by sdimond@imgartists.com | Dec 6, 2019
Ives: A Song – For Anything Charles Ives’s work as a pioneering polytonalist is perhaps better remembered today than his song output, but throughout his long composing life his most personal musical expressions are to be found in what may best be called the...
by sdimond@imgartists.com | Dec 6, 2019
Turnage: Orchestral Works Vol. 1 Marin Alsop, ConductorBritish composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, one of the most acclaimed and widely-performed composers of his generation, was Composer in Residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 2005–10. His works skilfully...
by sdimond@imgartists.com | Dec 6, 2019
Bach Cantatas Volume 19 John Eliot Gardiner, ConductorReturning to England with the cantatas for the Second and Fourth Sundays after Epiphany, John Eliot Gardiner’s pilgrimage forces include soloists Joanne Lunn, Katharine Fuge, Julian Podger, Paul Agnew and...
by sdimond@imgartists.com | Dec 6, 2019
Britten: War Requiem Kurt Masur, ConductorBenjamin Britten’s great artistic statement of pacifism is a modern classic: an unprecedented treatment of the Latin texts of the Requiem set alongside acerbic and often overtly contradictory verse by Wilfred Owen....
by sdimond@imgartists.com | Dec 6, 2019
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor Bernard Haitink, ConductorBeethoven’s Ninth Symphony is a landmark in the history of music, changing the concept of what a symphony could be. The use of solo singers and a chorus in the final movement was revolutionary, and...
