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Britten: Piano and Violin Concertos / Annette Servadei, piano; Sergej Azizian, violin

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2012-03-13

Works: Benjamin Britten: Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 15; Concerto for Piano in D major, Op. 13
Performers: Azizian, Sergei; Servadei, Annette
Conductors: Vänskä, Osmo; Giunta, Joseph
Ensemble: Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra

Bohemian Rhapsody: Dvorak, Suk / Camerata Nova Prague

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-11-08

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Serenade for Strings; Sonatina for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 100/B 183; Serenade for winds & strings in D minor, B. 77 (Op. 44)
Performers: Hnykova, Helena; Kuda, Frantisek
Conductors: Suk, Josef
Ensemble: Camerata Nova; Czech Nonet

Recording information: Prague (1988)....continue...

Kodály for Cello & Piano / Karine Georgian, cello and Marco Rizzi, piano

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-08-16

Works: Zoltán Kodály: Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7; Capriccio for cello; Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8
Performers: Georgian, Karine; Rizzi, Marco [violin]

A new recording of the cello music of Zoltan Kodály performed by Karine Georgian (who is highly acclaimed for her resent recording of Martinu's Works...continue...
Recording information: The Warehouse, London (2000)....continue...

Violin Romances / Aaron Rosand

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-05-17

Works: Max Bruch: Romance, for violin & orchestra in A minor, Op. 42; Fritz Kreisler: Romanze, for violin & piano, Op. 4; Jean Sibelius: Romances, Op. 78; Antonin Dvorák: Romance for violin & piano in ...
Performers: Covelli, John; Rosand, Aaron [Violin]; Sung, Hugh

This release is a coupling of two remarkable albums that have not been available for some ten years. Aaron Rosand is most famous for his...continue...

William Walton: Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto / Accardo

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-03-08

Works: William Walton: Symphony no 1 in B flat minor; Concerto for Violin
Performers: Accardo, Salvatore [Violin/Conductor]
Conductors: Frémaux, Louis; Hickox, Richard

William Walton's landmark First Symphony surges with drama and wrath then closing with jubilation, as Frémaux and the Philharmonia Orchestra deliver the piece flawlessly, and...continue...

Michael Hersch: The Wreckage of Flowers

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-11-22

Works: Michael Hersch: Fourteen Pieces after texts of Primo Levi, for unaccompanied violin; The Wreckage of Flowers; twenty-one movements after poetry and prose of Czeslaw Milosz, for violin &; Five Fragmen...
Performers: Cuckson, Miranda; McMillen, Blair

Michael Hersch, who has been described by London's Financial Times as "one of the most fertile musical minds to emerge in the U.S. over the...continue...
Recording information: Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, The Peabody Institute....continue...

Baroque Bohemia & Beyond, Vol. 5

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-11-22

Works: Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Concerto for Violin in G; Johann Stamitz: Concerto for Oboe in C major; Wenzel Kallick: Concerto for Clarinet in B flat major; Dominik Josef Skroup: Concerto for French ...
Performers: Adam, Zdenek; Adamova, Eliska; Fantisak, Igor; Kos, Martin; Vencour, Karel
Conductors: Chromcak, Petr

The Fifth volume in a very compelling series covering the huge flowering of composing talent that originated in Bohemia in the period preceding and contemporaneous...continue...
Recording information: Arco Diva Studio, Domovine, Prague, Czech Republic (06/24/2010-06/26/2010)....continue...

Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-10-05

Works: Dmitry Kabalevsky: Concerto for Cello no 1 in G minor, Op. 49; Concerto for Cello no 2 in C major, Op. 77; Improvisato for Violin and Piano, Op. 21; Rondo for violin & piano, Op. 69
Performers: Kuritskaya, Ludmila; Likhopoi, Natalia; Tarasova, Marina [Cello]
Conductors: Duderova, Veronika

Recording information: Moscow Radio Studio 5 (07/1993)....continue...

Handel, Bach, Vivaldi Purcell: Favourite

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-07-13

Works: George Frederick Handel: St. Cecilia; Serse; Semele; Acis & Galatea; Joshua; Jeptha; Alexander's Feast; Samson; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 208; John Weldon: Arise, Ye Subterranean winds; Henry Pu...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Beznosiuk, Lisa; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Fisher, Gillian; George, Michael; Goodman, Roy; Steele-Perkins, Crispian [Trumpet]
Conductors: King, Robert
Ensemble: King's Consort

A Strong line up of 13 of the greatest Baroque arias performed by the top artists! Its first released was greeted enthusiastically by Gramophone: "enjoyable...continue...
Recording information: St. Pauls', Southgate, London (1987)....continue...

Paganini: Complete Caprices For Solo Violin / Ruggiero Ricci

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-05-04

Works: Niccolò Paganini: Caprices (24) for Violin solo, Op. 1; Caprice d'adieu, for solo violin, MS 68
Performers: Ricci, Ruggiero

"Ricci was, indeed the first to perform and record them complete... any violinist would be proud to play with Ricci's brilliance... he bring(s) some very...continue...

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto 2; Symphony 15

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-01-26

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin no 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129; Symphony no 15 in A major, Op. 141
Performers: Oistrakh, David
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kirill

"...with a superbly vivid Fifteenth (from 1974), generally hard-driven a la Mravinsky but far more convicingly poised. The first movement goes at a frightening lick,...continue...

Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 / Susanne Lautenbacher

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-10-13

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord no 5 in F minor, BWV 1018; Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord no 2 in A major, BWV 1015; Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord no 4 in C minor, BWV...
Performers: Galling, Martin; Lautenbacher, Suzanne

Generations of music lovers were introduced to Bach's instrumental masterworks through these classic Vox recordings from the 1960's, which still hold up remarkably well. Together...continue...

French and Italian Discoveries 1200-1700 / Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, et al

6 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-08-11

Works: Anonymous: Pater noster commiserans, conductus; Alleluja christus resurgens with clausula, Mors (Hallelujah for the fourth Sunday after Easter); Hoquetus; Amor potest conqueri, motet; El Mois de mai;...
Performers: Brown, Wilfred; Cantelo, April; Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupre, Desmond; Gabb, Harry; Leonhardt, Gustav; Leonhardt, Marie; Malcolm, George; McLoughlin, Eileen; Scheiwein, Robert; Ward, David
Conductors: ; Deller, Alfred
Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien; Deller Consort; London Chamber Players

These landmark recordings of French and Italian Renaissance music led the Early Music movement into previously uncharted territory. These ground breaking recordings of Monteverdi, including...continue...

Dvorak: Cypresses String Quartet, Terzetto, etc / English String Quartet, Philip Langridge, Radoslav Kvapil

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-01-13

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Terzetto for 2 violins & viola in C major, B. 148 (Op. 74); Cypresses (Ohlas písní [Echoes of Songs]), for string quartet (arr. from Cypresses, B. 11), B. 152; Cypresse...
Performers: Callow, Colin; Cummings, Diana; Iorio, Luciano; Kvapil, Radoslav; Langridge, Philip

The enthusiastic review of these wonderful pieces, by Gramophone, puts it best: "The Cypresses... played with real sympathy for Dvorak's fertile early lyricism, leave a...continue...

Alfred Deller - The Complete Vanguard Recordings Vol 2 - Music of Henry Purcell

7 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-09-02

Works: Henry Purcell: Fantasia upon a Ground in D major, Z 731; Music for a while; I love and I must, Z 382 "Bell Barr"; Let the dreadful engines (from "Don Quixote"), song, Z. 578/3; Oedipus, Z 583; Fairy ...
Performers: Baines, Francis; Bergmann, Walter; Bevan, Maurice; Brown, Wilfred; Cantelo, April; Clift, Dennis; Dales, Ellen; Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupre, Desmond; English, Gerald; Eskdale, George; Friedma...
Conductors: Leonhardt, Gustav; Deller, Alfred; Tippett, Michael; Harnoncourt, Nikolaus
Ensemble: ; Deller Consort; Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble

Sonatas with Richter - Mozart, Haydn, Brahms

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2007-09-11

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for String Quartet in D major, K 136 (125a); Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata for Keyboard no 39 in D major, H 16 no 24; Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano n...
Performers: Kagan, Oleg; Richter, Sviatoslav

The World seems unable to get enough of Richter. A much loved, energetic and amazingly prolific performer there has been a growth in appreciation of...continue...

Brahms: Violin Sonatas / Rosand, Sung

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2007-06-12

Works: Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1 in G major, Op. 78; Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2 in A major, Op. 100; Sonata for Violin and Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 108; Hungarian Dances (21)...
Performers: Rosand, Aaron [Violin]; Sung, Hugh

Among the world's outstanding violinists, Aaron Rosand has captivated audiences and critics throughout the world with his "immaculate technical achievement, beautiful multi-coloured tonal lustre, artf...continue...