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Debussy: | Danses sacrée et profane Chamber Music Society Orchestra, Pierre Capdevielle Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp Gaston Crunelle (flute) & Georges Blanpain (viola) Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin | Françaix: | Quintet for flute, string trio & harp Gaston Crunelle (flute), René Bas (violin), Georges Blanpain (viola) & Robert Krabansky (cello) | Indy: | Suite en parties, Op. 91 René Leroy (flute), René Bas (violin), Pierre Grout (viola) & Roger Boulmé (cello) | Mozart: | Flute & Harp Concerto in C major, K299 Gaston Crunelle (flute) Gustave Cloëz | Pierné, G: | Voyage au pays de tendre Gaston Crunelle (flute), Étienne Ginot (viola), Marcel Frecheville (cello), Louis Beydts (narrator) & René Bas (violin) Variations libres et Finale, Op. 51 René Leroy (flute), René Bas (violin), Pierre Grout (viola) & Roger Boulmé (cello) | Ravel: | Introduction & Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet Soloists of French Radio, Pierre Capdevielle | Roussel: | Sérénade for flute, string trio & harp, Op. 30 Gaston Crunelle (flute), René Bas (violin), Georges Blanpain (viola) & Robert Krabansky (cello) | Schmitt, F: | Suite en Rocaille, Op. 84 René Leroy (flute), René Bas (violin), Pierre Grout (viola) & Roger Boulmé (cello) |
This charming double album pays tribute to a very French institution - the Paris Instrumental Quintet, renamed following World War Two after harpist Pierre Jamet. All the works on the second disc were written for, or commissioned by, the Quintet, and recorded soon after their premières, so that this release is an important historical document as well as a very civilised listening experience. And sooo French! | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Karajan - The Legendary Decca Recordings
Adam: | Giselle | Beethoven: | Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 | Brahms: | Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Tragic Overture, Op. 81 Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 | Dvorak: | Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 | Grieg: | Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55: Ingrid's Lament Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song | Haydn: | Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drum Roll' Symphony No. 104 in D major 'London' | Holst: | The Planets, Op. 32 | Mozart: | Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter' | Strauss, J, I: | Beliebte Annen - Polka Op. 137 | Strauss, J, II: | Die Fledermaus Overture Die Fledermaus: Ballet Music, Act 2 Der Zigeunerbaron Overture Auf der Jagd, Op. 373 Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325 | Strauss, Josef: | Delirien Waltz, Op. 212 | Strauss, R: | Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils Don Juan, Op. 20 Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 | Tchaikovsky: | Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture Swan Lake, Op. 20 Suite The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a Sleeping Beauty, Suite, Op. 66a |
5 April 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert von Karajan, the legendary Austrian-born conductor who achieved a position of musical supremacy as director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra that made him one of the most famous and celebrated conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. While the majority of his symphonic recordings were made for Deutsche Grammophon, von Karajan also recorded for Decca and EMI during the 1950s and 1960s. This set is reissued to mark this momentous anniversary and contains all of his orchestral recordings made with the Vienna Philharmonic for Decca during the late 1950s/early 1960s. One of the most celebrated of these – and a composer he was closely identified with, is Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra – a recording heard by countless people around the globe as the opening was used on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. “Karajan's short spell with Decca produced some of his finest recordings with the VPO. In that category here are the Richard Strauss tone-poems, performances full of character and sharply detailed. One marvels at the wide dynamic range of Also sprach Zarathustra (1959) as much for the recording as for the thrilling orchestral virtuosity.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Mozart: Piano Concertos Volume 3
“Zacharias produces a lovely pellucid, singing tone with graceful phrasing.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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These recordings were made at the end of the 1940’s at the time that magnetic recordings were being introduced in the USSR. The first (German) recordings appeared at Moscow radio in 1945 and shortly afterwards they began to be produced in the USSR. These are important documents from this time and provide a fascinating insight into early recording techniques. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Taken from a performance from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York from 14.12.1957 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Taken from a live performance in Salzburg from 03.08.1957 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Oleg Kagan (violin) Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, David Oistrakh | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish Recorded in 1956 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Hear My Words
Berkeley, L: | The Lord is my Shepherd, Op. 91 No. 1 | Boyle, M C: | Thou, O God, art praised | Byrd: | Teach me, O Lord | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus | Greene, M: | Lord, Let Me Know Mine End | Haydn: | Benedictus from Mass No. 7 in B flat major, Hob.XXII:7 "Little Organ Mass" | Ley: | A Prayer of King Henry VI | Mendelssohn: | Hear My Prayer | Mozart: | Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339: Laudate Dominum | Parry: | Hear my words, ye people I was glad | Stanford: | Evening Service in G, Op. 81: Magnificat A Song of Wisdom Op. 113 | Tomkins: | Out of the deep |
This disc features some of the best-loved anthems in the church repertoire, and notably that with an Etonian connection.Thus it begins and ends with the music of Parry, Eton's favourite musical son, whose success with Blest Pair of Sirens in 1887, saw him regarded as the leading choral composer in England. In 1441, Henry VI founded Eton College and its sister college, King's College in Cambridge, giving each a chapel in magnificent Perpendicular style.The foundation of Eton College provided ten men and sixteen boys to sing the services and with very few breaks, the choir has been singing in the chapel from then until the present day. “None of these young voices is anything less than impressive, and several are quite distinguished” Gramophone Magazine “the chief impression one is left with after hearing this disc is the excellence and polish of the choir ... this is a fine and very enjoyable disc. The performance standard is uniformly very high” MusicWeb International | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Mozart - String Quartets
Three of the six 'Haydn' Quartets in which, like instrumental mini-operas,
Mozart achieves perfection.With the 'Hunt', Mozart displays a thoroughly
Haydnian humour and mastery. Only K465 begins with a slow introduction,
whose famous 'dissonances' put off the subscribers of the era, that
contrasts with the luminous style of the rest of the work. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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