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  • Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 6 - Kondrashin
    Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 6 - Kondrashin

    $13.99

    Probably the most significant Russian symphony between Tchaikovsky's Path�tique (1893) and the Fourth Symphony of Shostakovich (premiered 1961), this was to be hailed as the first Soviet Symphony, partly because of the use of French...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 20, 2020

  • Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 – Davis, LSO
    Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 – Davis, LSO

    $13.99

    Regarding this performance of the 7th Symphony, The Sunday Times remarked; "This beautiful performance deserves to win many new friends for Dvorak's most Brahmsian symphony. Davis's love of this music shines out of every bar...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 20, 2020

  • FRENCH PIANO IMPRESSIONS
    FRENCH PIANO IMPRESSIONS

    $22.99

    Tirimo is a fine pianist with first-rate technical command, and understands Debussy's world well. (Gramophone). "Probably first choice for those wanting a modern digital recording offering the complete set... recording most realistic and natural." (Penguin...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 15, 2018

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor
    Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor

    $13.99

    [BBC Music Magazine's Disc of the Month]: 'Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there's a sense that something special is afoot here... Gergiev charts the whole labyrinthine course with thrilling assurance [whilst]...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 15, 2020

  • Sir Edward Elgar
    Sir Edward Elgar

    $13.99

    (Concerto): Hickox unfurls the opening tutti richly, nobley, purposefully... no lack of brilliance, the fireworks are dashingly, tastefully despatched... sudden flashes of Paganinian dazzle(others): "The slow movement of the Piano Concerto... with a sympathetic performance...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 15, 2020

  • Berlioz Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts), Op. 5 - Davis, LSO
    Berlioz Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts), Op. 5 - Davis, LSO

    $15.99

    Grammy Nomination 2014; Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice; MusicWeb International's Recording of the Month: '[Davis'] last-ever Berlioz recording, demonstrates yet again his unique empathy with and understanding of Berlioz's music as well as his authority in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 15, 2020

  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, King Lear
    Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, King Lear

    $14.99

    Most important, historically, is the Moscow recording of the original 1962 version of Shostakovich's Symphony No.13 (with the bass Vitaly Gromadsky), using Yevtushenko's (pre-censored) text commemorating the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar... Yevtushenko's original...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 04, 2020

  • Hildegard von Bingen: Vespers from Her Abbey
    Hildegard von Bingen: Vespers from Her Abbey

    $14.99

    Here, at last, is Hildegard sung by Benedictine nuns... living the same life, breathing the same air, and trying to capture the spirit of their great predecessor... they represent really lovely, rather unusual tones, beautifully...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 23, 2020

  • Crisantemi - Italian String Quartets
    Crisantemi - Italian String Quartets

    $14.99

    an essential disc for Puccini-fanciers... these chips off the workbench fascinatingly illuminate what we know of the opera composer... recorded sound is very vivid and immediate for the excellent Raphael Quartet.... "Among the six quartet...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 23, 2020

  • Britten: Choral Works
    Britten: Choral Works

    $14.99

    Benjamin Britten had a rare genius for setting words to music, becoming one of the most successful choral composers of the 20th Century... Voices and organ make a mystical union, spotlighting their sonorous incompatibilities... Rejoice:...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 23, 2020

  • Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ
    Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ

    $15.99

    Financial Times' Disc of the Year; New York Times' CDs of the Year/ "Performance: * Recording: * 'Beuron, probably today's finest lyric tenor, gives the performance an essential idiomatic core in his narration... [Tenebrae are]...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 04, 2020

  • Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies by Great Russian Condu
    Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies by Great Russian Condu

    $47.99

    Review Examples: (5th):"However committed you are to any other interpretation, his demands to be heard."(Gramophone);(6th/14th): BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Nov.2014. (8th): Mravinsky's live recording of the Eighth of capital importance and demands...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 04, 2020

  • German Baroque from Hammerschmidt to Telemann
    German Baroque from Hammerschmidt to Telemann

    $14.99

    Some of the earliest masterworks of Jordi Savall plus his famous authentic Forerunners !


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 04, 2020

  • Arnold Symphony No. 5 and other orchestral works
    Arnold Symphony No. 5 and other orchestral works

    $14.99

    exciting reading of Arnold's finest symphony from unexpected sources, coupled with enchanting CD debutants... The 5th is a marvellous symphony, perhaps his greatest - powerfully argued, confidently structured, and full of memorable invention. It is...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 04, 2020

  • Bach: Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052-1058 and Italian Concer
    Bach: Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052-1058 and Italian Concer

    $15.99

    crisp, clear-sighted approach, all proceeds at a proper tempo and, where appropriate, with a spring in it's heels. The slow movements are sensitively expressive... this is basically how such works would have been heard in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 23, 2020