SYMPHONY NO. 5

THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM

HANDEL: SOLOMON

2014 release, a beautiful selection of spiritual music dedicated to the eternal search and longing for inner peace. It's perhaps one of Elina's her most personal albums ever which connects the listener with her Latvian roots. This is probably her most commercial album to date, the careful selected variety of the repertoire will attract a lot of new fans. Elina is joined on this recording by her husband, the well-known Gibraltan conductor Karel Mark Chichon OBE. This is their second collaboration on disc for DG.

The fifth volume in this much admired series offers another fascinating anthology.Of the 17 pianists, the two oldest are the long-lived Cornelia Rider-Possart(1865-1963) who can be heard on an exceptionally rare, non-commercial 1926Berlin disc, in the first recording of Scriabin’s Etude, Op. 42, No. 3, and EtelkaFreund (1879-1977), a pupil of Brahms, who performs one of his Intermezzos in1952. Jean Melville, a distant relation of Arthur Sullivan, plays Valse arabesquein London in 1923, whilst Johana Harris who, together with her husband, theAmerican composer Roy Harris, enjoyed a highly successful career, can be heardplaying Frescobaldi in Los Angeles.

MASSENET: Werther (Thill, Vallin) (1931)

BRAHMS: COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC

MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO.5

CHOPIN: ÉTUDES

HIGDON / TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN C

MOZART: CORONATION MASS EXSU

BEETHOVEN:SYMPHONY 3, 6 & 8

BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO.9 CHORA

BRAHMS: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 (Mengelberg) (1941)

BJORLING, Jussi / BJORLING, Anna-Lisa: Arias and Duets (1949