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German: Seasons; Richard III Overture; Theme & Diversions / Penny, RTÉ Orchestra

Naxos

$19.99 Nov 18, 2022

Jettisoning the support of teaching and conducting appointments early in his career and working solely as a professional composer, Sir Edward German rose to prominence as a composer of orchestral music in the last decade of the 19th century. The popularity of his music resulted in prestigious commissions from festivals and theatrical producers, such as The Seasons written for the 1899 Norwich Festival, with its masterly evocations of nature, nostalgic yearnings and rustic festivities. The Theme and Six Diversions, one of the composer’s finest concert works, owed its inspiration to a suggestion by German’s friend and admirer Sir Edward Elgar.

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German: Seasons; Richard III Overture; Theme & Diversions / Penny, RTÉ Orchestra
Naxos Nov 2022
CD
$19.99

Kreutzer: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 6 & 7 / Breuninger, Handschuh, Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim

CPO

$18.99 Jan 03, 2020

Kreutzer’s Violin Concertos Vol. 2. Ten years after our release of the first album featuring violin concertos by Rodolphe Kreutzer, we are now releasing his Concertos Nos. 1, 6, and 7, again in interpretations by Laurent Albrecht Breuninger. Even today Kreutzer continues to be ranked with the great violin virtuosos of his time and along with Viotti, Rode, and Baillot is regarded as a central figure of the French violin school. As FonoForum wrote of Vol. 1 in 2011, Breuninger “does outstanding justice to the virtuosic demands. He adds brilliant polish to his solos, absolutely in a manner reminiscent of Paganini.” Kreutzer wrote his nineteen violin concertos during his active years as a virtuoso. After he had found it necessary to abandon his solo career in 1810, he did not compose a single other such work. Although the concertos adhere to the traditional three-movement design, they contain numerous innovative elements, formal surprises, motivic-thematic interdependencies, and genial ideas.

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Kreutzer: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 6 & 7 / Breuninger, Handschuh, Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
CPO Jan 2020
CD
$18.99

Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 & Concertstück In F Major, Op. 86
Orfeo Apr 2010
CD
$32.99

Dostal: Die Ungarische Hochzeit / Burkert, Franz Léhar Orchester

CPO

$36.99 Sep 30, 2016

This album follows many successful operetta albums released by CPO. This newest addition is Die ungarische Hochzeit by Nico Dostal, a work premiered in Stuttgart in 1939 but rarely performed today. Nico Dostal was very successful both as an operetta composer and a film composer. Alongside this release, Cilvia is regarded as his best operetta music.

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Dostal: Die Ungarische Hochzeit / Burkert, Franz Léhar Orchester
CPO Sep 2016
CD
$36.99

Haydn: String Quartets Vol. 6 / Leipziger Streichquartett

MDG

$23.99 Sep 01, 2013

HAYDN String Quartets, op. 33/1, 3, 5 • Leipzig Str Qrt • MDG 3071812 (64:55)

The Leipzig Quartet is a group that subscribes to the historically-informed religion of straight tone; thus when this disc begins one hears the group playing a held chord that sounds a bit like cats whining. This impression never quite leaves one, but it does dissipate; as soon as the music changes you become aware that this group is really stylish. They understand phrasing and dynamics; nothing in these performances smacks of streamlining, of just rattling out the notes as quickly as possible to achieve maximum excitement. The modern proclivity towards “fast and furious” is not in their musical lexicon. As a result, these performances really speak to you. They have something interesting to say. Despite the persistent straight tone, they are truly lovely, suggesting at different times humor, elegance, melancholy or joy in turn. In short, I really liked these recordings. This is how I want my Haydn to sound (the straight tone excepted).

This set is marked as Vol. 6 in an apparently ongoing series of Haydn quartets. I’d certainly be interested in hearing the other discs, particularly of the early quartets which are so often played in a flippant and uninteresting manner. I will refrain from saying, as the liner notes do, that they are “one of the most exciting string quartets” (thank goodness they didn’t add the tag line “of their generation”), because I do not equate outstanding artistic interpretive qualities with “excitement.” That belongs to those Italian HIP orchestras that play everything in a rattletrap, full-speed-ahead zip-a-de-doo-dah manner. The Leipzig Quartet is made up of musicians, and that is more than enough for me. Highly recommended.

FANFARE: Lynn René Bayley

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Haydn: String Quartets Vol. 6 / Leipziger Streichquartett
MDG Sep 2013
CD
$23.99

Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6

CPO

$18.99 Jul 17, 2026

The works of the late Romantic composer Felix Woyrsch stand as eloquent defenses of the creative successor. Perhaps it is precisely this too often disparaged generation of "late-born" artists who laid the groundwork for the great masters. By absorbing earlier achievements and reshaping them to serve their own expressive aims, they laid the foundation for later greatness. The Silesian-born Woyrsch, who established himself permanently in Altona-then still independent of Hamburg-demonstrated that even diametrically opposed models could be reconciled. He succeeded in bringing together Wagner, Bruckner, and Brahms almost imperceptibly, without sacrificing his own artistic identity. On the contrary, the cycle of six symphonies, now completed with the present release, emerges as a distinctive artistic statement-made all the more impressive by the fact that Woyrsch remained genuinely receptive to the developments of modernism.

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Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
CPO Jul 2026
CD
$18.99

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Lehar: Das Furstenkind / Schirmer, Muenchner Rundfunkorchester

CPO

$36.99 Jun 25, 2013

Das Fuerstenkind (The Prince’s Child) has always been an “insider’s tip” in Lehár’s oeuvre, and the composer himself regarded this robbers’ tale from Greece premiered in 1909 as one of his best works. It was also his problem child because it never became a sensational success. The reason may have been due to the works blurring of boundaries between opera and operetta.

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Lehar: Das Furstenkind / Schirmer, Muenchner Rundfunkorchester
CPO Jun 2013
CD
$36.99

Dittersdorf: Sinfonias On Ovid's Metamorphoses 4-6 / Gmür
Naxos Oct 1995
CD
$19.99

Rubinstein: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 6 / Reinhold Quartett

CPO

$18.99 Jan 08, 2021

How Anton Rubinstein in the end succeeded in creating a comprehensive oeuvre covering all the genres while making breathtaking concert and traveling rounds as a pianist is something that numbers among the incomprehensibilities of his life marked by a tireless work ethos. During the course of his busy life on the go he composed more than a dozen operas, six symphonies, an oratorio, a ballet, some two hundred songs, countless works for piano solo and for piano in the concerto style and with orchestral accompaniment, and chamber music for various formations with and without piano. He also composed ten string quartets, two of which are now being released on cpo. Rubinstein composed these works during his time in Leipzig, and the Reinhold Quartet, whose members are musicians of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, offer powerful interpretations of them. The two Quartets Nos. 1 and 3 in minor keys from op. 47 are on the one hand subtly linked together motivically and on the other hand most highly different in design. Especially striking triplet motifs livening up in the secondary segments, refined motivic transformations, and fortissimo outbursts of absolutely orchestral might – these are all typical characteristics of Rubinstein’s quartet style. And what might possibly top the impressive conclusion of the first quartet? The gigantic, virtuosic, and harmonically and formally bolder conclusion of the third quartet, that’s what!

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Rubinstein: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 6 / Reinhold Quartett
CPO Jan 2021
CD
$18.99

MAHLER: SYMPHONY 6
IMPORTS Jun 2017
CD
$43.99

G. Schumann: Symphony in F Minor & Overtures / Feddeck, Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin

CPO

$18.99 Nov 03, 2017

Do you know Georg Schumann? No, he is not the unknown brother, nephew or grandson of his famous name father Robert. Nevertheless, he was a respected composer, pianist and, above all, a music teacher. The German Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, under the direction of James Feddeck, has recently dealt with some of his great orchestral works. Trained by Carl Reinecke, encounters with Liszt, Brahms, Rubinstein, Mahler or Bruch, head of the master class for composition at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin for more than half a century, Berlin Philharmonic's long-standing regular guest etc. All these are unmistakable signs of the importance of Georg Schumann as a composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. Musicians of the following generations would still have to be indefinitely grateful to him, since he and Richard Strauss, together with others, founded the cooperative of German composers, today's GEMA. And yet his name is nowadays no longer on concert programs, let alone in CD catalogs. It is all the more pleasing to see Georg Schumann again at cpo.

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G. Schumann: Symphony in F Minor & Overtures / Feddeck, Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin
CPO Nov 2017
CD
$18.99

Schubert: Complete Symphonies & Fragments / Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester

CPO

$66.99 Nov 19, 2021

On the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, the L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra is releasing the present recording of Franz Schubert’s complete symphonies and complete symphonic fragments. It is the most recent gem in this orchestra’s multifaceted repertoire ranging from the suite of the French, German, and Austrian Baroque through the sinfonia of the Mannheim School to Viennese Classicism and Early Romanticism. Although Joseph von Spaun termed Schubert a “song composer” not long after his death, Schubert’s compositional oeuvre may be said to be framed by a symphonic fragment and a sketch for a symphony. The first of these fragments was the score for an overture (D. 2 A) committed to paper around 1810/11 and abandoned in the middle of the exposition, and the last was a draft of three movements for a Symphony in D major (D. 936 A), largely worked out in full, from the last weeks, if not from the last days, of his life. During the period of some eighteen years between these two manuscripts, Schubert occupied himself creatively with almost all the established forms, ensembles, and genres. The symphonic fragments heard here often consist of scores containing only a few measures with the later addition of the instrumentation of a piece, for example, measures 209 to 223 from the first movement of the String Quartet D. 74. Since the composer assigned the date “3 September 1813” to this movement following its final notes, he must have written the fragment immediately prior to beginning his work on the Symphony No. 1 in D major (D. 82).

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Schubert: Complete Symphonies & Fragments / Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester
CPO Nov 2021
CD
$66.99

BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 4 6 & 8
HARMONIA MUNDI May 2025
CD
$23.49

Malipiero: Symphony No. 6 & Other Works / Iorio, Svizzera Italiana Orchestra

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Feb 14, 2020

The unconventional structure of Gian Francesco Malipiero’s music takes us on a journey through unexpected, sometimes incredibly beautiful vistas. The Sixth Symphony is a rich and songful celebration of string sonorities and moods, while the heroic Ritrovari and evocative Serenata mattutina display Malipiero’s expertise in writing for unusual chamber ensembles. The Cinque studi, heard here in their premiere recording, demonstrate an astonishing range of contrasting moods- a kaleidoscopic sonic tour with no more than a small orchestra, which juxtaposes orchestral strings with a wind group of a single flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon and two horns, and a percussion group of cymbal, bass drum, tambourine, celesta, and piano.

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Malipiero: Symphony No. 6 & Other Works / Iorio, Svizzera Italiana Orchestra
Naxos Feb 2020
CD
~~$19.99~~ $9.99

Radecke: Orchestral Works / Zehnder, Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn

CPO

$18.99 Apr 29, 2016

As a young child in Silesia, Robert Radecke’s musical talent was recognized and cultivated. His career bloomed in Berlin where he became the Royal Court Opera music director in 1863, and the Royal Chapel Master in 1871. From 1892 until he was seventy-seven years old, Radecke held the post of director of Berlin’s Royal Institute of Church Music. Radecke was personally acquainted with master conductors such as Wagner, Liszt, Schumann, and Strauss. His catalogue includes over 100 songs, chamber music, piano works, symphonies, overtures, sacred hymns, choral works, and organ works. This new release features Radecke’s symphonic pieces. The project was funded by crowd-funding efforts organized in Biel, as well as a donation from the composer’s great-grandson, Christian Radecke.

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Radecke: Orchestral Works / Zehnder, Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn
CPO Apr 2016
CD
$18.99

Brahms: String Sextets Op 18 And Op 36 / Stuttgart Sextet
Naxos Jun 1991
CD
$19.99

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, 7, 9 & Triple Concerto / Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester [Blu-ray]

Accentus Music

Blu-Ray

$85.99 Sep 20, 2019

This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.

Also available on standard DVD

More than 200 years after its premiere at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Martin Helmchen have congenially mastered the artistic challenge of Beethoven’s gemstone. Under Herbert Blomstedt's sensitive direction, the soloists unite chamber musical intimacy together with virtuoso sophistication – and prove once again that the Triple Concerto is an unduly underestimated, much too rarely programmed masterpiece. With the composer's 5th Symphony, Blomstedt succeeds in achieving an entirely new perspective of this work. In his Sixth Symphony, the “Pastoral”, Ludwig van Beethoven conveys his musical message in such a way that lets the listener literally “see” images of beautiful nature, tempestuous storms, and shepherds singing in the fields, whereas in his Seventh Symphony, Beethoven lets the music speak for itself. The performances of these works by the Gewandhausorchester give the uplifting feeling that the intentions of both composer and performers are united in serving the musical message. The humanist and musician Herbert Blomstedt embodies this truth in a unique way, creating an atmosphere where the wonders of music all become true. Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the musical city of Leipzig are closely intertwined with each other: Felix Mendelssohn, Kapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester, made the work an indispensable part of the concert hall repertoire and Arthur Nikisch, one of his successors, established in 1918 the worldwide tradition of performing this groundbreaking and pioneering work at the end of the year. Herbert Blomstedt once again conducted Beethoven's Ninth in Leipzig for the 2016 New Year celebrations. With his former orchestra, of which he has been Conductor Laureate since 2005 and with whom he enjoys a close friendship, he achieves a gripping interpretation of this monumental work.

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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, 7, 9 & Triple Concerto / Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester [Blu-ray]
Accentus Music Sep 2019
Blu-Ray
$85.99

Kapustin: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 6 / Dupree, Beykirch, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln

Capriccio

$21.99 Nov 15, 2024

When the music of Nikolai Kapustin was discovered by a wider audience in the West, it was positively shocking: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else - but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes?! As we discover more and more of his music and as we again can hear on the present recording, Kapustin developed his style subtly and steadily. He went with the times. As the music that influenced him changed, so did Kapustin's. The development of Big Band Jazz can be traced in his work. In that sense Kapustin never settled on one style (within the parameters of his unique fusion of jazz and classical, granted) but remained flexible about the musical material and the way he related it to the orchestra.

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Kapustin: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 6 / Dupree, Beykirch, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Capriccio Nov 2024
CD
$21.99

Respighi: Tre Liriche / Vittorio, Chamber Orchestra of New York

Naxos

$13.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 30% Oct 11, 2024

At the invitation of Respighi’s great nieces, conductor Salvatore Di Vittorio has restored and edited the Berceuse and Lamento d’Arianna. His completion of the orchestration for the Tre Liriche is heard here in a premiere recording. Di Vittorio conducts the Chamber Orchestra of New York with the mezzo-soprano Alessandra Visentin as soloist.

REVIEW:

Alessandra Visentin’s contralto voice acts as a perfect bridge between the 18th and 20th centuries and therefore becomes an ideal voice for this project. The orchestral colors bloom wide and iridescent. Salvatore Di Vittorio more than capably holds the reins, reconciling the voice with the opalescence of the instruments.

— Il Trillo Parlante (Fabio Tranchida)

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Respighi: Tre Liriche / Vittorio, Chamber Orchestra of New York
Naxos Oct 2024
CD
~~$19.99~~ $13.99

Handel: Organ Concertos, Opp. 4 & 7 / Haselböck, Orchester Wiener Akademie

Alpha

$26.99 Jul 09, 2021

Handel is best known to the wider public for his large-scale choral and orchestral works, but his organ music is equally precious. It was the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels who, diverting him from a career in the law, spotted his exceptional abilities on the instrument. By the age of seventeen, Handel was already the resident organist at the Domkirche in Halle, and he was later to defeat Domenico Scarlatti in a contest of virtuosity during his time in Rome. Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie have recorded the Organ Concertos opp.4 and 7 in the prestigious Vienna Musikverein, world-famous for its acoustics. Haselböck plays on the hall’s imposing Rieger organ in what is one of its very first recordings. Inaugurated in 2011, it is the fourth organ in the Musikverein since the hall opened in 1870. With its considerable dimensions – much larger than the organs Handel used to play on – the instrument offers a tonal palette rich in contrasts.

REVIEW:

The performances, while undoubtedly in good Baroque style (the period Wiener Akademie are excellent), offer the latent thrill of a large instrument in a large hall. If for some this might not seem the stuff of a definitive recording, it is certainly fun to listen to.

– Gramophone

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Handel: Organ Concertos, Opp. 4 & 7 / Haselböck, Orchester Wiener Akademie
Alpha Jul 2021
CD
$26.99

Respighi: Orchestral Works

MDG

SACD

$24.99 Mar 29, 2024

There is no better place to show off the magic and colours of Ottorino Respighi's sound world than in one of Europe's most beautiful concert halls with world-famous acoustics: The Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal. The Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by George Hanson, plays rarely heard works by the Italian instrumentation magician, including the mighty "Metamorphoseon" and a suite on themes by Rossini, as well as Bach's titanic C minor Passacaglia in a breathtaking orchestration and - as a veritable premiere recording - a short "Burlesca" from the composer's early works.

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Respighi: Orchestral Works
MDG Mar 2024
SACD
$24.99

Symphony 6, Festival Overture

Kontrapunkt

$22.99 May 15, 1995

Like the Brahms symphony series by Lønskov/Llambias piano duet (KPT 32120, KPT 32128, KTP 32138, KTP 32148) which are enjoying continuing success in many markets in the world, this series of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral works for four hand piano is the original arrangements by the composer. And like the Brahms series, these are premiere recordings.

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Symphony 6, Festival Overture
Kontrapunkt May 1995
CD
$22.99

Haydn: String Quartets Op 17 No 3, 5 & 6 / Kodály Quartet

Naxos

$19.99 Apr 15, 1999

"The Kodaly’s Haydn will now be familiar enough to many readers. It deploys a mellow, homogeneous tone and phrases with care and natural musicality. The first violin, very much primus inter pares in these early quartets, shapes the beautiful slow movements of Nos. 3 and 6 with unforced eloquence. The irrepressible, gigue-like opening movement of No. 6, with its adventurous tonal excursions (foreshadowing the similar opening movement in Op. 20 No. 6) , has a nice lift to the rhythms and a lively sense of give-and-take; and each of the minuets is well characterized, notably that of No. 3, with its bizarrely scored Trio (second violin and cello singing the tune two octaves apart, separated by a flowing accompaniment on the first violin and a rustic drone on the viola)."

-- Richard Wigmore, Gramophone [Awards Issue 1999]

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Haydn: String Quartets Op 17 No 3, 5 & 6 / Kodály Quartet
Naxos Apr 1999
CD
$19.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 6

Oehms Classics

SACD

$15.99 ~~$31.99~~ Save 50% May 27, 2014

•Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony employs the largest orchestral apparatus he ever used. It is a work of extremes, from the Andante’s main, sweetly cantabile theme to the chordal agglomerations breaking out in triple forte “with raw force” at the centre of the Finale’s development section, to its final, inevitable catastrophic ending. This next-to-last release in the OehmsClassics Mahler SACDcycle presents a live recording from the Cologne Philharmonie made in November 2013.

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Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Oehms Classics May 2014
SACD
~~$31.99~~ $15.99

Le Piano du Groupe Des Six
MDG Jan 2024
CD
$23.99