Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Ameriques - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Misho Kandashvili strikes with his combination of delicacy and strength, breathtaking technique and musical sensitivity. Born in 1993 in Tbilisi, Georgia, he began playing piano at age seven and entered the Tbilisi Art School Anastasia Virsaladze, in the class of Irina Boterashvili. Already as a child, he developed a great interest for Bach's music, that helped him improve over the years a very high quality and intelligence in his playing. In 2002, he was the winner of the Contest of Georgia, as well as of numerous national competitions. He performed the Bach concerto No. 3 in 2003, which was the first performance ever of this piece in Georgia. That same year, Mikheil participated in the Georgian-German Young Artists' Festival InchTbilisi 2003Inch in Tbilisi, and in Schwaigern, Germany, in 2004. On the present he performs a program of works by Georgian and Russian composers.

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time. The musician, professor of composition and author from Karlsruhe, Germany is a larger-than-life personality, and the contemporary music scene is impossible to imagine without him. His knowledge of music is all-encompassing, as is his mastery of the arts, literature and philosophy - all of which serve as sources of inspiration for his composing. With more than 400 compositions, he has created a universe that cannot easily be defined. Rihm has written New Music - the titles of his compositions have come to symbolize the musical history of recent decades. Other works by him refer to music history - they include, for example, oratorios inspired by Bach, orchestral works based on Brahms, or chamber music inspired by Schumann. With this and a further one of instrumental and vocal chamber music, BR-KLASSIK and musica viva are celebrating the 70th birthday of this influential composer. The album features the large-scale symphonic work Jagden und Formen (2008), which received it's world premiere in November 2001 in Basel by the Ensemble Modern. Of the original version, which was created between 1995 and 2001, Rihm composed a new version between 2007 and 2008 that was staged for the first time with a choreography by Sasha Waltz at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, again with the Ensemble Modern playing. - Rihm's orchestral work is so instantly gripping in it's urgency and relentlessly motor-like power that it already ranks as a modern classic. In it's 2008 state, the Inchwork in progressInch that grew over the years reached it's final form. What begins as a courtship dance between two violins soon escalates into breathless music that is irresistibly captivating virtuosic, intoxicating and overflowing with ideas, without ever losing it's tension and urgency.

HECTOR BERLIOZ SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE op. 14 The BR-KLASSIK tag is now commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) in 2024 by releasing previously unreleased recordings of concerts worth listening to on CD and as a stream for the first time. Hector Berlioz's passionate InchSymphonie fantastiqueInch, the nearly revolutionary symphonic masterpiece by the great French composer, was performed by Colin Davis with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at Munich's Philharmonie i'm Gasteig on January 15 and 16, 1987. In his InchSymphonie fantastiqueInch, subtitled InchEpisodes from the Life of an ArtistInch, Berlioz combines the structures of the musical symphony with the form of a five-part classical drama. Using a leitmotif (an Inchidée fixeInch), he narrates to the listener the story of the beloved woman of his dreams. The InchSymphonie fantastiqueInch thus paved the way for the symphonic poems of the Romantic period as well as the leitmotif method in Wagner's music dramas. InchI am still unknown, Inch wrote Berlioz in June 1829 at the age of 25 - but he was certain that he could achieve resounding success with the idea of a major instrumental work. With his InchSymphonie fantastiqueInch, he created a new kind of programmatic music. Berlioz was inspired by the works of Goethe and by Beethoven's symphonic music - and also by the fascination he felt for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson, whom he saw play Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris on September 11, 1827. The InchIdée fixeInch, the main theme, represents the artist going through his life story in various inner states of mind.