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Music from the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
[…] In the Forest. Symphonic Poem (1901-02) [17'15]03 The Sea. Symphonic Poem (1903-07) [32'24]Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Modestas PitrėnasOndine ODE 1344-2 [recorded April and October 2019; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Recording Studio, Lithuanian National Culture Centre, Vilnius, LithuaniaRecording engineers: Evelina Staniulytė; Producers: Aleksandra Kerienė, Vilius Keras.Kurland Sounds (Latvian):01 Vilnis Šmīdbergs: Merry-Go-Round (2006) [11'51]02 - 04 Ēriks Ešenvalds: 4th Liepāja concerto 'Visions of Arctic Night' (2012) * [24'01]05 Pēteris Vasks: Symphony No.2 (1999) [38'13]Ints Dālderis- clarinet *; Liepāja Symphony Orchestra conducted by Atvars LakstīgalaOdradek ODRCD319 [recorded October 2012* and February 2013; issued 2015][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Liepaja Latvian Society Hall, LatviaRecording engineer: Normunds Slava; Producer: not statedEduard Tubin (Estonian):01 - 03 Symphony No.1 in C minor (1931-34) [32'21]04 - 06 Concerto for Balalaika and Orchestra (1964) * [20'01]07 - 09 Music for strings (1962-63) [15'18]Emanuil Sheynkman- balalaika *; Swedish […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-03-26 12:56:43
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonRafael Bonachela’s beautiful choreography and Paula Levis’ striking costumes stand out in pieces ranging from a gentle voyage to stark electro intensityTwenty years ago, Rafael Bonachela was a major new talent in UK dance. A Spaniard who’d spent years dancing in London with Rambert and was making waves with his choreography. But in 2009 he left to become artistic director at Sydney Dance Company, so this show is a bit of a homecoming. The triple bill, titled Ascent, opens with a short piece of Bonachela’s own, I Am-ness, and it’s a reminder of the quality of his choreography: 10 minutes of beautiful movement, set to the keening and soaring violin of Lonely Angel by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks. It’s less frenetic than some of Bonachela’s early works, and takes time and pleasure in the facility of the four dancers in long, continuous, ever-evolving phrases. They’re on […]
2023-10-23 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 62 (CD Reviews)
[…] captures the sound of her Fazioli in rich, natural, lifelike tones. With CD1 clocking in at 80 minutes and CD2 at 75 plus informative notes about the music by the pianist herself, there is plenty to like about this production. There are plenty of excellent Mozart sonata recordings out there, several of which I have reviewed in the past, but I’ve never heard better than this one, which of course earns my highest recommendation.Sonic Alchemy. Vasks: Balta Ainava (White Scenery); Pärt: Fratres; Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K. 397; Pärt: Mozart-Adagio (after Sonata K. 280); Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475; Vasks: Castillo Interior (Interior Castle); Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel. YuEun Kim, violin; Mina Gajić, piano; Coleman Itzkoff, cello. Sono Luminus DSL-92261 Pianist Mina Gajić says of this album that it was “inspired by the transformation and fluidity of life, represented by the seasons in nature, and in humankind in […]
2023-10-12 03:30:00
Stillpoint (CD Review)
by Karl NehringJessie Montgomery: Rounds; Paolo Prestini: Code; Alvin Singleton: Time Past, Time Future; Pēteris Vasks: Castillo Interior; Tyshawn Sorey: Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices; Judd Greenstein: Still Point. Awadagin Pratt, piano; Roomful of Teeth, voices; A Far Cry, strings. New Amsterdam NWAM177-CD Way back in 1994 I reviewed a solo piano recording titled A Long Way from Normal by a young African-American pianist by the name of Awadagin Pratt. Born in Pittsburgh, Pratt began studying piano at the age of six. By age nine, having moved to Normal, Illinois thus the title of his first album) with his family, he also began studying violin. At age 16 he entered the University of Illinois where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He subsequently enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas – piano, violin and conducting. In 1992 he won the Naumburg […]
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