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Art & Music: Turner - Music of His Time |
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Composer: |
Johann Christian Bach, Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Nicolo Paganini, Fryderyk Chopin, Hector Berlioz, John Field |
Artist: |
Idil Biret, Benjamin Frith, Rivka Golani, Moshe Hammer, Norbert Kraft, Ernst Ottensamer, Alexandre Tharaud, Alfred Cortot, Arthur Rubinstein, William Primrose, Frederick Riddle, Christian Ihle Hadland, David Aaron Carpenter |
Conductor: |
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pierre Boulez, Sergey Koussevitzky, Hans Vonk, Rudolf Kempe, John Barbirolli, Thomas Fey, Anthony Bramall, Oliver Dohnanyi, Hanspeter Gmur, Yoav Talmi, Georg Tintner, Johannes Wildner, Carl Schuricht, Roger Norrington, Barry Wordsworth, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Thomas Beecham |
Ensemble: |
Kodaly Quartet, Minetti Quartet |
Orchestra: |
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Failoni Orchestra, Budapest, Halle Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra |
Label: |
Naxos |
Catalogue No.: |
8.558116 |
Format: |
CD |
Barcode: |
0636943811627 |
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Art and Music
Turner - Music of His Time
Music by J.C. Bach, Haydn, Field, Weber, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Berlioz
Author: Hugh Griffith
1 CD with full-colour, illustrated, explanatory booklet
Naxos 8.558116
In the final period of his life, the paintings of J.M.W Turner (1775-1851) baffled his public with the daring originality of their colours. But by then he was already a great British institution and revered as the greatest landscape painter of the age. On this CD, the world of Turner is given a musical perspective with a carefully chosen selection of pieces by the finest composers of his time. Inside, Hugh Griffith provides explanatory notes on his life and musical environment.
As soon as it is revealed that Turner was friendly with the organist and composer John Danby, who very likely fostered in the painter a love of music, a new dimension to his art is uncovered. Direct connections between his paintings and works by Berlioz and Mendelssohn, for example, draw the two worlds together, and encourage a broader perspective of each.
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