Vincent Kennedy, RTÉ Concert Orchestra with Mark Redmond – Vincent Kennedy: Music of People and Place (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:23:47 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Classical
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Composer Vincent Kennedy and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra bring MUSIC OF PEOPLE AND PLACE to Navona Records. Selected from some of his most beloved works and inspired by the people, mysticism, mythology, history, and landscapes of his native Ireland, this album is a rich collection of 19 stories, each appealing to the human spirit with sublime performances by the superb musicians of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
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Andrew Haveron, John Wilson, RTE Concert Orchestra – Korngold: Violin Concerto & String Sextet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:31 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Classical
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Korngold began work on his Violin Concerto in 1937, following his father’s suggestion that the main theme from his score for the Errol Flynn epic Another Dawn would make a good basis for a concerto. The work remained dormant while Korngold was exiled to Hollywood after the Anschluss. He resumed work on it in 1945, and fully revised it. Premiered by Jascha Heifetz in 1947, the Concerto is widely performed and recorded, and is certainly Korngold’s best-known concert work.
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