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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Nicolai GeddaRecordings From 1952-1957
The recordings for this 2 CD set have been carefully selected to show to advantage the extraordinary control
Gedda has over his vocal resources and also to demonstrate his remarkable gift for language. The French opera
excerpts all display an appealing sense of style together with excellent musicianship, both traits so much admired
in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His Russian scenes and arias have an authentic ring, his German highly
romantic and his Italian arias although his voice does not possess that particular Mediterranean warmth, do
nevertheless have a sense of morbidezza (tenderness) usually more associated with the Latin tenor. | 
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| |  | Freddy Kempf plays Mussorgsky, Ravel & Balakirev
Two years since his last release on BIS, Freddy Kempf returns to present a programme featuring three central works in the great virtuoso repertoire for solo piano. Each piece has the qualities in terms of characterisation and timbre that have resulted in well-known orchestral arrangements. Pictures from an Exhibition was composed following the death of Mussorgsky’s friend, the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann. Balakirev’s Islamey was composed five years earlier and was long regarded as the most difficult work in the entire piano repertory, and in fact, when Ravel 1908 composed Scarbo, the third movement of Gaspard de la Nuit, he specifically wanted to write something that would be even more difficult. “The pianist Freddy Kempf looks poetic and serious on the cover photo. He’s also straining for effect in these performances. In the Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition he settles too quickly for the brilliance that screams and thumps. There’s some of that, too, in the finale to Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, though the hanged man in Le Gibet is barely sensed. Still, he can be subtle, and Balakirev’s Islamey, the virtuoso’s nightmare, comes off well” The Times, 20th June 2008 *** |
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan |
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle The works on this album will be recorded at the famous Silvesterkonzert (New Year’s Concert) on New Year’s Eve at the Philharmonie, Berlin. The concert will be televised by major stations in Germany, Austria, Japan and other licensees. The turnaround of this recording will be extremely fast to allow the CD and download to be available in the shops in January. “In Pictures at an Exhibition I cannot imagine a performance truer to the finesse of Ravel's scoring. In the opening "Promenade" alone there are myriad subtleties of phasing and dynamics. What we have here is a sequence of exquisitely crafted miniatures; the French-ness of Ravek's fastidious work is everywhere.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Hans Hotter, Martha Modl, Hans Hopf, Kim Borg & Lorenz Fehenberger Chor & Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Boris Christoff (bass) & Gerald Moore (piano) Orchestra Radiofusion France Recordings made in Paris and London, 1951 -1957 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Karajan Master Recordings - 10 CD set
Bartók: | Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116 | Beethoven: | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 Cadenzas: Fritz Kreisler Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 | Brahms: | Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 | Cilea: | Intermezzo, Act II from Adriana Lecuouvreur | Debussy: | La Mer Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Karlheinz Zoeller (flute) | Giordano, U: | Intermezzo, Act II from Fedora | Leoncavallo: | Pagliacci: Intermezzo | Mascagni: | Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo Wolfgang Mexer (organ) L'Amico Fritz: Intermezzo | Massenet: | Meditation (from Thais) Michel Schwalbé | Mozart: | Requiem in D minor, K626 Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano), Agnes Baltsa (contralto), Werner Krenn (tenor), José Van Dam (bass) & Rudolf Scholz (organ) Wiener Singverein & Berliner Philharmoniker Mass in C major, K317 'Coronation Mass' Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano), Agnes Baltsa (contralto), Werner Krenn (tenor), José Van Dam (bass) & Rudolf Scholz (organ) Wiener Singverein & Berliner Philharmoniker | Mussorgsky: | Khovancina - Intermezzo from Act 4 | Puccini: | Suor Angelica - Intermezzo Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo Act III | Ravel: | Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2 Boléro | Schmidt, F: | Notre Dame - Intermezzo | Schubert: | Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished' Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great' | Strauss, R: | Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Michel Schwalbé (solo violin) | Stravinsky: | The Rite of Spring | Tchaikovsky: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Wiener Symphoniker Variations on a Rococo Theme in A, Op. 33 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) | Verdi: | La traviata: Prelude to Act 3 | Wolf-Ferrari: | The Jewels of the Madonna - Act III Intermezzo |
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan Selected recordings from 1959 to 1979 “In recording you can get to a point of perfection and precision not possible elsewhere, and, more important than anything, of real untrammelled music-making.” – Herbert von Karajan | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Russian Opera Arias & SongsWorks by Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov & Tchaikovsky
Boris Christoff Philharmonia Orchestra, Issay Dobrowen These recordings were made in London in 1949–52. Most notably, they capture the great Russian bass in his greatest role, Boris Godunov, just six months before his Covent Garden début in Mussorgsky’s opera. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Mravinsky Edition
| | Evgeny Mravinsky tells stories about nature and talks about his life | Beethoven: | Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral' | Glazunov: | Raymonda Suite | Glinka: | Ruslan and Lyudmilla Overture | Mozart: | Symphony No. 33 in B flat major, K319 Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543 | Mussorgsky: | Khovanshchina: Dawn on the Moscow River | Shostakovich: | Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 'The Year 1917' | Tchaikovsky: | Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 | Wagner: | Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries Tannhäuser - Overture Lohengrin - Preludes to Acts I & II Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg - Prelude to Act 1 |
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky “Any view of Shostakovich is seriously incomplete without knowledge of Mravinsky's recordings. It was he who premiered Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 and although relations between composer and conductor cooled markedly in later years, for reasons not fully explained, the authority of the performances is undiminished…” Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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