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Weinberg: Trumpet Concerto - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Nelsons, Hardenberger, Gewandhausorchester [Blu-ray]

Accentus Music

Blu-Ray

$53.99 Jul 31, 2020

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Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Trumpet Concerto op. 94 was composed in his most productive creative phase and premiered in Moscow on 6 January 1968. Shostakovich once described it as a "symphony for trumpet and orchestra" - no wonder, since it showcases the whole variety of Weinberg's compositions: from the bitingly humorous first and sumptuously colorfully orchestrated second movement to the wonderfully collage-like finale, fabulously interpreted by Hakan Hardenberger to celebrate the composer’s 100th anniversary. After the Sixth and Fifth Symphonies, Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig add Tchaikovsky’s Fourth to their cycle featuring the symphonic works of this outstanding composer.

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Weinberg: Trumpet Concerto - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Nelsons, Hardenberger, Gewandhausorchester [Blu-ray]
Accentus Music Jul 2020
Blu-Ray
$53.99

Sibelius: Symphonies 1 & 4 / Gibson, Royal Scottish No
Chandos Feb 2008
CD
$6.99

SYMPHONY 5 / PIANO CONCERTO 4
SFS MEDIA Feb 2011
SACD
$20.30

Silvestrov: Symphonies No 4 & 5 / Saraste

BIS

$21.99 Oct 01, 2009

Internationally, Lahti Symphony Orchestra is closely associated with the numerous Sibelius recordings released on BIS, conducted by their long-time chief conductor Osmo Vänskä. These recordings have received an overwhelming international welcome among reviewers, but also among record-buyers: as of August 2009 more than one million Lahti discs released by BIS have been sold! As many already know, the orchestra does not only play works by Sibelius - its recordings of music by contemporary Finnish composers such as Rautavaara, Kalevi Aho and Joonas Kokkonen have all met with critical acclaim. Led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, its present chief conductor, the orchestra now takes a step eastwards, and performs two symphonies by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Having as a student absorbed the music of Webern, Scriabin and the new Polish school, in the 1970s Silvestrov moved away from avant-garde techniques and became increasingly involved with the idiom of 19th-century song: 'It seems to me that music is song in spite of everything, even when it is unable to sing in a literal sense. Not a philosophy, not a system of beliefs, but the song of the world about itself, and at the same time a musical testament to existence.' To date, Silvestrov has composed seven symphonies, of which the Fourth (1976) and the Fifth (1980-82) are both dominated by a longing for a beauty that used to be, but is no longer within reach. Considered by some to be his masterpiece, Symphony No. 5 has for instance been described as 'an epilogue or coda inspired by the music of late Romantic composers such as Gustav Mahler.'

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Silvestrov: Symphonies No 4 & 5 / Saraste
BIS Oct 2009
CD
$21.99

HOVHANESS, A.: Symphony No. 29 / 4 Bagatelles / Rubaiyat / P
Delos Jan 2005
CD
$18.99

Kokkonen: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 / Requiem
BIS Nov 1996
CD
$34.99

Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

Challenge Classics

$16.99 Sep 27, 2024

Second and last instalment in Jan de Vriend and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra complete survey of Robert Schumann's symphonies. Such accomplished, high-class music-making makes the imminent follow-up with the Rhenish and Fourth Symphony en enticing prospect. Gramophone - UK (on CC 72958 - Symphonies nos. 1 & 2). de Vriend strives for a balance between a magnificent orchestral sound and a transparent polyphony that also seeks to illuminate the complex inner life of Schumann's orchestral sound with brisk tempi. Rondo - DE (on CC 72958 - Symphonies nos. 1 & 2). Swagger and elegance. BBC Record Review (on CC 72958 - Symphonies nos. 1 & 2)

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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Challenge Classics Sep 2024
CD
$16.99

Johannes Brahms: Symphonies 1-4

Accentus Music

$33.99 ~~$39.99~~ Save 15% Sep 04, 2026

Gianandrea Noseda is clearly one of those conductors who 'are equally at home in both genres', as the 'Neue Zurcher Zeitung' put it in 2021 on the occasion of his debut as General Music Director at Zurich Opera House. 'In hindsight, one cannot even judge whether he is the better opera or symphony conductor.' In his concert performances in Zurich, Noseda focused on the works of Johannes Brahms. Following a highly acclaimed performance of the 'German Requiem', he also conducted the Zurich Opera Orchestra in performances of Brahms's symphonies. The four symphonies by Johannes Brahms were completed between 1876 and 1885 and are regarded as milestones in the Romantic orchestral repertoire. Under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, they were recorded live at the Zurich Opera House during various concerts and can now be heard together on this album.

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Johannes Brahms: Symphonies 1-4
Accentus Music Sep 2026
CD
~~$39.99~~ $33.99

SCRIABIN: SYMPHONIES 4 & 5 / PIANO CONCERTO
UNIVERSAL JAPAN Jan 2022
CD
$15.99

Brahms, J.: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 / Tragic Overture / Academic
Antes Edition Jul 2002
CD
$53.99

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & Prometheus / Petrenko, Gerstein, Olso Philharmonic

LAWO Classics

$18.99 Oct 12, 2018

This new release is the last installment in Petrenko's fortunate survey of Scriabin's symphonic output. Gramophone writes: “Kirill Gerstein is just the sort of 'thinking pianist' to take it on [Scriabin’s Piano Concerto] and he does a terrific job, and Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Phil are highly sympathetic partners.” The multifaceted pianist Kirill Gerstein has rapidly ascended into classical music’s highest ranks. With a masterful technique, discerning intelligence, and a musical curiosity that has led him to explore repertoire spanning centuries and styles, he has proven to be one of today’s most intriguing and versatile musicians. His early training and experience in jazz has contributed an important element to his interpretive style, inspiring an energetic and expressive musical personality that distinguishes his playing.

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Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & Prometheus / Petrenko, Gerstein, Olso Philharmonic
LAWO Classics Oct 2018
CD
$18.99

Brahms: Symphonies nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture / Milton, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra

Prospero Classical

$29.99 ~~$39.99~~ Save 25% May 20, 2022

Famous musical personalities are often associated with certain places: Bach with Köthen and Leipzig, Handel with Halle and London, Mozart with Salzburg and Vienna, Beethoven with Bonn and Vienna, or Brahms with Hamburg and Vienna. "And Vienna" often occurs, but "and Göttingen" almost never. Johannes Brahms is an exception. The Göttingen Symphony Orchestra under its principal conductor Nicholas Milton honors the great Romantic with a complete recording of his symphonies as well as the "Academic Festival Overture" based on musical material that Brahms heard for the first time in Göttingen.

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Brahms: Symphonies nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture / Milton, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra
Prospero Classical May 2022
CD
~~$39.99~~ $29.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major, arranged for chamber ense

Dynamic

$16.99 Aug 16, 2024

In celebration of his 80th birthday, this four-disc set spans more than five decades of Michael Tilson Thomas' compositional career. It features 18 works, from premiere recordings to remastered archival recordings available for the first time. The deluxe collection also includes an extensive booklet containing composer's notes, original essays, and a timeline of archival photos chronicling MTT's life as a pianist, conductor, composer, recording artist, and teacher.

All proceeds from GRACE: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas will be donated to brain cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco Brain Tumor Center.

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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major, arranged for chamber ense
Dynamic Aug 2024
CD
$16.99

Brahms: Symphonies 1-4, Etc. / Mehta, Israel Philharmonic
Sony Masterworks Mar 2010
CD
$41.99

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SYMPHONIES NO. 6 & 8
MDG Jan 2015
SACD
~~$24.99~~ $18.99

VIERNE: Organ Symphony No. 1 / WIDOR: Organ Symphony No. 4 /

Wergo

$17.99 Mar 01, 1999

The performer on this CD, concert organist Lionel Rogg of Geneva, is at home in the world's greatest concert halls. He began his worldwide career as a concert organist playing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose works for organ he would subsequently record in full three different times. Since then, he has been much in demand throughout the world as both organist and harpsichordist. As professor for organ in Geneva, Rogg teaches young organists from all over the world. More than forty of his students have been awarded the Prix de virtuosité. Recently, Rogg has been devoting more time to composition. Following the devastating fire of 1984, as a member of a committee of experts, he decisively influenced the specification of the new van den Heuvel instrument in his native city's Victoria Hall. For Lionel Rogg it was particularly important that this concert-hall organ should be optimally configured for the specifics of it's surroundings, whether as an emancipated - orchestral - counterpart or as a solo instrument. The high tonal standard for the characteristic foundation stops (fonds) with wide mensuration and the powerful intonation of the reeds combined with the attention paid to the specification of the (low) mixtures, give the organ in Victoria Hall the desired symphonic, French character. The extensive battery of horizontal reeds and the pedal stops of 32' pitch (labial and lingual) make the four-manual instrument just as appropriate for the music of the founder of the symphonic organ music of France, César Franck, as heard on this Organ-CD, as it is for the effective presentation of Liszt and Bizet transcriptions, with their virtuosically pianistic, even orchestral character. The booklet of this fifth CD of the Organ series contains liner notes in German, English, and French.

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VIERNE: Organ Symphony No. 1 / WIDOR: Organ Symphony No. 4 /
Wergo Mar 1999
CD
$17.99

Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 / Farkas, Nosrati, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

CPO

$18.99 Sep 03, 2021

During his lifetime Anton Rubinstein was regarded as the greatest pianist among composers and as the greatest composer among pianists. He himself assigned clear functions to his two fields of activity: he concertized to live, and he lived to compose. Such a plan of action finds its greatest fulfillment when the two spheres overlap: in Anton Rubinstein’s piano concertos, which were products of his compositional calling for his concert profession and works by the composer for the pianist. Thirteen years, stylistic nuances, and a decisive step on the career ladder came between his Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4. The twenty-one-year-old’s early second concerto met with a very favorable response in its time because of its marvelously beautiful tonal effects. It was then above all his fourth concerto that from the very beginning was enthusiastically received by fans of symphonic orchestral music and friends of virtuoso solo performance. Here Schaghajegh Nosrati, who is regarded as an extremely versatile musician and owing to her outstanding reputation as a Bach interpreter very early was able to establish herself as a concert pianist, interprets these works for us.

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Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 / Farkas, Nosrati, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
CPO Sep 2021
CD
$18.99

Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 / Jordan, Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Wiener Symphoniker

$53.99 Aug 07, 2020

After the critically acclaimed recording of Beethoven's nine symphonies, the Wiener Symphoniker present now under the direction of their outgoing Music Director Philippe Jordan another cyclical recording: The Symphonies by Johannes Brahms. It had taken 14 years of preparatory work before Brahms ventured to complete his First Symphony in 1876. The four symphonies that emerged in the following decade are not only touching measurements of the human soul's landscape but also the central creative legacy of the great romantic composer. All four symphonies were recorded live in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein in autumn 2019 – a hall that arguably meets the tonal requirements of the works like no other. After all two of the four symphonies had been premiered here while the other two had been performed here for the first time in Austria. This latest production by the Wiener Symphoniker marks the end of Philippe Jordan's tenure as Music Director of the traditional Viennese orchestra but also represents the culmination of their internationally celebrated artistic collaboration. With the new publication, the Wiener Symphoniker are presenting the twenty-first release on their eponymous label founded in 2012.

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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 / Jordan, Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Wiener Symphoniker Aug 2020
CD
$53.99

MAHLER: SYMPHONY 9 (+INTERVIEW) SYMPHONY 4

ALTO

$12.77 Dec 14, 2018

(in the year before Dr. Walter's own death.. his friend Mahler's own 9th symphony) "he unerringly builds up consistent structure, controlling tempo closely... middle movements are sharply focussed, and the finale tough and stoically strong" (3 stars) (4th) "sound has attractively vivid detail, naturally glowing... everything Reiner does sounds spontaneous... Viennese influence strong... slow movement striking intensity... Lisa della Casa in ravishing voice" (both Penguin Guide)

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MAHLER: SYMPHONY 9 (+INTERVIEW) SYMPHONY 4
ALTO Dec 2018
CD
$12.77

Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4
Nimbus Oct 1996
CD
$16.99

Martinu Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4
Supraphon Nov 2003
CD
$27.99

Wilms: Symphony No. 6, Op. 58; Overtures

CPO

$18.99 Nov 15, 2024

In 2017, Croatian conductor Ivan Repusic succeeded Ulf Schirmer as chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra. In this role, he made his cpo debut in 2023 with works by the Swedish composer Gunnar de Frumerie. Now, at the helm of "his" orchestra, he is devoting himself to one of those classics that take second place to the undisputed masters of the era: Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847), who gained renown in Amsterdam as a composer, organist, and flutist. Two years younger than Beethoven, he was a devoted admirer of Joseph Haydn, whose spirit imparted a peculiar flair even to Wilms' later symphonies. The dramatic tone, which also characterizes long stretches of his overtures, never turns into something fatal and inevitable - and precisely, this balancing act gives the music of the man from Leichlingen in the Bergisch-Gladbach district it's unique charm.

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Wilms: Symphony No. 6, Op. 58; Overtures
CPO Nov 2024
CD
$18.99

Krecek: Stones to Bread - Symphony No. 4
ArcoDiva Jun 2010
CD
$18.99

Bacewicz: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Borowicz, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln

CPO

$18.99 Jan 06, 2023

The symphonic oeuvre of the Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz has never before been recorded in its entirety "from one source", so that the series beginning here represents a pioneering act. The Third Symphony for large symphony orchestra was written in early 1952 and the monumental and pathetic music shows a hitherto unknown face of the composer. One of its characteristics is the use of large instrumental blocks, although fragments also appear that hint at the lighter expressivity of the neoclassical tradition. It is a masterfully constructed work and the overt formal schemes of the Classical period are complemented by the subtle use of elements that were characteristic of music between the wars - in particular the timbres of the French tradition. Nevertheless, this work is not about setting new accents. The same applies to the Fourth Symphony. The orchestra of this work from 1953 is larger than in the previous symphony - among other things, English horn, E-flat and bass clarinet, contrabassoon and harp are now also called for. In both works, the composer achieved an excellent balance between the music of the past (form referring to tradition) and new sources of inspiration (folklore) as well as a new approach to traditional elements (rhythm). As a result, she managed to reconcile the autonomous, artistic qualities of her music with the expectations of the cultural policy of the time. We are very happy to have found congenial interpreters for this project, which sets new standards in the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the Polish conductor Lukasz Borowicz.

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Bacewicz: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Borowicz, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
CPO Jan 2023
CD
$18.99

Schumann: Symphonies 1-4 / Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic
Berlin Philharmoniker Aug 2015
SACD
$34.99