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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Borodin: Chamber Music Volume 3
The young Kinsky Trio continues the tradition of the Czech chamber school: that of the Suk and Guarneri Trios as much as that of the famous quartets: the Vlach and Smetana yesterday, today the Zemlinsky... and Prazak. Under the leadership of Pavel Hula, of the latter, there "sins of youth" again reveal their spontaneity and native Russian lyricism, souvenirs of afternoons of chamber music in which Borodin, an amateur cellist, participated in Saint Petersburg and Europe. “the present disc will give you splendidly present sound for the additional outlay, and some very well-groomed and understanding playing from the Kinsky Trio and the Prazak Quartet...In the Piano Trio, in particular, the Kinskys are most buoyant, and there is an excellent sense of give and take between the performers. Throughout, the music's summer-like qualities come to the fore.” International Record Review, February 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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An amateur cellist, the composer of Prince Igor was the only one of the Group of Five to have written some ten chamber works for his personal pleasure in keeping with the laws of Germanic rhetoric - to Balakirev's great displeasure. One of them is a serious masterpiece: his Quartet in D, featuring an irresistible ‘Nocturne’, known in various arrangements, here with the Prazaks: “Quite simply a joy to hear.” The Strad “as a library acquisition, calculated to enrich one's perspectives on a wonderful composer...the value of the Prazak Quartet's enterprise is obvious. Their playing brings many delights of its own. The Second Quartet is idiomatically and individually coloured without ever sounding forced...Such affectionate and unpretentious music-making, in nicely balanced recordings, does Borodin an admirable service.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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The three sonatas are here given warm and inspired performances by the Armenian-born cellist Alexander Chaushian with Yevgeny Sudbin, his chamber music partner of long standing, at the piano. The two have previously recorded sonatas by Mieczyslaw Weinberg for BIS (BISCD1648); a disc which was hailed as ‘the best possible case for a reappraisal of this undervalued composer’ by BBC Music Magazine, while the reviewer for International Record Review believed it ‘difficult to imagine finer performances than these’. Composed between 1860 and 1934, the works on this disc hail from a momentous period in Russian music – from the emergence of a national Russian school of composing advocated by the group called ‘The Mighty Five’, to Stalin’s denunciation of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was to cause generations of Russian composers to harness their modernist leanings. “The meaty piano parts in the Rachmaninov and Borodin benefit hugely from [Sudbin's] near-orchestral range and depth, and his sculptor's sense of form and phrase. Not that he outshines cellist Alexander Chaushian, who displays a deeply instinctive connection with this repertoire...This is a near-ideal performance of Rachmaninov's magnificent work that stands alongside those by the greatest.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2012 ****/***** “Chausian and Sudbin provide a majestic overview of chamber-style sensitivity. Every phrase is beautifully sculpted, Sudbin subtly tames Rachmaninov's swirling solo line, and Chaushian plays with a bewitching restraint and technical clarity that works wonders, especially in the rarely-heard Borodin Sonata.” Classic FM Magazine, June 2011 **** “Chaushian and Sudbin shows that it is actually possible to deliver Rachmaninov's Sonata full-throatedly without making it sound like a piano concerto with cello accompaniment. And they demonstrate equally that Shostakovich's Sonata does not need hysterical exaggeration of its subtexts in order to be richly communicative.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 “There is no lack of personality and temperament, and the bigness of [Chaushian's] sound contributes to the music's symphonic aspirations...no one plays these sonatas quite like Russian performers do. Chaushian is no exception, bringing interpretative insight and native soulfulness into play with his technical mastery...His basic sound is appealingly buzzy - that is to say, human.” International Record Review, May 2011 “The rarity here is Borodin’s Cello Sonata, an early work of charm and vigour, reconstructed in the 20th century and calling for just the sort of adept, imaginative handling it gets here...The playing is of a supreme order and profoundly expressive.” The Telegraph, 18th March 2011 ***** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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This brand new recording opens with Maurice Ravel’s magnificent Boléro, known for its feverish, hypnotic rhythm and massive orchestral sound. Boléro, Ravel’s most famous piece, epitomises his preoccupation with restyling and reinventing dance movements. The listener is then taken to Baghdad circa 1071 A.D. with a medley from the classic 1953 musical Kismet. This Tony-award winning show was constructed entirely around the music of celebrated Russian composer Alexander Borodin. The listener journeys from Baghdad back to Spain with Suite Nos. 1 and 2 from Georges Bizet’s immensely popular opera, Carmen, and closes with Féte-Dieu à Séville from composer Isaac Albéniz. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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ComposersAa Aagaard-Nilsen Abe, Keiko Acosta Acuña Adamek Adams, J Adams, S Aho Aiblinger Alain Albéniz Albert, E Albicastro Albinoni Albrechtsberger, J G Alfvén Alkan Allegri Allende-Blin Alvarez, R D Alyabyev Amargos Amner Amper Andia André Anerio, G F anon. Aperghis Apostel Aquino Araujo, J de Arauxo Arbeau Arensky Argento Arnaud Arndt Arne Arnold Arolas Arutiunian Assad, C Astorga Atterberg Auerbach Avison Baadsvik, A Baadsvik, Ø Babell Bacewicz Bach, C P E Bach, H Bach, J B Bach, J C Bach, J C F Bach, J C'ph Bach, J Ludwig Bach, J M I Bach, J S Bach, W F Badajoz Badings Balakirev Balay Balbi Ballard Banasik Bantock Barbarino Barber, S Bardi, A Barlow, K Barrett, N Barrière, J Bartók Bartolotti Bassani, F Bassani, G B Bassani, O Bassano, G Batchelar Bauersachs Bax Beach Beamish Beck, F I Becker, A Becker, G Bedford, L Bedrossian Beethoven Beintus Bellinati Bellini Bellstedt Belmont Belmonte Ben Ben-Haim Benda, G Benevoli Bennet Bennett, R R Berberian Berezovsky Berg Bergman, E Berio Berkeley, L Berkeley, M Berlioz Bernat Bernstein Bertali Berwald Biber Biebl Binchois Bishop, H R Bitsch Bizet Blarr Bliss Bloch, E Blumer Boccherini Body Boeck, F Boellmann Boesset Bohlin Böhm, G Böhme Boieldieu Bolcom Bonizzi Bonnet Bonporti Borcht Borg, O Borne Borodin Bortnyansky Börtz Bosanko Bosmans Botma Bottesini Boulanger, L Boulez Bourgeois, D Boutmy Bouzignac Boyd Bozza Brackett, J Bradbury Brade Brahms Brandt, V Brassin Bredero Brentner Briccialdi Briceño Bridge Britten Broström Broughton Brouwer, L Browne, J Bruch Bruckner Bruhns Brumel, A Brunckhorst Bruun Bryars Buche Buchner, H Buene Bull, O Burian Burkhard Burton, J Busoni Busto Butterworth, G Buxtehude Byrd Byrnes Cabanilles Cabezón, A Cabezón, H Caccini, G Cage Caldini Camphuysen Campion Camus Canova da Milano Caplet Carey, C Carissimi Carmichael, H Caroso Carpenter, C Carrara Carreno, I Cartellieri Carter, E Carulli Casella Cassidy Castagnoli Castello Castelnuovo-Tedesco Castérède Castro, Juan de Catoire Cavalli Ceballos Cendo Ceuleers Chabrier Chailleux Chaminade Chaoketu Siqin Chaplin, C Charlier Charpentier, M-A Chausson Chavarria Cheetham, J Chen Yi Cherubini Chesky Chesnokov Chiti Chopin Churchill Ciaia Cilea Cimarosa Clanché Clarke, H L Clarke, Rebecca Classen Clausen, R Clemens Clementi Clerch Coates, E Codax Code Comes, J B Connesson Constant, M Coornhert Copland Corbett, S Corbetta Corea Corelli Corigliano Corkine Cornago Cornysh the elder Cornyshe Correa, H Corteccia Couperin, A-L Couperin, F Couperin, L Coward, L Cowell Cramer, J B Crecquillon Crijns Croce Croes Croft Crumb Crusell Cutting Czernowin Czerny Dalbavie Dalza Damase Damrosch Danyel Daquin Dargomïzhsky Darke Darwall Daugherty Daverson David, Ferdinand Davidov Davidovsky, M Davies, H Davies, Maxwell | Davies, Walford Davis, C Dean, B Debussy Dediu Defaye Delibes Delius Demessieux Demus Deng Yu-Hsien Denhoff Denisov Denza Desmarest Despres Destouches, F S Deutsch, B R Devienne Diamond Didkovsky Dietholm Dieupart Dillen Dillon, J Dinicu Distler, H Dittersdorf Dlugoraj Dobrogosz Dohmen Dohnányi Dominique, C-A Donizetti Donjon Doráti Dowland Dresden Driessler Drouet, L Düben, A Düben, G Düben, M Dubois, T Dubugnon Dufay Dukas Dunne Dünser Duparc Duport Dupré Duron Duruflé Dussek, J L Dutilleux Dvorak Dykes Dzon Eben Eberlin Eberwein, C Ebner Ebreo da Pesaro Eccard Edwards, Ross Egge Eggert Elgar Eliasson Ellington Encina Enescu Engström Enrique Eötvös Erich, D Ericsson Eriksson, John Ernst, H W Erod Erskine Escher Escobar Estévez Ewald Eybler Eyck Facco Fage, J Fagerlund Falconieri Falla Farnaby, G Farrenc Fauré Favara Federico Feld Feldman Feng Zi Cun Fernández, H Fernandez, O L Ferneyhough Fernie Ferrabosco, A I Ferrabosco, A II Ferrari, Luc Ferroud Festa, C Fibich Figueredo Filiberto Finger Finnissy Finzi Fischer, J K F Fiser Fitkin Flammer Flecha I Fletcher, A Fockenbroch Foerster Fondse Fontana, G B Fontyn Foote Förster, K Foscarini Foss Foulds Françaix Francescatti Franck, C Franck, E Franck, M Franck, R Frank, S French, W P Frescobaldi Fresedo Fritz Froberger Froom Fröst, G Fröst, M Fryklöf Fuentes Führer Fukushima Fulkerson Furrer Furstenau Gabrieli, G Gade, J Gade, N Gál Galilei, M Galíndez Galuppi Gandolfi Gang Chen Gardel Gardner, Johann von Gardner, John Gardner, Stephen Gariboldi Garner, D Gastaldon Gaubert Gaultier, E Gaultier, J Ge Gan-Ru Gedizlioğlu Gees Geijer Geist, C Geminiani Gemrot Genzmer German Gershwin Gesualdo Getty Ghiselin Ghizeghem Gibbons, C Gibbons, O Gigout Gilkyson, E Gillespie, D Giordano, U Giorgi Gismonti Giuliani Gjeilo Glanert Glanzberg Glass, P Glazunov Glière Glinka Globokar Gluck Godard, B Goedicke Goens Goldmark Goldsmith Goller Gombert Goodman, P Goorhuis Goossens Gorecki Gould, M Gounod Graaf, C E Graham, P Grainger Granados Grandi Grantham Graun, C H Graupner Grechaninov Green, G H Gregorian Chant Grieg Grosz Groven, E Gruber, F Gruber, HK Grünberger Grunelius Gruytters Gu Guanren Guan Xia Guarnieri, C Gubaidulina Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Guédron Guerrero Guerrero, P Guido, G A Guilmant Guo Wenjing Gurney Haan Haas, G F Haas, P Hába Haddad, S Hadjiev Hagen, L P Hahn, R Hake Hakim Halévy Halffter, E Halvorsen Hamerik, A Hamers Hammerschmidt Handel Handl Hanff Hanson, H Harris, M Harris, Roy Harris, W Harrison, L Hartmann, John Hartmann, K Hartmann, W E Z Harvey, R Hasse, N Hassler, H L Hauer Haug Hausegger Haydn Haydn, M Heaton Heggie Heiniö Hekking Helmont Henderickx Heneghan Henryson Henze Heredia Herkenhoff Hérold Herrmann, A Herrmann, B Hertel, J C Hertel, J W Hervelois Herz Hessen Hessenberg Heuberger | Higdon Hildegard Hill, J Hillborg Hiltzik Hindemith Hindmarsh Hintz Hoch Hoffmann, H A Hoffmeister Högberg Höhne Holborne Holdar Holliger Holmboe Holmen Holst Hölszky Homilius Honegger Hooft Hopkins, J H Horneman, C F E Horovitz Hosokawa Hotman Hough Hout Hovhaness Howells Hsu Zhen Ming Hu Xiao Ou Hua Yan Jun Huang Yijun Hubay Huber, K Huber, N A Hüe Hufschmidt Hume, T Humfrey Hummel, J Hummel, T Huwet Hvoslef Ibert Idenstam Ignatowicz Imbescheid India Indy Ingenhoven Ippolitov-Ivanov Ireland Iriarte, C Isaac Ives, C Jacob, G Jadin, L Jager Janacek Janequin Jansen Jarzebski Jenkins, J Jersild Jeurissen Jobim Johnson, C Johnson, E Johnson, R Jolivet Jones, Robert Jongen Joubert Jørgenson Judenkönig Juon Jusid Kabalevsky Kagel Kahn, E Kaipainen Kaiser, Leander Kaminski, H Kapsberger Karg-Elert Karlsson, Leif Kastalsky Katzer Kauderer Keller, C Keller, Matthias Kellner, J C Kengyô, Yatsuhashi Kerll Kern Ketting Keuris Khachaturian Killmayer Kim King, K Kirchner, L Kleiberg Klein, Gideon Klughardt Kneller Kobrich Koch-Raphael Kocsis Kodály Koechlin Köhler, Emmy Kohler, Ernesto Komitas Kompaneysky Komulainen Koppel, A Korngold Korpijaakko Koschat Kotter Kraayenhof Krahmer Kraus Krebs, J L Kreek Kreisler Krieger, E Krieger, J P Krisse Krol Krommer Küffner Kuhlau Kuhnau Kuhr Kummer, K Kurtág Kuula Lachenmann Lachner, F Lalo Lama, J Lambert, F Lambert, M Lang, B Lang, D Lange-Müller Lange, W R Langgaard, R Langlais Lanier Lara, Ana Larsen, G Lasso Lauber Lauermann Laufer Laurenz Lauridsen Lauro Lavry Lawes, H Lawes, W Lawson, I Lazic Lebrun, L Lecuona Ledger Lefebure-Wely Legrand Lehár Leifs Leighton Lemmens León Leoncavallo Leopold I Levitzki Levy, A Leyding Lhéritier Liadov Liebermann, L Ligeti Lim Lindberg, C Lindberg, N Lindblad, A F Linde, B Linden Lipaiev Liszt Liu Tianhua Liu Wenjin Lloyd, G Lloyd, John Locatelli Locke Loewe, C Loguin Lohse, M López, Jimmy Lorenzo, L Louvier Lowry, R Lübeck Luigini Lukas Lully Lundgren Luo Nian Yi Luparini Lutoslawski Luzzaschi Lvov, A Lysenko Ma Shui-long Mac Low Machado, M Machaut MacMillan Maderna Madetoja Maessins Mahler Maier, F M Malipiero Manchicourt Mancini, H Manoury Mäntyjärvi Marais, M Marbe Marcello, A Marchand, L Marenzio Marín Marini, B Marsh, R Marshall-Hall Martin y Coll Martin, Eduardo Martin, F Martin, M Martin, V Martinu Marx Mascagni Maslanka Mason, L Massenet Masson Massonneau Mathias Matiegka Matitia Matos Rodriguez Matthews, C Matthus Maynard, John Mayseder Mayuzumi Mazzocchi, D McCabe McCartney McDowall McPhee, C Medek Medtner Mena Mendelssohn Mendelssohn, A Mendelssohn, Fanny Mercadante Mercure, P Merikanto, A Meriläinen Merula Merulo Messager Messiaen Miaskovsky Miasnikov Mielczewski Mignone Milán Milhaud Millard Milstein, N Milwid Miroglio Mitchell, J Mitterer Mochizuki Molina, H Molique Molloy Molter Mompou Monrad | Monteverdi Monti, V Moore, C Morales, C Morata Moreno, Y Mores Morhard Morley Morricone, E Mortensen, F E Moscheles Moss, K Moszkowski Moulinié Mouton, J Mozart Mozart, L Muczynski Mudarra Muffat, Georg Müller, M Mumford Murashkin Murcia Murray, A Musgrave Mussorgsky Muthspiel Myslivecek Narvaez Nas Nau Naumann, E Naumann, J G Nebra Blasco Negri, C Nepomuceno Neruda, J B G Ness, J Ø Neunhaber Neuwirth, O Newman, T Newsome Newton, E Nielsen Nielsen, M Nietzsche Nikolsky Niles Ning Bao Sheng Ning Yong Nono Noot Nordheim Nordqvist Novácek, O Novák, V Nørgård Nutile Nyman O'Hogan O'Regan Obukhov Ockeghem Oehring Offenbach Olesen Olofsson, K Olsen, M Olsen, O Olsson Olthuis Oppenheim Orff Orkin Ortiz, D Ospald Otterloo Pachelbel Pacini Padding Paganini Pagh-Paan Palestrina Palmgren Pampani Panufnik, A Pape, A Parabosco Paradis Parra, H Parry 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