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2021-11-08 07:00:44
Mario Lavista, one of the most acclaimed Mexican composers of his generation, passed away last Thursday at the age of 78. Born in Mexico City, Lavista studied with Carlos Chávez, Héctor Quintanar, and Rodolfo Halffter at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. In the 1960s, he went on to study in Paris with Henri Pousseur, Nadia Boulanger, Christoph Caskel, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1970, he founded Quanta improvisation, an ensemble dedicated to spontaneous ...
2020-12-09 00:00:00
The BNF Collection Part 1
[…] Webern Complete Works Robert Craft conductor Marni Nixon soprano Leonard Stein piano Recorded/Published 1957 Henri Casadesus Viola Concerto in the style of Handel John Barbirolli Viola concerto after Handel G. F. Handel Concerto HWV 288 Emanuel Vardi viola Stradivarius Chamber Orchestra Recorded 1956 Music of Mexico and Spain Works by Ponce, Rolón Marroquín, Sarasate, Halffter Serratos, de Falla y Albeniz Henryk Szeryng violin Tasso Janopopulo piano Recorded/Published 1956 Digital download, tracks and covers, info in tags.
2020-06-24 23:00:00
MEGA-POST: The Eduardo Mata Sessions (Complete DORIAN RECORDINGS [16 CD's] and 12 CD's from other labels); extra 6 CD's from another conductors
EDUARDO MATA (5/IX/1942 † 4/I/1995) On January 4, 1995, 52-year old mexican conductor Eduardo Mata was killed when the plane he was flying went down near Cuernavaca Airport, outside his home of Xochitepec, México. He was accompanied by dear friend and companion Marina Anaya who was also killed in the crash. Maestro Mata was a consummate musician, hailed internationally as a conductor of the first rank, and was deeply respected by colleagues, contemporaries and friends as a man of great elegance, warmth and generosity. As a music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 1993, Eduardo Mata is credited as the driving force which led the orchestra to new standards of excellence, and world recognition. He was actively involved in the acoustic development of the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, which opened in 1989 and is regarded as one of the finest concert venues in North America. […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-09-20 05:30:00
The best new classical albums: September 2019
[…] basic tempo far fleeter than that of any rival. The argument now recalls the "maliciousness" of the corresponding movement of Walton's First Symphony never merely jogging along. Its glorious horn-led second theme, so potently realised by Previn's LSO, has to be slightly muted here lest it sap the impetus of the whole. The spectral Trio remains to provide the real contrast.At 13'40 I am not sure the slow movement quite plumbs the depths – Pedro Halffter (Warner, Spain) goes so far as to break the seventeen-minute barrier – but there are none of the ensemble problems that arise (even for Previn) when its quasi-Mahlerian writing loses momentum. The Finale, almost always Korngold's dodgiest movement, is kept on a comparably tight rein so that the references to earlier material seem more logical than discursive.The incidentals are glorious but above all Wilson never lets the music sprawl. Is it too much to […]
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