Release Date: 30 March 2014
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943976029
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Rzewski
Description
Frederic Rzewski is one of the most influential figures in contemporary music. In the composer's own words, for this second, 1999 version of Fantasia, I ... changed the music to obscure the tune, putting in lots of wrong notes and kind of stomping on and smudging everything." Second Hand, or Alone at Last was written for Robert Satterlee, the left hand "executing the most spectacular acrobatics." Described by the composer as "melodramatic oratorio" for speaking pianist, De Profundis is a startlingly original work which uses an Oscar Wilde text written during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol and requires the pianist to recite, sing, hum, whistle, use a Harpo horn, and hit his own body and the piano while playing a score of considerable variety and drama. Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated can be found on Naxos 8.559360."
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Michael Kaykov
Danish Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Stuttgar
Schilli
Rolf Gupta & Oslo filharmonien
Ketil Bjornstad & Sandra Lied Haga
Vox Urbane
Sophie Dervaux, La Folia Barockorchester
Sergio Vartolo
Robert Plane (clarinet); Elias String Quaret, Gould Piano Trio; James Gilchrist (tenor); Tim Horton
Nordic Affect/Marco Casonato/Massimo Marchese/La Spagna baroque orchestra/Alejandro Marias
Michael Foyle, Iain Burnside
