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Spanish Popular SongsManuel de Falla 6 movements13:35
1. 1 El paño moruno 2:17
2. 2 Asturiana 2:31
3. 3 Jota 2:55
4. 4 Nana 2:47
5. 5 Canción 1:27
6. 6 Polo 1:38
Violin Sonata Op. 5, No. 8Arcangelo Corelli 4 movements9:35
1. 7 Prelude 2:45
2. 8 Allemande 2:01
3. 9 Sarabande 2:28
4. 10 Gigue 2:21
11 Song of India Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 3:56
12 Beau Soir Claude Debussy 2:34
13 Pièce en forme de Habañera Maurice Ravel 3:03
Pièces en ConcertFrançois Couperin 5 movements12:17
1. 14 Prélude 2:21
2. 15 Siciliène 2:08
3. 16 La Tromba 1:32
4. 17 Plainte 4:24
5. 18 Air de Diable 1:52
19 Hymn to the Sun Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 3:21
20 Valse Sentimentale Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 2:09
21 Nocturne Lili Boulanger 3:15
22 La Maja Dolorosa No. 3 Enrique Granados 3:17
23 Tijuca (Saudades do Brazil) Darius Milhaud 1:58
24 Tuba Concerto, Movement 2 Ian King 5:37
25 Second Piano Prelude George Gershwin 3:44
26 Ol' Man River Jerome Kern 3:33

On his first CD for Move, Ian King wowed us as a young virtuoso giving the first tuba recital ever heard in London’s Wigmore Hall. His sequel, Tuba Magnifique, paired older takes with new recordings made in the Move Records studio.

Now comes a complete new studio album. Nearly forty years on, King still conjures that golden sound. Golden Sounds ranges through arrangements of de Falla, Corelli, Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Ravel and Gershwin, a movement from King’s own tuba concerto, and much else besides, with Julie Haskell at the piano.

The painting on the front cover is also by Ian King.

Reviews

A collection of transcriptions for solo tuba and piano performed by Melbourne virtuoso Ian King and accompanist Julie Haskell. The slow movement from King’s own Tuba Concerto shows the performer to his strengths ... and for the full melted-cheese finale, Ol’ Man River, a tubist who knows to leave the jokes until the last is to be admired.

— Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian

Artists

Ian King

tuba

Ian King is a tuba virtuoso who gave the first Australian performance of Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto in 1955 and the first tuba recital in Australia. His playing is prized for astonishing control, dexterity and musical sensitivity.

Julie Haskell

piano

Julie Haskell has performed extensively in recitals, radio broadcasts, as a concerto soloist, orchestral pianist and chamber musician in Europe and Australia.

Lili Boulanger

composer

Lili Boulanger studied composition with her elder sister, nadia, who was a composer and conductor, and at the Paris Conservatoire. Lili was the first woman to receive the Grand Prix de Rome for music.

Arcangelo Corelli

composer

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer. His sonatas and concerti grossi helped establish the violin’s pre-eminence and fixed models of the sonata and concerto that spread across Europe.

François Couperin

composer

François Couperin (1668–1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, known as Couperin le Grand. Organist to Louis XIV and to Saint-Gervais in Paris, he remains the supreme French master of the harpsichord.

Claude Debussy

composer

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a French composer whose harmony, colour and flexible sense of key reshaped European music at the turn of the twentieth century. Piano, orchestral and chamber works from his maturity remain central to the repertoire.

Manuel de Falla

composer

Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist, one of Spain’s most important musicians of the first half of the twentieth century. A modest output carries a strong Andalusian stamp and, later, a leaner neoclassical voice.

George Gershwin

composer

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose music spanned popular song, Broadway and the classical concert hall, leaving melodies that remain widely known.

Enrique Granados

composer

Enrique Granados was born in Lérida in 1867. He studied the piano and composition in Barcelona and then in Paris, returning to Barcelona in 1889, and won distinction as a pianist and popularity in Spain with his zarzuelas and piano music.

Jerome Kern

composer

Jerome Kern's songs sit at the heart of the American musical and the jazz standard book: long-lined melodies that carry character and story as easily as they invite improvisation, from Show Boat ballads to Hollywood fox-trots.

Darius Milhaud

composer

Darius Milhaud is the composer of Tijuca, from the suite Saudades do Brazil.

Maurice Ravel

composer

Many consider Maurice Ravel a major composer for the piano as well as a genius of orchestration. It remains a surprise how few works make up his total output for the instrument: all his piano compositions can be performed in under two and a half hours.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

composer

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote orchestral music steeped in Russian folk colour and fairy-tale narrative, with a gift for bright, precise orchestration. Short showpieces such as The Flight of the Bumble Bee and Song of India travel easily into arrangements for almost any instrument.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

composer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His ballets, concertos and orchestral works remain among the most widely performed music in the classical repertoire.

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Performers

Ian King · tuba
Julie Haskell · piano

Technical credits

Recording Engineer Thomas Grubb
Venue Move Records Studio

Details

List price: $25.00 AUD
Total playing time: 71 minutes 54 seconds
Release date: 2003
Category: Classical
Genres: Romantic & Impressionist, Baroque
Catalogue: MD 3276
EAN: 9314574327625

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