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Olivier Stankiewicz, William VerMeulen, London Symphony Orchestra & Jonathan Bloxham – Broughton: And on the Sixth Day, String Theory & Horn Concerto (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:57 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Although Bruce Broughton is best known for his many film and television scores, over the past five decades he has composed scores for a diverse array of projects from film and TV to concert music and even theme parks. His work has been recognized with an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for the film Silverado (1985) and a record ten Emmy Awards for his musical compositions in television. This album presents a small selection of his concert works including String Theory for string orchestra, his oboe concerto And on the Sixth Day performed by Olivier Stankiewicz, principal oboe of the London Symphony Orchestra, and his brilliant Horn Concerto, written for William VerMeulen, principal horn of the Houston Symphony, who is the soloist on this recording.
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Constantin Macherel, London Mozart Players, Jonathan Bloxham – Ravel – Schnittke – Prokofiev (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:20:02 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
Alfred Schnittke made a name for himself internationally in 1977 with the world premiere of his Concerto grosso No. 1. The composer’s aesthetic is defined in this work, which blends serious and popular music, jazz and tango, where baroque accents coexist with micro-intervals, and in which heterogeneous elements and quotations are inserted or even pasted into the musical discourse. For Schnittke, this polystylism is a means of broadening his art’s expressive possibilities, of overcoming the divisions and rigidity of specific schools, and a desire to question and modify the language and forms borrowed from the past.
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Iiro Rantala, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen & Jonathan Bloxham – Playing Gershwin (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:43 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
The time of rigid demarcations between musical genres is over. For those who see music, indeed who love music as a universal language offering unlimited scope for human expression, this can only be a positive development. When one considers the jazz pianists of our time, they have just about all received their grounding in classical music, and yet these are musicians who don’t just traverse many different jazz styles, they can also roam at will into other genres. And looking among them, it would be hard to find a pianist as quintessentially complete as Iiro Rantala from Finland.
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