Maggini Quartet - String Quartet 3 / Lyrical Interlude / Adagio - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Popper was one of the most important cellists of the 19th century and is remembered for the etudes of his High School of Cello Playing. Popper premiered chamber works by Brahms and championed Schumann's Cello Concerto, and his own four concertos span an illustrious 50-year career. Each shares a lyrical Romantic spirit the playful First Concerto, an enjoyable prelude to the more dramatic and virtuosic Second, and the single-movement Third, a masterpiece in melodic compactness. The Fourth Concerto was dedicated to 'my great colleague' Alfredo Piatti and is recorded here in it's version with piano. Album Tracks 1. Cello Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 8 2. Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 24 3. Cello Concerto No. 3 in G Major, Op. 50 4. Cello Concerto No. 4 in B minor, Op. 72 (Version for Cello and Piano)

The Seven Deadly Sins is a satirical parable and the last co-operation between Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht. The present album is a re- of the SWRmusic bestseller 93.109 having the outstanding Anja Silja as Anna. The 'sung ballet' is in nine movements, and was written in 1933 as Weill watched the Nazis seize power following the Reichstag fire of February 1933. Both Brecht and Weill knew that as Jewish men, Berlin could no longer be their home. He obtained the commission for Seven Deadly Sins while in Paris. The scenario of the libretto mirrors Brecht's own travels after fleeing Germany, expanded to one-year sojourns in each of seven cities. Album Tracks 1. Die 7 Todsünden / the Seven Deadly Sins 2. Quodlibet Aus Der Pantomime InchZaubernachtInch Op. 4 3. Quodlibet from the Pantomime InchZaubernachtInch Op. 4

Album Tracks 1. Sift 2. Dirty Water 3. Vestibule III 4. Purge 5. Nostalgia Variations