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ID: CC2011 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Oboe Janet Craxton (1929-81) founded the London Oboe Quartet with Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello) in 1968, and later with Charles Tunnell (cello) after Kenneth Heath's death in 1977. During the twelve years of its existence the Quartet played at most of the major UK music festivals and made frequent BBC broadcasts, from which these recordings are taken. Janet Craxton was always a champion of new music, and the Quartet commissioned five of the six works on this CD, as well as music by Neil Sanders, Alan Rawsthorne, Oliver Knussen, John Exton and John McCabe.
A previous Oboe Classics CD, An English Renaissance, celebrated Leon Goossens with a number of works inspired by his oboe playing. In the notes for that CD George Caird commented that in the generation following Goossens „the oboe playing of Janet Craxton should be singled out as the torch-bearer for music for oboe and strings. But that, and the composers who wrote for her, is another story.“ |
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ID: CC2002 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Klavír The CD booklet contains an article by Keith Fraser (in English, French and German) on the relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann and a description of each piece, accompanied by session photographs.
How much do pictures reflect reality? The image on the front of this CD is an anonymous copy of a photograph taken of Robert and Clara Schumann in 1850, the year after most of the pieces here were written. Robert, standing soberly by the piano, was actually addicted to wine, women and song. His drinking was referred to by Clara's father Friedrich Wieck in his attempts to prevent their marriage, and Robert's affairs were a problem for Clara. Not so the songs, of which he wrote more than 100 in 1840, the year he married Clara. He was 40 years old in this picture, by this time a thoroughly respected composer, though more successful in some genres than others. His earlier intention, to be a concert pianist, had been thwarted by a (possibly self-inflicted) injury to his right hand. And what of Clara? She was 31 and an acclaimed pianist. She had already given birth to six of her eight children (of whom seven survived). At this period she was also performing, but her pregnancies (and Robert's encouragement) had led to a flowering of her compositional skills. Her face - in common with other photos of her - seems to express a kind of abstracted melancholy. But here the copyist has lied; in the original photograph she is almost smiling. Certainly the years from her marriage until Robert's physical and mental health began its final decline in 1852 contained much ecstatic happiness. As she wrote in her diary soon after their marriage: "I am supremely happy, and becoming more so all the time - if my Robert is as happy as I am, then I will wish for nothing further - because of my love I could sometimes hurt him with my kisses; instead of becoming quieter (as they say one gets to become in a marriage) I become more fiery! - my poor beloved husband! Their relationship was one of mutual love and mutual support, though perhaps Clara was able to support Robert more than the other way round. She encouraged him constantly, and by performing his works at her concerts brought them into the public domain. Robert sometimes described her as his own "right hand". She was sociable and outgoing, he more private and reserved outside his own circle of friends. He needed her support, and indeed sometimes felt inadequate and depressed on her concert tours when she was the star soloist and and he could no longer play the piano properly. Clara's encouragement of Robert was from a position of equality, and the anonymous illustrator has made a blatent distortion in the picture by moving the angle of her head from upright in the original photograph to a more submissive position - forward and down. Copyright Jeremy Polmear 2002 |
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ID: PTC5186367 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Podkolekce: Klavír Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
The outstanding artist Arabella Steinbacher has chosen the Brahms Violin Sonatas for her most recent release. Her previous CD of the Bartók Concertos (PTC 5186350) received excellent reviews “a fearsomely talented violinist.” Telegraph; Gramophone Editor’s Choice; BBC Music Magazine 5* Recording |
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ID: PTC5186353 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Podkolekce: Violin Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186350 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Podkolekce: Violin Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Steinbacher’s previous release on PentaTone (Dvorak and Szymanowski Concertos PTC5186350) was very well received “Rarely has the composer’s magical ear for instrumental sonorities sounded so beguiling on disc….Steinbacher responds with playing that is both sensually alluring and headily impassioned.” The Strad. Here she brings her expertise in interpretation to the Bartók Violin Concertos. |
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ID: PTC5186334 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Kolekce: Chamber MusicPodkolekce: Quintet Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Martin Helmchen - pianoChristian Tetzlaff - violin (1-5, 15)Antoine Tamestit - viola (1-5)Marie-Elisabeth Hecker - cello (1-5, 15)Alois Posch - double bass (1-5)Aldo Baerten - wooden flute by A. Braun (6-14)
Martin Helmchen and Christian Tetzlaff lead a superb line-up of young musicians in these, some of the best loved, of all chamber works. |
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ID: PTC5186176 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Podkolekce: String instruments Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Quartetto ItalianoPaolo Borciani - 1st violinElisa Pegreffi - 2nd violinPiero Farulli - violaFranco Rossi - cello |
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ID: PTC5186175 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Podkolekce: String instruments Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Quartetto ItalianoPaolo Borciani - 1st violinElisa Pegreffi - 2nd violinPiero Farulli - violaFranco Rossi - cello |
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ID: PTC5186043 Disk: 1 Type: SACD |
Podkolekce: Klavír
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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