Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #313286 in Music
- Released on: 1984-07-25
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Dimensions: .45" h x 4.94" w x 5.50" l, .22 pounds
Cellist Steven Sharp Nelson is best known for his award winning string arrangements and energetic performances with artists such as Jon Schmidt, Peter Breinholt, Paul Cardall and many more. Now, in his personal album debut, Steven Sharp Nelson delivers a powerful, yet reverent interpretation of various inspirational cello pieces. Relax and enjoy his performances of The Water is Wide with Peter Breinholt, Claire Delune with Jon Schmidt, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring with Paul Cardall, Beautiful Savior with David Tolk, along with other beautiful solo performances such as O Savior Thou Who Wearest a Crown, Be Still My Soul, Bach's Suite for Cello, God Be With You Till We Meet Again and more. Sharp's CD is produced by and features arrangements by Paul Cardall.
This recording by Francois Xavier Roth and his period-instrument orchestra Les Siecles features Debussy's orchestral masterpiece La Mer, alongside a previously unrecorded early work, the Premiere Suite d'orchestre. Little is known about the composition of the suite, other than the fact that the young composer probably wrote it in 1882 while he was still a student at the conservatoire. Although the existence of a first symphonic suite was known, all trace of its manuscript had been lost. Finally located in 2008, the orchestral version was incomplete (the third movement is missing), and the only surviving complete version is one for piano-duet. The Cite de la musique subsequently commissioned Philippe Manoury to complete the orchestration using these sources.
2CD Works By Tarrega/Torroba/Dowland/Sor/Falla/Ponce/Turina
Praga presents the first release in a series of recordings by the legendary pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, specially remastered for SACD. Michelangeli is widely considered to be one of the finest pianists of the 20th Century and has also been hailed as the most important Italian pianist since Busoni. Michelangeli was known for his note-perfect performances in concert, although his repertoire was strikingly small for a concert pianist of such stature. Owing to his obsessive perfectionism relatively few recordings were officially released during Michelangeli's lifetime, but these are augmented by numerous recordings (both authorized and bootleg) of live performances. This disc collects 'approved' recordings of works by Ravel and Debussy recorded live in 1960, carefully remastered to DSD from mono and stereo tapes.