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This CD of Handel arias, mostly from his Theodora or the cantata La Lucrezia, ends with The performance is superb. In the prominent part of Orpheus, Ian Bostridge is riveting, changing and coloring his voice to express joy, hope, pleading, passion, anguish, despair; even the intricate coloratura passages add to the emotional impact.Bartók's Violin Sonatas are among the greatest and most challenging of his works. Tetzlaff and Andsnes, an all-star collaboration, approach the music as though they were aware that these pieces are tough nuts for many listeners.Andrew Manze has reached a level of performance that surpasses perfection and only his best peers have the right to criticize

Although best known for his symphonic poems such as Tintagel, Bax also wrote prolifically for the piano. His early life was dominated by the keyboard and in his twenties he appeared in concerts playing his own music and that of famous European contemporariesLigeti Project 5Austrian radio broadcasts from the Vienna Staatsoper in 1955 and 1968Vienna State Opera, Karl Bohm

Danse Des Morts / L'Homme Et Son Desir This collection of arias, madrigals and cantatas from the (mostly) Italian baroque features the rich and haunting voice of Sara Mingardo, surely one of the best contraltos currently singing. Beethoven called Mozart's Requiem Daphnis Et Chloe (Hybr) [HYBRID SACD]

The Bostridge-Andsnes team has emerged as one of the top lieder recital duos on disc, and their devoted fans will want their controversial interpretation of Schubert's greatest song cycleEin Deutsches Requiem [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]Symphonie Fantastique [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]Anderszewski plays the opening of the Bach with plenty of brio and energy, it's the haunting playing of the Sarabande that first demonstrates that you are in the presence of pianistic greatness.

Two supreme masterpieces of the piano literature played by a supreme master of the instrument--could there be a more felicitous combination? Brahms wrote his first sonata in 1853, his second concerto almost 30 years later; Richter recorded the concerto in 1960Seven Deadly Sins / Alabama Song / Bilbao Song [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]The Most Relaxing Cello Album in the World Evercover

A new set, in the English translation by Edward Downes and Otakar Kraus and based on an acclaimed Welsh National Opera productionPerelman Rediscovered American composer Elliott Carter has written dedications to Pierre Boulez, Witold Lutoslawski, Sir William Glock and the Nieuw Ensemble.The 9/11 terrorist attacks on America is hauntingly captured by composer's John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls,


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