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Albéniz: | Triana (from Iberia, book 2) | Brahms: | Variations on an Original Theme in D major, Op. 21, No. 1 Variations on a theme by Paganini in A minor, Op. 35 | Chopin: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11: Romance Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' | Delibes: | Naila: Waltz | Kreisler: | Liebesleid | Liszt: | La leggierezza - Étude de concert No. 2, S144 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March & Dance of the Fairies (after Mendelssohn), S410 Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 2 in C sharp minor Waldesrauschen, S145 No. 1 | Mendelssohn: | A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo | Moszkowski: | Caprice espagnole, Op. 37 | Mozart: | Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K537 'Coronation' Deh! vieni alla finestra (from Don Giovanni) | Pick-Mangiagalli: | La Danza di Olaf | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor | Schubert: | Marche Militaire, D733 No. 1 | Strauss, R: | Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 | Weber: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, J. 98, Op. 11: Rondo - moto perpetuo |
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano, piano-roll) Berlin Municipal Orchestra, Berlin Stadtischen Opera Orchestra, Fritz Zaun This CD showcases Backhaus’s great virtuosity. “revelatory: instead of the stern Beethovenian we are used to, the young pianist who emerges courtesy of piano-roll recordings from the 1920s is full of fire and flamboyance.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 ***** | 
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| |  | Mozart: Missa brevis in D major & Missa brevis in Bb major
Mozart: | Missa Brevis in D major K194 Elizabeth Cragg (soprano), Deborah Miles-Johnson (contralto), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor) & Lawrence White (bass) St Albans Cathedral Choir & Sinfonia Verdi, Andrew Lucas Missa Brevis in B flat major K275 Elizabeth Cragg (soprano), Deborah Miles-Johnson (contralto), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor) & Lawrence White (bass) St Albans Cathedral Choir & Sinfonia Verdi, Andrew Lucas Regina coeli in B flat, K127 Elizabeth Cragg (soprano), Deborah Miles-Johnson (contralto), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor) & Lawrence White (bass) St Albans Cathedral Choir & Sinfonia Verdi, Andrew Lucas Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ, K608 Tom Winpenny (organ) |
During his years in Salzburg, Mozart wrote a series of shorter mass settings, for which he drew on the models of his senior colleague Michael Haydn. Regina coeli reveals his supreme skill at writing for the solo voice. The Missa brevis in D, K. 194 is a work of great solemnity, employing a remarkable range of expressive contrasts, whilst the Missa brevis in B flat, K. 275 is notable for its sublime lyricism and grace. The Allegro and Andante in F minor, K. 608 is regarded as Mozart’s finest work for the organ and has become one of the cornerstones of the organ repertory. The church music Mozart wrote in Salzburg is both ingenious and expressive, and has wide appeal. Our disc expands the choral focus. “Both [Masses] are performed with energy, clarity and poise by the St Albans Cathedral Choir and the Sinfonia Verdi...The penultimate section is exquisitely lovely, and finely sung by Elizabeth Cragg.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 **** “The stars of the show are, of course, the choir; and on this evidence the choral tradition at St Albans is in rude health, the tone consistent and untiring. The soloists blend well...if further recordings of this repertoire emanate from these quarters, this is sure to be worth collecting.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 “With an excellent quartet of soloists and expert playing from the period-instrument group Sinfonia Verdi, it remains only to hand out plaudits to the choir, which is clearly in excellent shape under Lucas's direction...The treble line is pure and confidently dispatched.” International Record Review, May 2013 |
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| |  | Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
Tom Hulce (Mozart), F. Murray Abraham (Salieri), Elizabeth Berridge (Constanze), Simon Callow (Emanuel Schikaneder), Roy Dotrice (Leopold Mozart), Christine Ebersole (Caterina Cavalieri), Jeffrey Jones (Kaiser Joseph II) Milos Forman (dir.) Oscar-winning biopic, based on the play by Peter Shaffer, which tells the story of the composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and his relationship to the man he later claims to have murdered, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). Having already gained the confidence of the Emperor, Salieri is frustrated by the arrival of the genius Mozart, a man who quickly usurps his position in the court. His frustration is magnified by both his disapproval of Mozart's vulgar behaviour and by the fact that it is he, more so than anyone else, who can appreciate the true beauty of the young composer's work. When Mozart dies under mysterious circumstances, can it really be Salieri who is to blame? Subtitles in English and Arabic |
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| |  | Wilhelm Kempff: The Concerto Recordings
Beethoven: | Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (complete) recorded in 1961 Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (complete) recorded in 1953 Berliner Philharmoniker, Paul van Kempen Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 first recording of work, September 1925 Kapelle der Staatsoper, Berlin Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 recorded in Berlin, June 1942 Dresdner Philharmonie, Paul van Kempen Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 recorded in April 1941 Orchester des Deutschen Opernhauses Berlin, Paul van Kempen Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor' recorded in Berlin (Polydor Studios), June 1936 Berliner Philharmoniker, Peter Raabe | Brahms: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 recorded in 1957 Staatskapelle Dresden, Franz Konwitschny | Liszt: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124 recorded in April 1954 London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125 recorded in April 1954 London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari | Mozart: | Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466 recorded in Berlin in 1941 Dresdner Philharmonie, Paul van Kempen Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in D major, K382 recorded in Berlin in 1941 Dresdner Philharmonie, Paul van Kempen Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K246 "Lützow" Ferdinand Leitner Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 Ferdinand Leitner Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491 Ferdinand Leitner Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595 Ferdinand Leitner Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan' recorded in 1977 SOBR, Bernhard Klee Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482 recorded in 1977 SOBR, Bernhard Klee Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K271 "Jeunehomme" recorded in 1953 Karl Münchinger Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K450 recorded in 1953 Karl Münchinger | Schumann: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 recorded in 1973 SOBR, Rafael Kubelik Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 recorded in 1953 London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips |
Last year it was the Kempff solo recordings which brightened up our winter days at the start of the new year and sold nearly 6,000 copies of the 35-CD box. Now for the first time, comes a compact 14-CD set of his complete concerto studio recordings. They span from his 1925 recording of Beethoven’s First Concerto (the first ever to be made of that work) to his visionary 1977 performances of Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 21 and 22, now receiving their first international CD release. Unlike the solo recordings set, this edition is non-limited. Kempff traversed the set of Beethoven Concertos three times in the studio (only No.2 was not set down during the shellac era); all those performances are included in this set. There’s more Mozart, Brahms and Schumann. In addition, 1950s Decca recordings of two Mozart concertos, the Liszt and Schumann concertos are also featured. |
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| |  | Mozart: Concertos Nos. 13 & 14 (chamber version)
Recently awarded Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Performing Arts Award 2012 for Lifetime Achievement in Classical Music, pianist Janina Fialkowska presents her second Mozart CD on ATMA with two rarely heard Mozart concertos. Based in Ottawa, The Chamber Players of Canada is a group made up of some of the best musicians from across Canada. “Fialkowska's canny combination of rhetorical splendour and individual exuberance is beguiling - this is not delicate, decorative Mozart...Fialkowska is at her invigorating best in the highly contrapuntal weave of the finale, where her unobtrusive enlivening of inner voices, most particularly in the bass, is simply exhilarating. Few performers capture so engagingly the sheer fun in Mozart.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** “Fialkowska’s treatment is crystalline and unsentimentalised, lending the music a spontaneous fluency that is invigorating” Financial Times, 23rd February 2013 “If Fialkowska occasionally slips into some tensionless playing in the fast movement, her performances of the slow equivalents are insightful...Virtues are to be found in these performances of the concertos but they don't compensate for reductions in scale brought on by the absence of woodwind and brass (plus timpani in K415)” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 “Fialkowska's refined delicacy suits this arrangement admirably, forcing us to revisit the music afresh and listen again to the clean lines of accompaniment delineated so strikingly by string quartet and double bass.” The Observer, 3rd March 2013  BBC Music Magazine
Chamber Choice - May 2013 |
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| |  | Mozart: Requiem, Ave verum corpus & Masonic Funeral Music
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| |  | The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda
Adam: | Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) | Beethoven: | Adelaide, Op. 46 | Bellini: | Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula) | Berlioz: | La gloire etait ma seule idole (from Benvenuto Cellini) | Bizet: | Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) | Donizetti: | Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore) Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor) | Flotow: | Ach, so fromm (from Martha) | Glinka: | Souvenir | Goldmark: | Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba) | Gounod: | L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette) | Lehár: | Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini) Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns) | Massenet: | Pourquoi me reveiller (from Werther) Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon) | Mozart: | Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni) Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte) | Mussorgsky: | Boris Godunov: Dmitry! Tsarevich | Offenbach: | Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann) | Puccini: | Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) | Rachmaninov: | Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4 How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7 | Rossini: | Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell) | Strauss, J, II: | Ja, das alles auf Ehr' (from Der Zigeunerbaron) | Strauss, R: | Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3 Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 | Tchaikovsky: | Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin) In this moonlight, Op.73, No.3 Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3 Serenada Don-Zhuana (Don Juan's Serenade), Op. 38 No. 1 | Thomas, Ambroise: | Elle ne croyait pas, dans sa candeur naïve (from Mignon) | Verdi: | Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) | Wagner: | In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) |
Nicolai Gedda, the most recorded tenor in history, is an exceptionally versatile artist who has excelled in a wide variety of operatic roles as well as in the art song. With a magnificent lyric tenor voice and extraordinary range, Gedda makes the notorious top D at the end of ‘Mes amis, écoutez l’histoire’ sound positively effortless. This collection offers a wealth of repertoire that has helped to cement Gedda’s reputation as one of the greatest tenors of his generation. |
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| |  | Gunter Wand conducts Handel & Mozart
“One doesn’t much think of Handel when considering Wand and indeed, we only hear the Overture from the Music for the Royal Fireworks, a performance which, once past an uneasy downbeat, has a deal of stretchy phraseology in the lentemente section and a nourished string tone throughout.” MusicWeb International, 6th May 2013 |
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| |  | Mozart: Requiem & Bruckner: Te Deum
“The “Dies Irae” has what I can only call a fanatical attack and tempo, while ‘Hostias’, taken extremely slowly, is deeply devotional. Barenboim has, of course, a superb quartet of soloists, an absolutely first-rate chorus and an orchestra that knows how to play Mozart with the utmost artistry…You really should not overlook this exciting and most beautiful performance.” Gramophone Magazine |
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| |  | Wiener Philharmoniker: The Symphony Edition
Beethoven: | Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 Claudio Abbado Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 Claudio Abbado Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Carlos Kleiber Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Carlos Kleiber Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral' Karl Böhm Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 Karl Böhm Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Hanna Schwarz (alto), René Kollo (tenor) & Kurt Moll (bass) with Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Leonard Bernstein | Brahms: | Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Leonard Bernstein Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Carlo Maria Giulini Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Carlos Kleiber | Bruckner: | Symphony No. 1 in C minor Claudio Abbado Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic' Version 1878/1880 Claudio Abbado Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Edition: Leopold Nowak Claudio Abbado Symphony No. 7 in E Major Herbert von Karajan Symphony No. 8 in C minor Herbert von Karajan Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Edition: Leopold Nowak Carlo Maria Giulini | Dvorak: | Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 Myung Whun Chung Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 Myung Whun Chung String Quartet No. 8 in E major, Op. 80 Lorin Maazel Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World' Lorin Maazel | Haydn: | Symphony No. 88 in G major Karl Böhm Symphony No. 89 in F major Karl Böhm Symphony No. 90 in C major Karl Böhm Symphony No. 91 in E flat major Karl Böhm Symphony No. 92 in G major 'Oxford' Karl Böhm | Mahler: | Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Cheryl Studer (soprano) & Waltraud Meier (mezzo) with Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Claudio Abbado Symphony No. 3 in D minor Jessye Norman (soprano) with Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Sängerknaben, Claudio Abbado Symphony No. 4 in G major Frederica von Stade (mezzo) Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic' Pierre Boulez Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of the Thousand' Barbara Hendricks, Margaret Price, Judith Blegen, Gerti Zeumer, Helmut Wittek, Agnes Baltsa, Christa Ludwig, Trudeliese Schmidt, Kenneth Riegel, Hermann Prey, José van Dam with Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Singverein, Wiener Sängerknaben, Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major - Adagio Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 9 in D major Claudio Abbado | Mendelssohn: | Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian' revised version John Eliot Gardiner Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 'Reformation' John Eliot Gardiner | Mozart: | Symphonies (Complete) James Levine | Schubert: | Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200 Carlos Kleiber Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished' Carlos Kleiber Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great' John Eliot Gardiner Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D714 2nd version for 8-part male chorus and string orchestra with Male Voices of the Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485 Karl Böhm | Schumann: | Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (complete) Leonard Bernstein | Shostakovich: | Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 Leonard Bernstein | Sibelius: | Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 Leonard Bernstein | Tchaikovsky: | Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Herbert von Karajan Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Herbert von Karajan Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' Herbert von Karajan |
An edition of the works of 13 composers, from Mozart to Shostakovich. 95 symphonies on 50 CDs. Symphonic cycles by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. All of Carlos Kleiber’s DG symphonic recordings are there (Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms). Signal contributions by Claudio Abbado (Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler), Leonard Bernstein (Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Sibelius, Shostakovich), Karl Böhm (Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms), Carlo Maria Giulini (Bruckner), Herbert von Karajan (Bruckner, Tchaikovsky) and James Levine (Mozart). Brilliant individual contributions by Pierre Boulez (Mahler 6), Myung-Whung Chung (Dvořák), John Eliot Gardiner (Schubert, Mendelssohn) and Lorin Maazel (Dvořák). COVER ART / BOOKLET More noble, evocative artwork, conceived in purely graphical terms, is difficult to imagine. The 80-page booklet has a newly-commissioned introduction on the DG / Wiener Philharmoniker relationship by Dr. Clemens Hellsberg, violinist and director of the board of the orchestra, a full tracklist and photos of the artists. |
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