JUNE 2014 - Select Music and Video

CONSUMER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 269
JUNE 2014
REPRESENTING
TODAY’S
GREAT LABELS
THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS
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Robert SCHUMANN
Kinderszenen & Waldszenen
Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André presents a fascinating juxtaposition of two composers who are not obviously
musically related, but who are proved on this album to be a felicitous combination.
CDA68030
A French Baroque Diva
Arias for Marie Fel
Carolyn Sampson
Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore
A welcome return of Carolyn Sampson and Ex Cathedra to Hyperion, performing the rich, fulsome
music of the French Baroque. Their recording of love songs from Rameau’s operas (Hyperion
CDA67447) was hugely acclaimed for Sampson’s stylish, fluid, seductive performances, and ten years
later her artistry is even more dazzling.
CDA68035
Philippe de MONTE, Jean GUYOT, Jacobus VAET,
Jacob REGNART
Amorosi pensieri
Songs for the Habsburg Court
Cinquecento
A new departure for the wonderful all-male vocal ensemble Cinquecento. They turn to the secular music—
generally much less well-known—of the Renaissance masters Philippe de Monte, Jacobus Vaet and Jacob
Regnart whose sacred music they have explored so successfully in previous recordings for Hyperion. Also
included are six chansons by Jean Guyot de Châtelet. This collection is both historically fascinating and
stunningly performed.
CDA68053
Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY
Les saisons Op. 37b
Six morceaux Op. 19
Pavel Kolesnikov
Pavel Kolesnikov became Laureate of the Honens Prize for Piano in 2012 and gave his Wigmore Hall
debut at the beginning of 2013. In his five-star review for The Daily Telegraph, John Allison praised
the Russian-born, London-based artist for his recital’s ‘intelligent programming and outstanding
pianism … one of the most memorable of such occasions London has witnessed’.
CDA68028
Arthur BENJAMIN
Violin Sonatina, Viola Sonata
Lawrence Power
Simon Crawford-Phillips
CDA67969
Lawrence Power is Britain’s greatest living viola player, the true successor to Lionel Tertis and
William Primrose. Part of his mission is to perform and record music premiered by those masters
of the previous century, including works by York Bowen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Dale,
William Walton and, here, Arthur Benjamin.
Heitor
VILLA-LOBOS
Peter WARLOCK
Songs
John Mark Ainsley
Roger Vignoles
(from CDA66736)
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Missa São Sebastião
and other sacred music
CDH55442
Corydon Singers
Corydon Orchestra,
Matthew Best
CDH55470
(from CDA66638)
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Joaquín TURINA
Canto A Sevillia
La procesión del Rocío, Op. 9; Canto a Sevilla, Op. 37*; Danzas gitanas, Op. 55; Rapsodia sinfónica, Op. 66†
*María Espada, †Martin Roscoe, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
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CHAN 10819
This is the latest disc in Juanjo Mena’s ongoing series of Spanish orchestral music with the BBC
Philharmonic and is his second featuring the works by Joaquín Turina, one of the leading Spanish composers
of his generation.
Béla BARTÓK
Chamber Works for Violin, Volume 3
Sonatina (arr. Gertler)
Contrasts
44 Duos
James Ehnes, Andrew Armstrong, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Michael Collins
James Ehnes presents his third disc of chamber works by Bartók. The previous volumes have, along with
his outstanding concerto disc, established his formidable reputation as a Bartók interpreter. Here Ehnes
is joined by the pianist Andrew Armstrong, violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, and Michael Collins, one of
the world’s leading clarinetists.
CHAN 10820
Endless Song
Encores for Piano
John METCALF: Endless Song; MENDELSSOHN: Lieder ohne Worte; SCHUBERT/LISZT: Ave Maria;
SCHUMANN/LISZT: Widmung; CHOPIN/LISZT: The Maiden’s Wish; SUK: Love Song, Op. 7; POULENC:
‘Hommage à Edith Piaf’; GERSHWIN: Six numbers from ‘George Gershwin’s Song-Book’; ALBENIZ: Chants
d’Espagne; GUSTAVINO: Cantilena No. 4 ‘El Ceibo’; RACHMANINOFF: Mélodie, Op. 3; Vocalise, Op. 34
Margaret Fingerhut
CHAN 10826
Pianist Margaret Fingerhut presents a collection of encore-like pieces that explore the way in which
composers have transformed the piano, in essence a percussion instrument, into one that can sing.
Jorge GRUNDMAN
A Mortuis Resurgere
The Resurrection of Christ
Susana Cordón, Brodsky Quartet
Jorge Grundman uses his unique compositional voice to create music which communicates with
remarkable directness. The simplicity and strength of his artistic vision, intended to reach the widest
audience possible, is clear in A Mortuis Resurgere, a work here receiving its premiere recording.
CHSA 5138
J.S. BACH
Six Trio Sonatas
Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra
The Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players have re-imagined these works in arrangements for
ensemble, using scorings typically adopted in the performance of trio sonatas in Bach’s time.
CHAN 0803
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A London Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Chandos presents its second recent LP re-release, the distinguished première recording of Vaughan
William’s A London Symphony in its original 1913 version. This recording, featuring Richard Hickox and
the London Symphony Orchestra, was met with universal critical acclaim up on initial release, being
‘destined for classic status’, according to Gramophone.
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ABRD 9902
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Jean SIBELIUS
Lemminkäinen Suite Op. 22; The Wood-Nymph Op. 15
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
The source of the Lemminkäinen Suite is the Finnish national epic Kalevala, and its four movements
tell of the adventures of the young hero Lamminkäinen. The Wood-Nymph had its first complete
performance in 1996. This was given by the performers on this disc, a team which has become
synonymous with top-flight idiomatic Sibelius performances.
BIS1745
Johannes BRAHMS
Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115; Six Songs for clarinet and piano; Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114
Martin Fröst
Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn, Maxim Rysanov, Torleif Thedéen, Roland Pöntinen
Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet is core repertoire, not just for clarinettists but also in the entire chamber music
genre. Once again, (BIS1893), Fröst gathers exceptional artists in their own right for this recording.
BIS2063
Andrzej PANUFNIK & Roxanna PANUFNIK
Reflections Complete Solo Piano Works
Twelve Miniature Studies; Hommage à Chopin; Pentasonata; Modlitwa; Second Home; Glo; Reflections
Clare Hammond
The young British pianist, Clare Hammond, is greatly involved in events for the Panufnik Centenary in
2014 and has devised the present disc as her debut release on BIS. She has chosen to include two works
that might be described as ‘posthumous collaborations’ between the composer and his daughter, Roxanna
Panufnik, herself an acclaimed composer.
BIS2003
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Complete Works for Solo Piano, Volume 13
Rondo in C major, Wo048; Rondo in A major, Wo049; Rondo in B flat major, Kinsky-Halm Anh. 6; Rondo in
C major, Op. 51 No. 1; Rondo in G major, Op. 51 No. 2; Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op. 129; Ecossaise in
E flat major, Wo086; Six Ecossaises, Wo083; Andante in F major, Wo057; Fantasie, Op. 77; Polonaise in C
major, Op. 89; Klavierstük ‘Für Elise’; Andante maestoso in C major
Ronald Brautigam
BIS1892
An intriguing volume, containing rarities alongside core repertoire, including the popular Rondo a capriccio
‘The Rage Over a Lost Penny’ which has lent its name to this collection.
Wilhelm STENHAMMAR
Excelsior! Symphonic overture Op. 13; Mellanspel ur Sången Op. 44; Serenade in F major Op. 31
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Christian Lindberg
The symphonic overture Excelsior!, written for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1896, was
composed only four years after Stenhammar made his début as a composer. Stenhammar had not
yet entirely found his own voice, but the work displays an infectious exuberance and enthusiasm,
contrasting with the more reflective ‘Interlude’ from the composer’s final large-scale work, the cantata
Sången from 1921.
BIS2058
Kalevi AHO
Ludus Solemnis Music for and with Organ
Quasi una fantasia; Epilogue; Contrapunctus XIV; Wedding March I & II; Wedding Music; Ludus
Solemnis; In memoriam; Song of the Earth
Jan Lehtola
Petri Komulainen, Jussi Vuorinen, Kaija Saarikettu, Anna-Kaisa Pippuri
BIS1966
A companion to Jan Lehtola’s previous recording of Aho’s monumental Organ Symphony ‘Alles
Vergängliche’ (BIS1946), the present disc includes five smaller pieces by Aho for organ solo, as well as
three compositions for organ and one or two other instruments.
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Joseph HAYDN
Anne Hunter’s Salon
Scottish Folk Songs – English Canzonettas
Dorothee Mields
Les Amis de Philippe
777824-2
Dorothee Mields is one of the leading female vocalists in the field of seventeenth and eighteenth century
music. Mields is especially loved by the public and press for her unique timbre and moving interpretations.
Sergej TANEJEW
Piano Chamber Music
Anna Zassimova,
Albrecht Breuninger, Stefan Krznaric, Julien Heichelbech, Bernhard Lörcher
Sergei Tanejew, one of Tchaikovsky's most important pupils, has his piano chamber works performed on
this disc by the talented Russian pianist Anna Zassimova.
777793-2
Joseph GUNG’L
Marches, Waltzes and Polkas
Durch dick und dünn. Galopp Op 289; Träme auf dem Ozean. Walzer Op. 80; Elbröschen. Polka Op. 207;
Perpetuun mobile. Buleske Op. 317; Amorettentänze. Walzer Op. 161; Najaden-Quadrille Op. 264; Klänge aus
der Heimat. Oberländler Op. 31; Franz-Joseph-Marsch Op. 142; Zsámbéki-Csárdás Op. 163; Siehst du wohl?
Galopp Op. 319; Eisenbahn-Dampf Galopp Op.5; Die Hydropathen. Walzer Op. 149; Gedenke mein. Polka
Mazurka Op. 241; Narren-Galopp Op. 182
777582-2
Nürnberger Symphoniker, Christian Simonis
Moritz LANDGRAF VON HESSEN
Sacred & Secular Works
Weser-Renaissance, Manfred Cordes
777661-2
Moritz Landgraf Von Hessen was devoted to music and a pupil of Georg Otto.
Ignaz PLEYEL
Prussian Quartets Nos. 1-3
Pleyel Quartett Köln
777777-2
Following the enthusiastic response to the two discs featuring the Prussian Quartets Nos. 4-9, the Pleyel
Quartet of Cologne is now presenting Ignaz Pleyel’s String Quartet Nos. 1-3. These Prussian Quartets were
extremely popular during the composer’s lifetime and transmit a clear picture of his versatility in the field
of chamber music.
Johann Wilhelm HERTEL
Der sterbende Heiland
Berit Solset, Nicholas Mulroy, Andreas Wolf
Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
777874-2
Following cpo’s recent release of Johann Wilhelm Hertel’s opulent Christmas Oratorio (777809-2), the Cologne
Academy led by Michael Alexander Willens is now presenting one of the composer’s passion cantatas on CD.
Francesco CILEA
L’Arlesiana
Giuseppe Filianoti, Iano Tamar, Mirela Bunoaica, Kyoung-Eun Lee, Francesco Landolfi, Juano Orozco
Opernchor und Kinderchor des Theater Freiburg, Camerata Vocale Freiburg, Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg,
Fabrice Bollon
777805-2
Cpo presents a masterful opera by Francesco Cilea. During the Italian verismo Cilea was the master of subtle
portraits of the human soul, and every text from his opera L’Arlesiana attests to this talent.
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A Matthay Miscellany
Rare and unissued recordings by Tobias Matthay and his pupils
This final volume of ‘The Matthay Pupils’ presents most of his remaining students who left recordings, as
well as the few discs Matthay himself made. Of particular interest is a selection from the almost unknown
AFMC label which was affiliated to Matthay’s school and featured many of its staff. Also included are
recently discovered unpublished Irene Scharrer recordings which add considerably to her discography.
APR_6014
Raymond HANSON, Geoffrey ALLEN, Phillip WILCHER, May HOWLETT,
Ann GHANDAR, Paul PAVIOUR
The Iridescent Flute
Australian Music for Flute and Piano
5060192780437
Neil Fisenden, David Wickham
Stone Records is delighted to present this wonderful double CD of Australian music for flute and piano. The composers may be familiar
to aficionados of Australian classical music, but will be unknown to the greater listening public – their music shows its European and
Asian influences, as well as exhibiting the unique voice of Australian classical music.
Olivier MESSIAEN
Turangalîla-Symphonie
Angela Hewitt, Valérie Hartmann-Claverie
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
The Turangalîla-Symphonie is one of Messiaen’s stand-out masterpieces from the 1940s, and is well known for its
large orchestral forces and prominent parts for both the piano and the rarer electro-acoustic ondes Martenot,
here played by experts in their respective fields. Hannu Lintu and the Finnish RSO are well known for their
interpretations of 20th century composers. This disc follows on from their highly successful recording of Ligeti
works (ODE 1213-2 Gramophone Editor’s Choice).
ODE 1251-5
Sergei RACHMANINOV
Monna Vanna (Act 1)
Songs
By my window, Op. 26; Sad night, Op. 26; The lilacs, Op. 21; The rat-catcher, Op. 38; Vocalise, Op. 34; How nice this place is, Op. 21; Dream, Op. 38
Soile Isokoski
Moscow Conservatory Opera Soloists
Moscow Conservatory Students Choir & Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
ODE 1249-2
Rachmaninov’s rarely heard, and unfinished opera, Monna Vanna is recorded here in a newer edition by Gennadi
Belov and led by Vladimir Ashkenazy, an iconic artist and expert in Russian music. This recording of Monna Vanna is
a world première recording of the sung Russian version – the language in which Rachmaninov originally intended the opera to be performed.
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Stars of the Night
Songs and violin works
Matthew Trusler, Roland Wood, Iain Burnside
The Lark Ascending (arr. for violin and piano by composer)
Six Studies in English Folk Songs (arr. for violin and piano by composer)
Violin Concerto in D minor (Concerto Accademico) (arr. by Constant Lambert for violin and piano)
Songs of Travel (complete) for baritone and piano
Three Songs from The Pilgrim’s Progress (arr. for baritone and piano by composer)
ALBCD 018
Johannes BRAHMS
The Complete String Quartets, Piano Quintet
Gringolts Quartet with Peter Laul
Gringolts Quartet’s debut recording on Orchid Classics follows on from Ilya Gringolts’ very successful recording of
Paganini’s Caprices (ORC100039) which was awarded a Gramophone Editor’s Choice.
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Per NØRGÅRD
Symphonies 1 & 8
Vienna Philharmonic, Sakari Oramo
Dacapo presents a world premier recording of Per Nørgård’s Symphonies 1 & 8. The Vienna
Philharmonic offers new perspectives on the most visionary voice of Nordic music.
6220574
Anders NORDENTOFT
Light Imprisoned
Henrik Brendstrup
Århus Sinfonietta, Copenhagen Classic, Søren K. Hansen
Anders Nordentoft's stirring cello concerto Light Imprisoned (1996/98) and the solo piece
Cathedral (1986) are deeply personal works dedicated to the cellist Henrik Brendstrup. This
world premiere recording presents the two important works in the company of selected
Nordentoft chamber music: beautiful and harmonious, yet at the same time typified by great
contrasts, suppressed pain and restless energy.
8226577
Simon STEEN-ANDERSEN, Jexper HOLMEN,
Morten LADEHOFF, Niels MARTHINSEN,
Niels RØNSHOLDT, Kasper JARNUM
Burst
Duo KAPOW!
8226572
This collection of works for saxophone and percussion by six Danish composers challenge standard ideas
of melody, sonority and harmony. Some of the works are typified by great desperation and pent-up
emotions, others by melancholy and reflection.
Fuzzy
Chimes of Memory
Grethe Krogh, Tine Rehling, Jeanette Balland
Chimes of Memory is a diverse collection of works by the Danish composer and musician Fuzzy (b. 1939).
In the title work, recorded on a historic digital audio workstation at the Danish Radio, Fuzzy gazes deep
into the well of memory.
8226561
RÖNTGEN
Complete String Trios, Volume 2
String Trios Nos. 5-8
Lendvai Trio: Nadia Wijzenbeek, Ylvali Zilliacus, Marie Macleod
Since their Wigmore Hall debut in 2006, the Lenvai Strong Trio has had a busy schedule of concerts at
several major venues throughout Europe including Kings Place, the Barbican, and the Purcell Rooms in
London. This is their second disc in the series of Röntgen’s complete string trios.
CHRCD087
FAURÉ, POULENC, FRANCK
French Violin Sonatas
Giovanni Guzzo
Anne Lovett
Charismatic violinist Giovanni Guzzo makes his Champs Hill Records debut with an album of three
well-loved sonatas, now very much in the mainstream of violin repertoire, but which arose from a
struggle for a national style in French and Belgian Music.
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CHRCD081
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Ralph Vaughan WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Elena Dof-Donskaya, Tatiana Smoryakova, Boris Vasiliev,
The USSR State Chamber Choir, Valery Polyansky,
The State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture, Gennady Rozhdestvensky,
The Choir of the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, Boris Abalian
MELCD 1002170
These recordings of Vaughan Williams’s symphonies performed by the prominent conductor and
recognized master of interpretation of 20th century music, were made at concerts in 1988-1989 in
Leningrad.
Moisey WEINBERG
Sinfoniettas
Symphony No. 7
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Weinberg’s compositions are performed by the USSR State Orchestra led by Evgeny Svetlanov and the
Moscow Chamber Orchestra lead by Rudolf Barshai, who founded the first Soviet chamber orchestra and
inspired many contemporary composers of the time to create chamber music.
MELCD 1002180
Franz LISZT
12 Transcendental Études, S. 139
Lazar Berman
Lazar Berman’s performing art was imprinted on numerous recordings which haven’t faded for
connoisseurs of pianistic culture.
MELCD 1002179
Sergei PROKOFIEV
Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos 1-5
Vladimir Krainev
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, D. Kitayenko
MELCD 1002227
Mikhail GLINKA, Anton RUBINSTEIN, Alexander GLAZUNOV,
Igor STRAVINSKY, Heinrich Wilhelm ERNST
Mikhail Kugel
Boris Berezovsky
Mikhail Kugel combined a career as a solo performer with the membership in the celebrated Beethoven
Quartet.
MELCD 1002222
BEETHOVEN
Missa Solemnis
Conducted by Sir Georg Solti and recorded live at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 10 September 1982.
Helen Donath
Doris Soffel
Siegfried Jerusalem
Hans Sotin
Edinburgh Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
LPO-0077
Recorded live at the BBC Proms in 1982, this concert was one of the highlights of Solti’s final season as LPO
Principal Conductor; a memorable performance described by mezzo soprano Doris Soffel upon hearing the
master as the conductor’s ‘love-declaration to Beethoven’.
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Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
32 Variations on an Original Theme in C Minor
Robert SCHUMANN
Symphonic Etudes
Five Variations (posthumous)
Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting
OC434
On her second CD for OehmsClassics, Sachiko Furuhata-Kerting proudly presents a Beethoven, Schumann
programme that is not only worth listening to for the Moonlight Sonata, but also for the Symphonic
Etudes of Robert Schumann.
Antonio VIVALDI
The Four Seasons
Astor PIAZZOLLA
Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
8 Seasons played on Violin and Accordion
OC429
Sinn Yang
Harald Oeler
Simon MAYR
Ginevra di Scozia
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
George Petrou
OehmsClassics proudly presents this recording of the Jubilee Concert’s 250th Anniversary of the birth of
Simon Mayr, made in June 2013 in Ingolstadt.
OC960
Max REGER
Das Gesamte Orgelwerk Volume 2
Bernhard Buttmann
Oehms is presenting in a co-production with the Bavarian Broadcasting Company (BR Klassik) a
four CD box set each year to honor this magnificent Bavarian composer.
OC852
Evgenij GUNST
Wanderer zwischen den Welten
Vagabond entre les mondes
Susanne Lang
OC899
SCHUBERT, GERSHWIN, DINESCU, RAVEL
Works for Violin and Piano
Marie-Claudine and Dimitri Papadopoulos
OC433
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BEETHOVEN, BERLIOZ, VERDI, MAHLER
Great Choral Classics
ICA Classics are offering a fantastic bargain: four choral masterpieces under the baton of some of the
greatest conductors of the 20th century: William Steinberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Igor Markevitch and Gennadi
Rozhdestvensky.
ICAB 5127
Ingrid Jacoby plays the Complete Beethoven
Concertos
Ingrid Jacoby, Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk
ICAB 5126
Praised by The New York Times for her ‘clear articulation… unequivocal phrasing [and] expressivity’, Ingrid
Jacoby has established herself as one of the most poetic and admired pianists of her generation.
DEBUSSY, SCHUMANN, GLAZUNOV, TCHAIKOVSKY,
FAURÉ, CHOPIN, GRIEG, TURINA, LOURIÉ, PADEREWSKI,
GRIFFES, GLINKA, LISZT
Night Stories – Nocturnes
98.037
Jenny Lin
Hänssler presents Night Stories – Nocturnes played by the internationally renowned Jenny Lin.
Alles hat seine Zeit
LALÁ
The internationally award-winning vocal ensemble LALÁ has delighted audiences everywhere with their unique
homogeneous sound and their refreshing and sensitive interpretations. On this recording, they take you through
the history of music. Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms are there, but also some Earth, Wind and Fire, a few
Viennese songs as well as their own original compositions, all given vocally perfect and uniquely expressive
performances.
94.702
The Choir Project: Dekoor Close Harmony
Dekoor Close Harmony, Christoph Mac-Carty
The Dutch Choir Dekoor Close Harmony is the winner of numerous international competitions and is one of the most
famous choirs in the Netherlands. This CD will be releases as part of a new series called “The Choir Project”.
94.701
Laid Bare: Love Songs
Juice Vocal Ensemble
A set of specially commissioned love songs from diverse composers from the worlds of classical, jazz, folk and
avant-pop integrated and juxtaposed with a series of covers and adaptions of classic love songs including
Rihanna’s ‘Only Girl In The World’, Erasure’s ‘A Little Respect’ and ‘You Don’t Love Me (No No No)’ by Dawn
Penn.
NONCLSS016
Horacio SALINAS: Danzas Peregrinas
Ross EDWARDS: Arafura Dances
Stephen GOSS: Guitar Concerto
Concerto
JCW3
John Williams, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Daniel
These three ‘concertos’ contrast not only the backgrounds of their composers but also the musical languages and traditions in which they are
expressed.” John Williams
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Richard STRAUSS
An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64
Four symphonic interludes from “Intermezzo” Op. 72
Live-Recordings from Munich, Herkulessaal
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Franz Welser-Möst
The year 2014 marks the 150th birthday of the Munich-born composer Richard Strauss, and this CD
highlights two key genres in his oeuvre: the “Alpine Symphony”, and the four symphonic interludes from
the opera “Intermezzo”. The Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst is a popular guest conductor of the
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
900124
Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar ‘Ding’
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Franz Welser-Möst
CD 1: Audiobiography*; CD 2: Selected Letters*; CD 3: Alpine Symphony; Symphonic Interludes from
"Intermezzo", Op. 72
*Read in German.
900905
HAYDN: Sonata in E flat
BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles, Op. 119
SCHUBERT: Sonata in B flat
Gilbert Kalish
BRIDGE 9428
This disc presents the long-awaited return of Gilbert Kalish as a solo pianist. This new CD offers luminous
performances of Haydn and Schubert’s final sonatas, as well as Beethoven’s Op. 119 Bagatelles.
Poul RUDERS
Volume 9
New Rochelle Suite: David Starobin, Daniel Druckman,
Twinkle Bells: David Holzman
Romances: Hsin-Yun Huang, Sarah Rothenberg
13 Postludes: David Holzman
Schrödinger’s Cat: Amalia Hall, David Starobin
BRIDGE 9427
Bridge’s Poul Ruders Edition has focused on the Danish composer’s symphonic music, including the
Grammy-nominated Piano Concerto No. 2 and the large Symphony No. 4 ‘An Organ Symphony’. This recording
contains several of his solo and chamber music compositions heard in their premiere recording.
George PERLE
Eight Pieces
Classic Suite; Six Celebratory Inventions; Short Sonata; Lyric Intermezzo; Toccata; Chansons cachées;
Six Preludes; Modal Suite
Michael Brown
BRIDGE 9426
As the George Perle centennial year (2015) nears, pianist Michael Brown makes an important
contribution to our knowledge of the American-master’s keyboard music.
Lior ROSNER
Awake and Dream
Awake and Dream: Katia Popov, Hollywood Studio Orchestra, Lior Rosner
Three Poems by Sappho: Janai Brugger, Lior Rosner
In Time of Silver Rain: Janai Brugger, Lior Rosner
Inner scape: Katia Popov, Steven Vanhauwaert
G-Pull: Katia Popov
BRIDGE 9424
Lior Rosner divides his time between the creation of concert music and composing for film, television
and other media. Recent credits include the score for the upcoming film “The Geography Club”, the popular
video game “Assassin’s Creed 3”, the film “Seconds Apart”, and music for the HBO special “The Pee-Wee
Herman Show on Broadway”.
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Pietro MASCAGNI
Ode To Joy
Rosita Santi, Michael Alfonsi, Massimiliano Fichera, Stefano Rinaldi Miliani, Andrea Trovato, Choir Città di Firenze,
Ennio Clari
CNT2089
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mascagni, Ode to Joy has been bought back to life.
DEBUSSY
“Minstrels” transcription; “La Plus Que Lente” transcription Léon Roques; Sonata for violin & piano; “Sérénade for
violin & piano” completed by Robert Orledge
PIERNÉ
Sonata for piano and violin in D Minor, Op.36
FAURÉ
Sonata for violin and piano in A Major, Op.13
CC777.705
Minstrels
Izumiko Aoyagi, Christophe Giovaninetti
Andrés Segovia Archive
French Composers
Roberto Moronn Pérez
Following his successful debut album of Spanish composers, Roberto Moronn Pérez performs selected works
from the “Andrés Segovia Archive”, this time showcasing the French composers.
FR-709
Siobhan LAMB
Through the Mirror, Tales From Childhood
Aesops’ Fables told through music
Suoni Ensemble
PRCD2074
Stories told are: The Frog and the Ass; The Hare and the Tortoise; The Fox and the Crow; The Mouse, the Bull and
the Flea, The Ant and the Grasshopper; My Little Wife (Bonus Track)
What A Joy
Alice Babs
Prophone presents a disc of well-loved recordings from swing sensation Alice Babs.
“If this doesn’t make you happy, you must be out of your mind” Nya Dagligt Allehanda on the premiere
of Swing It, Magistern
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Richard STRAUSS
Complete Works for Voice and Piano
Various Artists
To celebrate the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss, TwoPianists Records is proud to introduce a new,
authoritative, 9-disc set of the complete works for voice and piano by Strauss – a seminal collection
that is set to become the reference standard for these vocal masterpieces, not least because of the
inclusion of the first ever recordings of two Strauss songs: “Aus der Kindheit” and “Herbstabend,”
TrV226.
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Nicolai PEYKO
Complete Piano Music, Volume One
Dmitry Korostelyov
Maria Dzhemesiuk
Peyko is a major Russian composer who is completely unknown in the west. His piano music shares Shostakovich’s
fondness for irony and Prokofiev’s for driving march-rhythms and playful good humour. This first CD of two in this
complete recording of his piano music is the first time that any of this music has been recorded on a western
label.
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Harold SHAPERO
Piano Music
Piano Sonata in F minor; Variations in C minor; Sonata for Four Hands
Sally Pinkas
Evan Hirsch
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These three early piano works – two of them receiving their first-ever recordings – reveal Shapero’s superb
craftsmanship and his ready wit, in music which embraces the past instead of rejecting it. The result is an
extraordinary fusion between the Viennese classics – not least late Beethoven – and contemporary America.
Amy WOODFORDE-FINDEN
The Oriental Song-Cycles
Michael Halliwell
David Miller
Her song-cycle Four Indian Love Lyrics of 1902 contains the ‘Kashmiri Song’ (it begins ‘Pale hands I loved beside
the Shalimar’) that became a runaway success in its own day. Her five other ‘oriental’ song-cycles, which have
long since fallen from favour and are revived here for the first time, contain plenty of honest sentiment, good
tunes and splashes of local colour.
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Charles-Valentin ALKAN
The Complete Vianna da Motta Transcriptions
Vincenzo Maltempo
Emanuele Delucchi
The Portuguese piano virtuoso and composer José Vianna da Motta (1868–1948) understood the importance
of Alkan’s music long before its current rise to prominence. He made a number of transcriptions to foster its
performance, arranging eight of the organ Prières for solo piano and some of the music for pédalier – the obsolete
pedal-piano – for piano duo and duet.
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Thomas Hardy
Virginia WOOLF
The Woodlanders (Unabridged)
The Waves (Unabridged)
Read by Stephen Thorne
Read by Frances Jeater
The Woodlanders revolves around
the young woman Grace Melbury,
who returns to the leafy world
of Little Hintock and soon finds
herself at the centre of a
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number of tragic events. In
penetrating and beautiful
prose, Hardy tells a moving tale of unrequited love and the
thwarted happiness of our heroine.
The Waves traces the lives of
six friends from childhood to
old age. It was written when
Virginia Woolf
was at the
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height of her
experimental
powers, and she allows each character to tell their
own story through powerful, poetic monologues.
Constantijn HUYGENS
Morte Dolce
Oscar Verhaar
Michiel Niessen
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The programme on this CD is built around the Italian songs of Dutchman Constantijn Huygens; a central musical
and political figure in the Dutch Golden Age.
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Claude DEBUSSY
Stanislas VERROUST
Piano Works
Solos de Concert for Oboe
and Piano
Suite Bergamasque; Images; Livre I;
Children’s Corner; Deux Arabesques
Enrico Calcagni
Alberto Magagni
Sergio Ciomei
The pieces selected by Sergio Ciomei for this CD are divergent
both stylistically and chronologically and provide interesting
examples of Debussy’s reinterpretation of musical structures
from the past.
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The warm lyricism, brilliant but never excessive
virtuosity and elegant writing of these works make
them classics of mid-19th-century literature for
oboe and piano.
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Marco Enrico BOSSI
Vincenzo CAPIROLA
Complete Organ Works, Volume 10
Lute Works
Paolo Cherici
Andrea Macinanti
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This disc is a tribute to Capirola, one of the
most important composers of the Italian
early sixteenth
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century
instrumental
music.
Orlando di LASSO
Giovanni SGAMBATI
Cantiones Duarum Vocum
Orchestral Works
Paolo Tognon, Claudio Verh, Armoniosoincanto
Piano Concerto Op. 15, Cola di Rienzo,
ouverture, Berceuse-Rêverie
Orlando di Lasso is one of the masters of
16th century polyphony,
considered by many to
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be the most versatile
composers of the time.
Francesco Caramiello
Nürnberger
TC
Philharmoniker,
Fabrizio Ventura
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Leopold KOŽELUCH
Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 3
Kemp English
"The music is dramatic and engaging… this is interesting and satisfying music - both charming and
penetrating." American Record Guide on Koželuch Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 1
Eduard BAGDASARIAN
Piano and Violin Music
24 Preludes
Rhapsody in B Minor
Nocturne in a Major
Mikael Ayrapetyan
Vladimir Sergeev
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Alexander
TCHEREPNIN
Complete Piano Music,
Volume 7
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Giorgio Koukl
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Stefan KISIELEWSKI
Piano Pieces
Danse vive; Prelude and Fugue; Toccata; Capriccio rustic; Moto Perpetuo; Sonata No. 2; Suite for Piano;
Berceuse; Three Stormy Scenes
Magdalena Lisak
ACD 210-2
The compositions selected for this CD by the outstanding pianist Magdalena Lisak illustrate the development and
changes in the style of a composer who left a lasting musical legacy worthy of his own extraordinary personality.
His music betrays the same spirit of contrariness that inspired his numerous feature articles, papers and novels.
All the Heart of Me
The Choral Music of Margaret RUTHVEN LANG
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Donald George, Choirs, Soloists and Orchestra of The Crane School of Music
The music of late-Romantic composer Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) – though quite well known in her
time – fell into near-total neglect after she stopped composing in 1919. Delos now offer her beautifully crafted
and appealing choral music, in the hope of restoring Lang to her rightful place among America’s most remarkable
composers.
Gary SCHOCKER
Absinthe
Cafe Music for Flute and Piano
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Gaspar Hoyos
David Violi
Van Gogh, Manet, Rambeau, Baudelaire and many other artists featured absinthe in their works. Gary Schocker now
joins the team. Here, Gaspar Hoyos and David Violi team up to deliver this sensuous and intoxicating program.
DUDA, TELEMANN, MAGANINI,
NÄTHER, PIAZZOLLA, CAPLET,
MASSENET
PARRY, MENDELSSOHN,
TCHAIKOVSKY, JENKINS
Why Not?
Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, Michael Sanderling
Works for Tuba and Harp
Andreas Martin Hofmeir
Andrea Mildner
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Hugo, Johann Christoph,
Herrmann SCHUNCKE
Orchestral Music of the Schuncke Family
Philharmonie Baden-Baden,
Pavel Baleff
Works for String Orchestra
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BACH, BERLIN, CRESPO,
DEBUSSY, DUKAS, GABRIELI,
HÄNDEL, ELLINGTON, MAHLER,
SHOSTAKOVICH, YOUNG
Portrait
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The Transcendentalist
Ivan Ilić
An ambient “New Age” album for the Thinking Man and Woman which demonstrates the transcendental and
pianistic links between Scriabin and the American avant-garde.
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“His playing is brilliant and luminous... an outstanding pianist.” Piano News on Ivan Ilić.
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Ferruccio BUSONI
Transcriptions of works by BACH & BRAHMS
BACH/BUSONI: Five Chorale Preludes
BRAHMS/BUSONI: Three Chorale Preludes
BACH/BUSONI: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue, BWV 564
BACH/PETRI: Schafe Können
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Sicher Weiden
John DOWLAND
Shadows
Sarah Maria Sun, Jochen Feucht,
Friedemann Wuttke, Werner Matzke
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David Theodor Schmidt
ALBÉNIZ, SHCHEDRIN,
SARASATE, GRANADOS,
GINASTERA, CASSADÓ, TURINA
Impresiones Españolas
Niklas Liepe
Benedict Kloeckner
Nils Liepe
José Gallardo
Gregorian Chants
Compositional Highlights of the Church Year
Mönchsschola der Erzabtei St. Ottilien,
Johannes Berchmans Göschl
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BACH, LIGETI, KODÁLY
Cello con Fuoco
BACH: Suite No. 5; LIGETI: Sonata for Violoncello; KODÁLY: Solo Sonata Op. 8
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Veronika Wilhelm
When a cellist with Hungarian roots such as Veronika Wilhelm performs these milestones of the cello repertoire,
then one can count on a passionate interpretation which unleashes legendary Hungarian fire.
MASSENET, FAURÉ, DEBUSSY, SATIE
Bijoux
French Songs
SM 208
Eva Lind
Eva Lind has performed at leading opera houses in Milan, Paris, London and New York.
BEETHOVEN
BEETHOVEN
The Five Sonatas for Piano and Cello
The Sonatas for Piano and Cello
Sonata No.1 in F Major Op. 5; Sonata No.2 in G Minor
Op. 5; Sonata No.3 in
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A Major Op. 69; Sonata No.4
in C Major Op. 102; Sonata
No.5 in D Major Op. 102
Sonata No.1 in
F Major Op. 5; Sonata
No.3 in A Major
Op. 69; Sonata No.5
in D Major Op. 102
Duo Leonore
Duo Leonore
Works by Johann, Josef,
Eduard STRAUSS
Anton BRUCKNER
Wiener Symphoniker, Manfred Honeck
Wiener Symphoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini
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Symphony No. 2 in C Major
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BEETHOVEN, GRANADOS, SCHÜTT, LISZT
The Debut Recording
Bianca Calinescu
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The young Romanian pianist Bianca Calinescu presents her debut recital on disc: besides Beethoven’s famous Opus 109
and Liszt’s “Dante Sonata”, she pays homage to her adopted home country with Schütt’s paraphrase on the Johann
Strauss waltz “Dorfschwalben aus Österreich”.
BERSTEIN, BARBER, FOSS, COPLAND
Some Other Time
Zuill Bailey
Lara Downes
STNS 30025
The transcriptions and concert pieces collected here are all big, beautiful, examples of nostalgic American music. But this
is timeless music too, and its romanticism, spirit of adventure, playfulness, and purity tap into our collective memory, our
underlying, ongoing, deeply American nostalgia for what we all know as, simply, some other time.
Paul Le FLEM
Violin Sonata, Piano Quintet
Philippe Koch, Alain Jacquon, Quatuor Louvigny
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This disc pairs Le Flem’s two major chamber works and showcases the remarkable ensemble, the Louvigny
Quartet, made up of soloists from the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hughes DUFOURT
Le Cyprès Blanc, Surgir
Gérard Caussé
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Pierre-André Valade
DEBUSSY: Dances
CAPLET: Conte Fantastique
Quatuor Debussy
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This well-known pairing brings together master and disciple in a shared aesthetic.
Jacques IBERT
Works for Winds
Capriccio; Trois Pièces brèves; Concerto pour violoncelle; Deux Mouvements; Dex Stèles orientées; Cinq Pièces en trio; Le
Jardinier de Samos
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Henri Demarquette,
Karine Deshayes
Ensemble Initium, Clément Mao-Takacs
CACCINI, CASSINI, NOTARI, STROZZI, CARISSIMI, PURCELL and
Others
Arie Antiche
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Emma Kirkby
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Maurice JARRE
Roland Petit’s Notre Dame de Paris
Ballet of Teatro alla Scala
Recorded live at La Scala, Milan, March 2013
Natalia Osipova
Roberto Bolle
Eris Nezha
Mick Zeni
Ballet Company and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Paul Connelly
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With Roland Petit’s cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre Dame de Pairs has been a modern ballet hit
ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit’s deft condensation of Victor Hugo’s epic and and tragic novel is now renewed by two stars of our own time,
Natalia Osipova and Roberto Bolle: A stunning tribute to Petit’s genius after his death in 2011.
A Tribute to
Krzysztof PENDERECKI
Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Urbański, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniel Müller-Schott
Krzysztof Penderecki is one of the most successful composers of the 20th and 21st centuries and a Polish classical
music icon. His 80th birthday in November 2013 was the occasion for an extraordinary gathering of the world’s
most significant musicians and important interpreters of his works.
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John DOWLAND, Orlando di LASSO, Orazio VECCHI,
Carlo GASUALDO, Josquin des PREZ
The Book of Madrigals
Amacord: Wolfram Lattke, Robert Pohlers, Frank Ozimek, Daniel Knauft, Holger Krause, Hille Perl, Lee Santana, Michael Metzler
The secular repertoire of the Renaissance period seems made to order for the five singers of Amarcaord.
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Riccardo Muti At La Scala
Gioachino ROSSINI: Moïse et Pharaon
Barbara Frittoli, Sonia Ganassi, Giuseppe Filianoti, Erwin Schrott, Ildar Abdrazakov
Gaetano DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Nuccia Focile, Lucio Gallo, Gregory Kunde
Giuseppe VERDI: Otello
Plácido Domingo, Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci
Giacomo PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut
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Maria Guleghina, José Cura, Lucio Gallo
Francis POULENC: Dialogues Des Carmélites
Dagmar Schellenberger, Anja Silja, Barbara Dever, Laura Aikin
A Night with Friedrich Gulda
The Paradise Trio (with Barbara Dennerlein)
The Paradise Girls
DJ Vertigo
Concert from the Münchner Klaviersommer 1995
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Giuseppe VERDI
Otello
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Gregory Kunde, Carmela Remigio, Lucio Gallo, Elisabetta Martorana,
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Myung-Whum Chung
Staged: Francesco Micheli
Recorded at the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia
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Rarely has a production of Verdi’s Othello taken place in such a prestigious location, the courtyard of the Palazzo
Ducale in Venice.
Stravinsky in Hollywood
A Film by Marco Capalbo
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Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky in Hollywood explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer, it is the story of his trials
and tribulations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an “old school” European artist knocking heads with the
brash New World.
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Alfredo CATALANI
La Wally
Marc Kugel, Susanna Von Der Burg, Paulo Ferreira, Bernd Valentin, Susanne Langbein
Chor des Tiroler Landestheaters, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Alexander Rumpf
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Charles MUNCH
The Boston Symphony Orchestra 1958–1962
In 1949 Charles Munch was appointed director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a post that
brought him to the pinnacle of his international career. He was by then fifty-eight years old, though
only in his seventeenth season as a conductor (having previously been a professional violinist), and
during his thirteen years with the orchestra he explored a wide range of repertoire from the Baroque
to the contemporary – including some sixty-eight world premieres.
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Giacomo PUCCINI
Turandot
Giuliano Montaldo
Orchestra and chorus of Teatro Carlo Felice, Donato Renzetti
Turandot, one of Puccini’s most powerful and original operas, is a favourite with audiences. Musically, it is one
of the composer’s most modern and innovative scores, and also a work that calls for sumptuous sets and dramatic
costumes. This production is directed by film director Guiliano Montaldo.
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Martinho da VILA
A documentary by Georges Gachot
O Samba
Vila Isabel Samba School
The composer and singer Martinho da Vila is guiding us through today’s world of Samba
and we meet with his Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, the Vila Isabel, winner of Carnaval
2013.
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Classic Archive – Celebrating Strauss
Rita Streich, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hertha Töpper, Irmgard Seefried
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Celebrating Strauss brings into focus the great interpreters of Richard Strauss’s
compositions.
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Gala from Berlin – Grand Finales
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
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A true celebration to welcome in the new millennium with one of the best
orchestras in the world.
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Classic Archive – Collector’s Edition – Ensembles
BACH, BARTÓK, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, ENESCU, FRANCK, MOZART,
MENDELSSOHN, RAVEL, PROKOFIEV, SCHUBERT
Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter, Istomin-Stern- Rose Trio, Amadeus Quartet, David Oistrakh,
Yehudi Menuhin, Hephzibah Menuhin, Robert Casadesus, Zino Francescatti
With more than 14 hours of material the edition includes various concerti and recitals, some in colour,
some in glorious black and white, as well as comprehensive booklet information.
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Johannes BRAHMS
Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45
Barbara Bonney, Bryn Terfel,
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
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Ein Deutsches Requiem was Brahms's first work to bring together a mixed
choir, soloists and a large-scale orchestra.
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