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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) |