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Beethoven: | Ich liebe dich, WoO 123 Neue Liebe, Neues Leben, Op. 75, 2 Wonne der Wehmut, Op. 83 No. 1 | Brahms: | Meine Liebe ist grün, Op. 63 No. 5 Vergebliches Ständchen, Op. 84 No. 4 Der Gang Zum Liebchen, Op. 31 No. 3 Schwesterlein Von ewiger Liebe, Op. 43 No. 1 | Mahler: | Frühlingsmorgen Ich ging mit Lust Ablösung im Sommer Hans und Grete | Schubert: | Die Forelle, D550 Heidenröslein, D257 Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774 An die Musik D547 Seligkeit D433 (Holty) | Schumann: | Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1 Die Lotosblume, Op. 25 No. 7 Der Nussbaum, Op. 25 No. 3 Du bist wie eine Blume, Op. 25 No. 24 |
Karita Mattila (soprano), Ilmo Ranta (piano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Saariaho - Notes On Light, Orion & Mirage
Karita Mattila (soprano) & Anssi Karttunen (cello) Orchestre de Paris Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach Following the acclaimed 2006 song cycle Quatre Instants, the latest collaboration from star soprano Karita Mattila, and her compatriot Kaija Saariaho, is Mirage, the setting of a trance-induced incantation by the Mexican healer María Sabína (1894-1985). This recording features the work's world première performance from March 13th, 2008 in Paris. The ecstatic 15-minute piece is written for soprano, cello and orchestra, featuring cellist Anssi Karttunen and the Orchestre de Paris Orchestre de Paris under its music director Christoph Eschenbach. Anssi Karttunen performs Notes on Light, the cello concerto that Saariaho wrote for him in 2006. Also featured on this CD is Orion, the largest orchestral work Saariaho has written to date. | 
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Siegfried Lorenz, Thomas Thomaschke, Karita Mattila, Eva Lind, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Francisco Araiza, Kurt Moll, Andreas Scheibner, Will Quadflieg Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Sir Colin Davis |
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Sean Panikkar, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Dale Travis, Tamara Mumford, Karita Mattila, Paul Plishka, Lisette Oropesa, Jennifer Black, Sasha Cooke, Ellen Rabiner, Bernard Fitch, James Courtney, Tony Stevenson & Richard Bernstein The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, James Levine Set and costume designer: Desmond Heeley, Lighting designer: Gil Wechsler & Stage director: Gina Lapinski Karita Mattila gives a career high performance in Puccini’s passionate opera, Manon Lescaut conducted by James Levine – filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in Hi-Definition. Continuing its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera and its Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series, EMI Classics is proud to release the METs classic 28 year old production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut on EMI Classics DVD. This release marks a special moment in the Metropolitan Opera’s history. It is the first time in 18 years since Puccini’s Manon Lescaut was last performed on its great stage. Manon Lescaut, a French tale telling of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury, was Puccini’s first successful opera and the work that thrust him onto the international stage as Italy’s foremost opera composer. Finnish soprano, Karita Mattila, as Manon Lescaut is the star of the performance. Her interpretation of the first of Puccini’s many archetypal heroines is ‘riveting’ – New York Times. Interestingly Mattila waited until her voice had gained maturity and richness before, when she was nearly 40, she first portrayed her Manon Lescaut in 1999. She now returns – enticing James Levine to conduct the work for the first time since 1981. After 35 highly successful years as Music director of the Metropolitan Opera, a relationship unparalleled and unique in the musical world today, James Levine leads a fresh and intelligent performance. |
| | | Scheduled for release on 15 September 2008. Order it now and we will deliver it as soon as it is available. |
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| |  | Abbado in Concert
Brahms: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 Maurizio Pollini (piano) Wiener Philharmoniker | Mozart: | Kyrie in D minor, K341 Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovšek, Robert Holl, Jerry Hadley & Jorge Pita Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker Betracht dies Herz, K42 Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovšek, Robert Holl, Jerry Hadley & Jorge Pita Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker Laudate Dominum from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339 Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovšek, Robert Holl, Jerry Hadley & Jorge Pita Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker | Rossini: | La Cenerentola Overture Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Schubert: | Mass No. 6 in E flat major, D950 Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovšek, Robert Holl, Jerry Hadley & Jorge Pita Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker |
The ’All Saints Day Concert’ - besides the New Year´s concert the most important Viennese music event - from the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna from 1986 with sacred music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert. Superb soloists like Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovsek, Robert Holl, Jerry Hadley and Jorge Pita, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Chorus under the baton of maestro Abbado. “the most widely respected living conductor” New York Times “He combines a phenomenal technique with a poetic temperament. Wonderful.” BBC Music Magazine |
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Karita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (contralto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra & Eric-Ericson Chamber Choir, Claudio Abbado This Capbox set updates the box set 4690002, which contains the cycle recorded in Berlin in 2000. This new set contains recordings of Symphonies 1 – 8 made in Rome in February 2001. No. 9 is a recording from Berlin made in May 2000 (the same recording that appeared in the “old” set). While retaining aspects of the look of the previous set, the new set has been completely redesigned in capbox format. It includes a new booklet article by Italian journalist Angelo Foletto, who interviewed Abbado about the reasons for releasing the new set of recordings. “DG issued a Berlin/Abbado cycle of the Beethoven symphonies, taken from live concerts in Berlin, eight years ago. Numbers 1-8 in this new set derive from concerts in Rome in 2001 that the Italian conductor now prefers. “Our interpretative vision had matured and become more natural and shared,” he writes in the notes... Abbado’s lithe tempi and momentous unfolding of Beethoven’s great orchestral dramas sound even more vivid here than in the Berlin-recorded set. The most obvious gain comes in the sometimes least-regarded even-numbered symphonies, in which Abbado’s scrupulous attention to instrumental detail in the Jonathan Del Mar critical editions, and his almost Haydnesque brio in the outer movements, are wonderfully uplifting. I can’t think of more satisfying modern-instrument accounts of the exhilarating allegro vivace of the B flat major symphony (No 4) or the finale of the F major (No 8), while Abbado’s power and dynamism propel the Eroica and the Fifth inexorably to their triumphant conclusions.” Sunday Times, 27th July 2008 ***** |
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| |  | Karita Mattila - Fever
| | It's All Right with Me Blue Moon The Man I Love My Favourite Things You Do Something To Me Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Stormy Weather Fever O Pato Corvocado Nice Work if You Can Get It, Love for Sale Black Coffee Lush Life Come Rain or Come Shine |
Karita Mattila (soprano) Fever band & string section & How Many Sisters vocal trio, Kirmo Lintinen “…can Mattila be funky with a jazz ensemble instead of a Strauss of Janácek orchestra behind her? …her performances her grow in confidence from the rather stilted English of "It's all right with me" via a genuine… sexual huskiness in "Fever" to a real trouper's use of musical space and time in "The Man I Love" and the closing number "Come rain or come shine".” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Karita Mattila Helsinki Recital
Karita Mattila (soprano) & Martin Katz (piano) “The songs push Mattila to her expressive limits as cries of rapture curdle into shrieks of pain and spasms of rage intrude on erotic memories. Its impact on the audience can be gauged from the near hysteria that erupts at the end…Her accompanist, Martin
Katz, deals superbly with some of the most fearsomely difficult piano writing in the entire song repertoire.” The Guardian “Best of all is the highly expressive Quatre Instants by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, dedicated to Mattila and showing how the singer is prepared to extend her range into new music to quite stunning effect.” Financial Times  BBC Music Magazine
Choral & Song Choice - July 2007 |
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| |  | A Five-Star Sibelius Celebration
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