Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren
FRENCH MUSIC FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, Koechlin, Lekeu, Honneger, Castérède, Saint-Saëns; Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The first modern recording of a gripping 20th-century masterpiece for strings. The name of Jacques Castérède (1926-2014) may not be well known outside his native France, but the taut and compelling Symphony for strings which he wrote at the age of... |
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American Pioneers: Music for String Orchestra; Ciconia Consort, Dick Van Gasteren, direction [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Dick van Gasteren is the founder-conductor of the Ciconia Consort, a chamber orchestra based in The Hague since 2012. To mark 400 years since the Pilgrim Fathers left the Netherlands for America, he devised this programme of music from the first half... |
CARL RHEINECKE / FRIEDRICH SILCHER / MAX BRUCH / RICHARD WAGNER
Rheingold: Music by Reinecke, Wagner, Bruch & Silcher Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Under their founder-director Dick van Gasteren, the Dutch string orchestra turn to the rich history of Rhineland music from the high-point of its immortalisation in operatic culture as the bedrock of Wagner's Ring cycle. |