Label: Pearl Classical

Andreas Scholl & Orlando - Scholl Goes Pop
Andreas Scholl / Orlando & Die Unerlösten / Nürnberger Symphoniker / Rick Stengards
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 451 MB | MP3 CBR 320: 179 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # 88697127902 | Country/Year: Germany 2007
Genre: Classical / Pop | Style: Crossover

Auf seiner neuen CD *Andreas Scholl Goes Pop* präsentiert der bekannte deutsche Countertenor Andreas Scholl zusammen mit seinem Fachkollegen, dem Counter ORLANDO alias Roland Kunz und dessen Pop-Band "Orlando und die Unerlösten" sowie den Nürnberger Symphonikern unter der Leitung von Rick Stengards eine fantasievolle Mischung aus Klassik und Pop, Barock und Folk, Mystik und Sinfonik. Die CD enthält Songs und Duette aus der Feder der beiden Countertenöre, Balladen in Arrangements von Craig Leon, Frank Zabel, Dieter Reith und Chris Walden - ein spannendes Klassik-Pop Crossoverprojekt, in dem Vergangenheit und Gegenwart engste Kontakte knüpfen.

Following its successful full length opera, Artaxerxes, Classical Opera return with the first in an epic series of Mozart operas, Apollo et Hyacinthus. Named in The Guardian as one of ‘The Best Classical albums of 2012’. Classical Opera has mounted two staged productions of Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus (1998 and 2006), with both receiving wide critical acclaim; The Independent stated, “Classical Opera’s polished debut in Apollo et Hyacinthus proved a pearl beyond price. Here was a work of staggering beauty riddled with sweet noises like Caliban’s enchanted isle.”

Bizet - The Pearl Fishers (Les Pêcheurs de perles) - Jean Fournet
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In 1950 stond Fournet voor het eerst voor het Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam en het Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. Bovendien werd hij chefdirigent van het Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. In de jaren vijftig maakte hij de destijds veelbesproken opnamen van onder andere Fauré's Requiem en van Bizet Les pêcheurs de perles. In 1958 werd onder zijn leiding de opera Pelléas et Mélisande voor het eerst uitgevoerd in Japan. In 1961 werd hij chefdirigent van het Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Nederland, welke positie hij tot 1978 bekleedde. Daarna droeg hij tot zijn overlijden bij dit orkest de titel Chef d'Orchestre Permanent Invité.

This magnificent compilation of the greatest Wagner singers and conductors of the 20s and early 30s is an absolute MUST for everyone who is remotely interrested in how Wagner was done in the past.
The greatest attractions are the magnificent interpretations of Friedrich Schorr, Frida Leider and the young Lauritz Melchior. Schorr sings Wotan in the excerpts from Die Walkure and Leider sings Brunnhilde. Melchior sings the young Siegfried.

Rarely if ever have music festivals gathered together such a stellar array of names as those in Prades and Perpignan, thanks to the glory of Casal's name and the force of nature which was Alexander Schneider. This release of the Prades Festival is rarely heard and contains the most stunning performances of the 'Brandenburg Concertos', together with items from 'The Musical Offering'.

We are accustomed to looking to Pearl for gems from the past, and these transfers from previously unpublished live recordings of the 70-year-old Horszowski's Mozart, complete with crackles, muffed notes and coughing fits aplenty, do indeed sound as if they come from the dark backward and abysm of time. They date, in fact, only from 1962-72: near contemporaries of Barenboim's Mozart concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra. These performances, though, were taken from radio tapes and from a disc-cutting machine fed directly by the microphones in the Metropolitan Museum of Art where this concert series was held. They are alive with all the spontaneous enthusiasm of music-making which involved no record companies, no editing and no public relations.

Following the success of the Grammy award-winning album ‘The Goat Rodeo Sessions’, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile return with their sensational new album ‘Not Our First Goat Rodeo’. ‘Not Our First Goat Rodeo’ combines the talents of the four solo artists, each a Grammy Award- winning talent in his own right, to create a singular sound that’s part composed, part improvised, and uniquely American. The music featured in this stunning album is so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo — an aviation term for a situation in which 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster. Both the first album and the new recording also feature the voice and artistry of singer-songwriter and fellow Grammy Award-winner Aoife O’Donovan, who joins the group as a guest on ‘Not Our First Goat Rodeo’.