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  • Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 5 for Sextet / Shybayeva, Animato Quartet
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    Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 5 for Sextet / Shybayeva, Animato Quartet

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    During the Biedermeier period, the piano gained huge popularity as a domestic instrument, and piano concertos were increasingly arranged for chamber music ensembles. Ignaz Lachner’s superb arrangements of Mozart’s piano concertos are well known, but...


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    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Mozart, Puccini, Verdi et al.: Spectacular Soprano / Kwon, Orgonáš¡ová, Stella et al.
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    Mozart, Puccini, Verdi et al.: Spectacular Soprano / Kwon, Orgonáš¡ová, Stella et al.

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    The soprano voice occupies the highest-sounding line of music (in Italian ‘sopra’ means ‘over’ or ‘above’) and it is subdivided into various types. The coloratura is the virtuoso, suited for rapid ornamentation such as in...


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    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Thrilling Tenor: Best Loved Opera Arias
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    Thrilling Tenor: Best Loved Opera Arias

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    It is only since the bel canto era in the 19th century that the tenor voice really took off as a leading character in operatic roles, often playing the heroic figure against a love-interest soprano...


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    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Sullivan: Victoria and Merrie England / Penny, RTÉ Sinfonietta
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    Sullivan: Victoria and Merrie England / Penny, RTÉ Sinfonietta

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    Feted for his Savoy operas with librettist W.S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan also regularly produced music for important royal or national occasions. In 1897, to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, he was commissioned to write...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Ciurlionis: On the Harp Strings / Daunyte
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    Ciurlionis: On the Harp Strings / Daunyte

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    Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was Lithuania’s leading composer at the turn of the 20th century as well as an internationally admired artist. The piano scores from which these pieces are transcribed are Romantic in expression, influenced...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 14, 2022

  • Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, Nos. 1-4 / McMahon, Butterfield, Wollston
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    Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, Nos. 1-4 / McMahon, Butterfield, Wollston

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    The third of Jean-Marie Leclair’s four books of violin sonatas displays the qualities of exquisite Italianate lyricism and French dance idioms that made the earlier works such a stylistic triumph. However, the composer’s pervasive use...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 28, 2022

  • The Bird of Life - Late Romantic Flute Treasures / Ramsl
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    The Bird of Life - Late Romantic Flute Treasures / Ramsl

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    During the last decade of the 19th century a generation of central European composers emerged that was to exert a powerful influence on the current of contemporary music. Yet, for the most part, their works...


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    Release Date: January 28, 2022

  • Clementi: Piano Jewels / Leone
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    Clementi: Piano Jewels / Leone

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    Clementi’s influence on pianists has proved enduring, whether through his compositions, books of instruction, or the introduction of new levels of virtuosity on the pianoforte. This album explores a selection of works that have never...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 14, 2022

  • Pfitzner: Complete Lieder, Vol. 5
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    Pfitzner: Complete Lieder, Vol. 5

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    Hans Pfitzner was able to deploy his extensive musical resources in setting a variety of texts from many different periods and on a wide range of subjects. From Carl Busse’s shattering picture of life in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2022

  • Bartók: Piano Music, Vol. 8 / Ránki
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    Bartók: Piano Music, Vol. 8 / Ránki

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    Béla Bartók’s formative years as a composer in Budapest were stimulated by fashionable musical salons hosted by the wealthy Emma Gruber (later Zoltán Kodály’s wife). His landmark Rhapsody, Op.1is dedicated to Gruber, while the earlier...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Sommer: Lied Edition, Vol. 2 / Kupfer, Amaral
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    Sommer: Lied Edition, Vol. 2 / Kupfer, Amaral

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    Hans Sommer’s career initially involved science and mathematics, but his affinity for music was apparent from an early age. He became associated with Wagner and Liszt, achieving respect as a theatre composer and gaining widespread...


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    Release Date: January 28, 2022

  • Muffat: Suites for Harpsichord, Vol. 3 / Akutagawa
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    Muffat: Suites for Harpsichord, Vol. 3 / Akutagawa

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    Gottlieb Muffat was the most important Viennese harpsichord composer of the 18th century. He inherited and developed a compound style that fused high Italian Baroque with the lightness of the French school. From his father,...


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    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Azevedo, Braga Santos, Fragoso: Bows Up! - Portuguese Music for Strings / Manzanilla, Camerata Atlântica
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    Azevedo, Braga Santos, Fragoso: Bows Up! - Portuguese Music for Strings / Manzanilla, Camerata Atlântica

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    Portuguese orchestral music was scarce until the 20th century, when composers were able to build on the great legacy of Luís de Freitas Branco (see digital single Two Melodies, 9.70326). António Fragoso died young, and...


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    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Lyatoshinsky, Poleva, Silvestrov: Ukrainian Piano Quintets
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    Lyatoshinsky, Poleva, Silvestrov: Ukrainian Piano Quintets

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    String quartet-mates Bogdana Pivnenko, Taras Yaropud, Kateryna Suprun, and Yurii Pogoretskyi join forces with pianist Iryna Starodub to bring some of Ukraine's most brilliant twentieth-century music to the world. Boris Lyatoshynsky was a leading member of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 "Emperor" & 0 / Giltburg, V. Petrenko, RLPO
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    Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 "Emperor" & 0 / Giltburg, V. Petrenko, RLPO

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    These works share the common key of E flat major but represent two very different stages in the composer’s life. The Piano Concerto "No. 0," WoO 4, was written when Beethoven was 13 years old...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2022