Mdg "scene"

Morton Feldman - Steffen Schleiermacher - The Late Piano Works Vol. 1
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 613 1521-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Avant-Garde

…It's intriguing to imagine how a very slow performance would come off, but Schleiermacher's is a fully persuasive version of a piece that could have a number of very different but valid interpretations. MGD's natural, unprocessed sound is, as is typical for the label, immaculate and vivid.

Morton Feldman - Steffen Schleiermacher - The Late Piano Works Vol. 2
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 613 1522-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2009
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Avant-Garde

…If you're unfamiliar with Feldman's nuanced, nondevelopmental music, this may not be the easiest point of entry, but . . . well, there probably isn't an easy point of entry after all, so why not just dive in?

Alexander Glazunov - Utrecht String Quartet - String Quartets No. 3 & 5
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 603 1236-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2004
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century

"…But in its elegant and precise way the Utrecht have made a fine start in their welcome cycle." ~musicweb-international

Jean Francaix - Bläserquintette Nr. 1+2 & L'Heure du Berger (Sextett)
Kammervereinigung Berlin / Frank-Immo Zichner, Piano
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # Sc64012 | Country/Year: Germany 1993
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Wind Music

"Herausragende Interpretation: Die geistsprühende und immer leicht ironisierende Musik von Jean Francaix ist den Fünf auf den Leib geschrieben. … Sinnfällige Artikulation, klangliche Delikatesse und insbesondere ein Sinn fürs Komödiantische zeichnet das Spiel der Berliner aus.” ~FonoForum

Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) - Complete Violoncello Sonatas
Manuel Fischer-Diskau, violoncello / Connie Shih, piano
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 603 1661-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2011
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

This CD is an exhilarating and important new contribution to the romantic cello literature. Manuel Fischer-Dieskau is the son of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the cellist Irmgard Poppen and has made a genuine rediscovery here. These works were only found recently.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Calefax Reed Quintet - Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 619 0989-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2000
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Reed Instruments

"The Dutch quintet plays DKdF in the saxophonist’s Raaf Hekkema’s arrangement for ten different reed instruments: oboe, oboe d’amore, english horn, saxophones, clarinets, basset horn and bassoon. Amazing enough, this recording on modern reed instruments sounds more “baroque” (and sometimes “renaissancy”) than many others, regarding the tone of certain instruments - oboe d’amore, bassoon etc. (…) Recommendation: Satisfaction guaranteed for many a different musical taste. ~dkdf.net

Franz Schreker - Irrelohe, Opera In 3 Acts
Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Stefan Blunier / Chor und Extrachor des Theater Bonn
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Live" # 937 1687-6 | Country/Year: Germany 2011
Genre: Classical | Style: Opera, Late Romantic

…The vivid MDG recording is slightly distanced, so the volume needs to be increased considerably for its fine qualities to become evident. Balances between voices and orchestra are excellent, and for those listening in multi-channel the surround speakers have been used to great effect for the off-stage brass, distant bells and chorus in the Act 3 cataclysmic immolation of Irrelohe castle. There is no applause or audience noise but the movement of singers on the stage is clearly defined with very few extraneous sounds being captured by the microphones. This is the latest addition to the Schrecker discography and will be welcomed by all admirers of the composer and can be confidently recommended.

Franz Schreker - Irrelohe, Opera In 3 Acts
Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Stefan Blunier / Chor und Extrachor des Theater Bonn
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Live" # 937 1687-6 | Country/Year: Germany 2011
Genre: Classical | Style: Opera, Late Romantic

…The vivid MDG recording is slightly distanced, so the volume needs to be increased considerably for its fine qualities to become evident. Balances between voices and orchestra are excellent, and for those listening in multi-channel the surround speakers have been used to great effect for the off-stage brass, distant bells and chorus in the Act 3 cataclysmic immolation of Irrelohe castle. There is no applause or audience noise but the movement of singers on the stage is clearly defined with very few extraneous sounds being captured by the microphones. This is the latest addition to the Schrecker discography and will be welcomed by all admirers of the composer and can be confidently recommended.