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last updated: 02/09/2010

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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.

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.

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.

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.

»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.