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Classical Music

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A traditional late-Romantic composer in the heritage of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, Goltz might have become as famous as these giants of Russian pianism had he not perished at just 28 during the siege of Leningrad. Russian-American pianist Sergei Podobedov unearthed his brilliant solo piano compositions from the 1930s and has recorded them for the first time on this CD. The booklet contains an extensive discussion of the forgotten composer and his work by the Russian musicologist Olga Skorbyashenskaya.

Captured here in excellent sound is Walter's penultimate concert with the Philharmonic before he retired as it's guest conductor (Carnegie Hall, 10 February, 1957). The Idyll was a work much loved by Walter, and he recorded it in the studio six times during his career. This is an expansive performance, played with fervor and great transparency of detail. Walter used the Orel edition of Bruckner's original version, with his own changes and was one of Walter's specialties. This concert has never before been issued in any format; it is released in excellent sound with detailed notes by Mark Kluge, program annotator for the Chicago Symphony.

François Couperin (1668-1733) was the most famous and prolific Claveciniste of the French Baroque, earning early on the title of “Le Grand”. + For this release, San Francisco based harpsichordist Katherine Roberts Perl has drawn upon Couperin’s later works, which are darker, dreamier and more reflective in tone. + Unknowingly, he is creating a pathway which will lead to the future of French keyboard music— to Faure, Debussy and Ravel.

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Prof. Robbins Landon writes: L'anima del filosofo is one of Haydn's most impressive works and likewise one of the great monuments to opera seris; if it fails as opera, it fails magnificently, as did Mozart's Idomeneo. Yet despite it's disability to succeed as a stage piece it rounds out, in a curious way, Haydn's activities as an operatic composer. It will no longer be possible to consider Haydn in London without L'anima del filosofo; and I think Haydn, who was the most modest and self-critical of all composers, would be satisfied with that.

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