Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die | Music | The Guardian

May 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die | Music | The Guardian.

Verdi: La Traviata
Title: Verdi: La Traviata
Artists: Giuseppe Verdi, Carlo Rizzi, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson, Mozarteum Orchester, Diane Pilcher, Dritan Luca, Friedrich Springer, Helene Schneiderman, Herman Wallén, Luigi Roni, Paul Gay, Salvatore Cordella
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
List price: $33.98 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 05/08/2013 18:27 PST and are subject to change.
Release date: 2005-11-08
Verdi - La Traviata
Title: Verdi – La Traviata
Binding: DVD
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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Release date: 2006-06-13
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Jorge Federico Osorio review at Orchestra Hall in Chicago – chicagotribune.com

May 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Jorge Federico Osorio review at Orchestra Hall in Chicago – chicagotribune.com.

The program:

  • Antonio Soler – Sonata in D major, with José Menor at the piano
  • Brahms – Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, Murray Perahia at the piano
  • Manuel M. Ponce Prelude and Fugue on a theme by Handel, with Jorge Federico Osorio at the piano
  • Isaac Albéniz – Mallorca, with Luis Fernando Pérez at the piano
  • Tchaikovsky – June Barcarolle, with Sandro Bisotti at the piano
Piano Español
Title: Piano Español
Artists: Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albéniz, Antonio Soler, Enrique Granados, Jorge Federico Osorio
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Cedille
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Release date: 2007-07-17
Brahms: Ballades & Variations
Title: Brahms: Ballades & Variations
Artists: Johannes Brahms, Jorge Federico Osorio
Binding: Audio CD
Label: ASV Quicksilva
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Release date: 1995-10-17
Ponce: Balada Mexicana
Title: Ponce: Balada Mexicana
Artists: Manuel María Ponce
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Asv Living Era
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Release date: 1994-03-22
Albeniz: Piano Works
Title: Albeniz: Piano Works
Artists: Isaac Albéniz, Pierre Huybregts
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Centaur
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Release date: 1995-08-18
Für Elise: Romantic Piano Music
Title: Für Elise: Romantic Piano Music
Artists: Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Erik Satie, Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Isaac Albéniz, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Jenő Jandó, Idil Biret, Ilona Prunyi, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Balázs Szokolay, Klára Körmendi, Balazs Szokolay
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Naxos
List price: $8.99 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 05/07/2013 19:56 PST and are subject to change.
Release date: 1995-03-21
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CD Spotlight. European Impressionism – Quartets by Ravel, Debussy and Saint-Saëns, heard by Howard Smith. ‘[Quatuor Modigliani] attack it with some vehemence.’

April 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment

CD Spotlight. European Impressionism – Quartets by Ravel, Debussy and Saint-Saëns, heard by Howard Smith. '[Quatuor Modigliani] attack it with some vehemence.'.

Debussy: String Quartet; Ravel: String Quartet
Title: Debussy: String Quartet; Ravel: String Quartet
Artists: Claude Debussy, Modigliani Quartet
Binding: Audio CD
Label: MIRARE
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Release date: 2013-04-09
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George Benjamin, Wigmore Hall – Telegraph

April 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment

George Benjamin, Wigmore Hall – Telegraph.

Benjamin: Into the Little Hill, Dance Figures, Sometime Voices
Title: Benjamin: Into the Little Hill, Dance Figures, Sometime Voices
Artists: George Benjamin, Oliver Knussen, Kent Nagano, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Anu Komsi, Hilary Summers, Dietrich Henschel, Franck Ollu
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Nimbus Records
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Release date: 2009-01-13
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III – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’: Book Spikes Sales For Classical Music Piece (AUDIO)

January 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment

via 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' And 'Spem In Alium': Book Spikes Sales For Classical Music Piece (AUDIO).

I – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’
II – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’

Playlist:
  1. Chopin Nocturne No.1 en si bémol mineur Op.9 No.1, with pianist Samson François
  2. Fauré Requiem – In Paradisum
  3. Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Maria Tipo)
  4. Debussy: Préludes I – 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin
  5. Bach – Jesus bleibet meine Freude (BWV147), Alexis Weissenberg at the piano
Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album
Title: Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album
Artists: Alexandre Tharaud, Barbara Hendricks, Samson François, Alexis Weissenberg, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Pachelbel, Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Riccardo Muti, Neville Marriner, Simon Rattle, Adrian Boult, Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Léo Delibes, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Capitol Records
List price: $16.98 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 01/04/2013 13:01 PST and are subject to change.
Release date: 2012-09-11
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II – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’: Book Spikes Sales For Classical Music Piece (AUDIO)

January 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment

via 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' And 'Spem In Alium': Book Spikes Sales For Classical Music Piece (AUDIO).

I – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’
III – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’

Playlist:

  1. The Tallis Scholars sing Spem In Alium, composed by Thomas Tallis, conducted by Peter Philips
  2. Chopin Prelude number 4 – opus 28 by Samson Francois
  3. Sergei Rachmaninov piano concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18. [II - Adagio sostenuto]. Hélène Grimaud & Claudio Abbado
  4. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (opening) (1985 Digital Remaster)
  5. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings “Bailero” – “Chants d’Auvergne”
Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album
Title: Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album
Artists: Alexandre Tharaud, Barbara Hendricks, Samson François, Alexis Weissenberg, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Pachelbel, Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Riccardo Muti, Neville Marriner, Simon Rattle, Adrian Boult, Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Léo Delibes, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Capitol Records
List price: $16.98 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 01/04/2013 13:01 PST and are subject to change.
Release date: 2012-09-11
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I – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’: Book Spikes Sales For Classical Music Piece (AUDIO)

January 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment

via 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' And 'Spem In Alium': Book Spikes Sales For Classical Music Piece (AUDIO).

II – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’
III – ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ And ‘Spem In Alium’

Playlist:
  1. Flower Duet (opera Lakmé) by Léo Delibes, with Mady Mesplé & Danielle Millet – 1987
  2. Bach Keyboard Concerto in D Minor BWV 974: II Adagio, playing Les Violons du Roy
  3. Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras n°5 (Dança) with Ana María Martínez
  4. Verdi Preludio (Traviata, Aix 7/9/11) with Louis Langrée, Natalie Dessay, Charles Castronovo
  5. Pachelbel Canon in D with St. Martins-in-the-Fields & Sir Neville Mariner
    Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album
    Title: Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album
    Artists: Alexandre Tharaud, Barbara Hendricks, Samson François, Alexis Weissenberg, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Pachelbel, Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Riccardo Muti, Neville Marriner, Simon Rattle, Adrian Boult, Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Léo Delibes, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
    Binding: Audio CD
    Label: Capitol Records
    List price: $16.98 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 01/04/2013 13:01 PST and are subject to change.
    Release date: 2012-09-11
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Sony Classical Releases The 2013 New Year’s Concert With The Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Most – MarketWatch

January 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment

via Sony Classical Releases The 2013 New Year's Concert With The Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Most – MarketWatch.

“The 2013 New Year’s Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic [and] Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst. On January 4, 2013, the live recording will be available exclusively at Arkiv Music and via Amazon.com’s CreateSpace’s Disc on Demand service and as a download through all major digital service providers. The CD will be released nationwide on January 22.
The New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is firmly established as one of the longest-standing and most prestigious music events worldwide.”

Playlist:
  1. Johann Strauss – Waltzer
  2. Joseph Strauss – Die Soubrette. Polka schnell, op. 109
  3. Johann Strauss – Kuss-Walzer op. 400 (aus Der lustige Krieg)
New Year's Concert 2013
Title: New Year’s Concert 2013
Artists: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Welser-Most
Binding: Audio CD
Label: SONY MASTERWORKS
List price: $13.96 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 01/04/2013 09:18 PST and are subject to change.
Release date: 2013-01-22
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Nicola Benedetti and John Butt receive honours | gramophone.co.uk

January 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment

via Nicola Benedetti and John Butt receive honours | gramophone.co.uk.

Playlist:
  1. Introducing The Silver Violin: Korngold, Nicola Benedetti
  2. Korngold Violin Concerto
  3. Bach Matthew Passion mov.61
The Silver Violin
Title: The Silver Violin
Artists: Nicola Benedetti, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, John Williams, Dmitri Shostakovich, Kirill Karabits, Carlos Gardel, Howard Shores, The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Decca Classics
List price: $16.98 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 01/03/2013 15:25 PST and are subject to change.
Release date: 2013-01-08
Matthew Passion (Final Performing Version, c. 1742)
Title: Matthew Passion (Final Performing Version, c. 1742)
Artists: Dunedin Consort, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt
Binding: Audio CD
Label: Linn Records
List price: $34.99 *Product prices and availability are accurate as of 01/03/2013 14:33 PST and are subject to change.
Release date: 2008-03-11
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov to release first new album in five years – hear an excerpt! | gramophone.co.uk

January 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment

via Violinist Maxim Vengerov to release first new album in five years – hear an excerpt! | gramophone.co.uk.

“Violinist Maxim Vengerov will release a recording (available January 29 in the US) of Bach and Beethoven on Wigmore Hall Live on January 14 – his first new album in five years following a sabbatical from the violin in favour of conducting. “

Playlist:
  1. Bach‘s Partita No. 2
  2. Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata
  3. Wieniawski’s Scherzo-Tarantelle
Bach/Beethoven
Title: Bach/Beethoven
Artists: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maxim Vengerov, Itamar Golan
Binding: MP3 Music
Label: Wigmore Hall
Release date: 2013-01-29
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