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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Solti Centenary ConcertLive recording from Symphony Center, Chicago, 2012
Hosted by Valerie Solti The Solti Centenary Concert in Chicago celebrated Sir Georg Solti’s 100th birthday on October 21, 2012, featuring the World Orchestra for Peace. This unique ensemble owes its existence to the vision of its founder, Sir Georg Solti, who believed passionately in peace and the power of music and musicians to be ambassadors for peace. Charmingly hosted by Solti’s widow, Lady Valerie Solti, and featuring soloists such as Angela Gheorghiu and René Pape as well as members of the Georg Solti Accademia, this memorable evening presents musical highlights, all of which played a significant role in Solti’s life and career. Besides excerpts from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni or Verdi’s La Traviata and Rigoletto, this concert finds lovely musical moments in the 'Adagietto' from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Strauss’ Don Juan and Bartók’s masterful Concerto for Orchestra. Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever as the encore closes the performance with a smash. Conductor Valery Gergiev was a good friend of his advisor Georg Solti. Together with Lady Valerie Solti and the World Orchestra for Peace he carries on Solti’s vision and maintains his memory. Special Bonus Feature: “Solti’s Vision”, a film about the World Orchestra for Peace Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Format: DVD 9 / NTSC Subtitle Languages: DE, FR / DE (Bonus) Running Time: 112 mins + 21 mins (Bonus) FSK: 0 Worldwide available | 
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| |  | Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Concerto for Orchestra
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| |  | Bartók: Concertos
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 - Concerto for Orchestra & Viola Concerto
One of Bartók’s most popular symphonic works is his Concerto for Orchestra; Rafael Kubelik’s fabulous recording of it has long been out of the catalogue and is now restored to circulation at budget price. The Viola Concerto was commissioned by William Primrose, who did much to advocate the piece. Sadly, Bartók died before he could complete the work or meet with Primrose at a sufficiently advanced stage of the concerto’s composition in order to discuss it. Tibor Serly completed the work and Primrose premiered it in 1949. This is the first release on CD of the Deutsche Grammophon recording of the piece with Daniel Benyamini, for long leader of the viola section of the Israel Philharmonic as soloist, and Daniel Barenboim conducting. ‘This is a performance to keep making you smile with delight … Kubelik presents a relaxed view with the rhythms pointed to bring out the wit, above all the peasant-like jollity … The DG recording is warm and atmospheric but equally has good inner detail’ Gramophone [Concerto for Orchestra] ‘the committed performance here by soloist and conductor shows the concerto in the best possible light; and the slow movement is really touching’ Gramophone [Viola Concerto] | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Recorded: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, January 1981 (Concerto; Suite) & November 1989 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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luxury foil slipcase "The Philadelphia's triumphal return…after ten years in the recording wilderness, America's legendary orchestra is back in formidable form under its music director [Christoph Eschenbach] who brilliantly realises a powerful programme." (BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the Month) “Eschenbach opens with Martinů's Memorial to Lidice… this performance serves to intensify an overriding feeling of despair, the Philadelphians responding with a chilling incisiveness particularly in the deathly bitonal chords that appear at the beginning and end of the work. Gideon Klein's Partita is a highly effective string orchestral transcription of a Trio written in Terezín some months before this talented composer was deported to Auschwitz. Within this... context Bartók's Concerto... emerges as a much darker and more disturbing work. Once... Eschenbach emphasises these resonances by taking his time in the slow introduction to the first movement and thereby building up a much greater head of steam in the exciting accelerando to the Allegro Vivace.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2006 *****  BBC Music Magazine
Disc of the month - January 2006 |
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| |  | Bela Bartók: The Orchestral Masterpieces
Bartók: | Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116 Dance Suite, BB 86, Sz. 77 Hungarian Sketches, BB 103, Sz. 97 Romanian Folk Dances for orchestra, Sz. 68, BB 76 Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106 Divertimento for Strings, Sz. 113 The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (suite) |
“A self-recommending collection of Solti's digital recordings which has special individuality and distinction. Solti had a great and natural affinity with Bartok...the extra warmth of the music-making brings out the lyrical qualities of the music. The Concerto for Orchestra has great zest and bold colouring” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bartók: | Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116 Dance Suite, BB 86, Sz. 77 Portrait No. 5 for Violin & Orchestra Sz37 Romanian Folk Dances for orchestra, Sz. 68, BB 76 Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106 Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119 |
Ernest Ansermet's view of Bartok was a lyrical one and his incredible ear brought out lines, sonorities and shape in this music that have rarely been equalled. Here, collected together on CD for the first time, are his complete Bartok recordings for Decca as part of the ongoing 'Decca Ansermet Legacy' and they include some of his most famous orchestral works, with a first release on CD of the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and a first international release of the other orchestral works. The Piano Concerto No. 3, released as part of the Ansermet volume in Decca's 'Original Masters', features Julius Katchen as soloist. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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