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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Favourite Overtures [incls 'Ride of the Valkyries'] Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Richard Wagner was one of the most revolutionary figures in the history of music, a composer who made pivotal contributions to the development of harmony and musical drama that reverberate even today. Indeed, though Wagner occasionally produced... |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / RACHMANINOV / PROKOFIEV / etc
Sviatoslav Richter: The Complete Album Collection Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony / 18 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2015 ] "This is a legendary, visionary statement about the music, to be heard on its own terms." - MusicWeb on the Brahms 2nd |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (complete) / Bagatelles Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Collector's Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 5/Aug/2013 ] "He is one of those pianists who so often seems to me to sound just right. No gimmicks, the music just speaks as it should . . . innate musicality, impeccable taste." Jed Distler, Gramophone (London) |
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VERDI
Otello (complete opera recorded in 2013) Aleksandrs Antonenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlo Guelfi / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ CSO Resound SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2013 ] Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi s birthday, CSO Resound releases its second recording with Maestro Riccardo Muti featuring Verdi s second-to-last opera, 'Otello'. The recording joins remarkable fidelity to the instrumental and... |
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RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / MOZART / BACH / CHOPIN
Andre Tchaikowsky - The Complete RCA Collection André Tchaikowsky (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA Red Seal / Sony Classical / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Feb/2018 ] First ever release of André Tchaikowsky's complete RCA recordings in a 4CD collection. The set includes Tchaikowsky's debut LP recording remastered for the first time on CD. This recording features Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit which Tchaikowsky... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 / Carnaval, Op. 9 (with Richard Strauss-Burleske in D minor, TrV 145) (Rec 1939-46) Claudio Arrau (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Desire Defauw (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 25/Nov/2007 ] This third Naxos volume of Claudio Arrau's recordings from the 1930s and 1940s includes two performances set down in an incredibly short period of time. Richard Strauss's Burleske was recorded at a morning session on 13th April 1946 at Orchestra Hall... |
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago
The Third Decade [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Associated Ensembles [ ECM / 21 CD Box Set - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Associated Ensembles is a 21-CD limited and numbered edition issued as the standard-bearers of Great Black Music prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Both the Art Ensemble of Chicago and ECM Records were founded... |
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Art Ensemble of Chicago
Full Force [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] This is a specially priced re-issue edition of Art Ensemble of Chicago's 'Full Force' album, which was recorded in January, 1980. |
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Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rarum Volume 6 -Selected Recordings [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded group of musicians. |
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Tribute To Lester [ ECM / CD - released 11/Sep/2003 ] |
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Tribute To Lester [ ECM / CD - released 14/Oct/2013 ] When AEC trumpeter Lester Bowie died in November 1999 at the age of 58, the jazz world lost one of its great originals - a flamboyant sound-painter, a great soloist, a musical philosopher, and a charismatic performer. On this memorial album his... |
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Urban Bushman [ ECM / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/1994 ] |
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BARTOK / STRAVINSKY / SCHOENBERG / TCHAIKOVSKY / MUSSORGSKY / SCHUBERT
Seiji Ozawa: The Complete RCA Recordings Arnold Steinhardt (violin), Peter Serkin (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] He is "one of those rarities, a natural conductor", exclaimed one reviewer after Seiji Ozawa's Chicago Symphony debut on July 16, 1963 at the orchestra's Ravinia Festival. "His technical facility is phenomenal, his sense of rhythm both solid and... |
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DEL TREDICI
Final Alice-Grand concerto for voice and orchestra Barbara Hendricks (soprano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Commissioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to Sir Georg Solti, Final Alice is scored for gargantuan forces and is based on the last two chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It has been described by the composer as a "grand... |
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Birds Of Chicago
Real Midnight [ Five Head Entertainment / CD - released 19/Feb/2016 ] Birds of Chicago formed in 2012 when Allison Russell and JT Nero put their existing groups-Po' Girl and JT & The Clouds, respectively-on hiatus. Since, the band has toured more than ten months out of the year, playing shows across North America. Real... |
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CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / BEETHOVEN / etc
Byron Janis: The RCA Recordings 1950 - 1959 [5 CD set] Byron Janis (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2016 ] Byron Janis has been called one of the most exciting and dynamic American pianists to emerge on the post-war scene. All of his RCA recordings, dating from 1947 to 1959, are collected in the new 5-CD set. |
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Chicago
Chicago Presents: The Innovative Guitar Of Terry Kath (LP) [ Warner Music / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Limited 180g black double vinyl reissue. |
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Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority (50th Anniversary Remix) [ Rhino / Warner / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Originally released on April 28, 1969, Chicago Transit Authority topped the album chart, was certified double platinum and earned the band a Grammy® nomination for Best New Artist. The album also has the unique distinction of having stayed on the... |
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Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority (50th Anniversary Remix LP) [ Rhino / Warner / 2 LP - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Originally released on April 28, 1969, Chicago Transit Authority topped the album chart, was certified double platinum and earned the band a Grammy® nomination for Best New Artist. The album also has the unique distinction of having stayed on the... |