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Antonino Fogliani, Virtuosi Brunensis - Gioacchino Rossini: Guillaume Tell (2015)

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Antonino Fogliani, Virtuosi Brunensis - Gioacchino Rossini: Guillaume Tell (2015)

Antonino Fogliani, Virtuosi Brunensis - Gioacchino Rossini: Guillaume Tell (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,09 Gb | Total time: 04:12:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660363-66 | Recorded: 2013

Performed for the first time in its original uncut version, this production of Guillaume Tell was the jewel in the crown of the 25-year history of the ‘Rossini in Wildbad’ opera festival. Rossini’s final, great, operatic masterpiece is a story of liberation, the oppressed Swiss attaining their ideal of emancipation by hounding the tyrannical Habsburgs out of their country. Although it was composed for the complex demands of the Paris Opéra, numerous dances, choruses and arias were dropped for reasons of practicality. These are restored in the present recording which also includes the stunning finale of the shorter 1831 version of the opera.

Trio Nebelmeer - Chausson - Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios (2023)

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Trio Nebelmeer - Chausson - Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios (2023)

Trio Nebelmeer - Chausson - Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 267 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:33
Classical | Label: Mirare

Inspired by the great Romantic works of the piano trio repertoire, the Nebelmeer Trio – named after the emblematic painting by Caspar David Friedrich – embark on a joint exploration of a turmoiled romanticism. Composed ten years apart by two composers with a 20 year age difference, the trios for piano, violin and cello featuring in this album epitomize the quintessence of French Romantic music of the late 19th century.

Ellinor D'Melon, RTE Symphony Orchestra & Jaime Martin - Tchaikovsky & Lalo (2023)

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Ellinor D'Melon, RTE Symphony Orchestra & Jaime Martin - Tchaikovsky & Lalo (2023)

Ellinor D'Melon, RTE Symphony Orchestra & Jaime Martin - Tchaikovsky & Lalo (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 324 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:05
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics

Ellinor D’Melon releases her debut album on March 24th 2023 for Rubicon Classics featuring Tchaikovsky Violin concerto and Lalo Symphonie Espagnole with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Jaime Martín.

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi - Verdi Discoveries (2003)

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Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi - Verdi Discoveries (2003)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi - Verdi Discoveries (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 80:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 473 767-2 | Recorded: 2002

Of the 10 selections on this disc of Verdi “discoveries”, four are bona fide world premieres, though in one of those, the Variations for Oboe and Orchestra, only the orchestral part is by Verdi. In the late 1830s clarinetist Giacomo Mori hired the young Verdi to provide an orchestra accompaniment to his variations on the theme “Canto di Virginia”. Here, Verdi displays his early skill at handling large orchestral forces, and the same can be said of his Variations for Piano and Orchestra. However, there are few musical hints in these works–or in the Capriccio for Oboe and Orchestra, the Sinfonia in C, or the Adagio for Trumpet and Orchestra–that suggest the great master Verdi was to become.

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi - Rossini Discoveries (2002)

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Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi - Rossini Discoveries (2002)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi - Rossini Discoveries (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 330 Mb | Total time: 70:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 470 298-2 | Recorded: 2001

Philip Gossett calls this 'a Rossinian curio cabinet'. 'A banquet made with leftovers from the Rossini kitchen' would do as well. Whatever the analogy, the art is as much in the assembling of the materials as in the materials themselves. The most familiar music – gleanings from Zelmira, Armida and La donna del lago – is to be found in the very first item, the overture to the Rossinian pastiche Robert Bruce, assembled for the Paris Opéra in 1846 by the composer Louis Niedermeyer. The other orchestral items are all echt-Rossini.

London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Jeux (2023)

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London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Jeux (2023)

London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Jeux (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 198 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 115 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:49:34
Classical | Label: LSO Live

Opening with its famous ‘Sunrise’ fanfare, there is no mistaking Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra. A bold, intrepid tone poem, famously used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey, it explores mankind’s place in the universe, diving headfirst into themes of religion, science and individuality.

Esmé Quartet - Yessori: Sound From The Past - Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Lyuh (2023)

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Esmé Quartet - Yessori: Sound From The Past - Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Lyuh (2023)

Esmé Quartet - Yessori: Sound From The Past - Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Lyuh (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 326 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 160 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:33
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

The ‘Dissonance’ Quartet is probably the best-known of the set of six Mozart wrote between 1782 and 1785 as a tribute to Haydn. It owes its nickname to the strange clashes of the slow introduction in C minor. Almost a century later, the thirty-year-old Tchaikovsky wrote his Quartet no.1, op.11, whose second movement, which moved Tolstoy to tears, was inspired by a folk tune that the composer heard a housepainter whistling. The musicians of the Esmé Quartet chose these two pieces because they love their respective Andante cantabile movements. The four young women also decided to put the spotlight on one of their compatriots, the South Korean composer Soo Yeon Lyuh, who in 2016 wrote Yessori, ‘sound from the past’, for the Kronos Quartet. She explains: ‘I first got used to playing the piano and the violin. So, later, when I encountered Korean traditional music, its relative pitch relationships and fluid rhythmic cycles felt completely new.’

The Gaudier Ensemble, Susan Tomes - Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet; Piano Quartet; Trio (2005)

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The Gaudier Ensemble, Susan Tomes - Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet; Piano Quartet; Trio (2005)

Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet; Piano Quartet; Trio (2005)
The Gaudier Ensemble, Susan Tomes, piano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 309 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 189 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67464 | Time: 01:13:08

Weber’s chamber music – just these three pieces if you don’t count the duos – clearly shows him on the cusp between Classical and Romantic. The Quartet for piano and strings, written in his early twenties between 1807 and 1809, begins with a Haydnesque gracefulness and politeness which is gradually invaded by more unruly harmonies and textures; the dramatic slow movement looks ahead to Schumann, while the closing fugue of the finale dresses 18th-century procedures in 19th-century colours. Then there’s the element of virtuosity which is a hallmark of the early Romantic era, in the showy piano part of the Quartet, which Weber wrote for himself, the concerto-like clarinet part in the Quintet with strings, designed for the pioneering Heinrich Baermann, and all three parts of the tuneful Trio for flute, cello and piano. The talented members of the pan-European Gaudier Ensemble are perfectly equipped to convey these different aspects of Weber’s musical personality, with the fleet-fingered pianist Susan Tomes leading the way in the Quartet and Trio, and Richard Hosford in the Clarinet Quintet recalling contemporary descriptions of Baermann’s own effortless brilliance.

Sebastiano Rolli, Coro e Orchestra Donizetti Opera - Gaetano Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (2017)

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Sebastiano Rolli, Coro e Orchestra Donizetti Opera - Gaetano Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (2017)

Sebastiano Rolli, Coro e Orchestra Donizetti Opera - Gaetano Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 648 Mb | Total time: 78:46+65:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 7757.02 | Recorded: 2016

Revived after 171 years in oblivion, the staging of Rosmonda d’Inghilterra at Bergamo’s Teatro Donizetti proved fascinating for the Italian public. From the excellent cast of singers, Jessica Pratt and Eva Mei gave standout performances. The opera revolves around a tale of love and intrigue surrounding the main protagonists- the famous Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, her husband Henry II of England, and the fair Rosamund de Clifford. Rosmonda is the quintessential innocent, unaware that the man she loves is the King of England and that she has unwittingly become a rival to the much-feared Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Gerard McChrystal - Aria (2011) works by Handel, Michael Nyman, Villa-Lobos, Debussy, Ravel, Philip Glass, Faure, McGlynn

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Gerard McChrystal - Aria (2011) works by Handel, Michael Nyman, Villa-Lobos, Debussy, Ravel, Philip Glass, Faure, McGlynn

Gerard McChrystal - Aria (2011)
with Shiroma de Silva, piano; Craig Ogden, guitar; Smith Quartet
Codetta; Trinity Laban String Ensemble; Nic Pendlebury, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 311 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 197 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Chamber, Saxophone | Label: First Hand | # FHR13 | Time: 01:13:40

This brilliantly devised CD from Gerard McChrystal is a deeply personal album; at times mystical, the music is always beautiful and captivating. Indeed 'Aria' has similar qualities to Jan Gabarek's 'Officium' (which sold 1.4 million copies) and will appeal to this fan-base. Featuring soprano and alto saxophone with a colourful array of different ensemble accompaniments — string orchestra, choir, guitar, piano, solo, string quartet and electronics. Baroque music blends seamlessly with contemporary; Handel resolves into Michael Nyman, Debussy's Syrinx morphs into Ravel's Piece en forme de habanera. All the tracks lead to the next by key or by starting and ending on the same note. Other works include Philip Glass Façades, Faure Les Berceaux, Bozza Aria, as well as original works by Billy Cowie, Karen Tanaka, Andy Scott and Michael McGlynn (from the vocal group Anúna who featured in Riverdance). Accompanying Gerard on this album are some of the UK's finest classical musicians including the Smith Quartet and the No. 1 best-selling classical artist, guitarist Craig Ogden. Gerard McChrystal is a multi-award winning saxophonist who has performed as a soloist in over 30 countries with many of the World's leading orchestras and ensembles.

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu; Glazunov, Sinding, Arensky, Grieg: Les Orientales (2011)

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François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu; Glazunov, Sinding, Arensky, Grieg: Les Orientales (2011)

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu; Glazunov, Sinding, Arensky, Grieg: Les Orientales (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 60:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Actes Sud | # ASM 06 | Recorded: 2010

The practice of performing music on original instruments was once the exclusive domain of early music specialists who sought to revive the characteristic sounds of Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical instruments and ensembles scaled to proper size. The so-called "historically informed movement" eventually expanded into re-creating 19th century music, which yielded some ear-opening performances; but this practice soon began to overlap with modern interpretation and instrumentation, so the actual differences between period and modern strings or winds were minimal.

Philip Edward Fisher - Piano Works by 'The Mighty Handful' (2011)

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Philip Edward Fisher - Piano Works by 'The Mighty Handful' (2011)

Philip Edward Fisher - Piano Works by 'The Mighty Handful' (2011)
works by Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and César Cui

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 241 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 195 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10676 | Time: 01:21:07

On his first solo recital disc for Chandos, Philip Edward Fisher performs piano works by members of the so-called ‘Mighty Handful’, a group of five Russian composers – César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of Russian music, free of the perceived stifling influences of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms.

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)

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Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 668 Mb | Total time: 72:54+75:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 436 902-2 | Recorded: 1992

It is probably now or never. With classic older sets vying with a clutch of more recent recordings, there is currently as complete and interesting an array of recordings of Rossini's La Cenerentola as we are likely to get at any one time. Among recent versions, Chailly's new Decca set is self-evidently a powerful contender. Cecilia Bartoli is arguably the most personable and musically accomplished Cenerentola since Teresa Berganza recorded the role with Abbado in 1971; and there is a strong cast of supporting principals, among them Alessandro Corbelli who offers the best characterized Dandini since Bruscantini. (With the added advantage of being far more technically expert in fioriture passages than was his distinguished predecessor.)

Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal - Arensky, Glazunov: Concertos (1997)

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Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal - Arensky, Glazunov: Concertos (1997)

Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal - Arensky, Glazunov: Concertos (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 71:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN9528 | Recorded: 1996

Here's a bit of intrigue. The failure of Rachmaninov's First Symphony at its premiere in 1897 is habitually blamed on Glazunov's ineptitude as a conductor. But, by 1907 Rachmaninov had written his Second Symphony, whose instant and continuing success can be attributed to a pervasive melody of enormous emotional power. Why, then, did Glazunov incorporate a motif of striking similarity in the first movement of his 1911 Piano Concerto? Glazunov's tune is paler, less keenly felt, than Rachmaninov's, but is this a homage, an apology, or merely a coincidence? I found it so perplexing that the wistful variations in the second and final movement of the concerto passed by almost unnoticed. But there's not a lot to miss. While some of the harmonies have a smudgy, Broadway sensuality, the easy lyricism is frequently banal.

Gina Bachauer - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 & Preludes (2023)

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Gina Bachauer - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 & Preludes (2023)

Gina Bachauer, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg & Alain Lombard - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 & Preludes (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 204 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 115 Mb | 00:48:23
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

Gina Bachauer trained with the Rachmaninov at the beginning of her career. Here, she performs the old composer's second piano concerto, with its beloved Adagio, along with the solo Preludes.