2014 2 X 180 Gram vinyl LP pressing. Celebrating Strauss brings into focus the greatest interpreters of Richard Strauss's compositions, including Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Rita Streich and Irmgard See fried. These jewels of music broadcasting have been salvaged from various archives and made accessible for home viewing. Lovingly restored, upscaled and digitally remastered, the Classic Archive series offers a unique glimpse into our classical heritage, featuring celebrated past performances and comprehensive booklet information.

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, the Israeli artists Sivan Silver and her partner Gil Garburg set new standards in the high art, often too little appreciated, of the duo on one or two pianos. + Their new recording, consisting of two highly virtuosic works by Igor Stravinsky, “Le sacre du printemps” and “Petrushka”, finds the duo debuting as exclusive artists on the Berlin Classics label. + Stravinsky arranged his ballet music, some of the most revolutionary works of the 20th c., both for orchestra and for four hands, making great demands of his pianists both technically and comparatively. + Ms. Silver and Mr. Garburg were well on the way to promising solo careers when they paired up first privately and then at the piano. + They relish the constant contrast between recitals as a duo and orchestral concerts, between intimate pieces that call upon them as a unity, works conceived as dialogue, and those in which they sit at two pianos and summon up the massed power of a full orchestra.

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

CEMBALOWERKE

SENSUAL:CLASSICS,ROMANCE

Fairytale Sounds

Kurt Masur 85th Anniversary (Live)

On their Berlin Classics debut album Wild Territories, the ECHO-winning group Spark pursues the development of it's wholly personal sound in the space between post-classical, minimal and avant-garde music. The album title tells the story. Each of the chosen pieces, from Telemann alla polacca to Beyonc� on recorder, is wild and uninhibited, be it in gesture, in timbre or in it's rhythmic complexity. The five young, virtuosic musicians move between the poles of contrasting musical worlds and eras and forge tradition and innovation into a new sonic experience attuned to the zeitgeist.

LIEDER ZUR WEIHNACHT

Johann Sebastian Bach's B minor Mass is a work often considered his ultimate achievement, uniting as it does all the Baroque styles in their final form. In July 2014 a quartet of top-flight vocal soloists, the Kammerchor der Frauenkirche and ensemble frauenkirche, directed by their Kantor Matthias Gr�nert (b. 1973), presented a concert of this work within Dresden's re-dedicated Frauenkirche, where Bach himself played in 1736. Since Jan. 2005 Mr. Gr�nert has been artistic director for all music at the Frauenkirche, also founding it's 120-voice choir and thirty-member Chamber Choir.

Matthias Kirschnereit, a German pianist, is heard on this album playing the complete 'Songs Without Words composed by both Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny mendelssohn Hensel. Not only does this include the eight published volumes but also a ninth volume of unpublished pieces that Kirschnereit compiled specifically for this recording. Kirschnereit has won many renowned piano competitions including the German Music Competition in Bonn and the Australian International Piano Competition in Sydney. Felix Mendelssohn created this new genre of solo piano music in 1829 with his composition A Song, later published as Op. 19(b) No. 4. Mendelssohn's series of short lyrical piano pieces were written between 1829 and 1845. Fanny Hensel, elder sister of Mendelssohn, did not begin publishing her compositions under her own name until 1840, with five of her works being previously published under the name of Felix Mendelssohn.

Mit Myrten und Rosen (Complete Works for Cello and Piano)

Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 16, 17, "Hunt", 21, "Prussian N

MEISTERWERKE DER KAMMERMUSIK

Amoretti: Arias by Mozart, Gluck, Grétry