After award-winning Langgaard recordings, the Nightingale String Quartet turns to one of the great unsung quartet cycles of the last century, that of Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996). Volume 1 in this new cycle takes in the composer’s first published quartet, his momentum-fuelled Quartet No. 3 and his taut Quartet No. 15 with it’s pathos-imbued funeral march. [...]
TRACKLIST 1 O COMFORTER (PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT) 05:23 2 A MAD TEA-PARTY (ROYAL VERSION) 08:12 3 BLISS (OF THE POEM BY ALEXANDER PUSHKIN) (Alexander Knaifel) 04:37 4 THIS CHILD (Alexander Knaifel) 09:40 5 CONFESSION (Alexander Knaifel) 07:22 6 O LORD OF ALL MY LIFE (Alexander Knaifel) 16:00 7 O HEAVENLY KING (Alexander Knaifel) [...]
Cappella Amsterdam and it’s artistic leader Daniel Reuss make their PENTATONE debut with In Umbra Mortis. The album brings together Wolfgang Rihm’s contemporary Sieben Passions-Stücke and Passion-related motets by the Flemish 16th-century polyphonist Giaches de Wert, revealing unexpected kinship between two composers four centuries apart. By entwining the old and new, the listener is invited [...]
WEINBERG, MIECZYSŁAW (1919–1996) Complete Piano Works (4-CD Boxed Set) Allison Brewster Franzetti, piano Polish by birth, Mieczyslaw Weinberg escaped to the Soviet Union in 1939 and became a close friend and musical disciple of Shostakovich. He was a distinguished concert pianist, and piano music formed an important part of his prolific output. From pragmatic yet [...]
Tracklist 1 Nicolò Paganini*, Francesca Dego, Francesca Leonardi– La Chlochette Arranged By [Arranged For Violin And Piano By] – Fritz Kreisler Composed By – Nicolò Paganini* 6:35 Fritz Kreisler, Francesca Dego– Recitativo Und Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6 Composed By – Fritz Kreisler (4:33) 2 – Recitativo. Lenot Con Espressione – Tranquillo – 2:32 3 – Scherzo. [...]
The Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble is – as the name implies – based in Stockholm, and consists of five of the city’s leading musicians. Project-based and often inviting guest performers, the SSE is known for it’s imaginative programmes built around a particular event or concept and bringing together music from various genres and eras. For it’s [...]
Tracklist 1er Livre SACD1-1 I. Le Chocard Des Alpes 9:27 SACD1-2 II. Le Loriot 8:06 SACD1-3 III. Le Merle Bleu 12:59 2e Livre SACD1-4 IV. Le Traquet Stapazin 14:05 3e Livre SACD1-5 V. La Chouette Hulotte 7:54 SACD1-6 VI. L’Alouette Lulu 6:47 4e Livre SACD2-1 VII. La Rousserolle Effarvatte 31:37 5e Livre SACD3-1 VIII. L’Alouette [...]
Pēteris Vasks – Uladzimir Sinkevich, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić – Musica Serena; Musica Dolorosa; Musica Appassionata; Klātbūtne Tracklist 1 Musica Serena Für Streichorchester 10:06 2 Musica Dolorosa Für Streichorchester 12:49 3 Musica Appassionata Für Streichorchester 18:26 Concerto No. 2 Klātbūtne Für Violoncello Und Streichorchester Soprano Vocals – Anna-Maria Palii Violoncello – Uladzimir Sinkevich (35:32) 4 [...]
Recorded June 2015 at Avatar Studios, New York, for ECM Records
Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote this second Baroque recital with the English ensemble Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen (following Arianna in 2020, ALPHA576) to the figure [...]
Tracklist 1 Violin Sonata (Fantasia) No. 1 ‘Désespérance’ (‘Despair’) (1912) 9:25 Violin Sonata (Fantasia) No. 2 (1914) (23:18) 2 I. Allegro Non Troppo 6:20 3 II. Largo – Moderato 9:53 4 III. Rondo: Allegro Final 7:05 Violin Sonata No. 3 (1920) (20:56) 5 I. Adagio Non Troppo 9:28 6 II. Allegro Vivace Scherzando 4:56 7 [...]
Third solo album by Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld on One Little Independent Records
Tracklist Oratorio “Giuseppe, Figlio di Giacobbe” (Extract) 1. Prima Cantata 2. Seconda Cantata 3. Oratorio Historia di Ezechia (Extract)