Soraya Mafi - Poulenc: Les oeuvres de sa jeunesse - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Andrew Lloyd Webber is world-famous as the composer of the musicals Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, but his Requiem has also achieved international acclaim. Winner of a Grammy Award, this grand-sounding masterpiece of contemporary classical music, written in 1985, is dedicated to the memory of Webber's late father. The recording of a concert by the Munchner Rundfunkorchester on June 15, 2023, a tribute to the British composer who celebrated his 75th birthday in March 2023, is now presented on CD by BR-KLASSIK. This live recording from the Herz-Jesu Church in Munich features the Bavarian Radio Chorus accompanied by a select ensemble of soloists, under the baton of principal guest conductor Patrick Hahn.There was much surprise when Andrew Lloyd Webber presented his Requiem to the public in 1985. Although classical composers had repeatedly ventured into the spheres of the so-called Inchlight museInch, hardly any path led in the other direction - from musicals or operettas to the sublime heights of sacred music. The fact that a composer like Franz von Suppe also wrote a requiem as well as operettas is a rarity. Lloyd Webber's career in the InchseriousInch genre, however, was laid in his cradle his father, William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982), had worked his way up from humble beginnings to become one of the leading church musicians of his day. He encouraged the classical training of his sons Andrew (b. 1948) and Julian (b. 1951), an excellent cellist. Andrew found his niche in the entertainment industry. His song InchTry it and seeInch, written for the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, was not yet a hit, but from a pop cantata he developed his first successful piece Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), and from the concept album Jesus Christ Superstar, in which InchTry it and seeInch also found a new home, he created the rock musical of the same name (1971). W

Francis Poulenc is not an easy composer to relate to. Not the man himself perhaps- though possibly that too- but his music. It is somehow dated. Here is a composer who produced his best works, all more or less completely tonal, at a time when Arnold Schoenberg was writing twelve-tone music and Poulenc's countrymen Oliver Messiaen and Pierre Boulez were into innovative rhythms, scales and techniques to lift the music out of the realm of subjective emotionalism. This features three concertos by Francis Poulenc. The Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (1938) is considered to be the most popular and, perhaps, the most serious. The Piano Concerto (1949), a light concerto a wellspring of musical ideas, more or less brutally juxtaposed. The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932) lies perhaps somewhere between these two. Album Tracks 1. Concerto pour Piano et Orchestre~Allegretto 2. Concerto pour Piano et Orchestre~Andante con moto Commencer Très Calmement 3. Concerto pour Piano et Orchestre~Rondeau à la Française Presto Giocoso 4. Concerto en Ré Mineur pour Deux Pianos et Orchestre~Allegro ma non troppo 5. Concerto en Ré Mineur pour Deux Pianos et Orchestre~Larghetto 6. Concerto en Ré Mineur pour Deux Pianos et Orchestre~Finale 7. Concerto en Sol Mineur pour Orgue, Orchestre à Cordes et Timbales

Poulenc / Deeter / Shrut - Vocal Works [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/05/2018