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Monica Passos - Lemniscate

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:53:22 GMT

Labeled by Jazz Magazine as "simply one of the most beautiful voice of today", this felinian Diva, baroque and exuberant pythia, woman of heart with overflowing generosity, poetess, charismatic as hell, incandescent, is without doubt an extraordinary character. Eminently instinctive, incurable improviser, consequently always accurate and on the same frequency with the audienc...

Emil Gilels - Historical Russian Archives - Emil Gilels

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:06:13 GMT

Emil Gilels belongs to a select group of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Born in Odessa in 1916, he began his studies at the age of 5, and gave his first public recital at the age of 13. Odessa and Moscow Conservatories followed, and unusually in 1936 he was allowed to perform outside the Soviet Union. His American debut was delayed by World War II, finally taking place in 1955 to great acclaim. His <span data-scayt_word="Uk" data...

Maria Joao Pires - Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:02:02 GMT

The Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires has long been associated with the music of Mozart. Her delicacy of touch, vibrancy of phrasing and sense of fantasy mark her out as one of the elect who can touch his keyboard music without coarsening or simplifying it. She has made two complete cycles of the sonatas; reissued here is the first one, from the days in the <span data-scayt_word="1...

Klaartje van Veldhoven - Handel: Complete Cantatas Vol.3

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:31:18 GMT

This dramatic cantata is one of the earliest works composed for Handel’s Italian patron Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli. It is thought that the first performance took place in 1707, around the same time as his La Resurrezione. Handel met Corelli, and had heard the music of Alessandro <span data-scayt_word="Scarlatti" da...

Noriko Ogawa - Tcherepnin: Complete Piano Concertos

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:53 GMT

Alexander Tcherepnin was the central figure in a significant Russian musical dynasty. His father Nikolai, a distinguished composer and conductor, wrote the first ballet for Diaghiliv's Ballet Russes, and Alexanders son Ivan, and two <span data-scayt_word="gransdo...

Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:18:18 GMT

A superb value set featuring Rozhdestvensky conducting Symphonies Nos. 4--6, Simonov conducting Symphony No.2, and Fedoseyev conducting Nos.1 & 3. Gibson conducts the famous 1812 Overture, and <span data-scayt_wo...

Ulf Hoelscher - Saint-Saens: Complete Violin Concertos

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:07:51 GMT

Camille Saint-Saëns was a child prodigy, who amazed both Berlioz and Liszt with his extraordinary talent for performance (as a virtuoso pianist) and composition. His Symphony No.1 in A was performed when he was just 15 years old, and was followed by a succession of beautifully crafted works in all genres -- concertos (5 for ...

Lisetta Rossi - Giuliani: Sonatas for Harp

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:01:30 GMT

The composer and musician Giovanni Francesco Giuliani (c.1760--1818) lived and worked in Florence during an immense flourishing of creativity during the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this era witnessed, among other events, the founding of Pietro Nardini's pre...

Jaap ter Linden - Mozart: Complete Symphonies

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:16 GMT

From the Symphony No.1, composed when Mozart was just eight years old, to the mature and well-loved 'Haffner', 'Prague' and 'Jupiter' symphonies, this comprehensive 11-CD set collects together Mozart's complete body of work in this genre, performed on period instruments by the Mozart Akademie Amsterdam an...

Klaartje van Veldhoven - Handel: Complete Cantatas Vol.4

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:36:44 GMT

The 4th volume of Brilliant Classics' recordings of Handel's complete cantatas, performed by Contrasto Armonico and directed by Marco Vitale, gathers together five works that vividly illustrate the composer's skill at setting the words of his texts, creating hitherto unknown emotional depth and nuance from modest orchestral forces. The musical setting of <...

Giovanni Caruso - Guitarmosaics

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:30:24 GMT

Giovanni Caruso's Guitarmosaics is a collection of related, newly-composed works for guitar, inspired by a pair of pieces entitled Nostalgia and Ricordi passati, composed by Caruso in 2009. Written to conjure up a dense sound and Mediterranean feeling, Caruso incorporated multi-track guitar into these recordings, and thi...

Izhar Elias - Hommage a Debussy - Spanish and French guitar music from Paris

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:22:25 GMT

In the early 20th century, Paris was a magnet for composers, who were drawn to the city by the powerful influence of Claude Debussy. Termed 'impressionist', a label the composer never approved of, Debussy's music (like that of his younger contemporary Ravel) is full of colouristic expression and textures, which h...

Gabrieli Consort - Venetian Vespers

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:44:36 GMT

A superb collection of music gathering together some of the greatest composers and music from 17th Venice -- that crucible of musical innovation, and home to the Gabrieli brothers, Monteverdi and Cavalli. These composers exploited and developed the musical freedom that had resulted after the replacement of the G...

Schola Cantorum Stuttgart - O Magnum Mysterium

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:37:27 GMT

Music in 14th century Europe was dominated by the composers working in the Low Countries, or what we now call The Netherlands and Belgium and Northern France. Dufay was born in Cambrai, but went to Italy in the 1420s to work in Bologna, and eventually became a member of the Papal choir before returning to <span data-scayt_word="Cambra...

Pro Cantione Antiqua - Palestrina: Choral Works

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:18:00 GMT

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is one of the towering figures of Rennaissance and he ranks today as one of the great composers. His output of over 100 masses, 250 motets and several volumes of liturgical works is remarkable even by the standards of the day. Nearly all ...

Chamber Choir of Europe - Bach: Choral Works

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:14:34 GMT

Here perhaps is the very heart of Bach; a very palpable demonstration of his heritage and impact. Bach revered his forebears, while at the same time wishing to renew their legacy -- both that of his own, already notable Bach family and of their musical contemporaries -- and leave a mark on posterity. His endless inventiveness in taking the old hymn tunes devised in the generations before him, and clothing them in rich and strange harmonies, each one tailored to the specific text and mood of its ...

Chamber Choir of Europe - Mozart: Choral Works

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:27:29 GMT

Mozart may have written masses of masses as a professional obligation,m but that doesn't mean they are are merely workaday music. They tend towards a bright and joyful C major, amenable as the key is to the instrumentation of trumpet and drums that will make a joyful noise in a vast acoustic like that of the Stephansdom in Vienna, but they also include many tender arias, none perhaps more memorable than the soprano's solo in the...

Chamber Choir of Europe - Mendelssohn: Choral Works

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:20:44 GMT

Mendelssohn's reputation has suffered over the past century from the madness of the Nazis who banned his music, destroyed statues of him, to the rantings of Richard Wagner in his horrible little tract 'Judaism in Music'. The fact that he was probably one of the most gifted child prodigies of all time has also tended to obscure the fact that his later works are just a...

Chamber Choir of Europe - Brahms: Choral Works

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:02:33 GMT

Brahms's choral music ranges from the severe magnificence of the Fest- und Gedenk-sprüche to the ravishing opulence of the Op.17 Songs for female voices, horns and harp. Brahms conducted amateur choirs throughout his professional life, both as a useful source of income and because he enjoyed his contact with enthusiastic, amateur music-makers, not least the ladies in his ...

Vespers

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:54:47 GMT

Here's a fine conspectus of the Russian choral tradition; its ancient hymns and offices, given new and rich harmonic robes by great Russian composers, and sung by ensembles who have this music in their blood, as indeed they must if its peculiar timbres are to make their haunting effect upon the listener. Clouds of incense swirl around our listening room as we are transported back centuries -- whether two or ten -- to a style of worship in which beauty is offered to God as an end in itself....