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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (Complete Opera) Tomasz Konieczny, Stephen Gould, Christian Elsner, Violeta Urmana / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2013 ] This is the ninth release in PentaTone's successful Wagner Edition and the third release of the cycle: "Der Ring des Nibelungen. |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Catalogue d'Oiseaux Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "It's hard to imagine the textures having greater impact or precision, or the continuity and discontinuity being projected with greater concentration…Not a single sound emerges with indifference." Gramophone |
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GLINKA / DARGOMIZHSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / BORODIN
The Bolshoi Experience: Highlights from Russian Operas - Volume 1 Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, conducted by Alexander Vedernikov [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 5/Jul/2006 ] During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Overtures (Incl. Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Il Signor Bruschino; La scala di seta) Academy of St Martin in the Fields. conducted by :Sir Neville Marriner [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] All Penatone SACDs are 5.1 stereo sound. Playable on all Compact Disc players |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Youth Symphonies (Vol 2) Nos 20, 45-47, 51 Academy of St Martin in the fields / Neville Marriner [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] "There's something to enjoy here at nearly every turn." (10/10 for performance and sound quality ClassicsToday.com Aug 2005) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Youth Symphonies (Vol 4) Nos 6, 38, 50-52, 55 [with free Pentatone catalogue] Academy of St Martin in the fields, Neville Marriner [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "One would never realize the age of the recordings; sonics are superb and Mozart especially doesn't require a subwoofer channel. If your speakers are correctly set up you shouldn't miss the center channel of the four-channel reproduction. The... |
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GORDON GETTY
Getty: Orchestral Works Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "...the Ancestor and Homework Suites offer a winning series of orchestral miniatures, beautifully, sometimes robustly scored...Marriner and the Academy play all this music with great character and finesse, and the pianissimo strings are often... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Academy of St Martins in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Solid performances of these symphonies by Marriner and ASMF. The stereo mix has superb sound. One can only hope that PentaTone keeps pumping these old classics out in such fine sound quality." ---SA-CD info.com |
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GIUSEPPE TARTINI
Tartini: 3 Violin Concertos Salvatore Accardo (violin) / I Musici [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Jul/2010 ] These recordings with the unforgettable Salvatore Accardo as soloist, confirm with their aural qualities and lyricism, a motto of Tartini's: "Per bon sonare, bisogna bon cantare" (To sound good, one must also be able to sing). |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Melancolía - Música Temprana Olalla Alemán (soprano), Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, Luciana Cueto (mezzo-soprano) Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel / Música Temprana [ Pentatone / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Música Temprana, one of today's most exciting Hispanic early music ensembles, presents its first PENTATONE album Melancolía, on which they present Spanish courtly songs on mourning and unrequited love around 1500 together with the apocalyptic... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Glagolitic Mass & Taras Bulba Aga Mikolaj (soprano), Iris Vermillion (contralto) Stuart Neill (tenor) Arutjun Kotchinian (bass) / RundfunkSinfonieorchester, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] This album offers two of the best known and most loved works by Leoš Janáček. The Glagolitic Mass was thus described by a musicologist: "It has absolutely everything, it's engrossing and enthralling and captivating and startling and soothing and... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Pentatone / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin complete their Handel trilogy with this recording of the Op. 3 concerti grossi. Even if this selection of concertos was most likely compiled by Handel's publisher rather than by the composer himself, the overall... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti grossi: Op. 6 (7-12) Akademie fϋr Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Pentatone / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin continue their Handel trilogy with this recording of the last six concerti grossi of the composer's Op. 6. Originally designed as attractive interludes to English oratorio performances, Handel's concerti grossi soon... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti Grossi: Op. 6 (1-6) The Akademie für Alte Musik, Bernhard Forck [ Pentatone / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin kickstarts their Handel trilogy with this recording of the first six concerti grossi op. 6. Originally designed as attractive interludes to English oratorio performances, Handel's concerti grossi soon gained fame as... |
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SCHUMANN / SCHONBERG / RAVEL / KORNGOLD / SCHUBERT
Aus Wien Alasdair Beatson (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] After his acclaimed Mendelssohn album with cellist Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson presents his first PENTATONE solo album Aus Wien, on which he brings together piano music from Schubert, Schumann, Schoenberg, Korngold and Ravel. Ranging from... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [complete opera] Albert Dohmen, Robert Dean Smith, Edith Haller / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "a swift, light, comic reading of the score, more Lortzing than Tristan...Albert Dohmen sounded at home across the whole spectrum of Sachs's poetry, wistfulness and wit" (Gramophone Award Finalist 2012 - Opera) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler Song Cycles [Songs of a Wayfarer; Five Ruckert Lieder; Kindertotenlieder] Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "The beauty of her voice is particularly obvious in the five Rückert songs, as is her nuanced legato singing and the concentrated inwardness. The opening of Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (tr. 9), so soft, almost whispered" MusicWeb |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Alisa Weilerstein (cello) & Inon Barnatan (piano) [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan present a complete recording of Beethoven's cello sonatas. Composed over a span of nearly twenty years, these works not only contain some of the most appealing and lyrical music Beethoven wrote, but... |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / JOSEF HAYDN
Schoenberg: Transfigured Night / Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Alisa Weilerstein (cello) / Trondheim Soloists [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] Transfigured Night brings together two outstanding composers associated with Vienna: Joseph Haydn and Arnold Schoenberg. The former is often seen as the oldest representative of the "First Viennese School", whereas the latter founded the "Second... |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Miriways (complete opera recorded in 2017) André Morsch, Robin Johannsen, Sophie Karthäuser / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernard Labadie [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 8/May/2020 ] PENTATONE presents Telemann's rarely-performed opera Miriways (1728) with a stellar cast and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin conducted by Bernard Labadie. Star vocalists such as André Morsch (Miriways), Robin Johannsen (Sophi), Sophie Karthäuser... |