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Memorial concert on the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt (22. October 2011). Under the direction of romantic-music specialist Christian Thielemann, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden performs a special Franz Liszt memorial concert at the Semperoper in Dresden to commemorate the bicentenary of one the 19th century’s greatest composers. Christian Thielemann is a maestro internationally known and admired above all as a specialist of Romantic music and a highly acclaimed Bayreuth Wagner Ring conductor. Running Time Total: 85 minutes DVD: DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Thielemann conducts Faust
Memorial concert on the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt (22. October 2011). Under the direction of romantic-music specialist Christian Thielemann, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden performs a special Franz Liszt memorial concert at the Semperoper in Dresden to commemorate the bicentenary of one the 19th century’s greatest composers. Christian Thielemann is a maestro internationally known and admired above all as a specialist of Romantic music and a highly acclaimed Bayreuth Wagner Ring conductor. Running Time Total: 85 minutes BD: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM Stereo “Putting the music aside for one moment, consider the pinpoint precision of its visuals: we see the sumptuous gold decorations of Dresden's restored Semperoper; the golden polish (plus the odd scratch) on the orchestra's strings...Thielemann easily keeps Liszt's symphonic epic afloat, applying firm structural control, plenty of Romantic warmth, and just enough reticence to make the music exciting and dignified.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 **** “Thielemann's principal virtues are purity, energy and the ability to hold together what can prove an unwieldy structure. Wagner's thrilling Faust Overture, originally conceived as part of a projected symphony, is played with warmth and vigour...Camerawork is mostly expert and unobtrusive (first-rate picture quality) and Thielemann is good to watch, his beat always clear, his gestures impassioned and precise.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Liszt: A Faust Symphony & Les Preludes
Sony Classical ORIGINALS offer listeners outstanding enjoyment, authentically recapturing the fascination of legendary recordings from the age of long-playing records and preserving worthwhile releases from two labels with particularly long and distinguished traditions: RCA Red Seal and Columbia Masterworks. These superb recordings by great artists have enjoyed international acclaim ever since they were first released. Showered with critical plaudits, they are part of the 20th century’s cultural legacy. All have been remastered and carefully restored using the latest studio technology in order to reproduce the original interpretations as faithfully as possible. The CD covers are taken over from the original LPs. The original introductions and LP labels are also reproduced in full, making Sony Classical ORIGINALS unique documents in the history of recorded sound. Featuring original LP cover artwork in full size and reproduction of original labels in mini LP design. Contains original liner notes in 3 languages (English, French and German) Jewel case packaging with fully coloured booklets. The Sony Classical Originals bring together for the first time at the Mid Price the greatest recordings from across all of the labels which are part of the Sony Classical umbrella, and are a perfect starting point for any classical collector. “Bernstein's charismatic 1960 recording of Liszt's orchestra masterpiece with the New York Philharmonic was a benchmark in its time and still packs a tremendous punch.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2012 **** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108
This is another Beecham premier CD Release from SOMM and is a 1956 live recording in an excellent transfer by engineer Gary Moore which is sure to please all admirers of Beecham’s inspired conducting in the concert hall. Liszt’s works featured selectively in Beecham’s programmes, but once he was attracted to a particular work, he lavished great care and attention on it. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Maarika Järvi - flute Estonian National Male Choir & Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi & Kritjan Järvi | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108recorded in 1957
Ferdinand Koch (tenor) Suddeutsche Rundfunk Male Voice Choir, Sudwestfunk Baden-Baden Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108Recorded live at the Symphony Hall, Boston, 26 July 1976
“Noble, passionate performance of Liszt's greatest work, Bernstein conducting with precision and fervour, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ideal. Not much is added by seeing Bernstein emoting at every point.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2007 ***** “Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony is one of the most significant yet (in our time) least appreciated orchestral works of the nineteenth century. […] the quasi-autobiographical Faust Symphony is Liszt's largest and greatest symphonic utterance, and a tour de force of nineteenth-century harmonic practice” Opera News “thrillingly captured on DVD - and one of [Bernstein's] very finest recordings...Bernstein seems to possess the ideal temperament for holding together grippingly the melodrama of the long first movement...and the playing of the Boston orchestra is superb throughout, especially in the strings.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Liszt - Symphonic Poems Volume 2
“Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic have already shown their mettle in their first volume, and it looks as though a highly collectable set is in the making” The Telegraph “In the Symphony… the long crescendos build up a tremendous head of steam, while Noseda handles Liszt's occasionally abrupt harmonic transitions with tact and sensitivity.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2006 ***** “Volume 2 in Chandos's series of Liszt's orchestral works includes the Faust Symphony, his crowning masterpiece, in a performance of supreme clarity and assurance. To achieve such stylistic empathy and lucidity in an hour-long force-of-nature work (the conductor has dropped the choral ending), showing Liszt's transformation of themes and characters at its height, is a daunting achievement.
Time and again you are made to realise that accusations (still made in some quarters) of theatricality, of fustian and bombast, are largely the result of inadequate performances that put superficial display before true musicianship. Gianandrea Noseda immediately engages you in Faust's opening and troubled questioning with the promise of epic variations to come. Gretchen's radiance emerges truly andante soave, dolcissimo e tranquillo e molto, allowing the music's gently sighing lines and phrases to contrast to maximum effect with Mephistopheles's snapping accentuation and glittering diablerie. Indeed, so precise and articulate is the playing that you are left to wonder if Liszt, like Milton in Paradise Lost, was of the Devil's party without realising his ironic bias or inclination.
Such a possibility is, however, erased in Liszt's final symphonic poem, Von der Wiege biszum Grabe, where the opening 'Cradle' and closing fade-out suggest the composer's vision at its most ethereal and elevated. Chandos's sound is superb; you could hardly wish for more eloquent advocacy.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010  BBC Music Magazine
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