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Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 [SOLD OUT!!!] cover
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2-4 weeks
BRAHMS
Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 [SOLD OUT!!!]
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) & Rudolf Serkin (piano)
[ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 5/Sep/2014 ]
"With playing of this calibre, with both artists wonderfully attuned to each other's responses, every nuance tells and Brahms's bold melodic lines soar out from the speakers to capture the listener's imagination, and provide an enthralling musical
Dances & Overtures cover
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AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Dances & Overtures
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
[ Decca / CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ]
"four trumpets and war-like drums create a splendid din in the clever Ouverture from Niobe." (Gramophone)
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano cover
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JOHN CAGE
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
John Tilbury (prepared piano)
[ Decca 20th Century / CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ]
Sonatas and Interludes, composed in 1946-48, is John Cage's most important work for prepared piano. John Cage described the work as an attempt to express in music the "permanent emotions" of Indian tradition: the heroic, the erotic, the wondrous,...
Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (complete opera recordedin 1992) cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (complete opera recordedin 1992)
Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Enzo Dara, Alessandro Corbelli / Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
[ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ]
"All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate conti
Live from the Semperoper - The Lehár Gala From Dresden cover
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FRANZ LEHAR
Live from the Semperoper - The Lehár Gala From Dresden
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Angela Denoke (soprano) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ]
The soloists, Angela Denoke, Ana Maria Labin and Piotr Beczala, assisted by the Dresden State Opera Chorus, offer arias and ensembles that will delight you with their joie de vivre.
Ballet Suites [Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Nutcracker] cover
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Ballet Suites [Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Nutcracker]
Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ]
The Nutcracker suite has emerged spic and span and vividly coloured and only in the "Waltz of the Flowers" is the ear drawn to a certain glossiness in the violins. Of course the orchestral playing is quite splendid (Gramophone)
101 Vivaldi cover
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
101 Vivaldi
Salvatore Accardo, Eduardo Fernandez, Severino Gazzelloni, Emma Kirkby, Neville Marriner, Simon Preston, etc
[ Decca / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2014 ]
This six-CD collection of 101 favourite tracks is the perfect introduction to the wonderful music of Vivaldi.
Symphonies 6 & 8 cover
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BEETHOVEN
Symphonies 6 & 8
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ]
"flexible, warmly played, beautifully detailed." (Arkivmusic)
Schubert: Impromptus [complete] cover
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Impromptus [complete]
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
[ Deutsche Grammophon Galleria / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ]
Barenboim has received many awards and prizes, including an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, France's Légion d'honneur both as a Commander and Grand Officier, the German Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz and Willy Brandt Award,...
101 Maurice Andre cover
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CLARKE / ALBINONI / PURCELL / VIVALDI / ALBINONI / L. MOZART / TELEMANN / etc
101 Maurice Andre
Maurice Andre (trumpet)
[ Decca / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2014 ]
This extensive collection neatly brings together Andre's many recordings for Philips and Deutsche Grammophon, as well as less commonly available recordings he made for Universal France.
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 / Chamber Symphony Op.110a cover
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 / Chamber Symphony Op.110a
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
[ Decca 20th Century / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ]
" it is clear from the finale that the orchestra and conductor are both enjoying themselves." (MusicWeb)
Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 1967) cover
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WAGNER
Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 1967)
Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Gustav Neidlinger, Ludmilla Dvoráková / Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Karl Böhm
[ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2014 ]
"a performance dominated by conductor and orchestra. You will never hear so much detail of the orchestral score in the opera-house...with Böhm at his most incandescent, the Immolation must rank as one of the noblest accounts of this music ever record
When I Fall in Love cover
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Lesley Garrett (soprano)
When I Fall in Love
[ Universal / CD - released 10/Jul/2014 ]
Lesley Garrett was around long before operatic divas Katherine Jenkins and Hayley Westenra, but she too fancied a stab at pop crossover and on When I Fall in Love, she presented 12 songs, all very familiar and most of the them covered to death by a...
Voice Of Joy (UK / International Version) cover
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Friar Allessandro
Voice Of Joy (UK / International Version)
[ Decca Records / CD - released 29/Nov/2013 ]
Friar Alessandro has recorded an album of Christmas Carols and sacred arias, or as he describes it, an album of Joy. Since his first album was released in 2012, Alessandro has captured the hearts of people around the world with his beautiful voice...
Verdi: Requiem cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem
Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim
[ Decca DVD / DVD - released 30/Aug/2013 ]
"Even without a fully Italianate instrument, Kaufmann's honeyed, warm tone makes him exceptional in Verdi." (The Telegraph)
Anna Netrebko sings Verdi - DELUX EDITION cover
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VERDI
Anna Netrebko sings Verdi - DELUX EDITION
Anna Netrebko (soprano) / Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
[ Deutsche Grammophon CD & DVD / CD/DVD - released 16/Aug/2013 ]
"her soprano now offers darker colours and greater weight than it ever did before...she makes every heroine leap before us, fully alive, each widely different from the other...Along the way we also get some of Netrebko's slippery flights of coloratur
Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2013) cover
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WAGNER
Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2013)
Bayerischen Staatsoper / Johan Botha, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch, Stephen Millings / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/Aug/2013 ]
"The singing cast are very fine and, like his players, seem to have studied with their conductor in Goodall-like detail. Both Grail scenes are fully staged, rather than just stood and sung and are almost unbearably moving" (Gramophone)
Anniversary Tribute [6 CD set] cover
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BRITTEN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / HANDEL / BACH / etc
Anniversary Tribute [6 CD set]
Peter Pears (tenor) with various orchestras & accompanists
[ Decca Records / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2012 ]
"All in all, a superb tribute to one of the most characterful and important singers of the twentieth century." Penguin Guide, 2011 edition.
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker [plus Sleeping Beauty: Aurora's Wedding] cover
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker [plus Sleeping Beauty: Aurora's Wedding]
Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit
[ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ]
A favourite ballet all round the year, but a perennial at Christmas-time, Tchaikovsky's evergreen Nutcracker has never perhaps received as luxurious a recorded performance as that of Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
Le sacre du printemps / Symphony in Three Movements / Agon cover
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STRAVINSKY
Le sacre du printemps / Symphony in Three Movements / Agon
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy
[ Decca 20th Century / CD - released 4/Jun/2012 ]
"The engineering is consistently fine. Worth considering, then, even if most collectors will have alternatives, for The Rite at the very least." (Arkivmusic.com)