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Respighi / Hindemith / Schmitt - Orchestral Works | Onyx ONYX4048

Respighi / Hindemith / Schmitt - Orchestral Works

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Label: Onyx

Cat No: ONYX4048

Barcode: 0880040404828

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th March 2010

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The debut recording by the remarkable Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra and their young Austrian music director Sascha Goetzel. The programme showcases this young orchestra to maximum effect and contains works that all have links with either Turkey or the Orient.

Respighi’s vibrant and superbly orchestrated ballet Belkis, Queen of Sheba depicts belkis at the court of King Solomon. The frenzied war dance, complete with Arab percussion, is an orchestral tour de force.

Hindemith visited Istanbul many times, and his Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes by Weber uses themes that Weber had composed for his incidental music to a play on the subject of Turandot, the Persian princess.

Florent Schmitt’s opulent late romantic ballet The Tragedy of Salome (1907) was praised by Stravinsky: ‘God, how fine it is! It is one of the greatest masterpieces of modern music’ - praise indeed from the composer of Firebird.

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