This lovely, intimate album by the Georgian star violinist Lisa Batiashvili is a family affair.
“Cantique de Jean Racine” and “Messe Basse.” (Vivien Schweitzer) The disc also includes elegant interpretations of Fauré’s The excellent soloists are the baritone Gerald Finley and the treble Tom Pickard.
Presented in a reconstruction by Marc Rigaudière of the 1889 premiere. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment joins forces with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, for a beautiful rendition of Fauré’s “Requiem,” Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Cleobury, conductor Preparing for Nonesuch Records’ 50th birthday celebrations at the Brooklyn Academy of Music led me to Donnecha Dennehy’s startling “Gra agus Bas” (“LoveĪnd Death”), a seething work for chamber orchestra that sets traditional Irish songs sung by Iarla O Lionaird to highly chromatic post-Minimalist textures that seem fierily to respond to the vocal lines.Ī Yeats cycle of six songs suits the soprano Dawn Upshaw’s declamatory style, too. (Anthony Tommasini)ĭONNECHA DENNEHY: ‘Gra agus Bas’ and ‘That the Night Come’ĭawn Upshaw, soprano Iarla O Lionaird, singer Crash Ensemble Alan Pierson, conductor To “The Nutcracker,” first performed at the Mariinsky Theater in St. This conductor and these players can rightly claim a birthright Afterward, I could hardly stop listening to the outstandingġ998 recording of the complete score Valery Gergiev made for Philips with what was then still being called the Kirov Orchestra (now the Mariinsky). Nuance and intelligence as well as charm and color - when I went to the New York City Ballet’s production for the first time in many years. I was recently reminded of how astonishing this music is - full of Tchaikovsky’s score for “The Nutcracker” is probably taken for granted. Valery Gergiev, conductor, Kirov Orchestra
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