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Adorations
$20.99CDDelos
Apr 03, 2026DE 3622 -
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Here we are
$14.99CDDouble Moon Records
Oct 31, 2025DMCHR71464 -
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Barber, Schumann & Chopin: Music for Cello and Piano
$16.99CDBridge Records
Nov 21, 2025BCD9616 -
Within the Waves - Sanna Vaarni
$16.99CDStradivarius
Mar 20, 2026STR37331 -
Guitar Triptychs
$19.99CDDUX
Jan 30, 2026DUX2161 -
Clarinet Concertos
$20.99CDSOMM Recordings
May 15, 2026SOMMCD 0722 -
Ginastera: Piano Chamber Music
$19.99CDDUX
May 01, 2026DUX2216 -
Reisebuch aus den osterreichischen Alpen
$24.99CDGramola Records
May 15, 2026GRAM99356
Lalo: Orchestral Works / Jarvi, Estonian National Symphony
Lalo considered himself to be first and foremost an opera composer, even though Le Roi d’Ys was his only opera to be performed in his lifetime. He is now best known for his symphonic and chamber music, largely because of the highly political musical establishment in France in his time. The Overture to the opera (which opens this album) is now the best-known music from the piece, which proved a considerable success in France. His ballet Namouna was commissioned by the Paris Opéra and, remarkably, was completed in just four months following extensive delays in agreeing the subject – part of the tales of Casanova. After a successful run of fifteen performances, Lalo parcelled the music up into three ‘rhapsodies’ for orchestral performance. The first two of these were published as Suites Nos 1 and 2. The third was not published, but the ‘Valse de le Cigarette’ was later issued separately. Lalo’s only surviving Symphony was completed in 1886, but somewhat overshadowed by Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony (1886) and Franck’s Symphony in D minor (1888), but it is a strong work that showcases Lalo’s melodic gift and forward-looking harmonic palette.
Angelus ad Pastores - Weihnachtsgeschichte / Arman, Bavarian Radio Choir
In the Revelation of James, an apocryphal gospel that was not included in the Bible, events and details surrounding the birth of Christ are reported that do not appear in the better-known versions of the Christmas story from the gospels of Matthew and Luke. The Christmas story is presented by James in a vivid, dramatic, and almost theatrical manner.
Howard Arman's Christmas Story follows the tradition of works such as Bach's "Christmas Oratorio", where newly-composed settings of the Gospel alternate with chorales. Here, Gregorian and polyphonic chorales as well as several motets from the 17th century are woven into Arman's composition and form a second narrative level. They frame the episodes of the Christmas story and can also be understood as musical reactions to the narrated events.
This new BR-KLASSIK CD is complemented by the chorales from Peter Maxwell Davies' Christmas cantata "O magnum mysterium". Arman contrasts the powerful language and mysticism of James’ gospel by reducing musical means to their essentials: monophonic singing, syllabically conceived solo passages and, as the only accompanying instrument, a hurdy-gurdy, which with its monotonous, archaic sound represents a certain timelessness. All of this results in maximum text comprehensibility, whereby the emotional declamatory singing style almost makes the figures resemble characters in a stage play. A key moment is Joseph's vision shortly before the birth of Christ: time seems to stand still, and the mystical and sublime aspect of this scene is intensified by poetic words full of linguistic contrasts and contradictions. – The chorales and motets integrated into Arman’s Christmas Story gradually develop ever greater polyphony. Thus, three settings by Nicolaus Zangius, Hieronymus Praetorius and Hans Leo Hassler, scored for ever greater numbers of voices, lead to a fourth, ten-part composition by Melchior Vulpius, which concludes with the words "Peace on earth". In its formal layout, Arman's Christmas Story bears similarities to Peter Maxwell Davies' cantata "O magnum mysterium". This work, written in 1960 for the choirmaster of Manchester Cathedral, also consists of chorales and instrumental sonatas, although the order is not compulsory. The four a cappella chorales in particular constitute a self-contained unit in terms of both content and music.
Santoro: Complete Piano Sonatas
The complete Saga album collection (10-CD set)
Berlioz: Le carnaval romain & Symphonie fantastique
Adorations
Ginastera: String Quartets
Webber: Requiem; Barber: Adagio
Weinberg: Dawn; Symphony No. 12 / Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic
Every five years the Soviet Union celebrated the anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution with large-scale public events, to which the country’s leading artists were expected to contribute. Mieczyslaw Weinberg, like his friend Shostakovich, enjoyed mixed fortunes with his efforts. The symphonic poem Dawn (Zarya), Op. 60, dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of the Revolution, seems to have remained unperformed during his lifetime, despite its ideologically irreproachable content. Its première was finally given in the BBC studios in Manchester, on 15 May 2019, by the BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds.
When Shostakovich died, on 9 August 1975, it had been five years since Weinberg composed his last symphony. To commemorate his friend and mentor (whom he regarded as the greatest symphonist of his age) Weinberg decided on a full-scale, four movement, non-programmatic work as his personal tribute. Symphony No. 12, written between December 1975 and February 1976 is the longest of Weinberg’s purely instrumental symphonies. Kirill Kondrashin was due to conduct the première, but his last-minute insistence on large-scale cuts and changes to the score was taken by Weinberg as a great insult, and ended their relationship. The first performance was finally given as a radio broadcast on 13 October 1979, (probably) by the USSR TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich.
Piano Concertos from the Netherlands
Liaisons II - All Things Bright & Beautiful, Re-imagining So
Here we are
Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor / Quatuor Diotima
Schumann: Symphony No. 2; Bernstein: Divertimento
Barber, Schumann & Chopin: Music for Cello and Piano
Underground Roller Coaster
Within the Waves - Sanna Vaarni
Langlais: Complete Music for Trumpet & Organ
Guitar Triptychs
Ruders: Six Symphonies
Clarinet Concertos
Ginastera: Piano Chamber Music
Reisebuch aus den osterreichischen Alpen
Invitation
Goin' Home
Flight To Denmark
Trouble In Mind
Witchdoctor's Son
Biting The Apple
