Sz 8.7.2023

Karina Canellakis offers the first fruit of her exclusive Pentatone collaboration with a recording of Bartók’s 4 Orchestral Pieces and Concerto for Orchestra, together with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, of which she is the Chief Conductor. The 4 Orchestral Pieces have a strong affinity with the stage works Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and The Wooden Prince, conceived in the same period. The Concerto for Orchestra is one of Bartóks final works, full of folk tunes, and utterly colourful and virtuosic for all the instruments. As such, it’s an ideal piece to showcase the congeniality between the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and its star Chief Conductor.

Seiji Ozawa - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collections [51CD Box Set] (2023)
MP3 320 Kbps | Run Time: 01:21:51:06 | 6.16 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

OZAWA around the world Beiju commemorative special project Seiji Ozawa, the maestro who has dominated the world's musical circles, will reach the age of 88 on September 1, 2023.
To commemorate his birthday, Seiji Ozawa has released a box set of all the albums he left for RCA and Columbia Records as a Japanese original project.It is a compilation of many famous performances with famous orchestras around the world, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Saito Kinen Orchestra, and Mito Chamber Orchestra. As a bonus disc, the live concert in Japan with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1986 is released on CD for the first time. We praise the achievements of Maestro OZAWA.

Seiji Ozawa - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collections [51CD Box Set] (2023)
MP3 320 Kbps | Run Time: 01:21:51:06 | 6.16 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

OZAWA around the world Beiju commemorative special project Seiji Ozawa, the maestro who has dominated the world's musical circles, will reach the age of 88 on September 1, 2023.
To commemorate his birthday, Seiji Ozawa has released a box set of all the albums he left for RCA and Columbia Records as a Japanese original project.It is a compilation of many famous performances with famous orchestras around the world, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Saito Kinen Orchestra, and Mito Chamber Orchestra. As a bonus disc, the live concert in Japan with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1986 is released on CD for the first time. We praise the achievements of Maestro OZAWA.

This powerful New Series album represents “a résumé and a departure” for Thomas Zehetmair, a summing up of his work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In his years as Music Director of the British chamber orchestra, Zehetmair was noted both for bringing compelling new music into the repertoire and for insightful performances of classical and modern composition, qualities very much in evidence on this concert recording from The Sage, Gateshead. The album opens with John Casken’s double concerto That Subtle Knot, written in 2012-3 for Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and the Northern Sinfonia. Inspired by the poetry of John Donne, the composition establishes a broad arc between the English Renaissance and music of today. Ruth Killius shines in a revelatory performance of Bartók’s Viola Concerto, and Zehetmair as conductor fully brings out what liner note writer Giselher Schubert describes as “the juggernaut propulsive thrust” of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.