Janacek – Sinfoniettas for Orchestra - Nos.1,2,3 Various Artists – 150 Classical Masterpieces
Leos Janacek – On An Overgrown Path Ivan Klansky, piano
Leos Janacek – In the Mist by Leos Janacek – Janáček: Piano Music, Charles Owen, piano
Glagolitic Mass (Mša glagolskaja), for soloists, double chorus, orchestra, and organ, JW 3/9 Work
Rafael Kubelik Conductor Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon
Rel. July 16, 2002
Friday, December 21, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Devious Delius
From high atop beautiful downtown Delhi New York, it's time once gain for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Frederick Delius.
Fritz Theodor Albert Delius was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, on 29 January 1862 to parents who had come to England from Bielefeld, Germany. Julius, his father, was a prosperous businessman in one of Yorkshire's great Victorian industries, wool. The home was a musically cultured one, and, as a boy, Fritz learned to play both violin and piano proficiently before he reached his teens. After attending Bradford Grammar School (1874-8), he spent two years studying at the International College near London, and then some apprentice years in his father's business.
These were characterized by a growing frustration with business life, and in March 1884, Fritz persuaded his father to let him try his hand at cultivating oranges in Florida, USA. His plantation, Solano Grove, was some hours upstream from Jacksonville on the banks of the St. John's River. Once there, he quickly secured a piano and found a local source for theory lessons, a Jacksonville organist named Thomas Ward, an important early influence. He also absorbed the sounds of the singing of negro workers, which were to be documented in his Florida Suite of 1886-7. Delius stayed there for a year and a half, before moving on to Danville, Virginia, with sufficient confidence to teach music in his own right.
Fritz Theodor Albert Delius was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, on 29 January 1862 to parents who had come to England from Bielefeld, Germany. Julius, his father, was a prosperous businessman in one of Yorkshire's great Victorian industries, wool. The home was a musically cultured one, and, as a boy, Fritz learned to play both violin and piano proficiently before he reached his teens. After attending Bradford Grammar School (1874-8), he spent two years studying at the International College near London, and then some apprentice years in his father's business.
These were characterized by a growing frustration with business life, and in March 1884, Fritz persuaded his father to let him try his hand at cultivating oranges in Florida, USA. His plantation, Solano Grove, was some hours upstream from Jacksonville on the banks of the St. John's River. Once there, he quickly secured a piano and found a local source for theory lessons, a Jacksonville organist named Thomas Ward, an important early influence. He also absorbed the sounds of the singing of negro workers, which were to be documented in his Florida Suite of 1886-7. Delius stayed there for a year and a half, before moving on to Danville, Virginia, with sufficient confidence to teach music in his own right.
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Florida suite; Dance rhapsody no. 2 ;
Over the hills and far away Rev. & edited by Beecham. Seraphim, 1973? Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor.
Delius's high musical summer, which was to last from 1901, when he completed
his operatic masterpiece, A Village Romeo and Juliet, to almost the end of the
first World War. Appalachia dates from 1902, Sea Drift from 1903/4
Sea drift (text by Walt Whitman). A song of the high hills. Angel [1974] John Noble, baritone (1st work); Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus;
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor.
North country sketches. Life's dance. A song of summer. Angel 1975. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor.
Delius suffered severe health problems by 1910 – manifestations of the syphilitic infection he contracted in Florida which culminated in blindness and complete paralysis, although his speech and his mind remained unimpaired. In 1928 Delius, who had continued to compose, met a young man who thought he could assist the stricken composer. Eric Fenby, a Yorkshire-born composer who greatly admired Delius' music, moved into the Delius home and spent the next six years taking the elder composer's dictation. After several vain attempts at cures, Delius died in 1934
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Debussy for December
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. String quartet in G minor,op. 10. RCA Victor,[1960]
Juillard String Quartet.
Chansons de Bilitis :Poems by Pierre Louÿs Columbia, [1964] For 2 flutes,
2 harps, and celesta, with narration. Debussy work: The composer's celesta part
(lost) supplied by Pierre Boulez. The music is incidental to poems no. 2, 12, 18, 22, 37, 56, 98, 105, 114, 136, and 142 in the work of the same title
by Pierre Louÿs. Vera Zorina, narrator ; Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Robert Craft, conductor.
La mer.Odyssey[1973] Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor. Afternoon of a faun (L ' áprès-midi d'un faune). Columbia[1965] New York Philarmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
Weissenberg plays Debussy. RCA Red Seal [1969] Children's corner suite.
--La fille aux cheveux de lin.--L'isle joyeuse Alexis Weissenberg, piano.
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