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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume I
Recording Date: 1991
Place of recording: From the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Running Time: 93 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: GB
“The young Tchaikovsky comes across here as an accomplished, often sober master rather than a spring-heeled individualist. Supreme cellist Meneses's more animated features grace the Rococo Variations.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Finzi: Clarinet Concerto & Cello Concerto
“The Cello Concerto was in many ways the composer's swansong… The beautifully slow movement is deeply searching and draws on an Elgarian quality, a poignant nobility. Yo-Yo Ma's wistfully introspective approach - this was his debut recording - captures its gentle intensity and Vernon Handley proves an inspired partner, particularly in the central movement with its exquisite opening and close. There are many recordings of the gorgeous Clarinet Concerto... but John Denman's account is as seductive as any; again Handley is a superbly understanding partner.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2007 “[Ma's] is not a big performance but a greatly inspired one, and many will like his lightness of touch in the finale...John Denman's performance is entirely seductive. And in both works Vernon Handley's sensitive accompaniment brings first-rate playing” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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“Boult's affection for the G minor Symphony is in every phrase of this rapt and gloriously warm-hearted performance.
The New Philharmonia are on blistering form and, thankfully for us, captured in a sumptuous recording of stupendous definition, depth and enticing warmth. In Gramophone's original review in 1975, Edward Greenfield was unequivocal in his praise: 'Anyone who loves English music, and who has never heard this heart-warming music, should go at once to this record.'” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Boult's radiant (mid-1970s) performance is both gripping and spacious, the recording very impressive and cast in the Boult mode. Characteristically he refuses to push too hard too soon, but the ebb and flow of tension are superbly controlled to build the most powerful possible climax.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | New Year's Concert 2007Once again, the program is a tasteful mixture of well-known classics and New Year´s Concert premieres, which include Joseph Strauss´s 'Irenen'-Polka and the valse 'Flattergeister' as well as Johann Strauss' 'Einzugs-Galopp'
Hellmesberger: | Elfenreigen Leichtfüssig | Strauss, J, I: | Einzugs-Galopp, Op. 35 Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 Furioso-Galopp nach Liszt's Motiven, Op. 114 Radetsky March, Op. 228 | Strauss, J, II: | Zivio! - Marsch, Op. 456 Waldmeister: overture Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 | Strauss, Josef: | Flattergeister Moulinet-Polka Delirien Waltz, Op. 212 Irenen-Polka, Op. 113 Matrosen-Polka Dynamiden - Waltz Op. 173 |
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| |  | Recorded live at the Symphony Hall, Boston, 26 July 1976
“Noble, passionate performance of Liszt's greatest work, Bernstein conducting with precision and fervour, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ideal. Not much is added by seeing Bernstein emoting at every point.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2007 ***** “Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony is one of the most significant yet (in our time) least appreciated orchestral works of the nineteenth century. […] the quasi-autobiographical Faust Symphony is Liszt's largest and greatest symphonic utterance, and a tour de force of nineteenth-century harmonic practice” Opera News “thrillingly captured on DVD - and one of [Bernstein's] very finest recordings...Bernstein seems to possess the ideal temperament for holding together grippingly the melodrama of the long first movement...and the playing of the Boston orchestra is superb throughout, especially in the strings.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Haydn: | Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1 Recorded at the Henry Wood Hall, London, 17–19 November, 1975 Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIb:2 (Op. 101) Recorded at the Henry Wood Hall, London, 17–19 November, 1975 Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D major, HobXVIII:11 Recorded at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth, 23–27 November 1982 |
Booklet Notes: English, German, French | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Herbert Von Karajan in Rehearsal and PerformanceRecorded in Vienna, November 1965 and in Berlin, January 1966
Subtitles: German, English, French | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Brahms - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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