A century after his death on 25 March 1918, many harmonia mundi artists were eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great 'colourist' and father of modern music. In the three chamber sonatas, here combined with the composer's final pieces for solo piano, we attain the purity, the absolute concision, the distant and mysterious world that give these works a testamentary dimension.
DEBUSSY: LES TROIS SONATES - THE LATE WORKS
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HARMONIA (GENERIC)
Mar 14, 2025
HAGC932303.2
DEBUSSY: JEUX. NOCTURNES, PRELUDE
HARMONIA MUNDI
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Feb 28, 2025
A century after his death on 25 March 1918, many harmonia mundi artists were eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great 'colourist' and father of modern music. With the musicians of Les Siecles, we have the opportunity to discover on period instruments the original colors of such key works as Jeux and the Nocturnes.
DEBUSSY: JEUX. NOCTURNES, PRELUDE
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HARMONIA MUNDI
Feb 28, 2025
HMF935291.2
VERDI: FALSTAFF
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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May 26, 2023
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2023.
VERDI: FALSTAFF
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
May 26, 2023
UNIJ3156123.2
SIERRA: SYMPHONY NO.6 SINFONIETTA FOR STRING ORCH
ONYX CLASSICS
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Apr 28, 2023
When introduced to the audience in Liverpool by Domingo Hindoyan, Roberto Sierra's music was greeted with standing ovations. His name may be new to many, but his music is vibrant, appealing, accessible, and extremely well crafted. "The works included on this album span 25 years of creative activity. While current projects are always my focus, looking back is not something I often do; however, this recording confronted me with compositions representing a good part of my creative life. Most interesting was to notice that, although my music has changed through the years, there are traits common to all these pieces. These are elements that encompass aspects ranging from the expressive to the technical. A penchant for certain types of melodic constructions, harmonies, and orchestration choices is always present in these works. Another common element is the use of idioms that stem out of Afro-Caribbean and, more specifically, from the folk and popular music of Puerto Rico." This album is a wonderful introduction to this important contemporary composer from Latin America.
SIERRA: SYMPHONY NO.6 SINFONIETTA FOR STRING ORCH
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ONYX CLASSICS
Apr 28, 2023
ONXC4232.2
MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS 25 & 27
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Apr 21, 2023
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2023.
MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS 25 & 27
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 21, 2023
UNIJ3156083.2
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
UNIVERSAL IMPORT
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Nov 04, 2022
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
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UNIVERSAL IMPORT
Nov 04, 2022
UNIP4862073.2
VALENTIN SILVESTROV: FORGOTTEN WORD I WISH TO SAY
SONY CLASSICAL IMP
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Aug 09, 2024
VALENTIN SILVESTROV: FORGOTTEN WORD I WISH TO SAY
VALENTIN SILVESTROV: FORGOTTEN WORD I WISH TO SAY
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SONY CLASSICAL IMP
Aug 09, 2024
SOIP8857032.2
SOME KIND OF PEACE: PIANO REWORKS
MERCURY KX
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Oct 28, 2022
Vinyl LP pressing. Creative piano re-works by artists across modern classical, electronic and jazz, featuring Yiruma, Dustin O'Halloran, Hania Rani, Alfa Mist, tstewart, Lambert, Sophie Hutchings, Eyd¡s Evensen and more.
SOME KIND OF PEACE: PIANO REWORKS
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MERCURY KX
Oct 28, 2022
MCKXB003593801.1
WE WILL LIVE ON
FRIENDS OF FRIENDS
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Oct 28, 2022
We Will Live On was made with a Disklavier (an acoustic piano outfitted with solenoids that allowed it to be digitally controlled) and custom made software to sequence it. This made the piano appear to play itself. Technology seemingly embedded with humanity. A1 The Way Through The Forest A2 The Wind A3 We're Not Needed A4 The Dirt A5 To Quiet Voices B1 The Rain B2 Incremental Loss B3 The Ash B4 We Will Disappear B5 The Return
WE WILL LIVE ON
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FRIENDS OF FRIENDS
Oct 28, 2022
FSOF208.1
BRUCKNER: SYM NO. 4
RCO LIVE HOLLAND
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Dec 27, 2024
Recorded live at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 17-19 and 21 September 2008. Ever since the tenure of it's chief conductor Eduard van Beinum (1945-59), the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has cherished one of the greatest Bruckner traditions in the world. During his years at the helm of the Concertgebouw Orchestra (2004-2015) the late Mariss Jansons added a another glorious chapter to the orchestra's impressive performance and recording history of Bruckner's works. In Jansons's view, the refinement of Bruckner's music - however grandiose it may be - will always win out over grandiloquence. He continued the orchestra's performance traditions, focusing particularly on the detail of the sound. Under Jansons's baton, Bruckner had a warm, beating heart: his rhythms were not simply played, they were, above all, experienced, as this this recording of the Fourth Symphony demonstrates. This 2008 audiophile recording is released for the first time on 180 gram vinyl.
BRUCKNER: SYM NO. 4
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RCO LIVE HOLLAND
Dec 27, 2024
RCOV798848.1
FIESTA
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Oct 28, 2022
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2022.
FIESTA
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Oct 28, 2022
UNIJ3152650.2
AMERICAN PROJECT
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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Mar 10, 2023
The American Project - Yuja Wang is the brilliant soloist in a piano concerto by a longtime friend of hers: Teddy Abrams. The music director of the Louisville Orchestra, which he conducts here, describes his virtuosic piece as "an opportunity for the piano to guide us through what I think is one of the strengths of American culture, it's plurality, it's interconnectedness." Also written for Yuja Wang, the solo piano work "You Come Here Often?" is by another great friend of hers, Michael Tilson Thomas.
Vinyl LP pressing. In Perlman's words, Tchaikovsky "wears his heart on his sleeve" and his violin concerto is a work of "unabashed Romanticism". While bringing sensitivity and substance to his interpretation, Perlman never slips into sentimentality, and he leads an exhilarating dance in the finale. This concerto more than any other has accompanied him throughout his career. Indeed, Perlman's often claimed that he could play it virtually in his sleep. It could even be seen as emblematic of his style, given both the prodigiously virtuosic demands it makes on the performer and it's charismatic warmth.
In the spring of 1999, Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, and Dean Roberts brought an unconventional mix of drone, improvisation, and experimental rock on an eleven-stop tour of Europe. The concept was straightforward, yet novel: each night, they would improvise a single piece while sustained sine waves played for the duration of the concert. May 99, culled from three shorter pieces recorded for a radio program at Amsterdam's VPRO near the end of the tour, represents an early high watermark in the collision of minimal and rock sensibilities that started to become prevalent in the late 90s and is an ear-opening listen even for those familiar with the musicians' other projects. May 99 combines resonant sine waves in the style of eminent downtown New York composer La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music with scratchings, scrapings, and warblings produced by Licht and Roberts's guitars, Curtis's cello, and a variety of electronics. Just as sine waves hold together these sundry improvisations, a shared tendency toward the minimalistic-Licht's performances with the Blue Humans, collaborations with Loren Connors, and solo guitar records; Roberts in the band Thela and his solo project White Winged Moth; and Curtis performing with Young and his own Trio-brought together three musicians with very different backgrounds, creating fertile ground on which they generated the album's unclassifiable sounds. For the past thirty years, ALAN LICHT, a key figure in the pantheon of experimental guitar players, has been a performer, programmer, and chronicler of New York's art and music scenes. As a guitarist and improviser, Licht has lent his talents to dozens of collaborations with the likes of Jim O'Rourke, Rashied Ali, Jandek, Keiji Haino, and Michael Snow and has performed in such revered bands as Title TK, Text of Light, and Arthur Lee's Love. He releasedCommon Tones, a collection of never-before-published interviews with artists and musicians, with Blank Forms Editions in 2021. CHARLES CURTIS is one of the premiere avant-garde cellists of the modern era. Trained at Juilliard, Curtis was also a pupil both of vocalist Pandit Pran Nath and composer La Monte Young, and he is one of the few musicians to have mastered Young's rigorous practice of just intonation. Curtis has performed and premiered modern classical, minimalist, and chamber music compositions all around the world. Numerous major composers-La Monte Young, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Eliane Radigue, Christian Wolff, and Tashi Wada among them-have written works specifically for him. Curtis is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. Recent releases includePerformances and Recordings 1998-2018 (2020) and Terry Jennings: Piece for Cello and Saxophone (2022), both on Wada's label Saltern. New Zealander DEAN ROBERTS has created celebrated electroacoustic compositions that have brought together currents of avant-folk, rock, and minimalism into a single flowing stream for nearly three decades. A pupil of the Scratch Orchestra's Philip Dadson at the University of Auckland, Roberts emerged from the city's experimental music scene as one of two guitarists in the droning improvisational noise-rock band Thela, whose first two records were released by Thurston Moore's label Ecstatic Peace!. In the years since, Roberts performed and recorded solo under the alias White Winged Moth; founded his own label, Formacentric Disk; joined Tower Recordings while living in New York; and taught sound studies, acoustic ecology and intermedia arts in Auckland and Berlin. His most recent release is Not Fire (Erstwhile Records, 2020).
MAY 99
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BLANK FORMS
Apr 28, 2023
BKFO37.1
DVORAK: STRING QRT 12 AMERICAN / CYPRESSES
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Oct 14, 2022
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DVORAK: STRING QRT 12 AMERICAN / CYPRESSES
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Oct 14, 2022
UNIJ3152617.2
MAHLER: SYM NO. 1 IN D MAJOR TITAN
RCO LIVE HOLLAND
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Dec 27, 2024
Building upon the success of the vinyl release of Mahler's Third Symphony under Mariss Jansons (RCO 23004), we proudly present the superb 2006 recording of the Mahler's spectacular First Symphony on 180 grams vinyl. The original 2007 SACD release of this performance has become one of RCO Live's bestselling albums, boasting exquisite playing and audiophile quality recording.
