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BACH: JOHANNES-PASSION, BWV 245
$23.84CDHARMONIA MUNDI
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Unerhorte Komponistinnen
$20.99CDGenuin
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Symphonie No. 1 - Chansons
$25.99CDProspero Classical
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Richard Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5
$21.99CDToccata
Jan 23, 2026TOCC0735
Zia - Del Sol String Quartet
The Zia Indians’ symbol for the sacred sun captures the adventurous spirit and global pulse of this CD from Sono Luminus and the award winning Del Sol String Quartet. The composers represented—Gabriela Lena Frank, Lou Harrison, José Evangelista, Reza Vali and Elena Kats-Chernin - draw on ancient and traditional folk music from four corners of the world and make it new by incorporating techniques such as inventive intonations or heterophony. = The San Francisco based Del Sol String Quartet has long made a practice of fostering contemporary music from throughout the entire Western Hemisphere. Critically acclaimed as “steeped in bravery and imagination” (James M. Keller, Chamber Music Magazine (February 2007), this quartet of master musicians explores new ways to interact with audiences, composers and artists across cultures and art forms.
BACH: JOHANNES-PASSION, BWV 245
SAMUEL COLERIDGE -TAYLOR 1875-1912
BAROQUE BOHEMIA & BEYOND VOL II
RAVEL: COMPLETE WORKS
MOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOTE - MAGIC FLUTE - LA FLUTE
CARMEN
HANDEL: THEODORA
Diamond: Symphony No. 1, Violin Concerto No. 2 / Talvi, Schwarz, Seattle Symphony
REVIEW:
It's so comforting to know that these excellent performances will have a new lease on life courtesy of Naxos. David Diamond's First Symphony (1841) is a compact, three-movement work lasting 22 minutes that stands with the best American products of the period. Characteristically springy rhythms in the outer movements make the music quite refreshing and emphasize the touching lyricism of the central Andante maestoso. The Violin Concerto No. 2 was receiving only its second performances ever when this recording was made. The talented Finnish violinst Ilkka Talvi proves an able exponent of this grandly conceived and marvelously scored work (listen to the imaginative violin/xylophone writing at the opening of the finale). It's a major statement by any definition and it surely deserves to return to the repertoire. The Enourmous Room, a fantasia for orchestra after the book by e.e. cummings, drives home Diamond's fundamentally Romantic outlook and caps a wholly winning disc that is as well played as it is well recorded. If you missed this the first time around, here's your chance to make up the loss.
--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com
Sibelius, Nielsen: Violin Concertos / Salonen, Cho-liang Lin
This is a DSD (Direct Stream Digital) recording
FARRENC: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1-3 OVERTURES 1 & 2
Vivaldi: Chamber Music With Wind Instruments / Camerata Köln
Wandering Moon
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No 2; Beethoven / Van Cliburn
Griffes: The Pleasure Dome / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic
Charles Tomlinson Griffes only lived 35 years; his death in 1920 cut short one of the most promising careers in American music. During his short life span he created a collection of short, rhapsodic works that are full of color and romantic adventure.
The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla-Khan is best known in its orchestrated version, expanded and altered somewhat from the original piano composition. It is a lush, lyrical, and dramatic work whose exotic melodies exude Middle-Eastern and Oriental influences. Of the other compositions, the Piece in D minor, from 1915, stands out. Elegant, impassioned impressionism reigns in this engaging work, and it certainly deserves wider recognition.
Though the rest of the pieces on the CD are all worth hearing, the early transcription for two pianos of the Hansel and Gretel overture is most impressive.
As performed here, it is one of the most charming duo-piano pieces in the repertoire. Michael Lewin plays the rest of the program with passion and precision, though his interpretations lack that last measure of urgency given by James Tocco on Gasparo. The recorded sound is exemplary, using 24-bit technology for the highest resolution.
--Rad Bennett, ClassicsToday.com
Branko Krsmanovic Group: Music of Serbia
La Juive
Unerhorte Komponistinnen
CHAMBER MUSIC FOR WIND INSTRUM
Paisiello: Piano Concertos No 1, 3 & 5 / Nicolosi, Piovano, Campania CO
Recording information: Il Palazzo reale di Caserta e i Borboni di Napoli, Cast (05/2007); Il Palazzo reale di Caserta e i Borboni di Napoli, Cast (11/2007).
Symphonie No. 1 - Chansons
Couperin: Les Nations / Juilliard Baroque
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Review:
All eight players are totally absorbed in the style. Their often dense ornamentation never sounds calculated or contrived; their rhythmic flow in slower movements has a captivating insouciance, relaxed, gently fluid. This is French playing that would be hard to better.
– BBC Music Magazine
Bach: The Imaginary Music Book . Cafe Zimmermann
Goossens: Phantasy Concerto, Symphony No 1 / Hickox
Chandos' Featured Release for February will be the final recording made by Richard Hickox, intended as the first in a cycle devoted to orchestral works by Goossens. Offering the premiere recording of Goossens's Phantasy Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and the rarely recorded Symphony No. 1, this disc serves as a tribute to Hickox and his remarkable legacy of recordings on Chandos. Though principally remembered as a conductor, during the 1920s the prolific Eugene Goossens was regarded as among the foremost British composers alongside Bax, Bridge and Walton. Sadly, his music has been all but forgotten, for the colourful, expressive nature of his music fell out of fashion in the 1950s and 1960s. A recent reviewer of Goossens's music wrote, 'If you have ever gleaned the idea that Goossens is inclined to grey modernism or to windy rhetoric, prepare to have your preconceptions well and truly shattered'. His music is suggestive of fellow composers of the era, notably Holst and Bliss. Having grown up in Britain, Goossens accepted an invitation to come to the United States as the first chief conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in New York State. He was there for twenty years, before moving to Australia where he served as Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. His music and character proved a great influence on the Australian classical audience and he is recognised as one of the most important figures in Australian musical life. The rewarding Phantasy Concerto, Op. 60 for Piano and Orchestra was written for the celebrated Spanish pianist José Iturbi who gave its first performance in 1944. 'The work, particularly the slow movement, was influenced by my re-reading at that time of Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry, and might be said to reflect something of the fantastic and sinister character of that story, though in no way being a literal depiction of it', wrote Goossens. The concerto was the outcome of a discussion between Iturbi and the composer over the lack of new piano concertos and especially on a smaller scale. The result is a four-movement piano concerto in compressed sonata form. The soloist plays more of a concertante role than in a display concerto, his part tending towards being integral to the orchestral texture. Goossens used the word 'conversational' to describe this relationship between soloist and orchestra. This premiere recording is coupled with the melodious and imaginative Symphony No. 1. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is regarded as Goossens specialists and here perform with Howard Shelley as the piano soloist.
