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PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD, BORIS BEREZOVSKY, NIKOLA? LUGANSKY & DANIEL BARENBOIM
Plus SCOTT ROSS' acclaimed Scarlatti series, now available at a budget price
Pierre-Laurent Aimard / Chamber Orchestra of Europe
MOZART: Piano Concertos No. 6, 15 & 27
Release date: October 11
Gramophone calls Pierre-Laurent Aimard "one of the most musically inquisitive and open-minded pianists before the public." Now, the superb French pianist adds three Mozart concertos to his highly-acclaimed repertoire on Warner Classics, following recordings of Beethoven, Dvor?k, Debussy, Ives, Ravel, Messiaen, Carter, Reich, Ligeti and Boulez. All three Mozart concertos are in the key of B-flat Major, which the composer associated with happiness. Aimard recently won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Instrumentalist category for his adventurous commitment to 20th century and contemporary music, the breadth of his repertoire and for his brilliant, poetic and subtly shaded playing.
Boris Berezovsky
CHOPIN / GODOWSKY: ?tudes
Release date: October 11
Boris Berezovsky is an artist of dazzling virtuosity and formidable
power,
and is often referred to as "the truest successor to the great Russian
pianists." On his latest disc for Warner Classics, Berezovsky takes on
a
selection of the most difficult works for the keyboard, Leopold
Godowsky's
commentaries on a selection of Chopin Etudes from Opp. 10 and 25. In
some
cases, Godowsky has transferred Chopin's material to the left hand
only!
Godowsky's intention was not only to raise the already high technical
demands of Chopin's originals by pushing pianists to their limits, but
to
encourage them to return to Chopin's original works with new insight
and
appreciation.
Scott Ross
SCARLATTI: The Keyboard Sonatas
(re-release at budget price)
Release date: October 11
Scott Ross (1951-1989), the American-born organist and harpsichordist,
recorded Scarlatti's 555 sonatas between June 1984 and September 1985.
Originally released in nine volumes, they proved a great success with
both
the public and critics and have been a pillar of the Warner catalogue
ever
since. They are now being re-released as a 34-CD boxed set at budget
price.
"This is quite simply a magnificent recording of magnificent music..."
-
Gramophone
Nikola? Lugansky
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas
Release date: November 8
The Observer recently noted, "I am running out of superlatives about
the
young Russian pianist Nicolai Lugansky." Now, following the critical
success
of his Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Chopin and Britten CDs, Lugansky expands
his
Warner Classics discography with a recording of four Beethoven sonatas,
including Opus 27, No. 2 in C-sharp minor "Moonlight" and Opus 57 in F
minor, dubbed the "Appassionata."
Daniel Barenboim / Berlin Philharmonic
MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14 & 16-27
(re-release at budget price)
Release date: November 8
Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic recorded a cycle of Mozart
Piano Concertos for Teldec in the 1990s. These critically acclaimed
readings, in which Barenboim conducts from the piano, are considered
among
the finest available of this repertoire. Gramophone said that "these
new
discs place Barenboim ... in the highest class of interpreters of
Mozart's
piano concertos, and demand to be owned even if you already possess
other
versions." Warner Classics is pleased to release a 9-CD set at budget
price,
comprising 19 concertos. Two additional concertos are offered in a
bonus DVD
featuring Barenboim performing the Concerto for Two Pianos, K365 with
Sir
Georg Solti, and the Concerto for Three Pianos, K242 with Andr?s Schiff
and
Sir Georg Solti, who also conducts the English Chamber Orchestra.
Warner Classics also released Daniel Barenboim's extraordinary account of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Book II, this past July.
