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Chamber Music, page 60

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Music for Oboe and Strings - Janet Craxton

Music for Oboe and Strings - Janet Craxton
ID: CC2011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: 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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Schumann, Robert & Clara: Music for Oboe and Cor Anglais

Schumann, Robert & Clara: Music for Oboe and Cor Anglais
ID: CC2002
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

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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J. Brahms: Complete works for Violin and Piano: A. Steinbacher, violin / R. Kulek, piano

J. Brahms: Complete works for Violin and Piano: A. Steinbacher, violin / R. Kulek, piano
ID: PTC5186367
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: Piano

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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Dvorák and Szymanowski - Violin Concertos: A. Steinbacher, violin / Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Berlin - M. Janowski

Dvorák and Szymanowski - Violin Concertos: A. Steinbacher, violin / Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Berlin - M. Janowski
ID: PTC5186353
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: Violin

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
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B. Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2 - A. Steinbacher, violin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande-M. Janowski

B. Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2 - A. Steinbacher, violin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande-M. Janowski
ID: PTC5186350
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: 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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F.P. Schubert - Forellen Quintet - The Trout, Variations on Trockne Blumen, Notturno

F.P. Schubert - Forellen Quintet - The Trout, Variations on Trockne Blumen, Notturno
ID: PTC5186334
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quintet

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD

Martin Helmchen - piano Christian 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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F.J. Haydn - L’isola disabitata, Symphony No.100: Military, Sinfonia concertante in B flat - Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

F.J. Haydn - L’isola disabitata, Symphony  No.100: Military, Sinfonia concertante in B flat - Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
ID: PTC5186300
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Orchestra

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
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L.van Beethoven - String Quartet Rasumovsky No.2 and No. 3 - Quartetto Italiano

L.van Beethoven - String Quartet Rasumovsky No.2 and  No. 3 - Quartetto Italiano
ID: PTC5186176
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: String instruments

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD

Quartetto Italiano Paolo Borciani - 1st violin Elisa Pegreffi - 2nd violin Piero Farulli - viola Franco Rossi - cello
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L.van Beethoven - String Quartet Rasumovsky No.1,String Quartet No. 6 - Quartetto Italiano

L.van Beethoven - String Quartet  Rasumovsky No.1,String Quartet No. 6  - Quartetto Italiano
ID: PTC5186175
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: String instruments

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD

Quartetto Italiano Paolo Borciani - 1st violin Elisa Pegreffi - 2nd violin Piero Farulli - viola Franco Rossi - cello
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Super Audio CD Hybrid Sampler: Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schmidt, Mahler, Bach and Schubert

Super Audio CD Hybrid Sampler: Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schmidt, Mahler, Bach and Schubert
ID: PTC5186043
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: Piano


Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
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