UMG - Nino de Angelo - Die Ultimative Hit-Col - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Danish composer Peter Heise (1830-79) was a master of writing for voice. In his quartets and choral songs for male voices we meet Romanticism in it's clearest form with songs about women, art, nature and his native country. The gentle, pure tone of the music is excellently handled by the male voices of the Danish National Vocal Ensemble and Choir and not least by the conductor Michael Schonwandt, who has a lifelong love of Danish Golden Age music.

Bombshell Rocks - Generation Tranquilized [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/02/2014

This album offers an overview of four of Peteris Vasks's most iconic works, from the large scale, dramatic Violin Concerto 'Distant light', and the magically dreamy meditation 'Lonely Angel', to his evocation of Latvian landscape and birdsong 'Plainscapes' and the ecstatic 'Dona Nobis Pacem.' Daniel Rowland writes InchThe first piece by Peteris Vasks that I heard, about a decade ago, was his magnificent Violin Concerto 'Distant light', already a modern classic, and I was blown away by the deep emotional impact of this extraordinary music, that seemed to me both wonderfully mysterious, connected to ancient times, touched by a sublime spirituality and at the same time viscerally exciting and with moments of stunning virtuosity. Last summer, when Peteris accepted my invitation to come to the 15th edition of my Stift festival in Holland as Composer in Residence I was truly excited at the chance to work closely with him on several of his pieces. At the festival we performed many of Peteris' works, solo, chamber and orchestral, with wonderful artists. The week culminated with the concert that you now hold in your hands, in the splendid, deeply atmospheric and acoustically wonderful 15th century Plechelmus Basiliek in Oldenzaal.Inch