Arnold Schoenberg

(1874-1951)

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Journeys: Emerson String Quartet

Journeys: Emerson String Quartet


Schoenberg:

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Tchaikovsky:

Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70


This is the first time the quartet ever recorded a work by Arnold Schoenberg.

It is also the first time in almost 30 years they have recorded a work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; they have never recorded "Souvenir de Florence".

“The repertoire selection is simple but evocative:

‘Verklärte Nacht’ is a journey of love and forgiveness, where moonlight shimmers to light and helps transfigure the night”

‘Souvenir de Florence’ is a work of uncommon beauty and excitement, but also of darkness lying beneath its often bright surface” (Phil Setzer)

The album was recorded in September 2012 in LeFrak Auditorium at Queen's College in New York City, with the same producer/engineer that the quartet has worked with for the past 14 years, Da-Hong Seetoo.

International release is scheduled for May 2013 to coincide with a concerts featuring the CD’s programme, at Carnegie Hall in New York. The cover is part of a picture painted by the quartet's violinist Phil Setzer's daughter. The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets with an incomparable list of achievements over three decades: nine Grammy® Awards (including two for Best Classical Album, an unprecedented honor for a chamber music group); three Gramophone Awards; the coveted Avery Fisher Prize and an international reputation for groundbreaking chamber music projects including cycles of the complete Beethoven, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich string quartets in the world's musical capitals.

The Quartet has collaborated in concerts and on recordings with some of the greatest artists of our time. After 36 years of extensive touring, the Emerson Quartet continues to perform with the same benchmark integrity, energy and commitment that it has demonstrated since it was formed in 1976.

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Schoenberg: Complete Piano Works

Schoenberg: Complete Piano Works


Schoenberg:

Klavierstücke (3), Op. 11

Kleine Klavierstücke (6), Op. 19

Klavierstücke (5), Op. 23

Suite for Piano, Op. 25

Klavierstück, Op. 33a

Klavierstück, Op. 33b


Pina Napolitano (piano)

Italian pianist Pina Napolitano performs Schoenberg’s complete piano works, in a rendition that, fully realizing the scores in all their complexity, animates the music and makes it dance, and “conveys its real quality as music - rather than as an object of academic study” (Guy Rickards).

“A romanticism so exasperated that the usual musical indications of expressivity cannot convey it; each note is signed, tormentingly and assiduously, with indications that do nothing but speak to the insufficiency of language and of writing - of every language and every writing, even of the most absolute, the musical language - to express the idea and the thought, the sensation and the still indistinct feeling. Such a concentrated and dolorous romanticism, so essential, that it takes your breath away, a romanticism of the mind and of the heart, in which to feel and to think are not distinct.”

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Albéniz:

Iberia, books 1-4 (complete)

Albéniz, M P:

Sonata in D

Alford:

Colonel Bogey March

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Anderson, Leroy:

Belle of the Ball

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Pirate Dance

Frederick Fennell

Suite of Carols - excerpts

Frederick Fennell

A Christmas Festival: Overture

Frederick Fennell

Sandpaper Ballet

Frederick Fennell

Forgotten Dreams

Frederick Fennell

Trumpeter's Lullaby

Frederick Fennell

The Penny Whistle Song

Frederick Fennell

Bugler's Holiday

Frederick Fennell

Irish Suite

Frederick Fennell

anon.:

My Lady Careys Dompe

Auber:

Les diamants de la couronne: Overture

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Auric:

Ouverture

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Bach, C P E:

Twelve Variationen über die Folie d'Espagne, Wq118/9/H263

Bach, J C:

Duetto in La Maggiore, Op. 18:5

Bach, J S:

French Overture in B minor, BWV831

Toccata in F sharp minor, BWV910

Bach, W F:

Concerto a due Cembali in E

Barber, S:

Medea Orchestral Suite, Op. 23

Capricorn Concerto

Bartók:

Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Dance Suite, BB 86, Sz. 77

Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati

Two Portraits Op. 5

Erwin Ramor (violin)

Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati

Mikrokosmos (selection)

Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati

The Wooden Prince

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (complete ballet)

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Antal Dorati

Divertimento for Strings, Sz. 113

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Antal Dorati

Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110

Geza Frid, Luctor Ponae (pianos)

Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (suite)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

First Rhapsody

Beethoven:

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'

The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op. 43

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Egmont Overture, Op. 84

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Berg:

Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Lyric Suite - for soprano and string quartet

Helga Pilarczyk (soprano)

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Bergsma:

Gold and the Senor Commandante

Berlioz:

Chasse royale et Orage (from Les Troyens)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Besard:

Branle Gay

Bizet:

Carmen: Danse Bohème

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

La Patrie Overture

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

L'Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Bloch, E:

Sinfonia Breve

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Borodin:

Prince Igor Overture

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Bull, J:

Les Buffons

The King's Hunt

Byrd:

La Volta

Carpenter, J A:

Adventures in a Perambulator

Cese:

Inglesina

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Chabrier:

España

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Suite Pastorale

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Fête Polonaise

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Gwendoline Overture

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Danse Slave

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Joyeuse Marche

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Bourrée Fantasque

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Chadwick:

Symphonic Sketches

Chambonnières:

Le Moutier

Chopin:

Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65

Polonaise brillante Op. 3 for cello & piano

Coates, E:

The Three Elizabeths Suite

London 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Knightsbridge March from London Suite

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

London Suite

Frederick Fennell

Four Ways Suite

Frederick Fennell

Copland:

Rodeo (Four Dance Episodes)

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Corigliano:

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Hilde Somer (piano)

Victor A|essandro

Couperin, F:

La Pantomime

Couperin, L:

Tombeau de M de Blancrocher in F major

Pavane in F sharp minor

Debussy:

Trois Nocturnes

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Petite Suite

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Images for orchestra: II. Ibéria

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

La Mer

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Cello Sonata

Delibes:

Sylvia

London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari

Dieupart:

Passepied

Dvorak:

Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik

Falla:

La vida breve: Interlude & Dance

Fetler:

Contrasts for Orchestra

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Fischer, J K F:

Passacaille en Ré mineur - Uranie

Françaix:

Piano Concertino in F major

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Francisque:

Branle de Montirande

Franck, C:

Pièce héroïque, M37

Marcel Dupre (organ)

Trois Chorals pour grand orgue, M. 38-40

Marcel Dupre (organ)

Freixanet:

Sonata in A

Frescobaldi:

Aria detta la Frescobalda (1627)

Corrente in F major

Galliards (5)

Partite dodici sopra l'aria di Ruggiero

Ganne:

Father of Victory

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Gershwin:

An American in Paris, tone poem

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Giannini:

Symphony No. 3 for Winds

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Goldman:

On the mall

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Gould, M:

Symphony No. 4 ‘West Point’

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Spirituals for Strings

Fall River Legend Suite

Gounod:

Faust - Ballet Music

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Grainger:

Lincolnshire Posy

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Country Gardens

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Shepherd's Hey

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Colonial Song

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Children's March 'Over the Hills and Far Away'

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

The Immovable Do (The Cyphering C)

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Mock Morris

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Handel in the Strand

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy'

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Spoon River

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Molly on the Shore

Eastman Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell

Grieg:

Våren, elegiac melody for strings, Op. 34 No. 2

Griffes:

Poem for flute & orchestra

Hanson, H:

Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 21 'Nordic'

Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 'Romantic'

Song of Democracy

Symphony No. 3, Op. 33

Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky, Op. 44

Lament for Beowulf, Op. 25

Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth, for piano and strings

Hanssen:

Valdresmarsj (March of the Valdre)

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Hartley, W:

Concerto for 23 Winds

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Hérold:

Zampa - Overture

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Hindemith:

Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik

Holst:

Suite No. 1 for Military Band in E flat major, Op. 28 No. 1, H105

Suite No. 2 for Military Band in F major, Op. 28 No. 2, H106

Hovhaness:

Symphony No. 4, Op. 165

A. Clyde Roller

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Ibert:

Escales

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Ives, C:

Orchestral Set No. 1 'Three Places in New England'

Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting'

Kennan:

Pieces (3) for Orchestra

Khachaturian:

Two Armenian Dances

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

King, K:

Barnum and Bailey's Favorite

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Klohr:

The Billboard

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Kodály:

Variations on a Hungarian Folksong 'The Peacock'

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik

Liadov:

The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62

Kikimora, Op. 63

Liszt:

Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Loeffler:

Deux Rapsodies

MacDowell:

Suite No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 42

Marcello, A:

Oboe Concerto in D Minor

Martinu:

Variations on a Theme of Rossini

Massenet:

Phèdre: Overture

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

McCauley:

Miniatures (5) for Flute & Strings

McCoy:

Lights Out

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

McPhee, C:

Tabuh-Tabuhan

Meacham:

American patrol (for toy ocarinas)

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Mendelssohn:

Variations concertantes Op. 17

Mennin:

Canzona

Symphony No. 5

Milhaud:

Le Boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Suite française, Op. 248

Montaine:

Birds of Paradise, Op. 34

Moore, D:

The Pageant of P.T. Barnum

Mozart:

Serenade No. 10 in B flat major, K361 'Gran Partita'

Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504 'Prague'

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik

Mussorgsky:

Khovanshchina: Prelude & Dance of the Persian Slaves

Paray:

Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Peerson:

The Primerose (P VI/4)

The Fall of the Leafe

Persichetti:

Symphony for Band, Op. 69

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Psalm for Band, Op. 53

Peter, J:

Sinfonia in G

Philips, P:

Pavana Dolorosa

Galiarda Dolorosa

Phillips, B:

Selections from McGuffey's Reader

Picchi:

Balli d'Arpicordo

Piston:

The Incredible Flutist

Prokofiev:

March in B flat major Op. 99 'Military March'

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Rameau:

Gavotte et doubles

Ravel:

Rapsodie Espagnole

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Pavane pour une infante défunte

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

La Valse

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Le Tombeau de Couperin

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Valses nobles et sentimentales

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Ma Mère l'Oye

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Reed, H O:

La Fiesta Mexicana

Respighi:

The Birds

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Impressioni brasiliane

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Fountains of Rome

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Pines of Rome

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Ancient Airs and Dances, Suites Nos. 1, 2 & 3

Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati

Rogers, Bernard:

Three Japanese Dances

Carol Dawn Mayer (mezzo)

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Once Upon a Time

Roussel:

Suite in F major, Op. 33

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Saint-Saëns:

Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ Symphony'

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Danse macabre, Op. 40

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

San Miguel:

The Golden Ear

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Satie:

Parade

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Scarlatti, D:

Keyboard Sonata K541 in F major

Keyboard Sonata K175 in A minor

Keyboard Sonata K381 in E major

Schmitt, F:

La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Schoenberg:

5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik

Schuller:

7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Schuman:

New England Triptych: Three Pieces for Orchestra After William Billings

Sessions:

The Black Maskers

Smetana:

The Bartered Bride (extracts)

Sousa:

Hands Across The Sea

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

U.S. Field Artillery March

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

The Thunderer

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Washington Post

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

King Cotton

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

El Capitan March

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

The Stars and Stripes Forever

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Strauss, R:

Serenade in E flat major for Winds, Op. 7

Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Parergon zur Symphonia Domestica for piano (left hand) & orchestra, Op. 73

Hilde Somer (piano)

Victor A|essandro

Stravinsky:

The Rite of Spring

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Tchaikovsky:

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Swan Lake, Op. 20

Rafael Druian (violin)

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Teike:

Alte Kameraden

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell

Telemann:

Bourree alla Polacca

Thomas, Ambroise:

Gavotte from 'Mignon'

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Mignon Overture

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Raymond Overture

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Thomson, V:

Symphony on a Hymn Tune

The Feast of Love

Vaughan Williams:

English Folk Song Suite

Toccata Marziale

Weber:

Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Webern:

Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 10

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Weiner, Leó:

Lakodalmas 'Wedding dance', Op. 21b

Widor:

Organ Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42 No. 2: Allegro

Marcel Dupre (organ)

Symphony No. 2, Op. 13, No. 2, IV. Salve Regina

Marcel Dupre (organ)


This new collection of 55 CDs from the acclaimed label offers a wealth of recordings from the 1950s and 1960s in an unrivalled range of repertory.

This ranges from solo Bach played by harpsichordist Rafael Puyana to American composer and conductor Howard Hanson in his own works as well as music by fellow-Americans. Key artists include Antal Dorati in works ranging from Beethoven to Bartók and Berg; Frederick Fennell, Rafael Kubelík, Paul Paray and János Starker.

An extensive 182 page booklet includes new essays on the history and development of the Mercury label by Thomas Fine (son of Wilma Cozart Fine, legendary producer of the MLP label) and Mike Gray. Numerous photographs are included and full recording information is documented. When we say full recording information, we mean it too. All the details collectors love to see is here: the microphones, the recording location, the original engineers, the subsequent remastering engineers, even the type of recording equipment.

Two CDs of true rarities are included: Dorati’s 1953 mono recording of The Rite of Spring; and making its first-ever appearance on CD is John Corigliano’s Piano Concerto. The CD also includes a rare 16 minute interview with Corigliano and pianist Hilde Somer.

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Janine Jansen plays Schoenberg & Schubert

Janine Jansen plays Schoenberg & Schubert


Schoenberg:

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

for String Sextet

Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Amihai Grosz (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Jens Peter Maintz (cello)

Schubert:

String Quintet in C major, D956

Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Jens Peter Maintz (cello)


Dutch violinist Janine Jansen presents a new album coupling two of the most heart-felt masterpieces of the Viennese romantic repertoire.

Schubert’s last and greatest chamber work, the sublime String Quintet in C major, is contrasted with the young Schoenberg’s earliest masterpiece, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night).

For this recording, derived from emotionally charged live performances given in Dortmund in May 2012, Janine Jansen is joined by a group of exceptional young musicians who are all close personal friends as well as fellow members of Spectrum Concerts Berlin, the prestigious German chamber music group with whom Jansen has played since 1998. Alongside Swedish cellist Torleif Thedéen and Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov, who both joined Jansen for her 2007 Bach album, they include Russian-born violinist Boris Brovtsyn, Israeli violist Amihai Grosz and German cellist Jens Peter Maintz.

“They generate an intoxicating mix of heady passions in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, at the same time maintaining impressive clarity of texture and shaping what can seem a sprawling work. And in a fresh-sounding performance of Schubert’s late quintet, they bring a relish of its boldness as well as an ambiguous poignancy.” Sunday Times, 12th May 2013

“There's no trace here of starry individualism, but instead a real feeling of collegiate responsibility in the way that all the players constantly listen to each other and shade their own contributions accordingly. But, for my taste at least, it's much too strongly flavoured” The Guardian, 25th April 2013 ***

“All-star line-ups can be problematic in chamber music, but the depth of drama and colour in the stinging, swooning timbres identified by the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and her friends...makes this Verklärte Nacht impressive.” The Independent, 20th April 2013 ****

“they bring silky skills and subtle touches to two great string pieces...The dapper phrasing and translucent textures are wonderfully calculated, but the emotions sound a little lightweight, and the Schubert needs a sense of profundity.” The Times, 20th April 2013 ***

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The Art of Giuseppe Sinopoli: Concerto Recordings

The Art of Giuseppe Sinopoli: Concerto Recordings


Beethoven:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

Martha Argerich (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19

Martha Argerich (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Shlomo Mintz (violin)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Romances Nos. 1 & 2 for violin and orchestra

Shlomo Mintz (violin)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Bruch:

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

Gil Shaham (violin)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Elgar:

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Mischa Maisky (cello)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Manzoni:

Omaggio a Edgar Varese

Maurizio Pollini (piano)

Berliner Philharmoniker

Mendelssohn:

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Gil Shaham (violin)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Mozart:

Flute & Harp Concerto in C major, K299

Kenneth Smith (flute), Bryn Lewis (harp)

Paganini:

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6

Gil Shaham (violin)

New York Philharmonic

Saint-Saëns:

Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61

Gil Shaham (violin)

New York Philharmonic

Schoenberg:

Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9

Berliner Philharmoniker (members)

Sibelius:

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Gil Shaham (violin)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Tchaikovsky:

Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Mischa Maisky (cello)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Gil Shaham (violin)

Philharmonia Orchestra


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The Art of Giuseppe Sinopoli: Orchestral Works

The Art of Giuseppe Sinopoli: Orchestral Works


Beethoven:

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'

Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Felicity Palmer (mezzo), Thomas Moser (tenor), Alan Titus (bass)

Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresden Staatsopernchor

Brahms:

Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Lucia Popp (soprano), Wolfgang Brendel (baritone)

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir

Bruckner:

Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'

Staatskapelle Dresden

Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Staatskapelle Dresden

Debussy:

La Mer

Philharmonia Orchestra

Elgar:

Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Philharmonia Orchestra

Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20

Philharmonia Orchestra

In the South (Alassio), Op. 50

Philharmonia Orchestra

Maderna:

Quadrivium

Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Aura

Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Biogramma

Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Mahler:

Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Philharmonia Orchestra

Mendelssohn:

Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian'

Philharmonia Orchestra

Mussorgsky:

Pictures at an Exhibition

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

A Night on the Bare Mountain

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Ravel:

Valses nobles et sentimentales

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Boléro

Philharmonia Orchestra

Daphnis et Chloé: fragments symphoniques

Philharmonia Orchestra

Respighi:

Fountains of Rome

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Pines of Rome

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Roman Festivals

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Schoenberg:

Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5

Philharmonia Orchestra

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Philharmonia Orchestra

Schubert:

Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'

Staatskapelle Dresden

Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'

Staatskapelle Dresden

Schumann:

Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

Wiener Philharmoniker

Sinopoli:

Lou Salomé

Lucia Popp (soprano), Jose Carreras (tenor)

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart

Strauss, R:

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Don Juan, Op. 20

Staatskapelle Dresden

Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils

Orchester der deutschen Oper Berlin

Tchaikovsky:

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'

Philharmonia Orchestra

Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture

Philharmonia Orchestra


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The Art of Chailly

The Art of Chailly


Bartók:

Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (complete ballet)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Laurenscantorij Choir

Berg:

Piano Sonata, Op. 1

orch. Theo Verbey

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Berio:

Orchestral transcriptions

Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi

Bruckner:

Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Debussy:

Sarabande

orch. Ravel

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Danse in E major

orch. Ravel

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Dvorak:

Carnival Overture, Op. 92

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Gershwin:

Rhapsody in Blue

version for two pianos and orchestra

Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

Cleveland Orchestra

Lullaby for Strings

Cleveland Orchestra

An American in Paris, tone poem

Cleveland Orchestra

Cuban Overture

Cleveland Orchestra

Mahler:

Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Jakob Slagter (horn)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Mendelssohn:

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish'

Gewandhausorchester

Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor (1842/44)

Roberto Prosseda (piano)

Gewandhausorchester

Hebrides Overture, Op. 26

Gewandhausorchester

Sketch (Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish")

orch. Christian Voss

Gewandhausorchester

Messiaen:

Turangalîla Symphony

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Takashi Harada (ondes Martinot)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Mussorgsky:

Pictures at an Exhibition

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ravel:

Boléro

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Rossini:

Guillaume Tell Overture

Giuseppe Laffranchini (cello solo)

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Il Signor Bruschino Overture

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Overture: Bianca e Falliero

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Armida Overture

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Semiramide Overture

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

L'inganno felice Overture

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Matilde di Shabran Overture

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Overture: Demetrio e Polibio

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

La gazza ladra Overture

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

Schoenberg:

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Shostakovich:

Moscow-Cheryomushki - Suite from the operetta, Op. 105

Philadelphia Orchestra

Ballet Suite No. 5 from 'The Bolt' Op. 27a

Philadelphia Orchestra

The Gadfly - excerpts from the film music, Op. 97

Erez Ofer (solo violin)

Philadelphia Orchestra

Stravinsky:

Petrushka (1947 version)

Jacques Zoon (flute), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Ruud van der Brink (piano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Pulcinella

Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano), Pietro Ballo (tenor), William Shimell (bass)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Tchaikovsky:

Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture

Cleveland Orchestra

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32

Cleveland Orchestra

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Wiener Philharmoniker

Varèse:

Tuning up

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Amériques

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Poème Electronique

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Arcana

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Nocturnal

Sarah Leonard (soprano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Men of the Prague Philharmonic Choir

Un grand sommeil noir

Mireille Delunsch (soprano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Webern:

Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra


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Pierre Boulez conducts Schoenberg

Pierre Boulez conducts Schoenberg


Schoenberg:

Septet (Suite) in E flat major, Op. 29

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

3 Pieces for Chamber Orchestra

Serenade, Op. 24

5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41

Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

(version for string orchestra)

Erwartung, Op. 17

Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21

Lied der Waldtaube (from Gurrelieder)

Friede auf Erden, Op. 13

Kol Nidre, for Rabbi-Narrator, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 39

Folksong Arrangements (4)

Kanons (2)

Four Pieces for Mixed Chorus, Op. 27

Three Satires for Mixed Chorus, Op. 28

Stücke (6), Op. 35

Dreimal tausend jahre, Op. 50a

De Profundis (Psalm 130), Op. 50b for mixed choir a cappella

Moderner Psalm für Sprecher, Chor und Orchester, Op. 50c

A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46

Gurrelieder

Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22

Die Jakobsleiter

Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9

Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene, Op. 34

Moses und Aron

Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38b


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Brigitte Fassbaender: The Great Lieder Recordings

Brigitte Fassbaender: The Great Lieder Recordings


includes

Berg:

Lulu: final scene

Mahler:

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (4 songs, complete)

Schoenberg:

Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten, Op. 15

Schubert:

Winterreise D911

Schumann:

Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op. 135

Dichterliebe, Op. 48

and songs by Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Milhaud and Wolf; oratorio arias by Rossini, Handel, JS Bach and Schumann; opera arias and scenes by Ponchielli, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Verdi, Flotow, Enescu; operetta excerpts by Fall, J Strauss II, Oscar Straus, Heuberger, Offenbach and Zeller


Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo); Wolfgang Sawallisch, Erik Werba, Irwin Gage, Karl Engel, Aribert Reimann (piano); with Anneliese Rothernberger (soprano), Patricia Wise (soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), José van Dam (bass-baritone)

Lawrence Foster, Jeffrey Tate, Willi Boskovsky, Sir Neville Marriner, Willy Mattes

Brigitte Fassbaender rose to woldwide fame in the role of Octavian in the Strauss/Hofmannsthal comedy Der Rosenkavalier. Fassbaender took her Octavian to all the major centres including London, Milan, Vienna, New York and Tokyo and continued singing the role for over 20 years.

Fassbaender says that, in her operatic repertoire, she wanted to be as wide-ranging as possible, while always respecting her limitations. Running parallel to her appearances in the theatre, Fassbaender developed her career in the concert hall and on the recital platform. Her discography is even richer in oratorio (Bach, Handel, Rossini, Schumann) and Lieder than in opera.

If you pick up any retrospective writing on a singer you will encounter attempts to describe their voice in words. In the case of Brigitte Fassbaender there is more description of her performances and interpretations than of her actual sound. Alan Blyth has spoken of ‘a very personal, no-holds barred manner of singing’, while Richard Wigmore wrote that ‘her bold, bronze timbre, with its dash of astringency, was not conventionally beautiful. Yet beauty was never her prime concern.’

In a recent interview Fassbaender looked back on her career in its time. ‘It was very different then – there was much less stress and competition (...). And we had more opportunities to sing for recordings and to take more risks in our work. I feel gratitude, but also amazement, for all the wonderful, strenuous, many-sided, nerve-wracking things that I was allowed to experience.'

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Brahms: String Quartet No. 3

Brahms: String Quartet No. 3


Brahms:

String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67

Schoenberg:

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4


Isabel Charisius (viola) & Valentin Erben (cello)

Quatuor Ysaÿe

On Thursday, November 1st, 2012, after performing the entire corpus of Beethoven's String Quartets at the Pays de Fayence String Quartet Festival in the South of France, the Ysaÿe Quartet announced that it was bringing its 30-year career to an end in January 2014. The 14 months ahead are to be devoted a major series of concerts, with a special emphasis on the music of Beethoven.

Founded in 1984 by a group of students at the Paris Conservatoire, the Quartet took its name from Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), a violinist, chamber musician and composer whose influence is still felt today. From the start and more especially after winning First Prize at the prestigious Evian String Quartet Competition in 1988, the Ysaÿe Quartet has stood at the pinnacle of the international chamber music scene, on a par with such legendary formations as the LaSalle and Amadeus Quartets that provided an inspiration for its work. It has brought an open-minded, committed and unfussy approach, characteristic of great playing, to a wide range of repertoires, from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to contemporary composers, who have often written specially for it, such as Boucourechliev, Dusapin, Tanguy, Krawczyk, Escaich, Fraisse or Cerha. At the same time, teaching commitments have long been a central part of the Quartet's activities. In 1993, Miguel da Silva persuaded his colleagues to join him in setting up a specific String Quartet course at the Paris National Conservatoire (now the Paris Regional Conservatoire). This was a national first. Ysaÿe's students, both French (Psophos, Ebène, Modigliani, Voce, Hermès, Girard, Zaïde and Varèse) and international (Aviv of Israel, Incanto of Switzerland, Difference of Latvia) have won major awards around the world. Today, alongside alto player and founder member, Miguel da Silva, Ysaÿe consists of violinists Guillaume Sutre and Luc-Marie Aguera and cello player Yovan Markovitch.

The Ysaÿe Quartet's recordings have won innumerable French and international awards.

“A warmly played coupling of two Viennese classics” The Strad, March 2013

“Quatuor Ysaÿe have always had personality in spades. Their own particular brand of French elegance (which occsaionally borders on an engaging purist dourness, depending on how far they have strayed from the native repertoire at which they excel so highly) is unmistakable” Gramophone Magazine, April 2013

“the Quatuor Ysaÿe is an ardent, highly trained ensemble with a slightly febrile edge to its style that some listeners may feel override the more mellow moments of Brahms's least stressful String Quartet...the augmented Ysaÿe Quartet sound more in their element in the expansive paragraphs and ecstatic climaxes of Verklärte Nacht.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ****

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