Conductor: Béla Drahos
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- My First CLASSICAL MUSIC Album
- My First MOZART Album
- My First BEETHOVEN Album
- My First TCHAIKOVSKY Album
- My First PIANO Album
- My First VIOLIN Album
- My First BALLET Album
- My First LULLABY Album
- My First ORCHESTRA Album
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My First Classical Albums
CONTENTS:
Purple Classics Presents: Elegant Dinner Music
Naxos, the world's leading classical music group, supports the Alzheimer's Association with the release of the Purple Classics series. Each release in this new series of 10 recordings features approximately 2 hours of classical music on 2 CDs. For every CD sold through June 23, 2017, Naxos will donate $.50 to the Alzheimer's Association, with a minimum donation of $25,000,to advance their efforts in Alzheimer's care, support and research.
Discover - Music Of The Romantic Era
Includes work(s) by Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi.
Night Music 17 - Classical Favourites For Relaxing
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 / Drahos, Papian, Donose, Et Al
Beethoven: 13 Times the Same and 13 Times Different / Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
G-G-G-E flat, better known as "Ta-ta-ta-taaa", are perhaps the four most famous notes in all of classical music, four notes that almost the whole world knows. They form the opening motif of the 5th Symphony in C minor, Opus 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven. In various interpretations by Otto Klemperer, Michael Gielen, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Ádám Fischer, among others, the range of Beethoven's reception at the turn of the millennium is to be compared. At the end the whole symphony will be heard under Robert Trevino: Hear, discover and compare.
The Very Best Of Beethoven
Includes work(s) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
My First Beethoven Album
Discover - Music Of The Classical Era
Includes work(s) by various composers.
Hofmann: Flute Concertos Vol 2 / Seo, Drahos, Et Al
Hofmann: Flute Concertos Vol 1 / Seo, Drahos, Et Al
Haydn: Symphonies Vol 25 / Drahos, Estherházy Sinfonia
Symphonies 70 and 71 date from 1779-80, and each has unique features that Drahos doesn't overlook. For example, in No. 70's opening allegro Haydn sets his brief but highly concentrated development as a terse, jagged stretto, a highly progressive and "modern" technique in its day, and Drahos dissects the off-beat exchanges with an edgy angularity that's as aptly disturbing today as it must have been for Haydn's first audiences. Drahos also vividly captures the contrast between the ceremonial opening, complete with trumpets and drums, and the dark, severe middle section. The same severity extends to the weird canonic andante, its inverted counterpoint made doubly sinister owing to Haydn's "con sordino" direction to the violins. Unusually for a symphony in D major, a great deal of it is in the minor mode, so the provision of a startling and dramatic finale with fugal elements (there's even a triple fugue!) is no surprise. Drahos and his band give a fine reading, but it might have been even more telling had the violins been antiphonally divided.
In Symphony No. 71, Drahos is very adept at underscoring the Hungarian rhythms and effects. Particularly good is the trio section of the Menuet, with its two solo violins (they play with no vibrato, producing just the right rustic, gypsy feel) heard above guitar-like pizzicato strummings of the accompaniment. The later Symphony No. 73 in D "La Chasse" is better known, and the present account is in every regard a fine recommendation. The athletic high-lying horn parts are rock-solid throughout, the winds are superb, and the strings (especially violins in the songful Andante) play with impressive uniformity of tone and ensemble. Though Drahos is very good at managing effects such as the jubilant horn calls and droning hurdy-gurdy pedal notes suggestive of village festivities, the one disappointment comes with his unconvincing diminuendo at the symphony's conclusion. Decca's complete survey from Antal Dorati and the Philharmonia Hungarica includes a more pictorialist and imaginative version, but the orchestral playing isn't as refined and the recording is too resonant to allow inner voices to register ideally, as they do here.
--Michael Jameson, ClassicsToday.com
Haydn: Symphonies Vol 27 / Béla Drahos, Swedish Co
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 69, 89 & 91 / Béla Drahos
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 53 86 & 87
Haydn: Symphonies No 66, 67 And 68 / Bélos Drahos, Esterházy
Haydn: Symphonies No 27, 28 & 31 "hornsignal" / Drahos, Et Al
--David Preiser, ClassicsToday.com
