Posts Tagged “Raymond Bisha”

MOZART, W. A.,:  Don Giovanni album coverSince the first performance of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, there has been a steady stream of arrangements of the piece. By the end of the 19th century, there were already more than 600 published arrangements. Some were note very good, but others, such as the music featured in this podcast, were excellent. On this CD, Quatour Franz Joseph performs an arrangement of Don Giovanni for string quartet, made sometime around 1800.

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Catalogue No.: ATMA ACD22559

 

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Tags: ACD2 2599, ATMA, Don Giovanni, Naxos Classical Music Spotlight, Quatour Franz Joseph, Raymond Bisha, Simrock Publishers, String Quartet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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GESUALDO, C.: O dolorosa gioia, Madrigals album coverCarlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, was one of the more colorful characters among Italian Renaissance composers. He wrote unusual and highly emotional music, and he was a murderer. This podcast looks at both his personal life (sometimes gruesome) as well as his music. Music by Gesualdo’s fellow composers Pomponio Nenna and Luzzasco Luzzaschi is also included. The featured artists in this podcast, and on the CD are Concerto Italiano conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini.

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Catalogue No.: Naive OP30486

 

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Tags: Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Madrigals, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Madrigali, naïve, Naxos Classical Music Spotlight, O Dolorosa Gioia, OP30486, Pomponio Nenna, Raymond Bisha, Rinaldo Alessandrini

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HAYDN, J.:  The Complete Masses album coverOver the course of his 73 years, Franz Joseph Haydn wrote a huge amount of music, including more than a dozen Masses. This podcast looks at those masses, and a new recording by Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra, J.Owen Burdick and Jane Glover.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.508009

 

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Tags: 8.508009, Cacilienmesse, Franz Joseph Haydn, Grosse Orgelsolomesse, J. Owen Burdick, Jane Glover, Lord Nelson Mass, Masses, Missa Cellensis, Naxos Classical Music Spotlight, Raymond Bisha, REBEL Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Choir

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Spotless Rose - Hymns to the Virgin Mary album coverIn 2008 the Phoenix Chorale won a Grammy Award for the newest recording.

This podcast looks at their brand new recording of Hymns to the Virgin Mary.

The interesting thing about this CD is that all of the music was written in the 20th century, including music by four composers who are still very much alive and composing.

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Catalogue No.: CHSA 5066

 

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Tags: Benjamin Britten, Cecilia McDowall, Charles Bruffy, choral music, CHSA 5066, church music, contemporary hymns, Healey Willan, Hymns to the Virgin Mary, Javier Busto, Jean Belmont Ford, Naxos Classical Music Spotlight, Phoenix Chorale, Raymond Bisha, Spotless Rose, Stephen Paulus

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A review from Anne is a Man! by Anne Frid de Vries

Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast… bring great music with explanations on the side which touch upon music and the biographies of the musicians and composers. As a consequence, this can turn into a veritable history podcast…

… the marvels of her life are narrated and must stand on their own…

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Tags: Hildegard von Bingen, Naxos Classical Music Spotlight, Raymond Bisha

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An article from StarNewsOnline by David Srebnik

Bach is everywhere – appearing in movies from Spider-Man 2 and 3 to one of the more grisly scenes in Silence of the Lambs. He made a recent TV appearance on the deeply superficial Nip and Tuck….

… Bach recordings spent multiple weeks at No. 1 on Billboard magazine’s classical charts…

There are ample reasons for Bach’s ubiquitous presence. We can connect with its craftsmanship that is so immediately identifiable and appealing. There’s the harmony and joy that’s spoken in a universal language…

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Tags: Kenan Auditorium, Murray Perahia, Norman Bemelmans, Raymond Bisha, University of North Carolina, Vanguard Voices, Wilmington Symphony Orchestra

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