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STARVINSKY
The Rite of Spring / The Firebird Suite [excerpts] San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in September 2004. It includes the complete The Rite of Spring plus three movements from The Firebird Suite... |
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BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in December 2007. |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 1 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphony No 3 "Eroica" San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in May 2004. |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 4 Laura Claycomb (soprano) / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "one to rank alongside the blistering performance of the Sixth" BBC Music Magazine 5 Star |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 5 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in November 2007. |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 9 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / SACD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "I've heard many far more impassioned, expressive versions of this symphony, but also quite a few with less going for them. This isn't my preferred approach to the Ninth, but I can see where Tilson Thomas is coming from." (MusicWeb August 2005) |
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Jake Runestad, Joseph Philbrick Webster, Morten Lauridsen, Shawn Kirchner, Stephen Paulus, Sydney Guillaume, Traditional
The Road Home Santa Fe Desert Chorale / Joshua Habermann (conductor) / Jeff Lankov (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] Taking its title from Stephen Paulus' a cappella choral piece, The Road Home celebrates the diverse and ever-changing influences that make up American culture by featuring repertoire by immigrant and native-born Americans, ranging
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Hans Gál, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Austrian Connection Sarah Beth Briggs (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Much lauded for her interpretations of Hans Gál's concerto and chamber music works, Sarah Beth Briggs presents the composer's beguiling Three Preludes alongside well-loved works by three of his greatest Austrian forebears - Haydn, Mozart and Schubert |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS/ ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Papillons, Kinderszenen; Brahms: Opp. 117, 118 Sarah Beth Briggs (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] For her first solo recital recording for AVIE Records, award-winning pianist Sarah Beth Briggs turns to some of the greatest collections of Romantic miniatures ever written, largely inspired by one woman: Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann... |
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HANS GAL / W. A. MOZART
Gal / Mozart: Piano Concertos Sarah Beth Briggs (piano), Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Avie / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] "Briggs gives a wonderfully balanced reading of music that seems familiar - in its classical poise and charm - and strange…Kenneth Woods and the Royal Northern Sinfonia accompany superbly…with crystal-clear sound, this is [a] most enjoyable concerto |
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CURTIS K. HUGHES/ DAVID RAKOWSKI/ JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND/ LEE HYLA/ RANDALL WOOLF/ SHAW PONG LIU
… nobody move … : Commissions and Premieres for the New Gallery Concert Series Sarah Bob (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Pianist Sarah Bob is a passionate and trailblazing advocate of the music of our time who has introduced the music of a multitude of living composers to the world. … nobody move … is a collection of works by six award-winning composers whom Sarah... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba), Richard Egarr (harpsichord) [ AVIE / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "..this new recording achieves a pleasing balance and integration of texture, with Cunningham carefully differentiating between leading and subsidiary passages in her part, and Richard Egarr choosing well-contrasted timbres." BBC Music |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5; Symphony No. 29 Sebastian Bohren (violin), CHAARTS Chamber Artists, Gábor Takács-Nagy (conductor) [ AVIE / CD - released 18/Jun/2021 ] Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren, whose star is rapidly in the ascendant, makes his AVIE label debut with two concertos from Mozart's "year of the violin" - Nos. 3 and 5 - paired with the composer's youthful Symphony No. 29. Sebastian's... |
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FRITZ KREISLER / TOMASO ANTONIO VITALI / ARCANGELO CORELLI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI
La folia Sebastian Bohren (violin), Stringendo Zürich, Jens Lohmann (conductor) CHAARTS Chamber Artists [ Avie / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Sebastian Bohren's new album La folia is an affectionate homage - to Ida Haendel, one of his heroes; to fiddlers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and to the violin itself. The Swiss violinist says, "It is also like a hall of mirrors... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Simon Trpceski (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko [ Avie Records / CD - released 6/Jun/2011 ] "Trpceski is aided throughout by the unanimity of feeling produced by Vassily Petrenko's direction of the orchestra, conductor and pianist working hand in glove." (BBC Music) |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 Simon Trpceski (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "His playing has that rare combination of power, passion, and precision which, combined with his rich tone and singing line, make this one of the most moving and musical Rachmaninov Third's on disc." (10/9 ClassicsToday.com) |
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POULENC
Les Animaux Modeles / Concert Champetre pour piano et orchestre Stefano Bollani (piano) / Filarmonica '900 del Tearo Regio Di Torino / Jan Latham-Koenig [ Avie / CD - released 16/Feb/2008 ] "From best new talent in 1998 to best musician and best album of 2006 in Italy's Jazz Musica magazine polls, it is safe to say that Stefano Bollani's star is in the ascendancy…" Ian Patterson on Stefan Bollani |
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CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Symphony in D minor / Psyché Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig [ Avie / CD - released 28/Feb/2002 ] Jan Latham-Koenig is one of the most exciting and engaging conductors working in Europe today. As Music Director of l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg he built it into one of Europe's most prestigious and active orchestras. |
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WAGNER
Wesendonck-Lieder (with lieder by Prokofiev, Rorem, Quilter, Strauss, etc) Susan Bullock (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 17/Mar/2007 ] "Now the finest British dramatic soprano of her generation, Susan Bullock has yet to be heard in her homeland as Brunnhilde, though she impressed as Isolde at English National Opera...Few voices of this kind scale down effectively in song recital,... |