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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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| |  | R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan & Till Eulenspiegel
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| |  | Strauss: Tone Poems
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| |  | Beecham conducts Handel, Ravel & Strauss
These recordings were taken from live performances at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 18th and Thursday 20th January 1955. Wilhelm Furtwängler was to have conducted these concerts, but sadly died in November 1954. Sir Thomas willingly conducted instead and the performances were given as a tribute to the great conductor and in memory of the friendship between Beecham and Furtwängler. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Strauss: Don Juan, Metamorphosen & Songs for Soprano & Piano
Strauss, R: | Don Juan, Op. 20 Die Zeitlose, Op. 10 No. 7 Allerseelen, Op. 10 No. 8 Die Georgine Op. 10 No. 4 Die Verschwiegenen, Op. 10 No. 6 Begegnung (Meeting), AV 72 Rote Rosen, AV76 Die erwachte Rose, TrV 90, AV 66 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 Metamorphosen |
Joan Rodgers (soprano) & Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor/piano) Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra Jan Latham-Koenig was one of Avie’s flagship artists. As Music Director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded the unique coupling of Franck’s Symphony in D with extracts from Psyché (AV0003), and Ibert’s rare, early opera Persée et Andromède (AV0008). These recordings of Strauss’s Don Juan and Metamorphosen were Latham-Koenig’s valedictory recordings in Strasbourg, and illuminate his brilliant ability to shape phrases and extract orchestral colour – ideal for Strauss’s vividly pictorial tone poems. An equally accomplished pianist, Latham-Koenig completes the album by accompanying one of England’s leading vocal lights, soprano Joan Rodgers, in a selection of Strauss’s early Lieder. “Joan Rodgers's singing...has bags of personality and that's the main thing...Tone-poem and elegy both start well, but have their problematic interpretative moments...The central sweep, though, is clear and impressive, the Strasbourg strings remarkably fine.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2011 *** “Don Juan has been played and recorded so often that it might seem impossibile to conjure the music into sounding as fresh as the day it was written. Yet it happens here, with a conductor-and-orchestra team that delivers sweeping panache, needlepoint precision, and vividly characterised solo playing (superb horns!). In the brooding, autumnal Metamorphosen, the quality of the Strasbourg string-playing is if anything higher.” Classic FM Magazine, July 2011 ***** “The account of Don Juan cannot be faulted: ideally paced, with a bold contribution from the horns and strings which are virile and rich. The tension in Metamorphosen, although not low, is a little inconsistent but reaches an impressively passionate climax with good, full-bodied recording. The conductor also provides highly sympathetic accompaniments for his soloist, Joan Rodgers.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2011 “This lusciously rewarding programme opens with an admirably ardent, appropriately cocksure but always musically disciplined Don Juan, played with panache by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg...[Metamorphosen] is beautifully played, finely shaped and exquisitely internally balanced.” Sunday Times, 11th September 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Strauss: Don Quixote
Rudolf Kempe’s excellent reputation as a conductor of Richard Strauss is justly deserved. In this recording, he is joined by the inimitable Paul Tortelier in Strauss’ whimsical Don Quixote. He conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a superb recording of Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche and the CD also features the same orchestra in an unjustly neglected performance of Don Juan conducted by Fritz Lehmann. ‘This is one of the great classics of the gramophone........... Highly recommended.’ Gramophone of Don Quixote and Til Eulenspiegels | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sir Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti (1912–1997) had been the Music Director of the Opera House, Covent Garden for two years by the time this performance the overture to Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer was filmed. His reputation for recording Wagner was becoming established, having achieved great success with the first complete recording of Das Rheingold in 1958 for Decca. This studio recording comes just two weeks after he performed orchestral extracts from Götterdämmerung and Tristan und Isolde at the Proms with the ROH Orchestra, a recording released on BBC Legends to great acclaim. Solti’s studio recordings of Richard Strauss operas were groundbreaking, achieving him a great reputation as a Strauss conductor with high levels of expressiveness, drama and precision. This performance of Beethoven 5 was filmed during his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and was the work that reputedly led Solti to decide to become a conductor on hearing a recording with Erich Kleiber. It is clear from this thrilling performance that his sense of drama did not diminish with age. This DVD benefits from fascinating bonus rehearsal footage of Don Juan and an interview with John Culshaw in which Solti talks about performing the music of Strauss. Solti’s Complete Wagner Edition on Decca is a Penguin Guide first recommendation. This is the first DVD release. Sound format: Enhanced Mono Picture format: 4:3 Running time: 78’ Subtitles: F/G Menu languages: English Booklet languages: E/F/G Region code: 0 Territory Restrictions: None | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra & Don Juan
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| |  | Jeunesses Musicales du CanadaLooking to the Future
Bach, J S: | Violin Sonata in G major, BWV1021 James Ehnes (violin), Luc Beauséjour (piano), Benoit Loiselle (cello) | Brahms: | Two songs for contralto with viola obbligato, Op. 91 Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Michael MacMahon (piano), Nicolò Eugelmi (viola) | Chopin: | Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49 André Laplante (piano) | Duparc: | Chanson triste Jean-François Lapointe (baritone), Louise-Andre Baril (piano) | Dvorak: | Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) Marianne Fiset (soprano) Orchestre de la Francophonie, Jean-Pjilippe Tremblay | Piazzólla: | Cuarto Estaciones Porteñas Gryphon Trio | Rachmaninov: | Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 Nareh Arghamanyan (piano) | Salzedo: | Scintillation, Op. 31 Valérie Milot (harp) | Schubert: | Sonatina in D major, D384 (Op. posth. 137 No. 1) Angèle Dubeau (violin), Anton Kuerti (piano) | Strauss, R: | Don Juan, Op. 20 Orchestre de la Francophonie, Jean-Pjilippe Tremblay | Verdi: | Elle ne m'aime pas! (from Don Carlos) Joseph Rouleau (bass) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (from Rigoletto) Louis Quilico (baritone) Edmonton Symphony Orchestra | Vivaldi: | Concerto for 2 Flutes, Strings and Continuo in C, R533 Ensemble Caprice |
This anniversary collection by Jeunesses Musicales marks 60 years of service to the young: 60 years of excellence. The compilation presents some of the best recordings made at ANALEKTA by artists who toured under the aegis of JMC or have been associated with the Montreal International Musical Competition, founded in 2002. Discover some of the great performers of the Canadian music scene. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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