This 2-CD set features over 2 hours of music featuring compositions by Bach, Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Satie and others.

In the words of Richard Wagner, Beethoven's Seventh is a true "apotheosis of the dance". It has enjoyed perennial popularity ever since it's premiere, unlike his sole ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus, of which only the overture has remained (more or less) familiar to us. The musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester, under the direction of their Konzertmeister Gottfried von der Goltz, offer a brillant new version of this key work in Beethoven's corpus while reviving the complete version of one of his most unjustly forgotten masterpieces.

 

REVIEWS:

 

Goltz and his Freiburg players give [the Seventh] everything, and their exceptional period-instrument vividness and fierce dynamic contrasts are a tonic.

 

– Sunday Times (UK)

 

Nothing is left in the locker in these terrifically raw and punchy performances of a much-loved symphony and all-too-rarely heard ballet.

 

– BBC Music Magazine

One of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance, William Byrd wrote Latin sacred music throughout his professional career, despite the fact that such pieces were banned from being used in church. The motets on this recording are presented in the order in which they appear in the pre-Reformation church year, beginning with Advent. The remarkable range of form, texture and color in Byrd's music allows Stephen Cleobury to showcase the voices of the choir, as well as the legendary acoustics of the chapel, in all their glory. Most of the motets are presented here performed by the whole choir, with a small selection - including the rousing Vigilate and Byrd's masterpiece Ne irascaris, Domine - performed by the Choral Scholars of the choir.

LIVE IN JAPAN

Officially beginning on 25th August 2017, Bernstein’s 99th birthday, and continuing through his 100th year until 25th August, 2019, Bernstein at 100 is the celebration of the 100th birthday of the composer, conductor, educator, musician, cultural ambassador, and humanitarian. To celebrate this world-wide event, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and Britten Sinfonia present one of the composer’s most enduring works, Chichester Psalms. The voice occupies a special place in Bernstein’s output, and Chichester Psalms stands as his most popular choral work. It is presented here in the version for choir, organ, percussion and harp, with the exquisite solo for boy treble. Written in 1965, it is an exhilarating invocation of the composer’s hopes for brotherhood and peace. Sentiments which are mirrored by Vaughan Williams’s impassioned Dona nobis pacem, which draws on texts from the Mass, three poems by Walt Whitman, a political speech, and sections of the Bible.

SZENEN AUS GOETHES FAUST

The Harrison & Harrison organ in King’s College Chapel is, like the College Choir, famous the world over. The organ case with gilded pipework, which surmounts the 16th century screen, is a striking feature of nearly every depiction of the interior of the Chapel, while the instantly recognisable sounds of the instrument have become inextricably associated with those of the Choir. In January 2016, the instrument – including its 4,300 pipes – was removed from King’s College Chapel for the most significant restoration since the 1960s. Just nine months later, the project was completed, with the famous organ secured for future generations. Recorded just a few months after the restored organ was heard in public once more, this album celebrates a voice reborn, with a varied programme of music that shows off this magnificent instrument at its very best. Unusually for such a busy conductor, Stephen Cleobury has remained active as an organist. A former president of the Royal College of Organists, he gives regular performances in the weekly recitals at the King’s Chapel, while his recordings have been championed for their virtusoity and musical insight.

MOST RELAXING FLUTE MUSIC IN UNIVERSE / VARIOUS

Relaxing, romantic music for solo guitar perfect for daydreaming your stress away!!! Includes 2-CDs worth of music by composers: Chopin, Schubert, Sanz, Mudarra, Coste among others.

LA MUSE ET LE POETE

This first volume of a complete Mozart Piano Sonata series from pianist Orli Shaham is dedicated to the three B-flat Major sonatas. Shaham embarked upon this project in August 2019. It follows her widely acclaimed release of Mozart Concertos with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She combines musical and artistic insight with a deft technical virtuosity revealing an individual and sensitive musical offering. Recorded at Mechanics Hall in Massachusetts, these sonatas revel in the elegance of�the Hall's acoustic. Since lockdown in March, Shaham has been releasing movements and performances from her Mozart recording sessions on her�"MidWeek Mozart" to help restore souls in the current climate of the pandemic.

CELLO ESSENTIALS

The National Symphony Orchestra has a rich history of recording that dates back to award-winning projects from the early 1970's. Past music directors include Antal Dorati, Mstislav Rostropovich and Leonard Slatkin. The launch of their own label celebrates this legacy and looks to the future. The first release, under the baton of it's seventh music director Gianandrea Noseda, pairs Copland's evocative Suite from Billy the Kid with Dvor�k's Ninth Symphony.

MASS IN B MINOR

BEST OF THE MOST RELAXING CLASSICAL MUSIC IN / VAR

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Kathleen Ferrier Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Christoph W. Gluck, Maurice Greene, Performer: Isobel Baillie, Gerald Moore (Piano), Conductor: Charles Bruck, Bruno Walter, Number of Discs: 1

Joyce DiDonatos capacity for characterization is as astounding as the range and flexibility of her voice. This new collection showcases DiDonatos multi-faceted art, and the wealth of opportunities open to a mezzo-soprano by presenting her as different characters - both male and female - from the same opera story.

The works on Viktoria Mullova's new album devoted to Arvo Párt's music for violin stem from the composer's study of medieval church music and are products of what Párt describes as a 'tintinnabuli' style, developed by the composer in the 1970s. Párt said of the style, ''I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me. I work with very few elements - with one voice, two voices. I build with primitive materials - with the triad, with one specific tonality. The three notes of a triad are like bells and that is why I call it tintinnabulation.'' Párt's works have become some of the most iconic pieces in the contemporary repertoire and have reached far beyond the usual 'classical' music world in their popularity. This album was recorded in the presence of the composer.

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REVIEW:

This is not music that hinges on sudden shifts and sharp contrasts. However, at its core lies the age-old dichotomy between freedom and control, head and heart…Mullova brilliantly manages to tease out these dichotomies on this new recording. In Fratres, she approaches each variation from a different angle. Sap and rosin fly off the bow in the coruscating arpeggio figurations of the opening chord sequence.

– Gramophone

CELLO SUITES 2 & 4 & 6

IN EXCELSIS DEO

IN THE 1950'S 1

CELLO SUITES 1 3 & 5

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