S. Rachmaninoff - Vespers: All Night Vigil - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Between 1841 and 1843 Schumann wrote some of his greatest chamber works, among them the Piano Quartet and the Piano Quintet, both in E flat major. Written in an astonishing five-day period, the Quintet displays both the heroic and the lyric impulses in his music, boldness contrasting with songful tenderness, and march themes with lyricism. The Piano Quartet also exudes such qualities, not least in the ravishing slow movement, and the masterful breadth of Schumann's expression. The four Meñrchenerzahlungen are happy, energetic pieces. Winning high praise from the American press, pianist Xiayin Wang has toured with the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in St Petersburg itself, as well as in the United States. Founded in Chicago in 1946, and based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1963, the Fine Arts Quartet is one of the elite few to have recorded and toured internationally for over half a century. Album Tracks 1. Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 44 - Xiayin Wang/Fine Arts Quartet 2. Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 47 - Xiayin Wang/Fine Arts Quartet 3. Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tale Narrations), Op. 132 - Xiayin Wang/Fine Arts Quartet

This programme brings together aesthetic and musical elements of East and West. Zhou Long captures the essence of the Chinese plucked ch'in and Cambodian aesthetics are preserved in Chinary Ung's expressive Spiral III. Tan Dun's Eight Colors combines the exotic timbres of Peking Opera with Second Viennese School tonalities. Gao Ping's Bright Light and Cloud Shadows has been admired for it's 'long-breathed brush strokes' (Washington Post). Taking it's inspiration from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake Toru Takemitsu's beautifully crafted a Way a Lone evokes a shimmering sound world. Album Tracks 1. Zhou Long (B. 1953)// Song of the Ch'in 2. Chinary Ung (B. 1942)// Spiral III 3. Gao Ping (B. 1970)// Bright Light and Cloud Shadows 4. Toru Takemitsu (19301996)// a Way a Lone 5. Tan Dun (B. 1957)// Eight Colors

Details 1. Priidite, Poklonimsya 2. Blagoslovi, Dushe Moya, Gospoda 3. Blazhen Muzh 4. Svete Tikhyi 5. Nyne Otpushchaeshi 6. Bogoroditse Devo 7. Shestopsalmie Slava V Vyshnikh Bogu 8. Khvalite Imya Gospodne 9. Blagosloven Esi, Gospodi 10. Voskresenie Khristovo Videvshe 11. Velichit Dusha Moya Gospoda 12. Slavoslovie Velikoe. Slava V Vyshnikh Bogu 13. Tropar Dnes Spasenie (Today Is Salvation Come) 14. Tropar Voskres Iz Groba (Thou Didst Rise from the Tomb) 15. Vzbrannoy Voevode 16. The Theotokos, Ever-Vigilant in Prayer