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The 153rd Ketteiban series selected by Diapason!
Kyle Bert & Berliner Philharmoniker's "Magical Bullet Shooter"!

Diapason's 172nd volume of the definitive series Purcell conducted by Anthony Lewis! Diapason, a world-renowned French classical music magazine, selects historically great performances of masterpieces that shine in music history, and re-masters and reissues them in the series Les Indispensables de Diapason - Diapason's 172nd volume of the series features Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas conducted by Anthony Lewis. Conductor Anthony Lewis is also active as a musicologist, and has published critical editions of Purcell and Handel's operas. He also contributed to the revival of Baroque music in the mid-20th century by recording the commercial premieres of 17th and 18th century works. In this recording, the singing of contralto Janet Baker, who was an expert in Baroque music, is also of interest. (Importer information)

The 177th volume of the Diapason's definitive series! A collection of Dvorak's chamber music!

Diapason's 172nd volume of the definitive series Purcell conducted by Anthony Lewis! Diapason, a world-renowned French classical music magazine, selects historically great performances of masterpieces that shine in music history, and re-masters and reissues them in the series Les Indispensables de Diapason - Diapason's 172nd volume of the series features Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas conducted by Anthony Lewis. Conductor Anthony Lewis is also active as a musicologist, and has published critical editions of Purcell and Handel's operas. He also contributed to the revival of Baroque music in the mid-20th century by recording the commercial premieres of 17th and 18th century works. In this recording, the singing of contralto Janet Baker, who was an expert in Baroque music, is also of interest. (Importer information)

The 177th volume of the Diapason's definitive series! A collection of Dvorak's chamber music!

Vladimir Horowitz He is one of those musicians elevated to the rank of myth, like Paganini or Liszt in the 19th century. This is due to the personality of Vladimir Horowitz of course, but also to the media hype and the legends that surround him, as for all exceptional characters. Born in Ukraine in 1903, the child was quickly noticed by his exceptional gifts, encouraged by Scriabin in front of whom he played at the age of 15.

Born in Windischgrätz in 1860, Hugo Wolf spent most of his life in Vienna. Having suffered frequently from depression and, ultimately, syphilis-induced madness, the Austrian composer died in an asylum in 1904 and was buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna alongside Beethoven and Schubert, other great exponents of the German classical Lieder genre to which he had devoted most of his creative life. Besides his 300 songs, Wolf completed only one opera, Der Corregidor (1896), and a handful of orchestral and chamber works. Endlessly self-deprecating and self-critical, he went for long periods without composing anything, interspersed with years of fevered inspiration during which he wrote ceaselessly. (Schubert, who lived to just thirty-one, composed twice as many songs as well as nine symphonies, fifteen string quartets, twenty-one piano sonatas and much more.)