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BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / KREISLER / LISZT
An die ferne Geliebte Alexander Krichel (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] Alexander Krichel is a young Hamburg-based pianist who has recently gone through the round of international piano competitions. He' won first prize at the Steinway international piano competition. |
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, opera in seven scenes (1869 version) Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Maxim Paster, Mika Kares, Sergei Skorokhodov, Göteborg Opera Chorus [ BIS SACD / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] "This new account, based on live performances, is beautifully sung and played, and recorded in surround sound" MusicWeb |
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Alexandre Desplat
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 3-5 Alexandre Kantorow (piano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2019 ] "It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this." Gramophone June 2019 |
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ERIC SATIE
Erik Satie (LP) Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Eric Le Sage (piano), Juliette (voice), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "My aim in this disc has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie's piano music, spanning his whole lifetime. Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, and often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters." A. Tharaud. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Alexei Lubimov Alexei Lubimov (piano) [ Alpha Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] Composers: Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Berg, Alban (1885-1935) Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809) Ives, Charles (1874-1954) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91) Satie, Erik Alfred Leslie (1866-1925) Schubert, Franz Peter... |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Ouverture & Concerti pour Darmstadt Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs; Zefira Valova [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
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Alexis Weissenburg
Debussy: Plays [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Apr/2013 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano variations and Bagatelles Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 14/Dec/2006 ] A truly historic document: some 40 years ago Alfred Brendel recorded Beethoven's Bagatellen and Piano variations. Here the eminent pianist already showed his idiosyncratic self. Some people consider his playing dull; others find it refreshingly... |
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Alfred Deller
Christmas Carols & Motets [ Musical Concepts / 4 CD - released 17/Nov/2008 ] Musical Concepts is pleased to announce the third release in one of the most ambitious early music reissue projects of all time - Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard Recordings. The series brings together every recording made by Alfred Deller - as... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (LP) Alice Coote, Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music [ Warner Classics / 3 LP - released 18/Sep/2020 ] In 2009 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel, and the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge performed Handel's best known work, Messiah, on Palm Sunday,... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano sonatas 10, 11, 16 / Fantasia K475 / Rondo K511 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "She is sharply responsive, to the variety of mood and texture in the opening variations of K331..her fine shading and shaping of detail in the Adagio variation where, as at other points on this disc, she adds her own discreet ornamentation in... |
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G. F. HANDEL
Where'er You Walk: Arias for Handel's Favourite Tenor Allan Clayton, Classical Opera, Ian Page [ Signum / CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] "The outstanding young tenor fulfils his early promise...he phrases with immaculate taste and style." (Sunday Times) |
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HANDEL
Belshazzar (complete oratorio) Allan Clayton, Rosemary Joshua, Iestyn Davies / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Les Arts Florissants Editions / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2014 ] "The choir of Les Arts Florissants acquit themselves with full honours in Handel's imaginative dramatic narrative choruses" (Gramophone Magazine, December 2013) |
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ALMA DEUTSCHER
Alma Deutscher - My Book of Melodies Alma Deutscher (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Internationally renowned, British prodigy, Alma Deutscher returns with her sensational new album From My Book of Melodies. From My Book of Melodies comprises of melodies Deutscher has composed from the ages of 4 and 14 performed on the piano. Born in... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Alexandre Dumas: Et La Musique Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), Marie-Laure Garnier (soprano), Kaëlig Boché (tenor), Raphaël Jouan (cello), Alphonse Cemin (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] 'There are few people as susceptible to certain musical beauties as I am; the more learned and complicated the instrumentation, the less I sense it, the faster it escapes me; on the contrary, if a simple and melancholic motif appears, I feel flooded... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Essential Beethoven - The New Complete Essential Edition Amadeus Quartet, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Emil Gilels, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Amadeus Quartet, Claudio Arrau, John Eliot Gardiner, Wilhelm Kempff, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 95 CD/DVD Box Set - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Deutsche Grammophon are proud to present the most modern and complete set of Beethoven's work ever issued. Assembled in cooperation with Decca and ten other labels, this New Complete Edition features over 250 legendary performers. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonates et partitas, BWV 1001-1006 Amandine Beyer (violin) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] The violinist Amandine Beyer interprets Bach's famous Sonatas and Partitas, veritable bravura pieces that push back the limits of the instrument, at the intersection between the German solo tradition and the Italian concerto. |
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C.P.E. BACH
Bach: Sonatas For Violin & Fortepiano Amandine Beyer, Edna Stern [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
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VIVALDI
The Four Seasons Op. 8 & other concertos Amandine Beyer (violin) / Gli Incogniti [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "The one-to-a-part Gli Incogniti offer a pliant, transparent texture, and soloist Amandine Beyer's tone has an attractive brogue to it." Gramophone Magazine |