The first staging of this opera in 43 years is powerful, thanks to the voices of Matthew Polenzani and Isabel Leonard. (Houston Chronicle) Premiered in 1892 and based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, the tragic opera about unrequited love returns to Houston Grand Opera for the first time since 1979 with this production from French director Benoit Jacquot, making his HGO debut. This opera features four artists making their long-anticipated Houston debuts: three-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, as Charlotte; tenor Matthew Polenzani, one of the most gifted performers of his generation, as Werther; soprano Jasmine Habersham, as Charlotte's sister Sophie; and baritone Sean Michael Plumb, a 2021 Tucker Grant recipient.
MASSENET: WERTHER
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EUROARTS
Mar 28, 2025
EUT248041SACD
PIECES DE CLAVESSIN SUITE E MIN (INCOMPLETE)
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Jan 28, 2015
PIECES DE CLAVESSIN SUITE E MIN (INCOMPLETE)
PIECES DE CLAVESSIN SUITE E MIN (INCOMPLETE)
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Jan 28, 2015
ESMM8294909.2
ITALIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING
VIDEO ARTISTS INT'L
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Oct 25, 2024
ITALIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING
ITALIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING
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VIDEO ARTISTS INT'L
Oct 25, 2024
VAI4704DVD
SCANDINAVIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING
VIDEO ARTISTS INT'L
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Oct 25, 2024
SCANDINAVIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING
SCANDINAVIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING
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VIDEO ARTISTS INT'L
Oct 25, 2024
VAI4703DVD
RACHMANINOFF LIVE - PIANO CONCERTOS & THE PAGANINI
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Apr 11, 2025
Mikhail Pletnev and the then newly formed Rachmaninoff International Orchestra (RIO) performed under the baton of Kent Nagano all four Rachmaninoff piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in October 2023. In the piano repertoire there might be no more challenging task than performing Rachmaninoff's complete piano concertos - nor an artist more up to this task than the great Mikhail Pletnev. Rounding out this concert is legendary maestro Kent Nagano, who leads Pletnev and his ensemble with his usual deft hand and the unshakeable confidence required to unify these monumental works.
RACHMANINOFF LIVE - PIANO CONCERTOS & THE PAGANINI
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EUROARTS
Apr 11, 2025
EUT247344BR
LATE REFLECTIONS
CITY SLANG
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Apr 14, 2023
At it's core, Grandbrothers' music represents a communion between the old and the new. On their extraordinary new album Late Reflections (out April 14), the German-Swiss duo place their art in communion with an institution so old it predates their music by seven centuries: Cologne Cathedral. The iconic monument of Gothic architecture, which is both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Germany's most visited landmark, served as an unorthodox recording studio for Grandbrothers' fourth album, marking the only time the Cathedral has ever permitted a recording of this kind. The resulting album pulses with a rare sense of history and architecture, allowing the spatial properties of this magnificent building to shape and deepen the timbre of the duo's swelling compositions. Grandbrothers have made a career out of spurning tradition. Formed in Du¨sseldorf, Germany, more than a decade ago, the piano duo creates richly textured music that straddles the boundaries between ambient, minimalism, and electronica. A1. Daybreak A2. Infinite A3. On Solid Ground A4. Golden Dust A5. North/South B1. Adrift B2. Yokohama Rascals B2. Bloom B4. Vertigo B5. Boy In The Storm
LATE REFLECTIONS
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CITY SLANG
Apr 14, 2023
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DREAM
INVISIBLE HANDS
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Nov 22, 2024
DREAM
DREAM
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INVISIBLE HANDS
Nov 22, 2024
IVIH92.2
BACH GENERATIONS
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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Aug 04, 2023
BACH GENERATIONS
BACH GENERATIONS
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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Aug 04, 2023
DEGRB003815502.2
MY STRONG WILL
UNSEEN WORLDS
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Oct 20, 2023
My Strong Will is a new album of "Ethiopian Classical Music" by Girma Yifrashewa. Recorded with Bulgarian musicians and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, the album is a return to where Yifrashewa completed his own conservatory training in the late 1980s and early 1990s, across both sides of the fall of Communism. Guided by Yifrashewa's piano, these chamber works bring the music of Ethiopia into a Western Classical format, uncovering meditative and emotional new vistas for both traditions.
MY STRONG WILL
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UNSEEN WORLDS
Oct 20, 2023
USEE40.1
PLAY BRAHMS & SCHUMANN
ONYX CLASSICS
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Nov 22, 2024
James Ehnes picks up the viola for his first recording of the two Brahms sonatas Op.120 of 1894, in the composer's arrangement for viola and piano. Originally written for clarinettist Richard Muhlfeld, Brahms made subtle changes for the viola versions, and in so doing he greatly enriched the meagre viola sonata repertoire with these two late masterpieces. Schumann composed his Marchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures) in a few days in March 1851. They are imbued with a potent sense of fantasy - imagination runs riot, from melancholy to drama. James Ehnes plays on the 1696 'Achinto' Stradivari viola for this recording, courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music.
PLAY BRAHMS & SCHUMANN
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ONYX CLASSICS
Nov 22, 2024
ONXC4256.2
SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR
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SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR
SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR
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Jan 28, 2015
ESMM8295024.2
GREATEST CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES!
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Oct 24, 2011
The Greatest Classical Masterpieces! Features a carefully picked selection of the world's most popular classical compositions including works by Pachelbel, Bizet, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Berlioz, Debussy, Vivaldi, Dorati, Rossini, Borodin, Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Dinicu, Albinoni and Rimsky-Korsakov. Featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York, the Symphony Orchestra of Turino de la Radio Televisione Italiana, and I Solisti di Zagreb. All selections newly remastered.
GREATEST CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES!
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Oct 24, 2011
ESMM942312586.2
BRUCKNER: SYM NO 8
MUNCHNER PHILHARMONI
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Apr 11, 2025
Anton Bruckner was undoubtedly Sergiu Celibidache's favourite composer, and with the Munich Philharmonic the great maestro had created the perfect orchestra for his musical ideas. The MPHIL label celebrated Bruckner's 200th birthday with two very special releases: Symphonies No. 7 and No. 8 from 1984 and 1985 - two historical and previously unreleased recordings from the Herkulessaal of the Residenz Munich - genuine rarities from the orchestra's vast archive, and newly remastered.
BRUCKNER: SYM NO 8
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MUNCHNER PHILHARMONI
Apr 11, 2025
MRPI814192.2
BEETHOVEN: VIOLIN CONCERTO
LSO LIVE
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Mar 28, 2025
For her debut concerto album, violinist Veronika Eberle revisits a work that has endured more than two centuries, and shares a fresh interpretation featuring new cadenzas by composer Jorg Widmann. "May listeners hear the Violin Concerto-in all it's stark radicalism, it's brazen beauty and it's love of experimentation-in a new way with these cadenzas: as contemporary music of today." (Jorg Widmann) Not only is Beethoven's Violin Concerto a particular favorite of Veronika, it has been central to her career to date-most notably alongside Sir Simon Rattle, who has been Veronika's long-time supporter and collaborator. When she was just 16, Sir Simon introduced her at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she performed this very concerto to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus. On this album, the pair reunite to bring this sublime masterpiece to life, and to celebrate the work that first brought Veronika to international attention.
BEETHOVEN: VIOLIN CONCERTO
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LSO LIVE
Mar 28, 2025
LSOL5094.1
SONATA VI G MINOR FROM SINFONIE CONCERTI 5
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Jun 28, 2013
SONATA VI G MINOR FROM SINFONIE CONCERTI 5
SONATA VI G MINOR FROM SINFONIE CONCERTI 5
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Jun 28, 2013
ESMM5700439.2
PANUFNIK LEGACIES IV
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Jun 06, 2025
LSO Live presents the fourth album in the Panufnik Legacies series. Composer Jack Sheen steps onto the podium to lead the London Symphony Orchestra in new music by some of the most exciting early-career composers of today. The works on this recording are all written by alumni of the LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers' Scheme, which offers six composers each year the opportunity to write for a world-class symphony orchestra, guided by renowned composer Colin Matthews with support from composer Christian Mason. The Panufnik Legacies IV contains world premiere recordings of compositions by Jack Sheen, Dan Stern, Ryan Latimer, Benjamin Graves, Daniel Fardon, Amy Bryce, Daniel Kidane, James Albany Hoyle, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Cassie Kinoshi, Joel Jarventausta, George Stevenson, James Chan and Joe Bates.
PANUFNIK LEGACIES IV
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LSO LIVE
Jun 06, 2025
LSOL5135.2
SYMPHONY 1
CURB RECORDS
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Oct 31, 1995
SYMPHONY 1
SYMPHONY 1
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CURB RECORDS
Oct 31, 1995
CRB78045.2
CONCERTO 5 B MINOR
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Jun 28, 2013
CONCERTO 5 B MINOR
CONCERTO 5 B MINOR
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Jun 28, 2013
ESMM5700035.2
BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS - MOONLIGHT / APPASSIONAT
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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Jun 20, 2025
Japanese UHQCD pressing. Universal. 2025.
BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS - MOONLIGHT / APPASSIONAT
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Jun 20, 2025
UNIJ3175717.2
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYM NO.6 SOUVENIR DE FLORENCE
ONYX CLASSICS
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Apr 25, 2025
Italy, Florence - nothing gives me the slightest pleasure so far wrote Tchaikovsky to his brother. "I cannot live outside Russia." In the depth of depression, the composer commenced work on his sextet, Souvenir de Florence, which he completed upon his return to Russia in June 1890. Melancholy Russian folk melodies mingle with Tchaikovsky's Florentine theme rising in the Adagio. In 1892, with more creative struggles - a symphony in E flat was abandoned (much of it becoming the 3rd piano concerto and the Andante & Finale), and a new symphony in B minor was started. If the melancholy of Souvenir de Florence is never far from the surface, it threatens to overwhelm the 6th symphony. "I am very proud of the symphony, and I think it's the best of my compositions." Tchaikovsky died 9 days after conducting it's first performance, a victim of the cholera pandemic raging over the Russian Empire.
