Classical Music

Classical Music

This Bella Musica release of two historical recordings captured nearly a quarter-century apart features the conductor Carl August Bünte (b. 1925), a pupil of Sergiu Celibidache who for 24 years led the Berlin Symphony, the Kansai Philharmonic, one of the two major orchestras resident in Osaka, Japan, pianist Hiroko Miyamoto and the aforementioned Berlin Symphony in performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in c, op. 18 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 in d, op. 120. + Ms. Miyamoto is currently a professor at the Osaka University of Education.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

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• Historic concert recordings of the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra from 1959, led by its first and chief conductor for 24 years, Carl A. Bünte. • Carl A. Bünte was a pupil of the mercurial Sergiu Celibidache and has led a distinguished international career. • Schubert composed his last and most majestic work in the year of his death, 1828, but it wasn't until a decade later that the work saw its first performance.

In the 17th & 18th centuries Italy was regarded as the home of music, especially for the ever more popular opera genre. Opera’s extraordinary significance also provided a solid base for instrumental music, the virtuosity of the human voice inspiring the solo concerto genre then increasingly taking shape. Former Berlin Philharmonic flautist Junko Ukigaya plays as soloist with chamber music ensembles both at home and abroad. Together with an ensemble led by Klaudyna Schulze-Broniewska (1st violin), this Bella Musica release features concerti from Vivaldi, Boccherini, Mercadante and Platti.

Pianist Manfred Reuthe was born in Berlin. After winning a special prize in the Fifth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw he toured 11 countries in western and eastern Europe and made radio and television recordings for numerous Central European broadcasters. He was just 17 years of age when he played Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor with the Berlin Philharmonic. Since 1973 Reuthe spent a total of eight years working as a professor for piano in South Korea and he taught at the Berlin University of the Arts for 15 years. In 1975 he was made a full professor at the Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea, which hosts lecturers from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). His recital programmes are particularly centered around the virtuosic Romantic sound poetry written by the likes of Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Carl Maria von Weber and the French impressionist era, championed by Debussy, Ravel and Messiaen.

Classical Music