Johannes Brahms

Noted for her expressive power and poetic insight, combined with effortless technical ability, Japanese pianist Mami Shikimori has been exciting audiences since first appearing on stage in 1996.

Her playing has been described as 'electrifying' and 'a dazzling revelation' by the critics and she has performed at venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, London's St John's Smith Square and Queen Elizabeth Hall. She also gave a highly-acclaimed solo recital at Tokyo's Suntory Hall.

This Claudio debut CD culminates in Ravel's fiendishly difficult La Valse, a transcription by the composer himself.

Noted for her expressive power and poetic insight, combined with effortless technical ability, Japanese pianist Mami Shikimori has been exciting audiences since first appearing on stage in 1996.

Her playing has been described as 'electrifying' and 'a dazzling revelation' by the critics and she has performed at venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, London's St John's Smith Square and Queen Elizabeth Hall. She also gave a highly-acclaimed solo recital at Tokyo's Suntory Hall.

This Claudio debut CD culminates in Ravel's fiendishly difficult La Valse, a transcription by the composer himself.

A journey in music through a year at Truro charting some of the major Festivals of the Church’s year from Advent to Christ the King.

A collection of both well-loved items and some less familiar works that might be heard at choral services in the Cathedral during the year.

The latest recording from the critically acclaimed fine choir of Truro Cathedral!

The forth release in Regent’s new ‘A Year at…’

Very few great conductors were able to polarise the concert scene like the Romanian-born Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996). He hated marketing in all of its forms, and with the exception of Wilhelm Furtwängler, was disparaging of his more famous fellow conductors, including Herbert von Karajan and Arturo Toscanini. He also loathed going into the studio, so most recordings illustrating his astounding talents as a conductor are of concert performances.

The recordings featured in this 10-CD set were made between 1945 and 1963, and are mainly live broadcasts given with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Berlin and Cologne, and a number of Italian radio orchestras. The repertoire ranges widely - from the English baroque of Purcell through Viennese Classicism of Mozart to Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Strauss. The compilation also features several popular works from the 20th century (Ravel, Gershwin and Samuel Barber for instance), plus music by Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and Harald Genzmer associated with the German avant-garde. The least-known pieces are undoubtedly orchestral works of Heinz Thiessen (1887-1971), Celibidache’s composition teacher, to whom a full disc is devoted.

There has been a recent revival of interest in the music of Rheinberger.

Here the excellent young voices of the EuropaChorAkademie perform some of his lesser known works for choir and piano.

They also include Schumann’s Zigeurnerleben Op.29 No.3 and Brahms’ Sieben Lieder Op.62.

These two young musicians have won all sorts of awards, ranging from the prize of the Concours Rostropovich for cellist Norbert Anger to the first prize and audience prize of the Steinway Piano Competition for Nicolai Gerassimez. They became acquainted as prize winners of the German Music Competition and discovered their shared love of chamber music. As the Duo Anger-Gerassimez, they show the colorful variety of the combination cello/piano on their debut CD. They succeed superbly in rendering Brahms with pathos, Debussy with a playful quality and Piazzolla erotically. In so doing, the two young talents do not shy away from experimentation, either: in the Grand Tango of Piazzolla, the cello sounds like an electric guitar thanks to a special sound effect. A must for open minds and ears!

This collection is a well conceived tribute to the romantic lied of the 19th century.

Included are lieder and duets by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms.

The collection demonstrates the mastery which Alois Mühlbacher and the St. Florian Boys’ Choir have gained in this field.

We have assembled Franui’s inspiring trilogy about the art of the 19th century lied in a neat box for your convenience. A 3-CD digipack plus extra booklet, including a special box text by Christian Seiler, and everything kept firmly in place by a beautiful cardboard cover.

Following hard on the heels of Marcus Bosh’s critically acclaimed Bruckner Symphonic cycle with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, comes the completion of his Brahm’s symphonic cycle. This release continues the fine catalogue of live recordings issued on the Coviello label.

This year, we celebrate the thirty-year conducting career of Neeme Järvi with Chandos Records, as well as the conductor’s own seventy-fifth birthday.

We mark the occasion with this two-disc set of highlights, featuring a varied selection of concert hall rarities and core classics, along with some popular showpieces and examples of Järvi’s championing of Estonian and American music.

In the course of his conducting career, Järvi has amassed a distinguished discography of more than 440 recordings, well over 150 of them for Chandos.

Järvi has a rare ability to galvanise an orchestra into giving an interpretation of exceptional vigour and drive. Gramophone said of his recently concluded Halvorsen series (from which La Mélancolie and Bojarernes Indtogsmarsch are taken): ‘Järvi finds in the music a drama and pathos that might come as a revelation even to the composer.’

Also on this disc is the ‘Jester’s Dance’ from Tchaikovsky’s The Snow Maiden, a personal favourite of the conductor’s, and one that Järvi often performs as an encore at his many concerts around the world.