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Donald Maxwell, Jean-Marc Salzmann, Jean Philippe Courtis, Paul Gay, Hedwig Fassbender, Marie Therese Keller, Menai Davies, Rie Hamada, Ian Thompson Orchestre de Paris, David Robertson | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Markevitch - Complete Orchestral Works Volume 6
Composed by the 27-year-old Igor Markovitch when he was at the height of his creative powers, La Taille de l’Homme (The Measure of Man) is a virtuoso ensemble work which fully deserves to be in the repertoire despite its incomplete state (Part 2 was never written). The libretto was written by C. F. Ramuz, author of text of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. The score of this powerful evocation of life's stages linked to the passage of the seasons was long believed lost until it was discovered among the papers of Markovitch’s teacher, Nadia Boulanger. “Until the British conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee began to record Markevitch's music for Marco Polo in 1995, most of us knew this music only by hearsay. So it was thrilling to discover that it really is as good as all those amazed early commentators suggested.” Sunday Express | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Filmed at the Palazzo Ducale, Martina France, Italy, 4–6 August 2007
Anna Malavasi, David Sotgiu, Pierluigi Dilengite, Marcello Rosiello & Francesca De Giorgi Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia & Slovak Chamber Choir, Manlio Benzi (conductor) & Pavel Procházka (director) A rarely performed or recorded opera, Amica’s extravagant scenic and vocal demands contributed to the opera’s neglect until now. Set in the Savoy mountains around 1900, Amica is a ‘dramatic poem in two acts’ involving two brothers, Giorgio and Rinaldo, whose love for the eponymous Amica culminates in tragedy. While today numbering amongst his least performed works, Amica was initially a triumph, praised for its ‘passionate accent’ and ‘impulsive sincerity’ by a contemporary critic, and deemed ‘most worthy of re-revaluation’ according to the composer’s biographer. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Recorded 1953 | | | (also available to download from $9.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Recorded in the Basilica di Santa Euphemia, Milan, 1953 | | | (also available to download from $9.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Gino Bechi, Lina Bruna-Rasa, Beniamino Gigli, Maria Marcucci Milan La Scala Orchestra and Chorus, Pietro Mascagni | | | (also available to download from $16.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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- Lidova Demokracie (Prague) | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Opera Explained: Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana
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Germaine Féraldy, Louis Guénot, Joseph Rogatchewsky, Georges Villier Chorus & Orchestra of the Opéra-Comique Paris, Elie Cohen Recorded 1928-29 | | | (also available to download from $16.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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1955 Recording “Despite some rough playing and crude sound, this 1955 version of Massenet's masterpiece is still the most stylish, due to De los Angele's impeccable heroine, Henri Legay's ardent Des Grieux and Monteux's affectionate conducting.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2008 ***** | | | (also available to download from $12.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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