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Kent Nagano's 2016 collection of supernatural-themed tone poems brings together three orchestral classics and three less frequently programmed pieces. Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Modest Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain are famous from their use in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre has become standard fare for Hallowe'en concerts. However, Antonín Dvorák's The Noonday Witch, Mily Balakirev's Tamara, and Charles Ives' Hallowe'en are likely unfamiliar to most listeners.

Live in Montreal is the second live album by the Canadian melodic death metal band Quo Vadis. It was released on May 12, 2007.

Trombonist and composer Jean-NicolasTrottier and the Montreal National Jazz Orchestra deliver the recording The Mystic Mind, a work that the ONJ commissioned and the Australians applauded in May 2016. Inspired by the Yannick virtuosos Rieu, Rafael Zaldivar and Sylvain Provost, as well as the great Vic Vogel to whom he dedicates it, Trottier has created a series of nine movements whose motives unfold at various altitudes, a bit like an idea, a word, a traveling image. in the billions of brain synapses. According to this metaphor, the intro, prelude to reflection, sets out themes that emotions transform and memory resumes. The sequel evokes a well-being linked to the stream of thought, "the secret of happiness," according to Trottier, which leads to reverie and even to the maze of fascination that the unknown brings. Before a clever final loop, the work evokes the different modes of memory and full awareness.

Here's a bit of intrigue. The failure of Rachmaninov's First Symphony at its premiere in 1897 is habitually blamed on Glazunov's ineptitude as a conductor. But, by 1907 Rachmaninov had written his Second Symphony, whose instant and continuing success can be attributed to a pervasive melody of enormous emotional power. Why, then, did Glazunov incorporate a motif of striking similarity in the first movement of his 1911 Piano Concerto? Glazunov's tune is paler, less keenly felt, than Rachmaninov's, but is this a homage, an apology, or merely a coincidence? I found it so perplexing that the wistful variations in the second and final movement of the concerto passed by almost unnoticed. But there's not a lot to miss. While some of the harmonies have a smudgy, Broadway sensuality, the easy lyricism is frequently banal.

Buddy and his band at the height of their popularity and influence, with seven arrangements that display not only Buddy Rich s virtuosity but his unsurpassed musicianship, as well. Included is a rare example of Buddy on brushes and a brilliant rendition of his signature piece, the medley from West Side Story…

HI fellows. Dutoit's recording on Prokofiev's 5th is another gem that was not included in the box "The art of Charles Dutoit" and deserves more than one listening… Please Enjoy!