'I found myself extraordinarily moved... this is a CD that grabs you and hangs on to the end' (Early Music Review) 'Radiantly beautiful music... the whole CD is one of unalloyed delight' (Classic CD) 'This is quite simply the best recording ever of the trouvere literature' (American Record Guide) 'Outstanding' (BBC Music Magazine)
Heinrich Schütz – The complete recording: In the coming year a recording of the complete works of Heinrich Schütz under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann will be released on the Carus label. Together with the Dresdner Kammerchor and many renowned soloists these works, true to historical performance practice, will be presented.Already in his Opus primus, the Italian Madrigals, Schütz emerged as an outstanding composer: In their musical quality, the 18 five-part madrigals exceed much that was still composed in the traditional madrigal style at the beginnning of the 17th century.
Tracklista: 1. A Man Outstanding in His Field2. The Sand Preacher3. Cultural Misunderstanding4. Ideologies5. Little Girl6. We the People of the Soil7. No Deal at the Crossroads8. The Best (Feat. Marianne Dissard)9. Pressure On Mada Lands (Feat. Tyler Bryant)10. The Globalisation Blues11. Brothers in Ideals
Valery Gergiev is joined by two outstanding singers for his latest LSO Live release featuring Bartók's one-act opera. Despite being one of the greatest ever interpreters of the role of Bluebeard on stage, this is Sir Willard White's first complete recording of Bluebeard's Castle. His Judith is the outstanding young Russian-born, Berlin-based mezzo Elena Zhidkova. Sir Willard performs extensively around the world during 2009 including appearances at The Metropolitan Opera in New York and La Scala in Milan. Elena Zhidkova will appear with the LSO and Gergiev at the BBC Proms and make her debut at the Mariinsky Theatre. Bartók's only opera is a dark and intense work, involving only two characters. Bluebeard's young bride persuades him to open seven doors in his castle in order to let light into the grim interior. Behind each she finds increasingly disturbing sights, until behind the final door she discovers Bluebeard's former wives and learns her fate.
'Awesomely gifted' (The Times) 'A pianist of outstanding imaginative vitality as well as technical brilliance' (The Good CD Guide) 'This very fine recital is in a class of its own' (CDReview) 'These works require the utmost in panache and glitter, Demidenko's scintillating fingers provide that in spades' (Gramophone) 'Demidenko is one of the most outstanding modern Chopin players … As usual, Demidenko's superb technique is plainly at the service of the music, and he produces a breathtaking sense of mometum' (International Record Review)
Alia Vox’s first ever DVD is not another filmed concert, but a real movie: conceived, lit, filmed and edited as such, in the Santa Cueva church, Cadix, where Haydn's work was premiered in 1787. As we have come to expect from Alia Vox, all the menus and subtitles are available in 7 langages, plus four outstanding bonuses, including a text written and read out especially for Alia Vox by Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature. A complete interactive catalogue features musical higlights from each album.
'I found myself extraordinarily moved... this is a CD that grabs you and hangs on to the end' (Early Music Review) 'Radiantly beautiful music... the whole CD is one of unalloyed delight' (Classic CD) 'This is quite simply the best recording ever of the trouvere literature' (American Record Guide) 'Outstanding' (BBC Music Magazine)
Tracklista:1. This Is Not Christmas 2. Welcome To Fortitude 3. Is He A Good Sheriff Or A Bad Sheriff? 4. Mammoth Suite 5. There Is Always A First Time For Everything 6. Vladek 7. Bear Alarm 8. I Shake Like A Fucking Leaf 9. It's Value To Science Is Incalculable 10. DCI Morton 11. Bear Alarm II 12. Impossibilities 13. Professor Stoddard 14. The Demon Is Among Us 15. Tupilaq (A Shower Scene) 16. I Want To Go Back 17. A Cold Light Striking Warm Skin 18. Dr. Khatri 19. Hurtling Environmental Catastrophe/ Teeny Little Lights 20. Henry 21. To See Whats Coming 22. Mammoth Suite II 23. Bang! 24. Permafrost 25. Castration 26. A Potato Peeler? 27. Satisfying Questions To Outstanding Questions 28. Hildur & Erik 29. Music For Anaesthetics 30. Rey?afjor?ur 31. Dan 32. ...Also Drums And Dancing 33. Tupilaq II (Muscimol) 34. Tainted Love 35. Permafronst II 36. Elena 37. Terrible Thing 38. In My Flesh And In The Space Between The Blood And The Bones 39. Officially That Would Be None Of Anyone's Business 40. You're All I See
Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort & Players celebrate their 40th anniversary with a magnificent recording of the world s first operatic masterpiece. Parrott has been at the center of the early and baroque music scenes for over four decades, and his meticulous research brings a fresh perspective to the myth of love lost and found through the art of music. Befitting such an outstanding recording, the two-CD set is luxuriously packaged with extensive notes and the complete libretto with English translations in a 60-page booklet.
“an urgently refreshing reading of the St John Passion...with fine singing from the chorus giving dramatic impact to the 'turba' choruses...Suzuki's feeling for the natural timing of numbers - generally on the fast side in the modern period manner - is impeccable, and the soloists make an excellent team, with Gerd Türk an outstanding Evangelist.”