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Annelies Burmeister (alto), Gertraud Prenzlow (alto), Vladimir Bauer (baritone), Alfred Wroblewski (bass), Boris Carmeli (bass), Fred Teschler (bass), Paul Glahn (bass), Rainer Ludeke (bass), Heinz-Dieter Knaup (narrator), Hilmar Thate (narrator), Wolf Kaiser (narrator), Elisabeth Breul (soprano), Elisabeth Ebert (soprano), Ingeborg Wenglor (soprano), Renate Krahmer (soprano), Ruth Schob-Lipka (soprano), Sylvia Pawlik (soprano), Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (tenor), Helmut Melchert (tenor), Lothar Anders (tenor), Peter Schreier (tenor), Rolf Apreck (tenor) Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Leipzig MDR Radio Choir, Herbert Kegel | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Schubert's "Die schöne Müllerin" – at first glance a series of cheerful songs, which on closer listening reveals an ostensibly ideal world with dark undertones. Peter Schreier has always been a master of the great art song genre, for whom a beautiful tone, clear articulation, and sensitive and intelligent interpretation have always been paramount. | 
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Beethoven's most significant Mass, conducted by maestro Kurt Masur and performed by famous musicians: this recording convincingly reflects the great composer's humanist ideals in a way rarely heard. Here, belief and enlightenment blend together in the most moving manner through the music. |
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| |  | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Celebrating Kurt Masur’s 85th birthday, this release includes a live recording of the opening concert of the new Gewandhaus in Leipzig in October 1981, never before heard on disc in its entirety. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Classical Music and Cold WarMusicians in the GDR
A film by THOMAS ZINTL In 1945, after the war had ended, the world split into East and West in political terms. The frontier between the two blocs cut straight through Germany and quickly became a dividing line between contrasting cultural systems. In the Soviet occupation zone, major opera houses and concert halls rose again from the ruins and long-established orchestras and choirs were revived. Once the GDR had been founded, the Socialist Unity Party took over responsibility for cultural affairs and quickly developed the idea of a nation of culture-loving working people in deliberate contrast to their portrayal of „Americanized, western capitalists softened by endless consumption“. Together with sport, classical music was used to advertise the merits of the GDR. Like all other areas of art it was instrumentalized for ideological purposes, and its protagonists - provided they displayed the necessary talent and were not regarded with suspicion by the state security service - often enjoyed extraordinary privileges. This combination of art and dictatorship created an environment in which music-making of world quality was able to flourish. Through case studies of individuals who lived under the system, the documentary explores the fates of both the privileged and the non-privileged, and delivers insight into the influence of the political system on artistic life. The film includes interviews with contemporary witnesses both from GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 5, NTSC Audio Language: DE Subtitles: IT, GB, FR, ES, JP Running Time: 52 mins FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Live Recording from From The Salzburger Festspiele, 1982
Edita Gruberova (Königin der Nacht), Peter Schreier (Tamino), Christian Boesch (Papageno), Ileana Cotrubas (Pamina), Edda Moser (Erste Dame), Ann Murray (Zweite Dame), Ingrid Mayr (Dritte Dame), Martti Talvela (Sarastro), Horst Hiestermann (Monostatos), Gudrun Sieber (Papagena) Wiener Staatsoper, James Levine Directed, Set & Costume Design by JEAN-PIERRE PONNELLE This production of Mozart’s Magic Flute received enormous and unanimous approval, when it was premiered in Salzburg. Endless applause on the night and an unusual state of accord from the international press where enthusiastic reviews soon gave this staging the status of a legend. Of course, none of that would have had the same appeal if it had not been in accord with Mozart’s music, performed quite un-theoretically, with perfect blend of lightness and pathos, humour and profundity, by James Levine and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; nor would it all have worked without a truly Festival-worthy cast of singers whose strengths were perfectly balanced and every single one of whom – right down to the members of the chorus – was totally committed to the work. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 5 & DVD 9 / NTSC Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, ES, IT Running Time: 189 mins FSK: 0 “Delivered with energy and great expertise” BBC Music Magazine, February 2011 *** “From the start, with James Levine at his most brilliant and perceptive as conductor, it struck an ideal medium between the pantomime element and the weightier implications of the Masonic background...it makes ideal entertainment on film.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Schubert: Late Masses Nos. 5 & 6
Schubert’s last great masses – No.5 in A flat and No.6 in E flat – are his greatest achievements in this genre, both seeking to reconcile Christian liturgical grandeur with new-found romantic expression. They are much more substantial than the composer’s earlier masses, which still lie firmly within the classical tradition of Haydn and Mozart. Schubert was very proud of his sublime A flat mass, which took him three years to write, and was the only completed major work of the so-called ‘crisis’ years. It features some of Schubert’s most beautiful and complex writing for choir and orchestra. His last and most ambitious mass, the Mass No.6 in E flat, was once considered something of a Cinderella among the great works of his final year. However, it is increasingly acknowledged as a powerful and disquieting masterpiece, more monumental than the A flat. Wolfgang Sawallisch is renowned for his performances of Schubert’s church music, and these glorious recordings from 1971, made with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Rundfunkchor Leipzig, were released to great acclaim. The team of legendary soloists are all experienced performers of oratorio: soprano Helen Donath, mezzo-soprano Ingeborg Springer, tenor Peter Schreier and bass Theo Adam. “the...Dresden sound is first class: spacious, with plenty of depth and a very good overall balance. The conductor has chosen a superb team of soloists…Helen Donath sings very beautifully…undoubtedly Sawallisch is at
his most inspired throughout.” Penguin Guide | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Alte Universität, Vienna, 1982
This March 1982 performance of The Creation took place in the Great Hall of the Old University in Vienna - precisely where, on 27 March 1808, the composer had appeared for the last time in public to attend a gala performance of this work under the direction of Antonio Salieri. The concert brought together a number of leading artists: the Collegium Aureum is a loose association of German and Austrian soloists and chamber musicians internationally renowned for their performances on period instruments, while the Arnold Schoenberg Choir continues to be regarded as one of the finest choirs in Europe. The parts of Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael are taken by three of the most eminent and supremely well-qualified singers of their day, soprano Arleen Augér, tenor Peter Schreier and bass Walter Berry, while the German baritone Roland Hermann and the Austrian soprano Gabriele Sima are sheer luxury casting in the roles of Adam and Eve. With his lively temperament, the Austrian conductor Gustav Kuhn ensures that the performance is not only true to the spirit of the original but has a tension and a vitality all of its own, guaranteeing that the performance was an overwhelming experience for all who were present on this occasion. Spirit, sound, space and time come together here to create a coherent whole. Bonus: Documentary on the work and the occasion. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, ES, IT Running Time: 114 mins & 18 mins (Bonus) FSK: 0 “it is quite electrifying, but in the right way. Gustav Kuhn, with his lively temperament, conducts with an ideal combination of zest and depth of feeling...The soloists are unsurpassed on record.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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