Fauré: Pavane, Songs & Requiem

Classical Music

The music of the Swiss pianist-composer Emil Frey (1889-1946) reflects the stages of his career: studies with Faur�, friendship with Enescu, teaching in pre-Revolutionary Russia and mature familiarity with developments back in western Europe. This first survey of his music also reveals a virtuoso's understanding of the piano and a sense both of drama and of fun.

Classical Music

What if 60 composers from 18 countries wrote 60 pieces under 1 minute each for solo piano?Anderson, Thomas Jefferson - Andreoni, Roberto - Andriessen, Louis - Aviram, Eilon - Baas, Danielle - Bailie, Joanna - Baiye, James - Beaudoin, Paul E. - Bermel, Derek - Bolcom, William - Brooks, Richard - Cahallan, Patrick - Caravaggio, Pepe-Tonino - Carrick, Richard - Cody, Joshua - Cotel, Ketzel - Culpo, Christopher - Eggert, Moritz - Eidschun, Robert - Ekimovsky, Victor - Engel, Barbara - Escriv, Brian - Faia, Carl - Fox, Donal - Frahm, Frederick - Goldschneider, Isak - Gosfield, Annie - Haven, Walter - Hinton, Newt - Hippel, Paul von - Katz, Jonathan - Khyrsh, Atanasio - Kleier, Roger - Landau, Daniel - Lann, Vanessa - Lauer, Fritz - Leach, St�phane - Mancuso, Giovanni - Maral, Alper - Martinez, Patricia Elizabeth - McLoskey, Lansing D. - Nez, Ketty - Norton, Jonathan - Pallante, Sergio - Pritsker, Gene - Robert, Martial - Rovan, Joseph - Sainsbury, Lionel - Sanchez, Walter - Shadle, Charles - Sharp, Elliott - Shockley, Alan Frederick - Stewart, D. Andrew - Togawa, Yohichi - Tran, Tuyet A. - Vaglini, Riccardo - Warburton, Dan - Wit, Sophie de - Yoshinaka, Atsushi - Zebrowski, Marcin J�zef.

WEBER: SYMPHONY NO 1 MENDELS

Classical Music

A unique collection of American romantic piano music, written largely in the last third of the 19th century, by Foote, Whiting, Paine, Chadwick and Nevin. In a period where in Europe piano music was in the hands of towering virtuosos like Liszt, Anton Rubinstein and later Rachmaninoff, the American scene was notably less tormented, focusing on tone painting idyllic landscapes, rural scenes and charming dance forms. These genre pieces share the same delightful characteristics as their European pendants by Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Gade, Sinding and others. Young pianist Artem Belogurov (born in Latvia, grew up in Odessa/Ukraine and now lives in Boston) is a former student of Peter Serkin. For this recording he plays a beautiful period instrument, a 1873 Chickering piano. Chickering was one of the most respected and successful piano builders of the 19th century; Hans von B�low premiered Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto in Boston on a Chickering, and Franz Liszt owned two of their instruments. The booklet contains extensive liner notes on the music and composers, an artist biography and information and photos of the instrument.

Classical Music

BACH: CONCERTOS VLADIMIR SPIV

Andreas Spreer writes: "No. 21, the 21st recording of Evgeni Koroliov for the TACET label is available! What I particularly love in the playing of Koroliov: his ability to work out under a veil of objectivity, faithfulness to the text and modesty details of such sensibility and expressivity that make me believe listening for the first time to that piece of music. The 19 Intermezzi by Johannes Brahms offer plenty of opportunity for that." Russian pianist Evgeni Koroliov studied at the Moscow Conservatory, and since 1978 has been a teacher at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hamburg. He is mainly known for his performances of the keyboard repertoire of J.S. Bach, as well as the music of Haydn, Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, and Schumann.

Classical Music

Early in 1920, the young brash composer George Antheil decided to leave his home country, the USA, and conquer the concert halls of Europe as a pianist, travelling first to London and then to Germany where he set up headquarters from July 1922 to June 1923, well-prepared to dazzle Europe with his daring compositions and bold pianism. Most of his experimental piano music was composed in Berlin in just this one year. Many of these works can be heard together for the first time on this recording thanks to new discoveries and scholarly research – exquisitely performed by Guy Livingston who is one of the foremost performers promoters of Antheil's music today.

Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston wowed critics and audiences with his successful 'Don't Panic' CD. He is based in Paris and Amsterdam and travels widely as a pianist and director. Livingston has already recorded two CDs of the music of George Antheil, organised the Paris Antheil Centennial Concert, and was Artistic Director for the 2003 George Antheil Festival in Trenton in honour of the 1920's futurist. In addition Livingston has been the focus of two television documentaries on Antheil, as well as appearing in the film 'Bad Boy Made Good'.

Classical Music

One of the best known of Marchner’s operas, Der Templer und die Jüdin is based on Walter Scott’s tale “Ivanhoe”. Recorded in 1951, and with a strong cast led by Kurt Equiluz and Leone Synak, with the Grosses Orchester der RAVAG today known as Radio Sinfonieorchester Wien (Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna) under the baton of Kurt Tenner. Marchner’s impact and influence far outstripped the number of operas he composed and Wagner counted him as one of his primary influences.

MAHLER: DAS LIED VON DER ERDE

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

The Van Cliburn Collection: Chopin Concerto No. 1- Rachmanin

Classical Music

Mercadante, S.: Flute Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 6

Bach: Bach Drama

The relationship between Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen was one of great mutual respect. The German composer admired the British conductor and composer for electrifying performances of Henze's own and other composers' works. Knussen was an untiring and enthusiastic champion of his friend Henze's music. The recordings collected here display Knussen's deep understanding of Henze's music. Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in sensitive and meticulous performances of compositions ranging from the composer's middle period to his last completed work. Los Caprichos transforms the bitterness and sarcasm in Francisco Goya's famous series of etchings into a tender and melancholy "Fantasia per orchestra" that makes only sparing use of contemporary stylistic devices. The large orchestral work Heliogabalus Imperator - a programmatic depiction of the life and death of the notorious Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - also provides evidence of Henze's self-assured and idiosyncratic interpretation of modern music idioms. The Englische Liebeslieder for solo violoncello and orchestra express a wide range of emotional states, which are brought to life by cellist Anssi Karttunen.

Coming off the immense success of the Billboard-charting Let me tell you — which received rave reviews from the New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Wall St. Journal, and many more — Barbara Hannigan turns her attention to the work of Erik Satie as the musical world celebrates his 150th birthday. The disc focuses on one of the minimalist composer’s few elaborate masterpieces: the almost-forgotten vocal piece “Socrate,” on three Plato dialogues in French translation.

In celebration of Satie's 150th birthday, the venerable label Winter & Winter recorded a selection of works with the world-famous soprano Barbara Hannigan and pianist Reinbert de Leeuw, known for his outstanding Satie interpretations. “Socrate” is the central focus of the album, heard alongside “Trois Mélodies” from 1886, “Trois Autres Mélodies” from 1886–1906, and “Hymne” from 1891. Barbara Hannigan and Reinbert de Leeuw are two of the most important representatives of the contemporary classical music world.