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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | 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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Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV198 'Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl' (Trauerode) Ingird Schmithusen, Charles Brett, Howard Crook & Peter Kooy La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe Cantata BWV78 'Jesu der du meine Seele' Ingird Schmithusen, Charles Brett, Howard Crook & Peter Kooy La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe | Biber: | Missa Christi resurgentis The English Concert, Andrew Manze | Brahms: | Gesänge (3) for six-part mixed choir, Op. 42 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Gesänge (4), Op. 17 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Lieder (7) for mixed choir, Op. 62 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Gesänge (5) for mixed choir, Op. 104 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed In stiller Nacht, WoO 34 No. 8 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Quartette (4), Op. 92 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Quartette (3), Op. 31 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Quartette (3), Op. 64 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Quartette (6), Op. 112 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed | Fauré: | Requiem, Op. 48 Agnès Mellon & Peter Kooy La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe Messe des Pêcheurs Agnès Mellon & Peter Kooy La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe | Krenek: | Lamentatio Jeremiæ Prophetæ secundum Breviarum Sacrosantæ Ecclesiæ Romanæ, Op. 93 RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed | Mahler: | Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of the Thousand' Sylvia Greenberg, Lynne Dawson, Sally Matthews (soprano), Sophie Koch, Elena Manistana (altos) & Robert Gambill (tenor) Rundfunkchor Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano | Monteverdi: | Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe |
The 2011 10-CD bargain boxes from harmonia mundi from the hm gold collection. We know from experience that these will sell out quickly: incredible price, limited edition, while stocks last. Featuring the following discs, originally released between 1983 & 1999: HMC901270 BACH Trauerode / Herreweghe HMC901592/93 BRAHMS Secular Choral / RIAS HMC901551 KRENEK Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae / RIAS HMC901247/48 MONTEVERDI / Vespro HMU907397 BIBER Missa Christi Resurgentis / Manze HMC901292 FAURE Requiem / Herreweghe HMC901858/59 MAHLER Symphony no.8 / Nagano | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 plus Adagio of the 10th
Beverley Sills, Florence Koploff & Natania Devrath Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Klaus Tennstedt conducts MahlerRoyal Festival Hall, London, 13 December 1988
Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), a renowned Mahlerian, conducted this live performance at the Royal Festival Hall a year after stepping down as the LPO’s Principal Conductor. Issued here for the first time on DVD, this same live performance was hailed as ‘legendary’ by Michael McManus in the Gramophone and has been released on CD by EMI. Tennstedt’s 1978 studio recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is described in one edition of the Penguin Guide as ‘an outstanding performance, thoughtful on the one hand, warm and expressive on the other.’ This 1988 live performance is described in a later edition of the same guide as ‘more daring and more idiosyncratic than Tennstedt’s earlier studio recording, but the tension is far keener. The experience hits one at full force’. ‘The emotional tension of the occasion is vividly captured.’ This performance was the last time Tennstedt returned to Mahler 5 with the LPO and the highly personal and passionate interpretation justifies his reputation for outstanding live performances. According to Michael McManus, ‘The phenomenon that was Tennstedt in concert will never, can never, be recreated.’ 1DVD Sound format: Ambient Mastering Picture format: 4:3 Running time: 76’ Subtitles: n/a Menu languages: English Booklet languages: E/F/G Region code: 0 Territory Restrictions: None “The performance epitomises the combination of immensely detailed precision and overwhelming expressive intensity that Tennstedt's many admirers found so special about his Mahler...it includes long takes of Tennstedt himself, revealing his refusal to play to the gallery. Moreover, the DVD is touching: the uncharismatic figure who strides to the podium with such determination is plainly an unwell man, but his weariness never shows for long.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 **** “This Fifth, from the RFH in December 1988, is an entertaining watch. It’s raw, physical, raucous and, most crucially, dangerous...there’s magic in watching this frail figure conjure up sounds of such ferocity. And the physicality of Tennstedt’s approach, glasses perennially on the point of sliding off his perspirant nose, is joyfully reflected in the London Philharmonic’s playing” The Arts Desk, 14th December 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Charles Munch conducts Late Romantic Masterpieces
Dvorak: | Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) | Mahler: | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (4 songs, complete) Maureen Forrester (contralto) Kindertotenlieder Maureen Forrester (contralto) | Strauss, R: | Don Quixote, Op. 35 Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Joseph de Pasquale (viola) & Richard Burgin (violin) | Tchaikovsky: | Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Henryk Szeryng (violin) Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 | Wagner: | Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod Die Walkure: Magic Fire Music Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March Eileen Farrell (soprano) |
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| |  | Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder & Rückert-Lieder
Hermine Haselböck (mezzo-soprano) & Russell Ryan (piano) The Austrian mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck, winner of the Vienna Musikverein's Alexander Zemlinsky Prize, sings three of Gustav Mahler's great song cycles, accompanied by pianist Russell Ryan. Hermine Haselböck's other Bridge CDs include Lieder by Franz Schreker with baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Russell Ryan, BRIDGE9259); and Lieder by Alexander Zemlinsky (with pianist Florian Henschel, BRIDGE9244). | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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After the successful release by the highly regarded Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra of recordings of two of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies, No. 1 in D major (EXCL00026) and No. 4 in G major (EXCL00048), this two channel double SACD set features a live performance of the composer’s massive Third Symphony in D minor. Considered to be one of the best modern day interpreters of Gustav Mahler’s music, the Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck began his career as conductor of Vienna's Jeunesse Orchestra, which he co-founded, and as assistant to Claudio Abbado with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. After several highly successful guest appearances as conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he was appointed its Music Director in 2008. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D minor was written between 1893 and 1896 and is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire. It has five movements and features a large orchestra, chorus, children’s choir, and female soloist. “There are many glorious things in here: the ethereally distant posthorn in the Scherzo, or the sudden eruption of raw elemental power at the end of the movement. Michelle de Young's 'O Mensch!' is suitably mesmerising, and the children's 'Bimm, bamm' bell effects in the fifth movement are splendidly lacking in Anglo-Saxon embarrassment. The recording captures everything with vivid fidelity.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 **** “The great cinemascopic vistas that are summoned up by those eight unison horns at the start are quite remarkable for their depth, breadth and thunderous immediacy. Manfred Honeck (clearly a Mahlerian to reckon with) and his engineers are especially impressive in catching the gaudy splendour of the first movement...The orchestral playing is pretty tremendous throughout...More than a little special, then, in marvellous sound.” Gramophone Magazine, Gramophone 2011 “this is a notably successful new version...First, there's the playing: this orchestra has a long and distinguished recording history...but it can seldom have sounded as magnificent as it does here...Next, there's Manfred Honeck's conducting...it's one of the most successful readings I've heard of the work in recent years...As for the sound, it's marvellous” International Record Review, January 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | University of Houston Wind Ensemble, Vol. 1
University of Houston Wind Ensemble, Eddie Green | |
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This dynamic ‘live’ recording really does showcase this key work in Mahler’s discography. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Manchester Camerata, conducted by Douglas Boyd and joined by mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin and tenor Peter Wedd, give a vivid and memorable performance of Schoenberg’s chamber transcription of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Last year’s Mahler in Manchester festival was “A sensory experience like no other,” according to The Sunday Times, not least for the Manchester Camerata’s revelatory performance of Das Lied von der Erde in the scaled-down chamber version by Schoenberg. The poignancy of Mahler’s “Song of the Earth” is highlighted by the reduced forces: just 16 performers, including the distinctive chimes of harmonium, celeste and piano. The chamber arrangement came about through Schoenberg’s Vienna-based Association for Private Musical Performances, founded in 1918. Dedicated to exploring new music but short of funds, they made a number of chamber versions of larger works, of which Das Lied was one. Conducted by Douglas Boyd, Manchester Camerata's performance of this transcription loses nothing of the astonishing sonic allure of the original – an ideal memento of an enlightening festival celebrating the music of Mahler. “[The arrangement] works remarkably well...This performance under the greatly gifted Douglas Boyd is impressive...in this recording many interesting details come to light, and the soloists are both fine, without being overtaxed in the way that almost everyone is in the full orchestral version.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2011 **** “Manchester Camerata's nuanced, expertly balanced performance imbues the many oriental inflections with vivid brightness...Wedd meets head-one the high-lying heldentenor challenges of 'Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde'. His strong tenor is commanding and intense in the vigorous animated passages, and equally arresting in the softer moments. A fresh-sounding interpretation awash with dramatic and tonal colour.” Classic FM Magazine, September 2011 **** “Schoenberg and Riehn make full use of the array of colours at their command. The tenor Peter Wedd, though powerful, shows himself capable of tender intimacy, while the mezzo Jane Irwin gives a moving account of the final Der Abschied. The Camerata play with distinction under the intelligent shaping of Douglas Boyd.” Sunday Times, 4th September 2011 “even in chamber dress, mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin and the Manchester team capture its progress from objective narration to personal vision with rapt and compelling intensity...The arrangement undoubtedly takes on a life of its own. It refracts this great masterwork through a different prism lending its own special insights, and this performance is a comprehensive realization of its considerable merits.” International Record Review, November 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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