Recorded in late 2020 at the Philharmonie in Paris, home city of Quatuor Ebene, this complete DVD cycle of the Beethoven String Quartets, directed by Sebastien Glas, complements the complete audio cycle recorded by the Ebene in 2019 and early 2020; entitled Beethoven Around the World, the CDs drew on performances in Paris and six other great cities on five continents. The impact of the Ebene's approach to Beethoven - both exhilarating and illuminating - was summed up by the respected magazine The Strad, which spoke of "white-hot interpretative intensity and fantasy" as the players "peel back layers of stultifying accretion and rediscover the shock value of this music for a contemporary audience... they play not as they should, but as they feel they must."
BEETHOVEN: COMPLETE STR QRTS AT THE PHILHARMONIE
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Jan 14, 2022
EAO644812DVD
EARLY ENGLISH POLYPHONY ETON CHOIRBOOK
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Dec 10, 2021
This double album includes two recordings never published before: Robert Hacomplaynt's Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina, and Robert Fayrfax's Magnificat 'Regale', both from the Eton Choirbook. The other recordings in the album include works from the Early English Polyphony era, by composers John Taverner, Christopher Tye, Thomas Morley and last but not least Thomas Tallis
EARLY ENGLISH POLYPHONY ETON CHOIRBOOK
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WARNER CLASSICS
Dec 10, 2021
WCL654503.2
HEGGIE/MCNALLY: GREAT SCOTT
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Jan 12, 2018
Life meets art Joyce DiDonato stars in a live world-premiere recording of an opera written for her: Great Scott by Jake Heggie In Great Scott, the Kansas-born mezzo-soprano, one of today's best-loved classical singers, creates a role conceived specifically with her in mind. The character she plays, Arden Scott, just happens to be an opera star, and she is the lynchpin of what Fred Plotkin of WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man WalkingandMoby-Dick - already have". Jake Heggie, who has been described as US opera's most successful composer, chose the celebrated playwright Terence McNally as his librettist for Great Scott. The two previously collaborated on the gripping Dead Man Walking, which has become something of a modern classic since it's premiere in 2000. Joyce DiDonato first performed it's central role, Sister Helen Prejean, at New York City Opera in 2002 and will do so again in concert stagings in London and Madrid in January/February 2018 coinciding with the album release of Great Scott.
HEGGIE/MCNALLY: GREAT SCOTT
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ERATO
Jan 12, 2018
EAO566014.2
SCHUBERT: IMPROMPTUS D899 MOMENTS MUSICAUX D780
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Nov 19, 2021
The programme for Alexandre Tharaud's first album of Schubert comprises the four Impromptus D 899 (op 90), the six Moments musicaux and, in Tharaud's own transcription for piano, four excerpts from the stage music for Rosamunde. When Tharaud performed the Impromptus at London's Wigmore Hall in 2014, The Guardian wrote: "He got to the heart of the beauties and abysses of this music."
SCHUBERT: IMPROMPTUS D899 MOMENTS MUSICAUX D780
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ERATO
Nov 19, 2021
EAO659921.2
AMATA DALLE TENEBRE
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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Dec 03, 2021
Double vinyl LP pressing. Anna Netrebko's visual album is based on four arias from her latest recordings. Filmed mainly at Teatro alla Scala in Milan right after recording the album, it explores Anna's performative practices to embody different heroines and their stories. Framed by a genuine interview where Anna shares rare insights about herself and the music, the work follows the four arias as they are translated to screen, each with a unique visual language and style.
AMATA DALLE TENEBRE
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Dec 03, 2021
DEGRB003448601.1
II TRITTICO
WARNER CLASSICS
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Jan 20, 2017
II TRITTICO
II TRITTICO
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Jan 20, 2017
WCL559214.2
LIVE FROM THE CONCERTGEBOUW
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Dec 10, 2021
These recordings capture an extraordinary sense of occasion providing living proof, if proof were needed, that Martha Argerich's pianism and musicianship are unique in the annals of recreative genius.
LIVE FROM THE CONCERTGEBOUW
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WARNER CLASSICS
Dec 10, 2021
WCL652512.1
GIORDANO: ANDREA CHENIER
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Oct 07, 2016
Giordano: Andrea Chenier - Blu-ray - "Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it's hard to imagine him bettered. His striking looks make him very much the Romantic and romanticised outsider of Giordano's vision. His voice, with it's dark, liquid tone, soars through the music with refined ease and intensity: all those grand declarations of passion, whether political or erotic, hit home with terrific immediacy." - The Guardian Presented in it's Covent Garden premiere in January 2015, this staging - directed by David McVicar and conducted by the Royal Opera's Music Director, Sir Antonio Pappano - shows a bloody tricolour daubed with the words "Even Plato banned poets from his Republic" - written by Robespierre on the death warrant of the historical Chenier, a poet and journalist sent to the guillotine in 1794 for criticising France's post-revolutionary government. Andrea Chenier was a great success at it's premiere at La Scala, Milan, on 28 March 1896. It established Giordano as a leading member of Italy's giovane scuola, and has remained Giordano's most popular opera, with occasional productions at leading opera houses. This production is the first by The Royal Opera since 1984. Of Giordano's later operas, only Fedora (1898) has attracted some continued interest.
GIORDANO: ANDREA CHENIER
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WARNER CLASSICS
Oct 07, 2016
WCL557652DVD
SAINT-SAENS: COMPLETE SYMPHONIES
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Jan 14, 2022
In a release that marks the centenary of Camille Saint-Sa�ns' death in December 1921, the Orchestre National de France, conducted by it's music director Cristian Macelaru, performs the composer's five symphonies: Nos 1, 2 and 3 and two unnumbered works, the early Symphony in A major and the Symphony in F major, 'Urbs Roma'. The works span some 35 years of the composer's dazzling career - from around 1850, when he was 15, to 1886, the year that the Symphony No 3 was premiered. By far the best known of the five, No 3 famously complements the orchestra with an organ, played on this new recording by Olivier Latry.
SAINT-SAENS: COMPLETE SYMPHONIES
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WARNER CLASSICS
Jan 14, 2022
WCL653343.2
PATINA
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Sep 10, 2021
PATINA
PATINA
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Sep 10, 2021
DEGRB003417401.1
VOICE FOR NATURE: THE ANTHROPOCENE
DECCA
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Oct 08, 2021
Renee Fleming explores how music's relationship with nature can be relevant for the age of humans. Looking back to the Romantic era and looking forward with new commissions from Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw and Kevin Puts. "The music on the album begins in a time almost two centuries ago, when people had a profound connection to the beauty of nature. Now we have reached a moment when we see all too clearly the effects of our own activity, and the fragility of our environment." - Renee Fleming
VOICE FOR NATURE: THE ANTHROPOCENE
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DECCA
Oct 08, 2021
DCAB003456502.2
CELLO CONCERTO / BLOCH: SCHELOMO
WARNER CLASSICS
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Mar 24, 2017
Schumann: Cello Concerto; Bloch: Schelomo - Mstislav Rostropovich - Other participants: Orchestre Nationale de France, Leonard Bernstein This key recording is being reissued at a special price as part of the celebration of Rostropovich - "Cellist of the Century"
CELLO CONCERTO / BLOCH: SCHELOMO
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WARNER CLASSICS
Mar 24, 2017
WCL559882.2
CANTATAS BUXWV 39 46 51 77 & 79 / CANTATA BUXWV75
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Jan 27, 2017
CANTATAS BUXWV 39 46 51 77 & 79 / CANTATA BUXWV75
CANTATAS BUXWV 39 46 51 77 & 79 / CANTATA BUXWV75
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Jan 27, 2017
EAO559336.2
DVORAK: CELLO CONCERTO
WARNER CLASSICS
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Oct 06, 2017
Jackie was always the most exciting cellist," Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pre's fellow-cellist, has said. "It would be hard to think of another that took as many risks as she did... always for expressive reasons. There is no other artist who can transfer that sense of excitement onto vinyl." Here, with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, du Pre performs perhaps the most widely-loved of all cello concertos, Dvorak's lyrical and stirring epic.
DVORAK: CELLO CONCERTO
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WARNER CLASSICS
Oct 06, 2017
WCL564138.2
IN WAR AND PEACE - HARMONY THROUGH MUSIC
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Apr 06, 2018
Recorded live in June 2017 at the magnificent Liceu Theatre in Barcelona, this DVD is the companion to Joyce DiDonato's award-winning album In War and Peace: Harmony through Music. Seeking answers to the existential question "In the midst of chaos, how do you find peace?", it makes a compelling piece of music theatre as DiDonato journeys through arias by Handel, Purcell, Monteverdi, Leo and Jommelli with Il Pomo d'Oro and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev. On stage, In War and Peace: Harmony through Music makes a compelling piece of music theatre. In Barcelona, as on the European and North American tours she made in late 2016, DiDonato was joined by the baroque orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro and it's principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev. May and June 2018 bring further performances in Portugal, France, Germany, Turkey and Hungary. Includes Bonuses: Joyce DiDonato presents "In War & Peace" project. Joyce DiDonato in Athens with el Sistema Greece directed by Josh Allott. Video Clip Lascia ch'io pianga directed by James Darrah.
IN WAR AND PEACE - HARMONY THROUGH MUSIC
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ERATO
Apr 06, 2018
EAO567656BR
UN VIOLON A PARIS
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Dec 10, 2021
This LP Vinyl of popular short pieces provides a memento of the first French lockdown in 2020: Renaud Capucon and pianist Guillaume Bellom performed on social media each day, raising the spirits of their fans. Ideal for streaming, the collection includes music by Enrico Morricone, Charlie Chaplin, Carlos Gardel, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Schumann.
UN VIOLON A PARIS
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Dec 10, 2021
EAO651294.1
BEETHOVEN: COMPLETE STR QRTS AT THE PHILHARMONIE
ERATO
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Jan 14, 2022
Recorded in late 2020 at the Philharmonie in Paris, home city of Quatuor �b�ne, this complete DVD cycle of the Beethoven String Quartets, directed by S�bastien Glas, complements the complete audio cycle recorded by the �b�ne in 2019 and early 2020; entitled Beethoven Around the World, the CDs drew on performances in Paris and six other great cities on five continents. The impact of the �b�ne's approach to Beethoven - both exhilarating and illuminating - was summed up by the respected magazine The Strad, which spoke of "white-hot interpretative intensity and fantasy" as the players "peel back layers of stultifying accretion and rediscover the shock value of this music for a contemporary audience... they play not as they should, but as they feel they must."
BEETHOVEN: COMPLETE STR QRTS AT THE PHILHARMONIE
$104.49
DVD
ERATO
Jan 14, 2022
EAO644812DVD
HOPE
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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Oct 08, 2021
With this album, Daniel Hope presents a personal collection of timeless classics by Schubert, Elgar and P"rt, several beloved traditional songs, and a brand new arrangement of the inspiring and spiritual Misa Criolla by Ariel Ram¡rez. "Music has a tremendous power," says Daniel Hope. "This album is my attempt to send out a ray of hope and provide people, including myself, with a sense of support and a feeling of trust."
HOPE
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Oct 08, 2021
DEGRB003433602.2
SOUND OF HERBERT VON KARAJAN
WARNER CLASSICS
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Feb 02, 2018
The Sound of Herbert von Karajan TITLE: The Sound of Herbert von Karajan (3CD) Portrait of an iconic conductor: He was the world's most popular podium idol - Herbert von Karajan, the "mythical Maestro'. And nearly three decades after his death he tops the pantheon of the classical music world with his legendary recordings. This 3-CD edition brings together great moments in his discography with which Karajan wrote recording history. - Herbert von Karajan is the epitome of the conductor. Who could fail to recognize his profile with it's streamlined shock of hair? Even now, almost three decades since he died at the age of 81 in 1989, the charismatic figure remains an icon. His unparalleled career took wing on the momentum of early globalization: the success of the long-playing vinyl disc was the success of Herbert von Karajan. He cut some 800 records and was instrumental in spreading Western classical music to the uttermost parts of the earth. How are we to explain the lasting fascination of the Karajan phenomenon? In musical terms, one factor is surely paramount: among the many elements that constitute an interpretation, Karajan quite clearly gave primacy to just one, namely the sound. For him, beauty and purity of tone were key. No extraneous noise was allowed to distract; there must be nothing to indicate how this ecstasy of sound came into existence. Karajan's orchestral sound has an almost hypnotic effect. Few conductors are so clearly to be recognized on recordings as he is. True, Karajan sometimes had ideas of his own about the composer's tonal language, and that is one of the peculiarities of his enigmatic personality. Any student of his biography will be struck by it's ambivalent features. Not once but twice, we are told, Karajan joined the Nazi party. It did no harm to his career in the "Third Reich", and the highly talented young man rose swiftly from provincial theatres to the Berlin Staatsoper. After the end of the war, the Russian occupying forces banned him from conducting. The constant question about the relationship between art and integrity was answered pragmatically by legendary producer Walter Legge for himself and the EMI record company: he wanted Karajan. So, shortly after the war, he travelled to bombed-out Vienna. A bottle of black-market whisky helped the pair lay the foundation stone of a collaboration that was to shape our appreciation of classical music up to the present day. Karajan's interests ranged far beyond the canon of German symphonic music. Brahms, Bruckner and Strauss were among his household gods, it is true, but so were Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Grieg. He had a marvellous feeling for the luscious sound of Debussy and Ravel. And to Dvorak's Ninth, the "New World" Symphony, he brought a stringency and tragic inevitability that dismissed all sense of complacency and cockiness from this well-loved work. Verena Fischer-ZerninTranslation: texthouse
SOUND OF HERBERT VON KARAJAN
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WARNER CLASSICS
Feb 02, 2018
WCL566686.2
BRUCKNER: THE 9 SYMPHONIES
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Aug 20, 2021
Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic have given us one of the finest (and certainly the best-recorded) Bruckner Sixths of all time - this represents a major landmark in Brucknerian discography. Fanfare "This is superb Bruckner sound, spacious and clear, with strings, woodwind and brass at once unerringly 'placed' and finely matched." Gramophone, about the 9th Symphony recording
