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“a vibrant and wonderfully focused performance… The embraces at the end suggested that for the performers, too, it had been equally special.” – The Guardian | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Classical music leads the way with the world’s first Blu-ray audio disc. A two disc set - disc one plays on Blu-ray equipment, which includes the Sony play station 3, disc two is a standard Hybrid SACD which will play on standard cd players. This is a true Hi Fi lovers dream come true! Disc 1 - Blu-ray Exclusive High Definition Music - 2.0 LPCM 24BIT/192 kHz - 5.1 LPCM 24BIT/192 kHz - 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio 24BIT/192 kHz - 5.1 Dolby True HD 24BIT/192 kHz - 5.1 Dolby Digital 48kHz Disc 2 - Hybrid Super Audio-CD (SACD) 5.1 SURROUND + STEREO produced in DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition) This compact disc looks like a normal CD and plays on all standard players and computers. - Ordinary CD (16 BIT / 44.1 kHz) - 2.0 DSD (2.8224Mbit/s per channel) - 5.1 DSD (2.8224Mbit/s per channel) TrondheimSolistene (The Trondheim Soloists) is one of Norway’s most exciting young ensembles performing on the international stage and have just completed a tour of Asia with Anne-Sophie Mutter. This album features a selection of some of the finest and most technically challenging repertoire for string orchestra. Includes repertoire by Benjamin Britten, the Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, the Norwegian composer Terje Bjorklund as well as Bela Bartok’s seminal work for orchestra the Divertimento. This release will be ‘Orchestral Disc of the Month’ in the September issue of Classic fm | 
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| |  | Lydia Mordkovitch plays Bacewicz & Enescu
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) & Ian Fountain (piano) Bacewicz was the most prominent Polish female composer of the twentieth century and a renowned violinist who,
by contemporary accounts, was surpassed only by Ginette Neveu and David Oistrakh. She left a legacy of over 200
compositions, many of which have never been heard in the West. The Partita was written after a long
hospitalisation – the result of a serious automobile accident. Although Bacewicz’s body was immobilised, her
musical mind must have been very active. She provided two versions of the work, one for orchestra and the second
for violin and piano which we hear on this recording. Bacewicz’s Third Violin Sonata is one of her lesser-known
pieces. Bacewicz is frequently labelled a neoclassicist, but she is much more robust and muscular in her approach
than many of her contemporaries.
George Enescu was a prodigy as both performer and composer and was not yet eighteen when he completed the
Second Violin Sonata. His world here is not Romanian, but rather influenced by Brahms, Franck and Fauré;
however, the work still exudes a healthy respect for the tradition which he inherited.
Both Bacewicz and Enescu studied in Paris, and were professional violinists and pianists who imbued their music
with a profound knowledge of their instruments, clearly demonstrated in this new recording. “Herself a successful violinist, Bacewicz's violin works are idiomatic and stunningly effective. Lydia Mordkovitch produces ringingly authoritative interpretations: the music favours her rich, dark timbres and her capacity. The underrated Second Sonata of Enescu makes a perfectly-judged complement. Splendid performances of splendid music that deserves to be better.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ***** “Exhilarating works from two of eastern Europe's finest violinist-composers. Mordkovitch is in fine form throughout, ably accompanied by Ian Fountain, and the sound is excellent.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008  BBC Music Magazine
Chamber Choice - July 2008 |
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| |  | Portrait of Elizaveta Gilels
Elizaveta Gilels (violin), Emil Gilels (piano) & Leonid Kogan (violin) Recorded 1940-1963 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Bacewicz: | Sonata No. 2 (1953, Studio recording, Polish Radio, Warsaw, (World Premiere Recording) | Beethoven: | Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 'Spring (14.9.1960, Studio recording Polish Radio Warsaw) | Bloch, E: | Nigun (Baal Shem No. 2) (14.9.1960, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Chopin: | Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie' (1950, Live recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 (1950, Live recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post. (1948, Studio recording, Warsaw) | Debussy: | La fille aux cheveux de lin (1949, Live recording, Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Dvorak: | Slavonic Dance No. 2 in E minor, Op. 46 No. 2 (2.2.1964, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Friedman, I: | Viennese Dance No. 1 (after Eduard Gärtner) (1946, Studio recording Swedish Radio, Stockholm) | Gershwin: | Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) (18.1.1949, live recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Grieg: | Sonata in C Minor Op. 45 (4.1.1965, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Grünfeld: | Soirée de Vienne (1946, Studio recording Swedish Radio, Stockholm) | Holländer: | Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (1949, live recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Prokofiev: | Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83 (1953, Studio recording, Polish Radio, Warsaw (Polish Premiere Recording) Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (2.2.1964, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Rathaus: | Pastorale and Dance (2.4.1964, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Rodgers: | Blue Moon (18.1.1949, live recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Schubert: | Rondo Op. 53 (2.2.1964, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Schumann: | Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44 (May 1965, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Szpilman: | Toccatina (Life of the Machines. Piano Suite, 3rd Movement) (1946, Studio recording Swedish Radio, Stockholm) Mazurka (1946, Studio recording Swedish Radio, Stockholm) Fall In Love Again (18.1.1949, live recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Wieniawski: | Obertas (14.9.1960, Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) | Zarebski: | Quintett in G Minor Op. 34 (1963 Studio recording Polish Radio, Warsaw) |
Wladyslaw Szpilman (piano) Warsaw Piano Quintet | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Volume 3Live radio recordings 1960-1970
| | Excerpts from comedy performance Victor Borge | Bacewicz: | Music for strings, trumpets and percussion Witold Rowicki | Bach, J S: | Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052 Glenn Gould (piano) Dimitri Mitropoulos | Bartók: | Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116 Erich Leinsdorf Violin Concerto No. 1, BB48a, Sz 36 Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Pierre Boulez | Beethoven: | Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 Pierre Monteux | Berg: | Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6 Hans Rosbaud 5 Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4 Halina Lukomska (soprano) Bruno Maderna | Brahms: | Tragic Overture, Op. 81 Pierre Monteux | Britten: | Les illuminations, Op. 18 Peter Pears (tenor) Colin Davis | Dallapiccola: | Variazioni per orchestra Hans Rosbaud | Debussy: | Jeux - Poème dansé Pierre Boulez | Dutilleux: | Métaboles George Szell | Escher: | Nostalgies, Op. 21 Lode Devos (tenor) Bernard Haitink | Henze: | Double Concerto for oboe & harp Heinz Holliger (oboe), Ursula Holliger (harp) Hans Werner Henze | Heppener: | Eglogues Eugen Jochum | Hindemith: | Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' Eugene Ormandy | Ketting: | Symphony No. 1 | Lutoslawski: | Musique funèbre Witold Lutoslawski Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux Vocal Ensemble NCRV, Edo de Waart Jeux Vénitiens Bruno Maderna | Mahler: | Symphony No. 7 in E minor Bernard Haitink | Martin, F: | Sechs Monologe aus 'Jedermann' André Vessières (baritone) Eugen Jochum Les quatre éléments Bernard Haitink | Mendelssohn: | Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish' Bruno Maderna | Mozart: | Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K216 Valery Klimov (violin) Eugene Ormandy | Nono: | Il canto sospeso Ilse Hollweg (soprano), Sophia van Sante (mezzo-soprano), Friedrich Lenz (tenor) Members of the Netherlands Radio Choir, Pierre Boulez | Prokofiev: | Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical' Karel Ancerl | Ravel: | Shéhérazade Victoria de los Angeles (mezzo-soprano) Pierre Monteux | Schoenberg: | Piano Concerto, Op. 42 Theo Bruins (piano) Gustav König | Schubert: | Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D417 'Tragic' Hans Rosbaud Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished' Eugene Ormandy | Shostakovich: | Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 Kirill Kondrashin | Sibelius: | Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 George Szell | Strauss, R: | Don Quixote, Op. 35 Pierre Fournier (cello) George Szell | Stravinsky: | Le Chant du Rossignol Pierre Boulez Fireworks, Op. 4 Hans Werner Henze | Varèse: | Ionisation & Déserts Bruno Maderna | Verdi: | Falstaff Carlo Maria Giulini | Vermeulen: | Symphony No. 1 Bernard Haitink | Wagner: | Brünnhilde's Immolation (Götterdämmerung) Birgit Nilsson (soprano) Pierre Monteux | Webern: | Four Songs Op. 13 Halina Lukomska (soprano) Bruno Maderna |
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra "A great listen, possibly the most adventurous volume so far in a series that is fast establishing itself as a CD institution. Long may it continue." Gramophone | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Graznya Bacewicz - Polish CapriccioWorks for Violin & Piano
Joanna Kurkowicz (violin), Gloria Chien (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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