In the 1960s, while still in his twenties, Daniel Barenboim joined forces with the English Chamber Orchestra to record a groundbreaking set of the complete Mozart Piano Concertos, conducting from the keyboard. Later, he recorded them again with the Berlin Philharmonic, but the English Chamber Orchestra version still has the edge for its bite and beauty, operatic mellifluousness offset by apparently boundless energy and an atmosphere of inspired and intimate music-making from start to finish. Barenboim brings us Mozart in all his many guises, from enfant terrible to founding father and, ultimately, avatar in the term’s original sense.
Aranis is a Flemish septet playing a somewhat minimalistic contemporary classical with touches of folk and the occasional post-rock spirit. Their music covers grounds from the repetitive and haunting to the more free spirited, melodic and compelling…
When this original series first came to town, it boasted a breath of fresh air amidst a tiring tide of 60s garage punk leftovers. Lovingly compiled, long-gone 45s tell of innocent, adolescent ambitions while laying the foundations for something much bigger. The blueprint for punk rock, metal, indie pop and grunge lay here. Adolescent angst, juvenile fun; call it what you like, but teenage kicks don t get better than this!! Painstakingly restored from long forgotten original vinyl artefacts, this handsome edition of Fuzz, Flaykes and Shakes collects together all 7 original volumes, complimented by a 76-page perfect bound booklet crammed with background liners, rare photos and original memorabilia.
"…This set deserves the most enthusiastic recommendation which words can muster. It has few rivals even in the top price range. (…) Zinman is Beethoven: I can pay him no greater compliment." ~musicweb-international
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Glenn Gould’s legendary Goldberg Variations.
Glenn Gould Remastered – The Complete Album Collection refurbishes Gould’s complete approved studio recordings using state-of-the-art Direct Stream Digital (DSD) transfer and 24 bit/96 kHz mastering technology in a 81 CDs limited edition. The 416 page book includes complete original liner notes (many penned by Gould himself), a wealth of facsimile documents, rare photographs, full discographical information, and a newly commissioned introductory essay by Gould scholar and biographer Kevin Bazzana.
Brilliant Classics' recent release gathers together every piece of music by Purcell for solo harpsichord or instrumental ensemble. […] Even discounting his other vocal and operatic works, looking at the volume of music in this CD box set provokes the astounding realisation of just how prolific Purcell was in his mere 36 years of life. (Claudine Nightingale, musicalcriticism.com)
Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931), growing up in the Tatar Republic, bound peculiar fusion of Eastern and Western into dramatic polarities in her later work. She graduated from the Kazan' Conservatory in 1954 having studied composition and piano; she then left for Moscow, where she studied at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. Already by this time, Gubaidulina was marked as an "irresponsible" composer …….