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W.A. MOZART
Violin Concertos Nos 3 & 4 / Adagio K.261 / Rondo K.269 Julia Fischer (violin) / Netherlands Chamber Orchestra / Yakov Kreizberg [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Oct/2005 ] MARBECKS STAFF RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2006 - "These are crisply aerated and flexible performances. With Kreizberg at the helm of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra the orchestral sound world is strong on textual clarity and string choir... |
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KHACHATURIAN / PROKOFIEV / GLAZUNOV
Russian Violin Concertos Julia Fischer, violin, Russian National Orchestra. Conducted by Yakov Kreizberg [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005 - Concerto "I don't believe I have heard a better performance of the Khachaturian than Fischer's, and with the hi-res surround sonics we have here a sure winner. The Prokofiev and Glazunov concertos prove... |
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BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Karina Canellakis, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra [ Pentatone / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Grammy Awards 66th Awards (2024) Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin [complete opera] Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, Susanne Resmark / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Opera |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos (with Tartini-Flute Concerto) Klaus Thunemann (bassoon) Severino Gazzelloni (flute) / I Musici [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 1/May/2007 ] "The recording is clear, the pacing and tempi perfect and the overall appeal higher than you might have thought if you didn't know the repertoire. It's worth getting to know!" (MusicWeb reviewing the original recording April 2007) |
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Kodama
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No 30 [ Pentatone / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] |
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Kurt Gewandhaus/Masur
Beethoven: Symphonies [ Pentatone / 5 CD - released 15/Nov/2004 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Love at Last Lara Downes [ Pentatone / CD - released 21/Apr/2023 ] Love at Last is pianist Lara Downes's first Pentatone album, inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky. Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers... |
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W. A. MOZART
Exsultate Jubilate Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Ed Spanjaard [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] This is prize-winning Lenneke Ruitken's recording debut. She has chosen arias that are all theatrical, but also very diverse. She is a new artist on PentaTone, but already has been invited by John Elliot Gardner for a series of concerts. |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alcina (complete opera) Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Magdalena Kožená, Erin Morley, Alois Mühlbacher, Anna Bonitatibus, Elizabeth DeShong, Valerio Contaldo, Alex [ Pentatone / 3 CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] "..a tour de force performance in the title role from the mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená. She keeps the emotional import of the words she sings absolutely front and centre of her delivery." The Guardian |
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Les Percussions De Strasbourg
East Meets West [ Pentatone / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Sep/2004 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
On My Journey Now: Spirituals & Hymns Lester Lynch (baritone) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2017 ] Life affirming, defiant and uplifting, there is nothing quite like the extraordinary power and simplicity of American Spirituals to move and inspire, abundantly demonstrated here by the acclaimed American operatic baritone Lester Lynch in this new... |
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GORDON GETTY
The White Election - A Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano on Poems by Emily Dickinson Lisa Delan (soprano) / Fritz Steinegger (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] This is a song cycle for soprano and piano by a living American composer (born 1933) on poems by Emily Dickinson. It is assumed that Emily Dickinson may have improvised accompaniments for her poems, but no proof exists. Gordon Getty has tried to... |
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COPLAND / GETTY / HEGGIE / TILSON THOMAS
A Certain Slant Of Light Lisa Delan (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] The exceptional nature and musicality of Emily Dickinson's poetry has attracted many composers. A Certain Slant of Light features musical settings of Dickinson poems by four outstanding American composers: Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and... |
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GORDON GETTY
Joan and the Bells (with Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet: Suite No 2) Lisa Delan (soprano) Vladimir Chernov (baritone) / Eric Ericson Chamber Choir / Russian National Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2005 ] "A powerful work given a refreshingly unpretentious performance." Gramophone (September 2003) |
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LISZT
12 Etudes D'Execution Transcendente Claudio Arrau (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] The Études d'exécution transcendante presented in this interpretation by Claudio Arrau are their third and final version from 1851. |
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 London Symphony Orchestra & Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik [ Pentatone / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] The latest release in the Remastered Classics series is Rafael Kubelik's sprited and acclaimed reading from the 1970s of Beethoven's first and fourth symphonies, performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 / Francesca da Rimini London Symphony Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Stokowski often was ahead of everyone else in sound reproduction--and here again is exciting proof, discovered 30 years later." - Chicago Tribune |
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Mahler / Saint Louis Symphony
Mahler: Symphony No 4 [ Pentatone / CD - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
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BLAZEWICZ / RAAB / HARROLD
WorldBrass Originals: Compositions For Brass and Percussion Marcin Blazewicz, Lorenz Raab, Tom Harrold, Theo Brandmüller, Hannu Kella [ Pentatone / CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] Founded in 1995 by members of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra during a tour in South-East Asia, WorldBrass quickly grew to become one of the most renowned and well-respected brass ensembles on the European Continent. True to its origins at... |