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SAINT-SAENS / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FAURE / BOULANGER / FARRENC / etc
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals / Piano Concerto No. 2 (with other works by French composers) Lang Lang (piano), with Gina Alice (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] This is a carnival of French works for all generations by world-renowned pianist Lang Lang who offers music lovers of all ages the pleasure of discovery. Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelson,... |
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VARIOUS
Lang Lang - The Disney Book Lang Lang (piano), with Andrea Bocelli & Gina Alice / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Ziegler [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] "What could so easily have turned into a hotel lobby-style piano amble in fact does a lot better than that. There's a broad range of Disney from across the ages plus a nice variety of pace, and one or two of the arrangements are engagingly clever." |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF / ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 / Scriabin: Etudes (LP) Lang Lang, Yuri Temirkanov, & St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra [ Craft / 2 LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Marking the debut orchestral recording of legendary Lang Lang's illustrious career, this album includes the pianist's performance of Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30 with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra from Proms at the Royal Albert... |
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Lang/Volle/Baianu
Songs By Great Conductors [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] |
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Mammadou Diabate / Bobby Singh / Jeff Lang
Djan Djan [ CD - released 4/Mar/2010 ] 'Djan Djan' sees these virtuosic instrumentalists combine to produce intoxicating music - steeped in tradition, yet brimming with innovation. |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (The Valkyries) (complete opera recorded 2016) Matthias Goerne, Petra Lang, Michelle DeYoung, Stuart Skelton, Heidi Melton, Falk Struckmann / Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Comprising four separate operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is one of the supreme works in the history of music. Part II of the tetralogy, Die Walküre, centres on the young lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, whose relationship... |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Op.125 'Choral' Melanie Diener / Petra Lang / Endrik Wottrich / Dietrich Henschel / Collegium Vocale / Orchestre des Champs Alysees / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] his title was released for the first time in 1999 and was one of the first to use Jonathan del Mar's edition in which textual errors and ambiguities are corrected. |
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Nadja Zwiener; Johannes Lang
1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli & Pisendel [ Ramée / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Johann Sebastian Bach, the newly appointed Cantor of the Thomaskirche, undertook his first official journey from Leipzig to nearby Störmthal in 1723, where he and his Thomanerchor inaugurated the beautiful new organ built by Zacharias Hildebrandt, a... |
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Peter Lang
The Thing At The Nursery Room Window [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
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PFITZNER
Palestrina Peter Schreier (tenor), Siegfried Lorentz (bass) & Rosemarie Lang / Chor der Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Pfitzner's opera on the great 16thâcentury composer Palestrina became popular with those in German musical society who had become hostile to the direction which Schoenberg and Busoni had taken |
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NOTE BY NOTE
Note by Note - The Making of the Steinway Pierre-Laurent Aimard / Harry Connick Jr. / Helene Grimaud / Hank Jones / Lang Lang [ BBC / DVD - released 10/Sep/2008 ] G - A feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037 - from forest floor to concert hall. |
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LEONCAVALLO
La Nuit de mai: Opera Arias and Songs Placido Domingo (tenor) / Lang Lang (piano) / Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Alberto Veronesi [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 29/Jul/2010 ] "Relatively old Domingo sings with the voice of the young poet and really does love it! This is an astonishing performance, even for him" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 |
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ELISABETTA BRUSA
Brusa: Requiem Op.25 / Stabat Mater Op.24 Réka Kristóf (soprano) Dorottya Láng (alto) István Horváth (tenor) Marcell Bakonyi (bass) / Hungarian radio Symphony and Choir, Riccardo Frizza [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Most of Elisabetta Brusa's compositions have been written for orchestral forces, with four volumes currently available on Naxos. The two new choral pieces in this fifth volume offer a revealing look at the composer's response to spirituality and her... |
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SCHILLER
Opus Schiller with Lang Lang (piano) Helene Grimaud (piano) Albrecht Mayer (oboe) Anna Netrebko (soprano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Panorama / CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] Multi-award winning electronica artist Christopher van Deylen, aka "Schiller", has sold over 2 million albums worldwide and releases his first classical-inspired album "Opus" on Deutsche Grammophon's new Panorama label. With his new album "Opus",... |
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Susanne Lang
Various: Petites Fleurs - Work [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 17/Jan/2011 ] |
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RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto 2 & 3 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Piano Sonata No. 2 Sylvia McNair (soprano) Lang Lang (piano) Horacio Gutierrez (piano) / Pittsburgh Symphony, Lorin Maazel / Baltimore Symphony, David Zinman [ Telarc Everybody's Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "...he turns on the fireworks with a vengence..." - Stereo Review |
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Tony Bennett & Kd Lang
A Wonderful World [ Columbia / CD - released 23/Jun/2003 ] A Wonderful World is an album by Tony Bennett and k.d. lang released in 2002. It later won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. In the U.S., the album achieved gold record status, and reached top 40 in the UK. |
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WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Torsten Kerl, Kate Aldrich, Camilla Nylund / Sebastian Lang-Lessing (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "…spectacularly thanks to brilliant pseudo-historic footage in the style of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda films…The production is a knockout." The Sunday Times |
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HOLST / PUCKETT / THURSTON / JOHN WILLIAMS / etc
Air Force Blue United States Air Force Band, United States Air Force Singing Sergeants, Larry H. Lang [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] With a tradition going back to its formation in 1941, The United States Air Force Band has long been the Air Force's premier musical organization, inspiring audiences in America and all over the world. Many of the works on this album demonstrate the... |