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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic band formed in Wirral, Merseyside in 1978. The band achieved broader recognition via their album Architecture & Morality (1981) and its three singles, all of which were international hits. |
Artist: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)|
Since the first composers started calling their works things like "nocturnes" or "serenades", there has been music designed specifically to evoke the dusk or the night. And then from the romantic period onward, the night began to become associated with worry, or even terror. |
Artist: Denes Varjon|
A once-celebrated contemporary of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and a precursor of Schubert in the domain of the lied, Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750–1817) is today almost unknown to the general public. Given the great success of his symphonies at the Concert Spirituel, he was probably the composer most frequently performed in Paris between 1777 and 1779 |
Artist: Els Biesemans & Meret Lüthi|
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Artist: Gary Cooper|
Artist: Julia Lezhneva, Giovanni Antonini The emphasis for this album is very much on youth and prodigious talent: at 25, Julia Lezhneva is ideally suited to the soprano arias of the young Handel, who arrived in Italy from Germany as a 21 year old at the beginning of the 18th century. |
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Artist: Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra After the highly acclaimed recordings of Mahler Symphonies no. 1, 2, 4 and 6 Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra now recorded the Fifth Sympony with its famous Adagietto in F major for strings and harp - one of the most intimate pieces that Mahler ever wrote for the orchestra. |
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Artist: Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Pieter Wispelwey|
Artist: Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra "Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony, lasting one and a half hours or more, is not only his longest work but at the same time an exuberant and sunny ode to nature, mankind, the world and indeed life itself. And for this song of praise the composer requires both room and lavish means." |
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Artist: Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra Fischer’s performance of the Sixth is quite similar to Abbado’s recent live recording for DG. Textures are generally light and transparent, with a swift opening march that, by the same token, never sounds unduly rushed or trivialized. |
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Artist: Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra This new recording from October 2009 is just simply wonderful. Over the last five years, and more so recently, it seems that many musicians and conductors have been taking a bite at the Brahms apple. |
