Poppen, Christoph [Conductor]

Essential 20th Century Classics - Over 2 hours of captivating modern classics

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus; Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; C...
Performers: Beniston, Paul; Bloch, Nikolaj; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Currie, Colin; Devos, Louis; Donohoe, Peter; du Pre, Jacqueline; Fischer-Dieskau, Manuel; Gibson, Simon; Gilchrist, Jane; Hendricks, Bar...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Temirkanov, Yuri; Barbirolli, John; Ozawa, Seiji; Prêtre, Georges; Penderecki, Krzysztof; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Kaljuste, Tönu; Metzmacher, Ingo; B...
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt)

Essential 20th Century Classics is a 2-CD set featuring a collection of important works written between 1901 and 2000. This period is sometimes thought of...continue...

Best 100 20th Century Classics

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-07-28

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor; Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Songs (14), Op. 34; Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Lieutenant Kij...
Performers: Alexeev, Dmitri; Augér, Arleen; Barrueco, Manuel; Bashmet, Yuri [Conductor/Viola]; Bean, Hugh; Beniston, Paul; Bloch, Nikolaj; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]...
Conductors: Foster, Lawrence; Previn, Andre; Kurtz, Efrem; Tennstedt, Klaus; Jansons, Mariss; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Temirkanov, Yuri; Barbirolli, John; Boult, Adrian; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Wit, Antoni; M...
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt)

Olivier Messiaen - 100th Anniversary Edition

14 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-11-24

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie; Les offrandes oubliées; Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum; Chronochromie; Éclairs sur l'au-delà...; Quatuor pour la fin du temps...
Performers: Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Béroff, Michel; Command, Michele; Fischer-Dieskau, Manuel; Hakim, Naji; Hind, Rolf; Langridge, Philip; Loriod, Jeanne; Loriod, Yvonne [Piano/Composer]; Messiaen, Oliv...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Baudo, Serge; Dorati, Antal; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Edwards, Terry
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre de Paris; Orchestre de Paris Percussion Ensemble

To celebrate Messiaen's centenary, EMI Classics is releasing a boxed set with of 14 CDs of his greatest music, including 4 CDs of solo organ...continue...

EMI 20th Century Classics - Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie, etc / Loriod, Previn, London SO, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-07-22

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie; Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano
Performers: Beroff, Michel; Fischer-Dieskau, Manuel; Loriod, Jeanne; Loriod, Yvonne [Piano/Composer]; Meyer, Wolfgang [Clarinet]; Poppen, Christoph [Conductor]
Conductors: Previn, Andre
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Gramophone Magazine
Newly reissued, Previn's 1977 account dragged Turangalîla to mainstream attention. Previn excels at combing through Messiaen's thick layers, and the LSO are on fine...continue...

Klang der Stille - Pachelbel, Puccini, etc / Fey, et al

1 CD / Hanssler Classic / 2007-06-18

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 52 in C minor, H. 1/52; Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Übung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9); Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043;...
Performers: Altmann, Dirk; Faust, Isabelle; Hatzopoulos, Pavlos; Henschel, Florian; Koroliov, Evgeni; Lencses, Lajos; Oppitz, Gerhard; Poppen, Christoph [Conductor]
Conductors: Fey, Thomas; Strub, Patrick; Brown, Iona; Rilling, Helmuth

The music featured on this new collection offers a program of recognizable music by world famous classical composers as well as rare selections that will...continue...

Larcher: Ixxu, etc / Rosamunde Quartet, et al

1 CD / ECM Import / 2006-09-26

Works: Thomas Larcher: Ixxu, for string quartet; My Illness Is the Medicine I Need, for soprano, violin, violoncello & piano; Mumien, for cello & piano; Cold Farmer, for string quartet
Performers: Demenga, Thomas; Larcher, Thomas; Poppen, Christoph [Conductor]

"Thomas Larcher has a way of convincing you, like Morton Feldman, that every note is in its right place and should be nowhere else. A...continue...

Morimur - Bach / Christoph Poppen, Hilliard Ensemble

1 CD / ECM / 2001-09-25

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 136, "Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz" BWV 136; Christ lag in Todes Banden (II), chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 278 (BC F26.2); Partita for Violin sol...
Performers: James, David; Poppen, Christoph [Conductor]

bbc.co.uk - Andrew McGregor
...as Poppen plays one of the greatest movements for violin ever composed, the Hilliards sing the chorale quotations, showing how they fit...continue...
One of the great revelations about this recording of J.S. Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004; chorales; Ciaccona for solo violin and four voices is how it supports the notion that it was popula...continue...

Mozart: Flute Quartets / Pahud, Poppen, Schlichtig, Queyras

1 CD / EMI Classics / 1999-10-05

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Flute and Strings no 1 in D major, K 285; Quartet for Flute and Strings no 2 in G major, K 285a; Quartet for flute, violin, viola & cello no 3 in C major, K. Anh....
Performers: Pahud, Emmanuel; Poppen, Christoph [Conductor]; Queyras, Jean-Guihen; Schlichtig, Hariolf

"Surpassing any previous recordings of the quartets comes this winning disc from Pahud with Poppen, Schlichtig and Queyras. As with Pahud's recording of the Mozart...continue...