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MAURO GIULIANI / JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Giuliani/Rodrigo: Guitar Concertos Pepe Romero (Guitar) Angel Romero (Guitar) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte-Carlo / with Catherine Miche [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "The sound quality is as good as I have come to expect from the Pentatone RQR releases, and is a slight improvement over the original Philips LP in terms of its transparency and spatiality...Highly recommended." --SA-CD.net |
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ELGAR
The Dream of Gerontius (Complete Oratorio) & Symphony No. 1 Peter Auty (tenor), Michelle Breedt (mezzo soprano) & John Hancock (baritone), Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Edo de Waart [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2013 ] "On this evidence, Edo de Waart is clearly an Elgar conductor of no mean instinct. Both performances benefit from his judiciously clear-sighted direction...there's an endearing freshness, sense of new discovery and wholehearted application about this |
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SCHUMANN
Symphonies No.1 in B flat, Op.38 Spring & No.3 in E flat Op.97 Rhenish (rec 1970/71) Philharmonia Orchestra / Eliahu Inbal [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "Eliah Inbal's recording of Schumann's Symphony No. 1 was made in Brent Town Hall in London in September 1970, the Symphony No. 3 in Watford Town Hall in June of the following year. Volker Strauss was the producer and he did a fine job sonically; the... |
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BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Piano Concertos Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Pentatone / CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins forces with the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen for a recording of Bartok's complete piano concertos. A pianist himself, Bartok imbued his three concertos with multiple aspects of his... |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN / GEORGE ENESCU / OLIVER KNUSSEN / HARRISON BIRSTWISTLE
Visions Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] "Few, if any, duos are better equipped to take on this mantle than Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich.Aimard's exceptionally close association with Messiaen and Loriod goes back to his youth when he studied with both of them" Five Stars BBC |
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VASSOS NICOLAOU
Nicolaou: Etudes & Frames Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] On Etudes & Frames, pianist Tamara Stefanovich presents the music of contemporary master Vassos Nicolaou. In his Etudes, Nicolaou uses virtuosity as a means to explore forms made of complex rhythms, great speed and multi-layered sound. Each of the... |
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Pittsburgh So/Janowski
Strauss, R:alpine Symphony/Mac [ Pentatone / SACD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie) Op.64 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Andres Cardenes / Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Same forces that have recorded the extremely well received Brahms cycle including a Gramophone Editors Choice (PTC 5186 307, 308 and 309) |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14 / King Lear Overture Op. 4 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] Listen to those cellos and basses as they really dig into their parts! Superb sound in all formats, regular stereo and multichannel, completes this marvelous package. |
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BRAHMS
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Feb/2008 ] "Pentatone gets both symphonies, with all repeats intact, on a single 80-minute disc, making this quite a bargain. The engineering, as in the previous recording of the First Symphony, is very good in all formats" (ClassicsToday 10 performance 10 sound) |
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BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op.68 / Haydn Variations Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Marek Janowski (conductor) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "PentaTone's reviting "you"-are-there" recording makes it a winner…If you are looking for a new, uncontroversial, and trustworthy reading of Brahms's First Symphony in fantastic sound, I can recommend Janowski" Jeery Dubins, Fanfare |
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BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98 / 8 Hungarian Dances for Orchestra Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Marek Janowski (conductor) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "Marek Janowski concludes his superb Brahms cycle with this unquestionably great performance of the Fourth Symphony. Everything about it is memorable, stylish, and characterful." (ClassicsToday 10 performance 10 sound) |
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DVORAK
Dvorak: Overtures PKF-Prague Philharmonia, Jakub Hrůša [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Feb/2016 ] For a large part, thanks to the effort of Johannes Brahms, who introduced him to his publisher Simrock, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák developed into a composer with an international reputation. Don't we all know his Slavonic Dances, his Symphonies or... |
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GYORGY LIGETI
Metamorphosis Ligeti Quatuor Diotima [ Pentatone / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] "Every detail of the string writing, all informed by Ligeti's phenomenal aural imagination, is crystal clear, the shape of each movement utterly lucid" The Guardian |
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SAINT-SAENS
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt / Eliahu Inbal [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] His early symphonic works were dismissed by French audiences as too scholarly. Nevertheless, both his Symphony in A (1850) and his Symphony in F, with the epithet Urbs Romana (1856) - which did not receive an opus number - are full of close motivic... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 1 & 6 René Jacobs , B'Rock Orchestra [ Pentatone / CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] On his first album released on PENTATONE, multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs finally records Schubert, his first great musical love. Jacobs delivers his fresh perspective on the favourite composer of his youth together with the exceptional... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts [Requiem Mass] Ronald Dowd (tenor) / Wandsworth School Boys Choir / London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Sir Colin Davis [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2008 ] "AT LONG LAST! WE GET TO HEAR THE FIRST REALLY GOOD RECORDING OF THE BERLIOZ REQUIEM THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE HEARD!!!" (SA-CD.net *****) |
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MAHLER
Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / Bernard Haitink [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2009 ] Remastered Quadro Recording (RQR) |
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HAYDN / BEETHOVEN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 88 & 99 / Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] "With its warmth, exuberance and pungency of detail, this is modern-instrument Haydn as its finest." Richard Wigmore, Daily Telegraph |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suites 1 & 2 / Ma mere l'oye / Bolero Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jun/2007 ] "I have written but one masterpiece: the Bolero. Unfortunately, it does not contain any music." As is the fate of a number of composers, Maurice Ravel owes his fame to precisely those works, which he himself did not consider to be the most important. |