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Germaine Tailleferre: Oeuvres pour piano
from: Timpani
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Heifetz: Never-Released & Rare Live Recordings, Vol. 1
from: Cembal D'amour
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Janacek: Sinfonietta Op60; Taras Bulba, rhapsody
from: London
: essential recording:Charles Mackerras is the outstanding Janácek conductor of our era. He recorded the composer's largest orchestral work (indeed, with 16 trumpets, one of anyone's largest orchestral works), the Sinfonietta, some 40 years ago, but this newer digital production, featuring the incomparable Vienna Philharmonic and Mackerras's own research into the original text of the score, is about as powerful and imposing as music gets. The recording is truly spectacular: the deep tones of the organ and brazen clangor of deep bells in Taras Bulba have never been more impressively captured, while the ...
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Piano Music of John Adams & Terry Riley
from: Telarc
: essential recording:Charles Mackerras is the outstanding Janácek conductor of our era. He recorded the composer's largest orchestral work (indeed, with 16 trumpets, one of anyone's largest orchestral works), the Sinfonietta, some 40 years ago, but this newer digital production, featuring the incomparable Vienna Philharmonic and Mackerras's own research into the original text of the score, is about as powerful and imposing as music gets. The recording is truly spectacular: the deep tones of the organ and brazen clangor of deep bells in Taras Bulba have never been more impressively captured, while the ...
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Boult Conducts Bridge & Ireland
from: Lyrita
:Album Description:John Ireland (1879-1962) lived all his life in England, and is considered a thoroughly British composer. Beneath Ireland's reserved and rather skeptical manner there lay strong, warm feelings, as much of his music shows. The early Frank Bridge works on this CD are more immediately ingratiating than those he wrote from 1924 onwards, though they do not lack intensity of feeling. Once again Sir Adrian Boult, one of the greatest British conductors of the twentieth century, leads historic and authoritative performances of great English composers.
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Pictures at an Exhibition
:Album Description:John Ireland (1879-1962) lived all his life in England, and is considered a thoroughly British composer. Beneath Ireland's reserved and rather skeptical manner there lay strong, warm feelings, as much of his music shows. The early Frank Bridge works on this CD are more immediately ingratiating than those he wrote from 1924 onwards, though they do not lack intensity of feeling. Once again Sir Adrian Boult, one of the greatest British conductors of the twentieth century, leads historic and authoritative performances of great English composers.
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Johann Strauss I Edition, Vol. 1
from: Marco Polo
:Album Description:John Ireland (1879-1962) lived all his life in England, and is considered a thoroughly British composer. Beneath Ireland's reserved and rather skeptical manner there lay strong, warm feelings, as much of his music shows. The early Frank Bridge works on this CD are more immediately ingratiating than those he wrote from 1924 onwards, though they do not lack intensity of feeling. Once again Sir Adrian Boult, one of the greatest British conductors of the twentieth century, leads historic and authoritative performances of great English composers.
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6; Kodály: Dances of Galanta...
from: Sony
: :These pre-Chicago recordings of Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburghers is a reminder of his greatness as a conductor. It also restores to the catalog his recordings of some composers he wasn't closely identified with. Shostakovitch, for example, wasn't a regular on Reiner's studio schedule, but should have been, for this Sixth bristles with sardonic wit and energy. The Kodaly Dances, of course, were right up Reiner's alley, and get a smashing performance. The shorter works too, are first class, especially the Bart243;k Hungarian Sketches and another Reiner calling card, Kabalevsky's Colas ...
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Strauss: The Greatest Hits
from: Compendia
: :These pre-Chicago recordings of Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburghers is a reminder of his greatness as a conductor. It also restores to the catalog his recordings of some composers he wasn't closely identified with. Shostakovitch, for example, wasn't a regular on Reiner's studio schedule, but should have been, for this Sixth bristles with sardonic wit and energy. The Kodaly Dances, of course, were right up Reiner's alley, and get a smashing performance. The shorter works too, are first class, especially the Bart243;k Hungarian Sketches and another Reiner calling card, Kabalevsky's Colas ...
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Debussy: Mer No1-3; Nocturnes No1-3
from: Sony
: :These pre-Chicago recordings of Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburghers is a reminder of his greatness as a conductor. It also restores to the catalog his recordings of some composers he wasn't closely identified with. Shostakovitch, for example, wasn't a regular on Reiner's studio schedule, but should have been, for this Sixth bristles with sardonic wit and energy. The Kodaly Dances, of course, were right up Reiner's alley, and get a smashing performance. The shorter works too, are first class, especially the Bart243;k Hungarian Sketches and another Reiner calling card, Kabalevsky's Colas ...
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