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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Grigory Ginzburg - The Goldenweiser SchoolHis Early Recordings 1
Grigory Ginzburg (1904-1961) was perhaps the most astounding virtuoso to emerge in Soviet Russia and it is a tragedy that he was never allowed to travel to the west after the mid 1930’s. He focussed his repertoire very much on the 19th century Romantic period and, above all, in Liszt, and his prolific recordings include many of Liszt’s virtuosic opera paraphrases that had fallen into neglect. This CD is the first of two devoted to his earliest 78rpm recordings mainly dating from the 1940s. These discs are extremely rare and many of the performances included will be unknown to even the most ardent collectors. The disc finishes with the most astounding performance of the greatest virtuoso warhorse of the 19th century – Balakirev’s Islamey. Ginzburg’s supremely elegant performance shows total control in even the thorniest passages, for him it appears no more difficult than a Haydn sonata, and the result is that we hear so much more in the music than is normally the case. “…Grigory Ginzburg's… legendary performance of the Mozart / Liszt Figaro Fantasy remains a marvel and stylised elegance and dazzling fluency.” Gramophone Magazine, 2008 Awards Issue “Goldenweiser's greatest student, Grigory Ginzburg (1904-61), clearly resembles his teacher in some ways: his tone is solid, his technical craft everywhere apparent, and his identification with the music beyond reproach. …even when the going would be heavy for most pianists, Ginzburg has a musical or expressive purpose that cuts deeper than mere showmanship.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Great Pianists Volume 5 - Josef Hofmann
Beethoven: | The Ruins of Athens -Turkish March Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3 | Chopin: | Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42 Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie' | Hofmann, J: | Kaleidoscope, Op. 40 No. 4 | Liszt: | Tarantella, S. 162 No. 3 (from Venezia e Napoli) Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 12 in C sharp minor | Mendelssohn: | Rondo capriccioso in E major, Op. 14 | Schumann: | Soaring, Op. 12, No. 2 | Sternberg: | Concert Study, Op. 103, No. 3 |
“This series of recordings from more than a century ago is remarkable: actual performances recorded on
mechanical reproducing pianos, preserved on piano rolls, and re-presented on a new concert grand, with
digital sound. And this Polish-American pianist was one of the greatest virtuosi of his age, as these pieces of
Liszt, Chopin, and Schumann testify” The Independent, February 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Beethoven - Complete Orchestral Works Volume 9
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard “Thomas Dausgaard's Beethoven Eighth crackles with life and makes an enthusiastic play for the score's zanier elements, such as the syncopated accents near the beginning of the first movement's development section… Warmly drawn horns sit happily at the centre of the Menuetto and the finale has a finely tensed feel to it, keenly played with cut-glass tremolandos.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2007 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Beethoven - The Original Piano Roll Recordings
Ignace Jan Paderewski, Myra Hess, Alfred Cortot & Josef Hofmann (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | The Very Best of Beethoven
Beethoven: | Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 - Allegro con brio Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica' - Marcia funebre Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight' - Adagio sostenuto Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral': Ode to joy Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 - Rondo The Ruins of Athens -Turkish March Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Op. 40 Septet in E flat major, Op. 20 Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 97 'Archduke': first movement Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer' - Finale Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique' |
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| |  | Classic Beethoven
Sir Thomas Beecham, Helga Dernesch, Helen Donath, Jacqueline du Pré, Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Kempe, Stephen Kovacevich, Horst R. Laubenthal, Dame Moura Lympany, Yehudi Menuhin, Karl Ridderbusch & Constantin Silvestri | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | 40 Famous Marches
Alford: | Colonel Bogey March | Bach, C P E: | March | Beethoven: | The Ruins of Athens -Turkish March | Berlioz: | La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 - Marche hongroise | Bizet: | Carmen Suite No. 2 - Marche des contrebandiers | Bliss: | Things to Come: March | Chabrier: | Joyeuse marche | Clarke, Jeremiah: | Trumpet Voluntary 'Prince of Denmark's March' | Coates, E: | Dam Busters March | Elgar: | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major, Op. 39 No. 4 | Fucik: | Entry of the Gladiators | Gounod: | Funeral March of a Marionette | Handel: | Rinaldo: March Dead March from Saul The Occasional Oratorio, HWV62 : March | Karg-Elert: | Nun danket alle Gott, marche triomphale, Op. 65 No. 59 | Mendelssohn: | Athalie: War March of the Priests A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding March | Meyerbeer: | Le prophète : Coronation March | Nielsen: | Aladdin Suite, Op. 34 - Oriental Festive March | Prokofiev: | The Love for Three Oranges: March | Purcell: | The Queen's Funeral March (procession) | Rimsky Korsakov: | The Tale of Tsar Saltan: March Mlada: Procession of the Nobles | Schubert: | Marche Militaire, D733 No. 1 | Sibelius: | Karelia Suite, Op. 11: Alla marcia | Sousa: | Washington Post The Stars and Stripes Forever | Strauss, J, II: | Jubel Marsch Persischer Marsch, Op. 289 Egyptischer Marsch, Op. 335 Napoleon-Marsch Russischer Marsch Spanischer Marsch, Op. 433 | Tchaikovsky: | The Nutcracker: March | Verdi: | Grand March from Aida | Wagner: | Tannhäuser : Grand March | Walton: | Crown Imperial |
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| |  | Great Conductors - Mendelberg
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Virtuoso Violin
Albéniz: | Tango | Bazzini: | La Ronde des lutins, Op. 25 | Beethoven: | The Ruins of Athens -Turkish March | Brahms: | Hungarian Dance No. 5 | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 | Dinicu: | Hora Staccato | Elgar: | La Capricieuse, Op. 17 | Herbert, V: | A la Valse | Hubay: | 6 Blumenleben for violin & piano, Op. 30 : 5. Der Zephir | Kroll: | Banjo and Fiddle | Moszkowski: | Guitare, Op. 45. No. 2 | Paganini: | Le Streghe, Op. 8, MS 19 | Sarasate: | Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43 | Vecsey, F: | Le vent |
Kimon Daeshik Kang (violin), Margit Rahkonen (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| Beethoven - Complete Symphonies
Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel “[van Immerseel's] progress from the Baroque via the classical to the early Romantic eras is evident in these elegant performances, which are more for the historical purist than the full-on romanticist. The tempi are measured, the playing delicate, painting a portrait more of Beethoven the master craftsman than the fiery visionary.” The Observer, 20th April 2008 “We know that Beethoven asked musicians very precise questions about the technical capacities of their instruments. So he knew exactly what he was doing when he pushed an instrument to the very limit of its possibilities. It’s partly the great technical difficulty that makes his music so revolutionary, but also the dramatic character this element confers on the music (and this dramatisation is further emphasised if one respects contemporary pitch standards, which were high – at least 440, if not more). That’s why it is so important to perform this music on period instruments..” Jos van Immerseel “Indeed, from the first bristling chords, Anima Eterna's playing held me on the edge of my seat. ” Gramophone Magazine, June 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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