Thomas Fey - Haydn Complete Symphonies 19 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Final volume in the first-ever complete recorded cycle of symphonies by Talivaldis Keninš (1919-2008), one of the most prominent post-WW2 composers in Latvia and Canada. This album includes three of the composer's eight numbered symphonies performed by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra under Andris Poga. Although born in Latvia, Keninš lived most of his life as an exile. He was educated in Paris, where he studied under Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen, and won several awards. Keninš emigrated to Canada in 1951 and became a respected pedagogue and a very influential figure in Canada's music life. Alongside his eight symphonies, the composer also wrote 12 concertos. However, he also included many concertante elements in his symphonies and the Symphony No. 2, InchSinfonia concertanteInch (1967), scored for three wind instruments and symphony orchestra, is very close to a triple concerto. The symphony's extensive second movement is based on a lullaby of the Mi'kmaq First Nations people. Symphony No. 3 (1970) was completed few years after it's predecessor and is a step forward in the composer's journey as a symphonist. Here we encounter the idea of a lyrical hero, which, in the ears of the listener, could be personified. Although many consider Kenins' 8th Symphony to be his symphonic climax, the 7th Symphony (1980) is by no means a lesser work it could be even considered as one of the composer's most personal and intimate creations. The symphony ends with an aria based on a text by the composer's father and the atmosphere of the work seems to stem from the composer's emotional trauma on the occupation of his native Latvia by the Soviet troops. Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 2, InchSinfonia concertanteInch for flute, oboe, clarinet and orchestra~Lento 2. Symphony No. 2, InchSinfonia concertanteInch for flute, oboe, clarinet and orchestra~Molto moderato Tema e v

This recording features two of Haydn's great late symphonies and one rarely recorded work, Symphony No. 89 in F Major. In 2011, Thomas Fey was nominated for a Grammy for his world premiere recordings of the music on Antonio Salieri. Every new of Haydn symphonies from Fey and his ensemble is greeted with enthusiasm; truly this is how Haydn should sound. Album Tracks 1. Vivace 2. Andante Con Moto 3. Menuet. Allegretto - Trio 4. Finale. Vivace Assai 5. Largo - Vivace 6. Adagio 7. Menuet. Allegro - Trio 8. Finale. Presto 9. Allegro 10. Andante 11. Allegro Con Spirito

Emiliano Turazzi leads us in these three works into an InchexistentialInch condition in which music takes place in more or less ample time strings for which the exercise of memory, the InchposthumousInch listening, would be partly difficult, but partly also superfluous. Turazzi's music exists in the moment in which it exists. In these three pieces one has the clear sensation that air is converted into time, time into objects, into agglomerates always subtly varied, defined in the smallest folds that cannot really be experienced- except at the moment of their manifestation and their Inchhitting usInch. The sensation of living in these strings of sound-existence also persists in the recording, in the mechanical reproduction that makes us lose the spatial dimension and the unrepeatable experience of the moment, but that also induces us to live every single sound, every subtlety, and every quality of matter without too much having a final, global InchmeaningInch in mind. Album Tracks 1. Quelli Che Vivono 2. Composizione Per Flauto E Violoncello 3. Composizione Per Flauto Dolce Tenore