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Venetian Vespers (Monteverdi * Rigatti * Grandi * Cavalli) /Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreesh
: essential recording:Paul McCreesh's second major recording (and second Gramophone Award winner) reconstructs Vespers for the Feast of the Annunciation at San Marco circa 1643, using music by Monteverdi and contemporaries including Cavalli, Grandi, and Rigatti. The music is less dense and lavishly scored than on A Venetian Coronation, but more virtuosic and varied--ranging from Finetti's sweet, languid 'O Maria, quæ rapis' for two falsettists and Monteverdi's lively 'Laudate Dominum' for solo tenor, to Marini's sensuous sonata for three violins and Monteverdi's spectacular 'Lætatus sum' for six singers, two violins, two ...
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Brahms: Piano Trios
from: EMI Classics
: :Last year EMI started promoting the Capuçon Brothers in collaboration with Martha Argerich and on their own. Here's a very substantial demonstration of their qualities, along with a young pianist who has been generating considerable interest recently. (Unfortunately, there's nothing about the performers in the booklet.) The set runs about 10 minutes too long for one CD, but it's offered at single-disc price. These performers give us a consistent approach to the Brahms Trios: highly poetic, played with emphasis on beauty of sound and phrasing, yet dramatic and powerful enough to ...
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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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Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Fauré: Piano Trios, Piano Quartets
:Album Description:Following Rostropovich: Early Recordings, this is a companion Original Masters specially priced 2-CD set featuring the great Russian cellist. With Leonid Kogan and Emil Gilels, his regular partners (and great artists in their own right) in the 1950s, Mstislav Rostropovich emerges here as an exceptional team-player, in polished performances of five piano trios and Fauré's First Piano Quartet, where the young Rudolf Barshai (viola) joins the ensemble.
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100 Best Baroque
from: EMI Classics
:Album Description:Following Rostropovich: Early Recordings, this is a companion Original Masters specially priced 2-CD set featuring the great Russian cellist. With Leonid Kogan and Emil Gilels, his regular partners (and great artists in their own right) in the 1950s, Mstislav Rostropovich emerges here as an exceptional team-player, in polished performances of five piano trios and Fauré's First Piano Quartet, where the young Rudolf Barshai (viola) joins the ensemble.
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Classical Kids: Collection
from: Children's Book Store Distribution
:Album Description:Following Rostropovich: Early Recordings, this is a companion Original Masters specially priced 2-CD set featuring the great Russian cellist. With Leonid Kogan and Emil Gilels, his regular partners (and great artists in their own right) in the 1950s, Mstislav Rostropovich emerges here as an exceptional team-player, in polished performances of five piano trios and Fauré's First Piano Quartet, where the young Rudolf Barshai (viola) joins the ensemble.
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100 Best Sacred Works
from: EMI Classics
:Album Description:Following Rostropovich: Early Recordings, this is a companion Original Masters specially priced 2-CD set featuring the great Russian cellist. With Leonid Kogan and Emil Gilels, his regular partners (and great artists in their own right) in the 1950s, Mstislav Rostropovich emerges here as an exceptional team-player, in polished performances of five piano trios and Fauré's First Piano Quartet, where the young Rudolf Barshai (viola) joins the ensemble.
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Webern: Symphony; Six Pieces; Concerto for 9 Instruments
from: Naxos
:Album Description:Following Rostropovich: Early Recordings, this is a companion Original Masters specially priced 2-CD set featuring the great Russian cellist. With Leonid Kogan and Emil Gilels, his regular partners (and great artists in their own right) in the 1950s, Mstislav Rostropovich emerges here as an exceptional team-player, in polished performances of five piano trios and Fauré's First Piano Quartet, where the young Rudolf Barshai (viola) joins the ensemble.
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Complete Webern
: :Pierre Boulez's Complete Webern Edition appears just over two decades after his last traversal. Well, it's not literally complete, but does have enough early works to set the mature ones in the right context. These days, Webern is no longer seen so much as a new music guru as he is a major composer, pure and simple--his expression as concise as it is intense. Performancewise, there's a quality of musicianship here that few previous recordings have matched; familiarity with the idiom certainly plays its part, but so does Boulez's belief that ...
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Taneyev: Chamber Music
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :Pierre Boulez's Complete Webern Edition appears just over two decades after his last traversal. Well, it's not literally complete, but does have enough early works to set the mature ones in the right context. These days, Webern is no longer seen so much as a new music guru as he is a major composer, pure and simple--his expression as concise as it is intense. Performancewise, there's a quality of musicianship here that few previous recordings have matched; familiarity with the idiom certainly plays its part, but so does Boulez's belief that ...
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