REQUIEM, OVERTURES, SYMPHONIES

MA VLAST

RACHMANINOV: COMPLETE PIANO CO

CELLO SONATAS

VERY BEST OF LEIF OVE ANDSNES

FOUR SEASONS RECOMPOSED

TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONIES NOS 4,

Classical Music

INTRODUCING MARIO LANZA

RACHMANINOV: PIANO CONCERTOS

AU COEUR DE L'OPERA

Japan's leading music magazine has named Martha Argerich a winner in it's 50th annual Record Academy Awards. An authoritative voice in music since 1963, Record Geijutsu has been naming the world's best recordings for half a century, and it's awards are considered among the most glittering prizes in the world of classical music. Martha Argerich was soloist on Claudio Abbado's first ever recording for Deutsche Grammophon. Their reunion in Mozart concertos, recorded at the 2013 Lucerne Festival, was released shortly after Abbado's death and was immediately seen as an outstanding tribute to both artists ("These are performances in which vital sparks generate palpable electricity" - Daily Telegraph). Speaking of the Record Academy's Silver Award for her recording of Mozart concertos with Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich said: "I am deeply touched and honored to receive this award, both in my name and for my dear friend Claudio Abbado. It's impossible for me - as I know it would be for him - to express in mere words the pristine, existential joy of our final Mozart performance together, but if the Geijutsu jury has heard it in the recording, their recognition is a fitting crescendo for the coda of our lifelong collaboration." In January 2015 the complete concerto recordings of Argerich and Abbado will be released.

LOUGH, Ernest: Wings of a Dove (1927-1938)

Over the course of the twelve months charted in this ninth volume, the 52-year-old Fritz Kreisler made a series of recordings where he set down the standard electric versions of many of his most popular pieces. They include his first ever recording of his own Gipsy Caprice and of Falla's Cancion as well as a replacement for his acoustic 1912 recording of Schon Rosmarin. Four pieces with his cellist brother Hugo were made in Berlin, whilst some of his greatest playing comes in the Ruralia Hungarica by his former sonata partner Dohnanyi. All preserve the inimitable tonal and expressive beauties of which he was a master.

MAHALIA JACKSON: QUEEN OF GOSP