Limited 26 disc (21 CD + 5 DVD) edition. Over Mariss Jansons' long tenure as Music Director of the Oslo Philharmonic, from 1979 to 2002, the Latvian-born conductor rose to global pre-eminence and the Norwegian orchestra cemented it's international reputation. Trained in St Petersburg, and mentored by Yevgeny Mravinsky and Herbert von Karajan, Jansons took up his position in Oslo at the age of 36. "The artistic leader is responsible for the quality of the orchestra," he said, "He must think of the orchestra constantly". He praised the Oslo Philharmonic for it's "identity and unique sound" and "exceptionally strong work ethic and discipline... without a trace of arrogance, superficiality or routine thought". The 21CD set comprises all the Warner Classics recordings they made together and reflects Jansons' special mastery of music of the later Romantic era and the 20th century. Entirely new to the catalogue are 5 DVDs of concerts originally broadcast on Norwegian television and offering works by Sibelius, Mahler, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Strauss and Franck.
JANSONS - THE OSLO YEARS
$73.49
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WARNER CLASSICS
Nov 06, 2020
WCL524247.2
GUITAR CONCERTI
PHILIPS
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$16.49
Jul 01, 1991
GUITAR CONCERTI
GUITAR CONCERTI
$16.49
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PHILIPS
Jul 01, 1991
PHL426076.2
RHAPSODY: CELLO SONATAS
ERATO
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$17.49
Feb 05, 2008
RHAPSODY: CELLO SONATAS
RHAPSODY: CELLO SONATAS
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ERATO
Feb 05, 2008
EAO85786.2
RETROSPECTIVE II
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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$112.99
Nov 20, 2020
Limited eight CD + DVD set. DG celebrates the musical legacy of Icelandic composer/sound innovator, J¢hann J¢hannsson, with Retrospective Vol. 2. The deluxe hardcover book edition features a comprehensive selection of his award-winning influential albums, original soundtracks (The Theory of Everything, The Mercy), plus previously unreleased tracks (like Olafsson rework of track, Flight from the City), essays by Wyndham Wallace/John Schaefer, rare photographs and bonus DVD of his memorable 2016 Funkhaus Berlin concert.
RETROSPECTIVE II
$112.99
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Nov 20, 2020
DEGR4837948.2
SYMPHONIES 35-41
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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$23.49
Jan 23, 1996
SYMPHONIES 35-41
SYMPHONIES 35-41
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Jan 23, 1996
DEGR447416.2
PIANO CONCERTOS NOS 1 & 2
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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$41.49
Dec 13, 2019
PIANO CONCERTOS NOS 1 & 2
PIANO CONCERTOS NOS 1 & 2
$41.49
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Dec 13, 2019
DEGR4837865.1
VIROULEGU FORSETAR
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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Oct 04, 2019
Double vinyl LP pressing. Virðulegu Forsetar presents an hour-long piece for 11 brass players, percussion, electronics, organs and piano. It was composed with a specific site in mind, the Hallgrimskirkja (Hallgrimur's church) in Reykjavik (Iceland), and was recorded there. The piece has Englaborn's quiet, elegiac beauty, but abandons the brevity of the first album's exquisite miniatures in favour of an extended form that reveals a long, slow process.
VIROULEGU FORSETAR
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Oct 04, 2019
DEGR4837389.1
ROMEO & JULIET OPP.64A & B
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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Oct 25, 1990
ROMEO & JULIET OPP.64A & B
ROMEO & JULIET OPP.64A & B
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Oct 25, 1990
DEGR410519.2
KORPPOO TRIO (JEAN SIBELIUS)
YARLUNG RECORDS
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Nov 05, 2021
Executive producer: Jim Mulally. When you hear this trio play Sibelius, you'll understand why the Sibelius family granted Petteri, Juho and Samuli use of the composer's name. Jean Sibelius' piano trios were important to him personally. He wrote them in his youth, during the summers he vacationed with his brother Christian and sister Linda on various islands in Houtskar, the Finnish archipelago off the southwest coast of Finland. Sibelius wrote Korppoo Trio on Korrpoo Island where the composer (violin), Linda (piano) and Christian (cello) played it on 'rainy days' at the family's summer house. - Bob Attiyeh, producer 'Sibelius gave us his monumental Korppoo Trio in D Major (JS 209) in 1887. We can hear the magnificent mature Sibelius peeking out through this work. Sibelius wrote Korppoo Trio in three sophisticated and dramatic movements... Korppoo opens with a good-humored celebration of the Beauty of Nature and includes a thoughtful Fugue in the development section which demonstrates his growing power as a composer. Next comes a Fantasia, improvisational and painterly in nature, with frequent tempo changes and mood swings, ending with passages of natural serenity that remind me of bird song. Sibelius reveals his fun sense of humor in the final Rondo, which he writes without allowing himself to be inhibited by traditions of the 'approved' classical tradition.' - Juho Pohjonen
KORPPOO TRIO (JEAN SIBELIUS)
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YARLUNG RECORDS
Nov 05, 2021
YLNG94228.1
GREATEST HITS
DECCA
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Jun 07, 2019
Three CD collection. This release coincides with release of Pavarotti: Genius is Forever, the documentary directed by Ron Howard. This set is for fans who want a deeper dive at a great price. Greatest Hits features six never before released duets: James Brown ('It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World'), Lou Reed ('Perfect Day'), Barry White ('You're My First, My Last, My Everything'), Sting ('A New Dance'), Queen's Brian May & Roger Taylor ('Too Much Love Will Kill You'), Zucherro, and Andrea Bocelli ('Miserere').
GREATEST HITS
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DECCA
Jun 07, 2019
DCAB003037302.2
FIRE & FANCY
YARLUNG RECORDS
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Sep 24, 2021
FIRE & FANCY
FIRE & FANCY
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YARLUNG RECORDS
Sep 24, 2021
YLNG944225.1
HEROES: OPERA ARIAS
ERATO
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$14.49
Jan 16, 2007
HEROES: OPERA ARIAS
HEROES: OPERA ARIAS
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ERATO
Jan 16, 2007
EAO63414.2
CONVERSATIONS IN SILENCE
WARNER RECORDS
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Sep 23, 1997
CONVERSATIONS IN SILENCE from the Nashville Chamber Orchestra is a selection of sumptuous folkloric instrumental music performed by an exceptional group of musicians. Classical tradition is adhered to but not stridently; the songs are infused with a Western sensibility.
CONVERSATIONS IN SILENCE
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WARNER RECORDS
Sep 23, 1997
WB46739.2
JAMES LEVINE: LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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Sep 30, 2013
JAMES LEVINE: LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
JAMES LEVINE: LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Sep 30, 2013
DEGRB001909402.2
PIANO CONCERTOS
ERATO
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$17.49
Jan 13, 2009
PIANO CONCERTOS
PIANO CONCERTOS
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ERATO
Jan 13, 2009
EAO13064.2
CHOPIN ETUDES OP. 25 - 4 SCHERZI
WARNER CLASSICS
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Oct 15, 2021
Chopin is reserved, visionary and mysterious," says Beatrice Rana. "There are many layers to his music. It's pleasing to the ear and sincere in it's communication, but the deeper you go, the more you find..." For this album, Rana pairs Chopin's 12 op 25 etudes with his four scherzi, focusing on two musical genres that the composer, combining intellect and imagination, transformed into something new. "It was Chopin who invented the 'concert study'," explains Rana. "To me, the etudes seem implicitly connected, joined by a single line of expression, as if they are taking you on a journey. The scherzi are evocative pieces, full of contrasts... They represent three distinct stages of Chopin's life and creativity and it is easy to read stories into them." When Beatrice Rana played the op 25 etudes for her New York recital debut in 2019, the New York Times wrote: "If you can play Chopin's etudes comfortably, you can probably play anything written for the piano... and the best performances convey their musical riches. In that regard, Beatrice Rana set a new standard... She didn't just surmount the technical challenges; she made the pieces sound as poetic and colorful as anything Chopin ever wrote.
CHOPIN ETUDES OP. 25 - 4 SCHERZI
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WARNER CLASSICS
Oct 15, 2021
WCL676422.1
MOZART & FLUTE IN PARIS
WARNER CLASSICS
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Aug 06, 2021
Two CDs. Mozart & Flute in Paris brings together nine captivating works, all with their origins in Paris, which feature a solo flute. Emmanuel Pahud is joined by his colleagues from 'wind supergroup' Les Vents Francais - oboist Francois Leleux (here also conducting the Orchestre de chambre de Paris), clarinettist Paul Meyer, bassoonist Gilbert Audin and horn-player Radovan Vlatkovic - and by Belgian harpist Anneleen Lenaerts. "The pieces on this album represent different golden ages of the flute," says Pahud. The earliest, dating from 1778 are two concertante works that Mozart wrote while visiting Paris. The newest, premiered in 2014 by Pahud and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, is Dreamtime by Philippe Hersant. The intervening period is represented by pieces by Saint-Saens, Faure, Chaminade and Poulenc, composers whose music embodies France's special relationship with the flute.
MOZART & FLUTE IN PARIS
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WARNER CLASSICS
Aug 06, 2021
WCL673932.2
DVORAK: SYMPHONY NO. 9
WARNER CLASSICS
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Oct 15, 2021
This is a landmark recording dating from 1999 by Nikolaus Harnoncourt with one of the greatest orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Gramophone Magazine put this album on the top of the discography. "Harnoncourt has some distinguished Concertgebouw forebears, not least structure-conscious Sir Colin Davis and combustible Antal Dorati. This, though, beats them all. Auspicious happenings register within the first few pages: carefully drawn woodwind lines, basses that calm meticulously from fierce fortissimo to tense pianissimo, provocative bassoons and an effortless passage into the lovely flute melody. At the start of the development section, piano violins really are played leggiero (lightly), a significant detail that most rivals gloss over. [...] Harnoncourt's Largo is something of a minor miracle. Undulating clarinets register against shimmering string tremolandos and, beyond the beautifully judged approach to the Meno passage, you suddenly hear quiet second-violin pizzicato chords that you almost never notice in concert. The finale itself never sags, and for the home straight Harnoncourt treads a course somewhere between the printed Allegro con fuoco and the expressive broadening that Dvor�k later sanctioned. Most admirable about Harnoncourt's Dvor�k is it's close proximity to nature: barely a minute passes that isn't somewhere touched by verdure or sunshine."
DVORAK: SYMPHONY NO. 9
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WARNER CLASSICS
Oct 15, 2021
WCL673082.1
SIBELIUS: VIOLIN CONCERTO 2 SERENADES
WARNER CLASSICS
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Sep 03, 2021
One of the most famous recordings of Polish-British-Canadian violinist Ida Haendel, who passed away last year. After performing the Sibelius concerto in Helsinki in 1949, broadcasted on radio, Ida Haendel received a letter from the composer: "Please accept my most cordial thanks for your excellent performance of my Violin Concerto. You played it masterfully in every respect. I congratulate you upon the great success. But above all, I congratulate myself that my Concerto has found an interpreter of your standard." This 1975 recording was made under the baton of Sibelius specialist Paavo Berglund.
