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Peter Schreier and Hansjorg Albrecht perform Songs for Christmas on this timely release from Berlin Classics. | 
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| |  | Alois: Of Shepherds and Angels
Alois Mühlbacher (boy soprano), Franz Farnberger (piano) |
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| |  | Kathleen Ferrier, Vol. 21949, 1952
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| |  | Kathleen Ferrier: Arias and Songs1946-1950 Recordings
plus: Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part II: Aria: Have mercy, Lord, on me (Sung in English)
Kathleen Ferrier was one of the greatest British singers of the 20th century. For ten years she enjoyed an unparallelled career, admired equally for the generous warmth and sincerity of her interpretations as for her uniquely splendid contralto voice. This reissue features twelve arias and songs that Ferrier recorded for Decca between 1946 and 1950. In addition there are eight treasurable items from a 1949 Norwegian Radio recital in Oslo, which include her only published recordings of Hugo Wolf. Mark Obert-Thorn, producer and audio restoration engineer | | | (also available to download from $8.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs Volume 1Mörike-Lieder Nos. 1-26
This is the first disc in a series that will be the first ever complete edition of the songs of Hugo Wolf. These performances were recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival (in the Holywell Music Room) on 22nd October 2010. “Daneman, Grevelius, Gilchrist and Loges are top-flight lieder singers, with Oxford Lieder founder and pianist Sholto Kynoch offering sensitive support. Richard Stokes provides excellent notes and translations.” The Observer, 22nd May 2011 “Grevilius’s mezzo rises to the challenge of “Seufzer” and Daneman’s soprano brings sweetness to “Zitronenfalter im April”.” Financial Times, 25th June 2011 ** “their performances are acutely sensitive to Wolf's musical nerve system. And, best of all, a sense of intimacy, of close confiding with the audience, really does come over - invaluable for private listening...Festival director Sholto Kynoch is a vivid and sentient accompanist.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2011 **** “The team of four singers is first-rate, responsive in every way, and if anything even more remarkable is the work of their pianist, Sholto Kynoch, displaying an exceptional expressive range, not only ideally agile but with the most subtle range of tone and dynamic...Altogether an impressive achievement from an enterprising new company.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Angelika Kirchschlager: Wolf & Strauss
Strauss, R: | Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3 Mein Herz ist stumm, Op. 19 No. 6 Du meines Herzens Krönelein, Op. 21 No. 2 Meinem Kinde, Op. 37 No. 3 Muttertändelei, Op. 43 No. 2 Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27 No. 1 Für fünfzehn Pfennige Op. 36 No. 2 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 Nichts, Op. 10 No. 2 encore | Wolf, H: | Auf einer Wanderung (No. 15 from Mörike-Lieder) Im Frühling (No. 13 from Mörike-Lieder) Auf ein altes Bild (No. 23 from Mörike-Lieder) Begegnung (No. 8 from Mörike-Lieder) Das verlassene Mägdlein (No. 7 from Mörike-Lieder) Er ist's (No. 6 from Mörike-Lieder) Alte Weisen, Sechs Gedichte von Gottfried Keller Nimmersatte Liebe (No. 9 from Mörike-Lieder) encore |
“Since her full blooming on the operatic stage, Kirchschlager’s mezzo has grown enormously - and her performing character with it. She still knows how to hold a recital audience in the palm of her hand, but now there’s a newly expansive energy firing all she sings […..] Kirchschlager’s dark mezzo smouldered with sensuality,” so wrote the Times after Angelika Kirchschlager and Roger Vignoles’ February 2010 Wigmore Hall performance of the same collection of Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss songs. Angelika Kirchschlager is regarded as one of the most distinguished mezzo-sopranos of her generation and in particular is recognised internationally for her interpretations of Richard Strauss. She gives regular solo recitals, balancing her operatic career with lieder performances. Eminent piano accompanist and leading authority on the song repertoire, Roger Vignoles, is her long-standing musical partner. Now in this collection Kirchschlager and Vignoles collaborate to perform nine Strauss songs as well as Wolf’s lieder to texts by Eduard Mörike and Gottfried Keller. Wolf set 43 of Mörike’s poems to music during a period of intense creativity in which he developed a heady new musical language. Kirchschlager delights in the opportunity to convey this with glorious colouring of phrases which are fittingly matched by the piano. The recording provides encores of music from each composer, including Strauss’ triumphant ‘Nichts,’ a fitting end to a compelling programme. “What a generous communicator is the vivacious Angelika Kirchschlager. Quirky Hugo Wolf suits her rather better than Strauss's sometimes generic rapture, though she's splendidly scathing in the often archly delivered 'Für fünfzehn Pfennige'. The full extrovert personality seems to unleash the sometimes reticent Roger Vignoles” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 **** “listen to [Morgen]...and you will hear a miniature master-class in Lieder singing...Kirchschlager's lightly worn mezzo burnishes a song that is too often over-gilded...It helps that Kirchschlager is such an accomplished singing actress...Vignoles is on tiptop form throughout.” International Record Review, November 2010 “This recital shows the mezzo-soprano at the peak of her powers, richly characterful and infinitely expressive. The same statement can be made about her pianist, Vignoles, in what is quite properly a partnership of equals.” Sunday Times, 28th November 2010 *** “Few Lieder singers match Angelika Kirchschlager in vibrant stage personality. Even heard 'blind', the Austrian mezzo vividly illuminates each of Wolf's nature rhapsodies, vignettes and character sketches...In the wry and/or touching character studies of Wolf's Six Songs in the Old Style...Kirchschlager the born stage animal is in her element...'Morgen' is moving in its unsentimental sincerity” Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Weihnachtslieder
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| |  | Accentus - Transcriptions 1 & 2
Barber, S: | Agnus Dei | Berg: | Die Nachtigall | Cornelius: | Drei Psalmlieder Op. 13 (based on melodies by J S Bach) | Debussy: | Les Angélus Préludes - Book 1: No. 6, Des pas sur le neige | Krawczyk: | Lacrimosa (transcription of Chopin Etude No. 6, Op. 10) Lulajze, Jesuniu (based on Largo from Chopin Sonata No. 3) | Mahler: | Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder) Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (No. 4 from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) Scheiden und Meiden (Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit) | Nystedt: | Immortal Bach (Komm, süsser Tod, BWV478) | Pesson: | Kein deutscher Himmel Preuve par la neige: Si comme la lune ... Preuve par la neige: La lune paraît | Prokofiev: | Le champ des morts | Ravel: | Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé: 'Soupir' Ronsard à son âme L'Indifférent (Shéhérazade No. 3) La Flûte enchantée (Shéhérazade No. 2) Le Jardin féerique Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant | Schubert: | Nacht und Träume, D827 Grablied fur die Mutter D616 (poet unknown) Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D343 Der Wegweiser (No. 20 from Winterreise, D911) | Vivaldi: | The Four Seasons: Winter, RV297 | Wagner: | Im Treibhaus (No. 3 from Wesendonck-Lieder) | Wolf, H: | Das verlassene Mägdlein (No. 7 from Mörike-Lieder) Auf ein altes Bild (No. 23 from Mörike-Lieder) |
On these best-selling CDs many classical masterpieces are given an original interpretation for choir. The Accentus Chamber Choir, under the direction of Laurence Equilbey, is unanimously recognised as one of the world’s finest vocal ensembles. Bonus (audio): Interview with Laurence Equilbey / Recording of Der Doppelgänger (Schubert) | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Edition Fischer-Dieskau Vol. 1 - Wolf's Morike-Lieder
“Wolf's songs require the finest judgement of shifting tones of voice, the closest of close focus. That's just what the 18 selected settings (out of 53) of the poetry of Eduard Mörike receive here. All but one is accompanied by the minutely sensitive Hertha Klust, Fischer-Dieskau's coach and chosen accompanist at the time.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Wolf: Morike-Lieder (Vol. 1)
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