Nina Kavtaradze - Nina Kavtaradze Plays Chopin - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This new features studio and live broadcast recordings, never previously issued and newly remastered from the original tapes, of Romantic and 20th-century Danish music. Highlights include an atmospheric tone-poem by Gade, ballet and concert scores based on fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen, an overture to celebrate the end of the Nazi occupation of Denmark and a colorful set of orchestral variations based on Danish radio ´s theme tune. The performances bear witness to the high technical standard of the DRSO ´s playing, nearly 70 years ago, as well as to the tireless advocacy of Launy Grøndahl for the music of his own country. Album Tracks 1. Efterklange Af Ossian (Echoes of Ossian) Concert Overture, Op. 1 2. Overture to the Opera InchDen Lille Pige Med SvovlstikkerneInch (The Little Match Girl), Op. 12 3. Agnete Og Havfruerne (Agnete and the Mermaids), Op. 3 4. I Den Blaa Grotte (In the Blue Grotto) - from the Ballet InchNapoliInch 5. From Tolv Med Posten (Twelve with the Mail), Op. 37 6. Det Er Ganske Vist (It's Quite True!) Symphonic Fantasy No. 2 7. Drømmebilleder (Dream Pictures) 8. Livsglædens Dans (The Dance of the Joy of Life) from the Ballet InchDen Lille HavfrueInch (The Little Mermaid) 9. Fyrtøjet (The Tinder Box), Op. 61 10. Intrada Seria, Op. 34 11. Det Har Slet Ingen Hast for Den, Der Tror (Haste Is Not for Him That Believeth) Frihedsouverture (Freedom Overture), Op. 13 12. Orkestervariationer Over Det Danske Statsradiofonisignal Tilegnet Lytteren (Variations for Orchestra Over the Danish State Radio Signal, Dedicated to the Listener) 13. Drapa. Ved Edvard Griegs DØD (At the Death of Edvard Grieg), BVN 20 14. Salzburg Overture (First Performance) 15. Overture to the Opera InchTordenvejretInch (Thunderstorm)

Schubert / Trio Bamberg - Piano Trios [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/25/2012

Beethoven's Triple Concerto Op.56 for piano, violin, cello and orchestra was unique in the musical literature, and he knew it he proudly wrote to his that the combination of a piano trio with an orchestra was entirely new. But the innovations go beyond the combination of concertante instruments, extending as well to the importance accorded the orchestra, elevated to the status of an equal, symphonic protagonist alongside the three solo parts alone, in all possible pairings and as a threesome. This was new, and the audience was indeed perplexed when the work was first performed in Vienna in May 1804. There is no indication that the concerto was performed a second time during Beethoven's lifetime. The Piano Concerto in E-flat InchNumber ZeroInch (WoO 4) is a work rarely performed and therefore practically unknown to the wider public. Written by Beethoven in 1784, at the tender age of 14, it comes down to us as an unsigned 32-page manuscript with the author's corrections the solo piano part and the piano reduction of the orchestra parts are completely preserved, but the orchestral score itself has been lost. This manuscript was discovered in 1890 in the archives of the Artaria Foundation and was transferred to the Berlin State Library. It was published that same year by Breitkopf und Hartel. Beethoven researcher Willy Hess later restored the orchestral parts on the basis of the preserved material. The first outing of this careful, accurate work was given in 1934 by the pianist Walter Frey in Oslo (first part only), and the complete reconstruction was performed in 1968 at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Album Tracks 1. Triple Concerto Op. 56 in C 2. Piano Concerto No. 0 Woo 4 in E-Flat