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2019 will see the 500th commemoration of the death of one of the greatest geniuses humanity has produced: Leonardo da Vinci, scientist, inventor, painter - and musician. Doulce Mémoire, having devoted themselves to Renaissance music for the past 30 years, have decided to pay homage to Leonardo. Their founder-director, Denis Raisin Dadre, an eminent specialist in the music of the period and a great lover of pictorial art, has devised an original programme: 'Rather than just make music from the time of Leonardo, I've taken my cue from the paintings themselves. I've worked on what could be the hidden music of these pictures, what musical pieces might be suggested by them...' He chose around fifteen paintings, many of which are now in the Louvre: The Baptism of Christ, The Virgin of the Rocks, Portrait of Isabella d'Este, Portrait of an Unknown Woman (La belle ferronnière), Saint Anne, St John the Baptist... and of course La Gioconda. He then matched them with works by Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505), Josquin Desprez (1450-1521), laude for the Annunciation. There are also some frotolle, and songs to texts by Petrarch accompanied by the lira da braccio, an instrument Leonardo played himself. This recording comes with a handsome booklet, including reproductions of the pictures by Leonardo, some in detail, giving an intimate insight into them; there is also a text by Denis Raisin Dadre explaining his selection.

Musique Secrete

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Zum dritten Mal werden in der erfolgreichen ALPHA COLLECTION 14 neue Titel veröffentlicht. Erneut finden sich hier nicht nur mehrfach ausgezeichnete Einspielungen führender Interpreten (darunter Jos van Immerseel, Skip Sempé und Amandine Beyer), die Booklets beinhalten auch aufschlussreiche Interviews, die dem Musikliebhaber Einblick in deren künstlerische Herangehensweise bei den Aufnahmen geben. Das Artwork entstand wieder in Zusammenarbeit mit der berühmten Foto-Agentur Magnum und präsentiert sich diesmal in der Farbe Blau, die in unserem Kulturkreis u.a. mit Harmonie, Sympathie und Zufriedenheit assoziiert wird. Wetten, dass diese herausragenden Titel genau das beim Hörer hervorrufen werden...?

Haydn: Flute Sonatas

Flanked by a spectacular cast featuring the role debuts of Nicky Spence and Simona Šaturová, the conductor Ben Glassberg (Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen Normandie) once again demonstrates his Mozartian temperament. This late masterpiece (written at the same time as Die Zauberflöte) places his musical genius at the service of a plot centered on the complexity of emotions, passionate love and the absurd disaster of betrayal. Scottish tenor Nicky Spence has quickly established himself as one of the leading talents of his generation. Equally at home in the operas of Strauss, Janacek, and Wagner, he was named Young Singer of the Year 2015 by the International Opera Awards and, in 2022, Personality of the Year by BBC Music Magazine. The Slovak soprano Simona Šaturová, an active presence on the international scene, enjoys a high reputation as a Mozartian. The Pope even invited her to sing the Mass in C Minor in the Sistine Chapel. She has several recordings to her credit, and her flexible and luminous voice has won her such prizes as the Thalia Award in 2021.

La clemenza di Tito

This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular narrative, whose music was falsely attributed to Antonio Literes before Sebastián Durón (1660-1716) was acknowledged as it's composer in 2009! Another peculiarity of the work is that it is sung by seven sopranos, who are even given the roles of Apollo, Neptune and the monster Triton. Only the part of an old man, the seer Proteus, is assigned to a tenor. Ana Quintans in the title role, Isabelle Druet, Anthea Pichanick, Caroline Meng and Cyril Auvity are among the cast of this colorful zarzuela, whose modern stage premiere in 2019 enjoyed great success.

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The troupe of the Comédie-Française pays tribute to Serge Gainsbourg in a musical show that has enjoyed great success. Six actors, singers and musicians from the company perform songs and excerpts from interviews: 'We have focused on the amorous, sensual side of Gainsbourg. On the one hand, there's the music, on the other, the man himself, with his repartee, his irreverent, subversive spirit... We have given pride of place to all his emblematic songs, which the younger generation doesn't necessarily know.' Stéphane Varupenne and Sébastien Pouderoux (the duo who adapted the words and music), Benjamin Lavernhe, Noam Morgensztern, Rebecca Marder and Yoann Gasiorowski 'reinvent thirteen classics by the maestro, and it's quite simply stunning', wrote Le Figaro, which ranked the show as one of the must-sees of 2022. And here is the original cast album!

La Comedie-Francaise Chante Gainsbourg

The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built up an impressive discography since her victory at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007: Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and of course the Russian composers with whom she has been familiar since her childhood in Novorossiysk, then her studies with Evgeni Koroliov. She has now made her first Chopin recording, coupling the four Ballades, a cross between the miniature and the sonata, with the four Impromptus he composed at different periods of his life, between 1835 and 1842. Anna Vinnitskaya was born in the Russian city of Novorossijsk. She was a student of Sergei Ossipienko in Rostov and Evgenyi Koroliov at the Hamburg conservatoire. Since 2009 she has been a professor there herself - that is, when she is not touring the stages of the wide musical world.

4 Ballades / 4 Impromptus

The fruitful partnership between the Alpha label, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Palazzetto Bru Zane continues with this set of chamber music by Anton Reicha, performed by the musicians of the Chapel, young talents of an exceptionally high standard, ready and willing to take up the challenge of this music. A key figure of the early nineteenth century, this Czech composer who became a naturalised French citizen did not leave his contemporaries indifferent. Both his music and his theoretical writings set zealous partisans against fierce detractors. This three-part album, assembling pieces from different genres and periods, gives an insight into the richness of the composer's extremely prolific output of chamber music, whose originality can still fascinate us nearly two centuries after his death: it illustrates the diversity of the instrumental genres he tackled (sonatas, fugues, études and variations for piano; piano trio, string quartet, string quintet) and a compositional art characterised at once by perfect mastery - as one would expect from someone trained by Haydn in Vienna between 1802 and 1808 - and by the greatest originality.

Musique de Chambre

The term 'brunette' refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. The genre evolved from the air de cour, extremely popular in France since the beginning of the seventeenth century. The compositional process, however, remained very similar: to write a short, tender song, dealing with themes of love or nature, which could be sung alone or accompanied by a harmonic instrument. The late seventeenth century also saw the appearance of an instrument that soon became a favorite of composers and amateur musicians: the German flute, now called the traverso or Baroque flute. In this new program, tenor Reinoud van Mechelen, flautist Anna Besson and A nocte temporis present an anthology of airs and brunettes ranging from the most touching song to the heartiest drinking song (air à boire).

Oh, Ma Belle Brunette

Tracks: Ouverture Ma Ché? Sempe L'istesso Come Ti Piace Imponi Amico, Il Passo Affretta Deh, Se Piacer Mi Vuoi Amico, Ecco Il Momento Deh Prendi Un Dolce Amplesso Marcia Serbate, Oh Dei Custodi Te Della Patria Il Padre Marcia Adesso, Oh Sesto Del Più Sublime Soglio Non Ci Pentiam Ah, Perdona Al Primo Affetto Che Mi Rechi in Quel Foglio? Di Tito Al Piè... Ah, Se Fosse Intorno Al Trono Felice Me! Ancora Mi Schernisce? Parto, Parto, Ma Tu Ben Mio Vedrai, Tito, Vedrai, Che Alfin Sì Vile Vengo...aspettate...Sesto! Oh Dei, Che Smania È Questa Deh Conservate, Oh Dei Custodi, Innanzi Sesto, De' Tuoi Delitti Ma Che Giorno È Mai Questo? Tu, È Ver, M'assolvi, AugustoFormat: CD (2 Disc)Release Date: 10 February, 2017Label: AlphaDimensions: 12.9 x 2.3 x 14.2 centimeters (0.13 kg)

La Clemenza Di Tito

In 1700, Corelli published his 12 violin sonatas, Opus 5, in Rome. A veritable revolution in violin technique, they won the admiration of eminent composers (Bach, Dandrieu, Couperin) and greatly influenced the French (Francoeur, Leclair, Senaillé, Quentin), who were to try their hand at this virtuoso and brilliant Italian style. At the end of the 1730s, the first six sonatas of opus 5 were "adapted to the transverse flute with the bass" by a Parisian publisher. The level of virtuosity they demanded was quite innovative at the time. This display of virtuosity is also to be found in the compositions of Jean-Baptiste Quentin, known as Le Jeune. We have very little biographical information on Quentin himself, but all his work is greatly inspired by Italian music and is heavily influenced by Corelli. Anna Besson has made the world's first recording of his sonatas, with the help of two other eminent performers of the new Baroque generation, Myriam Rignol on viola da gamba and Jean Rondeau on harpsichord

Flute Sonatas

VIVA! 30 ANS D'ART CHORAL

This recording presents the double concerto for violin, cello and orchestra of the Spanish composer Francisco Coll, born in 1985. Les Plaisirs Illuminés, a title inspired by Dalí's painting of the same name, is rooted in Spanish traditions, including flamenco, yet is resolutely modern: 'It's music is very lively rhythmically, it dances and sings- but at the same time it is very abrupt, always in search of extremes,' says Patricia Kopatchinskaja. For this world premiere conducted by the composer, she is reunited with a longstanding partner who pursues an equally brilliant international career, the cellist Sol Gabetta. The program also features Stravinsky's Concerto in D for string orchestra, composed in 1946 at the request of Paul Sacher for the twentieth anniversary of the Basler Kammerorchester and the Musica concertante for twelve strings by the Hungarian-born Swiss composer Sandor Veress, premiered by the Camerata Bern in 1966. A year earlier, the Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera wrote his fascinating Concerto for Strings. A kaleidoscope of colors and sounds from all over the world

Plaisirs Illumines

The winner of numerous prestigious prizes, including several Gramophone Awards, the vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, founded by Lionel Meunier in 2004, is now regarded as a benchmark in the interpretation of the great works of German Baroque music. It's unfailingly faithful and lively approach to such masters as Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidt has made the group's reputation, but this new recording features a major work by Heinrich Biber, a composer hitherto absent from it's discography: his Requiem in F minor for 14 voices, composed around 1692. The program is completed by two sacred works by Christoph Bernhard (Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren and Tribularer si nescirem misericordias tuas), two pieces by Johann Joseph Fux, and the Sonata a 6 in A minor of Johann Michael Nicolai. This recording marks the beginning of a collaboration between Vox Luminis and another internationally renowned ensemble, the Freiburger Barockorchester, heard here in it's Consort formation.

Requiem [CD]

The NDR Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Urbanski, has chosen to devote this recording to three of Richard Strauss's most famous symphonic poems: 'Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30', 'Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28' and 'Don Juan, Op. 20'.

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel

After the Second Piano Concerto (Alpha 395), Nelson Goerner presents here his first solo Brahms recital with the Sonata op.5, a youthful composition that is 'impetuous, full of ardour and vitality', says Goerner, 'but which requires an interpreter who has reached maturity in his or her development to express all that it contains'. In fact, the Argentinian pianist has had this sonata in his repertory since the start of his career and has played it extensively in concert. Many composers have taken an interest in Paganini and written variations on his famous theme: Liszt before Brahms, and Rachmaninoff and Lutoslawski after him. 'Brahms displays exuberant invention in his Variations, which are at once highly virtuosic and very profound, and above all overflowing with imagination. Brahms gives the name "Études" to these variations which, like the études of Chopin and Liszt, go far beyond the superficially off-putting nature of the title', concludes the pianist. 'It's a marvel of inventiveness!'

Brahms / Goerner - Sonata 3 / 5  [COMPACT DISCS]

There are 24 Odes and Welcome Songs composed by Purcell between 1680 and 1695: 4 celebrate St Cecilia, 6 are to welcome royalty, 3 celebrate King James II's birthday and 6 celebrate that of Queen Mary (from 1684 to 1694). The others were written for specific events - royal wedding, Yorkshire festival, Duke of Gloucester's birthday, hundredth anniversary of Dublin's Trinity College, etc. For these occasions, Purcell composed incredibly imaginative music of amazing quality - often keeping his most beautiful pieces for less remarkable texts, most of the time conventionally obsequious when it came to royalty. According to the registers, the number of singers and musicians were surprisingly small during special events. Purcell's most elaborate Odes (namely Come Ye sons of Art and Hail! Bright Cecilia) seem to have been designed for about twelve instruments and four singers, for solos and choruses. The Banquet Céleste chose a chamber music-like spirit for these extremely expressive and musical works

Odes & Welcome Songs

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with Alpha and here invite one of the label's flagship pianists, Nelson Goerner. The programme is devoted to Richard Strauss, coupling several of the German composer's early works. The Burleske for piano and orchestra, written at the age of twenty, is brimming with lyricism and Romantic ardor; it's tone colors herald Strauss's operas, while the orchestration anticipates his symphonic poems. The piano part is exceptionally virtuosic: Hans von Bülow, for whom Strauss wrote it, called it unplayable! The Serenade for thirteen wind instruments harks back to Mozart's Gran Partita K361 for similar forces. This brief work in a single movement begins in a nocturnal coloring, as befits a serenade, before growing more animated and finally returning to the contemplative atmosphere of the opening. The symphonic poem for large orchestra Tod und Verklärung depicts the last hour of an artist's life: the listener is gripped from the very first bars, which evoke the breathing and heartbeats of a dying man. Strauss allows us to experience his final moments and the transfiguration of his soul in one of the most glorious moments in the symphonic repertoire.

Orchestral Works

Gidon Kremer and Mario Brunello pay tribute to Beethoven by presenting two of his most famous quartets in a version for string orchestra played by Kremerata Baltica. The ensemble's founder Gidon Kremer directs op.131 from the violin, while Mario Brunello conducts op. 135 and adds two contemporary pieces, one by Leo Ferre, 'the revolutionary, anarchic, inspired singer-songwriter and great lover of Beethoven': Muss es sein? Es muss sein! 'We perform this hymn to 'free music' in a version arranged by Valter Sivilotti for cello, strings and percussion with Ferre's original voice... Note sconte means 'hidden notes' in Venetian dialect. Franco Rossi, the legendary cellist of the Quartetto italiano, always invited his students, including me, to look for and give importance to the note sconte in the scores of string quartets. I asked Giovanni Sollima to write a piece in memory of Franco Rossi, of his great passion for Beethoven and his note sconte,' comments Mario Brunello. 'These two works form a bridge between Beethoven and our times, giving the expression "Searching for Ludwig" a concrete reality in sound,' concludes Gidon Kremer.

Searching for Ludwig

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs sechs Streichersymphonien von 1773 gehören zum Orginellsten und spieltechnisch anspruchsvollsten, was die zweite Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts an sinfonischer Streichermusik zu bieten hat. Die Werke scheinen sich mehr an C.P.E. Bachs freien Klavierfantasien zu orientieren als an den Sinfonien seiner Zeitgenossen. Für diese ausgesprochen gesitreichen Werke lassen sich kaum idealere Interpreten denken als Café Zimmermann.

Symphonies & Cello Concerto

Format: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 30 September, 2016Label: AlphaDimensions: 1 x 14.2 x 12.7 centimeters (0.17 kg)

Mozart: Piano Concertos K415 175 503

Giulia Semenzato, already renowned for her interpretations of the Baroque repertory and her Mozartian roles, presents here her first solo album. The program, entitled Angelica diabolica, is devoted to the female protagonists of Ludovico Ariosto, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso, whose emblematic figure is Angelica, a revolutionary heroine, ready to resort to any trick in order to regain her freedom. After the Baroque Rome of Luigi Rossi and his opera Il palazzo incantato (1642), we turn to the galant style of Naples with Nicola Porpora's serenata Angelica (1720), then to Milan in 1702 with the warlike heroine of Bernardo Sabadini's opera Angelica nel Catai, before a more melancholy take on the character by Agostino Steffani (1691). These rare numbers rub shoulders with more familiar arias by Georg Friedrich Handel, sung by the heroines of his operas Orlando, Ariodante, Amadigi di Gaula, not to mention the famous enchantress Alcina. Alongside the Kammerorchester Basel, Giulia Semenzato deploys all her virtuosity, vocal agility and feeling for words to slip into the shoes of these women, by turns angelic and diabolical.

Angelica Diabolica

Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and it's famous Adagio, 'one of the most heart-rending slow movements ever written by Mozart. Performers often tend to take it too slowly, certainly thinking that this will accentuate the tragic side, but Julien Chauvin and I spontaneously agreed on a slightly faster tempo, which respects the basic pulse of this movement in Siciliana rhythm. When you start with the right tempo, it's amazing how the whole discourse comes together perfectly, in a very logical and simple manner', says Staier, who plays a magnificent instrument by Christoph Kern after a 1790 fortepiano by Anton Walter, the great maker of Mozart's time. Also on the program is the Symphony no.40, in which, says Julien Chauvin, 'Mozart explores types of writing that he pushes to their most extreme limits. This is the case in the finale, where we find a succession of dissonant disjunct intervals at the opening of the development which, on closer inspection, present us with the full chromatic scale (except for G natural, the symphony's tonic). And so the twelve-note series was born!'

Piano Concerto 23

Format: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 28 July, 2017Label: AlphaDimensions: 12.6 x 1 x 14 centimeters (0.06 kg)

Appassionata / Les Adieux / Waldstein

LE MONDE SELON GEORGE ANTHEIL

The Kraken Consort was born in 2021 from the imagination of three musicians, friends and colleagues: theorbist Bruno Helstroffer, soprano Chantal Santon Jeffery and tenor Robert Getchell, a Celtic music enthusiast. They share a taste for traditional oral and improvised music, and were keen to team up with instrumentalists with in-depth experience of traditional music: Ronan Pellen (cistre), Brewen Favrau (piper), Sylvain Barou, David Lombardi and Laurene Durantel. For their debut album, Kraken Consort revisit the Irish and Scottish musical tradition.

O’er the Moor - Songs & Dances from Scotland & Ireland

MONTEVERDI / BESTION VESPRO (2PK) COMPACT DISCS

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos, regardless of instrument. The leading soloists of the young generation have been selected to appear under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart conductor, who considers that performing his music is like 'looking in a mirror: you can hear if everything is in place, musicality, intonation, rhythm, phrasing'. These albums will reveal the great virtuosos of tomorrow and immortalize their success in this implacable test.

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 KV 218 Piano Concerto No. 6 KV 238 Flute

VIVALDI: GLORIA & MAGNIFICAT

Format: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 28 October, 2016Label: ALPHA-OUTHEREDimensions: 14.6 x 1.3 x 13.3 centimeters (0.09 kg)

Giovanni Rovetta: Messe pour la Naissance de Louis XIV

Voller unbändiger Frische, Inspiration und Sinnesfreude führt der junge Pole Krzsystof Urbanski als erster Gastdirigent das NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester durch Dvoráks Sinfonie aus der Neuen Welt. Nach seinem fulminanten Einstieg bei ALPHA CLASSICS mit Orchesterwerken von Lutoslawski beeindruckt Urbanski erneut mit unbändiger Musikalität und lässt die Wirren um den Bau der Elbphilharmonie vergessen.

Symphony No. 9 - From The New World

Olivier Messiaens Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus (1944) ist der zweite große Klavierzyklus des Komponisten. Er avancierte schnell zu einem seiner bedeutendsten Klavierwerke, wie überhaupt des gesamten einschlägigen Repertoires des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dem Stück liegt der tiefe Glaube des Franzosen zugrunde, der damit die Vereinigung menschlicher und göttlicher Natur in Gestalt von Jesus darstellen wollte. Selbst mit einem starken Gespür für Spiritualität behaftet darf man die die Sichtweise von Martin Helmchen auf seiner Einspielung für ALPHA CLASSICS als einen der bedeutenden Beiträge zur Diskografie dieses faszinierenden und tiefgründigen Werkes bezeichnen.

Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jesus

After her triumph with the album Offenbach Colorature (ALPHA437), Jodie Devos has chosen to follow in the footsteps of one of her compatriots, the Belgian coloratura soprano Marie Cabel (1827-85), who at the age of twenty-six scored a phenomenal success in Adolphe Adam's opéra-comique Le Bijou perdu, which she premiered in Paris. She then took on a more dramatic role in Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne, whose great Invocation with chorus ('À moi ma cohorte!') again hit the bullseye in a run of 124 performances over just a few months. Cabel enjoyed one hit after another, in Auber's Manon Lescaut and La Part du diable, Meyerbeer's L'Étoile du Nord and Le Pardon de Ploërmel, Victor Massé's Galathée, and Le Songe d'une nuit d'été by Ambroise Thomas, who in 1866 gave her the biggest role of her career: Philine in Mignon, based on Goethe. In partnership with the musicologists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, who have resurrected and edited all these unjustly forgotten rarities, and Pierre Bleuse conducting the Brussels Philharmonic and the Flemish Radio Choir, Jodie Devos pays tribute to this star of the nineteenth century, whose audacity and sense of mischief she undoubtedly shares!

Bijoux Perdus

Fascinated by the viola, which he chose at the age of eleven after learning the violin for six years, Amihai loves the sound of his instrument, which is so close to the human voice. He also likes the ambivalence of it's timbre, midway between the violin and the cello, which in a sense reflects his own musical education in Israel, with it's combination of Mediterranean influences and Russian and Germanic traditions. Initially a quartet musician and founding member of the famous Jerusalem Quartet, Amihai Grosz now pursues a solo career while holding the post of principal viola of the Berliner Philharmoniker. For this first solo album, he joins forces with pianist Sunwook Kim, the first Asian to win the Leeds International Piano Competition. Together they present a programme coupling Schubert, with the famous Arpeggione Sonata- named after the quickly obsolescent instrument for which it was written, a cross between the guitar and the cello; Shostakovich, with the Viola Sonata op. 147, completed in 1975, only a few weeks before the Russian composer's death; and Yizkor (In memoriam) by the Hungarian-Israeli composer Odon Partos (1907-77).

Partos / Grosz / Kim - Schubert Shostakovich Partos  [COMPACT DISCS]

Johan Farjot's music prolongs the inner resonances of David Tepfer's beautiful poems, dealing with the frissons and sorrows of love. On the road to the eighty-eight temples of the Japanese island of Shikoku, the piano of Johan Farjot or David Kadouch, with the complicity of Geneviève Laurenceau on violin, Arnaud Thorette on viola and Mathilde Calderini on flute, opens out a kaleidoscope of emotions served by the magnificent voices of Sandrine Piau, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Delphine Haidan, Ambroisine Bré, Jeanne Gérard, with a guest appearance by Rosemary Standley. Johan Farjot explains: 'This is a polyglot project that corresponds to my aesthetic standpoint, influenced by American music (the Minimalists and Aaron Copland, whose soundscapes are there in the background). But my music still bears the imprint of the French school and I am at ease with that tonal heritage, now that the war between "atonalism" and "tonalism" is behind us.'

Lovescapes [CD]

For their fourth recording on Alpha Classics, Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra - who bring together the best Estonian talent and leading musicians from around the world each year in Pärnu - celebrate composers from Estonia and Poland, two nations closely connected by their history. Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) is a composer whose ten symphonies tower at the top of Estonian orchestral music. The same may be said about his stage works. World War II forced Tubin to emigrate to Sweden in 1944, where he spent the rest of his life. Suite from the ballet Kratt (Goblin) is based on Tubin's ballet by the same name, which was also the first ballet in Estonian musical history... Musique funèbre by Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), was composed in memory of Béla Bartók and it's premiere commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Hungarian composer's death. Bartók's Orchestral Concerto inspired the Concerto for String Orchestra composed in 1948 by Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969). Ignored for many years, she is now one of Poland's most popular female composers.

Kratt

Franz Liszts Faust-Sinfonie gehört zu den Hauptwerken des äußerst produktiven Komponisten. Voller Drang, voller Innovation und voller Pathos setzt er Goethes epochaler Tragödie ein musikalisches Denkmal, das 1857 zur Einweihung der Goethe- und Schillerstatuen in Weimar uraufgeführt wurde. Nach Aufnahmen mit Liszts Schubert-Bearbeitungen widmet sich Martin Haselböck nun dieser sinfonischen Dichtung des vielseitigen Komponisten. In gewohnt inspirierter und energischer Manier leitet der Dirigent das auftrumpfende Orchester der Wiener Akademie auf historischen Instrumenten. Man freut sich auf weitere Liszt-Einspielungen mit dieser famosen Formation.

Haydn2032: il Distratto

The HAYDN2032 edition celebrates the release of the tenth volume in the complete recording of Haydn's 107 symphonies. Entitled 'The Times of Day', this programme is devoted to Symphonies nos. 6, 7 and 8, whose individual names translate as 'Morning', 'Noon' and 'Evening'. Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy, who commissioned the work, is said to have wanted to show his guests that his orchestra was of excellent quality and that 'his' Haydn was highly inventive. Giovanni Antonini's orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico, once again rises to the challenge! This triptych following the sun's course is prolonged into the night by the work of another composer: Mozart's Serenade in D major, nicknamed Serenata notturna, probably written for a masked ball at Salzburg Town Hall in February 1776.

This limited and numbered edition contains two vinyl LPs along with an album of photos by Jerome Sessini (Magnum Photos) and a magnificent unpublished text entitled Joseph Haydn meurt by the Dutch pianist and writer Margriet de Moor.

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