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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; The Nutcracker Suite

Martha Argerich

Classical - Released October 15, 1996 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 - Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a

Leonard Bernstein

Classical - Released November 17, 2017 | Sony Classical

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Telemann: Suite en la mineur, Concertos pour flûte à bec, viole de gambe & hautbois baroque

Michel Piguet

Classical - Released January 1, 1972 | Warner Classics

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Martha Argerich - Solo Works & Works for Piano Duo

Martha Argerich

Classical - Released January 1, 1983 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op.45 / Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a, TH.35

Martha Argerich

Classical - Released July 1, 1983 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Martha Argerich

Classical - Released May 27, 2023 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Maurice Emmanuel: 6 Sonatines

Patrick Hemmerlé

Classical - Released April 16, 2021 | Melism

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Recorded in the middle of summer 2020 in Paris on a grand Bechstein piano, Maurice Emmanuel's six Sonatines will be a happy discovery for many music lovers. Under the agile and sensitive fingers of pianist Patrick Hemmerlé, they set sail for a neoclassicism reminiscent of Ravel, paying homage to Couperin while revealing a musical landscape with broad horizons.Maurice Emmanuel's music touches on all styles with a fantasy and a freedom of tone that is sometimes disconcerting, proof of a fundamentally original and independent spirit. Born in the same year as Debussy (1862), but dying twenty years later, the composer was also a knowledgeable musicologist. A Burgundian like Edgar Varèse, it was in his native country that he began to take an interest in the folk songs of the winegrowers, traces of which can be found in his First Sonatina. His meeting with Debussy was to be decisive, although he never tried to imitate him. The holder of a doctorate in literature, he taught music history at the Conservatoire de Paris while building up his own career as a composer.Maurice Emmanuel's six Sonatines testify to the originality of his language and at the same time encompass the variety of his influences, from French folklore to Greek and Hindu accents that lend his music a certain exoticism. They represent a major contribution to French piano music. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Poulenc: Orchestral Works

The BBC Concert Orchestra

Symphonies - Released November 4, 2022 | Chandos

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When this album was recorded, in March 2022, no-one could have imagined that it would be Bramwell Tovey’s last recording. Chandos Records would like to dedicate this recording to the memory of Bramwell Tovey, with whom the company had collaborated for over a decade; a versatile musician highly accomplished as both a composer and a conductor, immensely personable and humorous, who possessed an innate understanding of the qualities of his fellow orchestral musicians and quickly earned their respect and devotion. He shall be very sorely missed. Tovey and the BBC Concert Orchestra capture the wit and charm of Poulenc’s music perfectly. Each piece sizzles with excitement, and the well-known pieces (the Sinfonietta and ballet Les Animaux modèles) are beautifully complemented by less frequently heard miniatures: La Baigneuse de Trouville and Discours du général from Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel and Pastourelle from L’Éventail de Jeanne. © Chandos
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Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works

Yuja Wang

Classical - Released April 8, 2016 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Maurice Ravel's orchestral works are universally regarded as models of the art of orchestration, and this 4-CD box set from Deutsche Grammophon presents them complete, in stupendous live performances by Lionel Bringuier and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. These recordings, made between 2014 and 2015, capture every aspect of Ravel's genius, from the colorful transcriptions of his piano pieces to works composed specifically for orchestra. While the ever-popular Boléro is a textbook example of how to use tone colors for a cumulative effect, such lavish pieces as the ballets Daphnis et Chloé and La Valse are sumptuous in their lush textures and vibrant sonorities. Bringuier is an enthusiastic advocate for Ravel's music, and his expertise is apparent in his meticulous interpretations and in the precision of the musicians, who play with rhythmic accuracy and polished execution. Featured soloists in these performances are the virtuoso pianist Yuja Wang, who is exciting in the Piano Concerto in G major and the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major, and violinist Ray Chen, who delivers a compelling reading of Tzigane. In the remaining selections, the Tonhalle shines with brilliant luster, and Deutsche Grammophon's reproduction is first-rate, with its depth, detail, and dynamic range approaching audiophile quality.© TiVo
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Poulenc: La voix humaine

Véronique Gens

Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine ("The Human Voice") is a one-woman opera, less than an hour long, about a woman on the phone with her boyfriend as they break up. Set to a text by Jean Cocteau, it puts the woman through strong mood swings. (Country music fans may wish to compare it to As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone, although there, the boyfriend is present to deliver the final blow.) Soprano Véronique Gens is best known for music from the 17th century up to Mozart, but it is easy to believe the claim in the publicity materials for this release that she had always wanted to record this work; its direct, conversational quality, interspersed with occasional freakouts, fits her manner beautifully. It might seem that those freakouts require a bit more intensity than Gens gives them here, but that is not really in the Cocteau spirit and certainly not in the Poulenc spirit. Gens receives sensitive support from the Orchestre National de Lille under Alexandre Bloch, who also ring down the curtain with a lithe performance of the joyous Sinfonietta. There are other strong performances of Poulenc's little opera, which ought to be much more frequently heard and would be ideal for university voice programs, but this one is instantly appealing and quite memorable, and it is no surprise that it made classical best-seller charts in early 2023. © James Manheim /TiVo
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The Complete Warner Recordings 1972 -1980

Itzhak Perlman

Classical - Released September 25, 2015 | Warner Classics

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Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Tombeau de Couperin, Shéhérazade

Les Siècles

Symphonic Music - Released April 13, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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Recording Ravel's music on period instruments is the kind of thing that might raise a smile... until you realise just how much the production of instruments has changed in less than a hundred years: it's the return of catgut strings, skin drum heads, the French basson (and not the German system bassoon which is used across all the world's orchestras today), shaper tips, trumpets and trombones of French manufacture. At the head of his orchestra Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth gives a new, orthodox, historically-informed version of Ma Mère l’oye (complete ballet), the Tombeau de Couperin and Shéhérazade, the long-neglected "ouverture de féérie" [Fairy Overture] which is pure Ravel. This return to the roots is clearly easier and more straightforwardly authentic for this period of music history, because, unlike earlier works, we possess recordings which date back to the 1920s, and even earlier, which can tell us about the style, the colours, the phrasing and the tempo. But it isn't enough just to have all this historical information to hand to make something interesting. What makes this record thrilling is that all the musicians in the Siècles are excellent, and François-Xavier Roth is a talented artist himself, who knows this music inside out. At which point, his complete recording of Stravinsky's Firebird has already struck us with its quality. This rediscovery of Ravel resounds with clarity and finesse; it is a feast of well-defined timbres which cuts against the "beautiful sound" which prevails in orchestras around the world today. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Pas de bourrée

Camerata Øresund

Classical - Released August 25, 2023 | Channel Classics

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Beauté barbare

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

Classical - Released March 17, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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London Circa 1700 - Purcell & his Generation

La Rêveuse

Chamber Music - Released January 11, 2019 | Mirare

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Concerto Köln

Classical - Released February 3, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Eros: Bridge, Grime, Eröd & Ginastera

Mithras Trio

Classical - Released November 17, 2023 | Linn Records

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There is not really a unifying principle to the program of this release by the Mithras Trio. The opening Phantasie Trio in C minor of Frank Bridge might qualify as quietly slinky, but the "Eros" title is a stretch, especially considering the group's concession that "the association can only really be taken as far as the wordplay with" the name of composer Iván Eröd. Elsewhere, one reads that the program offers "a varied, kaleidoscopic exploration of the piano trio as it developed through the twentieth century." Fair enough, but the delightful Three Whistler Miniatures of Helen Grime were composed in 2011. The good news is that the Mithras Trio has put together four very strong works that are not in general circulation. Perhaps the exception is the movement from Alberto Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas for piano, here arranged for trio by the group's cellist, Leo Popplewell; it makes a quiet finale to a thoroughly lyrical program that the Mithras Trio executes in a fully satisfying way. The Bridge Phantasie Trio is an early, wonderfully murky work that ought to be heard much more often. Eröd's Piano Trio. No. 1 of 1976 takes the neoclassic impulse into the later 20th century. The young musicians, recent beneficiaries of the BBC's New Generation Artists program, play passionately, and the Linn label's engineers contribute superbly idiomatic sound from an auditorium at the Guildhall School. A fine release that will be snapped up by chamber music lovers.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Recuerdos

Augustin Hadelich

Classical - Released August 26, 2022 | Warner Classics

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The brilliant Italian-German-American violinist Augustin Hadelich had been searching for years for a musical environment in which to bring Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto to a wider audience. Composed in 1940 during the young British composer's exile in the United States during World War II, it is dedicated to the victims of the terrible Spanish War. This serious work reflects the pacifist and anti-militaristic ideas that Britten would hold throughout his life.The outbreak of the recent war in Ukraine was the starting point for Augustin Hadelich to imagine the program of his album Recuerdos ("Memories") by surrounding Britten's work with musical visions inspired by Spain, from Pablo de Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy after Georges Bizet's opera to Francisco Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, and Sergei Prokofiev (born in the Ukraine) who pays homage to Spain in the Finale of his Violin Concerto No. 2, premiered in Madrid in 1935 by its dedicatee, the French violinist Robert SoëtensHimself cruelly injured by a terrible fire that kept him away from his instrument for more than a year, Augustin Hadelich wishes to bear witness through this recording to the suffering that surrounds us all in this world. Named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by Musical America magazine in 2018, this violinist is known for his vast repertoire encompassing the great classical works as well as contemporary works of which he is a passionate spokesperson. © François Hudry/Qobuz