{"product_id":"766989","title":"Naganolso - Naganolso [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBechara El-Khoury (b.1957)  New York  Tears and Hope • Les Fleuves engloutis • Sextuor • Waves • Fragments oubliés Bechara El-Khoury was born in Beirut in 1957. He started his musical  studies in Lebanon with  Hagop Arslanian, then moved to Paris  in 1979 to further his training as a composer with Pierre-Petit, the then  director of the Ecole Normale de Musique founded by Alfred Cortot. When he  decided to settle in Paris,  he already had behind him a twin reputation as a composer, with some hundred  works written between 1969 and 1978, and as a poet, with several collections  published from 1971 onwards, as well as a solid career as pianist, conductor and Kapellmeister, and a contributor to  the press. An important concert of his works was given on 9 December 1983 at  the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris  by the Colonne Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Dervaux, as part of the centenary  commemoration of the Lebanese-American philosopher and poet Khalil Gibran. In  1987 El-Khoury took French nationality. His works have been played by ensembles  as distinguished as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France,  the Moscow  Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colonne Orchestra (Paris), the National Symphony Orchestra  of Ukraine  and the Orchestre National de Montpellier.On 25 May 2006 his Violin Concerto, Aux frontières de  nulle part (On the Frontiers of Nowhere), Op. 62, was performed for the  first time at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, by the violinist Sarah Nemtanu with  the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Kurt Masur.  In his youth Bechara El-Khoury lived through the terrible  war in the Lebanon  and in memory of this dark period composed a musical trilogy of particular  emotional intensity, Symphonic Poem No. 1 'The Lebanon in Flames', the Requiem  'To the Lebanese Martyrs of the War' [Naxos  8.557691], and the Symphony 'The Ruins of Beirut' [Naxos  8.557043].In the opinion of many commentators at the time, 11  September 2001 opened a new era in our history, full of uncertainties, of chaos  and anguish. The illusion of 'the end of history' engendered in 1989  by the fall of the Berlin Wall was only a short, optimistic interlude in the full  progression of the sufferings of humanity.  El-Khoury, the man and the artist, could only feel overwhelmed  by the New York  tragedy. With New York Tears and Hope (2001-2005) he follows the tracks  of his great predecessors Martinů, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Penderecki and  Nono, who knew how to bear witness in their music to the emotion excited by the  worst violence of modern barbarism, and to re-affirm the place that the composer  can and must hold in the city. In this work El-Khoury takes a humanistic  perspective that pays homage to civilian, innocent and chance victims of the  attack on the Twin   Towers.The general expressive contour of the work extends across a  succession of states, des\u003cp\u003eNew York, Tears And Hope For Orchestra, Op.65\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrouillard (Fog)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChant Du Silence (Song Of Silence)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlerte (Alert)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLutte Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChant Des Fleuves (Song Of The Rivers)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSextour Pour Violins (Violin Sextet, Performed By 24 Violins), Op.58\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWave Pour Piano, Op.60 - Hideki Nagano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFragments Oublies (Forgotten Fragments), Op.66 - Dimitri Vassilakis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55144821260673,"sku":"766989","price":11.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51DtJ72wHBL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767761592","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/766989","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}