Anton Bruckner

This is a newly restored collection of previously released and no longer available Knappertsbusch best sellers from the Music & Arts catalogue.

Knappertsbusch was one of the great Bruckner interpreters and this bargain set includes symphonies Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9.

5 CD + CD ROM of booklet notes and sung texts

CD 1: Lamentation

CD 2: Henry Purcell

CD 3: Evensong & Vespers at King's - Vespers for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Evenson for Advent

CD 4: Sacred Choral Favourites

CD 5: Works by Rutter, Bernstein & Poulenc

This is a box with 10 SACDs to celebrate PentaTone's 10th anniversary. From each year of PentaTone's existence we have taken one SA-CD. Not necessarily the best sellers and award winners, but a fine selection presenting as much as possible all the artists PentaTone is/has been working with. As a bonus we have added a sampler SA-CD with tracks of other PentaTone albums (so the box includes 11 SA-CDs). On this sampler you will also find surround sound effects and test tones (which enable to adjust the position of the speakers of a HiFi set into the ideal position).

Ivor Bolton is known throughout the world for his superlative performances of baroque and early music. In this successful series, he shapes the symphonies of Bruckner and here presents the 6th volume.

Mozarteumorchester Salburg’s release of Symphony No.3 (OC722) was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice.

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.

Bruckner's music embodies the visions of a devout, ordinary man. Parts of his expansive, shimmering musical landscapes are influenced by Wagner, but one can also detect Schubert, who began life in similar circumstances. The reposeful piety which runs through Bruckner's symphonic spectrum lends his music its unique power of attraction.

Well over a hundred years after Anton Bruckner's death, the discussions about him on the part of music historians and performers are not yet at an end. Anton Bruckner was a composer who flagrantly contradicted the spirit of his era. No other body of music has had to wait such a long time to gain the acknowledgement of audiences at large.

Brucker’s Mass in F minor is his largest and greatest Mass, classical in form but injected with a new vitality. Inspired by the composer’s recent studies of Mozart and Haydn, the Mass is symphonically conceived and the orchestra is allotted a prominent role.

His musical treatment of the familiar text illuminates Bruckner’s devout spirituality and exemplifies the profound religious mysticism that characterizes his music in general.

The Corydon Singers and Matthew Best are superb, with a sense of ensemble that is second to none.