The garden is a magical place to spend a day, and this playlist of cultivated classical pieces is the perfect accompaniment to working amid the ?owers and foliage. Hear the sun rise in Grieg's exquisite Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, waltz among the ?owers with Tchaikovsky and watch the sparkling Fountain Dance with Elgar before drifting into the Haze of Noon with Alwyn. In the afternoon, shelter from the shower with Debussy and listen to the Birds in the High Hall Garden, exquisitely brought to life by Julian Lloyd Webber, before Gibbs' Dusk falls.
The garden is a magical place to spend a day, and this playlist of cultivated classical pieces is the perfect accompaniment to working amid the ?owers and foliage. Hear the sun rise in Grieg's exquisite Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, waltz among the ?owers with Tchaikovsky and watch the sparkling Fountain Dance with Elgar before drifting into the Haze of Noon with Alwyn. In the afternoon, shelter from the shower with Debussy and listen to the Birds in the High Hall Garden, exquisitely brought to life by Julian Lloyd Webber, before Gibbs' Dusk falls.
Rosenberg's musical language in this dreamplay of reaching out for the unattainable is tugged between the poles of Sibelian cool and warm Gallic impressionism. As an opera this is not another Pelléas. It is far too mercurial and word-responsive for that. If anything it has subject connections with other operas: Korngold’s Die Kathrin (CPO) and Schreker’s Die Ferne Klang (Naxos and Capriccio). It occupies a surreal littoral between Puccinian verismo and modernistic objectivity; neither one nor the other……Most warmly recommended.Rob Barnett @ Musicweb-international.com
Trombonist Jeff Albert's Instigation Quartet, comprised of saxophonist Kidd Jordan, double bassist Joshua Abrams, and drummer Hamid Drake, play a superb studio session, starting and ending with two works by Fred Anderson. “The musicians have dug irrigation canals into society and the universe, overflowing with their energy.”
It is good to welcome this set of the extravagantly brooding orchestral music of the Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock.