L.k. Brass

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky was the author of some of the most popular themes in all of classical music. He founded no school, struck out no new paths or compositional methods, and sought few innovations in his works. Yet the power and communicative sweep of his best music elevates it to classic status, even if it lacks the formal boldness and harmonic sophistication heard in the compositions of his contemporaries, Wagner and Bruckner. It was Tchaikovsky's unique melodic charm that could, whether in his Piano Concerto No. 1 or in his ballet The Nutcracker or in his tragic last symphony, make the music sound familiar on first hearing.

Kayak were a legendary Dutch progressive rock band of the 1970’s. The sound was typified by the contrasting songwriting styles of keyboardist Ton Scherpenzeel and drummer Pim Koopman, as well as the distinctive vocals of Max Werner.

As a potpourri of elegiac beauty, the disc opens with five pieces of Charles Ives' mysterious and yet hauntingly beautiful "The Unanswered Question", performed with subtle clarity and undersatement by Dawn Upshaw who lends the extra touch of eloquence in the shifting landscape that also includes the music of Morton Feldman's ''Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety,'' a delicious, tiny memoir of his onetime piano teacher; Ingram Marshall's ''Fog Tropes,'' a haunting tone-picture that merges taped sounds of San Francisco into an instrumental ensemble; and the quiet grief of the young David Diamond in his 1938 ''Elegy in Memory of Maurice Ravel,'' noting the passing of his friend and teacher with the sincerest form of flattery.

Above the album worked the 'Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker And Other Instrumental Christmas Music ', and his release took place on 2020. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

Deutsche Grammophon présente une sélection des plus beaux chants et mélodies de Noël, puisant dans son riche catalogue des interprétations intemporelles par les plus grands artistes. Voici réunis 100 chefs-d’œuvre de Noël, servis par les meilleurs chanteurs (Cecilia Bartoli, Bryn Terfel, Fritz Wunderlich, Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jessye Norman, Rolando Villazón, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Joan Sutherland), les meilleurs chœurs (King’s College Cambridge, Monteverdi, Chapelle Sixtine, Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, Bach, St Thomas de Leipzig, Gabrieli, Voces8) et les meilleurs chefs d’orchestre (Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Claudio Abbado, Sir David Willcocks, Paul McCreesh, Karl Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich), dans un joli coffret avec dorure à chaud.

Ennio Morricone is an Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary and modern classical works. His scores have been included in over forty award-winning films. In a career lasting over six decades, he composed some of the most recognizable film scores in cinematic history.