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Bartók: | Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106 Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy Viola Concerto, BB 128, Sz. 120 Ed. Tibor Serly Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, David Shallon Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115 Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Silvio Gualda & Jean-Pierre Drouet City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110 Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Silvio Gualda & Jean-Pierre Drouet |
The rhythmic excitement and plangent melodic shapes of Eastern European folk music come together in perfect balance in the works of Bela Bartók's maturity, where the range of colour and drama cover an entire world of experience and emotion, life-enhancing and deeply satisfying. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bartók - Concertos
The living legend: still innovative, radical and original. Pierre Boulez concludes his acclaimed Bartók Concertos project, which has received the highest accolades, with an album featuring the Viola Concerto, Violin Concerto no.1 and the Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra For this recording, Boulez has once again gathered an extraordinary team of musicians: Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Pierre-Laurent Aimard – with his long-term recital partner Tamara Stefanovich – and two of the world’s most esteemed ensembles: the Berliner Philharmoniker and London Symphony Orchestra DG is particularly delighted that its exclusive artist Pierre-Laurent Aimard teams up with Pierre Boulez, with whom he shares a strong artistic partnership. The combination of two such insightful musicians as Aimard and Boulez with one of the world’s great orchestras promises to be something very special A recording that brings together some of the greatest musicians of the modern age in their admiration for the Hungarian master composer of the 20th century: Boulez’s Bartók cycle has all the ingredients to become the benchmark recording of this repertoire “Gidon Kremer is by turns sublimely lyrical and bracingly driven in the First Violin Concerto… the interplay with the woodwind of the Berlin Philharmonic in the second movement is delightfully cheeky, as it is with Yuri Bashmet in a masterful account of the Viola Concerto.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 **** “And so Pierre Boulez's DG survey of Bartók's major orchestral works draws to a close. This final instalment opens with an Abbey Road taping of a masterpiece (the two-piano Sonataturned- Concerto) then alternates two fouryear- old Berlin Philharmonic recordings – the richly scored and erotically charged First Violin Concerto and the pared-down, largely ascetic Viola Concerto, an incomplete last testament rendered performable by the violaplayer Tibor Serly. Yuri Bashmet treats the opening with considerable freedom and is consistently responsive to the score's more lyrical passages, though both he and Boulez bring a touch of menace to the closing moments of the slow movement.
Gidon Kremer sounds equally unfettered at the start of the Violin Concerto's gorgeous first movement but come the dizzy antics of the Allegrogiocoso he engages more with play than with reverie. In fact from around 2'20” he sounds positively bored – very unlike him (he's a favourite player of mine).
Boulez has spoken about the 'Concerto' orchestration of the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion as adding 'a different dimension' to the Sonata, especially in the first movement, and he substantiates his claim with a performance that is typically transparent and attentive in matters of balancing, the brass fanfares at around 9'16” in the first movement so vividly reminiscent of parallel passages in the Second Piano Concerto. Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, although technically brilliant, keep a relatively low profile, which makes for added intimacy in the first movement's busy, often humorous badinage but rather mutes the rhythmic impact of the finale's opening. Greatly preferable is the stark, demonically driven spirit of the original – the Concerto pulls punches that the Sonata delivers in full – but Boulez's performance states a strong case for the plusher concerto alternative.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Concertos for Two Pianos by Mozart, Bartók & Liszt
All three pieces on this CD were composed by virtuoso pianist composers and their pianist partners in these works would have been their sister, pupil or wife. Bartok and his wife extended the four-hand, two piano repertoire and the cadenzas in the 1st and 3rd movements of the Mozart Concerto are by Bartok. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Concertos for Two Pianos
Quattro Mani (Susan Grace & Alice Rybak) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Duo Piano Extravaganza: Martha Argerich & Friends
Bartók: | Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115 Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire (pianos), Jan Labordus, Jan Pustjens (percussion) Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110 Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich (pianos), Willy Goudswaard, Michael de Roo (percussion) | Debussy: | En blanc et noir Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich (piano) | Lutoslawski: | Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for two pianos Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire (pianos) | Mozart: | Andante and Variations in G for Piano Duet, K501 Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich (pianos) | Rachmaninov: | Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17 Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire (pianos) | Ravel: | La Valse (for 2 pianos) Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire (pianos) | Saint-Saëns: | Le carnaval des animaux Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire (pianos) |
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| |  | The Reding & Piette Legacy
Alain: | Litanies, AWV100 | Bach, W F: | Keyboard Sonata in F major, F. 202 (BR A10) | Bartók: | Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115 Strasbourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Louis Martin | Brahms: | Variations on a theme by Haydn for two pianos, Op. 56b 'St Anthony Variations' | Debussy: | Lindaraja | Goossens: | Rhythmic Dance for two pianos | Guarnieri, C: | Dança Negra | Malipiero: | Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra Orchestre National de France, Rafael Kubelik | Martinu: | Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, H292 Orchestre National de France, Rafael Kubelik Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, H292 Boston Symphony orchestra, Charles Munch Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, H292 The Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Eugen Jochum 3 Czech Dances | Milhaud: | Le Bal Martiniquais Op. 249 | Poot: | Rapsodie for orchestra | Schumann: | Andante and Variation for two pianos Op. 46 | Stravinsky: | Concerto for 2 Pianos | Tailleferre: | Jeux de plein air (Outdoor Games) | Tansman: | Fantasie for 2 pianos |
Janine Reding (piano), Henry Piette (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Simon Rattle conducts Bartók
Bartók: | The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (complete ballet) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (complete) Peter Donohoe (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Violin Concerto No. 1, BB48a, Sz 36 Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra No. 1, BB 94b, Sz. 87 Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra No. 2, BB 96b, Sz. 90 Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115 Sylvio Gualdo & Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion) & Katia & Marielle Labèque (pianos) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110 Sylvio Gualdo & Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion) & Katia & Marielle Labèque (pianos) Bluebeard's Castle (The Lake of Tears) Anne Sofie von Otter & Willard White Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106 (opening of movement II) |
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| |  | Martha Argerich: The Complete Philips RecordingsThe Collection Volume 4
Bartók: | Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110 with Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115 with Nelson Freire (piano) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, David Zinman | Debussy: | En blanc et noir with Stephen Kovacevich (piano) | Kodály: | Dances of Galanta Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, David Zinman | Lutoslawski: | Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for two pianos with Nelson Freire (piano) | Meschwitz: | Tier-Gebete for speaker and piano Elena Bashkirova (speaker & piano) | Mozart: | Andante and Variations in G for Piano Duet, K501 with Stephen Kovacevich (piano) | Rachmaninov: | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 Radio-Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin, Riccardo Chailly Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17 with Nelson Freire (piano) | Ravel: | La Valse (for 2 pianos) with Nelson Freire (piano) | Ridout: | Ferdinand the bull for speaker and violin Elena Bashkirova (speaker & piano) Little Sad Sound A melodrama for speaker and double-bass Alois Posch (double bass) | Saint-Saëns: | Le carnaval des animaux with Mischa Maisky (cello), Nelson Freire (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin & speaker), Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Georg Hörtnagel (double bass), Irena Grafenauer (flute), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Markus Streckeler (xylophone) & Edith Salmen-Weber (glockenspiel) | Schubert: | Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821 with Mischa Maisky (cello) | Schumann: | Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 with Mischa Maisky (cello) Stücke im Volkston (5), Op. 102 | Tchaikovsky: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Riccardo Chailly |
Argerich is now approaching her 70th birthday – on the 5th of June this year. One of the releases marking this occasion is a further instalment in the very successful Martha Argerich Collection (already available: Solo Recordings, Concerto Recordings, Chamber Ensemble Recordings) with a set devoted to her complete recordings for the Philips label. Here we find her in partnership with Stephen Kovacevich and Nelson Freire, with discs of two-piano and piano duet works. Then there are the classic live recordings of the Tchaikovsky First and, above all, the Rachmaninov Third Concertos, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly; as well as an inimitable Carnival of the Animals (with Freire, Kremer, Maisky and others). Schubert and Schumann works for cello and piano feature Mischa Maisky. A 32-page full colour booklet contains photographs and new liner notes by Jed Distler. “[the Tchaikovsky is] truly extraordinary; it's worth it for that alone” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Martha Argerich - Chamber EnsemblesThe Collection Volume 3
Bartók: | Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115 | Brahms: | Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 Variations on a theme by Haydn for two pianos, Op. 56b 'St Anthony Variations' | Prokofiev: | Cinderella, Op. 87 | Rachmaninov: | Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 | Ravel: | Ma Mère l'Oye Rapsodie Espagnole La Valse (for 2 pianos) | Schubert: | Rondo for piano duet in A major, D951 | Schumann: | Fantasiestücke in A minor for Piano Trio, Op. 88 | Shostakovich: | Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 | Tchaikovsky: | The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 'In Memory of a Great Artist' |
The final box of Argerich’s DG recordings, which brings together on 6 CDs all of the chamber ensemble recordings from 1983 to 2009. The set also includes her celebrated collaborations with Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky and Yuri Bashmet, the duo-piano partnerships with Nicolas Economou, Mikhail Pletnev and Nelson Freire, and the Bartók / Ravel CD with Nelson Freire and percussionist friends. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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