LSO Live marks the beginning of it's 25th anniversary year with the release of Mendelssohn's Elijah, recorded live in concert with Sir Antonio Pappano earlier this year. From it's first performance, Elijah received roof-raising applause. It is one of the three greatest oratorios in musical history, bringing the sacred to life in glorious song. The life of the Biblical prophet is told in a series of dramatic episodes. We follow the fortunes of the steadfast, open-hearted Elijah, and encounter ministering angels and the vengeful queen Jezebel. The London Symphony Chorus and four electrifying soloists give voice to the oratorio in English, as in it's first premiere. Gerald Finley breathes life into the role of Elijah, and the Orchestra ramps up the drama without losing sight of the stillness at the heart of the storm.
MENDELSSOHN: ELIJAH
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LSO LIVE
Oct 04, 2024
LSOL0898SACD
VOLUME II - BLUE
RVNG INT'L
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Oct 21, 2022
Following the compass of an entrancing debut, Flore Laurentienne's Volume II presents another palette of rich orchestral sound, where changing forces of water inspire metaphorical markers that navigate passages of life and loss. Mathieu David Gagnon resumes his voyage into environment and emotion with Volume II, drawing inspiration from the rivers and rugged wilderness of the composer's native Quebec. In his return as Flore Laurentienne - the namesake of an inventory documenting St. Lawrence Valley flora - Gagnon assembles vivid melodic motifs and delicate modulation with a vast string ensemble to emulate the tides of human experience. Listeners of Volume I will recognise Gagnon's signature approach towards reworking and reframing an emblematic melody or concept across a series of works in Volume II, a process he likens to that of a painter creating multiple sketches of the same view. Continued from the first album, the enigmatic "Fleuve" series is conjured to evoke the multiple personalities of the great St. Lawrence River, and the "Navigation" works ("III" and "IV") wade through dappled progressions and expansive streams of string, the latter of which harbors the gentle meanderings of improvised clarinet. In the world of Flore Laurentienne, complexity emerges from simplicity as the composer roams familiar environments in constant flux. Gagnon extracts beauty through repetition and constraint, utilizing the writing style of counterpoint for which one of his greatest musical inspirations, Johann Sebastian Bach, is renowned. The lilting waves of "Canon" possess the eponymous formation of melodic 'leader and follower' motif, and magnify the softness of the album's eighteen string musicians into a force of full euphoric resonance. In Volume II, Gagnon continues his expansion of classical composition archetypes to meet a new realm of sonic romanticism. Thematic conventions of wandering the pastoral sublime become altered into glimmering refractions, relaying the emotional and kinetic power of natural energies. Volume II forms an estuary where streams of auditory microcosm reach a horizon of dynamic contrast, and reflect the parallel tenors of nature and humankind. Flore Laurentienne's Volume II will be released October 21, 2022 via RVNG Intl. And Costume Records. A portion of the proceeds from the album will again benefit The Saint-Laurent Action Fund, which promotes the conservation of ecosystems and the maintenance of uses of the St. Lawrence River and it's Gulf by supporting projects for the preservation, enhancement and rehabilitation of the river, as well as projects for education and awareness of issues of the St. Lawrence River.
VOLUME II - BLUE
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RVNG INT'L
Oct 21, 2022
RVGI83C1.1
SHOSTAKOVICH: 24 PRELUDES & FUGUES OP 87
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Sep 20, 2024
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.
SHOSTAKOVICH: 24 PRELUDES & FUGUES OP 87
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Sep 20, 2024
UNIJ3165875.2
BEETHOVEN: THE PIANO SONATAS VOL 4
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Sep 20, 2024
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.
BEETHOVEN: THE PIANO SONATAS VOL 4
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Sep 20, 2024
UNIJ3165858.2
WHOLE HEART
BRIGHT SHINY THINGS
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Sep 09, 2022
WHOLE HEART
WHOLE HEART
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BRIGHT SHINY THINGS
Sep 09, 2022
BSYT178.1
J.S. BACH: PARTITAS
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Sep 20, 2024
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J.S. BACH: PARTITAS
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Sep 20, 2024
UNIJ3165853.2
BRAHMS: PIANO QUARTETS 2 & 3
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Apr 11, 2025
Master pianist Christian Zimmermann joins young string players as collaborators on this Brahms chamber music album. The recording features Polish violinist Maria Nowak, violist Katarzyna Budnik-Garadzka, and Japanese cellist Yuya Okamoto. [Performers] Christian Zimmermann (piano), Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Yuya Okamoto (cello) Recorded: June 2021, April 2023 Switzerland *This product will be available for purchase on Friday, and will be delivered after the day of release.
BRAHMS: PIANO QUARTETS 2 & 3
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 11, 2025
UNIJ3175369.2
BEETHOVEN: THE PIANO SONATAS VOL 8
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Sep 20, 2024
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.
BEETHOVEN: THE PIANO SONATAS VOL 8
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Sep 20, 2024
UNIJ3165862.2
BEETHOVEN: THE PIANO SONATAS VOL 2
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Sep 20, 2024
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.
BEETHOVEN: THE PIANO SONATAS VOL 2
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Sep 20, 2024
UNIJ3165856.2
TCHAIKOVSKY: PIANO CTO 1 / MENDELSSOHN: CTO FOR
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Apr 18, 2025
TCHAIKOVSKY: PIANO CTO 1 / MENDELSSOHN: CTO FOR
TCHAIKOVSKY: PIANO CTO 1 / MENDELSSOHN: CTO FOR
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 18, 2025
UNIJ3142336.2
SONG
DECCA
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Sep 09, 2022
Song, the 2022 album from cellist Sheku-Kanneh Mason, features music from across the entire spectrum of classical, folk, jazz and pop - all personally curated by Sheku. The eclectic mix of styles are tied together by one thing - the unique singing voice of Sheku's cello. On Song, Sheku collaborates with friends and family, including jazz pianist Harry Baker, singer-songwriter Zak Abel, and soprano Pumeza Matshikiza.
SONG
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DECCA
Sep 09, 2022
DCAB003619602.2
CHOPIN: 24 PRELUDES OP 28 ETC
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Apr 18, 2025
CHOPIN: 24 PRELUDES OP 28 ETC
CHOPIN: 24 PRELUDES OP 28 ETC
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 18, 2025
UNIJ3142329.2
STRAVINSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO & CHAMBER WORKS
HARMONIA MUNDI
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Mar 03, 2023
Isabelle Faust and Francois-Xavier Roth explore extremely contrasting facets of Stravinsky's output for violin. From the Concerto to the Pastorale, the composer plays with codes and colors, sketching extraordinarily vivid soundscapes. Once again, the musicians of Les Siecles have succeeded in rediscovering the works' original dynamic by using period instruments - and that changes everything.
STRAVINSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO & CHAMBER WORKS
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HARMONIA MUNDI
Mar 03, 2023
HMF902718.2
GROUND: FIVE MECHANIC CONVENTION STREAMS
BLANK FORMS
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Jul 22, 2022
The final album released by the composer-performer Jerry Hunt before his death, Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams is a rare and foundational audio document of Hunt's compositional process. The record collects five pieces from the artist's "Ground" series, translating his characteristically variable and spatial scores into "recorded fixtures of activity using mechanic musical instrument arrays," to eerie and mesmerizing results. Originally released by experimental label OODiscs in 1992, it is now available on vinyl for the first time from Blank Forms Editions. It's tracks are dense and unpredictable, a miscellany of arrhythmic bursts, fragments of spoken and whispered words, soft then fevered rattles and shaking, and a rare return to pianoforte for the virtuoso player. On "Talk (slice): double" a nervous, warped dialogue unfolds between Hunt and composer Rod Stasick, their voices alternately measured and monstrous. In "Transform (stream): monopole," breathy whistles build against a shimmering stream of bells, rattles, and shakers in a fantastical cascade of percussion. Hunt revisits the piano in "Lattice (stream): ordinal" and "Bitom (stream): link," oscillating between gentle, almost classical phrases and frantic, seemingly random play. His collaboration with violinist Jane Henry, "Chimanazzi (Olun): core," extends similarly unorthodox playing techniques to the violin, involving the scraping, plucking, and playing of it's strings. The unstable quality of these tracks belies the rigor of Hunt's procedures; each ofGround's five pieces, their "common ground core," is derived from the angelic tables of sixteenth century English philosopher and occultist John Dee, adapted by Hunt as frameworks to layer, adapt, and renew in his compositions. With a complex arrangement of sensors and equipment, which the artist called "interrelated electronic, mechanic, and social sound-sight interactive transactional systems," Hunt realized these derivative systems in the techno-shamanic performances for which he is best known. Ground distills these procedures into fixed songs, producing a vital and critical record of Hunt's singular approach to composition.
