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Kim Kashkashian, Dennis Russell Davies - Kancheli: Vom Winde Beweint; Schnittke: Konzert Fur Viola Und Orchester (1992)

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Kim Kashkashian, Dennis Russell Davies - Kancheli: Vom Winde Beweint; Schnittke: Konzert Fur Viola Und Orchester (1992)

Giya Kancheli: Vom Winde Beweint; Alfred Schnittke: Konzert Für Viola Und Orchester (1992)
Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken
Kim Kashkashian, viola; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 298 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 200 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1471, 437 199-2 | 01:07:28

This powerful record brings together two of the most seminal works for viola and orchestra of the twentieth century. Although these pieces are as different as they are similar, together they form a distinct balance of sentiment and execution.

The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Soloists, Dennis Russell Davies Philip Glass: Akhnaten (1987) 2CDs

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The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Soloists, Dennis Russell Davies Philip Glass: Akhnaten (1987) 2CDs

Philip Glass - Akhnaten: An Opera in Three Acts for Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists (1987)
The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Soloists, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 630 Mb | Scans included | Time: 02:08:37
Genre: Classical, Minimalism, Opera | Label: CBS Masterworks | # M2K 42457

The third in the Glass’ trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas, “Akhnaten”‘s subject is religion. The Pharaoh Akhnaten was the first monotheist in recorded story, and his substitution of a one-god religion for the multi-god worship in use when he came to power was responsible for his violent overthrow. The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus. Libretto (Egyptian, Arcadian, Hebrew, and language of the audience) by the composer in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel and Richard Riddell. Vocal text drawn from original sources by Shalom Goldman.

Dennis Russell Davies, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien - Giya Kancheli: Trauerfarbenes Land (1998)

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Dennis Russell Davies, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien - Giya Kancheli: Trauerfarbenes Land (1998)

Dennis Russell Davies, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien - Giya Kancheli: Trauerfarbenes Land (1998)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 205 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 142 MB | 56:23
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

Georgian composer Giya Kancheli's music ranges from brash to deeply personal. His scores explore dynamic and rhythmic extremes, and almost seem to be a soundtrack for angular, rhapsodic dreams. At times the orchestra swells to a heavy Russian march complete with bells and drums, and at other times there is near silence. The two works presented on this CD are enigmatic, yet one can sense that the materials are steeped in history, memory and drama.

Matt Haimovitz, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies - De Hartmann: Cello Concerto (2023)

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Matt Haimovitz, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies - De Hartmann: Cello Concerto (2023)

Matt Haimovitz, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies - De Hartmann: Cello Concerto (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 175 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 84 Mb | 00:36:09
Classical | Label: Pentatone

Cellist Matt Haimovitz, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies present the first commercial recording of Ukrainian unsung composer Thomas de Hartmann’s cello concerto. De Hartmann was an important compositional voice in his own time, connected to the greatest musicians and artists of his era, but has sunk into oblivion after his death in 1956.

Filharmonie Brno & Dennis Russell Davies - Glass: Symphony no 12 "Lodger" (from lyrics by David Bowie and Brian Eno) (2022)

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Filharmonie Brno & Dennis Russell Davies - Glass: Symphony no 12 "Lodger" (from lyrics by David Bowie and Brian Eno) (2022)

Filharmonie Brno & Dennis Russell Davies - Glass: Symphony no 12 "Lodger" (from lyrics by David Bowie and Brian Eno) (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 211 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 Mb | 00:39:26
Classical, Vocal | Label: Orange Mountain Music

Symphony No.12 "Lodger" represents the conclusion of a thirty year artistic collaboration for Philip Glass using elements of music and texts by David Bowie and Brian Eno. It premiered in January 2019 with vocalist Angélique Kidjo, organist James McVinnie and John Adams conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Philip Glass began his path as a composer of symphonies in 1992 at age of 55 with "Low Symphony" based on music by Bowie and Eno. It was followed in 1995 by Symphony No.4 "Heroes" also based solely on the music of Bowie and Eno. Over two decades later, after Bowie's death in 2016, Glass returned to the idea of concluding the trilogy by approaching the album Lodger as a symphonic subject. This world-premiere recording from Filharmonie Brno and conductor Dennis Russell Davies features Angélique Kidjo and organist Christian Schmitt.

Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Stravinsky: Orchestral Works (2005)

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Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Stravinsky: Orchestral Works (2005)

Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Stravinsky: Orchestral Works (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 337 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 167 MB | 01:08:06
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

If one considers that this 2005 CD presents music written in the early to middle twentieth century, and the latest of these is a "recomposition" of three Renaissance madrigals, then it seems a most peculiar offering in ECM's New Series line – certainly important for anyone interested in modern music but decidedly not the cutting-edge fare this label usually delivers.

Christopher Keene, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Songs from The Trilogy (1989)

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Christopher Keene, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Songs from The Trilogy (1989)

Christopher Keene, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Songs from The Trilogy (1989)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 269 MB | 53:42
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Philip Glass' 1987 album Songs from the Trilogy is made up of brief selections from his three portrait operas, Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980), and Akhnaten (1983). It gives a good idea of what the music from the operas sounds like, but at the same time it misrepresents what the music is actually about. In developing his "music with repetitive structures" (the description he preferred over "minimalism"), Glass was creating a new kind of experience, one in which the traditional temporal expectations of a piece of music are overturned, where changes happen incrementally and very slowly over a long (sometimes a very long) span of time.

Thomas Demenga, Derek Lee Ragin, Dennis Russell Davies - Giya Kancheli: Diplipito (2001)

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Thomas Demenga, Derek Lee Ragin, Dennis Russell Davies - Giya Kancheli: Diplipito (2001)

Thomas Demenga, Derek Lee Ragin, Dennis Russell Davies - Giya Kancheli: Diplipito (2001)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 57:19 | 184 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series | Catalog: 4720822

After his immigration to the west in 1991, Giya Kancheli abandoned the expansive, symphonic approach he had cultivated during his years in Georgia, and opted instead to compose music for smaller, more manageable ensembles. The works on this ECM New Series disc reflect Kancheli's changed course and his simplified, if still wide-ranging, palette. Diplipito is a cryptic term, coined by poet Joseph Brodsky to mean "my work of silence, my mute creation," and Kancheli uses it to suggest a neutral state between expression and meaninglessness, implied in the singer's indistinguishable words and the cello's vaguely articulated lines.

Keith Jarrett / Dennis Russell Davies - Ritual (1982) {ECM 1112}

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Keith Jarrett / Dennis Russell Davies - Ritual (1982) {ECM 1112}

Keith Jarrett / Dennis Russell Davies - Ritual (1982) {ECM 1112}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 111MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 88MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz

Ritual is something of an anomaly in the Keith Jarrett archive. It’s a solo album, as many of his best are, only this time it is pianist, conductor, and frequent collaborator Dennis Russell Davies at the keys playing a work penned entirely by Jarrett. The hallmarks of a Jarrett piano recital are all there—the rolling ostinatos, dense arpeggios, and profound doublings—yet are valenced differently under the rubric of “composition.” In this context, we get a sense of “once removed-ness” that might not present itself under improvisational circumstances. The piece’s modest 32 minutes are divided into two immodest parts. From the opening groundswell we get not only dense pockets of energy, but also nodes of emptiness.

Kim Kashkashian, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies - Lachrymae: Hindemith; Britten; Penderecki (1993)

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Kim Kashkashian, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies -  Lachrymae: Hindemith; Britten; Penderecki (1993)

Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik; Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae;
Krzysztof Penderecki: Konzert für Viola und Kammerorchester
Kim Kashkashian, viola; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 213 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1506, 439 611-2 | Time: 00:50:03

This beautifully programmed CD presents three settings for viola and orchestra and a more eloquent statement about the beauty of the viola as an instrument would be hard to imagine (except for perhaps including Vaughan Williams' 'Flos Campi'). The viola finds that middle voice between violin and cello, a rich tone with a built in quality of mournfulness. That quality has inspired the works on this recording and the result is some of the more wistful music ever written. Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with the superb violist Kim Kashkashian.

Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Symphonies Nos. 1-10 (2016) 11 CD Box Set

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Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Symphonies Nos. 1-10 (2016) 11 CD Box Set

Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Symphonies Nos. 1-10 (2016) 11 CD Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 2.17 Gb | Scans included | Time: 07:47:36
Classical, Minimalism | Label: Orange Mountain Music | # omm0104

Orange Mountain Music presents this new limited edition 11 disc boxed set - The Symphonies by Philip Glass. This collection features conductor Dennis Russell Davies who has arranged the commission of nine of ten Glass symphonies, leading the orchestras over which he has presided during the past 15 years including the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. This collection is the fruit of a 20 year collaboration between Glass and Davies and showcases a wide variety within this surprising body of work by Glass.

Matt Haimovitz, Cincinnati SO, Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Cello Concerto No.2 'Naqoyqatsi' (2013)

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Matt Haimovitz, Cincinnati SO, Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Cello Concerto No.2 'Naqoyqatsi' (2013)

Philip Glass: Cello Concerto No.2 'Naqoyqatsi' (2013)
Matt Haimovitz, cello; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 174 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Minimalism | Label: Orange Mountain Music | # 0087 | Time: 00:39:33

In 2001, Philip Glass composed the music for the film Naqoyqatsi: Life as War. It was the last film in a trilogy by director Godfrey Reggio that featured only images and music. When the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra invited Glass to be a creative director for its Boundless Series during the 2011-12 season, Glass thought of his cello concerto and its possible life beyond film. The CSO commissioned the Cello Concerto No.2 - Naqoyqatsi and gave the composer the opportunity to have it reborn as a proper concerto. The resulting recording is drawn from the live performances. This dynamic seven-movement work is conducted here by long-time Glass champion Dennis Russell Davies with soloist Matt Haimovitz.

Sylvain Cambreling, Dennis Russell Davies, Friedrich Cerha - Friedrich Cerha: Spiegel-Monumentum-Momente (2010)

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Sylvain Cambreling, Dennis Russell Davies, Friedrich Cerha - Friedrich Cerha: Spiegel-Monumentum-Momente (2010)

Sylvain Cambreling, Dennis Russell Davies, Friedrich Cerha - Friedrich Cerha: Spiegel-Monumentum-Momente (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:12:30 | 606 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Kairos | Catalog: 0013002KAI

Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926) is revealed by this great 2-disc Kairos set to be one of the great composers of the late 20th Century, who deserves to be recognized alongside Xenakis, Ligeti, Nono, Stockhausen, and Boulez. Cerha was the 2012 recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, the "Nobel Prize of music," and so his reputation and stature outside of Austria are belatedly coming to more closely match the esteem he enjoys in his own country. Cerha's own music has only been extensively documented recently, with a series of discs on Austrian neuemusik label Kairos, as well as recordings on the ECM, Col Legno, and Neos labels.

Margaret Leng Tan, American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies - John Cage: The Seasons, etc (2000)

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Margaret Leng Tan, American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies - John Cage: The Seasons, etc (2000)

John Cage - The Seasons (2000)
Margaret Leng Tan, prepered piano, toy piano;
American Composers Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 252 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 174 Mb | Scans ~ 86 Mb
Classical, Avant-Garde | Label: ECM Records | # 465 140-2 | Time: 01:15:59

This is an enchanting CD, every item a sheer delight. Margaret Leng Tan worked with Cage in the last decade of his life and her earlier recordings (1/92; 7/95) show a special sympathy for the magical world of Cage's keyboard music. The second of her New Albion CDs included the piano solo version of The Seasons, and Cage was honest enough to admit to her that he had help from Virgil Thomson and Lou Harrison in making the orchestral version recorded here. The result is recognisably Cage at his most poetic, evoking each of the four seasons in lovely changing colours. There are two realisations of one of the last of what are called Cage's 'Number Pieces', Seventy-Four, written specially for the American Composers Orchestra a few months before his death in 1992. Several hearings have confirmed for me that this seamless garment of sustained sound in two overlapping parts is an immensely moving document from a unique human being at the very end of his life.

Janos Starker, Dennis Russell Davies, Alan Hovhaness - Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22 "City of Light" , Cello Concerto (2004)

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Janos Starker, Dennis Russell Davies, Alan Hovhaness - Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22 "City of Light" , Cello Concerto (2004)

Janos Starker, Dennis Russell Davies, Alan Hovhaness - Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22 "City of Light" , Cello Concerto (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:46 | 284 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.559158

Heard here in a composer-conducted disc-mate to the première recording of Hovhaness’s early Cello Concerto (1936), City of Light (1970) has some lovely ideas, like the surprisingly sweet and simple string melody in the middle of the ‘Angel of Light’ movement (beginning at 1'30"), and the third movement, Allegretto grazioso, which sounds like a minuet in oriental garb. The outer movements, however, outstay their welcome.