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Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Aida at La Scala in Milan is an experience in itself. Consequently, this new production is an event barely to be surpassed, especially when played before La Scala's notoriously critical audience. Legendary stage director Peter Stein succeeds in delivering a lucid production acclaimed in equal measure by the press and public.

Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA

Il Re - Carlo Colombara
Amneris - Anita Rachvelishvili
Aida - Kristin Lewis
Radamès - Fabio Sartori
Ramfis - Matti Salminen
Amonasro - George Gagnidze
Messaggero - Azer Rza-Zada
La Gran Sacerdotessa - Chiara Isotton

Milan La Scala Ballet
Milan La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Bruno Casoni)
Zubin Mehta, conductor

Peter Stein, stage director
Ferdinand Wögerbauer, set designer
Nanà Cecchi, costumer designer
Joachim Barth, lightning designer
Massimiliano Volpini, choreographer

Recorded from Teatro alla Scala, 2015

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: Italian, German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese
Running time: 151 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)

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The idea of uniting young musicians from Israel, Palestine and various Arab countries still seems incredible today. Yet the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has been flourishing since 1999, when it was founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said. In 2007 the ensemble took a highly acclaimed residency at the Salzburg Festival. The major orchestral concert comprises a Beethoven overture, an intricate and multilayered piece by Schoenberg, and Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique, in which Barenboim pulls out all the stops and coaxes rarely heard instrumental lines and accents from his musicians.

Recorded live from the Salzburg Festival, 2007

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Booklet notes: English, German, French
Running time: 125 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)

Most of Westerhoff's works today are found in the Burgsteinfurt Music Collection. It was here that Kloecker years ago unearthed a clarinet concerto that he no longer had the opportunity to record for CPO. Now he himself has passed the torch (or in this case the clarinet) on to the young ARD prizewinner Sebastian Manz.

Strauss, R.: Heldenleben (Ein) / Metamorphosen

RIES Piano Concerto in c, op. 115; Concerto Pastoral in D, op. 120; Introduction and Rondo Brilliant, WoO 54 • Christopher Hinterhuber (pn); Uwe Grodd, cond; Bournemouth SO • NAXOS 8.572088 (71.26)


Christopher Hinterhuber has been recording his way steadily through Ferdinand Ries’s 14 works for piano and orchestra. Austrian pianist Hinterhuber and Ries are an excellent match: Ries composed most of these brilliant works for his own concerts while touring Europe as a virtuoso pianist, and Hinterhuber has the brilliant keyboard technique and musical sensibility to bring them back to life.


The three works on this CD are from different periods of Ries’s life (the opus numbers do not accurately reflect the chronology). The C-Minor Concerto (op. 115), published in 1823, was composed in 1809; the date of composition of the Concerto Pastoral in D (op. 120) is not certain, but its dedication to a member of the Swedish royalty in the published edition of 1823 suggests that it was composed near the time Ries became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, around 1813. The Introduction and Rondo Brillant, published posthumously as WoO 54, is the latest of the three works, dating from 1835. Like all of Ries’s music that I have played and heard, the piano concertos are composed with skill and a wealth of inspired musical ideas.


The romantic spirit prevails throughout these works; the concertos are outgoing, flashy works, intended for a less sophisticated audience and more public venue than Ries’s piano sonatas and chamber music. (The word “flashy” is not used pejoratively here—it describes music that aims to entertain the audience with its brilliance.) While Ries indulges in all the typical romantic flourishes in the piano part (very similar to Chopin’s style of figuration), the orchestral sections adhere to classical ideals. The grand opening tutti of the D Major Concerto Pastoral could be by Beethoven; there are even a few brief melodic hints of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” and Ninth symphonies (both, significantly, in the key of D)—but as soon as the piano enters, the romantic keyboard style takes over. A soulful cello solo starts the slow movement, which ends with a horn call to initiate the delightful hunting character of the finale, in a fast 6/8 meter very reminiscent of Mozart’s horn concertos. The C-Minor Concerto from 1809 opens with a sober and melancholy tutti that is somewhat Mozartean, and filled with lovely melodic ideas; it also sounds quite like Beethoven at times—small wonder, since just a few years earlier Ries had premiered Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in Vienna.


Even while Ries often reflects his classical roots, his concertos look forward to the style of the romantic piano composers. His gift for writing beautiful melodies and sparkling keyboard figuration, in addition to his thorough knowledge of orchestral writing, makes these concertos very enjoyable listening. Uwe Grodd, a fine flutist as well as conductor, accompanies Hinterhuber beautifully, the Bournemouth Symphony is excellent, and the balance between piano and orchestra is perfect. Highly recommended.


FANFARE: Susan Kagan

HAYDN: Symphonies, Vol. 28 (Nos. 37, 38, 39, 40)

Billed as the start of a new complete Shostakovich symphony cycle, this initial entry holds a great deal of promise. The Eleventh Symphony has more the character of a film score than a traditional symphonic work: it thrives on atmosphere, color, and the repetition of simple tunes and motives rather than drama created by development and tonal contrast. Conductor Vasily Petrenko certainly understands this, whether in capturing the ghostly string timbres of the opening (reinforced by celesta on its many subsequent returns), in the crushing massacre sequence in the second movement, or in the splashy ending, with cymbals, bells, and tam-tam making cinematic contributions.

Petrenko's also very sensible in his handling of tempo. The first and third movements don't drag; the second and fourth have plenty of excitement with rhythms that never turn mechanical (as they have a tendency to do, what with so much militaristic march music). The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic plays very well, with distinguished contributions from all departments. My only quibble concerns the slightly backward positioning and lack of clarity afforded the timpanist, who carries much of the thematic substance of the first movement and presides over the massacre's percussion fusillades. Otherwise, this is pretty terrific on all counts. I recommend it accordingly, and look forward to the continuation of the cycle. [4/2/2009]

--David Hurwitz, ClassicssToday.com

Classical Music

Waldteufel: Famous Waltzes

Love of Beethoven' works threads through Biret' life like a red ribbon. Her studio recordings and live concerts show this in an unequivocal language... 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One of the composer's most inventive and sparkling scores, with soprano, tenor and bass arias of great beauty, it is today by far the least well-known and least often performed of his five 'farse' written for Venice. The drama concerns the attempt of Isabella, wrongly rejected by her husband the Duke, and her protector, the miner Tarabotto, who had rescued her, half dead, from the sea, to bring to justice the Duke's villainous confidant Ormondo and his henchman Batone, and to reconcile Isabella with her husband, an end happily achieved, the guilty punished and the innocent triumphant. 730099623377 NXS8660233-34.2 13687304 .00 29.99 .25 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/5/4/7/1367459.jpg 28 2 N LENOX,BOB SEASON OF SOULS Bob Lenox presents a rare synthesis of blues-folk music passed down from the seventies with a contemporary musical aspect. 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Deeply moving singing, a cappella or accompanied by instruments including fiddle, flutes, bouzouki, guitar and Darbouka. Includes 3 bonus tracks from celebrated Klezmer group the Burning Bush. A revered musician in the international Jewish community, 'Mike Tabor is one in the world - with unbelievable talent and charm he brings the heaven of music to earth and kindles the old fire again.' 5019396228627 ARM2286.2 15089397 .00 16.99 .24 ARC MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC JEWISH: TRAD. & KLEZMER 06/29/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/7/8/7/1657879.jpg 1 1 N PSYCHOANGELO PANAUROMNI: PSYCHOANGELO 726708676827 IOV768.2 15103284 .00 16.99 .14 INNOVA RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ELECTRONIC & COMPUTER 06/29/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/8/8/7/1657884.jpg 56 1 N DARGOMIZHSKY / WDR RUNDFUNKORCHESTER / JUROWSKI RUSSALKA 881488902457 PROL9024.2 15101976 .00 32.99 .47 PROFIL - G HAENSSLER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 06/29/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/5/9/7/1657955.jpg 3 3 N ELGAR / KARG-ELERT / WAGNER / HILL,DAVID ENGLISH CATHEDRAL SERIES: 4 - WINCHESTER 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WIENER PHILHAMONIKER / BOHM KARL BOHM IN REHEARSAL & PERFORMANCE Karl Boehm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in rehearsal and performance in Vienna. 880242721884 EUAT2072188DVD 13744618 .00 24.99 .25 EUROARTS (DON'T USE) DIGITAL VIDEO DISC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 06/24/2008 04/02/2020 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/3/4/7/1367432.jpg 2 1 N GINASTERA / KOSOWER / OH COMPLETE MUSIC FOR CELLO & PIANO One of the most important South American composers of the 20th century, Alberto Ginastera embraced both old and new in the creation of an original style rooted in Argentine folk and popular music while incorporating increasingly modernist techniques. 747313056972 NXS8570569.2 13687649 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/3/4/7/1367434.jpg 10 1 N THORNTON / RAMZY / SAYYAH / THORNTON BEST OF BELLYDANCE 5019396235328 ARM2353.2 16234710 .00 13.99 .25 ARC MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/1/9/7/1907915.jpg 2 1 N HANSON / SEATTLE SYMPHONY / SCHWARZ SYMPHONIES 4 & 5 / ELEGY IN MEMORY OF SERGE Hanson' symphonic cycle reached a profound spiritual crux at the time of the Fourth Symphony, which was written, in effect, as a Requiem for his father. 636943970324 NAAC8559703.2 16209916 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS AMERICAN COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 12/13/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/1/4/2/1912411.jpg 0 1 N RICHTER / FRED / HAKKINEN / PELTONIEMI SONATAS FOR FLUTE & HARPSICHORD & CELLO 2 Franz Xaver Richter' Sonate da camera have many of the same musical characteristics that make his symphonies so distinctive: ingenious part-writing, rich, expressive harmonies and delightfully unexpected melodic twists. 747313203079 NXS8572030.2 16209534 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/13/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/1/4/2/1912417.jpg 0 1 N STILL / FORT SMITH SYMPHONY / JETER SYMPHONIES 2 & 3 / WOOD NOTES The life and career of the African-American composer William Grant Still qualifies as the quintessential American 'uccess story.' 636943967621 NAAC8559676.2 16209886 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS AMERICAN COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 12/13/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/2/4/2/1912421.jpg 0 1 N BARTOK / JANDO / TAKACS / SZOKOLAY MIKROKOSMOS The 153 piano pieces of B'la Bart'k's Mikrokosmos are a milestone in piano literature. 747313282128 NXS8557821-22.2 11706229 .00 29.99 .25 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/29/2006 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/0/6/1/951603.jpg 0 2 N CUBA 1929-1937: BAL A LA HAVANE / VARIOUS CUBA 1929-1937: BAL A LA HAVANE / VARIOUS (2-CD set) Here's a panorama of the '20s and '30s for aficionados of Cuban music. 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1955-1986 710357270024 NIM2700.2 14106057 .00 20.99 .23 NIMBUS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 03/10/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/6/8/7/1437869.jpg 3 2 N BERKELEY / BENJAMIN / HORSLEY / CROWSON PIANO WORKS 5020926210920 LYR2109.2 14094187 .00 20.99 .25 LYRITA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/11/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/8/9/7/1437985.jpg 15 2 N ISOKOSKI,SOILE / HPHO / FRANCK SCENE D'AMORE 761195112625 OND1126.2 14010088 .00 18.99 .25 ONDINE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 10/14/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/7/5/9/1419575.jpg 0 1 N BACH FAMILY / BACH-COLLEGIUM STUTTGART / RILLING SACRED MUSIC OF THE BACH FAMILY 4010276023524 HAC98614.2 15103222 .00 18.99 .43 SWRMUSIC COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/29/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/5/9/7/1657952.jpg 2 3 N TCHAIKOVSKY / ZURICH BALLET / FEDOSEYEV SWAN LAKE Polina Semionova and Stanislav Jermakov star in this 2009 Zurich Ballet production of the Tchaikovsky ballet conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev. 3760115304550 BELC455BR 15089533 .00 31.99 .19 BEL AIR CLASSIQUES BLU-RAY CLASSICAL BALLET 06/29/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/6/9/7/1657962.jpg 0 1 N MOZART / HAYDN / PODGER / ROGERS DUOS FOR VIOLIN & VIOLA K423 & 424 & MENUETTO K487 723385324119 CHC32411SACD 16236219 .00 21.99 .23 CHANNEL CLASSICS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/13/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/1/8/7/1917812.jpg 0 1 N SCHUMANN / GRUBERT ETUDES SYMPHONIES & FANTASIE 5065001863417 PICL18.2 16236431 .00 21.99 .22 PIANO CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/13/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/2/8/7/1917822.jpg 66 1 N SINDING / HJELSET / VOLLESTAD SONGS 3 7033662011964 SMXC1196.2 15539786 .00 20.99 .25 SIMAX CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/26/2004 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/2/6/9/1769626.jpg 3 1 N HERMANN / EICHHORN / KUPPEL / HULSHOFF 3 CAPRICCIOS / SUITE IN D MINOR The prolific composer, arranger, editor and author of an influential manual, Friedrich Valentin Hermann is well known to violin and viola students to this day though his technically demanding music is rarely heard in concert despite its appealingly virtuosic Romanticism. Paganini was enthralled by the ability of the young prodigy Johann Paul Eichhorn, whose elegant and equally virtuosic variations receive their world premi�re recording. Friedemann Eichhorn�s Naxos recording of Pierre Rode�s violin concertos (8.570469) has received high critical praise, while his recording with Alexander H�lshoff of Servais�s Grand Duos (8.572188) was �urgently recommended� by Fanfare. 747313206674 NXS8572066.2 15332479 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/16/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/8/7/9/1769783.jpg 2 1 N TOURNEMIRE / BUNDY / SEATON / CRAYFORD SAGESSE / POEME Regrettably, much of the prolific output of Charles Tournemire remains unknown and unpublished, his association with the organ overshadowing his chamber music, operas, oratorios and songs. 747313234776 NXS8572347.2 15373205 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/14/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/6/9/5/1775960.jpg 9 1 N CHERUBINI / KAMMERCHOR STUTTGART / BERNIUS REQUIEM IN C 409350832277 CARU83227SACD 15380401 .00 21.99 .16 CARUS SUPER-AUDIO CD 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10/31/2006 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/0/0/7/1817008.jpg 0 1 N KAZDA / INDIGO STRINGS MUSIC OF LED ZEPPELIN 4250317416100 PHHM6010.2 15532107 .00 24.99 .25 PHIL.HARMONIE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 01/25/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/7/7/7/1797778.jpg 2 1 N MARTIN,CLAIRE CLAIRE MARTIN BOX 2 691062026529 LINN265.2 15871992 .00 32.99 .67 LINN RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ BOX SETS (AUDIO / VIDEO ONLY) 01/01/2005 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/78/1681778.jpg 1 3 N BEETHOVEN / LEVIN 33 VARIATIONS ON A WALTZ BY ANTON DIABELLI 044747304625 CAV3046.2 15831545 .00 18.99 .20 CENTAUR COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/28/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/5/1/5/1855152.jpg 4 1 N CAMPBELL,NICKY / MORAGHAN,MARK MOONLIGHTS BACK IN STYLE 691062034524 LINN345.2 15872623 .00 20.99 .17 LINN RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 09/01/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/5/3/0/1860357.jpg 14 1 N SHOSTAKOVICH / DMITRIEV / LENINGRAD SYMPHONY ORCH SYMPHONY 5 5020305600045 LINN4.2 03136935 .00 20.99 .25 LINN RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/31/1995 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/6/3/0/1860367.jpg 0 1 N SUGAWARA,YUKIKO COUNTERPOISE-CARISI SAUTER WOLFF WOLPE 752156013624 HAHT136.2 22242631 .00 20.99 .25 HATHUT RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 04/05/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/6/9/4/1814969.jpg 3 1 N COPLAND,MARC TRIO HAUNTED HEART 752156069027 HAHT690.2 16584044 .00 20.99 .24 HATHUT RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 05/10/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/8/9/4/1814980.jpg 0 1 N RIHM / ARDITTI STRING QUARTET / ANZELLOTTI FETZEN 025091017829 WNTR178.2 15657664 .00 20.99 .15 WINTER & WINTER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 05/10/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/9/6/7/1827690.jpg 0 1 N REYNOLDS,ROGER SANCTUARY: RED FISH BLUE FISH Composed for a spatially distributed ensemble and live electronics, this work makes spectacular use of DVD's surround sound capabilities. 764593023296 MOD232DVD 15722126 .00 53.99 .27 MODE DIGITAL VIDEO DISC POP JAZZ 06/28/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/3/2/3/1833238.jpg 3 2 N COTSWOLD CRAFTSMEN: STORIES & REMINISCENCES OF COTSWOLD CRAFTSMEN: STORIES & REMINISCENCES OF 5013133424723 SAD247.2 12289868 .00 20.99 .22 SAYDISC COMPACT DISCS POP SPOKEN / COMEDY / RADIO SHOWS V/A COMPILATIONS 05/29/2007 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/6/3/6/1846368.jpg 4 1 N VICTORIAN MUSICAL BOX DANCES / VARIOUS VICTORIAN MUSICAL BOX DANCES / VARIOUS 5013133435927 SAD359.2 04592242 .00 20.99 .25 SAYDISC COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS V/A COMPILATIONS 08/17/1992 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/9/3/6/1846392.jpg 3 N KABALEVSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / LIU / YABLONSKY PIANO CONCERTOS NO 3 / RHAPSODY FOR PIANO & ORCH Kabalevsky's most lasting achievement was in the field of music education, notably his development in later years of a programme for music in schools. His Third Piano Concerto, 'Dedicated to Soviet Youth', completes the trilogy of instrumental concertos. 747313279425 NXS8557794.2 13687625 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/3/4/7/1367439.jpg 5 1 N CASABLANCAS / MASO / VILLALBA PIANO MUSIC In the first phase of the composer's career, his music for solo piano is represented by a relatively limited number of significant pieces. In contrast, one of the more obvious characteristics of recent works of Casablancas is the impressive quantity of piano compositions offered, as shown by the dates when pieces in the present catalogue were written. The maturity which characterizes his musical language has enabled him to achieve results influenced by the instrument's great literature but with an increasing virtuosity in the writing and extraordinary richness of textural detail in both harmonic and polyphonic elements, subject always to the piano's sonorities and natural dynamics as the final criteria of musical structure. The selection offered here brings together almost all the piano works of Benet Casablancas, it's earliest contribution being Preludi I Fuga En Do (Prelude and Fugue in C). This provides an interesting introduction to his work by presenting a very early piece which, despite the fact that it is enormously different from the composer's mature style, demonstrates in it's firm contrapuntal writing, his search for structural integrity and a concern for craftsmanship. How the musical personality of Casablancas would develop is perhaps revealed more clearly in the mild disquiet of the quasi-expressionistic Prelude rather than in the Fugue's neoclassicism (written somewhat in the style of Hindemith). But this study in polyphony already gives us insight into a young composer setting himself unusually high standards in the service of his profession. 747313075775 NXS8570757.2 13687434 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/4/4/7/1367440.jpg 20 1 N MOZART / ODINIUS / NOLD / ARNS NOVA / FISCHER LUCIO SILLA 636943606926 DACA8226069-71.2 13690878 .00 35.99 .73 DACAPO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/4/4/7/1367445.jpg 7 3 N BEETHOVEN / OPPITZ PIANO SONATAS 30 31 32 4010276017196 HAC98209.2 12788699 .00 20.99 .21 SWRMUSIC COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 01/08/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/8/4/7/1287483.jpg 7 1 N WOLFE / WELCH / MOORE / BLACK / TALUJON PERCUSSION DARK FULL RIDE 713746305826 CNLP21058.2 14774201 .00 18.99 .22 CANTALOUPE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/10/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/9/4/5/1575492.jpg 4 1 N HENZE / BRSO / JANOWSKI SYMPHONY NO 9 The composer Hans Werner Henze describes his Ninth Symphony for mixed chorus and orchestra (words by Hans-Ulrich Treichel after the novel The Seventh Cross" by Anna Seghers) as follows:"What happens in this symphony is an apotheosis of terror and pain. It is a summa samarium of my creative output, the attempt to come to terms with the assaults of an arbitrary and unpredictable world. (...) A German reality, this symphony is above all an expression of enormous respect for the people who dared to resist in the time of Nazi-Fascist terror and who gave their lives to defend freedom of thought."

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The sixth was the last of Mahler's symphonies to reach the United States, in December 1947, more than forty-one years after the composer conducted its premiere. Even considering the typical fate of Mahler's symphonies - launched under the composer's baton, misunderstood and often rejected by audiences and conductors during the decades that followed - the neglect of the Sixth Symphony is exceptional.

The Chicago Tribune described the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's May 2007 performance of Bruckner's Symphony No.7 as a 'glowing and eloquent account.' Now available to the world as the second release from CSO Resound, this recording showcases the remarkable chemistry between the CSO and Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink, who perform with what the Chicago Sun-Times calls 'an almost extrasensory connection.' Recorded live in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center in Chicago on May 10, 11, 12 and 15, 2007.

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This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

Haitink proves in recording after recording that he is at the pinnacle of current Mahler interpretation.



MAHLER Symphony No. 1, “Titan” • Bernard Haitink, cond; Chicago SO • CSO RESOUND 901 904 (Hybrid multichannel SACD: 57:39) Live: Chicago 5/1–3/2008


This is the third installment in a series of Mahler symphony recordings under the direction of the Chicago Symphony’s principal conductor; it may be too much to hope that they will eventually comprise a complete set, but for the time being we can savor each new release. Haitink recorded this work most recently in 1994 in Berlin (for video), and there have been several changes in his interpretation since then (he’s shaved five minutes from the total timing of the earlier recording for a start); what hasn’t changed is the attention to detail and consummate musicianship on display.


It would be overly simplistic to suggest that the first movement is “expansive”; Haitink’s is a slowly evolving interpretation. The exposition isn’t the impetuous one of Zander (Haitink observes the exposition repeat) or (more egregiously) Gergiev, nor is it tentative; rather, it is one of increasing confidence and power. In the development, the horn fanfare is portentous rather than declarative; the end of this section is one of anticipation, which is heightened by the very gradual buildup to the eruption for full orchestra, which is anything but subdued. One is aware more than usual that the whole movement has been leading up to this moment.


The second movement was marked (in the Hamburg autograph of 1893) both scherzo and langsames Waltzertempo (“slow waltz tempo”), and Haitink has both markings in mind for this performance—its tempo is measured and just a bit clumsy, evoking “the village pub” (in the words of one contemporary critic), while the Trio is a more refined dance. Listeners expecting the music of “Under full sail,” with its connotations of vigor and pace, may be disappointed, but I think this is a perfectly valid alternative.


The third movement opens with a shock of sorts: missing is the sour bass solo, and in its place is the entire bass section, producing a less grotesque funeral procession (according to Michael Steinberg, as late as 1893 Mahler had this passage played by the basses plus the cellos). The pall of gloom hangs over the entire movement, unleavened even by the band and klezmer-style music; the overall effect is of muted formality. Haitink plays down the parody and injects a genuine feeling of melancholy, especially in the lovely “Wayfarer” quotation.


The Chicago percussion do themselves proud in the opening of the finale, producing an effective accompaniment for the superb brass “scream.” I usually find this effect to be either overblown or underwhelming, but here it is perfectly gauged, analogous to the onset of the storm in the Beethoven Sixth (and anticipating the finale of the Mahler Second). The later love theme is just as calming and welcome as the opening is jarring. Haitink produces a performance that captures Mahler’s quickly shifting moods with stylish grace and precision, capped by a coda that is splendidly triumphant. The sound production (in the hands once again of the estimable James Mallinson) projects a very effective sense of acoustic space (especially in the offstage fanfares of the first movement), with extremely transparent imaging and lows that ground the soundstage without becoming too prominent. In two-channel playback, the SACD adds presence and even more precise instrumental definition than the excellent stereo version (available on CD, CSO Resound 901 902); in short, this performance is custom-made for the kind of clarity one encounters here—in whatever version.


Haitink proves in recording after recording that he is at the pinnacle of current Mahler interpretation. In comparison to Gergiev’s recent First, with its wayward impetuosity—Gergiev 52: 39; Haitink 57:42—this is an interpretation that manages to sound even more convincingly fresh and innovative, doing full justice to Mahler’s audacious symphonic “Titan.”


FANFARE: Christopher Abbot

Also available as a hybrid Super Audio CD



MAHLER Symphony No. 1, “Titan” • Bernard Haitink, cond; Chicago SO • CSO RESOUND 901 902 (CD: 57:39) Live: Chicago 5/1–3/2008


This is the third installment in a series of Mahler symphony recordings under the direction of the Chicago Symphony’s principal conductor; it may be too much to hope that they will eventually comprise a complete set, but for the time being we can savor each new release. Haitink recorded this work most recently in 1994 in Berlin (for video), and there have been several changes in his interpretation since then (he’s shaved five minutes from the total timing of the earlier recording for a start); what hasn’t changed is the attention to detail and consummate musicianship on display.


It would be overly simplistic to suggest that the first movement is “expansive”; Haitink’s is a slowly evolving interpretation. The exposition isn’t the impetuous one of Zander (Haitink observes the exposition repeat) or (more egregiously) Gergiev, nor is it tentative; rather, it is one of increasing confidence and power. In the development, the horn fanfare is portentous rather than declarative; the end of this section is one of anticipation, which is heightened by the very gradual buildup to the eruption for full orchestra, which is anything but subdued. One is aware more than usual that the whole movement has been leading up to this moment.


The second movement was marked (in the Hamburg autograph of 1893) both scherzo and langsames Waltzertempo (“slow waltz tempo”), and Haitink has both markings in mind for this performance—its tempo is measured and just a bit clumsy, evoking “the village pub” (in the words of one contemporary critic), while the Trio is a more refined dance. Listeners expecting the music of “Under full sail,” with its connotations of vigor and pace, may be disappointed, but I think this is a perfectly valid alternative.


The third movement opens with a shock of sorts: missing is the sour bass solo, and in its place is the entire bass section, producing a less grotesque funeral procession (according to Michael Steinberg, as late as 1893 Mahler had this passage played by the basses plus the cellos). The pall of gloom hangs over the entire movement, unleavened even by the band and klezmer-style music; the overall effect is of muted formality. Haitink plays down the parody and injects a genuine feeling of melancholy, especially in the lovely “Wayfarer” quotation.


The Chicago percussion do themselves proud in the opening of the finale, producing an effective accompaniment for the superb brass “scream.” I usually find this effect to be either overblown or underwhelming, but here it is perfectly gauged, analogous to the onset of the storm in the Beethoven Sixth (and anticipating the finale of the Mahler Second). The later love theme is just as calming and welcome as the opening is jarring. Haitink produces a performance that captures Mahler’s quickly shifting moods with stylish grace and precision, capped by a coda that is splendidly triumphant. The sound production (in the hands once again of the estimable James Mallinson) projects a very effective sense of acoustic space (especially in the offstage fanfares of the first movement), with extremely transparent imaging and lows that ground the soundstage without becoming too prominent. In two-channel playback, the SACD (CSO Resound 901 904) adds presence and even more precise instrumental definition than the excellent stereo version; in short, this performance is custom-made for the kind of clarity one encounters here—in whatever version.


Haitink proves in recording after recording that he is at the pinnacle of current Mahler interpretation. In comparison to Gergiev’s recent First, with its wayward impetuosity—Gergiev 52: 39; Haitink 57:42—this is an interpretation that manages to sound even more convincingly fresh and innovative, doing full justice to Mahler’s audacious symphonic “Titan.”


FANFARE: Christopher Abbot Reviewing SuperAudio Version

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This third and, sadly, last entry in Dacapo’s Riisager Symphonic Edition contains some of the best music so far, smashingly performed and recorded. The Summer Rhapsody on Danish folk melodies sounds just as advertised. It’s a jolly potpourri of catchy tunes, scored with glittering abandon. The Sinfonia concertante for string orchestra dates from 1934, and it reveals the composer’s ability to use limited resources without compromising his music’s timbal color or textural interest. A new, vigorous (indeed, relentless) rhythmic element is very evident in this piece, and it characterizes the two symphonies as well. So although they are relatively short (less than twenty minutes each), they pack quite a punch.

The Fourth Symphony, subtitled Sinfonia gaia, is actually a wartime work, its avowed cheerfulness sometimes taking on an air of desperation in the rhythmic obstinacy of its outer movements. Riisager’s Fifth Symphony also belies its title: Sinfonia serena. Scored for strings with a virtuoso timpani part, the movement titles are curious. There’s a scherzo marked “Vivace ilare” (“hilarious”), and the finale is an “Allegro spregiudicato” (“Unprejudiced allegro”), surely a first in musical history. As can hear for yourself from a sample of the second movement, the hilarity is primarily rhythmic, and once again the limited forces give no hint on paper of the actual range of tone color that Riisager actually obtains from his ensemble.

Bo Holten and the Aarhus Symphony play all of this music, most of it shamefully neglected, with unflagging energy, and that is precisely what it needs. I would not listen to the entire disc at a sitting. Riisager’s emphasis on dextrous counterpoint and intensive rhythmic interplay can be exhausting in large doses. Take each work one at a time and you’ll be delighted. The engineering, too, is superb, save perhaps for a touch of performance noise in the Sinfonia concertante. This is a splendid conclusion to a great series.

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

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This second volume of Kayser symphonies makes a more favorable impression than did its companion. The First Symphony, composed in 1937/38, is the precocious work of a 19-year old. Its three compact movement play for only a bit more than sixteen minutes, and the influence of Nielsen is obvious in the work's formal shapeliness, rhythmic vitality, and freshness. The Fourth Symphony by contrast, Kayser's last, is a large piece beginning with a pastoral prelude followed by an exciting scherzo, a very long Lento (20 minutes) and a finale nearly as big. It's a major work and far finer than the Second and Third Symphonies already released. The idiom is aggressively tonal, melodic, but shot through with diatonic dissonance. Occasionally, as the notes point out, Bartók or Hindemith may come to mind, but Kayser's harmony is far more traditional than either of those composers. That big Lento is very impressively sustained, rising to a very powerful, gut-wrenching climax about three-quarters of way through. The finale meanders a bit towards the middle, but recovers in plenty of time to bring about a very satisfying conclusion--brilliant but also somewhat emotionally ambivalent.

In sum, if you're interested in good post-Romantic music than you should hear this. The performances are quite satisfying: the orchestra sounds a touch more confident than on the previous outing--perhaps the quality of the music shows them in a better light, though I do wish they would invest in a decent-sounding pair of cymbals. The engineering is good, a touch dry, with a bit more ambient performance noise than otherwise would be ideal, but it doesn't get in the way of the music. Kayser spent nearly twenty years polishing his Fourth Symphony (1945-63); it really is a most distinctive piece, and I'm sure you'll agree that it was worth the effort.

--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

ROMANTIC TROMBONE CONCERTOS • Jesper Juul (tbn); Henrik Vagn Christensen, cond; Thomas Dausgaard, cond; 1 Danish Natl SO • dacapo 6.220526 (Hybrid multichannel SACD: 69:43)


HOLMBOE Concerto No. 12. HYLDGAARD Concerto Borealis. JØRGENSEN Romance. Suite for Trombone and Orchestra. GRØNDAHL Concerto (1924) 1


A bit oddly titled, the disc contains five original works for trombone and orchestra, not all of which are concertos, and only one or two of which, strictly speaking, are romantic; though I would qualify that by saying that music that once sounded determinedly modernistic to our ears seems less so with the passage of time. What these works do have in common is that all are by 20th-century Danish composers, all of whom, according to the note, were inspired by Nielsen’s scoring for trombones in his symphonies, and by a national musical culture that has promoted the trombone and produced some of its finest players.


Of the four composers represented here, Vagn Holmboe (1909–1996) is likely to be the most familiar from a large catalog of symphonic and concerted orchestral works. His 1950 Concerto for Trombone and Chamber Orchestra has been previously recorded by famed trombonist Christian Lindberg, and is available on two different BIS CDs, (same recording): one, an all-Holmboe program, contains concerted works for various solo instruments; the other, all works for trombone but by different composers. Take your pick. Overall, I find the current program more satisfying, and Juul’s tone smoother and more evenly balanced between registers. Holmboe’s concerto is a mostly buoyant, bouncy affair that has much in common with Honegger and Milhaud.


Søren Hyldgaard (b. 1962) and Axel Jørgensen (1881–1947) were both new to me, though Jørgensen’s Romance and Suite have also been recorded by Lindberg on separate CDs, neither of which I’ve heard. Ironically perhaps, it is Hyldgaard’s 2000 (revised 2005) Concerto Borealis , the most recently written work of the bunch that comes closest to fitting the “Romantic” label. Lyrical, yearning, mysterious, and extremely moving, it has about it the character of one of those quiet, contemplative, chorale-like, open-plains movements reminiscent of something by Aaron Copland. I’d spring for the disc just for this one piece—it’s that gorgeous. Jørgensen’s Romance and Suite are also very effective, but more conversational in tone; more than once I had the impression of listening to music that could serve as background to a light-hearted romantic film, which of course always has its episode or two of tears and wistful nostalgia.


If it was written for trombone, Christian Lindberg must have recorded it, as he has Launy Grøndahl’s (1886–1960) concerto as well. In this case, so has another trombonist, Branimir Slokar. Since I am not familiar with either of these recordings, however, I am unable to say whether either or both present the piece in its 1924 first version, as it is played here by Jesper Juul. This being the earliest composed piece on the disc, it is not surprising that its musical language, for its time, is fairly conservative, as is its form, a standard fast-slow-fast three-movement concerto. It does not rise, however, to the state of romantic bliss that Hyldgaard conjures in his concerto.


One doesn’t usually think of the trombone as a melodic soloist in concerted works; but if nothing else, this release proves that preconceived notions often fall before such persuasively contrary evidence as that offered by this CD. Strongly recommended, and not just to fans of the instrument.


FANFARE: Jerry Dubins


This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

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RIISAGER Slaraffenland (Fools’ Paradise): Suites 1 and 2. Tolv med Posten (12 by the Mail): 6 Dances. Concertino for Trumpet and Strings. Darduse: Suite • Thomas Dausgaard, cond; Hakan Hardenberger (tpt); Ars Nova Copenhagen; Helsingborg SO • DACAPO 6.220584 (SACD: 72:35)


Knudåge Riisager is certainly not the only composer who had a career in an unrelated field. He is more unusual in the recognition that he received, for his compositions and his musical advocacy, during his lifetime. After working as a civil servant for much of his life—he was educated in political science and was, in the last decade of his career, a department head in the Danish Ministry of Finance—he retired in 1950 and turned his full attention to music. This was not where it started, though, as his most productive years as a composer—and the ones chronicled here—paralleled his government career. He began his music education as a teenager. Then, before beginning his office job, he took a study trip to Paris, became a pupil of Albert Roussel—himself a latecomer to music—and Paul Le Flem, fell under the influence of Les Six, and experienced the new music of Prokofiev, Honegger, Bartók, and Stravinsky. He returned to successfully champion new music—his own and other’s— in Nielsen-besotted Denmark, achieving what near-contemporary Rued Langgaard had failed to do during the same period. Of course, Riisanger had charm and a sense of humor, and wrote beautifully crafted and easily appreciated neoclassical works inspired by his French mentors and Russian muses. Such was his success that in 1937 he was named the chairman of the Association of Danish Composers, a position he held for 25 years. In 1956 he began an 11-year tenure as director of the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He died in 1974, a revered and popular artist.


I’m not quite sure what all of this research, and a passing familiarity with the Trumpet Concertino, led me to expect, aside from formality and clarity of texture mixed with, perhaps, some French nonchalance. I was not prepared for the first three ballet suites on this release. There is an appealing surface artlessness to the Fool’s Paradise suites and the six dances from Twelve By the Mail that suggests, in their hidden sophistication, the musical revels of Les Six. They are otherwise reminiscent of English light music of the period. Riisager’s orchestrations are uniformly brilliant, his lovely melodies charming or nostalgic. Their obvious popular appeal—almost movie score-like at times—is spiced with some piquant, though subtly applied, dissonances and occasional forays into polytonality. It is all very pleasant, generally bright and cheery, though perhaps best taken in smaller doses to prevent overdose.


The Trumpet Concertino is a more substantial work, very much influenced by Stravinsky’s neoclassical style, though with little of the Russian composer’s occasionally chilly perfection. The opening and closing movements are, in fact, decidedly quirky, almost a parody of a classical concerto. The central movement is notable, however, for a depth of feeling unique among the works on this disc, though the first movement of the suite from Darduse comes close. In this latter piece, one hears the influence of Roussel’s tutelage most clearly, and more than a bit of the Impressionism that his teacher had eventually rejected. Thereafter, we are back to the lighter music, depicting cock fights and wedding processions. What sets this suite apart is the darker orchestral palette, more dissonant language—though still relatively mild—and the innovative use of chorus. The voices are used to suggest the violent wind of a Grofé-like dust storm (uncharacteristically forbidding, though all, including the chorus, ends peacefully) and the singing of the participants in the folk-inspired Women’s Dance.


Paul Snook welcomed this release in these pages ( Fanfare 21:6) in its 1998 CD incarnation. This SACD rerelease restores it to the catalog. While I cannot say I am quite as enthusiastic as my colleague—he included it on his Want List for that year—I certainly enjoyed the disc. Thomas Dausgaard and his fine Swedish orchestra are eloquent advocates. Håkan Hardenberger is luxury casting for the not terribly challenging trumpet solo, as is the superlative Ars Nova Copenhagen (as it is now known) in the choral segments. The sound is very fine in stereo, though a quick check of the multichannel layer reveals little information in the rear. Those who missed this on the first go-around will be pleased, as will students of Danish music, and fans of well-made lighter music.


FANFARE: Ronald E. Grames