Chopin Nocturnes Op.15 No.2 in F Sharp major

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Meditation

Music: Cello Concerto Op. 82, I. Allegro moderato
Composer: Carl Reinecke
Artist: Michael Samis, cello; Gateway Chamber Orchestra; Gregory Wolynec, conductor;
Album: Reinecke: Cello Concerto
Label: Delos Productions DE 3446
Street Date: June 10, 2014

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REINECKE: CELLO CONCERTO
And works by SCHUMANN, BLOCH, TAVENER, GOLIJOV

When award-winning cellist Michael Samis discovered the neglected Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 82, by Carl Heinrich Reinecke (1795-1883), its “soaring melodies and brilliant virtuosity” immediately inspired him to learn it. Of this brilliant and prolific Romantic-era composer’s nearly 300 works, the vast majority are rarely included in today’s performing repertoire and are largely unknown to the musical public.

Delos has thus joined forces with Michael in this – his first solo album – hoping to restore this appealing and beautifully crafted work to today’s concert halls, as well as to revive the musical world’s interest in the life’s work of a composer who is ripe for rediscovery.

The album also offers a varied assortment of remarkable shorter works by Sir John Tavener, Ernest Bloch (for solo cello), Robert Schumann (with orchestra), and Osvaldo Golijov (with marimba). Michael’s smooth and sonorous cello is beautifully complemented by the Gateway Chamber Orchestra under the assured baton of conductor Gregory Wolynec (Reinecke, Schumann) and accomplished marimbist Eric Willie (Golijov).

Reinecke: Cello Concerto Op. 82, I. Allegro moderato

This is my piano arrangement of Astor Piazzolla "Oblivion" | Live at the Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music (April 29, 2011)

A. Piazzolla Oblivion / Arr. Igor Lipinski

Memory of love - yuhki kuramoto

Léo Ferré, "Colloque Sentimental"
Philippe Jaroussky, Quatuor Ébène, Jérôme Ducros
Live 2015

Poem by Paul Verlaine

Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé
Deux formes ont tout à l'heure passé.

Leurs yeux sont morts et leurs lèvres sont molles,
Et l'on entend à peine leurs paroles.

Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé
Deux spectres ont évoqué le passé.

- Te souvient-il de notre extase ancienne?
- Pourquoi voulez-vous donc qu'il m'en souvienne?

- Ton coeur bat-il toujours à mon seul nom?
Toujours vois-tu mon âme en rêve? - Non.

Ah ! les beaux jours de bonheur indicible
Où nous joignions nos bouches ! - C'est possible.

- Qu'il était bleu, le ciel, et grand, l'espoir !
- L'espoir a fui, vaincu, vers le ciel noir.

Tels ils marchaient dans les avoines folles,
Et la nuit seule entendit leurs paroles.

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Philippe Jaroussky sings Léo Ferré's "Colloque Sentimental"

Zbigniew Preisner - Conversation With Father

Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Karin Matsunaga
Recordist/ Mixer: Kirill Belousov

Mics used:
Neumann KM-184
Sanken COS-11D
AKG C414 BL-II

A little bit of history:

"Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest") because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe. Vivaldi is known mainly for composing instrumental concertos, especially for the violin, as well as sacred choral works and over 40 operas. His best known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.

Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi worked from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna hoping for preferment. The Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and the composer died a pauper, without a steady source of income.

Though Vivaldi's music was well received during his lifetime, it later declined in popularity until its vigorous revival in the first half of the 20th century. Today, Vivaldi ranks among the most popular and widely recorded Baroque composers.

A.Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor for Violin

Performed this with the orchestra after winning IPFW's annual concerto/aria competition. 

A.Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor for Violin

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