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| |  | The London String Quartet: 1917-51 Recordings
Beethoven: | String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 'Rasumovsky No. 3' John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), William Primrose (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95 'Serioso' James Levey (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), Edgardo Acosta (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Bloch, E: | Pieces (5) for string quartet John Pennington (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Brahms: | String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67 John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), William Primrose (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2 Albert Sammons (violin), Edwin Virgo (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Bridge: | Three Idylls James Levey (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) An Irish Melody, "Londonderry Air" James Levey (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Debussy: | String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), Cecil Bonvalot (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Dohnányi: | String Quartet No. 2 in D flat major, Op. 15 John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), Edgardo Acosta (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Elgar: | String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 James Levey (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Foster, S: | I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Camptown Races Old folks at home Sweet Laura Lee Beautiful Dreamer Gentle Annie O Susannah Old Black Joe John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), Cecil Bonvalot (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Franck, C: | String Quartet in D major John Pennington (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Haydn: | String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor 'Fifths' John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), Cecil Bonvalot (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 3 in C major 'Emperor' John Pennington (violin), Laurent Halleux (violin), Cecil Bonvalot (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Kreisler: | String Quartet in A minor: Finale James Levey (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | McEwen: | String Quartet No. 6 in A major 'Biscay' Albert Sammons (violin), Edwin Virgo (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Mozart: | String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K465 'Dissonance' Albert Sammons (violin), Edwin Virgo (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Ravel: | String Quartet in F major John Pennington (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Schubert: | String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde' John Pennington (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz' John Pennington (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Schumann: | String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3 James Levey (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Toch: | String Quartet No. 12, Op. 70 James Levey (violin), Thomas Petre (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) | Vaughan Williams: | On Wenlock Edge Gervase Elwes (tenor), Frederick B. Kiddle (piano), Albert Sammons (violin), Edwin Virgo (violin), Waldo Warner (viola), Warwick Evans (cello) |
The London String Quartet The London String Quartet was Britain’s leading chamber ensemble for two decades and 2010 marked the centenary of its first concerts. Equally well known in America, this collection includes five programmes performed at the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1951, issued here for the first time. The collection includes well known works, as well as more obscure ones by Bridge, Kreisler and Foster. | | | (also available to download from $55.25) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Volume 9
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| |  | Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
2011 will see the release of three new discs on the Brana Records label of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos, performed by Felicja Blumental with Robert Wagner conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra including the novel and partially complete Piano Concerto in E flat Wo0 composed by a teenage Beethoven. This release features Beethoven’s third and fourth concerto. | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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Mention Beethoven to anybody, and one of the first works which generally springs to mind is his Ninth Symphony. Though Beethoven himself considered his Missa Solemnis, written at the same time, to be his greatest work, it is his Symphony No.9 which has proved the most enduring, not least because of its innovative and compelling choral finale, with the famous, irresistible ‘Ode to Joy’. Yet, as with any popular work, it is vital to approach each listening with fresh ears, ready to hear something new. For there is no doubting that this is a work of great profundity, from its subtle opening, growing as though out of infinite space, to the climactic final movement which moves beyond ‘joy’ to the ecstatic, the transcendental. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. IV
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| |  | Ryan MacEvoy McCullough in Concert
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (piano) | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | String Quartet Masterworks of the First Viennese School
Zemlinsky Quartet: Frantisek Soucek (violin), Petr Strizek (violin), Petr Holman (viola) & Vladimir Fortin (cello) The Zemlinsky Quartet, trained by the Czech school and acclaimed by the Viennese, offer three famous quartets of the first Viennese School, which are still reference works of the genre more than two centuries after their first performances. “There’s nothing quite like a Czech string quartet. The Zemlinsky are in the great Bohemian tradition, playing with a fullness of tone and a combined naturalness and care for phrasing and note values that give delight in all three works recorded here...Perhaps best of all is the Mozart...Mozart said his “Praguers” understood him. These ones surely do.” Sunday Times, 25th September 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Pierre Monteux conducts Beethoven, Elgar & RavelRecorded at the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv: 7.3.1964
Speaking about Maestro Monteux , one of the orchestra members said: “When we get one who goes mad on the podium, one who shouts and waves his arms all over the place because he lacks confidence, we just laugh at him. With Monteux, you can see that patience maketh the conductor” Some audience noise but an absolutely cracking ‘Enigma’. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Volume 6The Live Radio Recordings (1990-2000)
Bartók: | Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11 January 6, 1990 Ildikó Komlósi (Judith) & Kolos Kovács (Bluebeard) Iván Fischer Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119 December 16, 1993 Martha Argerich (piano) Claus Peter Flor | Beethoven: | Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral' March 10, 1991 Wolfgang Sawallisch | Berio: | Sinfonia May 16, 1997 Swingle Singers, Luciano Berio | Berlioz: | Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7 March 19, 1999 Ann Murray (soprano) Bernard Haitink | Brahms: | Tragic Overture, Op. 81 May 12, 1995 Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Bruckner: | Symphony No. 3 in D minor ‘Wagner Symphony' November 8, 1996 Kurt Sanderling | Dallapiccola: | Liriche Greche per soprano e diversi gruppi strumentali April 29, 1993 Lucy Shelton (soprano) Reinbert de Leeuw | Debussy: | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune February 24, 1995 Jean Fournet | Diepenbrock: | Hymne an die Nacht No. 2 'Muß immer der Morgen wiederkommen?' for mezo-soprano solo & orchestra October 10, 1997 Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) Riccardo Chailly | Dutilleux: | L'Arbre des songes (Concerto for violin and orchestra) February 2, 1991 Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Charles Dutoit | Elgar: | Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63 February 19, 1992 André Previn | Feldman: | Coptic Light October 23, 1998 Peter Eötvös | Hindemith: | Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber April 29, 1994 Riccardo Chailly | Ives, C: | Orchestral Set No. 1 'Three Places in New England' April 18, 1998 John Adams | Loevendie: | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra April 19, 1996 Ronald Brautigam (piano) Riccardo Chailly | Lutoslawski: | Concerto for Orchestra February 18, 1993 Stanislav Skrowaczewski | Mahler: | Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor December 9, 1990 Klaus Tennstedt | Martin, F: | Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion & string orchestra September 26, 1991 Riccardo Chailly | Messiaen: | 3 Petites liturgies de la Presence Divine January 21, 1994 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) & Jean Laurendeau (ondes martenot) Women of the Netherlands Radio Choir, Charles Dutoit | Mozart: | Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 January 29, 1997 Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Pijper: | Zes symfonische epigrammen March 19, 1999 Bernard Haitink | Ravel: | Ma Mère l'Oye February 24, 1993 Bernard Haitink | Schoenberg: | Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 October 27, 1995 Pierre Boulez 5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16 November 24, 1995 Mariss Jansons | Schreker: | Vom ewigen Leben March 10, 2000 Claudia Barainsky (soprano) Gerd Albrecht | Schubert: | Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great' November 1, 1996 Sir John Eliot Gardiner | Schumann: | Fantasie in C major for Violin and Orchestra, Op.131 May 12, 1995 Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Shostakovich: | Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10 September 19, 1991 Sir Georg Solti Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 June 11, 1999 Kurt Sanderling | Sibelius: | Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63 September 11, 1991 Paavo Berglund | Strauss, R: | Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 June 11, 1999 Kurt Masur | Stravinsky: | Divertimento (symphonic suite from Le Baiser de la Fée) April 27, 1997 Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Takemitsu: | A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden April 18, 1998 John Adams | Wagner: | Rienzi Overture December 9, 1993 Mariss Jansons | Zemlinsky: | Symphonische Gesänge (7), Op. 20 October 10, 1993 Williard White (baritone) Riccardo Chailly | Zimmermann, B A: | Trumpet Concerto in C 'Nobody Knows De Trouble I See' June 29, 1995 Peter Masseurs (trumpet) Edo de Waart |
The Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is a transcription in sound of the concert-giving history of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, based upon radio recordings from the archives of Dutch Radio and Radio Netherlands World Service. Six decades of the 20th century are put under the spotlight in six boxes, each containing 14 CDs. The RCO have chosen not only legendary performances by chief conductors of the Orchestra but also concerts led by countless guest conductors of both greater and lesser renown. Famous soloists make their debuts alongside world premieres of works that have since become classics of the repertoire. This sixth volume of the Anthology features the radio recordings made by the orchestra in the 1990s, presenting an overview on 14 CDs of the orchestra’s artistic development under various conductors during that period. The RCO will celebrate their 125th anniversary in 2013, when Volume 7 will be issued and limited print runs of the early volumes. “Hats off to the Royal Concertgebouw: this sixth installment of their 'Anthology' crowns what is without doubt the most impressive (certainly the most representative) recorded retrospective of any orchestra ever undertaken on disc...there's the expected wealth of varied interpretation, all of it well worth preserving...with this kind of evidence to hand, there's surely no valid reason to challenge this great orchestra's continued reign.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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