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BACH / LASSER / BEETHOVEN
The Berlin Concert: Recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie on November 22, 2007 Simone Dinnerstein (piano) [ Telarc / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] American pianist Simone Dinnerstein will release her second album on Telarc on August 26 in North America and Germany, and September 29 in the UK and France. The CD is a live recording of Ms. Dinnerstein's recital debut at the Kammermusiksaal of the... |
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J.S. BACH / PHILIP GLASS
Circles: Piano Concertos by Bach & Glass Simone Dinnerstein & A Far Cry [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and the ensemble A Far Cry demonstrate the enduring power of the circle by performing in a circular formation, creating a circle of mutual trust, and playing music that, in its repetitions, brings the listener into its own... |
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J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations Simone Dinnerstein (piano) [ Telarc / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "This recording contains some of the most beautiful, sensitive, intelligent and manifestly sincere playing you're ever likely to hear." Piano magazine review (Sept/Oct) |
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J. S. BACH
Two-part Inventions Nos. 1-15, BWV772-786 Simone Dinnerstein (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 6/May/2014 ] "this is a romantic approach, with a limpid, legato touch in many of the Inventions. There is a dynamic rise and fall which emphasises the shape of phrases, and there is a vocal clarity to the contrapuntal strands which keeps us soundly on message fo |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart in Havana: Piano Concertos Nos 21 & 23 Simone Dinnerstein (piano) / Havana Lyceum Orchestra, José Antonio Méndez Padrón [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Aug/2017 ] "the orchestra's potential for greatness is obvious, and so is the seriousness and fervent dedication that their music director Jose Antonio Méndez Padrón brings to everything he conducts." Gramophone |
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J.S.BACH
Bach: A Strange Beauty Simone Dinnerstein (piano) / Staatskapelle Berlin [ SONY / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has been called "a throwback to such high priestesses of music as Wanda Landowska and Myra Hess," by Slate magazine, and praised by TIME for her "arresting freshness and subtlety." The New York-based pianist gained... |
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HELENE DE MONTGEROULT
De Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas Simone El Oufir Pierini (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Madame Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) lived in a time when significant historical events were shaping France and Europe. Montgeroult's musical oeuvre is distinguished by its interpretive versatility. The collection of nine sonatas presented... |
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Simone Felice
The Projector (LP) [ SRD / LP - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Simone Felice is a founding member of internationally acclaimed Catskill Mountain based artists The Felice Brothers, whose seminal albums remain some of the most influential works of this century's folk-rock revival. |
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Simone Felice
The Projector [ SRD / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Simone Felice is a founding member of internationally acclaimed Catskill Mountain based artists The Felice Brothers, whose seminal albums remain some of the most influential works of this century's folk-rock revival. |
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Simone Felice
Simone Felice - LP [ Reveal / LP - released 2/Apr/2012 ] Over the course of a year, this Catskill Mountains-based artist found the most deeply resonant places in which to play guitar and sing, settings that were as haunted in their rafters as he felt in his bones: a barn near his house, a church in London,... |
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Simone Felice
Strangers [ Dualtone / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Second album of alt country folk from former Felice Brothers drummer, with additional vocals by Wesley Schultz & Jeremiah Fraites of The Lumineers |
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PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas (complete opera) Simone Kermes, Dimitris Tiliakos, Deborah York / New Siberlian Singers / Teodor Curentzis [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Currentzis reminds us that this is, first and foremost, an opera about desire, and offers us something at once sexier and more probingly tragic. MusicAeterna's playing doesn't have the OAE's refinement, but is infinitely warmer in sound and far more... |
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HANDEL
La Maga Abbandonata Simone Kermes / Maite Beaumont / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Hybrid SACD - released 2/May/2007 ] The two singers on this disc are outstanding. Simone Kermes, familiar to Handel lovers from Peter Neumann's impressive German recordings of Saul and Belshazzar, and who has recorded the title-role in Curtis's Deidamia, is a clean and focussed soprano... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (complete opera recorded in 2014) Simone Kermes, Malena Ernman, Anna Kasyan, Kenneth Tarver, Christopher Maltman / MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2016 ] In 2011, when invited to the post of Artistic Director at Perm's opera house, Currentzis negotiated unheard-of conditions: unlimited rehearsal time; the freedom to schedule performances depending on the quality reached in rehearsals; the necessary... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Mio caro Händel Simone Kermes (soprano) / Amici Veneziani, Boris Begelman [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] "there is no more individual or idiosyncratic baroque diva around." (The Sunday Times) |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / MAHLER
Piano Quartet & Lieder Simone Kermes (soprano) / Faure Quartet [ Sony Classics / CD - released 6/May/2014 ] Collaborating for the first time the Fauré Quartett and soprano Simone Kermes perform pieces by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss: Featuring Lieder from Strauss's early productive period and Mahler Lieder arranged by Dietrich Zöllner. Simone Kermes... |
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GIUSEPPE de MAJO / LEO / HANDEL / PORPORA / etc
Dramma Simone Kermes (soprano) / La Magnifica Comunita, Isabella Longo [ Sony Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] Emblazoned on the title page of many an 18th-century Italian opera libretto, "dramma per musica" soon became the name for the operas composed to those words. |
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HANDEL
La Diva: Arias for Cuzzoni Simone Kermes (soprano) / Lautten Compagney / Wolfgang Katschner (conductor) [ Berlin Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This recording presents opera arias written for the brightest star soprano in Handel's London opera company, the Italian soprano Francesca Cuzzoni. These arias demonstrate the emotional and vocal range demanded by Handel's female characters,... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Colori d'Amore Simone Kermes (soprano) / Le Musiche Nove / Claudio Osele [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "there is no more individual or idiosyncratic baroque diva around." (The Sunday Times) |
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PERGOLESI / PORPORA / HASSE / LEO / VINCI
Lava: Opera arias from 18th Century Naples Simone Kermes (soprano) / Le Musiche Nove, Claudio Osele [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Simone Kermes's… is…a fearless risk-taker of uncommon artistic range and technical prowess... all 12 of the disc's items are delightful." Five Stars BBC Music |