Ries / Wdr Symphony Orchestra Cologne / Griffiths - Overtures - VINYL LP

2019 . The Game is Paul Pigat's Second in The Boxcar Campfire Trilogy. Blessed with a jazz man's sheen, a rockabilly heart, and a hobo's soul, there aren't many genres of music that don't pull at Pigat's wayfaring imagination like a magnet. Album Tracks 1. Roll All Night 2. The Game 3. Some People's Children 4. Piece of Work 5. 4JT 6. Hartland 7. Ring of Fire 8. Treat Your Papa Right 9. You Gotta Use 10. Brody

Albert Lortzing, who did not even reach the age of fifty, composed a towering number of stage works, several of which are regarded as German national treasures even today. Others have proven themselves to have stood the test of time thanks to excellent recordings. Although he became immortal with his Zar und Zimmermann and Undine, his purely orchestral output is quite thin. If it were not for the concert piece for horn and a similar work for trumpet, there would only be a number of overtures and pieces of ballet music available to a symphonic ensemble to produce a colourful portrait. The WDR Funkhausorchester has thus recorded a lively mixture of soloistic brilliance, entertaining dances and InchdramaticInch overtures whose existence was previously only known to die-hard Lortzing fans. Album Tracks 1. Casanova~Ouvertüre 2. Undine~Ballettmusik 3. beiden Schützen~Ouvertüre 4. Konzertstück für Horn und Orchester in E-dur 5. Pole und sein Kind~Ouvertüre 6. Hans Sachs~Ballettmusik 7. Rolands Knappen~Ouvertüre 8. Konzertstück für Trompete und Orchester in B-dur 9. Yelva~Ouvertüre

She was a great musical talent and a sensitive soul, the child of a socially aspiring family who forbid their daughter to marry the love of her life; instead she was forced into a utilitarian marriage with a respectable husband, but later had an affair with her first sweetheart after all - the stuff of a sentimental novel. Yet Mel Bonis (1858-1937) was no fictional character. She was one of the strongest composers of her time with a focus on piano, chamber music and art songs. She also enriched the repertoire of impressionism with numerous original gems and arrangements for orchestra. Her particularly modern Ophelia, her purring melodie of an enamoured tomcat on a roof at night, her Spanish gypsy waltz and her dances for orchestra are just some of the enchanting discoveries you will find here. Our recording pays a well-deserved tribute to this noble woman.