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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Great Waltzes
Berlioz: | Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 - Un Bal | Ivanovici: | The Danube Waves | Khachaturian: | Masquerade: Waltz | Lehár: | Gold und Silber Walzer, Op. 79 | Rosas: | Sobre las Olas | Strauss, J, II: | Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437 An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 | Tchaikovsky: | Waltz from Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48 The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers | Waldteufel: | Les Patineurs - Valse, Op. 183 |
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| |  | Holiday Classics
Seattle Symphony’s first holiday album embraces works composed specifically for Christmas as well as other pieces that convey a universal message of peace, love and hope—the essence of humanity’s highest aspirations. Music Director Gerard Schwarz asked two composers, the Symphony’s Composer in Residence Samuel Jones and Seattle Symphony Principal Oboe Ben Hausmann, to “make the music their own” by scoring several of the pieces to retain the unaffected simplicity of these well-known Christmas and concert works. Schwarz joined them in this task, arranging or editing several of the pieces, with the resulting works celebrating the remarkable artistry of the musicians of the Orchestra. In these new settings, recorded entirely in Benaroya Hall, the music emerges with honest, untarnished beauty. “This album is a class act. The programming is clever. Highlights from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite and the baroque era form bookends and interludes between chic arrangements of traditional carols. The concept is clever since it features the Seattle Symphony’s own composers, arrangers, and very talented soloists. The results are wonderful too. In the world of purely orchestral Christmas albums, this is about as good as it gets.” MusicWeb International, November 2012 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Idil Biret Concerto Edition - Volume 2
“The Turkish pianist Idil Biret was one of the greatest child prodigies of the 20th century. Her recital at the Boston Conservatory demonstrated that she is no less prodigious today. She played a long and demanding program with the power, concentration, and pouncing instincts of a crouching tiger. This is the kind of playing that makes reservations irrelevant; there is no one like her, which is what defines a unique artist.” BOSTON GLOBE 2005 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Idil Biret Concerto Edition - Volume 5
“Idil Biret was one of the greatest (child) prodigies of the 20th century. Her recital at the Boston Conservatory on Tuesday night demonstrated that she is no less prodigious today. She played a long and demanding program with the power, concentration and pouncing instincts of a crouching tiger…This is the kind of playing that makes reservations irrelevant; there is no one like her which is what defines a unique artist.” Richard Dyer Boston Globe USA Sept. 2000 & Nov. 2005 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | ItalyVerona and Romeo and Juliet - Florence - Naples
The Places Our tour of Italy stars in Verona, with its reminiscences of Romeo and Juliet. Then to Florence, for some 300 years, from 1434, the seat of the powerful Medici family, whose artistic patronage has left an impressive cultural legacy. The tour ends in the south, with Naples, originally a Greek colony and later a Roman port, and then capital of a kingdom, ruled by Normans and later from Spain. Briefly a Habsburg possession, from 1734 it belonged to the Bourbons, before the unification of Italy in 1860. The Music Tchaikovsky stayed in Florence on two occasions in 1878, after the disaster of his marriage, hastily contracted, had led him to seek respite abroad. A visit to Rome in 1880 led to the composition of the Italian Capriccio and his opera The Queen of Spades was written in 1890 in Florence, recalled in the same year in his Souvenir de Florence. The other music heard here is the Fantasy Overture, Romeo and Juliet, written in 1869 and based on Shakespeare's play, set in Verona. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Jascha Heifetz plays Tchaikovsky, Conus, Sarasate & Korngold
Conus: | Violin Concerto in E minor Recorded in United Artists Studios, Hollywood, 3 December 1952 RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Izler Solomon | Korngold: | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Recorded in Sound Stage 9, Republic Pictures Studios, Hollywood, 10 January 1953 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein | Sarasate: | Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 Recorded in Sound Stage 9, Republic Pictures Studios, Hollywood, 16 June 1951 RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg | Tchaikovsky: | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Recorded in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, 19-20 July 1950 Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind |
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| |  | Life and Works - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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| |  | Moscow and the Golden Ring
Arensky: | Finale from Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 Elegia from Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 | Balakirev: | Symphonic Poem 'Tamara' (excerpts) | Kalinnikov, Vasily: | Andante from Tsar Boris | Tchaikovsky: | Valse sentimentale, Op. 51 No. 6 Nocturne in C sharp minor (No. 4 from Morceaux (6), Op. 19) Marche miniature from Suite No. 1 in D major, Op. 43 Danse russe in A minor, Op. 40 No. 10 | trad.: | The joy of those who mourn Steppes, only steppes Snow falls in the street Hail Mary Fade, fade Evening Bell Dark Eyes Bells, Christ is risen |
The music here included ranges from folk-song and extracts from the Russian Orthodox liturgy to works by Russian nationalist composers of the later nineteenth century, including Balakirev, Arensky and the more cosmopolitan Tchaikovsky. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | My First Tchaikovsky Album
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: a great Russian name for a great Russian composer! Tchaikovsky was not always a happy man. He didn’t laugh a lot. But he wrote music that is full of good melodies. He often felt sad, but sometimes this made him write music that was even more special. This CD is all about Tchaikovsky. Imagine the ballet dancers twirling around to his tunes: you can twirl around too, if you like! | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Nathan Milstein
Bohm, C: | Comme la nuit Ezio Pinza (bass) & Gibner King (piano) | Fauré: | Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 | Foster, S: | Old folks at home | Glazunov: | Meditation, Op. 32 Recorded 26th February, 1949 in RCA Victor Studio No. 2, NYC Artur Balsam (piano) | Mendelssohn: | Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2 | Poldini: | Poupée valsante | Schubert: | Ave Maria, D839 Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4 | Stravinsky: | Chanson Russe Recorded 26th February, 1949 in RCA Victor Studio No. 2, NYC Artur Balsam (piano) | Tchaikovsky: | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Recorded 29th March, 1953 in Symphony Hall, Boston Boston S.O, Charles Munch None but the lonely heart, Op. 6 No. 6 | Wieniawski: | Mazurka in D major, Op. 19 No. 2 'Dudziarz' Recorded 26th February, 1949 in RCA Victor Studio No. 2, NYC Artur Balsam (piano) |
Rec. 17th/19th January, 1950 in Manhattan Center, New York City “Nathan Milstein was an assured, craftsman-like player with a silken tone, a superb technique and a stylish turn-of-phrase.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $9.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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