Bartok: The Wooden Prince & Divertimento Romanian Folk Dances

Thomas Dausgaard

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

‘From a musical point of view, but especially with regard to the stageworthiness of the work, these cuts represent an absolute improvement’ Bartok wrote to his publisher when he had finished his definitive revision of his Wooden Prince – cutting out much of the music relating to specific stage action, but also generally tightening the symphonic structure, making its large-scale mirror form appear clearer.

“All marvellously realised – with great sensitivity and flair” ~Edward Seckerson, Gramophone 2024

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”

Domingo Hindoyan

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

This recording of Bruckner’s 4th Symphony was taken from live performances in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. The excitement and drama of the concerts is superbly captured on this album. The symphony was completed in 1874 and underwent substantial revisions (including a new scherzo) in 1878 and 1880. The title ‘Romantic’ was applied after the composer added an informal programme for the pleasure of his friends.

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Weinberg: Tassilo Probst, Wen-Sinn Yang, Daniel Grossman, & JCOM

Daniel Grossmann

Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich

Tassilo Probst

Wen-Sinn Yang

This album provides the perfect introduction to this important 20th century composer who worked with some of the big names of the USSR, David Oistrakh, Rudolf Barshai (the dedicatee of the 7th Symphony) to name just two. The Concertino for cello and strings is shot through with an emotional charge clearly associated with the harrowing experience of the murder in 1948 of his actor/director father-in-law by the KGB, an event that heralded the beginning of his own persecution by the authorities.

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Intermezzi and Preludes from Italian Verismo

Domingo Hindoyan

An album of dramatic and passionate Preludes and Intermezzos from some of the most popular Italian operas, from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Translations of works by early French and Russian realists, Stendahl, Pushkin and Balzac among them, crossed international borders to inspire new homegrown styles of literary realism.

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Shai Wosner – Beethoven Diabelli Variations in C Major, Op. 120

Shai Wosner

This huge work is one of the peaks of the repertoire for solo piano, it still baffles the listener, it still has the capacity to reveal more than we thought we knew about it. It makes extreme demands upon the performer and the listener, and in a great performance never ceases to surprise and shock the listener.

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