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Jacqueline du Pre - Favourite Cello Concertos ~ Boccherini, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Monn, Saint-Saens, Schumann
: essential recording:During her far-too-brief career, cellist Jacqueline du Pré exhibited an almost oracular power of communication. Her performances bristled with the kind of brilliant electricity that could change lives and convert listeners to a lifelong love of music. Happily, it's possible to experience a sense of that power from the recordings du Pré completed before multiple sclerosis halted her career as a performer in the early 1970s. This set provides a splendid portrait--at bargain price--of du Pré's unmistakable personality: the astonishingly original yet convincing phrasing, ...
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Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra
from: Sony
: :Schoenberg's Serenade is comparable to Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Both works are effective modernist parodies of classical genres. But unlike Stravinsky, Schoenberg's treatments of marches and waltzes are never coolly burlesque, but hyper expressive--indeed, expressionist. Pierre Boulez conducts his Ensemble InterContemporain, underlining the music's prickly sonorities and metallic edges. In his interpretation, the expertly separated timbres are the hinge of the composition. Also on the disc is a classic reading of the Five Pieces for Orchestra and the curious Ode to Napoleon, a work for ensemble ...
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Glenn Gould: The Young Maverick
from: Cbc
:Album Description:Glenn Gould exploded onto the Canadian classical music scene in 1956 with his exciting and energetic interpretations of a wide variety of classical standards. In Glenn Gould: The Young Maverick, travel back in time to hear a very young Gould perform classics like Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Piano Concertos.
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Schoenberg: Transfigured Night
from: Sony
:Album Description:Glenn Gould exploded onto the Canadian classical music scene in 1956 with his exciting and energetic interpretations of a wide variety of classical standards. In Glenn Gould: The Young Maverick, travel back in time to hear a very young Gould perform classics like Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Piano Concertos.
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Schoenberg: The String Quartets
:Album Description:Glenn Gould exploded onto the Canadian classical music scene in 1956 with his exciting and energetic interpretations of a wide variety of classical standards. In Glenn Gould: The Young Maverick, travel back in time to hear a very young Gould perform classics like Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Piano Concertos.
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Maurizio Pollini Edition - Schoenberg: The Solo Piano Music, Piano Concerto; Webern: VAriations Op. 27
:Album Description:Glenn Gould exploded onto the Canadian classical music scene in 1956 with his exciting and energetic interpretations of a wide variety of classical standards. In Glenn Gould: The Young Maverick, travel back in time to hear a very young Gould perform classics like Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Piano Concertos.
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Berg: Violin Concerto; Schoenberg: Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto
from: Umvd Labels
:Album Description:Glenn Gould exploded onto the Canadian classical music scene in 1956 with his exciting and energetic interpretations of a wide variety of classical standards. In Glenn Gould: The Young Maverick, travel back in time to hear a very young Gould perform classics like Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Piano Concertos.
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Instruments of the Orchestra
:Album Description:Glenn Gould exploded onto the Canadian classical music scene in 1956 with his exciting and energetic interpretations of a wide variety of classical standards. In Glenn Gould: The Young Maverick, travel back in time to hear a very young Gould perform classics like Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Piano Concertos.
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Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire ~ Herzgewächse ~ Ode to Napoleon / Schäfer, Pittman-Jennings, Ensemble InterContempolain, Boulez
: essential recording:Arnold Schoenberg claimed he had never set out to be a revolutionary. Yet the song cycle he wrote in 1912 based on proto- expressionist poems and featuring a grotesque harlequin figure, Pierrot Lunaire, still reverberates with its haunting, startling originality. This work introduced the world to a hitherto unthought-of musical landscape; to call it innovative would be an absurd understatement. What's particularly exciting about the undertaking here (Boulez's third recorded take on this music) is how utterly fresh the music sounds, its novelty unblunted ...
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Schoenberg - Die Glückliche Hand · Variations for Orchestra, Op.31 · Verklärte Nacht / Nimsgern · BBC Orch. · NY Phil. · Boulez
: :This is one of the best discs in this series. The expressionist drama Die Gluckliche Hand is one of Schoenberg's most experimental works, and though the Freudian expressionism is dated, the music is surprisingly enjoyable. The opening minutes create one of Schoenberg's most evocative atmospheres, a musical jungle, with soft drums beating eerily, a forest of instrumental melodies, and voices chanting. Siegmund Nimsgern is a solid bass. Pierre Boulez has remarked that the Variations for Orchestra is essentially a didactic exercise in serial variations, but the ...
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