) 10. Sorrowful Motive (C. Before 1903) 11. [Musical Fragment] (1908) 12. Prelude in F minor (1907)

Gabriel Faure's musical language bridges a gap between the romanticism of the 19th century and the new worlds of music which appeared in the 20th, employing subtle harmonic changes and a gift for melody to combine innovation with an entirely personal idiom. His First Piano Quartet is filled with characteristic French color and lyricism, and the Piano Trio in D minor is a late work whose musical language is familiar from his songs. Both the Pavane and the popular Sicilienne express nostalgia for earlier times, and the short Piece has great simplicity and charm. Album Tracks 1. Allegro Molto Moderato - Philip Dukas/Kungsbacka Piano Trio 2. Scherzo Allegro Vivo - Philip Dukas/Kungsbacka Piano Trio 3. Adagio - Philip Dukas/Kungsbacka Piano Trio 4. Allegro Molto - Philip Dukas/Kungsbacka Piano Trio 5. Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Kungsbacka Piano Trio 6. Andantino - Kungsbacka Piano Trio 7. Allegro Vivo - Kungsbacka Piano Trio 8. Pavane, Op. 50 - Kungsbacka Piano Trio 9. Vocalise - Etude - Malin Broman/Simon Crawford-Phillips 10. Sicilienne, Op. 78 - Simon Crawford-Phillips

The essential meaning of Wagner's magnum opus 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' is wrapped up in the composer's own lifetime pursuit of transcendent romance, with the redemption of eternal love one of the primary tenets of this and his other music dramas. Wagner's gift for orchestral color and scenic characterization make his operas highly suited to the genre of the tone poem, and these seven tableaus evoke major scenarios in the saga, as well as providing a sense of the course and spirit of the greatest operatic drama ever written. JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony, and is the principal guest conductor of the Brevard Music Center of North Carolina. She has guest conducted over a hundred orchestras in North America, and many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. Album Tracks 1. Das Rheingold (1951-54) 2. Scene 4 Entrance of the Gods Into Valhalla 3. Die Walküre (1856-70) 4. Act III The Ride of the Valkyries 5. Act III Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music 6. Siegfried (1851-71) 7. Act II Forest Murmurs 8. Götterdämmerung (1869-74) 9. Prologue Siegfried's Rhine Journey 10. Act III Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music 11. Act III Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene