KEITH JARRETT
Ritual (LP) Dennis Russell Davies (piano) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Feb/1982 ] Ritual is an album of contemporary classical music written by Keith Jarrett and performed by on solo piano by Dennis Russell Davies which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1977. |
THOMAS DE HARTMANN
Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered Joshua Bell, Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska, Matt Haimovitz Mdr-Rundfunkorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ Pentatone / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] This album brings the glowing, cinematic Violin and Cello Concertos of Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann, an important compositional voice in his own time, back into the limelight. Using an international all-star cast, the recording not only aims... |
SAMUEL BARBER / BELA BARTOK
Barber / Bartok: Piano Concertos Keith Jarrett (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, New Japan Philharmonic, Kazuyoshi Akiyama & Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Jun/2015 ] For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber's Piano... |
STRAVINSKY
L'Oiseau de feu [The Firbird Ballet] Version for Orchestra & Version for Piano Four Hands Maki Namekawa (piano) / Sinfonieorchester Basel, Dennis Russell Davies (cond & piano) [ Solo Musica / 2 CD - released 27/Mar/2016 ] The new double CD album by the Sinfonieorchester Basel features the 2nd of Igor Stravinsky's great ballets. After Le Sacre du printemps, the orchestra recorded L'Oiseau de feu. All of the three ballets will be presented in the version for orchestra... |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (Complete opera sung in Czech recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Opéra Bastille / Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) [ EuroArts / Medici Arts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Enchanting staging…The sound is splendid, the video direction simply fabulous. Everyone, Tsallagova above all, responds beautifully to close-ups…make sure your whole family enjoys it with you!" IRR |
PHILIP GLASS
Visitors Original Soundtrack recording / The Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] Music by Philip Glass for the film by Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Jon Kane |
PHILIP GLASS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glass: The Concerto Project Volume III: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet Raschr Saxophone Quartet / The Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] The Concerto Project Vol. III represents the third release in a series of four albums to be released by Orange Mountain Music documenting the eight Glass concertos. Volume III includes Glass' "Concerto Grosso" Each movement of the "Concerto Grosso"... |
LUTOSLAWSKI
Musique funebre (with works by Bartok) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Russell Davies gives both pieces with the intensity they demand, the sound of the Stuttgart Kammerorchester warm and heard in a generously resonant acoustic." (Sunday Times) |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: The Perfect American (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Christopher Purves, Janis Kelly / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "The dark tone is set from the beginning...Purves impresses conveys the complex and ultimately flawed character of Walt...Opus Arte's production is excellent...and brings The Perfect American - such as it is - very vividly to life." Gramophone |
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Metamusik / Postludium Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies : conductor [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2003 ] After the Grammy-nominated chamber music album "leggiero, pesante", a recording of major compositions for piano and orchestra by the man Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt have both called "one of the greatest composers of our time." He is certainly one... |