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CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Esquisses Op. 63 Laurent Martin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] "...The range of moods and styles covered - from 'antique' to forward-looking, from serene to darkly disturbed - is startlingly wide. For this reason, and at Naxos's asking price, the disc is worth consideration..." ***Performance**Sound. - Max... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1 & 2 Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín [ Ondine / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] "I like the Gävle strings' trenchant leap into the development section, and they maintain a fine control of those oscillating figures …Jaime Martín is not seeking hidden depths in the Adagio, which flows in unaffected fashion" Gramophone |
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ARNOLD BAX / STANLEY BATE
Bax / Bate: Cello Concertos Lionel Handy (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "if the solo part's tenchical demands in the very opening stages hint at stretching even Lionel Handy's huge expertise, his delivery of the rest of the work is state-of-the-art" (BBC Music) |
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ELGAR / BAX
Violin Sonatas Tasmin Little (violin) & Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Dal Segno / CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Swan Lake, Op. 20 (complete ballet recorded in 1988) BLU-RAY London Festival Ballet / Evelyn Hart, Peter Schaufuss, Martin James / Graham Bond (conductor) [ Arthaus Monarda Arts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Choreography by Natalia Makarova, Sir Frederick Ashton, Marius Petipa Costumes, sets and back projections designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen Directed for television by Thomas Grimm Natalia Makarova, one of the most important interpreters... |
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MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings op 20 (with Boccherini - Cello Quintet Op 37 No 7) Academy of St. Martin in th Fields [ Decca Australian SBS Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] "When you hear the superbly ebullient, well phrased and sensitive opening to the Octet in this clear, well balanced and very lifelike recording it is hard to believe that it was recorded nearly half a century ago." (MusicWeb) |
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VICTOR HERBERT
Herbert: Cello Concertos / Operetta Spectacular Lynn Harrell (cello) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields Sir Neville Marriner / Kingsway Symphony Orchestra, Camarata [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2019 ] Born in Dublin, Victor Herbert began his career as a cellist in Germany, playing for Eduard Strauss, for Brahms and Liszt, and emigrated to the US as principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera. It was in that capacity that he composed the second of... |
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FRANCESCO CILEA
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (Complete Opera recorded in 2021) Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Maria José Siri, Ksenia Dudnikova, Martin Muehle, Paolo Antognetti / Daniel Harding (cond) [ Naxos / Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at the Comédie-Française who was much admired by Voltaire. Hailed as a masterpiece, the opera was triumphantly staged in cities around the world. |
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FRANCESCO CILEA
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (Complete Opera recorded in 2021) Blu-ray Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Maria José Siri, Ksenia Dudnikova, Martin Muehle, Paolo Antognetti / Daniel Harding (cond) [ Naxos / Dynamic Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at the Comédie-Française who was much admired by Voltaire. Hailed as a masterpiece, the opera was triumphantly staged in cities around the world. |
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SCHULHOFF / KRENEK / d'INDY
The 20th Century Concerto Grosso Maria Prinz (piano); Karl-Heinz Schütz (flute) Christoph Koncz (violin); Robert Nagy (cello) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marrine [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] .On this disc, we feature the works of three composers - Vincent d'Indy, Ernst Krenek, and Erwin Schulhoff - who all in the mid- to late-1920s adopted neoclassicism and chose to write works in the neo-baroque concerto grosso style, using a... |
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SCHUBERT
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & Trio No. 2 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Antje Weithaas, Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Following a first recording on Alpha devoted to Brahms which garnered much praise - 'real duo playing' said Gramophone, while Classica discerned 'shared music making . . . a world full of nuances and subtlety, boundless sonic imagination... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHNITTKE / PROKOFIEV / RACHMANINOV / STRAVINSKY / WEINBERG
From Eastern Europe - Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] The Hecker/Helmchen duo is renowned for the high standard of their performances, which is reflected in their recordings. The German cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker caused a sensation by winning both the First Prize and two Special Prizes at the eighth... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] "[Hecker and Helmchen] bring to the sonatas a seamless ensemble, producing something truly greater than the sum of its parts…their ability to control energies together creates the natural gusts of momentum and repose Brahms demands" BBC Music |
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Mark Turner, Jason Palmer, Joe Martin, Jonathan Pinson
Return From The Stars (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
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LYUDKEVYCH / KOS-ANATOSKY / KARABITS / BARVINSKY / LYATOSHYNSKY / etc
Postcards from Ukraine Vol.1: Violin Miniatures Markiyan Melnychenko (violin) Benjamin Martin (piano) Peter de Jager (piano) [ Toccata / CD - released 16/May/2025 ] Ukrainian classical music is not even two centuries old, and for most of that time has had to contend with active attempts at suppression by a hostile neighbour. But Ukrainian composers have stood their ground, not least by taking inspiration from... |
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TELEMANN
Miriways, TWV 21:24 (complete opera) Markus Volpert, Ida Aldrian, Ulrike Hofbauer, Julie Martin du Theil, Gabriele Hierdeis / L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg [ CPO / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2014 ] "The score is a delight, revealing the composer at his most colourfully inventive...The performance pulsates with energy from start to finish...The cast, by and large, is strong...Prince Sophi is a soprano role sung with agility and tonal clarity by |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: MASTERPIECE Beethoven Martha Modl (soprano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Academy St Martin-in-the-Fields [ EMI Studio / CD - released 10/Feb/1990 ] This CD contains all the most familiar and best-loved works by the Ludwig van Beethoven, performed by a galaxy of star musicans. |
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Martin
Fantasia [ Linn / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Aug/2006 ] |
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PHILIP GLASS
Kepler (complete opera recorded in 2009) Martin Achrainer / Cassandra McConnell / Karen Robertson / Chorus of the Landestheater Linz / Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] This 2-CD set is a recording of the complete 2009 opera by Phillip Glass on the life of scientist Johannes Kepler in a deluxe digipack featuring colour photos of the production in Linz, Austria. |
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Martín Alvarado & Horacio Avilano
Guitar Tango: Más Allá [ Riverboat / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] Martín Alvarado's honey-sweet tenor tones take the lead and Horacio Avilano's strutting guitar provides the accompaniment on this unique album of unadorned Guitar Tango: Más Allá. Martín Alvarado is widely considered to be Argentina's finest and... |