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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Great Conductors - FurtwänglerCommercial Recordings 1940-1950 Volume 7
If the most notable trait of this 1948 recording of Brahms’ Second Symphony, Furtwängler’s only commercial recording of the work, is the extreme variance of tempo, the composer’s characteristically restless contrast of dynamism and lyricism is nevertheless placed firmly within a framework of the clearest realisation of form and symphonic development. The orchestra is audibly galvanised by Furtwängler’s interpretative flexibility, which courses at white heat throughout the work. Another considerable asset is the recording quality achieved by the engineers in one of the most sought-after venues for orchestral music in England, Kingsway Hall in London. The wartime Telefunken recording of the second movement of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony is also Furtwängler’s only commercial recording of the composer’s music. | | | (also available to download from $9.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The First Night of the Proms 1943
A very special release at this time of the year from Somm. A live recording of a concert given at the
Royal Albert Hall on 19th June 1943. “One would now be surprised to find such a first-half sequence as Bax’s London Pageant, Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No 2, a Handel aria and Beethoven’s Fifth, though former approaches to programming are being revisited this season. The bittiness is compounded by the fact that only two Saint-Saëns movements survive, and one Beethoven (the Bax not at all). There is a pitch sag early in the concerto, but Moura Lympany’s account is enjoyable. Heddle Nash is the delightfully “period” tenor.” Sunday Times, 20th July 2008 *** “A young Moura Lympany gives a vivacious account of Saint-Saëns's Second Piano Concerto (although the central scherzo is missing from this off-air recording, and the pitch drops in the first movement); and the prized tenor Heddle Nash sings Handel. Dukas, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and an oddity in the shape of Lamar Stringfield's A Negro Parade complete an intriguing glimpse into a piece of Proms history.” The Telegraph, 19th July 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Cecilia & Bryn at GlyndebourneRecorded live in Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, Sussex, 24th April 1999.
Note: This Blu-ray Disc (BD) is not compatible with standard DVD players.
PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 90 Mins
SOUND: DOLBY SURROUND / LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE
“Sparkling harmony …the combined talents of Bryn Terfel and Cecilia Bartoli… raise the temperature… Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro… is charged with intrigue and sexual tension and they captured the mood with pinpoint vocal interplay and assured comic acting…a formidable display of coloratura technique and lasersharp intonation.” The Guardian ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Vladimir Jurowski - Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall,
London, 19 September 2007 “The cogently-planned programme works magnificently in execution. Jurowski is thoughtful and unegotistical in the 50-minute accompanying interview, and you can watch him closely in the second DVD which places the 'conductor camera' in a box in the corner of the screen.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ***** “Pulling off such a programme demands absolute conviction in the moment of performance, and this concert had it in spades. If this is a sign of things to come, the Jurowski/LPO partnership will set a standard by which all other London orchestras are judged.” Financial Times  BBC Music Magazine
DVD Choice - July 2008 |
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| |  | Stage Director: Sir Peter Hall
Recorded live at the Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, East Sussex, on 2nd & 4th June, 2005.
This Blu-ray Disc (BD) is not compatible with standard DVD players.
PICTURE FORMAT: 1080i
LENGTH: 187 Mins
SOUND: 2.0 & 5.0 PCM
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT
“This is a performance that meets the Glyndebourne gold standard… Hall has decided to keep it real and
produced something understated, sensitive and thus deeply pleasurable.” The Telegraph “Some found Peter Hall's staging… too dark and serious, but for me it was an invigorating evening. …Vladimir Jurowski… draws highly polished and brilliant playing from the LPO of one of Rossini's greatest scores. …presenting a down-and-out Don Magnifico - dirty to his fingernails - works well when you have such a strong singing-actor as Luciano Di Pasquale. Ruxandra Donose is winning in the title role.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2006 ***** “This is a truly marvellous performance on all counts - staging, conducting and singing. Sir Peter Hall… manages to breathe new life into the routines without ever slipping over into farce, while exploring each character in some depth. The sense of an ensemble on top form is underlined by Vladimir Jurowski's exacting, pellucid and vivid interpretation, so that the music, like the libretto, is presented afresh. The superb cast has no weaknesses and many strengths, Ruxandra Donose may not have the idiomatic Italian timbre of Cecilia Bartoli... but she is the more consistent singer, using her wide range and rich tone to startling effect. Her youthful (24-year-old) partner, Russian tenor Maxim Mironov, proves an ideal Ramiro, fluent in every aspect of his role and delivering its appreciable demands in a light, pliant voice of delicate beauty.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2006 BBC Music Magazine DVD Choice - May 2006 |
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| |  | Klaus Tennstedt
Recorded: Royal Albert Hall, 26 August 1984 “This is a remarkable performance…intense, subtle and beautifully shaped…Their account of the great slow movement is one of the most moving, atmospheric and musically revealing on record.” BBC Music Magazine | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Arnold: Overtures
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