classical music: Omar Ebrahim

classical music: Omar Ebrahim

classical music:

Omar Ebrahim

Gyorgy Ligeti, Asko, ...

Teldec, 2004

Odds and ends
As the other reviewer mentions, this CD is the last of the Ligeti Project and collects several miscellaneous works and arrangements (with a wide variety of performers as well). I would've much rather seen a new work on here, rather than the 20 minutes spent on ...

Facing Goya: An Opera in Four Acts (libretto by Victoria Hardie)

Michael Nyman, Omar Ebrahim, ...

Elektra / Wea, 2002

An intense, beautiful and funny new opera
This opera, to quote to the synopsis: In four acts, dramatises the various attempts, in the past and the present, to measure, isolate and then to own the power of artistic genius (in particular Goya's). The libretto, by Victoria Hardie, conveys this in very powerful ...

The Mask of Orpheus

Alan Opie, Omar Ebrahim, ...

Nmc Records, 1999

Astonishing, Amazing - a Masterpiece
Quite simply put, The Mask of Orpheus is not only one of the truly great operas of the twentieth century, but also one of the truly great masterpieces in 20th century music. At times gentle, at others violent, Mask is always lush. Every note is amazing music. True, ...

Words and Music
Morton Feldman, Ensemble Recherche, ...

Disques Montaigne, 2001

Morton Feldman 2, Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldman Words and Music

Lucas Fels, Morton Feldman, ...

Disques Montaigne MO 782084, 1997

Words that are music
This is a superb recording of a unique work. A most interesting aspect is the contrast between the short, very intensive musical fragments and the very long pieces that Feldman was composing at that time. Moreover, Beckett's words are at least as musical as any of ...

Tippett - King Priam / Nicholas Hytner, Sir Roger Norrington, Kent Opera

Rodney Macann, Janet Price

Kultur Video, 1997

Powerful Anti-War Opera
This is a well done 1985 "studio" video of the Kent Opera production of Sir Michael Tippett's magnificent opera. Few in the cast had names I'd heard of, save for Sarah Walker who's amazing vocalism shines as Andromache. Rodney Macann takes the title role and ...

György Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs) - The King's Singers / ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ...

Sony, 1997

where's the dead weight?
This is an amazing disc, one of the best in Sony's monumental Ligeti Edition series. On Sony's Ligeti Edition 4, the _Nonsense Madrigals_ were premiered. These six pieces for six voices, composed in the late-80s/early-90s, are some of the composer's finest ...

The Ligeti Project

Omar Ebrahim, David Geringas, ...

Warner Classics, 2008

Highly recommended box-set
This box should probably be your first choice if you want to get acquainted with the works of Ligeti. The recordings in this box are overseen by Ligeti himself, and they were supposed to be definitive recordings that after his death could show conductors how his music ...