Leo Smit: Complete Works [Box set]
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The Dutch composer Leo Smit (1900-1943) was a Holocaust victim, not to be confused with the fine American composer-pianist Leo Smit. This set collects all the surviving music by the Dutch composer, most of which he hid away safely before being shipped with his harpist wife to an extermination camp. Smit's composing personality has a wide range, but his most characteristic style owes much to Ravel (to whom he wrote an homage) and, often, to American jazz. Smit's chamber music has clear textures, firm rhythms, and a great deal of melodic and harmonic interest; his orchestral works are brilliantly scored, usually quite concise and effective. This joint effort by a wide variety of Dutch performers is generally well performed (although in a few pieces other available Dutch recordings are even better), and the effect of hearing Smit's complete works convinces us that a worthwhile voice was silenced in its prime. Donemus's booklet, in Dutch and English, is extremely useful. But the fold-out package format is very inconvenient and may not hold up to repeated use. --Leslie Gerber
Leo Smit: Complete Works, Music, Ivar Berix, Leo (i) Smit, Ed Spanjaard, Lucas Vis, Philippe Entremont, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Leonore Pameijer, Erika Waardenburg, Godelieve Schrama, Jan Harshagen, Helena Rasker, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Ernest Rombout, Esther Probst, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Bart van de Roer, Frans van Ruth, Daniel Raiskin, Edith van Moergastel, Marijke Van Kooten, Box Sets (Audio Only), Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Choral, Choral Music, Classical, Classical Music, Concerto, Flute Solo/Sonata, Keyboard, Music for Keyboard, Orchestral, Orchestral Music, Symphonic, Symphony, Vocal, Vocal Music
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Touches of Bernstein: The Complete Published Piano Music of Leonard Bernstein
Manufacturer: Centaur
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 All Works by Bernstein
| Bernstein, Leonard
| ( B )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
All Works by Copland
| Copland, Aaron
| ( C )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Chamber Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical (c.1770-1830)
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Symphonies
| Forms & Genres
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Piano
| Keyboard
| Instruments
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Chamber Music
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B00076YP9O
Release Date: 2005-01-25 |
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Leo Smit: Complete Works
Manufacturer: Donemus Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Concertos
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Flute
| Reeds & Winds
| Instruments
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Symphonies
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Chamber Music
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
Classical
| Box Sets
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00005B6C8
Release Date: 2001-04-24 |
Amazon.com
The Dutch composer Leo Smit (1900-1943) was a Holocaust victim, not to be confused with the fine American composer-pianist Leo Smit. This set collects all the surviving music by the Dutch composer, most of which he hid away safely before being shipped with his harpist wife to an extermination camp. Smit's composing personality has a wide range, but his most characteristic style owes much to Ravel (to whom he wrote an homage) and, often, to American jazz. Smit's chamber music has clear textures, firm rhythms, and a great deal of melodic and harmonic interest; his orchestral works are brilliantly scored, usually quite concise and effective. This joint effort by a wide variety of Dutch performers is generally well performed (although in a few pieces other available Dutch recordings are even better), and the effect of hearing Smit's complete works convinces us that a worthwhile voice was silenced in its prime. Donemus's booklet, in Dutch and English, is extremely useful. But the fold-out package format is very inconvenient and may not hold up to repeated use. --Leslie Gerber
Track Listings:
- Lili Kraus Plays Mozart
- Maria Falling Away
- Masques: The Huntingdon Trio
- Miss Julie
- Mobile for Shakespeare
- Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Vartolo
- Mozart: Flute Concertos Kv 313 & 314 [Import]
- Music by Brazilian and French Composers
- Noel: Carols For Solo Harp
- Pan Marimba: Mister Marimba
Track Listings
track listings
Track Listings
Greatest Hits [Import]
Kreutzer: Nocturnes
Live at Newport [Extra tracks] [Live]
Essential Ted Heath Collection
The Ultimate Wedding Hits, Vol. 2
Kickback
Live At The Cinegrill
Khachaturian/Saint-Saëns
No Other [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Jonas Hellborg Group
On Fire
I Hear a Sound
Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You [Import]
We Shall Behold Him: A Tribute to Dottie Rambo
Note 'n Notes