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Fauré Chamber Music 1

September 10, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Gabriel Faure
Chamber Music Volume 1

Jean-Philippe Collard
Augustin Dumay
Frédéric Lodéon
Michel Debost

EMI Classics CMS 7 62545 2
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Italian Baroque Music [8 CD's]

September 11, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Violin Sonatas Opus 5

Ensemble Sonnerie
Huggett, Meyerson, Cunningham
With Nigel North - archlute, theorbo, guitar
Label: Virgin 5 62236 2 [2CD]
Recorded May 1988 & March 1989
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini (ca.1700-1775)
Sinfonias, Overturas, Sonatas

Chamber Orchestra Milano Classica
Roberto Gini - direction
Label: Dynamic CDS 460
Recorded January 2005
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Giovanni Battista Mazzaferrata (ca.1635-1691)
Sonatas for two violins, Opus 5

La Ghislanda Mosicale
Label: Dynamic CDS409
Recorded November 2000
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Young Vivaldi
Concertos, Sonatas

Modo Antiquo
Federico Maria Sardelli - direction
Label: Sony 88875127852
Recorded February 2015
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Italian Sonatas
Works of Corelli, Geminiani,
Sammartini, Detri

Dorothee Oberlinger - Recorder
Vestidello, Rado, Ose, Rosato
Label: DHM 88697115712
Recorded February & March 2007
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Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Con voce festiva - Cantate, concerti

Isabelle Poulenard - soprano
Serge Tizac - trumpet
Les Passions, Jean-Marc Andrieu
Label: Ligia Lidi 0202167-06
Recorded November & December 2005
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Francesco Mancini (1672-1737)
Sette Sonate a Napoli

Jaques Vandeville - oboe
Jean-Michel Louchart - organ
Label: Syrius SYR 141470
Recorded July 2015
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Agostino Guerrieri (ca.1630-1662)
Violin Sonatas, Opus 1
Opera Prima in Venetia 1673

Parnassi musici
Label: CPO 777 543-2
Recorded January & July 2008
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Mozart - Les Mysteres d'Isis (Diego Fasolis)

September 12, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Les Mysteres d'Isis
(Adapted from Die Zauberflöte, Paris-1801)
Diego Fasolis, Le Concert Spirituel
(Period Instruments)
Glossa GCD 921630 (2015) 2-Disc set





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Forgotten Vienna (The Amadè Players)

September 13, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Concerto for Two Violins in C major
Karl von Ordonez (1734-1786)
Sinfonia in C major
Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813)
Symphony in A minor
Violin Concerto in B flat major
Requiem Mass in E flat major
Nicholas Newland, The Amadè Players
(Period Instruments)
Resonus Classics RES01057 (2015)

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Gebel: String Quartets (Hoffmeister Quartet)

September 14, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Franz Xaver Gebel (1787-1843)
String Quartet in D major (before 1816)
String Quartet in Eb major, Op. 27 (1840)
Hoffmeister Quartet
(Period Instruments)
Hänssler Profil PH15031 (2015)






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Inge Borkh as Turandot - Decca HD remastering

September 15, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Giacomo Puccini
TURANDOT

Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi 
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma
dir : Alberto Erede

Original stereo recording: Rome, August 1955
Decca Analog Golden Age Volume One 
Blu-Ray audio [P] 2016

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Opera News, 28 August 2018


Inge Borkh, 97, Incendiary Post-War Soprano Who Won International Acclaim as Salome and Elektra, has Died


SOPRANO INGE BORKH, 97, a German soprano who won postwar acclaim for her vocally and histrionically searing portrayals of some of the most challenging roles in the soprano repertoire—in particular Strauss’s Salome and Elektra—has died.

Borkh, who died at her home in Stuttgart on Sunday, was born Ingeborg Simon in Mannheim, Germany, on May 26, 1921. The daughter of a Jewish diplomat, Borkh’s family relocated to Austria in 1935, and, following the Anschluss, moved to Switzerland in 1938.

Borkh initially endeavored to be an actress, studying at the Burgtheater in Vienna, before moving to Milan to study voice. She continued her musical studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum and made her professional debut in 1940 as Czipra in Lucerne performances of Der Zigeunerbaron; local performances of Agathe in Freischütz followed. The soprano remained in Switzerland during World War II and began to take on increasingly dramatic repertoire, including Senta in Der Fliegender Holländer, Elsa in Lohengrin, the title role in Strauss’s Ägyptische Helena, Turandot and Leonora in Il Trovatore and La Forza del Destino. Following the war, Borkh went on to make appearances in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart and Vienna.

Borkh received the first significant notices of her career in 1951 for her portrayal of Magda Sorel in Basel performances of The Consul that marked the German-language debut of Menotti’s opera. The role vaulted Borkh to international acclaim. Following 1952 performances as Freia and Sieglinde at the Bayreuth Festival, the soprano made her U.S. debut in 1953 as Elektra in San Francisco Opera performances of Strauss’s opera. She returned to the company soon thereafter for performances as Verdi’s Lady Macbeth. Borkh sang in the U.S. premiere of Britten’s Gloriana in Cincinnati in 1956. In 1958, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Salome under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos. She would make her Covent Garden debut the following year in the same role.

In addition to Strauss’s Salome and Elektra, Borkh won international praise for her performances as the Dyer’s Wife and Leonore in Fidelio—both roles which she subsequently brought to the Met—as well as the title role in Turandot; she was also a compelling exponent of lesser-known contemporary roles such as Carl Orff’s Antigonaeand Ernest Bloch’s Lady Macbeth.

Borkh retired from the opera stage following a 1973 run of Elektra performances in Palermo, but she continued to concertize and appear in cabaret. In 1977, she returned to straight acting. 

Borkh’s presence on recordings is limited, but what was captured of her work in opera shows the soprano in a state near her prime. Her Scenes from Elektra and Salome, recorded with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is an incendiary example of the soprano's musico-dramatic prowess, and two separate recordings of Elektra—led by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Karl Böhm—remain nonpareil. While no commercially available recording of Borkh’s Salome exists, a live recording with the Bavarian State Opera, led by Rudolf Kempe, was released by Myto. Borkh also recorded her interpretation of the title role in Turandot under the baton of Alberto Erede, with a cast that included Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi and Nicola Zaccaria.

Following her retirement from opera, Borkh also documented her cabaret show with Inge Borkh Sings Her Memoirs, and in 1996 she published an autobiography, Ich Komm’ vom Theater Nicht Los …  (“I Can’t Shake the Theater … ”).

Borkh married bass-baritone Alexander Welitsch, who died in 1991. She is survived by a stepson.
 

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Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 61 - 76]

September 16, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Clemens Krauss: THE COLLECTION 1929-1954 [97 CDs]
Third installment : Discs 61-76

Venias VN033 (mono) - No publication date given

Details of works performed below, and in scanned booklet,
available for download with the first installment

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Clemens Heinrich Krauss was a leading Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, who got to his major positions by the resignation of conductors less sympathetic to the German Nazi regime.

His mother was Clementine Krauss, a leading Viennese actress and singer. He was also related to Gabrielle Krauss (1842 - 1904), an important nineteenth century soprano. His father was a figure in the Austrian Imperial Court. When Clemens went into music, he used his mother's name because of its theatrical history.

When he was a boy, he was a chorister in the Hofkapelle (Imperial Choir). He attended the Vienna Conservatory, graduating in 1912. He studied composition with Grädener and theory with Heuberger. After graduation he was chorus master in the Brünn Theater (1912 - 1913). There he made his conducting debut in 1913.

He made the rounds of regional centers, conducting in Riga (1913 - 1914), Nuremberg (1915), and Sczeczin (1916 - 1921). The latter appointment gave him ample opportunity to travel to Berlin to hear Artur Nikisch conduct the Philharmonic, a major influence.

His next appointment was back in Austria, where he became director of the opera and symphony concerts in Graz. In 1922 he joined the conducting staff of the Vienna State Opera and teacher of the conducting class at the State Academy of Germany. In 1923 he became conductor of the Vienna Tonkünstler Concerts (until 1927), and Intendant of the opera in Frankfurt am Maine and director of the Museum Concerts in 1924, until 1929.

He visited the United States in 1929, conducting in Philadelphia and at the New York Philharmonic. Also in 1929 he was appointed director of the Vienna State Opera. Its orchestra, in its independent concert form as the Vienna Philharmonic, appointed him its music director in 1930. He was a regular conductor at the Salzburg Festival from 1926 to 1934. In 1930 he conducted the opera in the world premiere of Berg's Wozzeck.

In 1933 and 1934 he gave up his Vienna positions, becoming director of the Berlin State Opera in 1935 after Erich Kleiber resigned in protest over Nazi rule. Leaving Austria for Nazi Germany was no hardship for Krauss, who was a friend of both Hitler and Goering. In 1933 he took over the preparations for the premieres of Strauss' opera Arabella when the principled conductor Fritz Busch left. In 1937 he was appointed Intendant of the Munich National Theater, following the resignation there of Knappertsbusch. He became a close friend of Richard Strauss, wrote the libretto to the opera Capriccio (which he premiered in Munich in 1942), and Der Liebe der Danae. He also conducted the premiere of Strauss' anti-War cantata Friedenstag.

After the Munich opera house was bombed, shutting it down, he returned to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra until it closed shortly before the end of the War (1944 - 1945). After the War, Allied officials investigated his pro-Nazi activities and because of them forbade him from appearing in public until 1947. They also found that he had frequently acted to assist a number of individual Jews escape the Third Reich machine. When his ban was lifted he resumed frequently conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, including its famous New Years Day concerts.

He conducted at Covent Garden in London (1951 to 1953) and in the 1953 Bayreuth Festival. He was married to the soprano Viorica Ursuleac. He was in Mexico on vacation when he died there in 1954.

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Faure Chamber Music 2

September 17, 2018, 5:21 pm
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Gabriel Faure
Chamber Music Volume 2

Jean-Philippe Collard
Augustin Dumay
Bruno Pasquier
Frédéric Lodéon
Quatuor Parrenin

EMI Classica 7 62548 2




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Sweelinck Cantiones Sacrae

September 18, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck  (1562-1621)
Cantiones Sacrae 1619

Trinity College Chapel Choir, Cambridge
Richard Marlow

Hyperion CDA67103-4
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The Bach Family [12 CD's]

September 19, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Bach Family
(Johann Sebastian, Johann Christian & Wilhelm Friedemann)
Music for recorder ensemble

Flautando Köln
label: Carus 83.360
Recorded August 2009
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concertos

La Stravaganza
Siegbert Rampe - direction
Label: Virgin 5 45255 2 (2CD)
Recorded May 1993 & May 1995
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Triosonatas BWV 527-529
Sonatas BWV 1030-1032

Stefano Bagliano - recorder
Ottavio Dantone - harpsichord
Label: Dynamic CDS 77
Recorded June 1993
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Works on Trumpet & Organ

Thierry Caens - trumpet
Vincent Warnier - organ
Metzler organ, 1996
Notre Dame, Talant (F)
Label: Pierre Verany PV 730100
Recorded February 1998
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concertos for recorder

Erik Bosgraaf - recorders
Ensemble Cordevento
Label: Brilliant Classics 94296
Recorded July 2011
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
6 Organ Sonatas Wq 69, Wq 70

Ton Koopman - organist
Amalia organ, Berlin
Label: Challenge CC72260
Recorded April & October 2013
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata Arias on Bassoon

Burak Ozdemir - bassoon
Musika Sequenza
Label: DHM 88883758152
Recorded June 2013
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata Arias

Magdalena Kozena - mezzo-soprano
Musica Florea
Marek Stryncl - direction
Label: Archiv 457 367-2
Recorded July & September 1996
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Oboe Concertos Wq 21
Sonata Wq 13, No 135

Ku Ebbinge - oboe
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman - direction
Label: Erato 2292-45430-2
Recorded May 1987
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Luther-Cantatas

La Capella Ducale
Musica Fiata
Roland Wilson - direction
Wolf Matthias Noll - organ
Label: DHM 88725468032
Recorded August 2012
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in b minor, BWV 232

The Sixteen
Symphony of Harmony & Invention
Harry Christophers - direction
Label: Coro COR16044 (2CD)
Recorded April 1994
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079

Moroney, See, Holloway,
ter Linden and Cook

Label FHM HMC 901260
Recorded June 1987
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Anita Cerquetti as La Gioconda - Decca HD remastering

September 20, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Amilicare Ponchielli

LA GIOCONDA

Anita Cerquetti, Mario del Monaco
Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini, Cesare Siepi
Coro & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 
dir : Gianandrea Gavazzeni


Original stereo recording: Firenze, July 1957
Decca Analog Golden Age Volume One 
Blu-Ray audio [P] 2016

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Anita Cerquetti (13 April 1931 – 11 October 2014) was an Italian dramatic soprano who had a short but meteoric career in the 1950s. Her voice was very powerful and pleasing to audiences.

Cerquetti was born in Montecosaro, near Macerata, Italy. She originally studied violin and trained eight years with Luigi Mori. After a mere year of vocal study at the Conservatory of Perugia, she made her operatic debut in Spoleto in 1951 as Aida. She sang all over Italy, notably in Florence as Noraime in Gli Abencerragi (the Italian version of Les Abencérages) under Carlo Maria Giulini in 1956, and as Elvira in Ernani under Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1957. Her La Scala debut was in 1958 as Abigaille in Nabucco. She also sang on RAI in a wide variety of roles, such as Elcia in Mosè in Egitto, Mathilde in Guglielmo Tell and Elena in I vespri siciliani.

Cerquetti made headlines in January 1958 when she replaced "in extremis" the ailing Maria Callas in Norma, at the Rome Opera House.She was already singing the role at the San Carlo in Naples. She commuted between the two cities to honor both engagements for several weeks. This "tour de force" won her great acclaim, but had serious effects on her health. Shortly afterward she started withdrawing little by little from the stage until her complete retirement in 1961, aged only 30.

She was due to have made her debut at The Royal Opera House in the title role in Aida in July 1958 but was forced to withdraw following an appendectomy in late June. She was replaced by Leontyne Price. Anita Cerquetti was thus destined never to sing at Covent Garden.

Cerquetti sang relatively little in America. Her debut there was at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1955, as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera opposite Jussi Björling, under Tullio Serafin. She made only two commercial recordings, both for Decca in 1957, a recital of Italian opera arias and a complete La Gioconda with Mario Del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato and Cesare Siepi under Gianandrea Gavazzeni. Among her "pirated" recordings is a 1958 Aida from Mexico City, with Flaviano Labò, Nell Rankin, Cornell MacNeil, Fernando Corena and Norman Treigle. The 1958 Rome production of Norma with Franco Corelli is also available.

Cerquetti died in Perugia in 2014, aged 83, from cardiovascular disease.

She was married to the baritone Edo Ferretti, who predeceased her.

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Herschel: 6 Keyboard Sonatas (Herschel Ensemble)

September 21, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Willam Herschel (1738-1821)
Six Accompanied keyboard Sonatas (1769)
Herschel Ensemble
(Period Instruments)
Herschel Ensemble 0702785192214 (2015)







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Mozart - Il re pastore (Ian Page, Classical Opera)

September 22, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Il re pastore, K208
Ian Page, Classical Opera
(Period Instruments)
Signum Classics SIG433 (2015)







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Schubert: Quartettsatz, D703, Quatuor No. 15, D887 (Quatuor Terpsycordes)

September 23, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Quartet Movement in C minor, D 703 1820
String Quartet in G major, D 887 (1826)
Quatuor Terpsycordes
(Period Instruments)
Ambronay AMY044 (2015)






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Shostakovich his Birthday

September 24, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 5

Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Jaap van Zweden - direction
Label: Ambroisie AM 171
Recorded September 2006
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10

Halle Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski - direction
Label: IMP Classics  PCD 955
Recorded November 1990
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Andrey Boreyko - direction
Label: Hänssler 93.303
Recorded March & November 2011
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Chamber Symphonies
Arranged by Rudolf Barshai

Orch. Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Rudolf Barshai - direction
Label: Brilliant Classics 8212 (2CD)
Recorded in 2005
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Cello Concerto No. 1

New York Philharmonic / Bernstein
Yo-Yo Ma - cello
Philadelphia Orchestra / Ormandy
Label: Sony SBK 64117
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Alisa Weilerstein - Cello
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Pablo Heras-Casado
Label: Decca 483 0835
Recorded September 2015
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Chamber Music, Piano Trio No. 2,
Piano Quintet, Violin Sonata,
Viola Sonata, Cello Sonata

Edward Auer, Isabelle van Keulen,
Ronald Brautigam and others
Label: Brilliant Classics 7535 (3CD)
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A Final Faustian Bargain: Gounod & Prokofiev

September 25, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Charles Gounod
Faust

Cheryl Studer, Richard Leech, Thomas Hampson,
José van Dam
Choeur de l'Armée Française
Choeur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Michel Plasson

EMI Classics CDS 7 54228 2


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Serge Prokofiev
The Fiery Angel

Secunde, Engert-Ely, Lorenz, Zednik, Moll
Gottenburg Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Neeme Jarvi

DG 431 669-2
2 discs



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Harmonie & Turcherie (Bernardini, Zefiro)

September 26, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Harmonie & Turcherie
18th & 19th Century "Turkish music for Winds
Alfredo Bernardini, Zefiro
(Period Instruments)
Arcana A 391 (2015)

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Hiller - Jauchzet dem Herren (Homburg, Handel's Company)

September 27, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Johann Adam Hiller (1726-1804)
Jauchzet dem Herren
Lass sich freuen alle
Pergolesi's Stabat mater for 4 Voices with Wind Instruments
Handel's Company, Rainer Johannes Homburg
(Period Instruments)
MD & G 902 1876-6 (2015)





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Kalliwoda - Violin Concertos & Overtures (Willens, Die Kölner Akademie)

September 28, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801-1866)
Violin Concertino No. 1 in E Major, Op. 15
Violin Concertino No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 133
Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 55
Overture No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 101
Overture No. 10 in F Minor, Op. 142
Micahel Alexander Willens, Die Kölner Akademie
(Period Instruments)
CPO 777 692-1 (2015)



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Verdi - Otello - Decca HD remastering

September 29, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Giuseppe Verdi 
OTELLO

Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Aldo Protti
Fernando Corena, Tom Krause

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor 
Wiener Philharmoniker
dir : Herbert von Karajan



Original stereo recording: Vienna, 1961
Decca Analog Golden Age Volume Two
Blu-Ray audio [P] 2016

High resolution audio files (24 bit/192 kHz) prepared from 
the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios
Digital remaster at Universal Music Mexico

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