The Dutch Theatre Choir - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Steel guitar pioneer Noel Boggs appeared on over 2,000 recordings as a soloist and with the biggest stars of western swing and country & western music including Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Jimmy Wakely, Hank Penny, Bill Boyd, Sheb Wooley, Les Anderson, Merle Travis, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and the Sons of the Pioneers to name a few - and helped design the double-neck steel guitar that has become the standard of the industry. Presented here is a collection of some of Bogg's most popular tunes including InchSteel Guitar Rag,Inch InchWabash BluesInch and InchSteeling Home.Inch All selections newly remastered.

This is the third volume in the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra's series of Mahler symphonies, conducted by Tomáš Netopil. Since winning the 1st Sir Georg Solti Conductors Competition at Frankfurt in 2002, Netopil has become one of the most sought-after conductors of the younger generation. Now celebrating his ninth season as general music director of the Aalto Musiktheater and Philharmonie Essen, he gave an acclaimed performance of Mahler's Second Symphony at the Aalto Theater in Essen in May 2022.

Conductor Robert Trevino's fourth album on Ondine is focused on the late works of composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016), one of Finland's most celebrated composers after Sibelius and known worldwide for his Neo-Romantic, even mystic compositions. Together with violinist Simone Lamsma and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra the artists are presenting four final orchestral works by the celebrated composer. Two of the works are world première recordings. In his late period, Rautavaara received several communications from the world's leading violinists requesting him to write works for them. He was able to oblige them, creating several extensive works featuring solo violin. Fantasia (2015) for violin and orchestra is a work of soft Neo-Romantic harmonies and soaring melodic lines. In 2014, Rautavaara was asked to write a new Violin Concerto. This commission resulted in Deux Sérénades for violin and orchestra which remained unfinished at Rautavaara's death the second movement was sketched out, but only it's beginning was orchestrated. Kalevi Aho (b. 1949), an accomplished composer of symphonies and concertos who studied composition with Rautavaara at the turn of the 1970s, fleshed out the orchestration in 2018. Lost Landscapes (2005/15) was originally written as a violin sonata, but Rautavaara began orchestrating the work in 2013. The first movement was premiered at the contemporary music festival at Tanglewood in July 2015, but the full premiere of the work took place in Malmö in March 2021, with Simone Lamsma as soloist. In the Beginning (2015) is a concise overture-type work commissioned for a concert opener. The titles of his works were important for the composer, forming part of the 'aura' of the work and often even constituting the initial impulse for writing the piece in the first place.