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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING At just 25 Japanese classical guitarist Kaori Muraji is a huge star in her native country, with a string of top-selling recordings behind her. She is now set for a glittering international career with a new exclusive contract with Decca. This first international recording is this collection of beautifully arranged popular songs, many in arrangements by Japanese composer Takemitsu. One look at the tracklist will tell you how accessible this album is. Joining Kaori for two of the tracks is Sting's guitarist Dominic Miller (who himself released a highly successful solo album Shapes in 2004) and the combination of outstanding talent from classical and crossover approaches to the same instrument creates a very special kind of magic. Kaori Muraji began lessons with her guitarist father, Muraji Noboru, at the age of 3. 'The guitar has always been part of my life. I don't even remember when I started playing it,' she says. 'It soon became second nature to me to play it every day. Even before I started school, I couldn't imagine life without a guitar.' |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING 'Valéry Gergiev is the greatest conductor alive.' Sunday Times (London) 'I think Tchaikovsky was always ready for immortality...and with his final three symphonies he secured his place in the pantheon of Great Composers [...] When recording live we go for energy, we go for excitement, and still - hopefully - we go for good musical quality' Valéry Gergiev Two eagerly awaited new recordings of Tchaikovsky's symphonies 4 & 6 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valéry Gergiev is something the classical fraternity will be most excited about. These are released along with a repackaged version of the 5th Symphony recorded live at the Salzburg festival, which has been an outstanding disc in the Philips catalogue for some years, becoming one of the best-selling discs in Maestro Gergiev's mighty discography. The Fourth Symphony has always been a popular work with it's muscular melodic writing and pervading sense of Fate, which Tchaikovsky believed controlled his destiny - 'the fateful force which prevents the impulse to happiness from achieving it's goal...' This series will surely become the definitive versions of Tchaikovsky's much loved late symphonies - in glorious digital sound. |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING This recording of the 5th Symphony has been an outstanding part of the Philips catalogue for some years and has become one of the best-selling discs in Maestro Gergiev's mighty discography. The highly acclaimed recording was made live at the Salzburg Festival in July 1998 and is a glorious example of what can happen when a great conductor stands before a great orchestra. It is now repackaged to be part of a series that will surely become the definitive versions of Tchaikovsky's much loved late symphonies. |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony, known as the Pathétique , is among his most deeply moving and profound works - a masterpiece which he considered to be his greatest composition. Once again the struggle against fate is central to this symphony which was to be Tchaikovsky's last. The premiere took place in October 1893 in St.Petersburg, and just 8 days later the composer was dead. Few musical farewells are more poignant. Together with Gergiev's recording of the fourth and fifth symphonies, this performance will set the benchmark in the late symphonic works of Tchaikovsky, in the latest and most spectacular digital sound. |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING Following the tremendous acclaim for their live recording of Winterreise , Alfred Brendel & Matthias Goerne perform another great Schubert song cycle - Schwanengesang . This recording captures a performance live from the Wigmore Hall in London - famous as one of the World's most important chamber music auditoriums. The second part of the concert is devoted to Beethoven's equally well known song cycle An die ferne Gebiebte . No recording by either of these artists fails to stimulate, both because of the beauty of tone they share and because of the breadth of their intellectual engagement and artistry. Together, Goerne and Brendel are a formidable partnership who achieve a unified interpretation of the composer's vision that has enthralled critics and audiences alike. |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING Two of Maurizio Pollini's best-received recordings in recent years were the single album Schumann CDs (the Grammy nominated 471 3692, released 2001, and 471 3702, released 2002). We are now putting them together in a double-package (slimline box) and offering them at a reduced price. Schumann, like Chopin, is one of Maurizio Pollini's favourite composers, and a composer with whom Pollini is closely connected: Pollini and Schumann go back a long way together on Deutsche Grammophon, to classic, benchmark accounts of the C major Fantasy and the Etudes symphoniques. Judging by the reviews, the present recordings are going to be best recommendations too!
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING Henri Dutilleux's nocturne Sur le même accord played by Anne-Sophie Mutter is a world premiere recording, juxtaposed with Stravinsky's virtuosic Violin Concerto and Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 from Mutter's back catalogue. Henri Dutilleux, one of the most important contemporary French composers and 'the greatest living composer' according to Mutter, fashioned his nocturne to suit Mutter's style. At the age of 15, motivated by the conductor and patron of the arts Paul Sacher, Anne-Sophie Mutter discovered her interest in and love for modern works. Inspired by her playing, composers like Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutoslawski and last but certainly not least André Previn have written music especially for her. Sur le même accord ('On the one chord' - the concerto unfolds by transforming the pattern of six notes heard at the start) was commissioned by Paul Sacher when Anne-Sophie Mutter was only 16 years old. Henri Dutilleux delivered the score over a decade later. Anne-Sophie Mutter performed it on 28 April 2002 for the first time in London, with Kurt Masur conducting. The couplings are her stirring version of the Bartók Second Concerto and the piquant Stravinsky Concerto. |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING Teresa Berganza is of one of the most accomplished and versatile, as well as unquestionably one of the most individual, singers of the 20th century. The great Spanish mezzo's association with Deutsche Grammophon extended over two fruitful decades and represents practically all of her finest creations. This generously filled 4 CD set contains both operatic and song repertoire and celebrates her 70th birthday on March 16. The Italian Baroque aria recital recorded with Ricardo Requejo in 1978 is now released on CD for the first time outside Japan. The most famous extracts from her classic Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Carmen, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola and La Clemenza di Tito are all included here. The set also features Berganza's vibrant contribution to Falla's ballets El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) and El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat). His attractive one-act opera La Vida breve, with Berganza taking the major role of Salud, makes a welcome return to the DG catalogue and is included here complete. This cap box comes with new liner notes including Teresa Berganza in conversation about the featured recordings and biographical notes. Teresa Berganza on this release: 'Deutsche Grammophon was always like a family to me. Its recording engineers and technicians were every bit as fine musicians as the artists themselves, and they knew my voice almost better than I did. I am very happy that this album is being issued, because it represents one of the most beautiful and fulfilling periods of my life.' |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING This the third disc in Alfred Brendel's recent Mozart Sonata series. It includes two early sonatas from 1775 that contrast with the last sonata Mozart completed (in 1789). These are Brendel's first recordings of K.281 and K.576. The intriguing C minor Fantasia in a revised completion by Alfred Brendel. At the time of his 70th Birthday in 2001 Alfred Brendel announced that he was again turning his attention to the piano sonatas of Mozart. On this, his latest Philips release, Brendel brings decades of Mozartian experience to two of the earliest sonatas as well as the last sonata that Mozart was to complete. The two early sonatas (K.281 and K.282), written when Mozart was nineteen, are full of youthful brilliance and warmth and were favourite performance pieces as he travelled around the courts of Europe. In contrast K.576 is Mozart's last sonata and, from a technical point of view, possibly his most challenging. It is fitting that it ends in a simple, understated style; this most dazzling of all Mozart's sonata finales fades gently away into the distance. The disc ends with something of a rarity - the imposing C minor Fantasia which remained unfinished at the time of Mozart's tragically early death. This intriguing fragment, which includes a brief accompaniment for violin, was completed after Mozart's death by Maximilliam Stadler. For this recording, however, Alfred Brendel has allowed himself to modify Stadler's rather static and bass-heavy realisation of the violin part. |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING CLICK HERE to visit www.mitsukouchida.com Mitsuko Uchida is without doubt among the leading Mozart interpreters of our time, with a large and distinguished Mozart discography always among Philips best-selling discs. This new Mozart recording is the culmination of a performance project in which Mitsuko Uchida has been joined by violinist Mark Steinberg, the leader of the Brentano Quartet. 'Steinberg and Uchida have established an astonishingly sensitive collaboration... Steinberg's playing was as alert as Uchida's. He employed every shade of vibrato to characterise different phrases, and created a huge range of expressive colours'. The album was recorded following concerts of the complete cycle at the Wigmore Hall in London and selected programmes in Bath, Antwerp, Dublin and Paris. 'The intensity of Uchida and Steinberg's playing gave a glimpse of the riches in store in the rest of this enthralling series.' The Guardian '...To enter into Mozart's set of sonatas for piano and violin as a listener is to eavesdrop on a private exploration of ideas and impressions unfolding in an arena of the utmost trust and sensitivity. Piano and violin, with their radically different sonic personas, share musical material throughout. This double illumination allows us to encounter the same material lit by sunlight and by the limpid reflection of the sun in moonlight. During the past twelve years of living in these pieces together, Mitsuko and I have found great joy in making music dancing around a common center, in the quicksilver sensitivity of combining thoughts and sounds. With this recording we hope to offer the listener entry into the pleasures of this intertwined, intimate dialogue...' Mark Steinberg writing in the booklet note for this release. |
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The story of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain and the loss of their baby Azaria near Uluru is one of the defining moments in Australian history. From this unforgettable story comes a compelling and dramatic opera by Moya Henderson, in its world premiere recording. In Lindy, Moya Henderson and her librettist Judith Rodriguez have created a poetic and moving meditation on the nature of truth and hypocrisy, on Lindy's faith and courage and on the myths of the dreamtime, all set within a melodic and communicative musical landscape that creates a powerful framework for the opera's dramatic events. Some of the finest singers in this country come together for this powerful and moving live recording, with Australian soprano Joanna Cole as Lindy Chamberlain and David Hobson as Michael Chamberlain. Marketing Plans: |
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