Yamatsuka Eye - 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 10 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Off Topic 2. Alecto 3. Sowers of Discord 4. Four Corners 5. Level Six Jumping 6. Cruel Abstraction 7. Eumenides Outside the Window 8. Nine-Part Invention 9. Cord Trouble and Tuning 10. Astrologers and Magicians

Franz Liszt was 67 when he composed his Via Crucis, yet it did not receive it's first performance until 1929, 43 years after the composer's death. This work of his mature years is in 15 sections, retracing the Stations of the Cross that mark the stages of Christ's Passion, from being condemned to death to being laid in the tomb. Combining Gregorian chant, the Lutheran liturgy and the Latin, German and Aramaic languages, the Via Crucis shows real formal originality. A devout believer, Liszt gives us here his most important sacred work. He composed several versions for mixed choir, soloists and organ (with the organ part optionally transcribed for piano), for piano solo, organ solo, and two pianos. After an album devoted to Janacek, the Collegium Vocale founded by Philippe Herreweghe is once again conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw in this new Alpha recording.

Just in time for National Poetry Month, GPR presents Poetic License featuring 100 of the best-known actors reciting 100 poems. Artist include Jason Alexander, Christine Baranski, Charles Busch, Zoe Caldwell, Ann Hampton Callaway, Len Cariou, Tyne Daly, Joanna Gleason, Florence Henderson, Michael Learned, Judith Light, Patti LuPone, Kate Mulgrew, Cynthia Nixon, Paul Provenza, Chris Sarandon, Barry Humphries, Kathleen Turner, Richard Thomas, JoBeth Williams, Michael York, Catherine Zeta-Jones and many more.