Gift Of Music > Shipway, Frank

Music for a Goddess - Great Opera & Orchestral Classics for an Indulgent Moment

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-01-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Thaïs, opera in 3 acts; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Christoph W. Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Giacomo Puccini: Madama...
Performers: Morozova, Elena; Ricci, Ruggiero; Souter, Martin; Tachmanov, Alexander
Conductors: Shipway, Frank; Jackson, Don; Kakhidze, Djansug; Kuntsch, Matthias; Bubelnikov, Pavel

Soothing and uplifting music for a goddess (domestic or otherwise). An album of music to help get away from it all, bathed in orchestral bliss...continue...

Van Gogh - Music Landscapes of Impressionism

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-01-01

Works: Georges Bizet: L' Arlésienne, suite for orchestra no 2; Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano; Emmanuel Chabrier: España, rhapsody for orches...
Performers: Bulva, Josef; Ponti, Michael
Conductors: Chang, Yun-Sung; Shipway, Frank; Pesek, Libor; Rezucha, Bystrik

Van Gogh's intense paintings of rural France have inspired this programme of musical landscapes from Bizet's 'Arlesienne' to Mussorgsky's visions from 'Pictures at an Exhibition'....continue...