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Based on an historical case, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride takes place in the suburbs of Moscow during the reign of Tsar Ivan IV, “the Terrible”, during the latter half of the 16th c. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife, his third. He chooses the young Marfa. She loves another man but bends to the Tsar’s will and renounces her love for the other. From this plot, Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov retains only the frame. A live competition is organized for a virtual monarch, much like the reality shows of today. Here, the characters become the various players of the audiovisual industry bringing an acerbic critic to contemporary television. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin. With Olga Peretyatko, Anita Rachvelishvili and Johannes and Martin Kränzle. Recorded at Staatsoper, Im Schiller Theater Berlin, in October 2013.

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Based on an historical case, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride takes place in the suburbs of Moscow during the reign of Tsar Ivan IV, “the Terrible”, during the latter half of the 16th c. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife, his third. He chooses the young Marfa. She loves another man but bends to the Tsar’s will and renounces her love for the other. From this plot, Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov retains only the frame. A live competition is organized for a virtual monarch, much like the reality shows of today. Here, the characters become the various players of the audiovisual industry bringing an acerbic critic to contemporary television. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin. With Olga Peretyatko, Anita Rachvelishvili and Johannes and Martin Kränzle. Recorded at Staatsoper, Im Schiller Theater Berlin, in October 2013.

1 DVD
Run time 152 min
Subtitles: French, English, German
Picture: 16/9, NTSC
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1

Fabulous playing from a pair of completely on-form pianists, which lends The Rite of Spring’s rhythmic themes a quite thrilling intensity.

– Gramophone [8/2015]

New focus recordings expands it's representation of iconic works from the solo piano repertoire with this Eric Huebner recital release of three brilliant, challenging and rewarding works by carter (night fantasies), Stravinsky (trois mouvements de Petroushka), and Schumann (Kreisleriana, op. 16, 1st edition). New York philharmonic-appointed pianist since 2012 and asst. prof. of piano at Suny Buffalo, the acclaimed Mr. Huebner, also a frequent recitalist, was recently appointed adjunct faculty member at the Juilliard school where he teaches a class in orchestral piano performance.

The Neoclassical Trumpet' poses the question: what if the chromatic trumpet and the modern Steinway Grand had existed a good century or so earlier and composers had recognized their duo potential? For this Linn release Mr. Freeman-Attwood reimagines works by Stravinsky, Leigh, Faure and Respighi in new arrangements by pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar. Each of the composers represented here wrote significant parts for the trumpet in various chamber and orchestral contexts. Jonathan broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 3 and is in demand as an essayist for many major record labels.

Clarinetist Gianluca Campagnolo has to his credit over 1000 concert performances (in Sicily, in Italy and abroad) as a soloist and in various chamber and orchestral ensembles. A clarinetist of international stature, he is also a member of the Polymeric Clarinet Quartet, director of the Orchestra Mediterranean di Clarinetti, and has repeatedly seen on RAI as well as radio and private television. He's recorded 14 CDs and published a "Method for Clarinet" in ten volumes. "The Clarinet in the 20th c.", his new Centaur release, features works by Berg, Bernstein and Hindemith, among others.

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Stravinsky in Hollywood, a film by Michael Capalbo, tells the story of an "old school" European artist knocking heads with the brash New World. The documentary uses a combination of existing archival footage (some never before seen), interviews with Stravinsky and his assistant Robert Craft, and premieres several big studio film scenes of the 40s with music Stravinsky wrote for them.

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Stravinsky in Hollywood, a film by Michael Capalbo, tells the story of an "old school" European artist knocking heads with the brash New World. The documentary uses a combination of existing archival footage (some never before seen), interviews with Stravinsky and his assistant Robert Craft, and premieres several big studio film scenes of the 40s with music Stravinsky wrote for them.

This recording features two trio and two solo performances of works by Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók. Florent Héau, one of the major figures of the French clarinet school, is clarinet professor at the Paris CRR. Pianist Anne-Lise Gastaldi, a former student of noted pianist Anne Queffelec, is pianist for the George Sand trio. David Lefèvre is a gifted representative of the younger generation of violinists and artistic director of the Val d'Isère MusicaVal Chamber Music Festival.

"•The Rite of Spring is performed here in a brilliant piano transcription by Vladimir Leyetchkiss. • The piano transcriptions of the Prokofiev are by Prokofiev himself. • Pianist and pedagogue Dr. Svetlana Belsky is an internationally in-demand recitalist and chamber pianist, noted for her stylistic versatility and remarkable rapport with audiences. • She is the Coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago."

A program of works by Stravinsky, Ravel, Liszt, Chasins, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov and Lutoslawski Transcriptions for piano four hands, including world premiere recordings. Their Brahms piano duos debut disc was highly acclaimed.

For this second collaboration with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine and Zig-Zag Territoires, two major Russian works were chosen. Both make the orchestra sound sumptuous with the complicity of that fantastic colorist and orchestrator Maurice Ravel, and the skill of a composer nicknamed 'the magician of the orchestra.' Emmanuel Krivine excels in these demanding works that necessitate as much commitment as perspicacity from the conductor, at the service of scores magnifying the fantastic musical instrument that is the modern symphony orchestra.

Conducted by Grammy award-winning Paavo Jaarvi, the Orchestre de Paris exquisitely performs three magnificent pieces of music.

Laugh with classical music? Well I never!" No doubt that's what far too many soberly dignified classical music fans might say upon learning of this compilation that celebrates humor in classical music. Take a moment to revel in snickers chuckles and chortles with favorite performers of the Delos catalogue as they loosen up with musical jokes from all eras.

The penultimate release in the Naxos Seattle Collection, featuring internationally renowned soprano Susan Graham.