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Elgar - Enigma Variations - In the South (Alassio) - Serenade for Strings - Philharmonia Orchestra -Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

Elgar - Enigma Variations - In the South (Alassio) - Serenade for Strings - Philharmonia Orchestra -Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
ID: SIGCD168
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestre

The Philharmonia Orchestra is widely recognised as the UK’s finest orchestra with an impressive recording legacy, this being their fifth disc with Signum. This disc combines the Philharmonia’s renowned sound with the leadership of Maestro Davis, who’s recording and performing career spans through all the great orchestras of the world.
This disc features Elgar’s best known orchestral works; The Enigma Variations depict twelve of Elgar’s family and friends in fourteen variations built on the original Enigma theme, one of Elgar’s earliest and still most frequently played orchestral works, Serenade for Strings, and In the South, Elgar’s Concert Overture written for the Elgar festival in 1904.
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Messiaen - Chamber Works

Messiaen - Chamber Works
ID: SIGCD126
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestre

Marking one hundred years since the birth of the composer, Signum Classics are proud to announce the release of a collection of Messiaen's chamber work, featuring Matthew Schellhorn in collaboration with the Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen wrote of Schellhorn,

“An excellent pianist and an excellent exponent...everything is played as Messiaen wished it.”
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Shostakovich - Hypothetically Murdered

Shostakovich - Hypothetically Murdered
ID: SIGCD051
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
The Great Composers

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Hamlet & King Lear - Dmitri Shostakovich, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder

Hamlet & King Lear - Dmitri Shostakovich, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder
ID: SIGCD052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
The Great Composers

Signum Records are delighted to present the second recording on SignumClassics of the CBSO, under the direction of Mark Elder.

In his youth Shostakovich devoted much time and energy to composing for the theatre and the cinema, writing for an astonishing variety of movies, political plays, satires, the music-hall and the ballet.
The music for Nikolai Akimov’s outrageous and scandalous production of Hamlet was composed in the winter of 1931 - 1932. Akimov had decided that tragedy was irrelevant to the modern Soviet audience, and therefore presented the play as a satirical farce in which the play was turned up-side-down, by reversing all the usual assumptions about the plot and how it should be acted. The alterations to Shakespeare’s work are reflected in the titles of several of Shostakovich’s numbers. He was asked to provide music for scenes that Shakespeare only refers to but which Akimov insisted on representing on stage, for example the feast where "funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables". The overall character of Shostakovich’s music is often abrasive and satirical, and flippant just where we would expect the music to be more serious. There are also some funny moments, with particular sharp parodies of various well-known musico-theatrical clichés.

In 1954 Kozintsev had also attempted to direct a staged version of Hamlet. For this occasion he decided to reuse music that Shostakovich had already written for him to use in a staged production of King Lear in 1941. All that Kozintsev asked Shostakovich to add for the 1954 Hamlet were a Gigue and a Finale, both of which are included on this recording as an appendix to the music for Akimov’s 1932 production.
The music that Shostakovich wrote for Kozintsev’s 1941 King Lear production inhabits a strange and transitional world, halfway between the bright and brilliant sarcasm of the music for Akimov’s Hamlet of ten years earlier and the more soberly functional manner of his post-war theatrical music. Gone is most of the cheekiness, the fondness for the experimental and the grotesque. There is much in this often oppressively dark music that is characteristic of what was by now Shostakovich’s public symphonic manner.

Perhaps the most powerful and unusual part of the score is the bizarre cycle of Fool’s songs, with which the Fool mocks the mistakes of his master, the King, in the course of the first three Acts. The music of these songs is as strange and quirky as the words they set. Taken as a whole, these ten songs make up a miniature cycle of sourly absurd, almost expressionistic outbursts for voice and orchestra. They seem to form a whole in themselves, standing apart from.
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Elgar - Elaborated by Anthony Payne- Sapporo Symphony Orchestra - Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

Elgar - Elaborated by Anthony Payne- Sapporo Symphony Orchestra - Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
ID: SIGCD118
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestre

The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra take on Elgar’s Symphony No.3 under Tadaaki Otaka’s baton with as much flair as they did in their Japanese premiere of the work in 2004.

In 1995 Anthony Payne was commissioned to complete an ‘elaboration’ of the entire symphony and completed Elgar’s original ‘sketches’ of the work in what can be immediately recognised as Elgarian style.

Payne similarly completed Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March in 2006, Elgar’s first large orchestral work since the Cello Concerto, pulling out all the stops in a brilliant orchestration. This is only the second recording to be made of this work.

The Japanese orchestra affirm their accolade as one of the finest orchestras in Japan in this stunning performance.

The orchestra has received high praise from critics and public alike, distinguished by its clear sound and dynamic powers of expression.
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Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 - Britten Cello Symphony - Jamie Walton

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 - Britten Cello Symphony -  Jamie Walton
ID: SIGCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Cello Collection
Subcollection: Cello

Jamie Walton's latest venture with the Philharmonia Orchestra, led by Alexander Briger, covers two more-contemporary Cello works; Shostakovichʼs Cello Concerto No. 2, and Britten's Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. Jamie Walton is quickly gaining international recognition for his work, being compared to Cello legends Rostropovich and Tortelier.

The Elgar society wrote about Jamie's last disc

“I really cannot praise this performance too highly. For faithfulness to the text, interpretative musicality, accuracy, ensemble and warmth and beauty of tone, Walton cannot be beaten.”

This new disc promises to be every bit as good.
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Philharmonia Orchestra - Shostakovich - Festive Overture - Symphony No. 5 - Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor

Philharmonia Orchestra - Shostakovich - Festive Overture - Symphony No. 5 - Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
ID: SIGCD135
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestre

Festive Overture
One of Shostakovich’s most famous works originally composed for a concert to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917.

Symphony No. 5

Its position as one of the 20th Century’s most popular and successful symphonic works is beyond any doubt, the triumph was immediate and greeted Shostakovich’s rehabilitation as a truly great Soviet artist.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is widely recognised as the UK’s finest orchestra with an impressive recording legacy. Vladimir Ashkenazy has a longstanding relationship with the orchestra, and in 2000 he was appointed their Conductor Laureate.

Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
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Schubert - Symphony No. 9

Schubert - Symphony No. 9
ID: SIGCD133
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestre

The ‘Great C major’ has often been cited as the first of the big romantic symphonies and an open door leading to the Romantic era. We owe the belated emergence of this symphony, 11 years after Schubert’s death, to Schumann who described it as “a symphony for the benefit and enjoyment of the whole world.”

The Philharmonia Orchestra are widely recognised as the UK’s finest performers with an impressive recording legacy. The orchestra prides itself on collaborations with the finest musicians of our day including guest conductor Sir Charles MacKerras.
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Brahms - Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 4 - Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnányi, conductor

Brahms - Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 4 - Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnányi, conductor
ID: SIGCD132
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestre

Symphony No. 2
Its idyllic nature, sheer tunefulness and general sunny disposition earned Brahms an unmitigated triumph in its premiere performance in Vienna in 1877. Since then, it has been described as the sunny counterpart to the storm clouds of his First Symphony.

Symphony No. 4
This work conveys Brahms’ imaginative writing combining sheer intelligence with unexpected comic turns. The Finale is still considered to be one of the most exhilarating movements in the entire orchestral repertoire.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is widely recognised as the UK’s finest orchestra with an impressive recording legacy. Christoph Von Dohnányi has been principle conductor for the past 11 years and in the coming season will be made Honorary Conductor for life.
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Richard Strauss -Till Eulenspiegels & Ein Heldenleben Op. 40

Richard Strauss -Till Eulenspiegels & Ein Heldenleben Op. 40
ID: SIGCD148
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestre

The Philharmonia Orchestra is widely recognised as the UK’s finest orchestra with an impressive recording legacy, with this being their fourth disc with Signum. Christoph Von Dohnányi has been principle conductor for the past 11 years and has recently been made Honorary Conductor for life.

Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) is considered to be one of Strauss’s most witty, entertaining and successful tone poems.

Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) heralds the composer’s more mature period in this genre, and proved controversial at it's premiere for it's highly auto-biographical nature.
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