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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Karajan Memorial Concert
Karajan's star pupils dedicate this wonderful performance to their teacher as a celebration of his 100th birthday: A "triumph of remembrance," wrote Die Welt following this stirring concert given by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Seiji Ozawa and with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist. It left its audience hovering between hushed reverence and deafening exultation.The Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein was the dazzling venue for the live recording of this concert celebrating the 100th birthday of Herbert von Karajan. And there Karajan's 'Berliner' never sounded better, evoking "a time which self-confidently sought the private and subjective in music, and believed it could find them in the mirror of the works" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). It is a concert that commemorates Herbert von Karajan for the ages in a supremely moving manner. "For Anne-Sophie Mutter the saying "Make every note count" becomes less a vague cliché and more a matter of fact. Her violin playing has an imagination, a curiosity and a near-endless reserve of psychic energy." The New York Times + BONUS: interviews with Mutter and Ozawa - includes many clips of Karajan's outstanding career. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 recorded in Paris in 1948. Kostia Konstatinov plays the piano concerto, once again a studio recording made in Paris, this time dating from 1941. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6
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| |  | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'Recorded in the Wuppertal Symphony Hall in May 2007
Symphony Orchestra Wuppertal, Toshituki Kamioka This deepest and most personal of all of Tchaikovsky’s works remains a constant feature on the
concert platform in symphony halls around the world. Toshituki Kamioka has been Director of
Music in Wuppertal and Chief Conductor of the orchestra since 2004. Under his leadership the
reputation of the orchestra grows year on year. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6
Written in the last year of his life, this most melancholic of symphonies is forever associated with the tragedy of Tchaikovsky's sudden death in 1893. As an additional special bonus, Christoph Eschenbach performs on piano the seldom performed Dumka (Scenes from a Russian Village), making this unusual coupling a unique release. “Eschenbach conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in a vivid, deeply passionate performance of Tchaikovsky’s final work, the Pathetique Symphony.
The opening explodes with a mighty punch, and the brasses sound as if hurrying a convict to the scaffold. The composer is clearly in turmoil – the stuttering phrases are queasy, while there is more than a hint of sour wedding bells in the falling pizzicato. The truncated waltz of the second movement is a little treacly, but this is the only blemish. The naughty gaiety and climactic end of the third is good for premature applause, while the exhausted finale welcomes serene oblivion. The final ten minutes are filled with a mourning piano solo, Dumka Op 59.” The Times, 27th June 2008 **** “Here, [Eschenbach's] performance of Dumka continues the trend: the piece itself kicks off as a Lisztian rhapsody on Ukrainian folk themes, before suddenly plunging into sombre uncertainty, while Eschenbach's searching yet flamboyant interpretation leaves you open-mouthed. The symphony, ravishingly played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, is more equivocal. Eschenbach is among the conductors moving away from the idea of the Pathétique as being primarily neurotic, though the tone remains predominantly elegiac.” The Guardian, 11th July 2008 **** “Do we really need yet another Pathétique? In this case, the answer is "yes". The sheen of the Philadelphia strings and the orchestra's mellow wind bring their own qualities to a performance that, under Christoph Eschenbach, has real fire and passion. It is a top-heavy sound that lacks the darker timbre of performances under Gergiev (Philips) and Ashkenazy (Decca), but there is certainly room for this sleeker view, warmly recorded.” The Telegraph, 26th July 2008 “Tchaikovsky's mighty last work... is played with thrilling ferocity, grace and poignancy in this live recording by the Philadelphia under Christoph Eschenbach. This must be one of the finest performances on disc - and one of the most unusual - as Eschenbach has the nerve to follow its unfollowable coda (after a decent pause) with the 10-minute piano piece 'Dumka'. The effect is to remind us yet further of this heart-on-sleeve composer's lifelong sense of isolation.” The Observer, 3rd August 2008 “I find this orchestra's response is wanting in the real atmospheric depths so effortlessly encompassed in an all-Russian performance like any of Mravinsky's or Gergiev's with the Kirov Orchestra.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 **** “One of music's great tragic masterpieces is here reduced to an exercise in showmanship and flashy presentation which says little and conveys less.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume VILive recording from the Alte Oper Frankfurt 1991
Hailed by the German press as “the definitive video production” of Tchaikovsky’s music Recording Date: 1991
Place of recording: Live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Running Time: 121 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: GB
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"The music on this recording is highly charged and very emotional,” says Paavo Järvi. “Tchaikovsky, who experienced many ups and downs in his life, was a master at putting his own intense feelings into his compositions. Listeners can hear this especially in his Sixth Symphony and his musical depiction of the timeless love story of Romeo and Juliet.” | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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"The music on this recording is highly charged and very emotional,” says Paavo Järvi. “Tchaikovsky, who experienced many ups and downs in his life, was a master at putting his own intense feelings into his compositions. Listeners can hear this especially in his Sixth Symphony and his musical depiction of the timeless love story of Romeo and Juliet.” | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky - Paul Kletzki & David Oistrakh
“The sound has been expertly remastered for this excellent reissue: the playing is outstanding and Kletzki's conducting is thrillingly direct here...Oistrakh is enormously compelling musically, demonstrating a seemingly effortless command of the instrument that would be remarkable in its own right, but with Oistrakh this comes combined with such an eloquent feeling for the music's drama and melancholy” Nigel Simeone, International Record Review | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Erich Kleiber conducts Weber, Mozart & Tchaikovsky
Recording: Saal 1, Funkhaus, WDR Cologne 20 January 1956 (Weber), 23 November 1953 (Mozart) & 28 March 1955 (Tchaikovsky) “…an account of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony (Pathétique) which is so frenetic, and with so many drastic changes of tempo, that it sounds like a great old-style podium maestro at work. It's amazing, devastating.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2007 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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