Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 in G Major / Stravinsky: Divertimento
This enjoyable recording offers two works that are underappreciated by two composers who most certainly are not. Tchaikovsky produced his four orchestral suites during the nine years between the composition of the Fourth ...
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Strauss, R.: Der Burger Als Edelmann / Duett-Concertino / Capriccio
It was to be a theatrical experiment: a playing with the “theater within the theater,” or better: the “opera within the theater.” The comedy Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière, provided with incidental music, as the framework ...
Composer: Richard Strauss
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Corelli: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 (excerpts)
Pentatone Studio Masters devoted to music of Archangelo Corelli was recorded during concerts at the Vredenburg, Utrecht in January 2003, produced by Carl Schuurbiers with Erdo Groot as recording engineer. The recording has ...
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21, 23 and 26
These are beautifully conceived, technically polished renditions of three of Beethoven’s best-known piano sonatas, and beautifully recorded. The playing is lucid and tonally controlled, admirably free of the bombast and banging ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major / Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor
It's always good to hear Christian Tetzlaff, a violinist with a reputation for 'coolness' that instead I would call 'aristocratic'. His recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto reminds me of artists such as Grumiaux ...
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Yakov Kreizberg's collection of Johann Strauss waltzes was recorded in Vienna's Konzerthaus in June 2004 by the producer/engineer team of Job Maarse, Erdo Groot and Roger de Schot. They have beautifully captured luxurious ...
Composer: Johann Strauss II (1825–1899)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Loewe: Piano Concerto No. 2
The programme of this album at hand may appear odd at first, perhaps even a little wilful? however, it is at least exciting and conspicuous, as it heralds the meeting of Frederic Chopin‘s Piano Concerto in F minor with ...
Composer: Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849), Carl Loewe (1796-1869)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Chopin, F.: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Recorded in Lisbon in July 2008, the Chopin Piano Concerti were accompanied by the Gulbenkian Orchestra under the directorship of Lawrence Foster. This release revisited a close relationship between Chen Sa and the Polish composer; ...
Composer: Fryderyk Chopin
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Tchaikovsky, P.: Hamlet / Romeo and Juliet
There were not many composers of standing, who worked equally hard on absolute and programme music. And of those composers, only few were destined to achieve extraordinary results in both genres.
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
This is the second (of three) discs that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are recording the Brahms symphonies under Marek Janowski.
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2
Pentatone has another winner of Mendelssohn's two piano trios. Their star violinist Julia Fischer is joined by two other major young artists, pianist Jonathan Gilad, and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott in vivid performances...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6
These performances of the first and sixth symphonies were recorded October 2004 at the DZZ Studio in Moscow with Job Maarse as producer. Jurowski's vivid performances have been well captured by the engineering staff—there is richness as well as impact.
Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Brahms: Violin Concerto / Double Concerto
The partnership of Julia Fischer and Yakov Kreizberg… really comes into its own in the symphonic proportions of Brahms's Violin Concerto. From Fischer's opening imposing entry, it's clear that Kreizberg and the Netherlands Philharmonic...
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Khachaturian, A.I.: Violin Concerto
Composer: Aram Il'yich Khachaturian
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
