This channel features recordings and performances by David Montgomery, American conductor and pianist. Montgomery studied in Paris with René Leibowitz and in the U.S. and Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda. He became Leibowitz's assistant, specializing in music of the Second Viennese school. Later he took intensive classes in contemporary music with Pierre Boulez in Los Angeles. He was engaged by Sony Tri-Star/Columbia pictures as a conductor and historical advisor. He then joined Sony Music NY and Sony Classical Hamburg as musicologist and performance advisor. From Hamburg, Montgomery toured Europe as a pianist and helped to revitalize the Jena Philharmonic in the former East Germany as the orchestra's principal guest conductor. With the Philharmonic he made recordings for BMG's Arte Nova label in Munich. He is an authority on Viennese music, and his book, "Franz Schubert's Music in Performance" (Hillsdale, 2003), has become widely known in performance and scholarly circles.
What a wonderful epoch, sure we had still to develop scientifically and medically, but the values, morals, culture, social structures and hierarchies, it was so beautiful it seemed out of this world.
Ummm...Mark Twain called it "the Gilded Age" because the gilding (the values, morals, culture, social structures and hierarchies) were the thinnest of quality over base metal.
Que obra fantástica de nosso maior compositor! Uma pena que a imensa maioria dos brasileiros nunca a conhecerá. A maioria não sabe, sequer, quem foi Heitor Villa-Lobos.
The artist who created these breathtaking images is Clive Hicks-Jenkins. His site is www.hicks-jenkins.com and I hope he gets more credit for his phenomenal work. What a perfect pairing to Stravinki's sublime and savage music!
It says here on the Web that a couple UNC libraries have an instrumental version on LP from MHS. There's this too: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d77jzEVcohA.html
I thought that was Mary Costa. Sweet elegant Aurora... - watching her masterpiece right now. And possibly the most beautiful girl/woman/lady I have ever laid my eyes on. And her singing voice.
The genius of Stavinski illustrating this simple but emoting story of his swiss friend Ramuz is to have used rather common melodic language with a great subtility in rythm.
Feliz de ter encontrado essa pérola por aqui ... Obra-prima, sem dúvida, como muitas de Stravinsky. Thank you, Mr. David Montgomery. Greetings from Brazil.
tout me semble fantastique dans cette oeuvre que j'écoutais si souvent dans ma jeunesse ,, le rythme le texte , la répétitivité des thèmes essentiels , une diatribe contre la guerre et sa stupidité immanente ,,