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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
An introduction to Shostakovich (Incls 'Piano Concerto No 2' & 'Symphony No 5') Dmitri Shostakovich Jnr (piano) / I Musici de Montreal / Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi / Maxim Shostakovich [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'Neeme Järvi's understanding of the bleak world inhabited by Shostakovich's symphonies continues to impress. Chandos's sound is superb as always.' American Recird Guide |
BIZET / BOITO / DONIZETTI / VERDI / GOUNOD / etc
Duets - Rolando Villazón & Ildar Abdrazakov Rolando Villazón (tenor) Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) / Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Dec/2017 ] Three exceptional artists join forces for an operatic treat! Star tenor Rolando Villazón, who was just named artistic director of Salzburg Mozart week, Ildar Abdrazakov, one of the most sought-after young basses in the operatic world (Vanity Fair),... |
HONEGGER / IBERT
L'Aiglon (operetta recorded March 2015) Anne-Catherine Gillet, Étienne Dupuis, Marc Barrard, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, etc /Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 11/May/2016 ] "Marc Barrard is the touchingly funny Flambeau, while Etienne Dupuis makes Metternich all the more sinister by singing his music so beautifully. The orchestral sound is gorgeous, as is the recording itself" (Gramophone, April 2016) |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MIKHAIL GLINKA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart & Salieri / Glinka: Songs Vladimir Bogachov (tenor), Nikita Storojev (bass) / I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] 1993 recording. Now rare on CD! |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO / MANUEL de FALLA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / de Falla: El amor vrujo & Noches en los jardines de Espana Carlos Bonell (guitar), Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit, London Philharmonic, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] "Carlos Bonell plays the cadenza of the Adagio of the Concierto de Aranjuez most sensitively, and the weight of the orchestral contribution is judged to a nicety throughout." (Gramophone) |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasía para un gentilhombre (with de Falla - 'Three Cornered Hat' excerpts) Carlos Bonell (guitar), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] "Carlos Bonell plays the cadenza of the Adagio of the Concierto de Aranjuez most sensitively, and the weight of the orchestral contribution is judged to a nicety throughout." (Gramophone) |
JOSEPH HAYDN / W. A. MOZART / LUIGI BOCCHERINI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Works for Cello & Strings I Musici De Montreal, Yuli Turovsky (cello) [ Chandos / CD - released 21/Jul/1989 ] Recorded: Paroisse La Nativite, La Prairie, Quebec, May 1988 |
ALBERTO GINASTERA / HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS / JOSE EVANGELISTA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ginastera/Villa-Lobos/Evangelista - Music for Strings I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] '…splendidly performed… an absolute knockout. Recommended with enthusiasm.' Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Ildar Abdrazakov - Verdi Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) / Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with Rolando Villazón (tenor) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] .Never change a winning team - Ildar Abdrazakov, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain came once again together to record Ildar's first solo album on Deutsche Grammophon. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Requiem (Grande Messe des morts) / Chants pour choeur / Grande Symphonie funebre et triomphale Kenneth Riegel (tenor) / Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus, Lorin Maazel / Choeur et l'orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit [ Double Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1996 ] With comprehensive booklet and translation |
EDOUARD LALO / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole / Cello Concerto / Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 1 Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal,Charles Dutoit / Lynn Harrell (cello) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 12/Oct/1993 ] Original recordings from 1981 and 1986 (Lalo Cello) |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet - Carmen & L'Arlesienne suites Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit [ Decca The Full Works / CD - released 25/Jun/2018 ] This is a re-issue of an outstanding "demonstration" disc featuring colourful French orchestral music....playing that is both elegant and vivid in superb, demonstration-worthy sound. |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Bolero / La Valse / Rapsodie Espagnole / Ma Mere l'Oye / Daphnis et Chloe Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 12/Jul/2000 ] "Anyone beginning a Ravel collection, or coming fresh to most of this repertoire and willing to duplicate, will find this Double Decca unbeatable value" A Rosette recording - Penguin Stereo Guide |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition & Night on a Bare Mountain (with works by Rimsky-Korsakov) Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit [ Decca Eclipse / CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/1995 ] Essential Russian Masterpieces performed by the Montreal Symphony conducted by Charles Dutoit |
Of Montreal
MARBECKS RARE: Skeletal Lamping [ Pop Frenzy / CD - released 8/Dec/2008 ] The ninth studio album by Athens, Georgia-based group Of Montreal may be bizarre, complicated, and dense, but it's also packed with slinky grooves that demand a physical response. |
Of Montreal
UR FUN (LP) [ Polyvinyl / LP - released 17/Jan/2020 ] Kevin and Christina make out in a car at the airport, flipping off the police officer that tells them to keep moving. Kevin and Christina discuss taking ecstasy as couple's therapy. Kevin and Christina break down and then reconnect. The new love we... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare [ Pentatone / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare make their Pentatone debut with Mahler's 5th Symphony. The album is also the first recording under Payare's tenure, and the beginning of a longer recording relationship with... |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Orchestral Works / Piano Concertos / L'Enfant et les Sortileges / Sheherazade Pascal Roge (piano) / Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit [ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2005 ] "This is self-recommending beautifully played and beautifully recorded." (Gramophone on the Piano Concertos) |
Of Montreal
False Priest [ Polyvinyl Records / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] The journey that of Montreal's Kevin Barnes has been on both in music and in life over the past decade-plus has been colorful, to say the least... |
Of Montreal
False Priest (LP) [ Polyvinyl / LP - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |
Of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? [ Polyvinyl / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] Of Montreal is Kevin Barnes from Athens, Georgia - who makes strange, unexpected, entrancing and rewarding pop music. |
Of Montreal
Satanic Panic In The Attic [ Polyvinyl / CD - released 6/Apr/2004 ] |
Of Montreal
The Sunlandic Twins (LP) [ Polyvinyl / 2 LP - released 12/Apr/2005 ] |
Of Montreal
The Sunlandic Twins [ Polyvinyl / CD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] |
MYASKOVSKY / SCHNITTKE / DENISOV
Chamber Works Stepan Arman (violin) / I Musici de Montréal, Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Mar/2001 ] "This is a nicely contrasted programme of 20th-Century Russian music for small orchestra, strongly played and well recorded. Arman is a superb soloist here, creating a dazzling conclusion to a most enjoyable disc." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Violin Concerto No. 2 Augustin Dumay (violin) / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ ONYX / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] "The Concerto for Orchestra gets an upright and straight ahead performance, flecked with the string suppleness and woodwind finesse of mighty Montreal recordings of yore." (The Guardian) |
COPLAND / GOULD / BARBER / SCHUMAN
Composers in New York Charles Neidich (clarinet) / I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Founded by cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal is a chamber orchestra of 15 musicians that performs a vast repertoire extending from the baroque to the contemporary. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Orchestral Songs Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano (conductor) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Aug/2013 ] "Admirers of Gerhaher's lieder singing won't need any encouragement to listen to this disc. They'll marvel once again at the astonishing range of colour and inflection he applies to every phrase" (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Solo Recital) |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Op.102 / Symphony for Strings in A flat Op.118a Dmitri Shostakovich Jr. (piano) / I Musici de Montreal / Maxim Shostakovich [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "In the concerto the immediacy of Cd is also exciting, and the touch of hardness that the piano takes on once or twice did not strike me as inappropriate, nor even the slight trace of harshness in the deliberately vociferous tutti in the first... |
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Symphony No. 2 / Suite from the Film 'the Red Violin' Eleonora Turovsky (violin) / I Musici de Montreal / Yuli Turovsky, conductor [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] "This new Chandos version of the Second Symphony now takes pride of place on the Corigliano part of the shelf" (MusicWeb) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Brahms: Piano Quintet Glenn Gould (piano) / Montreal String Quartet / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Glenn Gould played Beethoven's piano concertos from the beginning of his short concert career, this recording being made when he was 24, the same age as the composer when he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Holiday Classics: 5 CDs with a distinct holiday flavour National Philharmonic, Richard Bonynge / Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit / Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel / Detroit Symphony, Antal Dorati, etc [ Decca / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2009 ] A specially priced five CD set featuring a talent of top Decca recording artists like Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Julius Katchen, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dame Joan Sutherland, Willi Boskovsky, Pascal Roge and the Academy of St Martins in the Fields. |
TURINA / VILLA-LOBOS / PIAZZOLLA / etc
Latin Impressions I Musici de Montreal / Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 3/Apr/2000 ] A fascinating collection,inspired by Spain and its dance idioms! |
SKALKOTTAS / BRAHMS / HAYDN / BARTOK / etc
Dances from the Heart of Europe I Musici De Montreal, Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos / CD - released 21/Jul/2003 ] 'Turovsky and his Montréal players have proved in several previous releases that they are an excellent and responsive band… fifty-two tracks in all, and an intriguing and enjoyable disc.' BBC Music |
BORODIN / DVORAK
Works for Strings. I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Hungarian Fantasy / etc Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) / Orchestre symphonique de Montreal / Charles Dutoit [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "Indeed, I have only praise. Each of the four works here is well characterized, and the typically Lisztian varying tempos are spot on, unrushed but never deliberate and always leading naturally from one to the next. Climactic passages are powerful,... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 / Preludes / Piano Music Jorge Bolet (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Fischer / Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] "a greatly superior recording is one of the attractions of this CD, and at countless points it highlights Bolet's absolute command of this work's myriad pianistic complexities … the finale's central scherzando is executed with great pianistic acuity" |
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CHOPIN
Piano Concertos / Ballades / Barcarolle / Fantaisie [recorded 1982 & 1986] Jorge Bolet (piano) / Montreal Symphony Orchestra / Charles Dutoit [ Newton Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Bolet's Chopin playing has some stunning moments of eloquence" BBC Music Magazine, October 2010 *** |
JOHN ADAMS
The John Adams Album Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ Decca / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] Released to coincide with Nagano's final, triumphant season with the Montréal Symphony, this John Adams Album contains his key orchestral works conducted by one of his greatest, lifelong champions. |
Kleztory, I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, conductor
Klezmer [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] 'Kleztory is made up of five musicians who have a typical Klezmer combination of clarinet, guitar, violin, double-bass and accordion. They play these premiere recordings which such verve that my feet haven't stopped tapping.' Classic FM Magazine |
