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Claudio Arrau in Recital, 1969-1977 - Works by Beethoven; Brahms and Schumann / Claudio Arrau, piano [3 CDs]

3 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-11-13

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 7 in D, Op. 10 no 3; Sonata for Piano no 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 no 1 "Quasi una fantasia"; Sonata for Piano no 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"; Vari...
Performers: Arrau, Claudio

There have been few pianists of Arrau's range and stature, and these invaluable live recordings can only reaffirm memories of another time, another place, where...continue...

Schumann: Dichterliebe; Frauenliebe und lebn / A Treasury of Great Interpretations

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-03-13

Works: Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48; Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42
Performers: Lehmann, Lotte; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Schiotz, Aksel; Ulanowsky, Paul

Music & Arts offers three different interpretations of two of Robert Schumann's song cycles. A treasury of great interpretations, indeed!...continue...

The Busch-Serkin Duo: Live at the Library of Congress and Other Venues (1939-1950)

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-02-14

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major, K 380 (374f); Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major, K 481; Sonata for violin & piano no 27 in G major, K. 379 (K. 373a); F...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Busch-Serkin Duo

These are digitally restored recordings of the Busch~Serkin Duo in live performances at the Library of Congress and other venues made between 1939 and 1950....continue...

Szymon Goldberg Centenary Edition Vol 1 - Non-Commercial Recordings

8 CD / Music & Arts / 2009-08-11

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Violin in D minor, BWV 1052; Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, BWV 1042; Brandenburg Concerto no 5 in D major, BWV 1050; Brandenburg Concerto no 6 in B flat maj...
Performers: Babin, Victor; Balsam, Artur; Bonsel, Adriaan; Casals, Pablo; Curcio, Maria; Goldberg, Szymon; Horszowski, Mieczyslaw; Nelsova, Zara; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Serkin, Rudolf; Smith, Brooks; Stotijn, H...
Conductors: Goldberg, Szymon; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Samuel, Gerhard; Beinum, Eduard Van; Steinberg, William
Ensemble: ; Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; New York Philharmonic; Oakland Symphony Orchestra; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Goldberg was the archetypal Classical violinist and in his everyday life, behaved exactly as he played - a rare gift. He was, perhaps, at his...continue...

Casals Festivals at Prades - Live Concert Performances

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2009-05-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Piano and Strings no 2 in E flat major, K 493; Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F major, K 370 (368b); Idomeneo; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major, K 581...
Performers: Casals, Pablo; Cortot, Alfred; Curzon, Clifford; de los Angeles, Victoria; Engel, Karl; Foley, Madeline; Goldberg, Szymon; Gonzales, Jose; Grumiaux, Arthur [Violin]; Horszowski, Mieczyslaw; Istomin, ...
Conductors: Casals, Pablo
Ensemble: Collegium Musicum

This collection features the best public performance recordings from Prades, in which Casals is joined by the violinists Menuhin, Szigeti, Grumiaux, Goldberg and Vegh; the...continue...

Schumann: Piano Sonatas / Carlo Grante

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2009-01-13

Works: Robert Schumann: Piano Soanta in F sharp minor, Op. 11; Sonata for Piano no 3 in F minor ("Concerto Without Orchestra"), Op. 14; Sonata for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Performers: Grante, Carlo

Schumann was one of the greatest composers for the piano, contributing to its literature a series of poetic works in which classical structure and Romantic...continue...

The Art of Dimitri Mitropoulos Vol. 1 - Berg, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, et al

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-08-12

Works: Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin; Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C minor, Op. 37; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B flat ma...
Performers: Casadesus, Jean; Petri, Egon; Szigeti, Joseph [Violin]
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Few great conductors can be classified by just a few characteristics. Although this cautionary remark applies to Dimitri Mitropoulos, it seems safe to say that,...continue...

Schumann, Dvorak: Piano Quintets / Schnabel, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-04-01

Works: Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44; Antonin Dvorák: Quintet for Piano and Strings no 2 in A major, Op. 81/B 155
Performers: Schnabel, Artur

A long-time Schnabel chamber music favorite, long unavailable, has been carefully restored and made available in greatly improved sound....continue...

Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux - California 1941-52

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-03-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House, overture Op. 124; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43; Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84; Fidelio, overture, Op. 72c; Leo...
Performers: Blinder, Boris; Blinder, Naoum; Cherkassky, Shura; Cutner, Solomon; Kapell, William; Kraus, Lili [Piano]; Warenskjold, Dorothy
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Standard Symphony Orchestra

"Is this ever a generous sampling of Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony! Music and Arts' Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux collects broadcast performances...continue...

Recordings for German Radio - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-02-01

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, tragédie lyrique; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt," (Hunt Cantata), BWV 208 (BC G1, G3); Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Weisse ...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Piltti, Lea; Pitti, Lea; Raucheisen, Michael; Scheck, Gustav; Schonecke, Herbert; Schultz, Rudolf; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Wolf, Deta

The recordings of songs presented here, ranging from a Bach cantata excerpt to folk songs, were all made during World War II for the Reichsrundfunk...continue...

Godowsky Edition Vol 5 - Transcriptions, etc / Carlo Grante

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-10-01

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Sonata for Piano no 1 in C major ("Perpetuum Mobile"), J. 138 (Op. 24); Leopold Godowsky: Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance), contrapuntal arrangement for piano (af...
Performers: Grante, Carlo

"This is Grante's fifth volume of the complete piano music of Godowsky. Previous volumes on M&A include Schubert Transcriptions (984-Mar/Apr 1998), Bach Violin Sonatas (1039),...continue...

Casals Festivals at Prades Vol 2 - Live, 1953-62

12 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-09-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Violin solo no 2 in A minor, BWV 1003; Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata for Violin solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1005; Partita for Violin solo n...
Performers: Baker, Julius; Bloom, Robert; Casals, Pablo; de los Angeles, Victoria; Farrow, Norman; Ferras, Christian [Violin]; Fuchs, Joseph; Fuchs, Lillian; Greenhouse, Bernard; Horszowski, Mieczyslaw; Kahn, Er...
Conductors: Casals, Pablo; ; Végh, Sándor
Ensemble: ; Bach Aria Group; Prades Festival Orchestra

Schumann: Carnaval, Arabesque, etc / Juana Zayas

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-03-01

Works: Robert Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9; Arabeske for piano in C major, Op. 18; Toccata for piano in C major, Op. 7; Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
Performers: Zayas, Juana

Liszt, Schumann, Weber: Piano Concertos / Arrau, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-10-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 2 in A major, S 125; Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54; Carl Maria von Weber: Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 79
Performers: Arrau, Claudio
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri; De Sabata, Victor; Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble: ; NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Historical Recordings / Hungarian String Quartet, et al

8 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-02-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Strings no 19 in C major, K 465 "Dissonance"; Quartet for Strings no 15 in D minor, K 421 (417b); Franz Schubert: Quartet for Strings no 14 in D minor, D 810 "Dea...
Performers: Antonietti, Jean; Fried, Geza; Halleux, Laurent; Koromzay, Denes; Kuttner, Michael; Magyar, Gabor; Moskowsky, Alexandre; Palotai, Vilmos; Szekely, Zoltan
Conductors: Otterloo, Willem Van

Schumann: Piano Sonata, Fantasy, Romance, etc / Zayas

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-12-01

Works: Robert Schumann: Sonata for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22; Romances (3) for Piano, Op. 28; Fantasia in C major, Op. 17; Franz Liszt: Auf dem Wasser zu singen (Schubert) for Piano, S 558 no 2
Performers: Zayas, Juana

In Memoriam Hans Hotter (1909-2003)

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-04-01

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Abschiedslied, song for voice & piano, H. 26a/F1; Lieder für Clavier Book 2, H 26a; Ludwig van Beethoven: Des Kriegers Abschied, WoO 143; Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel, ...
Performers: Hotter, Hans; Raucheisen, Michael

Walter Gieseking at RIAS - 1950-55 Broadcast Performances

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2002-12-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations for piano in A major (from last mvt. K. 581) (doubtful), (K. Anh. B 137); Sonata for Piano no 15 in C major ("Sonata semplice") K. 545; Variations (9) on "Lison do...
Performers: Gieseking, Walter
Conductors: Dorati, Antal
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Schumann: Piano Concerto; Schubert / Schnabel, Monteux

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2002-10-01

Works: Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54; Franz Schubert: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in B flat major, D 898/Op 99
Performers: Fournier, Pierre; Schnabel, Artur; Szigeti, Joseph [Violin]
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

"The Piano Concerto under Pierre Monteux is a first release, more consistant than an alternative Schnabel broadcast that annotator Harris Goldsmith rightly calls 'erratic'. [This]...continue...

Brahms: Violin Concerto; Schumann: Symphony no 1 / Fiedler

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2001-10-23

Works: Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77; Robert Schumann: Symphony no 1 in B flat major ("Spring"), Op. 38
Performers: Borries, Siegfried
Conductors: Fiedler, Max
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Falla, etc / Walter Gieseking

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2001-04-24

Works: Manuel de Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain; Paul Hindemith: Theme with Four Variations. The Four Temperaments, ballet for piano & strings; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 23 in F minor...
Performers: Gieseking, Walter
Conductors: Schroder, Kurt; Zillig, Winfried
Ensemble: ; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

This collection presents never before released recordings from the archive of Hessian Radio, including two 20th century masterpieces which Gieseking never recorded commercially....continue...

Abendroth Conducts Masterworks of the Romantic Era

2 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-01-19

Works: Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Robert Schumann: Symphony no 4 in D minor, Op. 120; Symphony no 1 in B flat major ("Spring"), Op. 38; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Variations for Cello and Orchestra ...
Performers: Lemnitz, Tiana; Sadlo, Milos
Conductors: Abendroth, Hermann
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gieseking plays Schumann: Etudes symphoniques, etc

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1998-02-01

Works: Robert Schumann: Symphonic Etudes for Piano, Op. 13; Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82; Romances (3) for piano, Op. 28; Piano Soanta in F sharp minor, Op. 11
Performers: Gieseking, Walter

Walter Gieseking was one of the most individual and consistently inspired pianists of our time. This collection brings together some of his finest broadcast performances...continue...