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STRAVINSKY
L'Oiseau de feu [The Firbird Ballet] Version for Orchestra & Version for Piano Four Hands Maki Namekawa (piano) / Sinfonieorchester Basel, Dennis Russell Davies (cond & piano) [ Solo Musica / 2 CD - released 27/Mar/2016 ] The new double CD album by the Sinfonieorchester Basel features the 2nd of Igor Stravinsky's great ballets. After Le Sacre du printemps, the orchestra recorded L'Oiseau de feu. All of the three ballets will be presented in the version for orchestra... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Visitors Original Soundtrack recording / The Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] Music by Philip Glass for the film by Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Jon Kane |
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LUTOSLAWSKI
Musique funebre (with works by Bartok) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Russell Davies gives both pieces with the intensity they demand, the sound of the Stuttgart Kammerorchester warm and heard in a generously resonant acoustic." (Sunday Times) |
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PHILIP GLASS
Glass: The Perfect American (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Christopher Purves, Janis Kelly / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "The dark tone is set from the beginning...Purves impresses conveys the complex and ultimately flawed character of Walt...Opus Arte's production is excellent...and brings The Perfect American - such as it is - very vividly to life." Gramophone |
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VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Metamusik / Postludium Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies : conductor [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2003 ] After the Grammy-nominated chamber music album "leggiero, pesante", a recording of major compositions for piano and orchestra by the man Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt have both called "one of the greatest composers of our time." He is certainly one... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No. 1 'Low' Basel Symphony Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Orange Mountain Music presents a new recording by the Basel Sinfonieorchester of Philip Glass' Symphony No.1 "Low" based on the music of David Bowie & Brian Eno. Composed in 1992, Glass took his departure from Bowie & Eno's beautiful melodies in... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No. 4 'Heroes' Basel Symphony Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Orange Mountain Music presents a new recording by the Basel Sinfonieorchester of Philip Glass Symphony No.4 "Heroes". This new recording conducted by Glass champion Dennis Russell Davies is a shimmering rendition of the work. Only the third recording... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No. 10 & Concert Overture Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 24/Jul/2015 ] Orange Mountain Music presents the world premiere recording of Philip Glass's Symphony No.10 performed by the Bruckner Orchester Linz under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No 7 "Toltec" Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "the work plumbs great depths in the first movement and sales vast heights in the last. In between, the second movement's impressively harnessed massed choral textures evoke similar moments in Glass's powerful opera Akhnaten" Gramophone |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No. 9 for large symphony orchestra with expanded brass and percussion Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "The piece is full of Glass's usual stylistic elements...The performance is sympathetic and excellent, as you might expect given that Dennis Russell Davies commissioned eight of the ten symphonies and premiered most of them." (BBC Music) |
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Keith Jarrett
Ritual Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM / CD - released 7/Feb/2014 ] Ritual is an album of contemporary classical music written by Keith Jarrett and performed by on solo piano by Dennis Russell Davies which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1977. |
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KEITH JARRETT
Ritual (LP) Dennis Russell Davies (piano) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Feb/1982 ] Ritual is an album of contemporary classical music written by Keith Jarrett and performed by on solo piano by Dennis Russell Davies which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1977. |
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SCHNITTKE
Symphony NO 9 (with Raskatov - Nunc dimittis) Elena Vassilieva (mezzo-soprano) / Dresdner Philharmonie / The Hilliard Ensemble / Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Composed shortly before his death in 1998, Schnittke's ultimate symphony - actually his very last work - is a "Ninth" in a most unusual sense: Put down with a shaky left hand by an artist who had survived four strokes and was laterally debilitated,... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No 8 Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "(Symphony no. 8) is about continuous change...the chromaticism that has crept into Mr. Glass' music since 'Koyaanisqatsi' is now more extreme, and more fluid. Indeed, the great attraction of the work is the unpredictable orchestration." (New York... |
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ALAN HOVHANESS
Symphony No.22 'City Of Light' / Cello Concerto Janos Starker (Cello) / Seattle Symphony / Dennis Russell Davies / Alan Hovhaness [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "The veteran János Starker, impeccable and expressive as ever, takes the lead in a sympathetic performance, well recorded in the Seattle Symphony's own Benaroya Hall." - BBC Music Magazine |
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THOMAS DE HARTMANN
Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered Joshua Bell, Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska, Matt Haimovitz Mdr-Rundfunkorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ Pentatone / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] This album brings the glowing, cinematic Violin and Cello Concertos of Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann, an important compositional voice in his own time, back into the limelight. Using an international all-star cast, the recording not only aims... |
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SAMUEL BARBER / BELA BARTOK
Barber / Bartok: Piano Concertos Keith Jarrett (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, New Japan Philharmonic, Kazuyoshi Akiyama & Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Jun/2015 ] For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber's Piano... |
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Keith Jarrett, piano, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies
Mozart - Piano Concertos 21, 23, 27 / Masonic Funeral Music / Symphony No 40 [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This 2-CD set features 5 of Mozart's later works, performed by Keith Jarrett with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Spuren Der Verirrten - The Lost Landestheater Linz, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] Spuren der Verirrten, translated here as The Lost, but in German Traces of the Lost, is a German-language opera by Philip Glass on a text adapted from a play by the experimental Austrian writer Peter Handke. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Spuren der verirrten [The Lost] (complete opera recorded in 2013) Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theatre / Martin Achrainer, Bram de Beul, Keren Robertson / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Orange Mountain Music DVD / DVD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] Spuren der Verirrten, translated here as The Lost, but in German Traces of the Lost, is a German-language opera by Philip Glass on a text adapted from a play by the experimental Austrian writer Peter Handke. Recorded here is the work's premiere... |