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Dancing with the Orchestra - Stravinsky, etc: / D. Cabassi

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2008-05-13

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Movements (3) from Pétrouchka; Béla Bartók: Dance Suite for piano, Sz. 77, (reduced from orchestral score); Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo; Maurice Ravel: La valse
Performers: Cabassi, Davide

Piano transcriptions of orchestral works were long regarded as an insignificant genre, but ambitious transcriptions were actually works of art in their own right. Proof...continue...

Stravinsky - Jeu de cartes, Le baiser de la fee

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2008-04-08

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes; Le baiser de la fée (The Fairy's Kiss), ballet in 4 scenes for orchestra
Conductors: Francis, Alun
Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan

Alun Francis has conducted the major English orchestras including the BBC Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the City...continue...

Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat / Pople, London Festival

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-11-14

Works: Igor Stravinsky: L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale), for 3 actors, dancer & 7 instruments
Conductors: Pople, Ross
Ensemble: London Festival Orchestra

In exile in Switzerland following the turmoil attendant on the Russian Revolution and forced by the aftermath of World War I to make a virtue...continue...

20th Century String Quartets / Rubin String Quartet

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-05-09

Works: Béla Bartók: Quartet for Strings no 4, Sz 91; Igor Stravinsky: Pieces (3) for string quartet; Sofia Gubaidulina: Quartet for Strings no 2; Dmitry Shostakovich: Quartet for Strings no 8 in C...
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Ensemble: Rubin Quartet

"The Rubins' traversal of the [Shostakovich Eighth] is among the most gripping, fluid, dramatically perceptive, and technically thrilling I've heard, matching the Emerson's hair-trigger ensemble...continue...

Klassizitische Moderne Vol 3 / Christopher Hogwood

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-06-14

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella, suite for orchestra; Gian Francesco Malipiero: Ricercari, for 11 instruments; Alfredo Casella: Scarlattiana for piano & chamber orchestra, Op. 44
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Basel Chamber Orchestra

"The 'Pulcinella Suite' is played with great rhythmic buoyancy, the comic Vivo and hectic finale done with exemplary panache. But Hogwood doesn't neglect warmth of...continue...

Solo - Bach, Varga, Bartók, etc / Mirijam Contzen

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-05-10

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002; Tibor Varga: Le Serpent, fantasy for solo violin; Béla Bartók: Sonata for Violin solo, Sz 117; Igor Stravinsky: Ele...
Performers: Contzen, Mirijam

German-Japanese violinist Mirijam Contzen is one of the top-flight younger-generation violinists. She was given her first violin at the age of two and her first...continue...

Klassizistische Moderne Vol 2 / Christopher Hogwood

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-05-10

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Suite no 1 for small Orchestra; Pastorale, song without words for voice & woodwind quartet; Lied onhe Namen, duet for 2 bassoons; Songs (3) from William Shakespeare, for voice, flute...
Performers: Kirkby, Emma
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Basel Chamber Orchestra

The clear and flexible voice of Emma Kirkby has been a reference point for pure vocal sound in early music for over two decades. Working...continue...

Klassizistische Moderne Vol 1 / Christopher Hogwood

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-03-08

Works: Bohuslav Martinu: Toccata e due Canzoni for Orchestra; Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin in D major; Arthur Honegger: Symphony no 4 ("Deliciae Basiliensis"), H. 191
Performers: Hölscher, Florian
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Basel Chamber Orchestra

"Christopher Hogwood leads near ideal performances of all three items, and they respond well to his crisp, period-instrument-influenced approach." - ClassicsToday.com...continue...