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Stepan Simonian writes: "Why Bach? Why Goldberg? Johann Sebastian Bach was a true "essence" of music: a composer who brought literally everything together in his output, bridging all periods from Gregorian chant almost all the...

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Release Date: July 05, 2019

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The gate opens. The music should sound solemn and magnificent, like an overture: majestic, like Beethoven’s Eroica. That is how Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti begins Musica ricercata, one of his early works from the early...

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Release Date: June 28, 2019

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Franz Xaver Ohnesorg writes of this new release "Vive la France! - That is the motto which stood as an emblem for the Ruhr Piano Festival in 2018, it's Anniversary Year. Commemorating the end of...

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Release Date: May 17, 2019

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After winning the BBC Musica Award as the Best Orchestral Music album in 2018, Adam Fischer continues his Mahler's survey with the great cycle Das Lied von der Erde. He is supported by two great...

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Release Date: May 10, 2019

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George Antheil (1900-1959) had a double life. In the twenties, Antheil was trying to establish his reputation as the torchbearer of the avant-garde: he lived mostly in Europe, scandalizing the public with his iconoclastic music...

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Release Date: April 26, 2019

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Markus Becker writes of his new release: “I’ve been playing and studying Reger’s piano music for a long time now. In the 1990s, not long after graduation, I recorded his complete works for solo piano....

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Release Date: April 19, 2019

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Cuarteto SolTango combines the luscious sound of traditional orquestas tipicas with the verve of true chamber musicianship. While most traditional bands performed with a singer, Cuarteto SolTango almost exclusively plays instrumental arrangements, where the melodic...

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Release Date: April 12, 2019

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Flex Ensemble writes: "Our second album highlights three different genres of French music: A youthful work by Faure, written in the late romantic piano quartet tradition, character pieces by Ravel in a new arrangement for...

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Release Date: April 12, 2019

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Leonard Bernstein was certainly not surrounded by an aura of aloofness. He enjoyed his immense popularity, although he never consciously attempted to be “everybody’s darling” and to be hailed as “Lenny” by everyone on the...

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Release Date: April 05, 2019

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Silke Avenhaus had wanted to record Schubert’s Trout Quintet for a long time. Now five European composers were additionally asked to quasi-casually prolong Schubert’s ambivalences into the present by supplying their own variations. The commission...

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Release Date: January 04, 2019

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It is difficult to ascertain how many horn concertos Joseph Haydn and his younger brother Michael actually wrote. Certain works are lost; others are erroneously ascribed, or their authenticity at least doubtful. One of the...

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Release Date: January 04, 2019

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German-Turkish artists Gulru Ensari and Herbert Schuch present this album of Monologues by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. The duo writes of this release: "As students we had already been allowed to take a peek inside the...

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Release Date: November 16, 2018

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In Juon's piano trio we plunge into the most profound recesses of the soul. Everything acquires existential significance. This is where our performers find a bridge that connects Juon's kaleidoscopic tone poem with Pjotr Tchaikovsky's...

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Release Date: October 12, 2018

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Christian Immler writes of this new release: "What remains? And to what extent are composers, when they compose, aware of how urgent that question is? In my opinion, these are the main themes that confront...

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Release Date: October 12, 2018

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Conductor Adam Fischer reflects on Mahler’s Third Symphony: “Mahler’s entire output seems like one long farewell to me: it is as if he was bidding farewell to the past and likewise to the future, since...

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Release Date: October 05, 2018