Georgy Ildeykin - Flame & Wind

Daniel Barenboim (Buenos Aires, 15 novembre 1942)
Diana Damrau, soprano
Kate Lindsay, mezzosoprano
Piotr Beczala, tenore
René Pape, basso
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Chorus master, Joe Miller
Carnegie Hall, New York
3rd February 2013

Daniel Barenboim: Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125 (Beethoven)

Irene Papas ( Chiliomodi, Grecia  3 settembre 1926 – Chiliomodi, 14 settembre 2022) è stata un'attrice greca.
Irene Papas canta Vangelis (1943-2022)
Oh, My Sweet Springtime - The Beauty of Your Virginity and The Splendor of Your Purity - Little Orange tree - The river

In memoriam...Irene Papas (1926-2022)

Ave Maria - Franz Schubert (śpiewa Elżbieta Towarnicka)

Dramma eroico in tre parti su libretto di Nunzio Porta.
Esterhaza, 26 febbraio 1784
Armida: Iano Tamar
Rinaldo: Torsten Kerl
Zelmira: Kornelia Eng
Idreno: Wolf-Matthias Friedrich
Ubaldo: Kobie Van Rensburg
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
dir. Thomas Hengelbrock
Schwetzingen, Rokokotheater, 2.05.1999

Franz Joseph Haydn: "Armida" (Schwetzingen, 1999)

Opéra-comique in quattro atti. Libretto di H.Meilhac e L.Halévy da Mérimée.
Parigi, Opéra-Comique, 3 marzo 1875
Carmen: Shirley Verrett
Micaela: Isabel Garcisanz
Frasquita: Nadine Sauterau
Mercédès: Jacqueline Broudeur
Don Josè: Albert Lance
Escamillo: Robert Massard
Le Dancaire: Bernard Demigny
Le Remendado: Michael Hamel
Zuniga: Anton Diakov
Moralès: Claude Genty
Orchestra sinfonica e coro di Roma della RAI
direttore: Georges Pretre
reg.14 dicembre 1967

Georges Bizet: "Carmen"  (Roma, 1967)

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901.

Sviatoslav Richter - Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

Schubert -  Ständchen in D minor - Balázs Szoko - piano

Sonata 46 for violin and classical guitar

Sandra Haniszewska - Violin
Tomasz Kandulski - Classical Guitar

I was attending music school as an undergraduate in 1998 at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, Matthew Gould (of Duo 46) was attending as a Doctoral student in guitar and living in Austin with his partner, violinist Beth Schneider. They had started Duo 46 maybe a few years before this. I was hanging out with them a lot in those days - just going over to their apartment or whatever. One day, Matt said to me, "Hey man, why don't you write us a piece?", and I said, "Umm.. ok."

At this point, I don't think they expected much. They hadn't had that many pieces written for them yet, and I was just starting as a composer, only in my second year of school. I decided I wanted to write something that would really show off what they could do technically and musically, and that would leave audiences breathless.

Not knowing how to begin, I lifted a line from a piece that I had just written - a solo flute piece titled "The Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi". That became the opening line of the piece. Then, inspired by the one movement sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, I wrote the piece based on that line. The piece is full of things that I was just discovering and becoming influenced by at the time: baroque sonatas, renaissance lute music (hence the "lute" tuning of the guitar), the tangos of Piazzolla as well as the ever-present rock and heavy metal that has always been part of my music. Since Duo 46 premiered the piece in 1999, Sonata 46 has become one of my most frequently and widely performed pieces.

Notes

Sonata 46 (Haniszewska-Kandulski Duo)

Johan Sebastian Bach: Double for violin solo in B minor, Partita 1

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Georges Bizet: "Carmen" (Roma, 1967)

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