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last updated: 03/05/2013

Gustav Mahler
Das Klagende Lied
Blumine
Symphony No. 10

Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Stefan Blunier

MDG 937 1804-6

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Mahler initially had a hard time of it. A few compositional attempts from his youth did not turn out to his liking and were destroyed. When Das klagende Lied finally met with his own critical favor, he stated, "My first work in which I have found myself as 'Mahler'!" Here it is heard in colorful contrast to the fragment from his last symphony and the "Blumine" andante originally intended for the first symphony. The Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn under its resourceful conductor Stefan Blunier is in top form on this fascinatingly detailed look at Mahler's compositional workshop.

Wagner and the Piano
Arrangements by
Brassin, Busoni, Stradal, Corbett, Kocsis
und Moszkowski

Severin von Eckardstein, piano

MDG 904 1805-6

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Liszt was the first, but pianists of later generations also journeyed through the gigantic cosmos of the Wagnerian music drama with paraphrases and transcriptions for the piano. Severin von Eckardstein has brought together the best of these on his latest SACD. The result is a fascinating look at the reception history of Wagner's music and a colossal, three-dimensional listening experience to remember - thanks to 2+2+2 recording technique.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

String Quintets op. 18 & 87

Leipziger Streichquartett
Barbara Buntrock, viola

MDG 307 1806-2

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Boundless energy is the word! When the Leipzig String Quartet takes on Mendelssohn's string quintets, the atmosphere is electrifying. Nervous sixteenth repetitions, above them the animation and euphoria of the theme in the first violin, propelled by accents in the lower voices: this is music charged with energy, and it rushes forward on its stormy path. And then we suddenly find ourselves in another world: the greatest intimacy pervades the presentation of the second theme, and with quiet legato motion it opposes an idyll's pastel hues to the eruption initially staged by the forces of nature.

Hexameron
Works by Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Carl Czerny, Sigismond Thalberg, Henri Herz, Johann Peter Pixis, Leon Buche

Johann Blanchard, Leon Buche, Carlos Goicoechea, Caroline Sorieux, Kanako Yoshikane, Claudius Tanski, piano

MDG 904 1803-6

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It was billed as a battle of titans. Franz Liszt had invited the leading pianists of his time to compose variations on Bellini's "March of the Huguenots." The international keyboard stars Chopin, Thalberg, Pixis, Czerny, and Herz had agreed to compete, but they never actually performed together in Princess Beliojoso's Paris salon. Claudius Tanski has now recreated this event with his master pupils. Unlike Liszt 175 years ago, he collaborates on equal terms with this circle of brilliant young stars emulating their immortal models with sovereignty and grandeur.

Bach-Händel
Works in arrangements of 19th century

Karg-Elert, Reger, Guilmant, Landmann, Best

Wolfgang Baumgratz
Sauer Organ, Bremer Dom

MDG 320 0761-2

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Bach and Händel in arrangements by Max Reger, Alexandre Guilmant, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert: these are the top names that we have brought together for you on this fascinating CD meeting of baroque and romantic musical minds. The orchestral splendor of the romantic organ was what moved composers to arrange their favorite works of earlier times for the majestic sound of this king of instruments. The genius of Bach and Händel was to radiate in the new light of contemporary organ design, and cathedrals would resound with baroque grandeur.

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