I got the Tchaikovsky freebie around March 6. Today, April 6, I got the exact same newsletter again, with the Tchaikovsky freebie. What's up with that? Very odd.
Takes you to the page where you can d/l the booklet and artwork.
Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Affairs of the Heart was completed on 1 August 1997 - just three years after Schnittkes Concerto for Three. Mozetich chose not to follow the standard three-movement, virtuosic showcase concerto model, instead allowing the violin a fluid relationship with the orchestra in a single movement which ebbs and flows between different tempi and atmospheres. At the end of the work, the music of the slow introduction returns. It was while Mozetich was writing this passage that he learned of the death of David Morris, to whose memory the work is dedicated.
The devices of minimalism are audibly in evidence during Affairs of the Heart - the explicitly drawn musical evolution is there - yet this is combined with a serene, graceful Romantic freedom, at times even reminiscent of Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending, which lifts Mozetichs music beyond any hint of chugging inevitability, allowing the soloist to soar with unfettered emotion. This quality was instantly recognised by listeners to CBC Radios broadcast of the work. The networks switchboards lit up, and it received many accounts of "the driveway experience"" - when listeners are so entranced by what they are hearing that they remain in their cars until the works end, long after theyve arrived home.
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Goossens: Five Impressions/ Pastorale et Arlequinade/Four Sketches/Suite/Three Pictures
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/newsletter/NewsLetter5147268421.htm
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plus there is a link to download Benjamin Brittens Roman Wall Blues for an email address.
High res. art and booklet:
http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN 6642
ETA: Hmmm. The link is not working as it's supposed to, but cover and booklet is in the zip.
This month's download - Italian Baroque Favorites.
Link to October's newsletter, and the download - another King's Singers album...
Takes you to the page where you can d/l the booklet and artwork.
And the download link: DOWNLOAD
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/newsletter/NewsLetter7145874216.htm
- And, nothing here either.
For the fun of it, I searched for a vivaldi55 avatar:
LSO Live: James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie / The Worlds Ransoming.