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W. A. Mozart
/1756-1791)
Piano Concertos Vol. 6
No. 14 KV 449
E falt major
No. 15 KV 450 B flat major
No. 21 KV 467 C major
Christian
Zacharias, piano and dircetion
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
MDG
940 1646-6
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Six piano concertos
in a mere twelve months: in no other year was Mozart as productive
in this genre as he was in 1784. Christian Zacharias and his Lausanne
Chamber Orchestra have taken considerably more time with their interpretations
of Mozart's piano concertos - and with sensational results. This
complete recording even now promises to occupy one of the top ranks
on international lists: Zacharias is able perfectly and seamlessly
to transfer his inimitable touch and sound culture to the orchestra.
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Robert Schumann
(1810-1856)
Chamber Music Vol. 1
Violin Sonatas
Ensemble
Villa Musica
Nicolas Chumachenko, violin
Kalle Randalu, piano
MDG
304 1647-2
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On this CD the
Ensemble Villa Musica joins the line of congratulants on the occasion
of the two hundredth anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth. Nicolas
Chumachenko (violin) and Kalle Randalu (piano) present the three
violin sonatas composed by Schumann in Düsseldorf, rendering
them with the quality that has become the Villa Musica trademark
during the course of its more than thirty recordings.
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Marcel Dupré
(1886-1971)
Complete Organ
Works Vol. 12
Ben van Oosten,
Cavaillé-Coll-Orgel Saint-Sulpice, Paris
MDG 316 1294-2
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Ben van Oosten's
pilgrimage to the international sites frequented by Marcel Dupré
reaches it goal in the church where the widely traveled and respected
virtuoso played his last mass a few hours prior to his death on
30 May 1971: at Saint-Sulpice's Cathedral in Paris, where Duprés
served as titular organist for almost forty years, performing on
its Cavaillé-Coll organ. The music of the Chorale and Fugue
op. 57, an improvisation on two Gre-gorian themes, was his last
message on this fascinating instrument.
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Stellwagen-Orgel zu St. Marien, Stralsund
Die Norddeutsche
Orgelkunst Vol. 1 Lübeck
Martin Rost,
Organ
MDG
320 1624-2
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The organ builder
Friederich Stellwagen operated from Lübeck for three decades
in Northern Germany. His most important commission for a new instrument,
however, came not from Lübeck but from Stralsund's city fathers.
From 1653 to 1659 he erected a baroque organ with fifty-one speaking
stops in St. Mary's Church. Its technical components are documented
so extensively that not too long ago it could be restored with loving
care and in fine style on the basis of original plans tracked down
by Martin Rost in the archives. Even the twelve wedge bellows now
again function in a calcant operation. This recording offers listeners
the opportunity to marvel at the special effects produced when human
muscle power supplies the organ with wind.
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»Fiery
and Sublime«
The Sources of Quant's Inspiration
Quantz, Leclair,
C.P.E.Bach, Graun, Blavet
La Ricordanza
MDG
603 1644-2
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Take the fiery
temperament of the Italians and the noble style of the French and
finely blend a German into these ingredients - and the result is
a flute concerto in the key of D that already in the eighteenth
century would serve as a symbol of international understanding.
The La Ricordanza early music ensemble has rediscovered this manuscript
by Johann Joachim Quantz in the Berlin State Library and is now
first presenting its music on CD.
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