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Artist: Abba |
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Artist: Martha Argerich This is the 3rd of a series of live performances given in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam by Martha Argerich (there is also a live recital on CDC5 56975-2 & a concerto disc on CDC5 56974-2). The concerts date from 1978 & 1979 & offer the record collector the opportunity to compare & contrast Argerich the recitalist at that time with Argerich the accompanist now |
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Formed in 1994 at the Royal College of Music in London, the Belcea Quartet already has an impressive discography, including the complete Beethoven string quartets (ALPHA262). For this new recording, the ensemble has chosen three quartets by two iconic composers of the 20th century: Leos Janáček and György Ligeti. |
Artist: Belcea Quartet|
Abbado’s recording followed a widely acclaimed 1975 La Scala production by Giorgio Strehler. With the La Scala theatre not available, DG used the part completed Centro Telicinematografico Culturale in Milan in January 1976 to produce a warm yet detailed acoustic. |
Artist: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Claudio Abbado|
Artist: Armida Quartett The act of thinking and composing in counterpoint – in fugues – has reigned as the supreme musical discipline ever since Western music emerged around the year 1200 from the shadows of purely oral transmission to be codified in writing, initially in mensural notation. |
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Artist: Víkingur Olafsson This is a tribute to the master of minimal music, legendary Philip Glass, who turns 80 on 31.01.2017. A year ago Philip Glass handpicked some pianists to perform all of his Etudes together at the Barbican in London. |
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Artist: The Cars Boston group that matched new wave energy to tight rhythms, with disembodied vocals and a surprising affection for '60s bubblegum. |
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Artist: Maryla Jonas Maryla Jonas, Polish-born concert pianist, made her debut as a child prodigy in Warsaw at the age of 9 and became a pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski. She won an International Chopin Prize in 1922 and the Beethoven Prize of Vienna the next year. |
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Artist: Anna-Victoria Baltrusch Franz Liszt's artistic circle in mid-nineteenth century Weimar: after years as an itinerant piano virtuoso, he now devoted himself to composing and conducting. Whilst the city was drawing only on its past greatness under Goethe and Schiller, Liszt re-established Weimar as a musical centre of European standing. |
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Artist: Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra |
