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Special offer. Antheil: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Markus Becker (piano)
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Eiji Oue
Some of this is hilarious 1920s music. George Antheil, the self-styled 'bad boy of music'… is in fine kleptomaniac form at a time when he idolised Stravinsky and plagiarised compulsively.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Don’t let Michi Gaigg’s lovingly turned accounts of Mendelssohn’s youthful experiments pass you by. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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A fine start to a welcome series. The Austrian Franz Schreker is at last being recognised as a significant and inventive post-Romantic voice. The Suite Der Geburtstag der Infantin is extraordinarily... —
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Under violinist-conductor Henry Raudales, the Munich Radio Orchestra approach Respighi’s Baroque reworkings with fastidious care and exquisite attention to detail…his approach to Gli uccelli,... —
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Jacques Offenbach - Cello Concertos
RecommendedGuido Schiefen (cello)
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Helmuth Froschauer, David de Villiers, Gerard Oskamp
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Lehár: Friederike
Kristiane Kaiser, Sylvia Schwartz, Klaus Florian Vogt & Daniel Behle
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Muenchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer
The glorious voice of the soprano Kristiane Kaiser in the title-role is matched by the powerful tenor of Klaus Florian Vogt as Goethe. The secondary leads are equally convincing. Sylvia Schwartz's... —
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The Sarastros and flautist Dimitri Vecchi capably perform three chamber works by the great violinist Adolf Busch, navigating the music’s scurrying ebbs and flows with a fine sense of ensemble. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Fall, L: Der fidele Bauer
Rupert Bergmann (Lindoberer), Laura Scherwitzl (Annamirl), Franz Suhrada (Mathaeus Scheichelroither), Eugene Amesmann (Stefan), Robert Maszl (Vincenz), Romana Noack (Friederike), Thomas Zisterer (Zopf/Horst)
Chor des Lehar Festivals & Franz Lehar-Orchester, Vinzenz Praxmarer
the performance from the 2010 Bad Ischl Festival is of a high standard and offers a proper sense of a genuine Viennese operetta ensemble...This is, though, a stage performance for a German-speaking... —
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The orchestra gives us brisk, energetic, and stylish performances in the by-now familiar period-influenced style adapted to modern instruments. The strings in particular handle some virtuosic... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Orchestral (18th-century music)
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