April, 2012

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Joaquin Turina: Piano Music Vol. 7
Álbum de viaje, Op.15 – I. Retrato Jordi Maso, piano From Joaquin Turina: Piano Music Vol. 7 (2011) Released by Naxos Joaquin Turina: Álbum de viaje, Op.15 – I. Retrato This much admired series continues with an evocative travel album
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Miloš Karadaglić
If you were asked to name classical music’s most legendary guitar players, you’d probably come up with Andres Segovia, Julian Bream and John Williams. Miloš Karadaglić, who is already being hailed by fans and critics for his brilliant technique and
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The Creative Power of Love!
Isaac Albéniz and Rosina Jordana
In April 1883, Rosina Jordana Lagarriga — daughter of the industrious businessman S. Simon Jordana, who lived and operated in the Catalonian capital of Barcelona — went to a local music store to look for sheet music by the sensational
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PROMS
The Minnesota Orchestra Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, WAB 104, “Romantic” (1888 version, ed. B. Korstvedt) Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral” Proms. The word brings to mind memories of parties past,
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The Golden Age of Spain in Music, Arts and Literature
Tomas Luis de Victoria O magnum mysterium (1572) Domine ad adjuvandum me festina Cristóbal de Morales Puer natus est nobis (1543) Missa Benedicta es caelorum regina (excerpts) (1544) Antonio de Cabezon (Click here for our related “In love” article) Pavana
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Messian’s L’Ascension and Puccini’s Suor Angelica ; “Taiwan Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra”
When Lü Shao-chia (呂紹嘉) returned from the Staatsoper Hannover for the directorship of the NSO, he inherited an ensemble already steeped in Austro-German music and musicianship, on account of both the education of many orchestra members and the directorship of
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Missa da Requiem – Miserere – Johann Christian Bach
III. Sequenz – 1. Coro. Dies irae Lenneke Ruiten, soprano Ruth Sandhoff, alto Colin Balzer, tenor Thomas E.Bauer, bass RIAS Kammerchor Akademie Fur Alte Musik, Berlin Hans-Christoph Rademann, dir. From Missa da Requiem – Miserere Johann Christian Bach (2011) Released
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Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Among the great composer-musicians of the nineteenth century, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) stands as somewhat of an anomaly. In an age that worshiped flamboyant personalities and in which composers strove to break from tradition in radical new ways, Brahms was a
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