The Dante Quartet continue their award-winning exploration of the French string quartet with this disc which includes two of the greatest works of this genre. Both quartets dazzled and disturbed at their first performances. Debussy’s fantastic, spiralling variations, resisting orthodox ‘development’ of ideas, is described as reminiscent of Monet’s in recording the variations of light on the façade of Rouen Cathedral. Traditionalist commentators were shocked, but the exotic beauty of the writing excited many, including the young Ravel. Ravel’s Quartet is to some extent an hommage to Debussy, but, typically, also a work of startling originality. Also included is Ravel’s Violin Sonata No 2 in G major, an intriguing, jazz-influenced work, energetic but with a dark undertow of pain; written, as Ravel said, with the aim of ‘exploring the basic incompatibility of violin and piano’. Praise for FAURÉ / FRANCK String Quartets CDA67664 BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2009 ‘This is a fascinating juxtaposition … sublime, yet undervalued masterpieces. The Dante Quartet are superb advocates, especially in the Franck, where they are without peer among modern accounts’ (BBC Music Magazine) ‘This is a wonderfully played pairing of perhaps the two greatest of all French string quartets … it is a measure of the outstanding quality of the Dante Quartet that both works are projected as vividly and immediately as they are. There’s such a passionate involvement about their playing, such belief in the music’s outstanding qualities … it’s an outstanding disc’ (The Guardian) ‘This latest disc of Franck and Fauré marks the beginning of a new relationship with Hyperion, which could not have begun on a better note’.

• Wykonawca Dante Quartet , Osostowicz Krysia
• Data premiery 2009-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Dmitri Shostakovich's satirical opera The Nose was premiered in 1930 and is set in St Petersburg. Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, its absurd plot revolves around the exploits of a pompous government official and his nose. After a visit to the barber, the nose absconds from the man's face and takes on a life of its own; the pretentious bureaucrat is reduced to desperation, frantically searching the city for his lost appendage. Although primarily a comic opera, The Nose touches on the struggle between the individual and society (here portrayed by a cast of over 80 characters), and its spiky score is a 1920's modernist masterpiece from the prodigiously talented composer.   Reviews:    ' ... singers and orchestra negotiate the most complex ensembles in brilliantly idiomatic and conversational style ... the recorded sound is absolutely superb in its crystal clarity and depth. The ultimate winner in this excellent release, however, is Shostakovich. Now we can clearly see that he was never so obviously the youth genius' Disc of the Month BBC Music Magazine   Orphée d’Or Academie du disque Lyrique   Best Opera Edison Awards   Nominated for Best Classical Album and Best Opera Grammy Awards 2010   Caecilia Award Caecilia   Nominated for Best Opera BBC Music Magazine Awards   Best Opera Midem Classical Awards 2010   CDs of the Year Washington Post   CDs of the Year Chicago Tribune   CDs of the Year Boston Globe   Choc de l'Année Classica   'Sergei Semishkur sings the role of the Nose, and he manages well with the clownishly high tessitura. Ivan is correctly puzzling as sung by Alexei Tanovitski. Indeed, the whole cast is marvelous if you're looking for characterization and originality rather than lovely singing--this is theater at its most brazen.   Valery Gergiev, obviously in his element and with his own orchestra and  (spectacular) chorus, gives the work form and pathos while making certain that absurdity and satire reign supreme. This is, by the way, the first release on the Mariinsky label and it's quite an auspicious start. Fabulous fun!' Artistic Quality 10 Sound Quality 10 ClassicsToday.com 'The complete recording of The Nose is a special achievement ... The conductor achieves such vibrancy, detail and spontaneity that the opera sounds like the product of a mature composer who had worked for may years on the piece ... it's alarming how much sophistication is brought forth in the score, mixing folk melodies with harmonic extremity, and the avant-garde nature of the core and libretto comes through absolutely in Gergiev’s wonderful reading. With a complete, clear libretto, informative essay by Leonid Gakkel and excellent playing from the Mariinsky orchestra, there's much to enjoy here.' Musical Criticism.com ‘a new version of Shostakovich’s first opera is badly needed and this one fills the gap definitively ... Brilliantly realised’ The Guardian   'This recording was made under studio conditions only last year, which is all to the good as the demands made on singers and players in The Nose require a precision of execution that live performances - however much they capture the heat of the moment - are unlikely to secure ... This release reaffirms The Nose as a testament to Shostakovich’s creative ambition at a time when the artistic possibilities music have seemed limitless. In doing so, the Mariinsky labels could not have been more persuasively launched.' International Record Review   Disc of the Month Opera Magazine   Discos Excepcionales Scherzo   'Shostakovich’s prodigious, youthful satire - composed when he was only 21 - has been assiduously championed by Gergiev ... Recorded under studio conditions in the Mariinsky’s brand new concert hall, this version is notable for the brilliance of the orchestra’s playing and the idiomatic delivery of the Gogol-based text by a new generation of Mariinsky voices. Both Vladislav Sulimsky as the noseless collegiate assessor, Kovalev, and Sergei Semishkur as his errant appendage perform with panache.' The Times

• Wykonawca Soboleva Irina , Sulimsky Vladislav , Tanovitski Alexei , Kravtsova Tatiana , Popov Andrei , Semishkur Gennady
• Data premiery 2012-04-01
• Nośnik SACD

Zremasterowana (24 BIT Digitally Remastered) edycja dwóch kultowych albumów (na jednym CD!) "Cookin'" oraz "Relaxin'" Milesa Davisa. Dodano 12-stronicową książeczkę.    Skład zespołu : Miles Davis (Tp) John Coltrane (Ts) Red Garland (P) Paul Chambers (B) “Philly" Joe Jones  (D) Hackensack, New Jersey, May 11 (tracks 10-11 only) & October 26, 1956. [1-5] Cookin’ (originally Prestige LP7094) [6-11] Relaxin’ (originally Prestige LP7129). *Bonus tracks (12-13): Miles Davis Quartet: Miles Davis (tp), John Lewis (p), Percy Heath (b), Max Roach (d). New York, May 19, 1953. Tracklista: 1. My Funny Valentine 2. Blues By Five 3. Airegin 4. Tune Up 5. When Lights Are Low 6. If I Were A Bell 7. You’re My Everything 8. I Could Write A Book 9. Oleo 10. It Could Happen To You 11. Woody’n You 12. When Lights Are Low* 13. Tune Up2* Total Time: 76:43   5 Stars Down Beat Magazine (Cookin') 4 Stars Down Beat Magazine (Relaxin')

• Wykonawca Davis Miles
• Data premiery 2020-03-19
• Nośnik CD

Available in both standard CD and also multi-channel DSD hybrid SACD formats, this second volume of Hyperion’s project to record all of Monteverdi’s sacred music focuses on works to be found in the 1650 publication Messa a quattro voci e salmi. Here we find a glorious Mass-setting (one of only three to have survived complete – the 1597 Mass is recorded on volume 1), and the composer’s well crafted response to the epic Litany of Loreto. The third work here with full choir is the five-part Exultent caeli, a suitably joyous little work published in 1629. Distinguished soloists Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Rogers Covey-Crump, Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist and Peter Harvey share out the remaining works: the duets Venite, siccientes, Ego dormio, Cantate Domino and O beatae viae, and the solo pieces Currite populi and Laudate Dominum (sung by Gilchrist and Harvey, respectively).R10 CLASSICA RÉPÉRTOIRE DU MOIS 'Sumptuous surround sound and full-blooded performances from Robert King and Co. combine to thrilling effect in the second release in their fabulous Monteverdi cycle' (Classic FM Magazine)'... there are joys here to melt icebergs ... I want Volume 3 immediately' (The Times)'Monteverdi is one of those composers who really does merit a complete recording of his output. The sacred works have been a little neglected, and this splendid new series, with its informed and intelligent booklet notes, is putting things right' (BBC Music Magazine) 'I'll say it straight out: the result is truly exciting! The music is magnificent, and so is the interpretation … The architecture of the programme is particularly remarkable, and the album is built on balance, variety, contrast' (Goldberg Early Music Magazine) 'Where this new disc really comes into its own is in the small-scale motets, where King's outstanding roster of soloists would be exceedingly difficult to better … The rarely performed motets alone should ensure the present disc its place in any Monteverdi collection, while John Whenham's notes prove as valuable an asset as those Michael Talbot provided for King's Vivaldi sacred music traversal' (Fanfare, USA) 'This is an absolutely crack team of soloists, all of whom are completely at home in Monteverdi's idiom. The tenors in particular luxuriate in the ornamental roulades ...' (Early Music)'En effet, c'est avec un tact et une finesse sans précédent que King mène son corpus instrumental … La douceur séraphique de Sampson et Outram dans le Venite, Siccientes n'a d'équivalent que la parfaite maîrise de la diction, des sons enflés et de la souplesse de ces voix' (Classica, France)

• Wykonawca The King's Consort
• Data premiery 2004-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. I. Babi Yar 00:14:54 2. II. Yumor (Humor) 00:07:39 3. III. V Magazine (At the Store) 00:12:22 4. IV. Strachi (Fears) 00:12:13 5. V. Kariera (Career) 00:11:35

• Wykonawca Slovak Ladislav
• Nośnik CD

Classical vocal quartet New York Polyphony struck a chord with their 2007 Avie debut, I Sing The Birth (AV 2141). An intimate meditation on the Christmas season, it garnered unanimous praise on both sides of the pond. For Gramophone Magazine it was “one of the season's best”, and it was an Editor's Christmas Choice in BBC Music Magazine. For theirsecond release, the all-male foursome delivers their signature fusion of historically informed performances in a range of styles. Interspersed between sacred masterpieces of Tudor England are four new works by British-Norwegian composer Andrew Smith, adding a modern harmonic richness and complexity to the album. The result is a compelling synthesis of ancient and contemporary vocal music.New York Polyphony extends the mix of old world and new in the album’s title, named for the distinctive 19th-century neighbourhood on Manhattan’s East Side which is pictured in the striking cover design.

• Wykonawca New York Polyphony
• Data premiery 2010-08-01
• Nośnik CD

'Lovely playing which I enjoyed from first note to last for its poetry and passion as well as seemingly effortless keyboard fluency and command' (Gramophone) 'The Scherzo is as light as gossamer and the finale has both a heroic sense of struggle and passages of the most delicate filigree. Demidenko keeps you on the edge of your seat' (BBC Music Magazine) 'Poise, control, and utterly magical' (Classic CD)

• Wykonawca Demidenko Nikolai
• Data premiery 2005-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Sony Classical z przyjemnością przedstawia miłośnikom opery kontynuację serii Sony Classical Opera Home of the Great Singers, zawierającą rejestrację wybitnych realizacji przedstawień operowych dokonanych w II polowie XX wieku, a znajdujących się w katalogach RCA Victor/BMG, CBS/Sony oraz Eurodisc.Jednym z najstarszych nagrań w tej serii jest rejestracja rzymskiego przedstawienia opery Otello Verdiego, pod dyrekcją jednego z największych autorytetów w dziedzinie interpretacji muzyki tego kompozytora - Tullio Serafina. Recenzenci BBC Magazine uznali to nagranie za wzorcowe, zaś The Penguin Guide określił je jako jedno z najbliższych wzorcowi brzmienia muzyki Verdiego:„...żaden inny dyrygent nie rozumie tak doskonale muzyki Verdiego jak Serafin. (…) Tito Gobbi nie przeforsował partii nawet odrobinę, zaś Desdemona w wykonaniu Leonie Rysanek była ciepła i sympatyczna...”.

• Wykonawca Serafin Tullio
• Data premiery 2016-03-25
• Nośnik CD

Daniel-Ben Pienaar “makes the Goldbergs sound more like that other supreme set of variations, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, than any other pianist has.” An appropriate observation from BBC Music Magazine, as Pienaar follows his acclaimed recording of Bach’s groundbreaking Goldbergs (AV 2235), by scaling the heights of Beethoven’s monumental 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli. Variously called “the greatest set of variations ever written” and “the greatest of all piano works”, this late work is one of Beethoven’s most adventurous, suitably challenging for Pienaar’s technical wizardry and probing intellect. He compliments the set with Beethoven’s last great work for solo piano, the Bagatelles, Op. 126, which themselves are no mere trifles. As with his previous releases, Pienaar contributes in-depth notes which delve deeply into the music’s enigmas. Combined with his sometimes provocative, always enlightening interpretations, Pienaar has once again created a highly satisfying release for the committed classical listener. critical acclaim for Daniel-Ben Pienaar“the most completely satisfying survey of this still undervalued music ever committed to disc.” – The Sunday Times (on the Mozart Sonatas, AV 2209)“One to blow your socks off” – Classic FM Magazine, Editor’s Choice (on the Mozart Sonatas, AV 2209)“this new recording is indispensable” – BBC Music Magazine, * * * * * (on the Goldberg Variations, AV 2235)

• Wykonawca Pienaar Daniel-Ben
• Data premiery 2012-11-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. Lixiviation2. Atari Video Games Logo3. 'Clean Room' ITT TV Spot4. Almay 'Eclipse' TV Spot5. Paris 19716. Sound of a Dream Kissing7. Atari Corporate Tag8. Princess With Orange Feet9. 'Pop & Pour' Coca-cola Logo10. 'Discover Magazine' TV Spot11. Live Buchla Concert 197512. 'Inside Story' PBS TV Spot13. 'Liberator' Atari TV Spot14. Eighth Wave15. Sound of Wetness16. Second Breath

• Wykonawca Suzanne Ciani
• Data premiery 2012-02-20
• Nośnik Vinyl / 12" Album