In addition to performances of Czech masters Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů and Miloslav Kabeláč, Ančerl interpreted early 20th century masters Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev and the Toronto-based organist / composer Healey Willan.

These included " Seminal Works of Modern Times ", " The Faust Project ", " Composer Portrait: Janáček / Berlioz ", " Women Outside of Society: Laws Unto Themselves ", " Metamorphosis: From Fairy Tales to Nightmares ", and " Outsiders or Pioneers?

Opera – Janáček, The Excursions of Mr Broucek BBC Symphony Orchestra / Jirí Belohlávek ( Deutsche Grammophon )

3 / 5 " Serenade " ( Janáček Quartet ); Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings ( soloist Peter Pears, Dennis Brain ; Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten ); Henry Purcell, " When I am laid in earth " (" Dido's Lament "), from Dido and Aeneas ( soloist Victoria de los Ángeles ; English Chamber Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli ); Joseph Haydn, " She never told her love " ( Canzonetta ) ( soloist Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten )-picked as Grigson's favourite ; Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D major ( Tátrai Quartet ); Georges Bizet, Jeux d ' enfants ( Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon ); Benjamin Britten, " Death be not proud " ( from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne ), soloist Peter Pears, Zorian String Quartet, conductor Benjamin Britten ; Giuseppe Verdi, " Va, pensiero, sull ' ali dorate " ( Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco ( La Scala Chorus and Orchestra ).

: Smetana Má vlast ( original 1875 version ) / Janáček Moravian Dances

# Leoš Janáček – 19th / 20th century composer

* Janáček • Debussy • Ravel • Nielsen: Violin Sonatas ( 1995 ) Virgin Classics 7243 5 45122 2 3

By 1975 the group had built up a repertoire of 120 works, including the complete Beethoven, Schubert, Cherubini and Bartok quartets, and works by Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Pfitzner, Verdi, Donizetti, Debussy, Smetana, Kodály, Janáček, Hindemith, Alban Berg, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Witold Lutosławski, Milko Kelemen, Wittinger and Horvath.

Among Austbø's recordings are works by Olivier Messiaen, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin ( complete piano sonatas ), Erik Satie, Johannes Brahms, Leoš Janáček ( complete works for piano ), and Edvard Grieg ( complete Lyric Pieces ).

( With works by Janáček, Mahler, Debussy, Sibelius, Ravel, Bartók, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Schoenberg, Ives, Webern, Varèse, Berg, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Carter, Xenakis, Ligeti, Berio, Kagel, Harvey, and Dusapin.

The results of these commissions include concertante pieces for orchestra and piano left hand by Bortkiewicz, Britten, Hindemith, Janáček, Korngold, Martinů, Prokofiev, Ravel, Franz Schmidt, Richard Strauss, and others.

Rarities performed in the 1960s included operas by Handel and Janáček ( neither composer's works being as common in the opera house then as now ), and works by Gluck ( Iphigénie en Tauride ), Poulenc ( The Carmelites ), Ravel ( L ' heure espagnole ) and Tippett ( King Priam ).

In 2002 Ciccolini was awarded the Diapason d ' or for his recording of the entire solo piano works of Janáček for Abeille Music and of Schumann for Cascavelles.

* 1999: Diary of One Who Vanished, a song cycle by Leoš Janáček of poems by Ozef Kalda, Faber & Faber

** James Mallinson ( producer ), Charles Mackerras ( conductor ), Jiri Zahradnicek, Ivo Žídek, Václav Zítek & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Janáček: From the House of the Dead

** Wolfram Graul ( producer ), Bernard Haitink ( conductor ), Jerry Hadley, Karita Mattila, Eva Randová, Anja Silja, Jorma Silvasti for Janáček: Jenůfa performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Chorus & various artists

** James Mallinson ( producer ), Charles Mackerras ( conductor ), Jiri Zahradnicek, Ivo Žídek, Václav Zítek & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Janáček: From the House of the Dead

** Wolfram Graul ( producer ), Bernard Haitink ( conductor ), Jerry Hadley, Karita Mattila, Eva Randová, Anja Silja, Jorma Silvasti for Janáček: Jenůfa performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Chorus & various artists

#" Knife-Edge " ( Leoš Janáček & J. S. Bach, arr.

# REDIRECT String Quartet No. 2 ( Janáček )

# REDIRECT String Quartet No. 2 ( Janáček )

#" Clair de Lune / Ballerina " ( Claude Debussy / DeYoung / Shaw ) – 7: 09

** The Juilliard String Quartet for Debussy: Quartet in G Minor / Ravel: Quartet in F

* The Juilliard String Quartet for Debussy: Quartet in G Minor / Ravel: Quartet in F ( 1972 )

Most pianophiles agree that the most perfect piano sound and tone ( through masterful piano technical preparation ) was the last Decca / London solo piano recording of Claude Debussy.

Other recordings include the complete orchestral works of Debussy, the two symphonies of Elgar, the three Mozart / Da Ponte operas, and Wagner's complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

** The Juilliard String Quartet for Debussy: Quartet in G Minor / Ravel: Quartet in F

* Bartók / Debussy / Ravel-Piano Works.

Concerto – Debussy Fantaisie Ravel Piano Concertos Massenet Piano works Jean-Efflam Bavouzet ; BBC Symphony Orchestra / Yan Pascal Tortelier Chandos

Historic Reissue – Ernest Chausson, Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Maurice Ravel Mélodies Gérard Souzay ( baritone ), Jacqueline Bonneau ( piano ), Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire / Edouard Lindenberg ( Testament )

* Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande / Kubelik

7 / Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, with conductor Seiji Ozawa, CBS 1983.

Similarly, prior to the 60s, numerous classical musicians and composers wrote and / or performed music that showed the influence of novel non-Western styles ( e. g. the influence of gamelan music on French composer Claude Debussy ) or attempted to explicitly combine traditional Western musical styles with influences from non-Western traditions, although this too remained largely an elite ' art ' activity, and it gained relatively little mass recognition when compared to major popular genres like swing music, jazz or rock ' n ' roll.

* Chansons de Bilitis and Fêtes Galantes by Debussy / Histoires Naturelles by Ravel ( 1984 )

: Haydn Symphony No. 99 < sup > 1 </ sup > / Debussy Petit suite: En bateau < sup > 2 </ sup > / Wirén March < sup > 2 </ sup >

* Rachmaninoff / Debussy / Scriabin / Prokofiev.

When Ravel used a 5 / 4 time in the final part of his ballet Daphnis and Chloe ( 1912 ), dancers of the Ballets Russes sang Ser-ge-dia-ghi-lev during rehearsals to keep the correct rhythm.

In a more complex situation, A la maniere de ... Emmanuel Chabrier / Paraphrase sur un air de Gounod (" Faust IIème acte "), Ravel takes on a theme from Gounod's Faust and arranges it in the style of Chabrier.

** Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos ( conductor ), Alicia de Larrocha & the London Philharmonic for Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G / Fauré: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra

Pletnev ): Cinderella-Suite For Two Pianos / Ravel: Ma Mère L ' Oye

** Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos ( conductor ), Alicia de Larrocha & the London Philharmonic for Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G / Fauré: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra

** Schoenberg / Ravel, Earth Day, John Mauceri conducting ( Phillips Classics )

Historic vocal – Maurice Ravel: L ' enfant et les sortileges ; French Radio National Chorus and Orchestra / Bour, Testament

* New York Times article 4 / 8 / 2008 suggesting that scientist Anne Adams and composer Maurice Ravel had frontotemporal dementia

Standard classics were not neglected ( there were memorable performances of Beethoven ’ s Eroica and, in the Centenary Season, with the Huddersfield Choral Society, that composer ’ s Ninth Symphony ) but works as diverse as Hindemith ’ s Symphonic Metamorphoses, Berlioz ’ s Harold in Italy, Prokofiev ’ s Firth Symphony, Respighi ’ s The Pines of Rome, Janacek ’ s Sinfonietta, Holst ’ s The Planets and the Mussorgsky / Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition figured in Butterworth ’ s early years.

** Pictures at an Exhibition ( Mussorgsky / Ravel )-- Ozawa

Pletnev ): Cinderella _ Suite for Two Pianos / Ravel: Ma Mere L ' Oye

There she was responsible for the musical direction of numerous productions, notably Pelléas et Mélisande, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La Finta Giardiniera, Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz, Orfeo by Monteverdi, Les Brigands by Offenbach, L ' Heure espagnole and L ' Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel, Haydn's Il Mondo della luna, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, The Rape of Lucretia by Britten and Le Chapeau de paille d ' Italie by Nina Rota, whilst La Station Thermale ( recorded by Ricordi ) and Les Oiseaux de Passage by Fabio Vacchi and Dédale by Hugues Dufourt ( recorded on CD by MFA / Radio France ) are among her world creations.

Metalworking phases are divided into the Stage I Castletown Roche industries and the Stage II Knocknague / Lough Ravel industries.