Pamela Helen Stephen - Stabat Mater / HarnasieWith this new release Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra continue their critically acclaimed series exploring Polish music for Chandos. It features two large scale works by Karol Szymanowski, the expressive Stabat Mater and the vigorous and colorful ballet Harnasie. The Stabat Mater, recorded here in it's 1965 revised version, features a cast of internationally acclaimed soloists: Lucy Crowe, Pamela Helen Stephen, Robert Murray and Gabor

The 61-year-old explains that "it makes no sense at all to put out new songs that we will not be able to perform live

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Powerful orchestral music from one of profiles among composers today - perhaps with the piano concerto written for Leif Ove Andsnes as the icing on the cake

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Ringarë's Of Momentous Endless Night will be released on CD

it always resonates with a near-death shaking that can also become infernal and violent at any time

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The eventful day - summarized in just sixty minutes of music - ends with a sunset

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the work is an opéra comique in two acts composed in the then-popular style that mixed sung parts with spoken dialogue

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