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Lang Lang - "Complete Recordings 2000-2009" / Complete Recordings 2000-2009 bring together a treasure-trove of recordings that present all the many facets of Lang Lang's first decade as a recording artist, capturing the youthful pianist's art and dazzling career. The 12 CD set is a tribute indeed to one of the most extraordinary musical figures of our time. This new edition uses all artwork and text from the original deluxe edition but is now presented in a capbox package to Lang Lang fans around the globe. [12 CD]

DUKAS: PIANO & ORCHESTRAL WORKS ARIANE ET BARBE

BRUCKNER: SYMPHONIES NO. 1-9

One must get past the clich� ('Vivaldi composed the same concerto 500 times') to understand the extent to which composer, instrument and genre form an indissoluble whole; and that is what Th�otime Langlois de Swarte and the musicians of Le Consort have set out to do. From his early youth in Venice to his last days in Vienna, the 'red-haired priest' pushed back technical and academic boundaries, constantly creating new narrative forms: the journey of a lifetime.

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 & SYMPHONY NO. 6

COMPLETE COMMAND CLASSICS RECORDINGS

Box Set + 2 Blu-ray Audio/Atmos. The culmination of five digital releases, The National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda conclude their journey through Beethoven's complete symphonies, with this release of a complete box set. "Beethoven's voice is as fresh and powerful today as it was when he created those masterpieces, " said Noseda. "To approach Beethoven is a journey. You know you are starting the journey, but you never know where the journey will take you. With Beethoven, any moment is a discovery." Capturing the complete Beethoven Symphonies was a multi-year project, with the performances and recordings spanning the NSO's 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 seasons. The recordings of Symphonies Nos.1 & 3 were released in 2022, followed by Nos.4 & 5, 6 & 8, and 2 & 7 in 2023. Symphony No.9 was recorded with special guest artists, soprano Camilla Tilling, mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor, tenor Issachah Savage, bass-baritone Ryan McKinny, and the Washington Chorus. This deluxe set includes 5 hybrid SACDs, alongside 2 Blu-ray Audio discs containing stereo, surround and Atmos mixes as well as a bonus video performance of Beethoven Symphony No.9.

This new album rounds off the complete recording of the symphonies of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin began over two decades ago. The final batch offers the quintessence of his art, revealing the full originality of Johann Sebastian's inspired son, whose freedom and inventiveness paved the way for Haydn and Mozart.

SYMPHONIES

JOHN WILLIAMS IN TOKYO

BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATA NO. 29 HAMMERKLAVIER

SYMPHONIES NOS. 1-3; ROMANIAN RHAPSODIES 1 & 2

Orchestre de Paris/Klaus M�kel� -"Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Ravel: La valse". Klaus M�kel� conducts France's premier orchestra in two classic showpieces: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and Ravel's La valse. "M�kel� is a star, no doubt, and the proof of it is that he makes his players look and sound like stars, too," wrote The Guardian about the BBC Proms performance of the Berlioz in 2024, shortly before this recording was made. This is music which belongs to the Orchestre de Paris like no other: M�kel�'s recordings follow famous predecessors from Charles Munch, Herbert Von Karajan and Daniel Barenboim. "In taking these momentous scores back to their Parisian roots Klaus M�kel� engages his keen ears and sense of orchestral drama to hear and to project their startling innovation." - Gramophone on Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps and Firebird with the Orchestre de Paris.

KEEL ROAD

LIMITED EDITION. A meeting of minds in Amsterdam: the complete Philips recordings of Sir Colin Davis and the Concertgebouworkest made in the orchestra's acoustically optimal home and featuring classic accounts of Haydn, Berlioz, Dvor�k and Stravinsky. Davis lends these readings rhythmic impetus and unassuming authority; the orchestra and audio engineers respond with sonic warmth and transparency. Colin Davis made his debut with the Concertgebouw in 1966, and conductor and orchestra quickly established a mutual affinity. Interviewed by Niek Nelissen for a new appreciation of their legacy on record, a Concertgebouw violinist recalls his 'typically British' humour in rehearsal. Davis gave the musicians of 'the orchestra a lot of freedom. He kept control in a good way, which made him popular with the orchestra.' It took another eight years for Davis and the Concertgebouw to make their first records together, but they made up for lost time. The albums of Beethoven's Violin Concerto (with Arthur Grumiaux) and the Symphonie fantastique of Berlioz were universally praised for their rhythmic impetus, and for the kind of unassuming authority that became a hallmark of Davis's conducting. In both cases, the new recordings superseded earlier versions by the same artists (Davis's LSO Berlioz, and Grumiaux's previous Beethovens with the Concertgebouw) not least because of the warmth and the transparency of the Philips recordings, made in the orchestra's acoustically optimal home. There followed, over the next eight years, a string of artistic and commercial successes. The Concertgebouw had not recorded much Haydn before, but Davis harnessed their richness of tone and supple responses, and trained it on Haydn's late symphonies with revelatory results. Even while period-instrument performers began to bring new perspectives to Haydn, Davis's lively sympathy showed itself in the buoyant rhythms, the cultivated eighteenth-century phrasing and the exuberance which always belongs to his symphonies. Together, they recorded the complete 'London' symphonies followed by the 'Paris', and this set also features a bonus of No. 84, which Davis recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra for L'Oiseau-Lyre in 1960. This is the first time all of Davis's Haydn symphony recordings with the Concertgebouworkest have been issued collectively. Equally acclaimed was a Dvor�k series featuring the last three symphonies, the concertos for violin and cello (with Salvatore Accardo and Heinrich Schiff) and the Symphonic Variations. Throughout his long career, Davis took particular pleasure in bringing out the nostalgic side as well as the Czech-accented rhythms of Dvor�k's music, just as his approach to Igor Stravinsky never lost it's cutting edge, as displayed here in Concertgebouw recordings of the three early Diaghilev ballets. While these recordings have rarely left the catalogue thanks to their popularity, hearing them together sheds new light on the remarkable idiomatic strength of the Concertgebouw/Davis partnership. Original couplings and covers have the ring of nostalgic authenticity, complemented by Niek Nelissen's new essay and many archive photographs of conductor and orchestra.

Michael Tilson Thomas's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon (1970-2003) and Argo (1992-1995) encapsulate the conductor's restlessly exploratory nature and masterful handling of the modern orchestra. The recordings in this collection demonstrate his superb ear for complex rhythms and textures, an orchestral builder, as well as an inspired interpreter of the widest imaginable range of music. Even the most cynical of critics set aside their Beckmesser's slate when Michael Tilson Thomas stepped on to the international stage in the early 1970s when Deutsche Grammophon released albums of Tchaikovsky, Debussy and American music. They were made near the start of his tenure as the Boston Symphony's Assistant Conductor, and they demonstrated a preternatural assurance as well as a superb ear for complex rhythms and textures. Tilson Thomas's first period with DG was relatively short-lived - just a couple of years - but it also took in his scintillating pianism, accompanying BSO principals in Debussy sonatas, and a viscerally exact Stravinsky Rite of Spring, as well as, of course, the luminous account of Tchaikovsky's 'Winter Dreams' symphony (still considered a benchmark recording of this work). All the repertoire played to his strengths and demonstrated his considerable talents as an orchestral builder as well as an inspired interpreter of the widest imaginable range of music. Once installed as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, Tilson Thomas rekindled his DG relationship with two definitive albums of music by his mentor Leonard Bernstein. On The Town and Arias and Barcarolles both feature Frederica von Stade and Thomas Hampson, who were also close and long-standing associates of the composer. The LSO/DG partnership also featured typically insightful and sympathetic performances of concertos with pianist Jean-Marc Luisada and cellist Mischa Maisky. With Il sogno, Elvis Costello's ballet score for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the conductor's skill at shaping the most eclectic range of styles comes to the fore. Finally, the set brings together for the first time the Argo recordings made by Tilson Thomas with the New World Symphony, which he founded in 1997 as a 'training orchestra' but which rapidly established itself as an international-calibre ensemble, capable of taking on the most challenging repertoire. With them, Tilson Thomas produced an exhilarating album of Latin American dances (Tangazo) a sensuous survey of Morton Feldman's orchestral music, and finally a loving tribute to his teacher from college days, the composer Ingolf Dahl. If Dahl's music is still too little known, the reissue of this album should bring it new friends. Reissued with original jackets, the set includes a new appreciation of the conductor's career by Peter Quantrill.

For the first time, the complete recordings of the Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) are presented in one collection, including 84 CDs and a DVD in an Original Jackets Collection. More than 50 years of recording history: from the recordings of the 17-year-old exceptional talent, recorded in 1947 in the Decca studios in London, to the Mozart recordings made in 1999 in his own studio on Lake Attersee in Austria. Gulda's repertoire ranges from his favorite composers, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, to Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Ravel, Strauss and Prokofiev. The collection also includes numerous jazz recordings and his own compositions.

LOST TAPES - BEETHOVEN: SONATAS NOS. 18, 27, 28

CHOPIN: PIANO SONATAS 2 & 3

For the very first time, the complete studio recordings made by the iconic conductor Carlo Maria Giulini for Columbia and HMV have been remastered in high definition from original tapes and put together in a 60-CD box. This wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive testimony of Carlo Maria Giulini's collaborations with London's most distinguished orchestras, his beloved Philharmonia Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic, later recordings made during his legendary partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and a few others with the orchestras from la Scala, the Royal Opera House, la Soci�t� des Concerts du Conservatoire or the Wiener Symphoniker.

MY AMERICAN STORY: NORTH

Puccini: Madama Butterfly 2 Hybrid Remastered, SACD, Hybrid SACD This brand-new deluxe edition is part of Decca's anniversary program commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of the great opera composer Giacomo Puccini. Made in January 1974 at Vienna's Sofiens?le, this recording features the finest ensemble of the era, led by Mirella Freni and Luciano Pavarotti, and conducted by Herbert von Karajan. Upon it's initial release, the recording was praised by critics and music lovers alike, with Gramophone magazine describing it as "a set to dream about." Remastered from the original 1975 tapes, the legacy continues with 2-disc SACH Hybrid set with 192 kHz/24-bit resolution

Roberto Gonz�lez-Monjas/Mozarteum Orchestra -"Mozart". A beautifully curated album of Mozart arias, duets and songs, programmed in order of moods, roles and themes in the world of opera and song. Featuring the Mozarteum orchestra of Mozart's hometown Salzburg with it's chief conductor Roberto Gonz�lez-Monjas, Avi Avital in a mesmerizing rendition of Don Giovanni's "Deh vieni alla finestra" and "Komm liebe Zither", plus glorious duets with soprano Nikola Hillebrand and songs with Daniel Heide.

Yunchan Lim - "Tchaikovsky: The Seasons". Pianist Yunchan Lim has taken the world by storm, aged just 21. He now presents Tchaikovsky's timeless and rarely recorded piano suite, The Seasons, his third release on Decca Classics. In just a few short years, Lim's technical flourish, deft control and unprecedented mastery has seen him amass an avid international following - this interpretation of The Seasons delivers on the young pianist's already formidable reputation.