Lawrence Foster, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir – Kodály: Te Deum, Psalmus Hungaricus – Bartók: Cantata Profana, Transylvanian Dances (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:11 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Foster present choral-orchestral works by Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. They join forces with a remarkable group of soloists – including Luiza Fatyol, Roxana Constantinescu, Marius Vlad, Ioan Hotea and Bogdan Baciu – as well as the Junior VIP children’s choir. The album opens with Kodály’s Budavári Te Deum and Psalmus Hungaricus, followed by Bartók’s Transylvanian Dances and culminating in the composer’s Cantata Profana. The latter work, based on ancient myth, was originally conceived in Romanian, but the piece is usually performed in a Hungarian version. This recording reinstates the Romanian original version, retouched by choir conductor Cornel Groza. In general, this recording by Romanian ensembles of works by Hungarian composers linked to Romanian sources can be seen as an exploration of Romania and Hungary’s shared roots, and of the bicultural nature of Transylvania in particular.
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Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra & Lawrence Foster – Puccini: La fanciulla del West, SC 78 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:12:48 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Lawrence Foster conducts Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (1910), together with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Cluj-Napoca and a cast of seasoned Puccini singers, including Melody Moore (Minnie), Marius Vlad (Dick Johnson) and Lester Lynch (Jack Rance). Puccini’s “Spaghetti Western” is not only an exploration of the New World, with the delightfully charismatic saloon owner Minnie running the show, but equally of new music; a pioneering work full of harmonic innovation and state-of-the-art orchestration effects. The depth of the orchestration, as well as of the various ensemble scenes that are characteristic of the opera, fully comes to life in this studio recording.
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Melody Moore, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir – Remembering Tebaldi (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:07 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Melody Moore pays tribute to the legendary soprano Renata Tebaldi, presenting a selection of arias and scenes by Rossini, Verdi, Boito, Catalani, Puccini, Mascagni, Giordano, Cilea and Alessandro Scarlatti, documenting the most important stages in the career of “la voce d’angelo”. Moore performs these pieces together with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra under the baton of Lawrence Foster.
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