Various Artists - Puerto Rico - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Julian Lloyd Webber, one of the world's most admired cellists, notably expanded his instrument's repertoire in the concert hall and in the recording studio. In this retrospective of his art, he can be heard as soloist, arranger, and as conductor. He evokes the lyricism of the songs of Frederick Delius and John Ireland with rich expressivity, adapts a selection of music from Monteverdi to Arvo Part for the combination of two cellos, and crafts new and exciting Vivaldi arrangements. His conducting prowess is shown by supremely sensitive performances of English string music. These are the last recordings that Lloyd Webber made before announcing his retirement from playing. InchJulian Lloyd Webber emerges as a conductor of some distinction.Inch (Mail on Sunday) InchArrangements with a good deal of zing, zip, and zest.Inch (Fanfare) Album Tracks 1. Evening Songs 2. And the Bridge Is Love - English Music for Strings 3. A Tale of Two Cellos 4. Concertos for Two Cellos

Following up it's widely acclaimed reissues of the Juilliard Quartet's complete Epic and RCA Victor albums - originally issued between 1956 and 1960 - Sony Classical is excited to present a new box set collecting the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia's studio on Manhattan's 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to album. When William Schuman founded a string quartet at New York's Juilliard School in 1946, he envisaged an ensemble not only to teach the elite New York conservatory's students but also, in it's own public performances, to Inchplay the standard repertoire with the sense of excitement and discovery of a new work and play new works with a reverence usually reserved for the classics.Inch From it's first appearances in New York, the Juilliard Quartet was identified as a champion of modern music. It's first recordings for American Columbia, all included here, were dedicated to the works of Alban Berg and Béla Bartók (only recently deceased), as well as to Arnold Schoenberg (still very much alive), and to active American composers including Schuman himself. Album Tracks 1. Cantate de L'enfant Et de la Mère Op. 185 2. La Muse Ménagère Op. 245 3. String Quartet No. 1 SZ 40 4. String Quartet No. 2 SZ 67 5. String Quartet No. 3 SZ 85 6. String Quartet No. 4 SZ 91 7. String Quartet No. 5 SZ 102 8. String Quartet No. 6 SZ 114 9. Lyrische Suite 10. String Quartet in F Major M 35 11. Modern American Music Series 12. Sextet for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet 13. Chamber Concerto for Viola and String Nonet K 28 14. Modern American Music Series 15. String Quartet No. 4 16. InchConcerto a TreInch for Clarinet Violin and Cello 17. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor Op. 7 18. String Quartet No. 2 in F-Sharp minor Op. 10 19. String Quartet No. 3 Op. 30 20. String Qu

Two centuries after the prosperous era of Charles IV, Prague enjoyed it's second Golden Age, under the reign of the art-loving Emperor and King Rudolf II, as it became a busy cultural centre, attracting artists from all over Europe. Like in a melting pot, a variety of musical styles mingled together in the city the Franco-Flemish polyphony, represented by the world's most accomplished composer at the time, as well as the vigorous tradition of literary brotherhoods with the archaic polyphonic repertoire of the previous generations. The focal point of the album is the recently rediscovered Prague manuscript of polyphonic masses, with the fabulously survived Missa Presulem ephebeatum by Heinrich Isaac, one of the most significant masters of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style. Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz's Presulem ephebeatum, whose thematic material inspired Isaac, attests to his mass being connected with Bohemia and Prague. The album contains a number of other extraordinary pieces, including Josquin Des Prez's celebrated Stabat Mater, with the added sixth voice, which has been uniquely preserved in this form in Bohemia. Cappella Mariana, made up of stellar early music singers (Hana Blažíková, Barbora Kabátková, etc.), have performed Renaissance polyphony to great acclaim at Europe's most prestigious concert venues and festivals. Vocal polyphony of Renaissance Prague in the perfect harmony of the Cappella Mariana voices Album Tracks 1. Presulem Ephebeatum 2. Missa Presulem Ephebeatum 3. Recordare, Virgo Mater* 4. Missa Presulem Ephebeatum 5. Largire Nunc Mitissime* 6. Missa Presulem Ephebeatum 7. Stabat Mater (Si Placet Pars)* 8. In Te, Domine, Speravi* 9. Defunctum Charites Vaetem* 10. Praecinite Domino* 11. Qui Confidunt 12. Te Deum*