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New Music Additions this week

Happy listening - we have the Lord of the Rings symphony, 2 Sibelius symphonies, Panufnik compositions, a box set of Simon Rattle conducting Berg and Schoenberg and much more this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the music.

New Music Adds This Week
Lord of the Rings Symphony Lord of the Rings Symphony
Sibelius Symphonies 4 and 5 listen to classical music radio online Sibelius Symphonies 4 and 5
Romantic Music for Piano Four-Hands Romantic Music for Piano Four-Hands
Symphonic Works 2 Polonia Sinfonia Rustica listen to classical music broadcast radio Symphonic Works 2 Polonia Sinfonia Rustica
Second Viennese School Box set - classical music radio station Second Viennese School [Box set]
 
New Music Additions to the playlist this week

Happy listening - we have a box set of Oriental inspired music, post-war Russian violin concertos masterpieces historical recordings featuring Cziffra, Perlman, Rattle. Many other selections this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the music.

New Music Adds This Week
1001 Nights: Breezes 1001 Nights: Breezes
Lyapunov Violin Concerto / Symphony 1 liten to classical music radio online Lyapunov Violin Concerto / Symphony 1
Liszt - 7 Hungarian Rhapsodies Liszt - 7 Hungarian Rhapsodies
Handel: Violin Sonatas listent o classical music broadcast radio Handel: Violin Sonatas
Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 Pastorale - online radio classical music Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 "Pastorale"
Daugherty: Route 66; Ghost Ranch; Sunset Strip; Time Machine - classical music radio station Daugherty: Route 66; Ghost Ranch; Sunset Strip; Time Machine
Violin Concerto Violin Concerto
Balada - Caprichos 2 3 & 4 Balada - Caprichos 2 3 & 4
 
Physics strikes the right note with classical musicians

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Physics strikes the right note with classical musicians

The combination of physics and music might usually prompt images of Brian Cox playing keyboards for D:Ream, but a new trio, consisting of a professor of physics, an internationally renowned composer and an award-winning violinist, are bringing particle physics to life through a series of classical compositions.

An insight into their work, aptly named "Particle Partitas", is revealed in an exclusive video report on physicsworld.com [http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/multimedia/47845], where the trio show the creative processes at work and tentatively attempt to play a few bars for the first time.

Jack Liebeck, a Classical BRIT award winner, and Brian Foster, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford, are no strangers to the fusion of physics and music: for the last six years they have been touring a self-created "musical lecture" that explores Einstein's legacy to physics.

Their newly recruited composer, Edward Cowie, is also aware of the crossover between the two disciplines, having originally studied physics at Imperial College London.

"The music is shaped by the activity of particle physics. In terms of the way subatomic particles are observable in their collisions, in their traces, in their impacts, music can do the same thing. You can make music that has a device into which it is forced to impact – fragments fly off it and they have behaviours, which can parallel," explains Cowie in the video.

This new series of 20 short musical pieces, documenting the history of particle physics from the late 19th century through to the present day, will be accompanied by short lectures on the topic given by Foster. It will debut in the UK in June 2012 and Foster also hopes to take the show abroad to particle physicists at CERN.

Article first appeared in Physics Week.
 
New Music Adds This week

Happy listening - we have Ivan Fischer conducting Schubert, some tangos for you dancers out there and a few soundtracks. Many other selections this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the music.

New Music Adds This Week
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Five German Dances Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Five German Dances
Amy Briggs Tangos for Piano image Amy Briggs: Tangos for Piano
André Previn: An 80th Birthday Celebration image André Previn: An 80th Birthday Celebration
Angels & Demons [Soundtrack] image Angels & Demons [Soundtrack]
Hugo - Original Soundtrack [Soundtrack] image Hugo - Original Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
Business of Angels: English Recorder Music Stuart image Business of Angels: English Recorder Music Stuart
Busoni: Piano Transcriptions [Box Set] image Busoni: Piano Transcriptions [Box Set]
Symphonies 3-5 Overture image Symphonies 3-5 Overture