Your basket is empty

Categories:
Narrow my search:

Results 1 to 20 out of a total of 3395
From
CD$10.49

Mendelssohn : Romances sans paroles, Variations sérieuses, Fantaisie écossaise

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released September 11, 2008 | Mirare

Booklet Distinctions 5 de Diapason - Choc du Monde de la Musique - RTL d'Or - 10/10 de ClassicsToday
From
CD$5.99

37ème Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron

Iddo Bar-Shaï

Classical - Released July 14, 2017 | Mirare

Booklet
From
HI-RES$14.39
CD$10.79

Hélène de Mongeroult, portrait d'une compositrice visionnaire

Marcia Hadjimarkos

Classical - Released September 20, 2023 | iMD-Seulétoile

Hi-Res
From
CD$5.99

Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron: 36e édition

Zhu Xiao-Mei

Classical - Released July 15, 2016 | Mirare

Booklet
From
CD$13.09

Mendelssohn: Romances sans paroles

David Walter

Classical - Released September 13, 2005 | Polymnie

From
HI-RES$17.49
CD$13.99

Mendelssohn: Songs without Words Vol.1 (Lieder ohne Worte)

Peter Donohoe

Classical - Released January 7, 2022 | Chandos

Hi-Res Booklet
Peter Donohoe CBE is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility, and commanding technique. On this first volume of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, he writes: "When I first became conscious of my desire to be a musician, Mendelssohn meant more to me, personally, than almost any other composer – he certainly ranked alongside Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. My choice of programme for the present recording is based around a large selection from the Lieder ohne Worte, which I preface with the Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14 and the three wonderful Fantaisies ou Caprices. The Rondo capriccioso and Trois Fantaisies ou Caprices are exquisite examples of the extraordinary facility of Mendelssohn (implicitly as a pianist, but also as a composer), of his originality and inspiration, at an age that allows us, in my view, to place him in the same group of wonderfully natural and prodigious composers as Haydn and Mozart. It is always a pleasure to play these works, and they go to the heart of why I became a musician in the first place". © Chandos
From
HI-RES$21.09
CD$18.09

Chopin: 26 Préludes - Scriabine: Sonate Op. 19 No. 2

Beatrice Rana

Classical - Released September 2, 2012 | ATMA Classique

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$22.99
CD$17.99

Le Concert des Oiseaux. Vincent Bouchot: Le Carnaval des animaux en péril

La Rêveuse

Classical - Released February 10, 2023 | harmonia mundi

Hi-Res Booklet
Several famous pieces of music based on birdsong appeared in the 19th and 20th centuries; those by Saint-Saëns, Britten, and Ravel are here, although Messiaen is not. However, the affinity between music and birdsong had been explored for centuries before that, and the early music group La Rêveuse here provides some delightful examples. The always pictorial François Couperin is represented, as is Rameau, but other composers are less familiar but no less charming. Sample the works by Theodor Schwartzkopff, Michel Blavet, and especially Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737), whose "Les Ramages" ("The Songs") names a group of birds and then illustrates their songs. Then there are historical-instrument versions of Saint-Saëns, Britten, and Ravel. One may accept this idea or not, but even in the latter case, they don't do much to dent the charm of the whole. The program ends with a work by contemporary composer Vincent Bouchot, Le Carnaval des animaux en péril, a kind of a take-off on Saint-Saëns for the Anthropocene era that also calls forth a striking variety of instruments from La Rêveuse. Another questionable idea is that, in keeping with the practices of this group, recorded birdsong is heard between some of the tracks. Whatever aspects of this release might be doubtful, it rarely fails to bring a smile. © James Manheim /TiVo
From
HI-RES$14.49
CD$10.49

Alexander Scriabin : Intégrale des Etudes pour piano

Andrei Korobeinikov

Solo Piano - Released October 6, 2014 | Mirare

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions 4 étoiles Classica
From
HI-RES$18.99
CD$12.49

Chopin, Schubert & Prokofiev

Yulianna Avdeeva

Classical - Released September 8, 2014 | Mirare

Hi-Res Booklet
From
HI-RES$11.49
CD$9.19

Fauré & Schumann

Marie-Pierre Langlamet

Classical - Released April 2, 2021 | Indésens

Hi-Res Booklet
From
HI-RES$14.49
CD$10.49

Fauré: Intégrale de l'oeuvre pour piano, Volume 2

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released November 22, 2011 | Mirare

Hi-Res Booklet
From
HI-RES$24.70
CD$19.76

Fauré: Nocturnes pour Piano, Theme et Variations Op. 73 by Eric Heidsieck

Eric Heidsieck

Classical - Released February 9, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$16.59
CD$14.39

Fauré: Piano Music

Gabriel Fauré

Classical - Released September 23, 2016 | Challenge Classics

Hi-Res
From
CD$10.49

Fauré: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour piano, Vol. 1 (Ballade, Mazurka op.62, Quatre Valses-Caprices, Préludes Op.103

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released May 12, 2009 | Mirare

Booklet
Though Fauré was assuredly his own man as a composer, in these performances of his piano music by Jean-Claude Pennetier, he is also surely the rightful heir of Chopin. The formal matter here is clearly Chopin's -- a ballade, a mazurka, four waltzes, and nine preludes -- and the stylistic manner is Chopin's as well -- the filigree and melody in the right hand and the left hand divided between counter-melody, chordal accompaniment and bass. This is meant as no slight to either Fauré or Pennetier. This is luscious music with toothsome melodies, succulent sonorities, and mouthwatering forms, and if these can be faulted for being too beautiful, it's a fault they should bear proudly. The performances are likewise exquisite. Pennetier has a fluent technique, a pearly tone, and an elegant way of phrasing a melody and shaping a form. But more than that, Pennetier has a real sympathy for Fauré's music and his interpretations are honest and heartfelt. Though the classic performances of these works are certainly worthy of admiration and love, Pennetier's are no less admirable and loveable and any listener interested in the composer or the period is urged to try this disc. Mirare's digital sound is clear, deep, and immediate. © TiVo
From
HI-RES$17.59
CD$15.09

Discovering Mendelssohn

Christian Li

Classical - Released June 16, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

Hi-Res
Teenage violinist Christian Li has thus far recorded mostly well-trodden repertory, and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, certainly falls into that category. It is the centerpiece of Discovering Mendelssohn, but the program is filled out with a variety of materials that trace the cosmopolitan Mendelssohn's travels and also revive the 19th century type of concert, with orchestral and violin-and-piano pieces cheek by jowl, as well as a few audience-friendly arrangements of songs with and without words that include Yinuo Mu's harp and Xuefei Yang's guitar (in the charming concluding Venetian Gondola Song). This shows growth on Li's part, as does his confident rapport with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis, but really, the key to the album's success is that Li's performance of the Violin Concerto stands out from the crowd. He gets but does not overdo the sentiment in the big tunes, and he has an attractive precision in the high notes. Li places proper emphasis on the unusually placed cadenza in the concerto's first movement, loosening up and giving it improvisatory flair. He includes pieces by Mozart, Bach, and Schubert, all of which have more or less definite connections to Mendelssohn; this, too, supports the effort to create the atmosphere of a concert of Mendelssohn's time. An exciting young player takes a definite step forward with this enjoyable release. This album landed on classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
From
CD$83.29

Mendelssohn : Intégrale des œuvres pour piano

Felix Mendelssohn

Classical - Released November 2, 2009 | Saphir Productions

From
HI-RES$16.49
CD$10.99

Felix Mendelssohn : Lieder ohne Worte

Javier Perianes

Solo Piano - Released November 3, 2014 | harmonia mundi

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions 5 de Diapason - Choc de Classica - 5 Sterne Fono Forum Klassik
From
CD$10.49

Frederic Chopin : Valses (Intégrale)

Alexandre Tharaud

Classical - Released April 21, 2006 | harmonia mundi

From
HI-RES$41.29
CD$35.79

Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released April 22, 2024 | Warner Classics

Hi-Res
This digital-only Otto Klemperer collection—taken from a 95-disc box set from Warner Classics—contains his complete EMI repertoire. It presents a rich sampling of the German composer and conductor's interpretations of Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Schubert, but also serves to illustrate his only real shortcoming of Klemperer—his limiting his recordings, for the most part, to composers of central Europe.That quibble notwithstanding, this is a must-have set for collectors—not just Klemperer aficionados, but anyone wishing to hear superb renditions of the masterpieces in the set by one of the 20th Century's great conductors. Although Klemperer claimed to dislike recording, you would never guess it listening to these performances; the only explanation for his paradoxical claim being that he held to the same high standards in the studio as he did in the concert hall.Particularly enjoyable in the set is Mendelssohn's incidental music for Midsummer Night's Dream. Klemperer conducts the numbers with the requisite light and graceful touch that the music demands. Somewhat of a rarity in this recording are the vocal portions being sung in Shakespearean English.Also outstanding is a performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto with Annie Fischer as soloist, though it suffers somewhat from its rather dull recorded sound. All the works in this set, though, are beautifully performed. Adding to the listener's enjoyment are the expert remasterings done by Warner Classics' engineers in 24-bit/192 kHz sound. © Anthony Fountain/Qobuz