Miles / Marshall / Baumann - Symphonic Jazz - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Veracini Vol. 3. Fifteen years after our first album featuring works by Francesco Veracini and two years after the of the second such album, cpo is now releasing the third production by L'Arte dell'Arco in this series combining a complete edition of this composer's work. The first met with an unanimously enthusiastic response InchHere everything fits perfectly; here instrumentalists perform with passion; here a very great ensemble is revealed. The team effort is fascinating; here musicians, friends, and kindred spirits are at work. CD of the MonthInch (Toccata). The goal of this project is to record Veracini's complete overtures and violin concertos and to combine them with a selection of his most interesting sonatas from the collection without opus number (1716) and his Opus 1 (1721). When these three groups of works are juxtaposed, Veracini's various stylistic characters come into even clearer view. The succinct tutti passages and the virtuosic élan of the violin concertos meet the festive tone of the overtures, which frequently goes over into tones of greater exuberance and greater folk character, while in the sonatas chamber flexibility is articulated in which refinement and contrapuntal erudition find even clearer expression.

Sankt Annae Girls' Choir - Ceremony of Carols [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/13/2009

Bruno Walter is probably still known today, well over 50 years after his death, to all music lovers as a great conductor. He came to public attention as a composer mainly in his early Viennese years (1901-1912). In 1903 the famous Rosé Quartet played his String Quartet in D major, and it also took on (with the composer at the piano) the Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor in 1905. Until recently, only movements Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of the quartet survived in Walter's estate. But in the course of the present production, the question of the 1st movement arose, and indeed a copy of the entire composition was found in the music collection of the Austrian National Library, which could now be recorded in it's entirety by the Aron Quartet! His Piano Quintet was such a great success at the time that the Inchstar criticInch of the Wiener Zeitung, Robert Hirschfeld, gave the work the following praise InchIt is rich in beautiful and deep, peculiar thoughts, passionate in the corner movements, the slow movement, a confession of the soul, flowing from true, heartfelt feelings, is certainly among the most significant that we have encountered in modern chamber music.Inch