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Haydn, Joseph (Komp) / Norrington, Roger (Dirigent) / Radio-Sinfonieorchester St
The 12 London Symphonies

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For Sir Roger Norrington, these recordings represented a very special accomplishment: "Every symphony by Joseph Haydn is worth knowing. After hearing one, you will want to sing the tunes and dance to the rhythms or laugh out loud at one of...
Ives, Charles (Komp) / SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart (Chor) / Creed, Marcus (Dirig
Psalms - Complete Recording

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Today Charles Ives is remembered as the wildly experimental composer, who was by day a successful insurance executive, composing his visionary scores in near total neglect. The truth of the matter was that Ives was active as a practical...
Strawinsky, Igor (Komp) / Schmitt, Florent (Komp) / Debussy, Claude (Komp) / Cam
Les Ballets Russes Vol. 3

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This 3rd release in the Ballets russes series includes two of the most popular scores ever commissioned for the dance in the 20th century - Debussy's "Prelude a l'après-midi d'un faune" and Stravinsky's "Petruschka. " Also included is...
Koechlin, Charles (Komp) / Holliger, Heinz (Dirigent) / Radio-Sinfonieorchester
Koechlin Offrande musicale op. 187, Les Bandar-log op. 176

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Koechlin's mastery in the treatment of the orchestra - the colors, mixtures, sounds and flavors, which he draws from the many instruments, are legendary. This CD presents two of his late works, including his expansive tribute to the Cantor...
Enescu, George (Komp) / Stan, Eduard (Klavier) / Azoitei, Remus (Violine)
Works for violin and piano Vol. 2

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hänssler CLASSIC is proud to present the conclusion of the complete works for violin and piano by George Enescu. The current CD contains the First and Third Violin Sonatas in addition to several shorter works, which receive the modern...
Messiaen, Olivier (Komp) / Cambreling, Sylvain (Dirigent) / SWR Sinfonieorcheste
The Complete Works For Orchestra

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On the occasion of 100th birthday of Olivier Messiaen, the Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg des SWR have prepared a sumptuous 8-CD-Box set. It is the first time that Messiaen's complex orchestral scores have been performed by a...
Koechlin, Charles (Komp) / Korstick, Michael (Klavier)
Piano Works Vol. 1

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As the recent recordings from Hänssler CLASSIC have demonstrated, Charles Koechlin was one of the 20th century's greatest orchestral composers. That Koechlin's unique style was also exhibited in his many works for piano, has until recently...
Tiensuu, Jukka (Komp) / Bach, Johann Sebastian (Komp) / Patkovic, Denis (Musiker
Goldberg Mine Variations

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For more than 250 years the "Goldberg Variations" have not only represented one of the high points of western musical culture but have been universally regarded as one of the most strenuous tests of keyboard musicians' skill. Accordion...
Ives, Charles (Komp) / SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart (Chor) / Creed, Marcus (Dirig
Psalms - Complete Recording

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Today Charles Ives is remembered as the wildly experimental composer, who was by day a successful insurance executive, composing his visionary scores in near total neglect. The truth of the matter was that Ives was active as a practical...
Bruckner, Anton (Komp) / Creed, Marcus (Dirigent) / SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Mass in E Minor & Motets - SACD

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The phenomenal choir of the Southwest German Radio, the Vokalensemble Stuttgart, shows here that their expertise is in no way limited to the ear-stretching demands of the Avant Garde, but they are equally at home with the glorious...
Haydn, Joseph (Komp) / Meta4 (Ensemble)
String Quartets op. 55,1-3

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At last!! An exciting new string quartet from Finland: META4!! For years, the musical world has enjoyed the exciting musical visions of a generation of Finnish conductors and pianists, and now, from the Land of Sibelius comes a new sound...
Akiyoshi, Toshiko (Dirigent) / SWR Big Band (Ensemble)
Let Freedom Swing

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The signature features of Toshiko Akiyoshi's compositional style are unmistakable. First of all, there is the rootedness in bebop, secondly the amalgamation of big band jazz with Japanese elements of music and thirdly the ingenious use of...
Strawinsky, Igor (Komp) / SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg (Orches
Les Ballets Russes Vol. 1

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The Ballets Russes was established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. The Ballets Russes created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality and creativity of Russian ballet compared to what was current in...
Stokowski, Leopold (Dirigent) / Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg (Orch
Leopold Stokowski conducts Blacher, Prokofjew, Egk, Milhaud, Wagner, Mussorgskij

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When the 72 year-old Leopold Stokowski came to the Southwest German Radio in 1954, he was already a living legend. Together with Toscanini and Koussevitzky he helped to define American musical life in the first half of the 20th century....
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (Komp) / Norrington, Roger (Dirigent) / Radio-Sinfonieo
Essential Symphonies Vol. I

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"These Mozart symphonies were recorded in two weeks at the European Music Festival Stuttgart in September 2006. More than 20 Mozart symphonies, ranging from his earliest to his last ten, were chosen to represent the superb range of his...
Schönberg, Arnold (Komp) / Gielen, Michael (Dirigent) / Smith, Robert Dean (Teno
Gurrelieder - SACD

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brilliant sound - SACD recording

This recording of the Gurrelieder is being released in celebration of Michel Gielen's 80th birthday (July 20, 2007) and is - also - an homage to a great musician and human being. Gielen has this summing...
Strauss, Richard (Komp) / Herzogenberg, Heinrich von (Komp) / Brahms, Johannes (
Brahms and his Contemporaries Vol. II

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The young rising star of the cello, Johannes Moser is not by any means content to limit his repertoire to the standard Romantic "war horses." His previous critically acclaimed releases exhibit not only his wonderful talent but an...
Weinberg, Mieczyslaw (Komp) / Tschaikowsky, Boris (Komp) / Schostakowitsch, Dmit
Cello Sonatas

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Awarded with the Echo Classic 2007.

Composed in 1934, almost concurrent the Congress of Soviet Writers declaration of "Socialist Realism" as the only acceptable mode for Soviet artistic production, the Cello Sonata gives proof of...
Weinberg, Moisse (Komp) / Schostakowitsch, Dmitri (Komp) / Nemtsov, Jascha (Klav
Violin Sonatas

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The present program is a continuation of Jascha Nemtsov’s exploration of the music of Shostakovich and his Jewish circle of friends featuring a trio of Violin Sonatas. The tragedy of Mieczys³aw Weinberg sadly continues posthumously, as his...
Kurtàg, György (Komp) / Creed, Marcus (Dirigent) / Vokalansemble Stuttgart (Chor
Complete Choral Works

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The three works for vocal ensembles recorded here are examples of an extreme form of vocal chamber music - an instrumental music for singers. Despite brevity these three choral works also captivate both through the unique sonic landscape...
Bartok, Bela (Komp) / Gielen, Michael (Dirigent) / Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden
Der holzgeschnitzte Prinz I Suite & Concert for Orchestra

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While Bartók was often neglected and misunderstood during his lifetime, his music emerged as some of the most influential works of art of the 20th century – and continues to influence and inspire artists in the new century. The current...
Wagner, Richard (Komp) / Strauss, Johann (Komp) / Nono, Luigi (Komp) / Mahler, G
Strauss, Nono, Wagner

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This recording presents three different, utterly contrasting responses to the quest for expression and the solution to the old problem of how to merge text and music into a unity. The common theme linking these compositions, "The Passion...
Bartok, Bela (Komp) / Gielen, Michael (Dirigent) / Ostertag, Christian (Solist)
Four Pieces for Orchestra op. 12 & Concert for Violin and Orchestra No. 1

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"Michael Gielen's reading of Four Pieces for Orchestra is notably different from those of Pierre Boulez, Leon Botstein, and David Robertson. Whereas they emphasize the beauties of Bartók's orchestration, Gielen probes deeply, uncovering...
Ravel, Maurice (Komp) / Messiaen, Olivier (Komp) / Jolivet, André (Komp) / Debus
Musique chorale francaise de

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Claude Debussy, Marice Ravel and André Jolivet each wrote one composition for unaccompanied chorus. Olivier Messiaen produced two. While his motet of 1937 „O Sacrum Convivium“ brings the mystifying static sound heard in his organ works of...
Messiaen, Olivier (Komp) / Cambreling, Sylvain (Dirigent) / SWR Sinfonieorcheste
Eclairs sur l´Au-dela Les Offrandes oublièes

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This last composition of Olivier Messiaen was commissioned by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for its 150th anniversary. Messiaen wrote and orchestrated the composition between 1987 and 1991 (the New York premiere was...
Mahler, Gustav (Komp)
Symphony No. 6

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TWO CD SET!
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in a minor; Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra; Franz Schubert: Andante in b minor (D936A No. 2)
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden & Freiburg; Michael Gielen, Conductor
Start the New Year...
Nono, Luigi (Komp)
Choral Works

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Luigi Nono: Choral Works: Carti di Didone (1958); Da un diario Italiano (1963-64) - World Premiere Recording; Das atmende Klarsein (1980-1983)
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Rupert Huber, Conductor

Few composers have exercised as...
Bruckner, Anton (Komp)
Kurt Sanderling

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Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 7 in E Major
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Kurt Sanderling, Conductor

One of the most eagerly anticipated releases in the SWR faszination musik series to date! Pre-release sales have topped 8000...
Mahler, Gustav (Komp)
Symphony No. 3 D Minor

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Mahler, Gustav: Symphony No. 3, in d minor
Schubert, Franz: “Rosamunde” D. 797 together with
Webern, Anton: Six Pieces for Orchestra, op. 6
Cornelia Kallisch, alto
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg
Michael Gielen,...
Schumann, Robert (Komp) / Huber, Rupert (Dirigent) / SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Romances and Ballads, op. 67, 69, 75, 91, 145, 146

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200 years after his birth, much of the music of Robert Schumann remains to be discovered. For apart from a few songs, piano works and concertos, the four symphonies, and a handful of chamber works, his music is hardly known today to the...