Cat. No.: 477 6508
Barcode: 0028947765080
Label: DG 2CD Slimline
Release Date: 3 March

HELMUT WALCHA | BACH: The Art of the Fugue

ARTISTS

Helmut Walcha, organist

TRACK LISTING

J.S BACH: The Art of Fugue
Fuga a 4 Soggetti
Prelude and Fugue in C major BwV 547  
Trio Sonata in E flat
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C BWV 564
Trio Sonata in G major
Toccata and Fugue in D minor

'Walcha's records stand as beacons of Bach interpretation' The Guardian

This recording was Deutsche Grammophon's first in stereo, made in 1956. When finally released in stereo in 1960, The Art of Fugue won Helmut Walcha worldwide success. Now we are proud to re-present it in 2007, the 100th anniversary of the organist's birth.

'One of the century's greatest interpreters of the organ music of J. S. Bach with an intuitive grasp of the composer's mind and intentions that never failed him.' The Guardian

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Cat. No.: 477 6502
Barcode: 0028947765028
Label: DG 2CD Slimline
Release Date: 3 March

LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI | DMITRI MITROPOULOS
BRAHMS: Serenade No. 1 | DAWSON: A Negro Folk Symphony

ARTISTS

Symphony of the Air
American Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
MartinLeskow, oboe
Abe Goldstein, clarinet
Jacques Margolies, violin
David Katz, viola
Fred Zimmerman, double bass
Dimitri Mitropoulos

TRACK LISTING

BRAHMS: Serenade No. 1 in D major Op. 11
PROKOFIEV: Quintet in G minor Op. 39 for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Double Bass
PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes Op. 34 for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet
DAWSON: Negro Folk Symphony Revised Version, 1952
SWANSON: Night Music for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Strings

A double album devoted to Stokowski and Mitropoulos, a specially priced 2 CD set

Leopold Stokowski and Dimitri Mitropoulos, two of the most fascinating conductors of the 20th century, are brought together in a double album of equally fascinating repertoire.

On CD 1 Stokowski, a committed Brahmsian, offers a fresh account of the sunny First Serenade, while Mitropoulos contributes two popular short works by Prokofiev.

CD 2, devoted to African-American music, presents William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony, a work premièred (1934) and championed by Stokowski, paired with Mitropoulos's recording of Howard Swanson's Night Music.

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Cat. No.: 477 6505
Barcode: 0028947765059
Label: DG 2CD Slimline
Release Date: 3 March

MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH | Early Recordings - 80th Birthday Tribute

ARTISTS

Mstislav Rostropovich, cello and conductor

TRACK LISTING

SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra no. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
SCHUMANN: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 129
GLAZUNOV: Chant du ménéstrel, Op. 71
CHOPIN: Introduction and Polonaise brillante Op. 3
GRANADOS: Intermezzo ( Goyescas )
BORODIN: Excerpts (Prince Igor)
PROKOFIEV: Adagio ( Cinderella )
POPPER: Elfentanz Op. 39
R. STRAUSS: An einsamer Quelle ( Stimmungsbilder Op. 9 )
SCHUMANN: 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102
HANDEL: Aria 'Vouchsafe, O Lord' ( 'Dettingen' Te Deum )
PAGANINI: Moto perpetuo Op. 11

'The world's greatest musician' The Times

Rare recordings of concertos and encores from the 1950s - Many released on CD for the fist time on this specially priced 2-CD set.

As he celebrates his 80th birthday in March 2007, Deutsche Grammophon releases on CD a double album of Rostropovich's early recordings from the 1950s, including two concertos with which he is intimately associated and a sequence of brilliant and evocative encores. Many are first-time releases on CD.

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Cat. No.: 477 6514
Barcode: 0028947765141
Label: DG 2CD Slimline
Release Date: 3 March

IRMGARD SEEFRIED | Lieder

ARTISTS

Irmgard Seefried, soprano

TRACK LISTING

MOZART: Das Veilchen K. 476 | Die Verschweigung K. 518 | Das Lied der Trennung K. 519 | Das Kinderspiel K. 598 | Die kleine Spinnerin K. 531 | Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers | Einsam ging ich jüngst im Haine K. 308 (295b) | An Chloe K. 524 | Abendempfindung K. 523 | Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling K. 596
SCHUBERT: Auf dem Wasser zu singen D 774 | Lachen und Weinen D 777
BRAHMS: Dein blaues Auge hält so still Op. 59 No. 8 | Ständchen Op. 106 No. 1
MUSSORGSKY: The Nursery
BARTÓK: Dorfszenen Sz 78
WOLF: An eine Äolsharfe | Das verlassene Mägdlein | Begegnung
R. STRAUSS: Ständchen Op. 17 No. 2
SCHUMANN: Die Lotosblume Op. 25 No. 7 | Mit Myrten und Rosen, lieblich und hold Op. 24 No. 9 ? Du bist wie eine Blume Op. 25 No. 24
SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 42
SCHUBERT: Der König in Thule D 367* | Das Lied im Grünen D 917* | Die junge Nonne D 828* | Fischerweise D 881* | Seligkeit D433* | Die Forelle D 550* | An die Musik D 547*
R. STRAUSS: Traum durch die Dämmerung Op. 29 No. 1* | Meinem Kinde Op. 37 No. 3* | Allerseelen Op. 10 No. 8* | Morgen! Op. 27 No. 4*
Mono/ *Stereo Recordings

'This cornucopia of delights' Gramophone

Lieder by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mussorgsky, Richard Strauss, and Bartók sung by one of the finest proponents of the art form on this specially priced 2-CD set.

Taken from recordings made between 1953 and 1960, these two CDs contain the cream of soprano Irmgard Seefried's vocal art.

As Gramophone critic Alan Blyth wrote in his review of the original release: 'If I were condemned to hear only one voice for the remainder of my life I think it might well be hers. If I wanted to be charmed, to laugh or cry I would find her the perfect companion. In her singing on these two discs we hear someone whose every utterance bespeaks natural sincerity and truthful feeling.'

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Cat. No.: 477 6511
Barcode: 0028947765110
Label: DG 2CD Slimline
Release Date: 3 March

ANDOR FOLDES | Wizard of the Keyboard

ARTISTS

Andor Foldes, piano

TRACK LISTING

J.S. BACH: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV 903
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 6 in Fajor Op. 10/2
BRAHMS: 4 Waltzes from Op. 39
FALLA: Fire Dance form Love the Magician
POULENC: Nocturne No 4 in C minor (Bal fantôme)
DEBUSSY: Préludes I No.8: La fille aux cheveux de lin
CHOPIN: Mazurka in E minor Op.41/1
CHOPIN: Nocturne No.13 in C minor Op.48/1
LISZT: Mephisto-Waltz
BARTÓK: Suite Op.14 Sz 62 (1916)
BARTÓK: Piano Sonata (1926)
BARTÓK: Allegro barbaro Sz 49 (1911)
STRAVINSKY: Piano Sonata (1924)
BARBER: Excursions Op.20
COPLAND: Piano Sonata (1939-41)
KODÁLY: Dances from Marosszék
STRAVINSKY: Circus Polka for a Young Elephant
THOMSON: Ragtime Bass in C sharp major
ALBÉNIZ: Tango in D major Op.165/2

'A consummate musician with cosmopolitan flair' Der Spiegel

Specially priced 2-CD set - many first-time releases on CD

Long associated with the piano music of Bartók, whom he knew personally, Andor Foldes was one of the great virtuosi of the 20th century, as this rounded portrait of his DG recordings reveals - from Bach to Beethoven, as well as the Romantics Chopin and Liszt, and in his championing of American composers like Barber and Copland in his new homeland from 1939.

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