Szell / Cleveland Orchestra - Symphoniess 93 95 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Gunar Letzbor - Sonaten BWV 1001 1003 1005 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2012

First Hand Records presents violinist Sasha Rozhdestvensky in the world premiere commercial recording of Shostakovich's unfinished Violin Sonata. This recording includes an extra 28 bars of a development section found in Shostakovich's original manuscript that does not appear in the published score, and is completed by an eleven-bar coda written by conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The work is coupled with the Violin Sonata Op. 43. The program also contains world premiere commercial recordings of Shostakovich's Andantino from the String Quartet No.4, his piano duet arrangement of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and his chamber transcription of Gaetano Braga's La Serenata.

Andreas Tarkmann is one of the leading arrangers of our time. He has won numerous awards and collaborated with Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Albrecht Mayer and James Galway. However, he also appears as a composer, especially in the field of children's and young people's audiences. He frequently puts Hans Christian Andersen stories to music and presents stunning family-oriented concerts. On this recording his two works for children InchZwerg NaseInch (Gnome Nose) and InchDas kalte HerzInch (The cold heart) are presented by narrator Juri Tetzlaff and the Duisburger Philharmoniker under Christoph Breidler. Andreas Tarkmann is currently a professor at the Mannheim College of Music where he teaches instrumentation and arrangement.