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Adam Fischer writes of Mahler’s 8th Symphonie: “Mahler’s Eighth is a special challenge for all participants: in rehearsals, in performance, and, of course, when making a recording. The challenge lies in freeing the music from...

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Release Date: January 24, 2020

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Playing string quartet is a matter of the heart for all four members of the Noga Quartet. Avishai Chameides dreamed of playing viola in a string quartet ever since he was a child, but only...

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Release Date: January 03, 2020

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Charles-Valentin Alkan is fairly unknown. A contemporary of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt and Fr�d�ric Chopin in the 19th century but mostly living in Paris and enjoying the life in the salons. From Nosrati's notes: Alkan's...

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Release Date: November 15, 2019

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Tanja Tetzlaff writes: "We come to hear Bach's works differently because Encke's unfamiliar sonorities startle and disturb us. Inserted between the suites, Encke's pieces open up an entirely different world of sound. With his two...

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Release Date: October 18, 2019

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Markus Sch�fer writes of his new release: "A musical interpretation should always strive to breathe new life into a composer's legacy by making it audible and understandable in accordance with the here and now. In...

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Release Date: October 18, 2019

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Daniel Heide writes: "This complete recording of Franz Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets attempts to highlight the significance of his different versions of the three Sonnets 47, 109, and 123- possibly for the first time. Musicologists are...

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Release Date: October 18, 2019

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Of all the major Russian composers, Reinhold Gliere is one of the least well-known in the West. His life spanned a vast period from the Czar's reign to Soviet dictatorship, and he made it through...

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Release Date: October 04, 2019

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Many Russian instrumental works of the 19th century were based on a programme, and the same holds true of Alexander Borodin's Second String Quartet. Here the underlying subject was the great love he felt for...

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Release Date: October 04, 2019

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The Armida Quartet is holding an unusual kind of rehearsal, skimming through three Mozart string quartets with musicologist and Henle's publishing director Wolf-Dieter Seiffert. The focus this time is not on sound quality, musical character,...

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Release Date: September 06, 2019

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Franziska Holscher on the freedom enjoyed by the composer and the difficulties faced by the performer Felix Schmidt: "It would seem that the works in album programmes are usually chosen for popularity; originality and artistic...

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Release Date: August 23, 2019

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“The piece is unlike no other of its kind,” Bela Bartok affirmed: “the world of ideas it contains is entirely new.” Timbre acquired an unusual, novel dimension by having the two lowest strings tuned one...

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Release Date: August 23, 2019

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Guido Heldt writes of this new release: “Ironically, it was in 2017- a year of protracted Brexit negotiations- that WDR Broadcasting suggested that we record an album with works by British composers. Nome nest omen:...

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Release Date: August 16, 2019

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... o night of love, descend upon us... That motif from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde sets the musical and lyrical mood for the selection of pieces and poems in the Feininger Trio's programme, performed for...

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Release Date: August 16, 2019

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Benjamin Moser writes of his new program with Avi: “I have had the idea for this project since 2016. For the occasion of the 10th anniversary of my prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition and of...

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Release Date: July 19, 2019

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Martin Klett has referred to his new project “Lamento” as both an “insane project,” and a “matter of the heart.” He writes: “Insanity and the heart fortunately go very well together. The project of doing...

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Release Date: July 12, 2019