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Wiener Philhamoniker, Sir Georg Solti Recorded - Sofiensaal, Vienna, October 1961 & November 1965 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne & Sinfonia Varsovia, Yehudi Menuhin | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Solti | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | A Nos Amours
Diabolicus, Dietrich Henschel The fascinating programme of waltzes and other short pieces chosen for this new recording by the chamber ensemble Diabolicus and its renowned musical director Dietrich Henschel has been given the title “A Nos Amours”, and endeavours to musically represent the full range of emotions that cover life from birth till death. There is the love of Richard Wagner for his wife Cosima and for their newborn son in the Siegfried Idyll, the love of a son for his dead mother in the Busoni’s touching lullaby, the Berceuse élégaique, as well as the joy of life and love so perfectly portrayed in the waltzes of Johann Strauss the younger. The Schubert lied Ständchen and the famous Neopolitan song Funiculì-Funiculà by Luigi Denza have been included to present the more light-hearted aspect of these “amours”. Apart from the Wagner piece, the music is here performed in transcriptions for chamber groups by Arnold Schoenberg and his circle of friends and pupils. The chamber ensemble Diabolicus was formed in 2001 with a core of soloists from the Orchestre de Paris. The ensemble can be expanded as required, bringing together musical personalities encountered in a variety of extra-orchestral collaborations. In 2004 and 2005, Diabolicus swelled its number to thirty-five musicians for two performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with Dietrich Henschel and Menahem Pressler respectively. With Dietrich Henschel, their working relationship did not involve the notion of an ensemble directed by a conductor, but was immediately established on the basis of a friendly collaboration in music. Dietrich Henschel is acknowledged as one of today’s foremost interpreters of the lied. He is invited all over the world with the pianists Fritz Schwinghammer, Helmut Deutsch and Michael Schäfer. His substantial discography features lieder and song cycles by Mahler, Wolf, Schubert, Korngold, and Beethoven, as well as a complete recording of Busoni’s Doktor Faust (winner of a Grammy Award). His conducting career has taken flight since his triumph at the Châtelet in 2004 in a series of concerts with the ensemble Diabolicus, with which he has subsequently worked on a regular basis. | 
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| |  | Donald Runnicles
Staatskapelle Dresden, Donald Runnicles “The present excerpts are taken not from opera performances, but from an orchestral concert in the
Dresden Staatsoper – and what a magnificently expansive acoustic it has! Runnicles paces with the
experience of the opera house and creates the most natural ebb and flow of tempo…the Dresden
orchestra create marvellously dramatic sonorities in strings and brass alike, thundering out those
mighty chords in the death/funeral sequence… Throughout, Runnicles generates maximum tension…Overall this seems to me one of the finest and most moving single-disc summations of what Wagner’s orchestral writing is all about…” Gramophone |
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| |  | Wagner: Overtures, Marches ...
London Symphony Orchestra & Philadelphia Orchestra, Marek Janowski & Wolfgang Sawallisch |
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| |  | Great Conductors - Serge Koussevitzky
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky |
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Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neemi Järvi This 67-minute, orchestra-only version of Wagner’s famous opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen is arranged by
Henk de Vlieger, arranger, composer and percussionist in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. The work was
commissioned by the orchestra and the result is a 14-section fiery musical spectacle entitled The Ring, an
orchestral adventure. This symphonic ‘compilation’ compresses Wagner’s four mighty Ring operas, yet includes
all the major themes and ‘leitmotifs’. The result is an overwhelming experience and a must for anyone who loves
blazing orchestral colours. The Minneapolis Tribune wrote; “The way that De Vlieger has created transitions
between scenes and acts is quite ingenious…’ “Bits of Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung
floated past, melded together as if some Wagnerian superman who understood the whole and articulated it in
particular. Highlights were everywhere. Horns, sounded offstage and on, reminded listeners of the great arias,
without the singers to sing it… Toward the end, it actually seemed like we had experienced the entire Ring cycle –
a tribute to the orchestrator’s talents,’ wrote the Boston Herald following a performance of the work. Coupled to
this mighty work is Siegfried Idyll, which is thematically related to the Ring, and although with quite a different
subject matter, complements the Orchestral Adventure perfectly. |
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| |  | Great Conductors - Otto Klemperer
Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer If ‘slow tempos’ were a significant characteristic of Klemperer’s final years as a conductor, in his earlier days, as demonstrated on these 1927-28 recordings, he could set fizzing tempos, galvanising his performers with electric gestures. Above all, however, Klemperer was a master structuralist, always focussed on the music, its construction and direction. His recording of the Brahms Symphony No. 1, made over seven months, is notable not only for athletic vitality but for ecstatic singing lines and subtle integration of light and shade. The account of the Prelude to Act I of Tristan und Isolde is remarkably rapt while that of Siegfried Idyll is intimate and gentle. “Compelling and magisterial. The Bhrams Symhony is overwhelming, the Wagner excerpts tantalising.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 ***** |
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