After their highly acclaimed recording of Briten’s Cello Symphony (ONYX4058) Pieter Wispelwey and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Seiko Kim turn to two romantic cello concertos whose neglect is hard to fathom. Lalo unusually for a French composer in the mid nineteenth century was drawn to chamber music, and formed a string quartet (in which he played viola, and later second violin) that championed the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. His passion for chamber music developed to embrace large scale orchestral works – two violin concertos, the famous Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra, a symphony in G minor, the piano concerto and the concerto recorded here – his cello concerto in D minor of 1877. A strong work in the Germanic tradition, the central movement combines a slow movement and scherzo. It’s comparative neglect in the concert hall is difficult to understand as it is an impressive and well made work worthy of his contemporaries Franck and Saint-Saëns. The latter’s second cello concerto from 1902 is totally overshadowed by his impressive and dazzling first concerto dating from 1872. The later work has all of the composer’s flair for style, elegance and is possibly more challenging for the soloist than its A minor sibling. Advertising in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone

• Wykonawca Wispelwey Pieter
• Data premiery 2013-05-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. Your My Desire2. Leave Me Alone3. Broken Man4. Kiss Me Goodbye5. Anytime6. Satan Works My Head7. Tell Me the Truth and Lie8. How It Used to Be

• Wykonawca Workhorse III
• Data premiery 2014-11-03
• Nośnik CD

Although well known and highly regarded in his lifetime and in the years following his death in 1596, the music of Philippe Rogier is largely known (especially to English audiences) through one motet alone, Laboravi in gemitu meo. But there is much to explore in this genuinely underrated composer. Philippe Rogier was one of a long line of Flemish composers who worked at the Spanish court. The high regard that the musically astute Philip II held for Rogier was not misplaced, because he is one of the most fascinating and rewarding composers of the late sixteenth century: extraordinarily versatile, capable of plumbing the emotional depths in his penitential works (of which there are many) as well as exalting the heights in his festive music. The main work on this disc includes the parody mass Missa Ego sum qui sum, based on a motet by Gombert. It must rank as one of the finest settings of the Mass ordinary of the late sixteenth century, dazzling in its invention and sheer beauty. Gombert had been one of the most influential composers of the post-Josquin period, developing a style of composition based on continuous imitation and almost relentless expressivity with an extraordinarily high level of dissonance. Rogier’s Mass seems to be a tribute to this style. Two twelve-part accompanied motets are recorded here, pointing to a well-developed polychoral tradition at the Spanish court. The remaining motets on this recording represent different facets of the composer: desperate cries in the pentitential works and sheer exuberance in Cantantibus organis, a motet in honour of St Cecilia. The much admired choir of King’s College London and their director David Trendell appear in their Hyperion debut.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 11. Barber: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1 And 2 / First Essay For Orchestra (Royal Scottish National Orchestra, M. Alsop) CD 21. Barber: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Cello Concerto / Medea Suite / Adagio For Strings (W. Warner, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, M. Alsop) CD 31. Barber: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Violin Concerto / Music For A Scene From Shelley (Buswell, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, M. Alsop) CD 41. Barber: Piano Concerto / Die Natali / Medea's Meditation CD 51. Barber: Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 / Essays For Orchestra Nos. 2 And 3 CD 61. Barber: Capricorn Concerto / A Hand Of Bridge / Canzonetta / Intermezzo

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

Polish pianist Ewa Kupiec studied in Warsaw at the Chopin Academy and in London at the Royal Academy of Music. With an extensive and acclaimed discography, she regularly performs at the world’s leading festivals and with major orchestras including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic. She feels a close connection with the music of Chopin and is a champion of Polish composers including Władysław Szpilman’s whose music she recorded for Sony’s release of the movie The Pianist. Her prizewinning recordings include works by Lutoslawski, Szymanowsky and Paderewski. She is widely recognised as one of Europe’s most dedicated interpreters of contemporary music.   Chopin’s keyboard works call for the pianist to take the virtuosic demands in their stride whilst at the same time conveying the eloquence in the melodic line. In these Chopin recordings she proves the perfect exponent, her poetic cultivation perfectly suiting this repertoire. Where asked for, Kupiec has the pre-requisite (and considerable) finger power combined with infinitely nuanced phrase endings adjusting her sonority and colour of tone with deft aplomb. Ewa Kupiec’s concert highlights in the summer and fall of 2012 include appearances with the Gewandhausorchester in June, in Ireland the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and the Rheingau Festival in Germany in July, and in October concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and in Frankfurt an engagement with Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester.  

• Wykonawca Kupiec Ewa
• Data premiery 2012-06-01
• Nośnik CD

Tomás Luis de Victoria's requiem mass for six voices, written in 1603 and published in 1605, is a masterpiece. It is one of a handful of large-scale works which enjoys mainstream appeal in the 21st century. For many, it represents what Renaissance polyphony is, what it sounds and feels like, and how expressive it can be. The disc also features two well-known works by Victoria's contemporary Alonso Lobo.The performance comes from the renowned professional chamber choir Tenebrae, led by Nigel Short, following their recent BBC Music Magazine Award nominated recording of Francis Poulenc's Figure Humaine.“Figure Humaine makes extreme demands on ensemble and intonation, as plenty of commercial recordings can prove. Nigel Short's Tenebrae is astonishing ... a showcase for Poulenc's choral writing, I'm finding it hard to imagine this recital being bettered.” BBC Music MagazineVictoria’s Requiem Mass is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of Renaissance choral polyphony, and Tenebrae here exquisitely conveys the flowing relationships between its six voices."The Independent*****       "Tenebrae’s performance, directed by Nigel Short, is gently sustained, immaculately balanced and wrapped in a luminous acoustic … If you have ever developed a resistance to Renaissance polyphony, this could be the disc to make you think again."The Financial Times*****              "They are perfectly tuned … and one is rarely aware of intrusive individual singers. The acoustic has a long echo, but the sound is kept nicely in focus. This recording does justice both to the genius of Victoria and to the musicality of Tenebrae."Recording and Performance – *****BBC Music Magazine Choral & Song Choice, June 2011

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2011-08-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1                                                                                             1. Better Not Tell Her2. Didnt I3. Have You Seen Me Lately4. Life Is Eternal, Waiting at the Gate5. Happy Birthday6. Holding Me Tonight7. It's Not Like Him8. Dont Wrap It Up9. Fishermans Song10. We Just Got HereCD 21. Intro2. Letters Never Sent3. Lost in Your Love4. Like a River Time Works on All the Wild Young Men5. Touched By the Sun6. Davy7. Halfway Round the World8. What About a Holiday, the Reason9. Private10. Catch It Like a Fever11. Born to Break My Heart12. I'd Rather Be with You

• Wykonawca Simon Carly
• Data premiery 2017-03-18
• Nośnik CD

The San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet, known equally for its innovation and its elegant performances, debuts on AVIE with a recording of its namesake work, a set of 12 love songs scored for string quartet, coupled with the composer's expansive G major Quartet, No. 13. Known internationally through touring and a dozen acclaimed recordings, the Cypress String Quartet traverses repertoire from J.S. Bach to world premieres of works they have commissioned from such composers as Jennifer Higdon, Kevin Puts, and Elena Ruehr.

• Wykonawca Cypress String Quartet
• Data premiery 2013-03-01
• Nośnik CD

  Acclaimed conductor Thomas Zehetmair presents the world premiere recording of Hans Gál’s Second Symphony alongside an electrifying live recording of Schubert’s Ninth Symphony, the "Great". Hard on the heels of the world premiere recording of Hans Gál’s First Symphony (AV2224), internationally celebrated conductor Thomas Zehetmair follows with a superb value 2-CD set including the first ever recording of Gál’s Second Symphony, alongside Schubert’s "Great" Ninth. The release showcases two ends of a great melodic tradition, presenting Gál’s music alongside 19th-century symphonic repertoire that represents its roots and core values. Gál’s Second Symphony is perhaps the most personal of his four, with an emotional depth and haunting beauty that inspired Gál’s biographer, Wilhelm Waldstein, to write of the slow movement: “it is, I dare to assert, the most important Adagio since Bruckner.” Written in 1942-43, during the darkest war years, this symphony distils the process of overcoming pain and loss into the language of pure music.  Featuring Northern Sinfonia in their spectacular venue Hall One of The Sage Gateshead, these recordings underscore Zehetmair’s hallmark electrifying intensity, precision and vision. This release continues Avie’s ongoing celebration of the music of Hans Gál, following highly acclaimed releases of the complete works for solo piano by Leon McCawley (AV2064), chamber works for Violin and Piano featuring Annette-Barbara Vogel (AV2182), and concertante works for violin and orchestra, also with Vogel, and Kenneth Woods conducting Northern Sinfonia (AV2146).  

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2011-10-01
• Nośnik CD

George Enescu was an extraordinarily gifted and well-rounded musician: a virtuoso violinist, a world-class conductor, an outstanding pianist, cellist, and organist – even a fine baritone. He was hugely admired by many great musicians of his time, including the cellist and conductor Pablo Casals who described him as ‘the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart’. To a certain extent, the musical genius and extreme versatility of Enescu ended up overshadowing his many great achievements as a composer. His best-known compositions – the Romanian Rhapsodies – are light potpourris of folk tunes which deflected the focus from the depth and originality of his other works, and for this reason he grew to resent them. In his composing career, Enescu wrote five symphonies, an opera, and quite a number of pieces for chamber groups, including the two piano quartets recorded here. To this day, most of these works remain rarities in the concert hall, and they are also seldom recorded. One of the paradoxes of his writing is that the extremely detailed instructions left in the scores of his chamber works produce the impression of music that it almost improvised. His two piano quartets illustrate the point well. These are late romantic works with a firm grounding in the twentieth century. Richly textured, virtuosic, and highly individual, they display traits characteristic of Mahler, Wagner, Fauré, and Ravel, while also remaining heavily indebted to the distinctive sound of Romanian folk music. Technically, both are highly challenging works, as you would expect from the teacher of such prominent musicians as Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Grumiaux, and Ida Haendel. The members of the Schubert Ensemble know these works well. They performed a series of Enescu’s chamber works at the Wigmore Hall during 2010, including these two piano quartets. Giving more than sixty concerts a year, and having performed in over forty different countries, the Ensemble is known today as one of the world’s leading exponents of chamber music for piano and strings, consistently receiving excellent reviews for their recordings on Chandos.

• Wykonawca Schubert Ensemble
• Data premiery 2011-06-01
• Nośnik CD