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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Ultimate Ballet Album
A collection of music from the five most popular ballets of all time – Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sylvia and Giselle as well as three of the most popular single dance works of all time – Khachaturian’s ‘Adagio’ from Spartacus, Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and the ‘Waltz’ from Khachaturian’s Masquerade. Over 2 hours and 15 minutes playing time. Full liner notes with synopsis of the featured ballets. | | | (also available to download from $11.25) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Fairy MusicClassical Music by Great Composers Inspired by Fairies
Debussy: | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Markevich Préludes - Book 1: No. 11, La Danse de Puck Martin Souter (piano) | Mendelssohn: | A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Christian Rainer | Rimsky Korsakov: | Scheherazade, Op. 35: The Young Prince & Princess Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Bystrik Rezucha | Tchaikovsky: | The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a South German Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Scholz Sleeping Beauty, Suite, Op. 66a Philharmonia Orchestra, Lawrence Siegel |
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| |  | ImpressionsGentle classical favourites to create a peaceful mood
Beethoven: | Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto Martin Souter (piano) | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Martin Souter (piano) Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 Martin Souter (piano) Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21: II. Larghetto Bianca Sitzius (piano) Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Wojchiech Rajski | Debussy: | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Markévich Préludes - Book 1: No. 4, Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir Martin Souter (piano) | Grieg: | Peer Gynt: Morning Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek | Satie: | Gymnopédie No. 1 Martin Souter (piano) | Schumann: | Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traümerei Martin Souter (piano) | Tchaikovsky: | Swan Lake, Op. 20 (excerpts) Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Markévich |
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| |  | Sergiu Celibidache conducts Ravel And Debussy
Recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie during the Cologne
Music Triennale, 13-14 May 1994 “Five masterpieces teased out to the limits of the possible, but still alive with great playing and the tension Celibidache maintains. To watch the pouchy face relaxing into smiles is a drama in itself.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2008 ***** “The performance of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune…is the nearest to musical Zen we are ever likely to get. Beautifully filmed at a concert in Cologne in 1994, it is a never-to-be-surpassed memento of the legendary Romanian conductor Celibidache (1912-96), in repertoire that demonstrated his unrivalled ear for timbre and colour. The Prélude seems to float outside time and space - the Munich Philharmonic reward Celi with the most ravishing display - and a scarcely less magical Ravel Rhapsodie espagnole resonates between precision, subtlety and refinement…” Financial Times | | | 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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| |  | Debussy: Orchestral Works Volume 1
Debussy was one of the most important and influential composers of the early twentieth century. This recording features two of Debussy’s most harmonically innovative and imaginatively orchestrated works. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) evokes a pagan world, as the faun of the title takes his ease in the afternoon shade on a summer day. The three symphonic sketches that constitute La mer (The Sea), inspired partly by Katsushika Hokusai’s famous colour woodcut The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, offer subtly nuanced evocations of the sea from dawn to midday, of the waves and of the dialogue of wind and sea. “The Prélude à l'Après-Midi opens with a beautifully shaped flute solo, but then becomes too generalised, without enough stabs of drama to lift its general mood of indolence, while La Mer motors along rather complacently and Jeux totally lacks the quicksilver wit and colouristic imagination that makes it one of the most elusive and potent of Debussy's late works. Whether it's more obvious delight in the luxuriance of the textures, or a sharper analytical insight into the way in which the pieces are constructed, it needs more character; what we get instead is elegant, undemanding background music.” The Guardian, 30th May 2008 ** “Debussy ushered in the modern age with breezy whole-tone scales and mere impressions of keys, which the musicians under Märkl paint with delicious colour. Märkl moves the phrases of La Mer like plump, urgent waves, or smoothes them like the deceptive calm ready to surge at any moment. A sense of lurking danger might have been more apparent, however. The Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune paints beautifully the dancing sunlight but lacks that haunting hollowness in the flute that evokes the pagan past. Jeux is both playful and as tense as a tennis racket. But Children's Corner is a little overpowering for the nursery, the jauntiness now rather grotesque in expanded form.” The Times, 24th May 2008 *** “…this is bewitching music-making that should on no account be missed… One of the finest discs Naxos has ever released.” Classic FM Magazine Orchestral Disc of the Month “Markl and his players acquit themselves admirably, and as one-stop shopping for some of Debussy's most engaging orchestral works it's hard to beat.” American Record Guide | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The Best of Classics Vol.1
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| |  | Pfitzner - Violin Concerto
Gerhard Taschner (violin) RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe Performance recorded live 17th April 1955. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Debussy - Piano Duets
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| |  | Tour De France
Quintessenz is the name of this flute ensemble hailing from Leipzig. On this, their first recording, they play such classic and well known pieces as Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” and Bizet’s “Children’s Games”. Together with music by Debussy and Ravel. Not only is the playing world class but the ensemble performs the music in their own arrangements. A unique and talented group of musicians. | |
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Recorded March 1964, March 1966 (Boléro) | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | |
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