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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Szymanowski - Concertos, Orchestral & Choral Works
Szymanowski: | Songs of a Fairytale Princess, Op. 31 Iwona Sobotka Harnasie, Op. 55 Timothy Robinson Hafiz' Love-Songs, Op. 26 Katarina Karnéus Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 (Sinfonia Concertante) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) King Roger Elzbieta Szmytka, Jadwiga Rappé, Philip Langridge & Thomas Hampson with City of Birmingham Youth Chorus Stabat Mater, Op. 53 Elzbieta Szmytka, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell Litania do Marii Panny (Litany to the Virgin Mary), Op. 59 Elzbieta Szmytka, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell Symphony No. 3 'The Song of the Night', Op. 27 Elzbieta Szmytka, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell |
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle The music of the great Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) has, until recently, been relatively neglected. Sir Simon Rattle's recordings, gathered together here for the first time, brought it before a new and receptive audience.
This 4-CD set contains all the Szymanowski recordings that Sir Simon has made for EMI Classics. The collection contains some of the composer's best-known works: the two Violin Concertos, The Song of the Night, the beautiful Stabat Mater and the exquisite Love Songs of Hafiz. The set also contains Rattle's complete recording of the opera King Roger. | 
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Franz Mazura, Philip Langridge, Aage Haugland, Barbara Bonney, Mira Zakai, Daniel Harper, Thomas Dymit & Herbert Wittges Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti Recorded - Orchestra Hall, Chicago, May 1984 "Solti gives Schoenberg's masterly score a dynamism and warmth which set it firmly - if perhaps surprisingly - in the grand romantic tradition ... As Aaron, Philip Langridge is lighter and more lyrical ... Aage Haugland with his firm, dark bass makes his mark in the small role of the Priest; Barbara Bonney too is excellent as the Young Girl. Above all, the brilliant singing of the Chicago Symphony Chorus matches the playing of the orchestra in virtuosity. More than ever the question-mark concluding Act II makes a pointful close, with no feeling of a work unfinished. The brilliant recording has an even sharper focus on CD."
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Stephen Roberts, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan DeGaetani, Philip Langridge, David Wilson- Johnson & John Tomlinson London Sinfonietta, David Atherton Punch and Judy elaborates the traditional puppet-play into an opera of stylised violence and
ritual. While the simplicity of the children’s entertainment is retained in the opera by the
characters—familiar and puppet-like—by the invented ‘nursery-rhymes’ of the libretto, and by the
waltzes, lullabies and serenades of the music, the tragi-comic actions of a homicidal puppet are
raised almost to the status of myth as Punch murders Judy over and over again. ‘As a whole the opera loses none of its powerful and sustained impact when compared with Birtwistle’s own more mature compositions. If anything, its startling primitivisms stand out more vividly, while its not inconsiderable moments of reflection and lyricism acquire an enhanced poignancy. The performance (a 1980 Gramophone Award winner) gains immeasurably from the alert control of David Atherton and the superlative musicianship of the London Sinfonietta.’ Gramophone | NMC - NMCD138 (CD - 2 discs) £14.99 (£12.76 ex. VAT) |
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| |  | A Tribute To Benjamin BrittenSpecial Box Set with 7 Operas
Britten: | Peter Grimes (ENO 1994) Philip Langridge, Janice Cairns, Alan Opie,
Ann Howard, Andrew Green English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton The Rape of Lucretia (ENO 1987) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kathryn Harries, Jean Rigby, Russell Smythe, Richard van Allan, Allan Opie,
Anne-Marie Owens, Cathryn Po English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend Billy Budd (ENO 1988) Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard van Allan, Neil Howlett. English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton Gloriana (ENO 1984) Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jean Rigby, Richard van Allan, Elizabeth Vaughan, Alan Opie English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Mark Elder The Turn of the Screw (Schwetzinger 1990) Helen Field, Menai Davies, Richard Greager, Machiko Obata Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Steuart Bedford Owen Wingrave (Film, 2001) Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge, Hilton Marlton, Josephine Barstow, Anne Dawson, Elizabeth Gale, Charlotte Hellekant, Martyn Hill Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano Death in Venice (Glyndebourne 1990) Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance The Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Sinfonietta, Graeme Jenkins Let’s make an opera An Opera Feature Film by Petr Weigl. Felicity Palmer, Kate Flowers, Stephen Richardson, John Graham Hall, Lisa Milne, Liam Shena, Julia Campbell, Kevin Bloomer, Nigel Wall, Francesca Massey, Edward Yeo, Nettle & Markham (pianoduo) & Huw Ceredig (percussion) The Coull Quartet, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Symphony Youth Chorus, Simon Halsey |
PLEASE NOTE: The discs are a mixture of PAL and NTSC. Your machine must be compatible with both formats in order to enjoy these DVDs | | | Arthaus Musik - 102103 (DVD Video - 8 discs) Normally: £155.49 (£132.33 ex. VAT) Special: £116.61 (£99.24 ex. VAT) |
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Philip Langridge, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Alastair Miles BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Andrew Davis Broadcast live from St. Paul's Cathedral, London by the BBC on 26th November 1997 as part of the Cathedral's 300th anniversary celebrations. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Shostakovich - Songs & Operas
Shostakovich: | Two Fables of Krylov, Op. 4 Three Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op. 46a Six Romances on Verses by Raleigh, Burns and Shakespeare, Op. 62/140 From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79a Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets, Op. 21 Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, Op. 143a Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145a Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, Op. 146 Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127 Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145a Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung |
Luba Organosova (soprano), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Larissa Dyadkova (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Elena Zaremba (contralto), Philip Langridge (tenor), Ilya Levinsky (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Sergei Leiferkus (bass) & Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Women's Voices of the Gothenburg Opera & Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Jessye Norman (soprano), Faye Robinson (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Yvonne Minton (Thea), Jill Gomez (Flora), Josephine Barstow (Denise), Philip Langridge (tenor), Richard Cassilly (tenor), Robert Tear (tenor) & (Dov), Raimund Herincx (Faber), Thomas Carey (Mel), Thomas Hemsley (Mel), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), John Constable (piano) & Timothy Walker (guitar) Schola Cantorum of Oxford, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Royal Opera House, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Colin Davis, David Atherton & Sir Georg Solti | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Stafford Dean (Trulove), Cathryn Pope (Anne), Philip Langridge (Tom Rakewell), Samuel Ramey (Nick Shadow), Astrid Varnay (Mother Goose), Sarah Walker (Baba the Turk), John Dobson (Sellem) & Matthew Best (Keeper) London Sinfonietta Chorus & London Sinfonietta, Riccardo Chailly "... the London Sinfonietta match him [Chailly] in both precision and panache. The recording gives full and appropriate prominence to the glorious sound of the Sinfonietta's woodwind section, but all departments of the ensemble are admirable...in its balance of brilliance and sensitivity, this is playing of the first class...Samuel Ramey's distinctive, attractive timbre does make an immediate and satisfying impression: he is the wily, oily demon to the life, and in the later acts he effects a transformation from suavity to menace without sacrificing any purely musical qualities en route...Cathryn Pope makes a vividly vulnerable Anne...youthfulness and lyricism are also the hallmarks of Philip Langridge's performance." Gramophone February 1985 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Philip Langridge (Titus), Lucia Popp (Vitellia), Ruth Ziesak (Servilia), Ann Murray (Sextus), Delores Ziegler (Annius) & László Polgár (Publius) Chor und Orchester der Oper Zürich, Nikolaus Harnoncourt | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The English Song Series Volume 13 - Britten: Folk Song Arrangements 2
Philip Langridge, Thomas Allen BBC Singers, Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford, Simon Joly | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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