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FRANZ LISZT / HANS WERNER HENZE / RICHARD WAGNER / GUSTAV MAHLER
Igor Levit: Tristan (LP) Igor Levit (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Franz Welser-Möst [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 9/Sep/2022 ] On Igor Levit's "Tristan" the pianist explores nocturnal themes of love and death, fear, ecstasy, loneliness & redemption in the music of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler & Hans Werner Henze. |
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VERDI / RACHMANINOV / BERNSTEIN / ELGAR / SIBELIUS / etc
Schoenbrunn 2021 - Summer Night Concert 2021 BLU-RAY Igor Levit (piano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 23/Jul/2021 ] The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is the world's biggest annual classical open-air concert and took place in the magical setting of the Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna on 18 June 2021. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Summer Night's Concert 2021 Igor Levit (piano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding [ Sony Classical / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is the world's biggest annual classical open-air concert and will take place in the magical setting of the Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna on June 18, 2021. The theme for this year is... |
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BIZET / MAHLER / BEETHOVEN / GERSHWIN / IVES / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / etc
Leonard Bernstein - Maestro on Record (12 CDs plus 224 page book) Andre Watts (piano) Zino Francescatti (violin) Glenn Gould (piano) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / Conducted by Leonard Benstein [ Sony Music / 13 CD/Book - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Leonard Bernstein first signed with Columbia Masterworks in 1956, and up to 1979 he recorded over 500 compositions as conductor, pianist, and commentator for the label. Just a year before, legendary photographer Don Hunstein joined Columbia Records... |
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TCHAIKOSVKY / BRAHMS / SHOSTAKOVICH / SIBELIUS / HANDEL / RIMSKY KORSAKOV / etc
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection Isaac Stern (violin) William Kincaid (flute) Anthony Gigliotti (clarinet) Gary Graffman (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy [ Sony RCA Original Masters / 88 CD Box Set - released 17/Nov/2023 ] The Sony label now presents Eugene Ormandy's stereo recordings from Philadelphia containing all recordings released from 1958 to 1963 (plus some fillers from later years). |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 7/Nov/2011 ] "This 1989 performance of the Hungarian Rhapsodies that Liszt (and his assistants) orchestrated has stunning sonics; Mehta conjures highly idiomatic performances out of the Israel Phil." BBC Music |
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WILLIAMS / MORRICONE / BONFA / PREVIN / BERNSTEIN / LEGRAND / etc
John Williams Conductor Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell (violins) Yo Yo Ma (cello) / Pittsburg Symphjony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, John Williams [ Sony Classics / 20 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2018 ] In 1980, composer John Williams became one of the most visible conductors on the planet after being named Music Director of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Since then he has lead hundreds of high-profile concerts with the Pops and with many other leading... |
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Itzhak Perlman/Tan Dun
O.S.T. - Hero [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Sep/2004 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 22 7 24 (with Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 2) Ivo Pogorelich (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] After a 20 year break from releasing music, the legendary classical pianist Ivo Pogorelich returns with his breathtaking new album featuring piano sonatas by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. Hailed for his virtuosity, technical mastery and evocative... |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Ivo Pogorelich - Chopin Ivo Pogorelich (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] It is Chopin who Ivo Pogorelich has to thank for his international breakthrough. When, at the age of 22, he took part in the 1980 Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, his exceptional playing caused an immediate sensation. |
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BRAHMS / MOZART / SAINT-GEORGES / BRUCH / MENDELSSOHN / SARASATE / etc
Jaime Laredo - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Jaime Laredo (violin/viola) with Emanuel Ax (piano) Vladimir Sokoloff (piano), Yo Yo Ma (cello), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), etc [ Sony Classical / 22 CD Box Set - released 11/Jun/2021 ] The complete recordings by Grammy-winning violinist Jaime Laredo in a single 23-CD edition in celebration of his 80th birthday June 7, 2021. |
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MERCADANTE / MOZART / DEVIENNE / CIMAROSA / BACH / VIVALDI / etc
James Galway plays Flute Concertos [12 CD set] James Galway (flute) / I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone / The Academy of St Martins in the Fields. Sir Neville Marriner, with Marisa Robles (harp) [ Sony Classical Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] The Man With the Golden Flute, Sir James Galway, is featured in these classic recordings, with harpist Marisa Robles and clarinetist Sabine Meyer. |
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James Horner
Ost: The Amazing Spider-Man [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] |
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James Newton Howard
Ost: After Earth [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Jun/2013 ] |
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C.P.E. BACH / GRAF / HASSE / M. HAYDN
Concerti Brillanti Jan Vogler (cello) / Munchener Kammerorchester / Reinhard Goebel [ Sony Classical Vivarte / CD - released 17/Jun/2011 ] "Vogler's playing is technically assured and sturdily lyrical throughout all four works." (Gramophone) |
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NICO MUHLY / SVEN HELBIG / ZHOU LONG / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Muhly / Helbig / Long: Cello Concerto 'Three Continents' & Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2 Jan Vogler (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra, Cristian Macelaru, Valéry Gergiev [ Sony Classical / CD - released 31/Jul/2020 ] German Cellist Jan Vogler's new album features two modern cello concertos. The first is the world premiere recording of the cello concerto "Three Continents" by Nico Muhly (*1981), Sven Helbig (*1968) and Zhou Long (*1953). |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz plays Beethoven [7 CD set] Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Emanuel Feuermann (cello) William Primrose (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "Heifetz gives an altogether admirable performance of the Beethoven, alike assured and restrained; and he is sensitively accompanied by the Boston orchestra." (Gramophone) |
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BRAHMS / BACH / BRUCH / MOZART / PROKOFIEV / ROZSA / etc
Jascha Heifetz plays Great Violin Concertos [6 CD set] Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Erick Friedman (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) & William Primrose (viola) [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] This new compilation assembles violinist Jascha Heifetz's landmark stereo recordings of some of the greatest violin concertos with an equally distinguished selection of guest artists including legendary cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Sir Malcolm Sargent... |
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Jean-Marc Luisada
Chopin: Ballades [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (Complete opera recorded in 1982) Jeannine Altmeyer, Peter Meven, Theo Adam / Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Men's Choir Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur [ Sony Classical Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The most telling contributions certainly come from conductor, orchestra and chorus. The playing here is in the highest class, and Masur's control of speed and balance is not to be questioned" (Gramophone) |