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"Do you want to take a quantum leap in musical appreciation in the comfort of your own home, and be entertained in the process? Sir Simon Rattle is an extraordinary teacher. There is nothing jaded, weary, or condescending in his erudition, his fierce passion and sheer delight in this great body of music takes you from the nuts and bolts of construction to the broad context of the myriad forces, musical and otherwise, that shaped it. This televised series, Leaving Home - Orchestral Music in the 20th Century, is now available on DVD in seven volumes. From Dancing on a Volcano, the revolution that erupted in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Vienna, to Threads, cutting edge 20th century composers that he believes pave the way to the future. Colour, volume 3 in the seires, is a magical investigation of the effects of painting, poetry, film and exotic cultures on tone colour via Debussy, Schoenberg, Boulez, Messiaen, Takemitsu, Ravel. The story is told through excerpts played by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with evocative imagery drawn from archive film and photographs, and commentary by Rattle. Both masterclass and entertainment, mixing hardcore technicalities with vivid metaphors that give instant access and understanding to the musically uneducated, the series features some 30 composers, the picture format is 4:3, the sound format is PCM stereo. The title Leaving Home represents the upheavels - creative, political, geographical - of this period's departures, new beginnings, and cultural fusions. An essential collection.

Volume 1. Dancing on a volcano

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Felicity Palmer (mezzo soprano)
Gidon Kremer (violin)

Richard Wagner: Overture to Tristan und Isolde
Arnold Schunberg: Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor
Arnold Sch?nberg: Five Orchestral Pieces op. 16
Richard Strauss: Elektra
Anton Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra op. 10
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto "Dem Andenken eines Engels"

Volume 2. Rhythm

Anne Sofie Von Otter
Lydia Ariken
Jeanne Loriod
Peter Donohoe
Rex Lawson
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle

Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
Gyorgy Lingeti: Atmospheres
Steve Reich: Music for Piece of Wood
Pierre Boulez: Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Moderna
Olivier Messiaen: Turangal?la-Symphony
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Conlon Nancarrow: Piano Roll No. 21

Volume 3. Colour

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle

Claude Debussy: Prelude ? l'apres-midi d'un faune
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces op. 16
Pierre Boulez: Notations for Piano
Olivier Messiaen: Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Claude Debussy: Jeux
Toru Takemitsu: Dream/Window
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe

Volume 4. Three Journey Through Dark Landscapes

Anne Sofie Von Otter
Willard White
Peter Thomas
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle

Bela Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Concerto for Orchestra
Dmitri Schostakowitsch: Symphony No. 4, 5 and 14
Witold Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra, Jeux Venetiens, Symphony No. 3

Volume 5. The american way

Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Peter Thomas
Wayne Marshall (Piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Charles Ives: Decoration Day
John Cage: First Construction (in metal)
Elliot Carter: A Celebration of Some 100x150 Notes
Morton Feldman: Mme Press Died Last Week at 90
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
John Adams: Harmonium
Kurt Weill: Lonely House (from Street Scene)
Terry Riley: In C
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances (from West Side Story)


Volume 6. After The Wake

Amanda Roocroft
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Daniel Harding
John Carewe
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Arnold Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
Anton Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra op. 10
Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau sans ma?tre
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Guppen
Benjamin Britten: Serenade for tenor
Igor Stravinsky: Agon

Volume 7. Threads

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle

Berio: Laborintus II
Henze: Symphony No. 8
Kurtag: Grabstein fur Stefan
Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment
Turnage: Drowned Out
Knussen: Flourish of Fireworks
Gubaidulina: Zeitgestalten









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