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MOZART / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, KV 219 / Rondo in A for violin and strings, D. 438 / Violin Concerto in D minor Vesko Eschkenazy (violin) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Conducted by Marco Boni [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 20/Apr/2005 ] "This is the most enjoyable recording of the young Mendelssohn ever put on record". ---Luister (September 2002) |
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GERSHWIN, GEORGE
The Fascinating George Gershwin (Original arrangements by Bob Zimmerman) Vesko Eschkenazy, violin, Ludmil Angelov, piano, and ensemble [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 6/Jul/2005 ] "These are bold performances vividly played very well recorded , with the performers in front, ambient sound from the rear." ---Robert Benson, Classicalcdreview |
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JOHN CORIGLIANO / WILLIAM HOFFMAN
The Ghosts of Versailles Victoria Livengood, So Young Park, Vanessa Becerra, Peabody Southwell, Frederick Ballentine, Patti LuPone / LA Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Conlon [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate its 100th anniversary, John Corigliano's The Ghost of Versailles received its premiere at the Met in 1991, twelve years after it had been commissioned and eight years past the centennial season for... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / GUSTAV MAHLER
Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra / Gustav Mahler - Totenfeier Vladimir Jurowski, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin [ Pentatone / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin excel in these new recordings of Richard Strauss's electrifying Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mahler's Totenfeier, to coincide with the Russian maestro taking up office as Chief Conductor and... |
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V.Tsibulevsky/Netherlands Phil
Symphony No 7, Zlaty Kolovrat [ Pentatone / SACD ] |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quintets WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Mar/2017 ] Radiant, expansive, lyrical and utterly compelling, Brahms's richly rewarding string quintets are exuberantly unleashed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players in this album. These technically demanding works contain everything one... |
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RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Werner Haas (piano) / RSO Frankfurt / Eliahu Inbal [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "...before the first movement was over I was sold on both a thrilling performance and outstanding 4.0 sound - right up to Pentatone's highest standards in all their multichannel SACDs, whether from new or older source material." --audiophile audition |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Sir Colin Davis [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "With Berlioz champion Colin Davis conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in its own hall - one of the greatest venues in the world - the stage was set for what would turn out to be a landmark recording….. Let's hope PentaTone gives us more... |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 7 in E major Wiener Symphoniker / Conducted by Yakov Kreizberg [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 21/Jun/2005 ] During the last decade Russian-born conductor Yakov Kreizberg has established a superb international reputation in the opera house and on the concert podium. |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Persephone (compete melodrama) Andrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller / Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Pentatone SACD / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] "Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise. In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or word seems wasted…The choral singing is warm and focused." |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies / Oboe Concerto Xenia Loffler (oboe), Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Pentatone / CD - released 17/Jan/2024 ] "The Akademie's great clarity in this recording gives a frequently exhilarating sense of the finesse in Mozart's musical architecture." BBC Orchestral Choice December 2023 |
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SZPILMAN / SHOSTAKOVICH / WEINBERG / PROKOFIEV
Resilience Yulianna Avdeeva (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva makes her Pentatone debut with Resilience, presenting music by Szpilman, Shostakovich, Weinberg and Prokofiev, composers who - each in their own way - maintained themselves in times of great instability. The focal point of... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K. 491 / Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major K. 415 (with bonus DVD) Martin Helmchen (piano) / Netherlands Chamber Orchestra / Gordan Nikolic [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] The pellucid sound quality of the spacious PentaTone recording adds enormously to one's enjoyment of these performances and this outstanding disc can be warmly recommended without reservation." Graham Williams , SA-CD.net |
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Yvonne Naef/Nrso/Hans Vonk
Brahms: Sym No 2/Alto Rhapsody [ Pentatone / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] |