Move over Avatar, the opera Carmen is coming to the big screen in 3D; publishing phenom Fifty Shades of Grey gets pulses racing in the world of classical music.
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1. Delibes: Lakmé (Act I): Flower Duet (Mady Mesplé, Danielle Millet / Alain Lombard) 2. Bach: Adagio from Concerto No.3 BWV 974 (Alexandre Tharaud) 3. Villa - Lobos: Bachianas Brasilerias No.5 Cantilena (Barbara Hendricks) 4. Verdi: La Traviata Prelude (Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra) 5. Pachelbel: Canon in D (Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin - in 6. Tallis: Spem in Alium (The Tallis Scholars) 7. Chopin: Prelude No.4 in E minor, Largo (Samson François) 8. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 - Adagio Sostenuto (Cecile Ousset / Sir Simon Rattle, CBSO) 9. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Sir Adrian Boult, LPO) 10. Canteloube: Chants d'auvergne, Bailero (Arleen Auger) 11. Chopin: Nocturne No.1 in B - flat minor (Samson François) 12. Fauré: Requiem - In Paradisum (Choir of Kings College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury) 13. Bach: Goldberg Variation - Aria (Maria Tipo) 14. Debussy: La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin (Moura Lympany) 15. Bach: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Alexis Weissenberg)
Not ONE Canadian... So Katherine Duncan why are you so eager to promote this mercantile compilation instead of introducing independent Canadian classical musicians to your listeners?
Ian Parker gave me the idea on his TIMM when he mentioned a video of Brahms stills. If there're going to drag Horowitz's piano around wouldn't be wild if they made a hologram of him playing. If they can do it for Tupac, can they do it for Vladi, a Horoholo.
@Svetlana Ponomareva: Katherine Duncan is not promoting the album; merely reporting the news. Take a look around our classical page at cbcmusic.ca and you'll see there's lots of coverage of our domestic classical music scene. Now and then, we look outside our own borders, and I think that's a good thing, don't you?
@Derek Lindner: As usual, you are full of good ideas.
@Robert Rowat: Thank you for your reply. I naively thought that including a CD cover link to Amazon.com with the listed price was the first tenet of any good marketing musician pitch… Indeed, the vibrant if quite selective domestic classical music scene covered by Radio 2 cannot be missed thanks to endless repeats. Finally, from your patronizing suggestion of looking outside of our border, I invite you, as the community producer for classical music at CBC Music, to at least take the time of familiarizing yourself with what I do.
i believe the powers that be at cbc believe we are subject to the same psychology
Methinks you folks doth protest too much against Fifty Shades, and overlook the other elements in this blog post, especially the 3D Carmen! If they succeed only half as well as Wim Wenders and his use of 3D in the film Pina, then this will be totally amazing. I can't wait.
I played the Horowitz Steinway in Vancouver few years ago and it is a wonderful instrument, so responsive, bright, open, virtually playing itself.
Svetlana, can I ask you a question? How come there are two spellings of Schnittke; sometimes I see it Schnitke? If it's still accepted to talk about a country's pre-eminant composer, and if he was Russia's last, who succeeds him, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli?
Derek, the only spelling I know is Schnittke (1934-1998). Kancheli (born in 1935) and Gubaidulina (born in 1931) two pre-eminent composers in their own rights, did not succeed him but were his contemporary. Schnittke died quite young. A little anecdote: I was honored to play his Concerto for Piano & String in Omsk in 2003, conducted by Yuri Nikolaevski, a colleague of Schnittke and a conductor who premiered many Gubaidulina works and that is the concert that received over 30,000 YouTube viewers. Needless to say that no one in Canada displayed any interest despite my multiple proposals to play this glorious music here, even in 2008 for the 10th anniversary of his passing that went well below the radar of “In Tune”…