Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – Works by Raminta Šerkšnytė (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:04 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Classical
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After the success of her Deutsche Grammaphon debut which she dedicated to the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla (together with Giedre Slekyte) now lets us discover works by Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnyté: Music of transcendent beauty, harrowing and full of emotional force. A music that combines mystical experience and outbursts of vibrant energy.
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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21 (2019)
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Gražinytė-Tyla will release her debut album in May – a collection of orchestral works by Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg, whose centenary falls this year.
She conducts the combined forces of the CBSO, Kremerata Baltica and violinist Gidon Kremer in Symphony No. 21 “Kaddish” – a major work completed in 1991 and dedicated to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto.
She also directs Kremerata Baltica in the early Symphony No. 2.
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – The British Project (2021)
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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra continue The British Project with the release of works from William Walton’s opera Troilus and Cressida. The recording comprises the four-movement Symphonic Suite reworked and arranged from the original operatic score by Christopher Palmer. The CBSO and its charismatic conductor convey all the charm, swagger, and sumptuous sonorities of this music in a performance captured live at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.
Troilus and Cressida contains some of William Walton’s most seductive music, as can be heard in the new e-album from Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and the CBSO – their second for The British Project on Deutsche Grammophon. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla has enjoyed exploring British music since her appointment as the CBSO’s Music Director five years ago. Her recent Birmingham seasons have featured scores by composers who worked with the CBSO in the decades following its foundation in 1920, from Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett to Ruth Gipps and Thea Musgrave. She and her orchestra launched The British Project last October with an interpretation of Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem.
William Walton, born in 1902, forged a strong relationship with the CBSO. He conducted the orchestra in the world premiere recording of his Sinfonia concertante two months after the end of the Second World War and his music remains central to its repertoire. In 1947 he began work on his first grand opera, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s eponymous poem and set during the tenth year of the Trojan War.
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – The British Project – Walton: Troilus & Cressida (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:36 minutes | 542 MB | Genre: Classical
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Tragic love story: Following her acclaimed album of Benjamin Britten’s “Sinfonia da Requiem”, Lithuanian star conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s latest release is dedicated to a composition by William Walton that has hardly caught the eye in this country so far: the opera “Troilus and Cressida”. The stage work is full of energy, drama and surprising twists. Premiered in 1954 at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, the opera soon fell into oblivion and is no longer present on the schedules of the big houses. The publisher of William Walton must have guessed what was in the work, because after the composer died in 1983, his publisher encouraged the music writer and arranger Christopher Francis Palmer to an orchestral suite with the musical highlights of the opera.
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – The British Project – Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:11 minutes | 342 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla ist zweifelsohne eine der spannendsten Künstlerinnen der Gegenwart und hat sich mit ihren brillanten Interpretationen längst einen Namen gemacht in der Dirigentenszene. Erst jüngst wurde ihr Album “Weinberg: Symphonies Nos 2 & 21” mit dem City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer und der Kremerata Baltica bei den Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020 als “Album des Jahres” ausgezeichnet; gerade erhielt sie zudem den OPUS KLASSIK-Preis als “Dirigentin des Jahres”. Nun erscheint beim gelben Label ein weiteres Album der aufstrebenden litauischen Dirigentin mit dem Titel “The British Project”. Es spielt das City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, auf dem Programm steht Brittens “Sinfonia da Requiem”. Das digitale Album ist ab 16. Oktober erhältlich.
Benjamin Brittens “Sinfonia da Requiem” – Ein klingendes Abbild ihrer Zeit
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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7; Flute Concerto No. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:01 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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There is a special magic in the music of the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. After her acclaimed Deutsche Grammophon debut ‘Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21’ in 2019, the exceptional conductor continues her very personal mission to make Weinberg’s important work accessible to the widest audience possible in outstanding recordings with ‘Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7’ and ‘Flute Concerto’.
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