A vast cosmological fantasy featuring an ensemble of three grand pianos, RUNE is the final part of the 'fashion-opera' cycle by Scottish composer Alastair White (b.1988) following the highly acclaimed releases of ROBE ('excellent' - BBC Music Magazine) and WOAD 'the height of compositional magnificence' (Fanfare). 809730862625 METI28626.2 42869580 .00 20.99 .27 METIER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/09/2022 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/29/4119029-2887525.jpg 13 1 N VILLA-LOBOS / DANUBIUS QUARTET COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS Heitor Villa-Lobos once confessed that he loved to write string quartets, stating 'one could say that it is a mania.' His 17 quartets form a substantial part of his chamber music output, covering a long career that embraced national pride and musical experimentation leading to the rarefied atmosphere of the final masterpieces. Often drawing on the musical folklore of Brazil, these quartets are an outpouring of spontaneous and daring invention. Ranging from austere polyphony to compelling expressiveness and virtuosity, they represent one of the most distinctive bodies of chamber works in 20th-century music. 636943600610 NXS8206006.2 42869719 .00 51.99 .42 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/09/2022 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/42/4119042-2883091.jpg 23 6 Y ALFANO / CAPORALI / MATTHEY ORGAN TRANSCRIPTIONS This discographic work completes the previous Tactus album (TC871380) dedicated to the complete organ works by Ulysses Matthey, famous concert artist and teacher of the Italian historical twentieth century. After the original works, the organist Fausto Caporali - on period instruments - in this double album tackles the complete transcriptions for organ by Matthey. The album is including pages of virtuosity and meditation, from the famous Chaconne in D minor by Bach for solo violin (a fascinating 'lighthouse' for many composers) to the symphonic pages of Liszt, Berlioz, Debussy, Grieg and Wagner, passing through Geminiani and Paganini. Matthey's compositional refinement finds fertile ground in the organ adaptation of sublime pages of musical history, thanks to his experience as instrument tester and over two thousand concerts held throughout Europe during his incredible career. 8007194200607 TCS871390.2 42870135 .00 27.99 .49 TACTUS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/02/2022 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/87/4119087-2874463.jpg 13 2 N ADAMS,NICKIE / EATON,MICHAEL PARAPHRASE 716043314829 SEPC33148.2 42873679 .00 21.99 .22 STEEPLECHASE-LOOKOUT COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 03/15/2022 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/44/4119444-3297958.jpg 50 1 N ART OF VADIM MUNTAGIROV / VARIOUS ART OF VADIM MUNTAGIROV / VARIOUS One of the finest dancers of his generation, Vadim Muntagirov has twice won the Best Male Dancer at the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards as well as Dance Europe's Outstanding Dancer Award and the prestigious Benois de la danse. Since joining The Royal Ballet in 2014, he has excelled in many of ballet's most celebrated lead roles, as well as proving his skills as a sensitive partner to some of The Royal Ballet's most revered stars. This special collection brings together four of his most show-stopping performances. In The Sleeping Beauty, Muntagirov's elegant classicism shines as Prince Florimund, and in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon, his heartfelt characterization brings eloquent depth to the impassioned pas de deux between Manon and Des Grieux. Described as 'technically thrilling' (Guardian), Muntagirov's performance as Count Albrecht makes the quintessential Romantic ballet Giselle powerfully resonant today. In delightful contrast, his cheeky performance in Copp�lia reveals a wonderful flair for comedy. 809478073062 BOPU7306BR 42902973 .00 59.99 .84 BBC / OPUS ARTE BLU-RAY CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS V/A COMPILATIONS 09/23/2022 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/34/4122934-2868660.jpg 47 4 N ANTEGNATI / DUBOIS / RUGGERI L'ORGANO MANZONI 1891 DI BIENNO The Italian organist Marco Ruggeri offers in this CD a compilation of pieces by various author, chosen to enhance the acoustic qualities of the wonderful historical organ of the church of SS. Faustino and Giovita in Bienno. It dates back to around 1630. At that period Graziadio IV Antegnati (1608-1657) creates a 16-foot organ with an enharmonic keyboard with certainly 4 and possibly 5 broken keys for the Benedictine monks running the parish. In 1750 the instrument is restored, moreover, the organ choirs are replaced with others of a typically Baroque style while the organ case is preserved. Antegnati's organ still exists in 1822 when the scholarly Giacomo Simoni sends one of the Serassi brothers to Bienno recommending that all recoverable Antegnati material must be preserved, yet no agreement is reached. A few years later, an unknown organ builder adds typically 19th-century stops. Finally in 1891, according to the 1881 project, the organ builder Giovanni Manzoni of Bergamo, who had previously worked with Bossi and for a short time with Perolini brothers, restores and expands the organ. He initially works out a two-manual project, later he reduces the instrument to a single keyboard with 47 stops and 1823 pipes. The new structure includes also the 155 Antegnati pipes scattered in different stops, as well as 18 Principale pipes in an almost perfect succession and they confirm the original division. The latter group is moved to the 'organetti morti' (pipes placed in the upper part of the facade). The seventeenth-century case is totally preserved. In 1943 Armando Maccarinelli from Brescia carries out an extraordinary maintenance and remixes some stops. In 1961 Emilio Piccinelli of Ponteranica - without knowing Manzoni's project, found in the parish archive only years later - makes a radical restoration yet very respectful of the 1891 physiognomy. In 2017/2018 the Piccinelli family carries out a philological restoration bringing back the instrument to the exact conditions of 1891, on the precise indications from the Milan 'Servizio Tutela Organi'. The intervention is completed for the larger part by rearranging the pipes, recovering the material set aside and only with the reconstruction of 12 pipes of Cello. 8032632230649 MVCN23064.2 44181727 .00 19.99 .15 MVCREMONA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 04/26/2024 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/48/4302748-3178622.jpg 13 1 N THUY / TI / BAO VIETNAM - ENSEMBLE NGUYEN VINH BAO This music for string quartet, a selection of melodically refined chamber pieces full of highly subtle ornamentation, is a fine blend of different instrumental timbres and sonorities, performed with great poetry by musicians of the previous generation.� Having undergone numerous cultural influences linked to it's geography, traditional Vietnamese music is a music of movement, an art of abundant variation where dynamism appears to be a permanent feature. Each composition is played from memory, and improvisation is one of the main forms of musical creation. When the melodic canvas is fixed in the memory, it is possible to perform extremely complex and daring variations. ?Nguyen Vinh Bao: dan tranh�(zither with 25 strings)� Ba Tu: dan nguyet�(moon-shaped lute)� Ut Ti: dan nhi�and dan gao�(2-stringed spike fiddle)� Hoang Co Thuy: dan ty ba�(4-stringed pear-shaped lute) 3415820000746 OCO561160.2 44181871 .00 20.99 .16 OCORA FRANCE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 04/12/2024 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/63/4302763-3148025.jpg 23 1 N GLENNIE,EVELYN HER GREATEST HITS Classical percussion wizard Evelyn Glennie has captivated packed audiences and the media alike with her dazzling virtuosity and athletic showmanship. This collection (representing just a sampling of the incredible range of her astonishing output) boasts a distinct crossover potential to an alt-rock market, containing the only available recording of Oxygen," Glennie's collaboration with rocker Bjork; it also includes their only other song together, "My Spine."