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The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 emotive pieces
of classical music, designed to tug at the heart-strings, specially
arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di
vedremo" from Madama Butterfly by Puccini and Dido's Lament by
Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's colour linocut
Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page
pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The
Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of
the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for
the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out
poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork. "
Produced to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's
birth, this performance of his enigmatic Symphony No.10 includes
the seldom-heard completion by American musicologist Clinton
Carpenter. Lan Shui conducts the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at
the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore.
Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating and ambivalent
of twentieth-century women. Her book "Gustav Mahler: Memories and
Letters" (1940) includes 159 of Mahler's letters, yet only 37 of
these were published in their original, unedited form. Alma's
omissions, abridgements and alterations were all part of the
legend, and reveal that it was her intention to present herself in
as flattering a light as possible. This new edition restores the
original texts, and includes a further 188 letters as well as
other, hitherto unpublished documents. The letters are supplemented
by commentaries, which provide background information about the
people and events mentioned in them, and help place the letters in
their cultural and historical context. These documents depict a
close and sometimes explosive relationship between two people of
widely differing background, character and temperament. The Mahler
that emerges from these authentic, unabridged sources is warmer and
more touchingly human than the figure as presented by Alma in her
expurgated selection of Memories and Letters.
One of the composer's most popular, accessible works, the 7th has neither a "program" or folk-song theme. It is a purely instrumental composition, both hopeful and romantic in feeling. Reprinted from the authoritative German edition of 1909. List of instruments. Glossary of German terms.
This avant-garde adaptation of Mark Godden's 'Dracula' ballet,
based on the novel by Bram Stoker as well as early film versions
such as Murnau's 'Nosferatu', is a collaboration between Canadian
film director Guy Maddin and the Winnipeg National Ballet. Filmed
in Maddin's trademark crimson-tinted black and white, and largely
silent apart from its dramatic Mahler soundtrack, the film was
originally produced for Canadian television, but went on to be
screened at several international film festivals.
Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in
these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 9 and 10, recorded
in 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in
these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, recorded in
2011 and 2013, respectively, at the Rheingau Musik Festival.
Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in
these performances of Gustav Mahler's works. The performances
featured are Mahler's Symphony No. 1, recorded in 2010, and
Symphony No. 2, recorded in 2012.
Pierre Boulez conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in this
opening concert from the Salzburg Festival of 2011. The featured
works include Alban Berg's 'Lulu Suite' and Gustav Mahler's 'Das
Klagende Lied' for Solo Voices, Mixed Choir and Orchestra. The
singers include Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska, Anna Larsson and
Johan Botha.
Mahler's penultimate symphony recieved its premiere performance in
Munich on September 12th, 1910 with a chorus of about 850, and an
orchestra of 171. These massive forces led to Mahler's agent
dubbing the work "Symphony of a Thousand." Mahler did not approve
of the title at all, but it remains. The piece was a great success
at its premiere, one of few of Mahler's works to be well received
in his lifetime. It was the last premiere of one his works that
Mahler witnessed before his death. Unabridged digitally enhanced
reprint of the vocal score prepared by Josef Woss that was first
published in 1910 by Universal Edition, Vienna.
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this 2010
performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
Valery Gergiev leads the World Orchestra for Peace in this
performance of Mahler's fourth and fifth symphonies, recorded live
at the 26th BBC Prom in August, 2010. The featured artist is
soprano Camilla Tilling.
Collection of ballets making up the Gala des Étoiles of 2015. David
Coleman conducts the Teatro alla Scala in performances of, amongst
others, 'La Rose Malade' by Gustav Mahler, 'The Dying Swan' by
Camille Saint-Saëns and Aram Khatchaturian's 'Spartacus'.
Collection of 20 documentaries providing insight into significant
classical works and their composers. The films are: 'Bach's
Brandenburg Concertos', 'Mozart's Symphony No. 41', 'Haydn's
Symphony No. 94 'Surprise'', 'Beethoven's Symphony No. 5',
'Beethoven's Symphony No. 9', 'Schubert's Symphony No. 8
'Unfinished'', 'Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique', 'Mendelssohn's
Violin Concerto in E Minor', 'Schumann's Piano Concerto', 'Brahms'
Violin Concerto in D Major', 'Bruckner's Symphony No. 8',
'Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5', 'Dvorák's Symphony No. 9',
'Debussy's La mer', 'Mahler's Symphony No. 5', 'Mahler's Das Lied
von der Erde', 'Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps', 'Strauss's
Eine Alpensinfonie', 'Ravel's Boléro' and 'Bartók's Concerto for
Orchestra'.
Riccardo Chailly leads the Gewandhausorchester in this performance
of Mahler's Fourth Symphony, recorded in Leipzig.
Pierre Boulez conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in this Mahler-only
concert recorded at Ohio's Severance Hall. Alongside the Adagio
from the unfinished tenth symphony, soloists Magdalena Kozená and
Christian Gerhaher sing 12 songs from 'Des knaben Wunderhorn'.
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