Sony Classical zaprasza do wysłuchania 12-płytowego zestawu zatytułowanego "Georges Pretre - The Complete RCA Album Collection". To unikalny zbiór nagrań dokonanych dla RCA przez jednego z najwybitniejszych dyrygentów XX wieku - Georges’ a Pretre. Studiował u Maurice Duruflé i André Cluytens w konserwatorium w Paryżu, gdzie debiutował w 1956 w Opéra Comique w Capriccio Ryszarda Straussa. Wkrótce rozpoczął działalność w Europie i USA, osiągając największe sukcesy w teatrach operowych, m.in. londyńskim Covent Garden, nowojorskim Metropolitan Opera i mediolańskim La Scala. Współpracował często z Marią Callas, m.in. nagrał z nią "Toscę" G. Pucciniego i "Carmen" G. Bizeta. Na zaproszenie Herberta von Karajana, Georges Prętre wystąpił po raz pierwszy w Wiedniu w 1962 r. W 2008 r, a następnie w 2010 r. poprowadził transmitowany przez liczne stacje telewizyjne i radiowe koncert noworoczny, dyrygując Wiedeńską Orkiestrą Filharmoniczną. Stał się (jak dotychczas) najstarszym dyrygentem tego tradycyjnego koncertu. Tracklista: CD 1/2 1. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor CD 3/4 1. Verdi: La Traviata CD 5 1. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 82 2. Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise, Op. 55 CD 6  Arias from 1. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice 2. Donizetti: Anna Bolena 3. Donizetti: La favorite 4. Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette 5. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust 6. Gounod: Sapho 7. Massenet: Werther 8. Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano) CD 7 1. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 (Alexis Weissenberg, piano) CD 8 1. Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43 CD 9 1. Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op.16 (Walter Trampler, viola) CD 10 1. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 CD 11 1. Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op.64 (Uto Ughi, violin) 2. Bruch: Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 26 (Uto Ughi, violin) CD 12 1. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (David Bell, Organ; Christopher Warren-Green, violin)

• Wykonawca Pretre Georges
• Data premiery 2017-11-10
• Nośnik CD

Internationally, Lahti Symphony Orchestra is closely associated with the numerous Sibelius recordings released on BIS, conducted by their long-time chief conductor Osmo Vänskä. These recordings have received an overwhelming international welcome among reviewers, but also among record-buyers: as of August 2009 more than one million Lahti discs released by BIS have been sold! As many already know, the orchestra does not only play works by Sibelius – its recordings of music by contemporary Finnish composers such as Rautavaara, Kalevi Aho and Joonas Kokkonen have all met with critical acclaim. Led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, its present chief conductor, the orchestra now takes a step eastwards, and performs two symphonies by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Having as a student absorbed the music of Webern, Scriabin and the new Polish school, in the 1970s Silvestrov moved away from avant-garde techniques and became increasingly involved with the idiom of 19th-century song: ‘It seems to me that music is song in spite of everything, even when it is unable to sing in a literal sense. Not a philosophy, not a system of beliefs, but the song of the world about itself, and at the same time a musical testament to existence.’ To date, Silvestrov has composed seven symphonies, of which the Fourth (1976) and the Fifth (1980–82) are both dominated by a longing for a beauty that used to be, but is no longer within reach. Considered by some to be his masterpiece, Symphony No. 5 has for instance been described as ‘an epilogue or coda inspired by the music of late Romantic composers such as Gustav Mahler.’

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2009-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Internationally, Lahti Symphony Orchestra is closely associated with the numerous Sibelius recordings released on BIS, conducted by their long-time chief conductor Osmo Vänskä. These recordings have received an overwhelming international welcome among reviewers, but also among record-buyers: as of August 2009 more than one million Lahti discs released by BIS have been sold! As many already know, the orchestra does not only play works by Sibelius – its recordings of music by contemporary Finnish composers such as Rautavaara, Kalevi Aho and Joonas Kokkonen have all met with critical acclaim. Led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, its present chief conductor, the orchestra now takes a step eastwards, and performs two symphonies by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Having as a student absorbed the music of Webern, Scriabin and the new Polish school, in the 1970s Silvestrov moved away from avant-garde techniques and became increasingly involved with the idiom of 19th-century song: ‘It seems to me that music is song in spite of everything, even when it is unable to sing in a literal sense. Not a philosophy, not a system of beliefs, but the song of the world about itself, and at the same time a musical testament to existence.’ To date, Silvestrov has composed seven symphonies, of which the Fourth (1976) and the Fifth (1980–82) are both dominated by a longing for a beauty that used to be, but is no longer within reach. Considered by some to be his masterpiece, Symphony No. 5 has for instance been described as ‘an epilogue or coda inspired by the music of late Romantic composers such as Gustav Mahler.’

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2009-01-01
• Nośnik CD

To many, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra has become synonymous with excellence in Sibelius repertoire. Its numerous recordings with the previous chief conductor Osmo Vänskä have received countless distinctions and awards, and the orchestra is universally regarded as having a very special affinity for the music of their great compatriot. On the present disc it is Okko Kamu, Vänskä's successor as chief conductor, who wields the baton. Kamu has been a presence on the international scene ever since the early 1970s, when he made a highly-acclaimed set of Sibelius symphonies in partnership with Herbert von Karajan. Here three other works by Sibelius make up the programme, which opens with music for Shakespeare's play The Tempest, for which the composer in 1925 wrote the most ambitious of his several theatre scores. For concert use he later selected the Overture and two Suites recorded here. In 1926, a year after The Tempest, Sibelius again turned to the realm of magic in his masterful evocation of the forest, the symphonic poem Tapiola. The title can be translated as ‘the domain of Tapio’, god of the forest in Finnish mythology, and according to Walter Damrosch, who conducted the first performance, the audience was ‘enthralled by the dark pine forests and the shadowy gods and wood-nymphs who dwell therein’. From the start the work has been regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces from Sibelius’ pen. These two large-scale works are here separated by the seven-minute long symphonic poem The Bard from 1913, a work which in its treatment of the thematic material and the chamber-music-like quality of its scoring invites comparison with the Fourth Symphony of two year’s earlier.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2011-05-01
• Nośnik SACD

Tracklista: Sibelius JeanBelshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 511. I. Oriental Procession2. II. Solitude3. III. Nocturne4. IV. Khadra's DanceKarelia Suite, Op. 11 (Excerpts)5. I. Intermezzo: Moderato6. III. Alla Marcia: ModeratoSymphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 437. I. Allegretto8. II. Tempo Andante, Ma Rubato9. III. Vivacissimo 10. IV. Finale: Allegro Moderato

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2016-03-11
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1  Anatolij Konstantinovic Ljadov: 1. 2 Intermezzi, Op. 8  Aleksandr Nikolaevic Skrjabin 2. 12 Etudes, Op. 8  Sergei Ljapunow 3. Nocturne, Op. 8  Nikolai Medtner 4. 2 Fairy Tales, Op. 8 CD 2  Jan Sibelius 1. Variations for Cello Solo  Gyorgy Ligeti 2. Sonata for Cello Solo  Zoltan Kodaly 3. Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 8

• Wykonawca Gaponenko Elena
• Data premiery 2017-11-01
• Nośnik CD

Komplet nagrań dokonanych przez wielką polską skrzypaczkę Idę Haendel w Pradze w latach 1957-1965. Artystka wykonuje koncerty skrzypcowe i sonaty takich kompozytorów jak Stravinsky, Wieniawski, Sibelius, Beethoven, Tartini, Głazunow, Lalo, Ravel, Sarasate i Bartok.

• Wykonawca Haendel Ida
• Data premiery 2014-09-15
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:  Sibelius 1. Finlandia op. 26 Nr. 7  Hannikainen 2. Kappaleita Lapsille op. 21 3. Pianokappaletta op. 20  Leifs 4. Rimnadanslög Nr. 4  Latour 5. Rule Britannia  Röntgen 6. Zes Oud-Nederlandsche Dansen op. 46  Albeniz 7. Tango  Jaell 8. Souvenirs d'Italie  Economou 9. Song of Freedom Nr. 1-21 10. Dance from Kalamata "Kalamatianos"

• Wykonawca Katsaris Cyprien
• Data premiery 2011-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Sytuacja społeczno-polityczna Europy drugiej połowy XIX wieku i początków wieku XX sprzyjała rozwojowi tożsamości i poczucia odrębności poszczególnych narodów. (...) Muzyce przypadła niebagatelna rola na tym polu. Historycy muzyki wskazują na dwa wyraźne nurty: główny i peryferyjny, tzw. narodowy, w którym istotna była społeczna funkcja muzyki. Odwoływanie się do przeszłości narodu, jego bohaterów, literatury, obyczajów, języka i folkloru zaowocowało powstaniem szkół (stylów) narodowych: hiszpańskiej (Sarasate, Albéniz, Granados) skandynawskiej (Gade, Grieg, Sinding, Sibelius), angielskiej (Parry, Stanford, Mackenzie), czeskiej (Smetana, Dvořák), węgierskiej (Erkel, Mosonyi), rosyjskiej (Glinka, „Potężna Gromadka”) czy polskiej (Chopin, Moniuszko).Jerzy Zajączkowski

• Wykonawca Tarcholik Piotr
• Data premiery 2017-03-10
• Nośnik CD

Mit 111 The Conductors erscheint eine spannende neue Box der außergewöhnlichen 111-Serie der deutschen Grammophon. Präsentiert werden auf 40 CDs die 40 größten Dirigenten, die von den 1930er Jahren bis heute auf dem ruhmreichen Label musikalische Geschichte schrieben.Ein Eckpfeiler für jede ambitionierte Klassik-Sammlung!Meilensteine der orchestralen Aufnahmegeschichte wie Carlos Kleibers Einspielung der Sinfonien Nr. 5 und 7 von Beethoven, oder Karajans Interpretation der 9. Sinfonie stehen in der Kollektion neben raren Perlen von Fritz Busch, Fritz Lehmann, Riccardo Chailly oder Ferdinand Leitner, darunter erscheinen diverse Werke zum ersten Mal auf CD.Mit Repertoire von Haydn, Mozart und Beethoven über Brahms, Strauss und Mahler bis hin zu Sibelius, Schostakowitsch oder Messiaen.In Gestalt dieser neuen Box der fabulösen 111-Serie setzt Deutsche Grammophon seinen großen Dirigenten auf eindrucksvolle Weise ein Denkmal.Inklusive eines 112-seitigen Booklets und Sleeves mit originalem Cover-Design. "Deutsche Grammophon steht für das Beste der klassischen Musik!"

• Data premiery 2017-07-01
• Nośnik Audio-CD