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Mariusz Kwiecien won Artist of the Year in 2006/07 for his performance as Don Giovanni. Kwiecien made his Seattle debut in 2003 as Dr. Malatesta, and has also sung Riccardo in “I puritani” and Count Almaviva in “The Marriage of Figaro” in Seattle. In his famous “Champagne Aria,” Giovanni plans a wild party, full of free-wheeling sexual chaos, for later that evening. Andreas Mitisek conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. 

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Artist of the Year: MARIUSZ KWIECIEN as Don Giovanni

Vivaldi:  Four Seasons; Summer - III. Presto

Carmen, Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre

Hungarian Dance No.5

Opera/Classical/Dance/Can Can/Open/Symphony Orchestra/Oveture

OFFENBACH: Overture (Can Can) from "Orpheus In The Underworld"

SAINT-SAËNS: Dance Macabre (Waltz)

Ilya Ioff - Violin
Alexey Massarsky - Cello
Igor Uryash - Piano

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Uroš Lajovic

Sponsored by:
Officina della Musica
Castello di San Polo in Rosso
I - 53013 Gaiole in Chianti (SI)

Recorded 2005
Production: Katrin Canessa, Officina della Musica
Recording engineer, editing, mastering: Christian Schmitt 

Georges Bizet - Carmen - Orchestra Suit No.1 - Les Toréadors - (I. act) - Allegro giocoso

"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" is a famous musical composition for the organ. Composed by the Baroque maestro Bach, the piece is regarded as being the virtuoso's signature. Renowned for its regal and majestic resonance, dramatic command and titular opening motif, this piece  reveals the mastery of the performer's "touch" upon the organ's keys through its poignant and swiftly paced arpeggios. In western culture, the piece has developed an association with horror movies.

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 - Bach

Antonin Dvorak~ Symphony No. 9 in E minor op. 95 "From the New World" 

Antonin Dvorak ~ Symphony No. 9, 4th movement - Allegro Con Fuoco

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Poemes is the brand new album from vocal sensation, Renee Fleming. The centrepiece of this album of 20th century French vocal masterpieces, Renee Fleming makes her first-ever recording of Ravel's ravishing Sheherazade. Complementing Sheherazade is Olivier Messiaen's collection of love songs to his young wife, the Poemes pour Mi. There is one piece written for Renee by the doyen of French composers, Henri Dutilleux, his dramatic Le Temps l'horloge. The album is completed by two earlier songs by Dutilleux, specially-orchestrated for this album and recorded in the presence of the composer.

03 - Renee Fleming - Sheherazade - III L'Indifferent

14 - Renee Fleming - Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou - II

I produced this track using midi and EW Gold Pianos in order to perfection the performance as I imagine it.

Franz Liszt - La Campanella

According to legend, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance their dance of death for him while he plays his fiddle.

Danse Macabre, op. 40, Saint-Saens

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Artist of the Year: MARIUSZ KWIECIEN as Don Giovanni

Seattle Opera

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