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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Bolero - The Best of Ravel
Ravel: | Boléro Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan Jeux d'eau Martha Argerich (piano) Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version) London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado Ma Mère l'Oye: excerpts Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev (pianos) Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado Tzigane Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria Joao Pires (piano) Piano Concerto in G major: Adagio assai Martha Argerich (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) La Valse Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa Gaspard de la nuit: Ondine Ivo Pogorelich (piano) Pavane pour une infante défunte Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini Rapsodie Espagnole Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan Berceuse sur le nom de Fauré Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria Joao Pires (piano) Introduction & Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet Osian Ellis (harp) Melos Ensemble Violin Sonata in G major: 2. Blues Shlomo Mintz (violin), Yefim Bronfman (piano) Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand) Claudio Abbado |
The best of Ravel, Ravel's greatest hits - they're all here on 2 CDs packed to the brim, containing all of Ravel's most memorable tunes. Inevitably, the focus is on the immortal Bolero, beloved of the film industry. Ravel famously considered it to be his masterpiece, but claimed it had no music in it - an opinion with which many would take leave to disagree. La Valse extends the theme of dance, the Rhapsodie espagnole the theme of Spanishry and exoticism, while the compilation ends with a flavour of jazz as exemplified in the Blues movement from the Violin Sonata and the Concerto for piano, left hand (which in the 1930s the famous pianist Alfred Cortot dared to play using both hands, incurring the composer's wrath). | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Paul Badura-Skoda plays Ravel, Berg & Chopin
Paul Badura-Skoda writes: 'This selection made from live recordings in the years between 1965 an 1983 presents a cross section from my best concerts in these years with a repertoire usually not affiliated with my name.' | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Bullets & Lullabies
“It's proper classical music, but in an overwhelmingly accessible package that screams mass market youth appeal...Balakirev's arrangement of the "Romanza" from Chopin's E minor Piano Concerto is a high point, playing to Rhodes' talents for making a melodic line sing, and for deftly defined ornamentation.” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 12th December 2010 “James Rhodes is forging his own way in the classical world and breaking rules like the most stylish, gifted and daredevil boy in class...[he] plays with reckless high-wire energy, expression and panache.” The Observer, 26th December 2010 “James Rhodes' populist charm is given free rein in the sleevenotes to this double CD of contrasting approaches to the piano, with plenty of winking references to chemical stimulation.” The Independent, 7th January 2011 **** “In the end, this pianist is a night-bird, most persuasive in the blue-mauve moods of Rachmaninov, Debussy and Chopin.” The Independent on Sunday, 16th January 2011 “'Clair de Lune' emerges beautifully, and the Brahms intermezzo has noble grace. Only three stars on the conventional scale, then, but for Quixotic heroism he gets the full five.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2011 *** “Despite the 'cool yoof' market presentation, this is a delightfully old-fashioned recital...[Rhodes] is an engaging communicator who bucks trends and aims high.” Classic FM Magazine, April 2011 **** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | The French Piano School
Among the rediscovered treasures are recordings of three outstanding representatives of the French Piano School:Vlado Perlemuter, who worked closely with Ravel on many of his compositions, demonstrates his superb mastery of the composer's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in this Paris recording of 1966; Yvonne Lefébure, also well known for the multitude of compositions dedicated to her, goes from strength to strength with her Beethoven interpretations; Robert Casadesus proves himself yet again as an outstanding interpreter of French repertoire. The two bonus tracks feature Hephzibah Menuhin, who studied for several years in Paris with Marcel Ciampi, and Dino Ciani who came to perfect his art under the guidance of Alfred Cortot. “Valuable for the exquisite tone of Perlemuter's Chopin and the intensity of Lefébure's Beethoven. Casadesus dabbles bittily at Fauré.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Emil Gilels: Early Recordings Volume 1All tracks recorded in the USSR, 1935-1951
Debussy: | Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque) Trois Nocturnes: Fêtes arr. Borwick | Godowsky: | Renaissance - No. 12, Gigue in E (Loeillet) | Mendelssohn: | Scherzo in E minor, Op. 16 No. 2 Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 6 in A flat major 'Duetto' Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 6 in A flat major 'Duetto' | Mozart: | Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K457 | Rameau: | La villageoise Le rappel des oiseaux | Ravel: | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prelude Le Tombeau de Couperin: Forlane Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata | Schumann: | Toccata in C major, Op. 7 Traumes Wirren (Fantasiestucke, Op. 12 No. 7) Der Kontrabandiste, Op. 74 No. 10 arr. C. Tausig | Smetana: | Czech Dances, Book 1, No. 2 Polka in A minor Polka in F major |
Emil Gilels was one of the greatest Russian pianists of the twentieth century, born in Odessa in 1916. The recordings on this first disc of his early recordings, made in the USSR, come from the first stage of Gilels’s career and include his first known recordings from1935. Leopold Godowsky’s arrangement of the Gigue by Jean-Baptiste Loeillet immediately shows the immense power the nineteen-year old Gilels had at the keyboard. His playing, especially in his youth, was fiery, volatile and exciting, and even late in his career it still retained grandeur and sweep of a great master in the Russian tradition. “Gilels had a sense of grandeur tempered by discipline and respect for the text….strong and massive without being harsh…. A fine pianist.” BBC Music Magazine “Here was a real artist, and a real communicator.” BBC Music Magazine “…here, in performance after performance, is the sort of playing that made Rubinstein, on hearing the teenage Gilels in Russia, exclaim, "if that boy ever comes to America I might as well pack my bags and retire".” Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 “these are now the transfers of choice for this body of recordings” MusicWeb International “Here, in performance after performance, is the sort of playing that made Rubinstein, on hearing the teenage Gilels in Russia, exclaim, 'if that boy ever comes to America I might as well pack my bags and retire'. Even in dated sound an 'elemental virtuoso gift' and a 'sonority rich in noble metal' are omnipresent. And whether you hear Gilels in his exquisite Rameau, the thunderous brilliance of his Godowsky or in the way his decorations in Smetana's A minor Polka shimmer like the beating of a hummingbird's wings, you will hear a nonpareil pianism. True, in years to come Gilels would find greater depth than his enviably spruce and immaculately turned Mozart conveys, but even here the playing is of an aristocratic distinction and finesse.
All in all these performances is a reminder of this grandest of musical titans. Ward Marston's transfers come up excellently and special thanks go to Judith Rayner for the loan of discs from her priceless collection.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $9.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Ivory Classics 5th Annniversary Issue
Chopin: | Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4 Dame Moura Lympany (piano) Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64 No. 3 Ruth Slenczynska (piano) | Fauré: | Barcarolle No. 6 in E flat major Op. 70 David Korevaar (piano) Barcarolle No. 8 in D flat major Op. 96 David Korevaar (piano) | Hummel, J: | Rondo for piano in E flat major, Op. 11 Albert Wong (piano) | Liszt: | Transcendental Study, S139 No. 5 'Feux Follets' Ruth Slenczynska (piano) | Mendelssohn: | Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 5 in A minor Shura Cherkassky (piano) | Mozart: | Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K545 'Facile' Ann Schein (piano) | Paderewski: | Fantaisie polonaise sur des themes originaux, Op. 19 Earl Wild (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler | Prokofiev: | Prelude in C major, Op. 12 No. 7 Nadia Reisenberg (piano) | Ravel: | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata Ralph Votapek (piano) Le Tombeau de Couperin: Menuet Nadia Reisenberg (piano) | Turina: | Rapsodia sinfonica, Op. 66 Earl Wild (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Massimo Freccia |
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| |  | Great Pianists - Women at the Piano Volume 3An Anthology of Historic Performances
Bach, J S: | English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV808: VI. Gigue Rosalyn Tureck (piano) | Bartók: | Mikrokosmos Book VI: No. 148, Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm No. 1 Maro Ajemian (piano) | Beethoven: | Andante Favori in F, Wo057 Elly Ney (piano) | Chopin: | Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18 Halina Czerny-Stefanska | Fuga: | Studio No. 1 Annarosa Taddei (piano) | Godowsky: | Triakontameron No. 11 'Alt Wien' Isabelle Yalkovsky (piano) | Granados: | Goyescas: El Fandango de Candil Frieda Valenzi (piano) | Haydn: | Andante & Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6 (Sonata - un piccolo divertimento) Clara Haskil (piano) | Infante: | Andalusian Sketches, Book 1: No. 2, Guadalquivir Amparo Iturbi (piano) | Khachaturian: | Poem about Stalin: Chant du Mizra (trans. Khachachurian) Gisele Kuhn (piano) | Malipiero: | Poemi asolani: III. I Partenti Helen Schnabel (piano) | Mendelssohn: | Study No. 2 in F major Annie d'Arco (piano) | Messiaen: | Prelude No. 8 'Les sons impalpables du reve' Yvonne Loriod (piano) | Pick-Mangiagalli: | La Ronda d'Aprile Vera Franceschi (piano) | Poulenc: | Toccata (Trois pieces pour piano No. 2) Livia Rev (piano) | Rachmaninov: | Morceaux de Salon, Op. 10: No. 4, Melodie in E minor Nadia Reisenberg (piano) | Ravel: | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata Phyllis Sellick (piano) | Schubert: | Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 5 in F minor Ethel Leginska (piano) | Scriabin: | Étude Op. 65 No. 1 in B flat major 'Étude in Ninths' Ida Krehm (piano) | Soler, A: | Keyboard Sonata No. 21 in C sharp minor Felicja Blumental (piano) |
“…there are many scintillating jewels in the crown.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2007 | | | (also available to download from $9.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Ravel Plays Ravel
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| |  | Great Pianists - Moiseiwitsch 6
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| |  | Ravel - Piano Music
Francois-Joel Thiollier (piano) | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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