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Ricardo Castro (1864-1907)

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Ricardo Castro (1864-1907) - Intermezzo Oriental

ORQUESTA FILARMONICA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

Conductor: Herrera De La Fuente

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Ricardo Castro (1864-1907): Valse Melancolique Op 36, No 2

Clark Bryan, piano

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Ricardo Castro Herrera (1864-1907) - Cello Concerto in C minor (1895)

I. Allegro molto II. Andante 7:56 III. Vivo 17:18

Carlos Prieto, cello

Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Velazco, conductor

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Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra

I. Allegro Moderato II. Andante III. Allegro

Kelin Leung, harmonica

Final Stage at the 1st International Chromatic Harmonica Competition Orchestra: Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Mr. Robert Reimer

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Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine

Ia. Deus in adjutorium meum intende (versicle) Ib. Deus in adjutorium me festina (response) II. Dixit dominus (motet) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists His Magesties Sagbutts and Cornetts John Eliot Gardiner Basilica di San Marco, 1989 

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Jean Huré (1877-1930)

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Jean Huré (1877-1930) - Quintet for Piano and Strings (1907-1908)

Quatuor Louvigny :

Philippe Koch (Violin) Fabian Perdichizzi (Violin) Ilan Schenider (Viola) Aleksandr Khramouchin (Violoncello) Marie-Josèphe Jude (Piano)

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Jean Huré (1877-1930) - Violin Sonata in C Minor (1900-1901)

Movement One: Grave et dramatique - 0:00 Movement Two: Lent - 13:56 Movement Three: Avec grâce et fantaisie - 18:56 Movement Four: Grave et doux - 28:46

Performed by Philippe Koch, violin, and Marie-Josephe Jude, piano

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Jean Huré (1877-1930) - Sonata in F Sharp Minor in One Movement for Cello and Piano (1903) ·

Jan Michiels · Viviane Spanoghe ·

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No. 6

Milhaud - Le boeuf sur le toit (The Cow on the Roof), ballet, Op. 58 Ulster Orch. Yan-Pascal Tortelier, cond. 

I bought this record for Le création du monde and Poulenc’s Les Biches, which are also included, but this is the track I ended up wearing out. “Are they playing in two keys at once?” I asked myself–I was young and impressionable. Le boeuf sur le toit certainly gets my vote for “Most likely to start a party,” and discovering this work was my first inkling that there was more to French music than Fauré, Ravel, and Debussy. 

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No. 11

Poulenc - Trois Novelettes for piano I. Modéré sans lenteur II. Très rapide et rythmé III. Andantino tranquillo Gabriel Tacchino, piano 

My voice as a composer, such as it is, often seems to echo that of Francis Poulenc. I find that his music continues the French tradition from Couperin and Lully forward almost as if Debussy and Ravel had never existed–as if there were Fauré, maybe, and then Poulenc. Since I adore Debussy and especially Ravel, I mean nothing negative by such a statement, and one should take it half-seriously at best. Poulenc was a complex figure–unabashedly gay, but fervently Catholic?–whose work combines effortless melody with precisely articulated harmony and orchestration. Everything in Poulenc that is uncomfortable is also beautiful. He is sometimes mischaracterized as only a composer of “light” music, but then there are works like the Mass in G, or the Dialogues des carmélites.  

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Caravan of Yaks by Vasily Vereshchagin, 1875.

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Phyllis Tate (1911 – 1987)

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Phyllis Tate (1911 – 1987) - Epitaph

James Geer, tenor · Ronald Woodley, piano

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Phyllis Tate (1911 – 1987) - London Fields - suite (1958) - St James' Park - a Lakeside reverie ·

Royal Ballet Sinfonia · Gavin Sutherland