SWR Vokalensemble - Sacred Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Late-Romantic composer Hugo Wolf's lieder are among the most exquisite jewels in the art-song crown, noted for their attention to poetic detail and superior craftmanship. Soprano Christine Oelze are tenor Hans Blochwitz are accompanied by Rudolf Jansen in the Italian Songbook cycle, while baritone Siegfried Lorenz, accompanied by Norman Shetler, is heard in a choice selection of 15 Morike lieder. Liner notes include the sung texts and music details.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Impeckable is the Welsh rock band’s seventh album, released in February 1978 on A&M Records. Guitarist Tony Bourge left the band after the album was released. Budgie are described by author Gary Sharpe-Young as one of the earliest heavy metal bands and a seminal influence to many acts of that scene with fast, heavy rock - an influence on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) and acts such as Metallica - being played as early as 1971. The band has been noted as Inchamong the heaviest metal of its dayInch. Includes ‘Melt The Ice Away’, ‘Love For You And Me’ and ‘Smile Boy Smile’.

Stéphane Denève, triple winner of the Diapason d'Or of the Year, produced many outstanding recordings as chief conductor of the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart from 2011 until 2016 when the orchestra merged with it's sister orchestra from Baden-Baden and Freiburg to form the SWR Symphony Orchestra. They are now reissued as a five album boxed set including the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, Ravel's longest work, written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and the operas L'Heure espagnole and L'Enfant et les sortileges. Although the two operas cannot be strictly considered orchestral works, they are essential to understanding the œuvre of a composer who had a great predilection for fantasy worlds and the exotic. As a student Ravel composed the Ouverture de Shéhérazade and, several years leter, three poems for voice and orchestra on the same topic - both works form part of this set. Throughout his entire career, from Une barque sur l'ocean to Ma mère L'Oye Ravel created magical soundscapes in a highly original manner and with great stylistic freedom. A big inspiration for him was American operetta but also jazz and fairy tales. The formal structure of his works has the clarity of crystal and the elegance of mathematics. The SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart and the cast of young singers selected by Denève give thrilling interpretations.