Classical Essentials

Nikos Ibarra Mante, pianist
Recorded on a Yamaha Arius
Recording date: 19 July 2013

Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces Book V, Op. 54, no. 4 "Notturno"

The Ontario Pops Orchestra is one of the most diverse professional orchestras in Canada. Music director Carlos Bastidas and the musicians of the Ontario Pops Orchestra are featuring three black women soloist on this Breaking Barriers Album.

St. Paul's Suite for String Orchestra, Op. 29, No. 2: III. Intermezzo by Gustav Holst

Grieg: Peer Gynt / Ravel: Rhapsody Espagnole

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: III. Anitra's Dance

Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek will return to the Royal Opera House to sing the role of Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. It's a return she's extremely excited for:

'I think Cavalleria rusticana is one of the most wonderful operas ever written. It's so passionate, real and exciting', she says. 'It has you on the edge of your seat.'

'Santuzza is a woman who's been betrayed by a lover. She then betrays him and it goes horribly wrong. To sing these big duets is just amazing. It's very dramatic.'

2015 is Cavalleria rusticana-filled for Eva-Maria as in the spring she warmed up for her London performances of the opera with a run of a different production in New York:

'I'm really excited to sing Santuzza at the Metropolitan Opera and at Covent Garden. It's really interesting to reinvent yourself with Santuzza in each production. I feel extremely lucky.'

Eva-Maria's last Royal Opera House performances were as Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier — like Cavalleria rusticana, a verismo opera:

'Verismo is my favourite style of opera. I love it so much because it demands a lot of emotion, trying to stay true and giving a lot of yourself. It's less controlled in a way — I can go wild, which I love!'

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Eva-Maria Westbroek on Cavalleria rusticana

Herbert von Karajan - Adagio

J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air "on the G String"

Klassik Wunderland - Klassische Musik für Kinder

Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"

Sultasto. Virtuose Musik aus Barock, Klassik und Romantik. Mit Gerhard Koschel (Akkordeon) und Gerald Meißner (Violine).

Sultasto. Virtuose Musik aus Barock, Klassik und Romantik

Salut d'Amour, Op.12 (Edward Elgar)

The Essex Youth Orchestra playing Frederick Delius' 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring'. This was part of a performance at Blackshots Hall, Thurrock, on 20 April 1971. The performance was recorded by BBC Essex and is used here with their permission.

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'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring' played by Essex Youth Orchestra (SA 10/1/1/9/1 Part)

The Masterworks (CD 01) - Violin Concertos Op. 8 Nos. 1-7

Concerto No.1 In E Major Op. 8 No. 1, RV269, Spring Antonio Vivaldi

Relaxing Classics

Canon and Gigue for Three Violins and Continuo in D Major: Canon (Orchestral Version)

Noah Barton, piano solo
Franz Liszt, Consolations, S 172, No. 3, Lento Placido

Noah Barton plays Franz Liszt, Consolations, S 172, No. 3, Lento Placido

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I, Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - I. Andante - Allegro

Artur Pizarro performs Francis Poulenc’s Piano Concerto with Bamberger Symphoniker directed by Thomas Rösner, alongside Poulenc’s Sinfonietta and two rare, glittering gems from Charles Koechlin. This release is a coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Following the success of Artur Pizarro’s recordings of Rachmaninoff’s Complete Piano Music on Odradek, hailed in Gramophone as “courageous and poetic” and praised by BBC Music Magazine for his “dazzling finger dexterity”, the “poet amongst pianists” returns with Poulenc’s Piano Concerto. The last of Poulenc’s concertos, this work is jaunty and playful whilst exuding an irresistible Romanticism. Poulenc’s Sinfonietta is a full-scale symphony in all but name, its self-deprecating title a reflection of the composer’s sense of humour and the work’s colourful, urbane character. 

Charles Koechlin is best known for his vast orchestral Jungle Book cycle, but was a prolific composer of tone poems on an array of themes. Both Vers la voûte étoilée, Op. 129 and Sur les flots lointains, Op. 130 date from 1933, and both were published posthumously in 1996. Vers la voûte étoilée (‘Towards the vault of stars’) creates a sense of awe and mystery, reflecting Koechlin’s early ambition to become an astronomer. In the elegiac Sur les flots lointains (’On the distant waves’), Koechlin makes use of a melody composed by American composer, Catherine Murphy Urner.

The Bamberger Symphoniker has caught the world’s attention as an orchestra of depth and imagination, its BBC Proms 2019 performance praised in The Times as “stunning… idiomatic, impassioned, blazing with energy and power… virtuosically played, and enthrallingly pictorial.” The orchestra is directed on this album by the prolific and versatile Viennese conductor, Thomas Rösner.

05 - Francis Poulenc Piano Concerto In C - Sharp Minor FP 146 - 1. Allegretto

Performer, teacher, accompanist, composer. M.A. in piano performance from University of Central Florida, B.M. in music theory and composition from Florida State University.
Genres: Classical, contemporary classical/new music, jazz, and church music.

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - I. Andante - Allegro

Will Daniels

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