Editorial Product Review:Album Description:To celebrate his 75th birthday (July 2008), this Original Masters 2-CD release offers three of his earliest recordings--none of which has appeared on CD before. The set comprises Bream's solo Dowland LP (1954)--his debut solo recording, played on lute--and his solo Bach LP (1956), both originally recorded on the Westminster label and justly celebrated at the time. They are brought together with a wide selection of Dowland ayres, sung by The Golden Age Singers with Bream's lute accompaniment. The CD booklet has a newly commissioned note by Tully Potter, a personal ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:To celebrate his 75th birthday (July 2008), this Original Masters 2-CD release offers three of his earliest recordings--none of which has appeared on CD before. The set comprises Bream's solo Dowland LP (1954)--his debut solo recording, played on lute--and his solo Bach LP (1956), both originally recorded on the Westminster label and justly celebrated at the time. They are brought together with a wide selection of Dowland ayres, sung by The Golden Age Singers with Bream's lute accompaniment. The CD booklet has a newly commissioned note by Tully Potter, a personal ...
Editorial Product Review: :Baroque opera in France was very different from the Italian 'opera seria' form that prevailed elsewhere in Europe at the same time. While the Italian tradition preferred a succession of detachable arias that provided a showcase for star singers, French opera consisted of an equal measure of song and dance, with the vocal parts integrated into a much more continuous musical structure. Rameau's ballet music is the finest of the period--it has a really physical quality of movement, and the most interesting and pronounced rhythmic definition. All of which is a complicated ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This is Esa-Pekka SalonenÂ’s debut live recording from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and his first recording as the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on DG. The central piece, StravinskyÂ’s Le Sacre du printemps was conducted by Salonen on the inaugural night of the Hall in 2003, a masterpiece that becomes something of a miracle within the outstanding acoustics of the Walt Disney Hall. This recording captures the energy, beauty and musical power of this extraordinary collaboration. To capture the full sound experience of this concert, DG delivers this ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This is Esa-Pekka SalonenÂ’s debut live recording from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and his first recording as the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on DG. The central piece, StravinskyÂ’s Le Sacre du printemps was conducted by Salonen on the inaugural night of the Hall in 2003, a masterpiece that becomes something of a miracle within the outstanding acoustics of the Walt Disney Hall. This recording captures the energy, beauty and musical power of this extraordinary collaboration. To capture the full sound experience of this concert, DG delivers this ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This is Esa-Pekka SalonenÂ’s debut live recording from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and his first recording as the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on DG. The central piece, StravinskyÂ’s Le Sacre du printemps was conducted by Salonen on the inaugural night of the Hall in 2003, a masterpiece that becomes something of a miracle within the outstanding acoustics of the Walt Disney Hall. This recording captures the energy, beauty and musical power of this extraordinary collaboration. To capture the full sound experience of this concert, DG delivers this ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This is Esa-Pekka SalonenÂ’s debut live recording from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and his first recording as the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on DG. The central piece, StravinskyÂ’s Le Sacre du printemps was conducted by Salonen on the inaugural night of the Hall in 2003, a masterpiece that becomes something of a miracle within the outstanding acoustics of the Walt Disney Hall. This recording captures the energy, beauty and musical power of this extraordinary collaboration. To capture the full sound experience of this concert, DG delivers this ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This is Esa-Pekka SalonenÂ’s debut live recording from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and his first recording as the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on DG. The central piece, StravinskyÂ’s Le Sacre du printemps was conducted by Salonen on the inaugural night of the Hall in 2003, a masterpiece that becomes something of a miracle within the outstanding acoustics of the Walt Disney Hall. This recording captures the energy, beauty and musical power of this extraordinary collaboration. To capture the full sound experience of this concert, DG delivers this ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This is Esa-Pekka SalonenÂ’s debut live recording from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and his first recording as the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on DG. The central piece, StravinskyÂ’s Le Sacre du printemps was conducted by Salonen on the inaugural night of the Hall in 2003, a masterpiece that becomes something of a miracle within the outstanding acoustics of the Walt Disney Hall. This recording captures the energy, beauty and musical power of this extraordinary collaboration. To capture the full sound experience of this concert, DG delivers this ...
