Pärt: Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten (First U.K. Performance) / Britten: Gloriana, Op. 53a; Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20; Passacaglia from "Peter Grimes" / Bridge: Poems for Orchestra
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1. Poems (2) for orchestra
Composed by Frank Bridge
Performed by BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Norman del Mar
2. Gloriana, symphonic suite for tenor (or oboe) & orchestra, Op. 53a
Composed by Benjamin Britten
Performed by BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Norman del Mar
3. Passacaglia (from Peter Grimes), for orchestra, Op. 33b Passacaglia
Composed by Benjamin Britten
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky
4. Sinfonia da Requiem, for orchestra, Op. 20
Composed by Benjamin Britten
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky
5. Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, for string orchestra & bell
Composed by Arvo Part
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Pärt: Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten (First U.K. Performance) / Britten: Gloriana, Op. 53a; Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20; Passacaglia from "Peter Grimes" / Bridge: Poems for Orchestra, Music, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Arvo Part, Norman del Mar, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Classical
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- Old World Sound to Calm the Senses
- NOT OF THIS WORLD
- Spare brilliance
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ASIN: B000002SRI
Release Date: 1998-02-17 |
Tracks:
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
- Summa
- The Beatitudes - Stephen Cleobury
- Fratres (Version VI) - The London Philharmonic
- Festina Lente
- Magnificat - Stephen Cleobury
- De profundis - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
- Tabula Rasa: Silentium
Customer Reviews:
Old World Sound to Calm the Senses.......2007-01-03
Beautiful, pure, and often heavenly are my select words to describe this CD.
NOT OF THIS WORLD.......2004-08-31
Tabula Rasa: Silentium : This music is not of this world. I worship/pray in silence while driving with this music on with a palm facing the windshield. The haunting, surreal background...the two main violins mournfully cries out aloud...yet so beautiful...my heart cries with them.
Spare brilliance.......2003-01-08
Spending a lot of words describing Pärt's music seems like defeating the purpose. It is transcendent, haunting, solemn, quiet, and all the other things the other reviewers say. I view it, stylistically, as somewhere between the minimalism of Glass et al, and the ambient textures of Steve Roach -- if that description makes any sense. I find myself a little more at home with his instrumental pieces than his choral work, but that's just personal preference.
This is a good first Pärt CD -- then you can move on to other works, especially his Te Deum.
Magnificat: Magnificent!.......2002-08-05
I realize the title of this review is pretty silly, but I had to think of something.
I have always enjoyed classical music, but not nearly as much as other genres... that is until a friend of mine gave me SANCTUARY. I listen to it all the time now. The genius of Arvo Part's music is that although it is quite somber, it is very beautiful. I think that if you don't like classical music now, you will once you listen to Arvo Part. My favourite piece is Magnificat, hence the title.
If you only buy one Pärt CD, buy this one.......2002-02-21
This exquisite recording is an "Arvo Pärt Sampler" that provides a great introduction to this wonderful composer. I bought it because it contains his two best-known short choral works, the Beatitudes and the Magnificat. The performances by the choir of King's College Cambridge are transcendent, as usual; it is very difficult to achieve the serenity of sound needed to communicate Pärt's music, but King's is perfect for it. The instrumental works are samples of Pärt's greatest hits including an especially heart-rending performance of the Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.
Whether or not you enjoy the music of Arvo Pärt is partially a matter of temperament. Pärt is to music what contemplative spirituality is to prayer. To most of us, prayer involves talking to God; but to the contemplative, prayer means listening in receptive silence. Pärt is deeply contemplative, and his music speaks from this inner stillness, suspended in time. If you long for this inner stillness and peace, you will love Pärt; if not, his music will probably bore you. Silence plays an important part in his music. In the words of Arvo Pärt, "The most important things that happen between people who are very close to each other are not stated, are not even possible to express. One doesn't need to and shouldn't say anything." When you listen to Pärt, don't expect action, don't expect something to "happen." Just give yourself to the music and don't "do" anything - let God do it.
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ASIN: B00006YX7L
Release Date: 2004-03-02 |
Tracks:
- Frates (1980 Version) (For Violin And Piano)
- Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten (For String Orchestra And Bell)
- Summa (For Sting Orchestra)
- Spiegel Im Spiegel (For Violin And Piano)
- Festina Lente (For String Orchestra And Harp)
- Ludus (With Movement)
- Silentium (Without Movement)
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- Mesmerizing
- Amazingly subtle variety
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- Quite Simply.......
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Pärt: Fratres
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ASIN: B000003D0Q
Release Date: 1995-04-18 |
Tracks:
- Fratres For Strings And Percussion
- Fratres For Violin, Strings And Percussion
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten For Strings And One Bell
- Fratres For Wind Octet And Percussion
- Fratres For Eight Cellos
- Summa For Strings
- Fratres For String Quartet
- Festina Lente For Strings And Harp Ad Libitum
- Fratres For Cello And Piano
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Mesmerizing.......2006-05-11
OK, the people who made this album are officially crazy. Nine tracks, and six of them are different arrangements of Fratres! But it's a good crazy. The piece is fascinating and very evocative and draws you in. So, believe it or not, it works.
Once I had it playing while I was working on something else. Fifteen minutes after the CD ended I realized that there was no more music, although in some mysterious and enchanting way I continued to hear it in the air.
Amazingly subtle variety.......2001-12-19
Arvo Part is one of the only composers (if not the only one) I can think of where a CD containing six versions (albeit with different instrumentation) of the same piece is not boring or pretentious.
In addition to "Fratres" six times, we are treated to three other pieces as well. (I will comment more on them later.)
"Fratres" the obvious centerpiece of this album is a piece that roughly runs about 10 minutes and is incredibly rich in material as to score it for a plethora of different instruments is refreshing instead of frustrating. The various combinations offered here are for: 1. strings & percussion; 2. violin, strings & percussion; 3. wind octet & percussion; 4. eight cellos; 5. string quartet; 6. cello and piano.
I like the producers choice to put versions one and two next to each other (with the only difference being the "solo" violinist.) You can tell how much that one instrument's line really changes up the piece. Additionally that soloist uses a lot of pizzacato and it reinvigorates the piece. The version for wind octet is probably the most bizarre of all. It sounds like it uses strings and an organ. A testament both to Part's writing and the performers skills. The version for eight cellos is quite rich, showing once agains Part's compositional prowess, but also showing the great range of the cello (its my favorite instrument in the western orchestra.) The version for string quartet is the least compelling of bunch in my opinion. Not because Part can't write for quartet, but this piece just calls for more. The version for cello and piano is a nice way to close out the record, its probably my favorite version of all.
In addition to "Fratres" we are treated to "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten" which is beautiful...a fitting tribute to a brilliant composer (I'm told Part was quite fond of his music.) If this doesn't bring tears to your eyes...I don't know what will. This piece (more than "Fratres") is what people expect more from Part, the somber, yet joyous and ethereal tones with bells pealing. Its what the Eastern Orthodox describe as "joyful sadness."
"Summa" is just gorgeous, that's the best I can give you ;)
"Festina Lente" is a dramatic piece with swells of contrasting emotion that some movie maker will eventually steal turning Arvo Part onto millions of unsuspecting people.
Although this album is geared towards "Fratres," Part's "Silouan's Song" would have been a nice inclusion here as well.
I wouldn't recommend this as the starting spot for Part's music, but its still a fine listen. (To start with Part, I would recommend "Litany" "Miserere" or "Symphony no. 3")
Sublime.......2001-05-16
I just got this CD in search of the "Fratres for wind octet and percussion." I was braced for some trying repetition, even though the recording also includes my very first Part piece, "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten," and two others, "Summa" and "Festina Lente."
I was wrong. The 79-minute recording is sublime. I was constantly taken by surprise in the different realizations of the basic "Fratres" materials. The "Cantus," "Summa" and "Festina Lente" were added, not to break up the monotony, but to enhance the variety of the CD.
This CD will now join the precious few I listen to when life simply ceases to make sense and I am in desperate need for centering and grounding. (The recording of mystic minimalist works by the Chilingirian String Quartet is one of them. The achingly slow late Bernstein recording of the Barber "Adagio for Strings" is another.)
Superb.......2000-09-19
Composer Arvo Part is problably the most compelling composer of the last decade, and the "Fratres" count as one of his best works. They are not for every listener, though, as their slow pace and repetitive patterns (rendered even more repetitive by the fact that they appear ten times here in different versions) set a very particular mood. Werthen's interpretation emphasises the solemn and sometimes "marble cold" aspect of one of Part's most minimalist work (although he may not be considered a minimalist himself). Someone whishing to introduce himself to Part's compositions may prefer to try the ECM New Series recording of "Tabula Rasa", which also contains two "Fratres" (played by Keith Jarrett) along with the "Cantus in Memoriam", and another major work (the title work).
Quite Simply..............2000-01-15
The best recordings of the greatest piece of music EVER written period
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- Articulating sacredness
- Oy vey intonation...
- Part: Fratres
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- Miserere
ASIN: B0000014AG
Release Date: 1997-08-05 |
Tracks:
- Fratres For Strings And Percussion
- Fratres For Violin, Strings And Percussion
- Festina Lente For Strings And Harp Ad Lib.
- Fratres For String Quartet
- Fratres For Cello And Piano
- Summa For Strings
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- Fratres For Wind Octet And Percussion
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten For Strings And Bell
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Articulating sacredness.......2006-05-15
3 1/2 stars
The repetition throughout the 6 variations on this theme do become tiresome upon further listening to this album as a whole; however, the different implementations of this theme are justified due to the subtle changes found throughout that somehow make this minimalist theme flourish with progressive subtlties. The interspersed 3 remaining tracks do a great deal to enhance the album on the whole, breaking the pace from the profound, yet tiresome thematic experiment. Reforming my belief that modern classical music can still retain a sense of majesty, yet making a spiritual connection the likes no other composer has ventured, Avro Part is for anyone who enjoys the truely intense silence of sacredness, but this album should be an unlikely starting point.
Oy vey intonation..........2003-06-24
Well I like the idea of this CD, making a compilation of all the Fratres', but as usual with most naxos recordings, the string players are rather out of tune (especially the cellos). If you buy naxos recordings go for orchestral recordings and pianists (like the Shostakovich preludes and fugues is good). In the end though its probably worth the 7 bucks because the repetoire is so cool.
Part: Fratres.......2003-03-07
The Cantus track is a delight every time I listen.
pretty neat CD, but..........2003-01-11
It's neat of the Naxos folks to put together a compilation of all the known Fratreses (if that's the correct plural) together in one place. Each version is different enough so that a complete listen-through doesn't get tiring.
The other reviews of this CD have tended to focus on the beauty and spirituality of Pärt's music- I totally agree with those comments- he writes incredible music. The quality of the performances on this CD, however, is a little suspect at times. Particulary in the string quartet version of Fratres, there is some seriously shaky intonation... The chords don't exactly ring like they should in order to transcend space and time- qualities for which Pärt's music is known.
Overall, it's an acceptable CD, but it could have been better. I think there are some good recordings of the quartet version out there, but I'm not certain.
More fun than...ummm...some other CDs!.......2001-11-27
Part's music defies classification. We can call him Minimalist, yet much of his material expands beyond that genre--almost to the point of neo-romanticism, but not really. At first hearing, Part, is inoffensive and strangely luring. Soon the listener is sitting in front of the speaker asking for more and more an more...like an addictive and degrading drug.
Well, not really much like an addictive and degrading drug at all...more like extremely likable music. While not overwhelmingly profound, Part is never shallow, either. "Fratres" is actually several different pieces written from roughly the same material, and arranged for several different types of ensembles. I have been particularly enraptured by the setting for cello and piano, which displays some rather virtuosic playing.
The performances on this disc are all outstanding--it is odd how such obscure orchestras like the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra are snubbed for bigger but by no means better names.
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- Not the best performances, but still a pretty good collection
- A Written and Sound Portrait of One of Our Most Important Composers
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ASIN: B00093O6OY
Release Date: 2005-06-21 |
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Not the best performances, but still a pretty good collection.......2007-04-20
Naxos has never provided the best performances of the music of Arvo Part--the long line of ECM recordings were made under the composer's supervision and thus may be seen as definitive--but the collection ARVO PART: A PORTRAIT is a nice effort indeed. Issued in 2005, the year of the Estonian composer's 70th birthday, this package features selections from nearly his entire career over two discs, in recordings drawn from the Naxos, BIS, and Nimbus labels, and also contains a 78-page booklet with Nick Kimberley's essay "Arvo Part: A Musical Journey".
Arvo Part came to worldwide attention through the minimalistic and overtly spiritual music he began composing in the mid-1970s, but ARVO PART: A Portrait features some music from his early career as well. Part was something of an enfant terrible in the Soviet music world, and in the 1960s he infuriated the socialist realist musical establishment by producing dodecaphonic and collage works through the 1960s. From this era we get the second movement of the Symphony No. 1, the "Collage ueber B-A-C-H", and the cello concerto "Pro et Contra". One does regret, however, that his important piece "Credo", discussed at some length in Kimberley's piece, is not featured here, but perhaps Naxos could not find a recording that could be licensed for inclusion here.
The bulk of the collection, however, is dedicated to Part's "holy minimalism" output, a style which he calls "tintinnabuli" for its bell-like tones. Two selections from his hour-long masterpiece "Passio" are included here, one begin four minutes long and the other twelve. Of the "Berliner Messe" we have the Kyrie and Credo, and the other late pieces here are included full-length.
"Fur Alina", the exceedingly simple piano piece he wrote in 1976, breaking a silence of nearly a decade, is featured here in its scored form in performance by Alexei Lubimov. The ECM recording of this piece is a much longer improvisation by Alexander Malter, so this Naxos collection (or the BIS disc the selection was drawn from) is a good way to hear the piece at its most simple.
Over the last decade or so, Part has began reconciling his tintinnabuli style to the more fiery spirit of his youth. However, none of those pieces, such as "Como cieva sedienta" are represented here, which is regrettable.
While the Naxos performances of Part's music are not the best available, only the Naxos recording of "Tabula Rasa" by the Ulster Orchestra and Takuo Yuasa is outright unlistenable. The rest are acceptable, and this collection makes a more more economical introduction to Part's career than the many full-price ECM discs. And for established Part fans, the included essay by Nick Kimberley is interesting reading, especially when the only other major English-language coverage of Part, Paul Hillier's Arvo Part (Oxford Studies of Composers), is difficult to find.
A Written and Sound Portrait of One of Our Most Important Composers.......2005-07-13
"Contemporary classical music which genuinely touches people is rare, but the rapt, contemplative music of Arvo Pärt communicates readily, and without pandering to the demands of a mass audience." -- Nick Kimberley
"It is enough when a single note is beautifully played." -- Arvo Pärt
These two comments shed light on Arvo Pärt, both the music and the man. An intensely private man who came of age in repressive Stalinist Soviet Estonia but who always maintained his stalwart religious beliefs, against all fashion, and who, though he started out as an avant-gardist, became the prophet of what has been called 'the new simplicity,' Arvo Pärt is perhaps the most beloved composer of classical music in the world. His music is known by people who have almost no interest otherwise in classical music, largely because of the effect it has on even the casual listener, as reflected in Nick Kimberley's comment above. It also has devoted followers among the musical cognoscenti. His piece 'Fratres,' in its myriad forms, is his most widely performed work, but it is probably his ecstatic 'Passio' that has created the most devoted following, particularly following its first recording by the Hilliard Ensemble on the ECM label.
This release has two CDs chockfull of unfailingly beautiful performances of Pärt's music, generally in complete movements taken from releases by Naxos and other labels. Such disparate works as his spare piano piece, 'Für Alina,' movements of his Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3, the 'Berliner Messe,' the 'Magnificat,' 'Collage über B-A-C-H,' 'Spiegel im Spiegel,' and 'Triodion,' are represented here. Two versions of 'Fratres' are included, one for cello and piano, the other for percussion and strings. His cello and orchestra work, 'Pro et Contra,' is performed by Frans Helmerson and the Bamberg Symphony under Neeme Järvi. Excerpts from 'Passio' ('Passion According to the Gospel of St. John') from the recording by Antony Pitts, Pärt expert and a composer in his own right, and his choral group Tonus Peregrinus are particularly haunting. Celebrated organist Kevin Bowyer is heard playing Pärt's 'Annum per annum.'
The illuminating accompanying essay, 70 pages long, is by Nick Kimberley, a noted British arts critic. All of this is in a glossy booklet enclosed in a cardboard box, typical of Naxos's classy presentation of both recorded music and booklet notes.
This release is for all those who are already devotees of Pärt's music and for those who are just coming to admire his music. The budget price makes it all the more attractive.
2 CDs TT=164mins
Scott Morrison
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Release Date: 1999-05-18 |
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- Festina Lente - Tabula Rasa
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- Great Introduction to Pärt's music...
- Part and parcel
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Release Date: 1997-02-18 |
Tracks:
- Summa: Collage Sur Bach - Toccata
- Summa: Collage Sur Bach - Sarabande
- Summa: Collage Sur Bach - Ricercar
- Summa: Fratres
- Summa: Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten
- Summa
- Summa: Festina Lente
- Summa: Tabula Rasa - Ludus
- Summa: Tabula Rasa - Silentium
Customer Reviews:
Great Introduction to Pärt's music..........2004-12-21
Arvo Pärt has slowly emerged over the last two decades from relative obscurity into one of today's preeminent composers. His upbringing under Soviet Russia explains some of his early obscurity. But his compositional career has spanned many styles, some of which Pärt abandoned or refashioned into his own personal voice. It wasn't until the late 1970s (around 1976-1977) that Pärt discovered this voice he calls "tintinnabulation" (for the resonance of bells that the triadal tonality of his compositions are meant to evoke). From that point on his compositions have inexorably followed this form. Where his early works experimented in musical collages and sometimes harsh dissonance, his later works exude a calm contemplation, particularly a contemplation of suffering or longing. The tension in these works originates from his compositional technique, where triads simulate harmonics and overtones, evoking a non-resolution that always seems balanced on the brink of total resolution on an almost note-for-note level.
This CD includes some of Pärt's best known work, and also gives a sampling of his earlier compositional styles. Those familiar only with Pärt's later work may recoil at the harshness and periodic atonality of "Collage sur Bach" from 1964. This work is what it says it is: bits of Bach pieced together for effect in a musical analogy of a photographic collage. Here the piece stands out like solar prominence juxtaposed with Pärt's later work, which makes up the rest of the disc.
A good representative sample of the later Pärt fills out the disc. Some of his most famous pieces are here: "Fratres", "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten", and "Tabula rasa". These three pieces were composed in the inital catharsis of Pärt's discovery of his personal style around 1977. All of them are intense, forlorn, moving, and awe-inspiring. Hearing them together on one disc gives good justification for Pärt's ever growing reputation as an important contemporary composer. The two remaining pieces on the disc, "Summa" and "Festina lente" date from around the early 1990's. They also provide good samples of Pärt's style and the directions he's taken it following his discovery.
All together this disc serves as a great introduction to Pärt's music. It also serves as a testament that beautiful music can arise from formalism and minimalism (Pärt can arguably be categorized as both, but only arguably). It also provides evidence that contemporary music is not only made up of pounding tone clusters (though "Collage sur Bach" contains many) or spine-bending atonality (not that there's anything wrong with atonality, it's just not for everyone). In Pärt we see a rebirth of an almost medieval appreciation of form, beauty, and suffering. And the twentieth century has contained its fair share of suffering to muse upon.
Part and parcel.......2000-12-10
This disc has so much to say about "classical" music it is difficult to make any hard and fast comments about it. The Collage sur Bach, will surely send any student of Bach's music back to the drawing room. It's as if Jimi Hendricks picked up the baton, fenced with the master, and settled down to reinvent the sound of his own music. Summa, like all of the rest of Part's music, is about the soul, but not only the soul, its about the heart of soul. Not only about the spirit, but also about the feelings of the spirit. Those dissonant places; where we feel doubt, where we fear our convictions, where we feel alone in our faith, are not ignored, but revered and expressed by this composer in his music. Not glorified, deified, but respected and spoken. Our humanity confirmed, Part brings us closer to experiencing that higher spiritual plane, without cringing in our humanness. I love this disc, and highly recommend it to anyone who believes that music can bind the heart, and soul, and mind.
Take Part!.......1999-05-01
This is my favorite CD of Part's, and that makes it some of the finest music ever made, ever. Just my opinion, but if you respect the roots of classical European music, and want to experience the power and beauty in a distilled, concentrated form, the deceivingly simple structures in this music are combined, and developed to new levels of expression, which will make you return to these pieces for new perspectives, and emotional rewards on different levels at each hearing. Yep, its that good. It will make your eyes water.
Tracks:
- Symphony No. 5: Adagietto
- Elegia For Harp And Strings
- Adagio For Strings, Op. 11
- Metamorphosen: Adagio ma non troppo
- Metamorphosen: Agitato
- Metamorphosen: Adagio, tempo primo
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
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Tracks:
- Two Poems: No.1 Andante Moderato E Semplice - BBC Northern SO/Norman Del Mar
- Two Poems: No.2 Allegro Con Brio - BBC Northern SO/Norman Del Mar
- Gloriana, Sym Ste, Op.53a: 1st Movt. The Tournament - BBC Northern SO/Norman Del Mar
- Gloriana, Sym Ste, Op.53a: 2nd Movt. The Lute song - BBC Northern SO/Norman Del Mar
- Gloriana, Sym Ste, Op.53a: 3rd Movt. The Courtly Dances - BBC Northern SO/Norman Del Mar
- Gloriana, Sym Ste, Op.53a: 4th Movt. Gloriana Moritura - BBC Northern SO/Norman Del Mar
- 'Peter Grimes', Op.33b: Passacaglia - BBC SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
- Sin Da Requiem, Op.20: 1st Movt. Lacrymosa - BBC SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
- Sin Da Requiem, Op.20: 2nd Movt. Dies Irae - BBC SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
- Sin Da Requiem, Op.20: 3rd Movt. Requiem Aeternam - BBC SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten (First U.K. Performance) - BBC SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Music Track:
- Penderecki: Siedam bram Jerozolimy (Seven Gates of Jerusalem)
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- Piano Concerto / Variations on a Nursery Song
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- Puccini: La Boheme - Highlights
- Radio Classics: Leopold Stokowski conducts Brahms: Symphony No. 4 / Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole / Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5/Sancta Civitas
- Revoluçionario: Tangos by and for Astor Piazzolla
- Rhopsody / A Theme of Paganini
- Russian Elegy
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