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REVIEW:Among quartets that dominated the recorded chamber music scene during the period from the 1960s through to the 1990s, two in particular stand out for their refinement and perfectionist attention to detail. Although the Juilliard...

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Release Date: April 30, 2013

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Although Marilyn Horne was 58 years old at the time of this concert, no weakness clouded the beauty of her voice. Among the recordings over the course of Horne's career, there are many Rossini operas....

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Release Date: April 30, 2013

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REVIEW: Furtwängler famously considered himself a composer who conducted, rather than vice versa, and his most familiar surviving work is without question his Second Symphony. It’s a lovable outpouring composed in the last year of...

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Release Date: September 27, 2011

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The fifth and final installment of the Géza Anda's SWR recordings, and the first performance (and first recording) by Anda of Bartok’s Second Piano Concerto, which he later helped to receive worldwide recognition. Géza Anda...

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Release Date: March 25, 2014

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REVIEW: Hungarian virtuoso Géza Anda (1921-1976) opens a recital derived from radio broadcasts from SWR Stuttgart with Haydn’s perky F Major Sonata (17 April 1950), given a sparkling bravura rendition. Anda’s pearly play and deft...

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Release Date: April 27, 2010

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This recording presents Ludwig van Beethoven's most important overtures composed for his stage works, which were few and far between yet cover a wide variety of styles: the three overtures for his only opera Leonore...

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Release Date: October 14, 2022

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Among the early 20th century composers involved in the transition from romanticism to modernism, Carl Nielsen was particularly conspicuous for his originality which deviated from everything known and was perceived at the time as downright...

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Release Date: October 14, 2022

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The Modern Jazz Quartet was formed in 1952, largely by the rhythm section of the Dizzy Gillespie Band. When these recordings were made, John Lewis was still trying to develop the Modern Jazz Quartet as...

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Release Date: July 29, 2016

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Les Ballets Russes was founded by director Sergei Diaghilev in 1909. The company never actually performed in Russia – it made its debut in Paris, and the world was to be its home during its...

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Release Date: September 09, 2022

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Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936) enjoyed right from the beginning a roaring success, being praised by critics as a masterpiece. It was also the composer's last work published by Universal-Edition in Vienna....

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Release Date: September 09, 2022

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In their long history the SWR symphony orchestras (one covering the Southern part, the other the South-Western part of the federal state Baden-Würrtemberg) have changed their names several times. In 2016 they merged and are...

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Release Date: October 14, 2022

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Joseph Achron (1886-1943) was born in Lodz and studied in Warsaw and Russia. A virtuoso violinist, he was a pupil of Leopold Auer, who also taught Heifetz and Elman, but he studied composition under Anatoly...

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Release Date: March 26, 2001

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Anton Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony sums up the composer's legacy in all its purity. Ferdinand Leitner conducts this towering masterpiece in its original form, free from speculative edits to the unfinished fourth movement. The noted German...

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Release Date: August 10, 2018

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This release features Mahler’s First Symphony in a historically informed performance that features a large, modern orchestra and includes the Blumine movement, which was part of the original version of the symphony, the one preferred...

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Release Date: August 10, 2018

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This is the fifth and final installment of the Strauss Complete Tone Poems Cycle performed by the Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg under their chief conductor Francois-Xavier Roth. The other volumes in this cycle have...

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Release Date: January 13, 2017