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| "This live recording of Mr. Lieberson’s ruminative and piercing settings of five love sonnets by Neruda, sublimely performed, is for me the recording of the year." -- Anthony Tommasini, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs / Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Release Date: 12/19/2006 Label: Nonesuch Catalog: 79954 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Peter Lieberson Performer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Conductor: James Levine Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra |
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| "The libretto for Louis Andriessen’s unconventional 1999 opera “Writing to Vermeer” consists entirely of imagined letters written to the Dutch Renaissance painter...Yet Mr. Andriessen’s pulsating score, spiked with eerie evocations of Renaissance music, sets the letters poignantly, while depicting the tumultuous background events of 17th-century Delft." -- Anthony Tommasini, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Andriessen: Writing To Vermeer
Release Date: 04/11/2006 Label: Nonesuch Catalog: 79887 Number of Discs: 2 Composer: Louis Andriessen Performer: Michel Van der Aa, Susan Bickley, Brenda van Duijkeren, Wendy van Epen ... Conductor: Reinbert De Leeuw Orchestra/Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble, Schoenberg Ensemble |
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| "The superb Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes jolts to life the tired concept of a recording of encore pieces with an eclectic yet smart program of short, mostly unfamiliar works. A perky étude by Sibelius, a transcription of a Strauss song by Walter Gieseking, novelties by Antheil, Smetana, Mompou and others: 22 works in all, exquisitely played." -- Anthony Tommasini, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Horizons - Leif Ove Andsnes
Release Date: 09/12/2006 Label: Emi Classics Catalog: 41682 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Frédéric Chopin, Ferruccio Busoni, Federico Mompou, Richard Strauss ... Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes |
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| "The fiercely original young Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski continues to astound with engrossing accounts of two Mozart concertos." -- Anthony Tommasini, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Mozart: Piano Concertos 17 & 20 / Anderszewski, Scottish CO
Release Date: 02/07/2006 Label: Virgin Classics Catalog: 44696 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performer: Piotr Anderszewski Conductor: Piotr Anderszewski Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra |
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| "The Dutch maestro Bernard Haitink brings a lifetime of experience, including insights gleaned from observing the early-music movement, to his survey of the nine Beethoven symphonies, recorded live in London... Here are top-notch players palpably excited to be re-exploring these touchstone scores with a towering conductor." -- Anthony Tommasini, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 / Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 09/12/2006 Label: Lso Live Catalog: 598 Number of Discs: 6 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Performer: Gerald Finley, Karen Cargill, John MacMaster, Twyla Robinson ... Conductor: Bernard Haitink Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus |
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| 'Listening to the “Ives,” the ear spends some of its time serving as surrogate for the eye in this elegant and evocative exercise in modern tone-painting. The music can be heard with profit as is, but it helps to know the references to the older composer and to picture the birds, morning mists and musical sounds floating across the water.' -- Bernard Holland, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Adams: The Dharma At Big Sur, Etc / Silverman, Adams, Bbc So
Release Date: 09/26/2006 Label: Nonesuch Catalog: 79857 Number of Discs: 2 Composer: John Adams Performer: Tracy Silverman, William Houghton Conductor: John Adams Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra |
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| "Hers is one of the clearest, truest voices ever devoted to Bach. If Glenn Gould’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” amuses and excites, Ms. Landowska’s majestic good sense shows just how off the wall the Gould treatments really are. Also here are the “Goldberg” Variations, the Two- and Three-Part Inventions and a lot more." -- Bernard Holland, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Complete Collections - Bach - The Landowska Recordings
Release Date: 01/10/2006 Label: Rca Victor Red Seal Catalog: 67891 Number of Discs: 7 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Performer: Wanda Landowska |
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| "At last something completely different. Also a chance to experience how the hard sell worked in mid-17th-century England and to compare it with our own sale-athons on cable television. Some of these sales pitches were organized by eminent composers of the time, like Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and especially Richard Dering." -- Bernard Holland, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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The Cries Of London / Hillier, Fretwork, Theatre Of Voices
Release Date: 06/13/2006 Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog: 907214 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Orlando Gibbons, Michael East, Richard Dering, Thomas Ravenscroft ... Conductor: Paul Hillier Orchestra/Ensemble: Fretwork, Theatre of Voices |
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| "These late-period masterpieces address individual pianistic problems a lot of us never thought of and at the same time alternate musically between loveliness and a stony dignity. Mitsuko Uchida’s sensibility fits this music well, and her physical abilities overcome the subtle traps Debussy has set for them." -- Bernard Holland, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Debussy: 12 Etudes / Mitsuko Uchida
Release Date: 07/04/2006 Label: Philips Catalog: 000701102 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Claude Debussy Performer: Mitsuko Uchida |
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| "Style in its truest sense is applicable to any period, so Murray Perahia’s sense of proportion and technical skills work as well for Bartok as for Chopin or Mozart...Georg Solti is the other pianist in one of Bartok’s important pieces, the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion..." -- Bernard Holland, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Bartok: Piano Sonata, Suite, Etc / Murray Perahia, Et Al
Release Date: 06/06/2006 Label: Sony Catalog: 78750 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Béla Bartók Performer: Murray Perahia, Evelyn Glennie, Sir Georg Solti, David Corkhill |
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| 'In this vivid, window-rattling live recording, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a big-boned but fluid account of “Le Sacre,” long one of his signature pieces, as well as a magnificently visceral reading of “Night on Bald Mountain,” in its original scoring, and a rich-hued, earthy performance of Bartok’s “Miraculous Mandarin.”' -- Allan Kozinn, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps; Bartók, Etc / Salonen
Release Date: 10/10/2006 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog: 000718236 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Béla Bartók, Modest Mussorgsky, Igor Stravinsky Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| "The latest fashion in Mozart interpretation is to gun the tempos, magnify dynamic contrasts and strip away the surface gloss...Marc Minkowski and his period-instrument band address the two last symphonies with an explosiveness and an exuberance that suit this approach, but also with transparent textures and sharp articulation that preserve the music’s elegance." -- Allan Kozinn, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Mozart: Symphonies No 40, 41 / Minkowski, Et Al
Release Date: 07/04/2006 Label: Archiv Produktion (Dg) Catalog: 4775798 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Marc Minkowski Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre |
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| "Philip Glass’s energy and repetitiveness are everywhere in this children’s opera-ballet about a boy born from a magic flower, who rescues a girl of similar provenance from a group of witches. Yet the brevity of its 24 movements — as well as the dramatic, overtly illustrative scoring, entirely uncharacteristic of Mr. Glass — make this 1994 piece sound remarkably fresh." -- Allan Kozinn, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Glass: Witches Of Venice
Release Date: 11/14/2006 Label: Orange Mountain Music Catalog: 31 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Philip Glass |
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| "Berio’s quirky, virtuosic showpieces for solo instruments were not necessarily conceived to be performed as a cycle. Yet two sets of these landmarks appeared this year. If Mode’s elegant box edges out the one on Naxos, it’s partly by virtue of comprehensiveness. It includes Berio’s other pieces for solo instruments as well as the brief poems Edoardo Sanguineti wrote to accompany each of the 'Sequenzas.'" -- Anne Midgette, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Berio: The Complete Sequenzas
Release Date: 05/23/2006 Label: Mode Catalog: 161 Number of Discs: 4 Composer: Luciano Berio Performer: Rohan de Saram, Stefan Hussong, Noriko Shimada, Seth Josel ... |
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| "...René Jacobs, in his signature manner, opened the work up with anachronistic improvisations and vivid performances that shed new light on its best aspects and contextualized it as a step forward, rather than a regression to “mere” opera seria." -- Anne Midgette, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito / Padmore, Pendatchanska, Jacobs
Release Date: 09/12/2006 Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog: 901923 Number of Discs: 2 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performer: Bernarda Fink, Marie-claude Chappuis, Sunhae Im, Alexandrina Pendachanska ... Conductor: René Jacobs Orchestra/Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus |
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| "Mariss Jansons may be the most important living conductor; rather than simply interpreting music, he illuminates it. He has a particular understanding of Shostakovich, and his multiyear project of recording all the symphonies with some favorite orchestras is expectedly stirring with the most famous symphonies (the Seventh with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic) and unexpectedly rewarding with the underperformed (the Fourth with the Bavarian Radio Symphony)." -- Anne Midgette, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies / Mariss Jansons, Et Al
Release Date: 09/12/2006 Label: Emi Classics Catalog: 65300 Number of Discs: 10 Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich Performer: Larissa Gogolevskaja, Sergei Alexashkin Conductor: Mariss Jansons Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Male Choir ... |
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| Incredibly, Decca’s first stereo recording of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, made live in Bayreuth in 1955, was never released...Joseph Keilberth conducts, electrically, a stellar cast: Astrid Varnay, radiant; Hans Hotter, warm; Wolfgang Windgassen, bright and tight. “Walküre” is pretty hot too." -- Anne Midgette, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Wagner: Siegfried / Keilberth, Windgassen, Hotter, Varnay
Release Date: 04/11/2006 Label: Testament Catalog: 1392 Number of Discs: 4 Composer: Richard Wagner Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger, Hans Hotter, Paul Kuen ... Conductor: Joseph Keilberth Orchestra/Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Chorus |
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| "This was one of the happiest revelations of the Mozart year: a sparkling demonstration..these stylish interpretations, rife with imagination and humor, are enough to make you want to hear more Mozart next year, at least from Mr. Savall." - James R. Oestreich, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Mozart: Serenata Notturna, Etc / Savall, Et Al
Release Date: 05/09/2006 Label: Alia Vox Catalog: 9846 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Jordi Savall Orchestra/Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations |
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| "Is Arvo Pärt’s music reactionary or revolutionary? Neither, it turns out, for at its best it is quite simply timeless and beautiful. Best just to surrender to its spell, as with the gorgeous swaying tread of chords in the “Salve Regina,” completed in 2002. That piece alone would be worth the price of the disc, but happily, there is much more." - James R. Oestreich, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Pärt: Da Pacem / Hillier, Bowers-broadbent, Et Al
Release Date: 09/12/2006 Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog: 907401 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Arvo Pärt Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Kaia Urb, Tiit Kogermann, Aarne Talvik Conductor: Paul Hillier Orchestra/Ensemble: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir |
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| "Krystian Zimerman long ago established his credentials as a Brahmsian, not least in his 1984 recording of the First Concerto with Leonard Bernstein...This craggy, towering interpretation leaves the Bernstein collaboration sounding a bit blowsy by comparison." - James R. Oestreich, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 / Zimerman, Rattle, Berlin Po
Release Date: 04/04/2006 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog: 000620302 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Johannes Brahms Performer: Krystian Zimerman Conductor: Simon Rattle Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| "...Mariss Jansons now finds himself in command of two of Europe’s great orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and the Bavarian Radio Symphony. And we will undoubtedly be hearing a lot of his work with the Concertgebouw on its new label, RCO Live. These excellent performances of contrasting works bode well indeed." - James R. Oestreich, NY Times 12/08/06 | |||||||||||||
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Stravinsky: Petrushka; Rachmaninov / Jansons, Et Al
Release Date: 01/10/2006 Label: Rco Live Catalog: 5004 Number of Discs: 1 Composer: Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninov Performer: Frits Damrow, Jeroen Bal, Emily Beynon Conductor: Mariss Jansons Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra |
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