S. Barber - Astral Vinyl - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Mélodies Passagères, Op. 27 Pursque Tout Passe 2. Mélodies Passagères, Op. 27 Un Cygne 3. Mélodies Passagères, Op. 27 Tombeau Dans Un Parc 4. Mélodies Passagères, Op. 27 Le Clocher Chante 5. Mélodies Passagères, Op. 27 Départ 6. Nuvoletta, Op. 25 7. Three Songs, Op. 10 Rain Has Fallen 8. Three Songs, Op. 10 Sleep Now 9. Three Songs, Op. 10 I Hear An Army 10. Four Songs, Op. 13 A Nun Takes the Veil (Heaven-Haven) 11. Four Songs, Op. 13 The Secrets of the Old 12. Four Songs, Op. 13 Sure on This Shining Night 13. Four Songs, Op. 13 Nocturne 14. Despite and Still, Op. 41 A Last Song 15. Despite and Still, Op. 41 My Lizard (Wish for a Young Love) 16. Despite and Still, Op. 41 In the Wilderness 17. Despite and Still, Op. 41 Solitary Hotel 18. Despite and Still, Op. 41 Despite and Still 19. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 At Saint Patrick's Purgatory 20. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 Church Bells at Night 21. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 Saint Ita's Vision 22. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 The Heavenly Banquet 23. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 The Crucifixion 24. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 Sea-Snatch 25. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 Promiscuity 26. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 The Monk and His Cat 27. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 The Praises of God 28. Hermit Songs, Op. 29 The Desire for Hermitage

London Winds was founded by Michael Collins in 1988, bringing together some of Britain's finest wind players to form this excellent woodwind quintet. London Winds have been praised by BBC Music for their technical accomplishment, expressive commitment, and warmth of timbre, and the Michael Collins has the distinction of having been the most frequently invited wind soloist to the BBC Proms, including several appearances at the Last Night of the proms and has become a highly regarded conductor, taking the position of Principal Conductor of the City of London Sinfonia in 2010. London Winds has performed a widely varied repertoire, ranging from such traditional faire as the music of Carl Maria von Weber to the more radical sounds of Schoenberg and Berio, and, in the present recording, performs the music of two generations of master composers Hindemith, Nielsen, Janacek, Barber and Ligeti. Album Tracks 1. Allegro Con Spirito 2. Rubato. Lamentoso - Più Mosso. Non Rubato - Tempo I - Moderato 3. Allegro Grazioso 4. Presto Ruvido 5. Béla Bartók in Memoriam. Adagio. Mesto - Allegro Maestoso 6. Molto Vivace. Capriccioso - Più Mosso. Presto Strepitoso 7. Summer Music, Op. 31 8. Allegro Ben Moderato 9. Menuet - Trio - Menuet - Coda 10. Præludium. Adagio - Poco Agitato - Tempo I (Adagio) 11. Tema Med Variationer. Un Poco Andantino 12. Variation 1 13. Variation 2. Un Poco Di Più 14. Variation 3. Meno Mosso 15. Variation 4. Più Vivo 16. Variation 5. Tempo Giusto 17. Variation 6. Andantino Con Moto 18. Variation 7. Un Poco Di Più 19. Variation 8. Poco Meno 20. Variation 9. Tempo Giusto 21. Variation 10. Allegretto 22. Variation 11. Tempo Di Marcia - Più Mosso 23. Andantino Festivo 24. Lustig. Mäßig Schnelle Vierte - Langsam - Wieder Lustig 25. Walzer. Durchweg Sehr Leise - Ein Wenig Ruhiger - Langsam 26. Ruhig Und Einfach. Achte

For his debut album on Delos, the brilliant emerging virtuoso Sean Kennard has chosen a captivating program featuring solo piano music by two of America's most iconic composers Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. While neither composer's body of work includes a great many pieces for solo piano, each has left a legacy of superb piano compositions to memorable effect. Of the five works on this album, Barber's finger-twisting Sonata for Piano and Copland's stunning Piano Variations stand as enduring masterpieces of twentieth-century American piano music. Both pieces incorporate broad spectrums of modernist musical language and styles, as well as degrees of difficulty that only the finest and most technically accomplished artists can master. And most of the shorter pieces offer delightfully evocative treatments of musical Americana. Album Tracks 1. Sonata for Piano, Op. 26 2. Ballade, Op. 46 3. Excursions, Op. 20 4. Piano Variations 5. Four Piano Blues