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Aram Khachaturian arr. Aleksey Krasavin - Sabre Dance

Music: Excerpt from Don Juan, Op. 20
Composer: Richard Strauss
Artists: Manfred Honeck, conductor; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Album: Strauss
Label: FRESH! From Reference Recordings
FR-707SACD

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Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound! This release is planned as the first in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on FRESH! from Reference Recordings. Several additional recordings for the PITTSBURGH LIVE! series are already completed and we expect to release two per year. The next title planned is Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, for spring 2014.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra — Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20 (Excerpt)

Music: Excerpt from Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Composer: Richard Strauss
Artists: Manfred Honeck, conductor; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Album: Strauss
Label: FRESH! From Reference Recordings
FR-707SACD

Pre-Order NOW: http://referencerecordings.com/FRESH.asp

Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound! This release is planned as the first in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on FRESH! from Reference Recordings. Several additional recordings for the PITTSBURGH LIVE! series are already completed and we expect to release two per year. The next title planned is Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, for spring 2014.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra — Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 (Excerpt)

POETA Y ALDEANO (FRANZ VON SUPPE)

Music: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88: I. Allegro con brio (Excerpt)
Composer: Antonin Dvořák
Artists: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor;
Album: Dvořák & Janáček
Label: FRESH! From Reference Recordings
Street Date: July 8, 2014

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This release is the second in the "Pittsburgh Live!" series of multi-channel hybrid SACD releases on the FRESH! series from Reference Recordings. 

For more than 116 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been known for its artistic excellence. The PSO has a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians. Past conductors include the legendary names of Reiner, Steinberg, Previn, Maazel, and other greats. This tradition was furthered in fall 2008, when celebrated Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck became Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. 

The PSO is critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest orchestras, and has completed more than 36 international tours, including 20 European tours, eight trips to the Far East, and two to South America. The PSO was the first American orchestra to perform at the Vatican in January 2004 for the late Pope John Paul II, as part of the Pontiff’s Silver Jubilee Celebration. 

The PSO also has a long history in the areas of recordings and radio concerts. As early as 1936, the PSO broadcast coast-to-coast, receiving increased national attention in 1982 when it began network radio broadcasts on Public Radio International. The PRI series with the PSO can be heard on classical WQED-FM 89.3 in Pittsburgh. Many PSO recordings remain in print and available, and they have won critical acclaim and many awards. 

This release and the entire "Pittsburgh Live!" Series are recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, whose outstanding orchestral, solo, opera, and chamber recordings have received over 70 GRAMMY nominations and awards! Soundmirror has recorded for every major classical record label, now including Reference Recordings. 

Pittsburgh Symphony — Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88: I. Allegro con brio (Excerpt)

 "vendrán ritmos modernos, pero el danzón, nunca morirá"-Amador Pérez Torres "Dimas"


Danzón Nereidas - Amador Pérez Torres "Dimas"

Charpentier - Prelude from Te Deum

Mr. Matt Brouwer and myself playing this duet. We auditioned for some piano concert, just fell short of making it. This was in junior year of high school as well, on the same crummy tape recorder. Its hard to tell who's playing what parts, as both of us had the melody at times.  I generally played the lower half and he was on the upper half of the keyboard.

Khachaturian Waltz from Masquerade

New England Conservatory Ensemble-in-Residence The Borromeo String Quartet ( Nicholas Kitchen, violin, Kristopher Tong, violin, Mai Motobuchi, viola, Yeesun Kim, cello) performs Schubert's "Death and the Maiden Quartet". Recorded live at NEC's Jordan Hall November 28, 2011.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu

Schubert - Quartet for Strings No. 14 in D minor Death and the Maiden -   Allegro

Schubert - Quartet for Strings No. 14 in D minor Death and the Maiden -  Andante con moto

Schubert - Quartet for Strings No. 14 in D minor Death and the Maiden -  Scherzo  Allegro molto

Schubert - Quartet for Strings No. 14 in D minor Death and the Maiden -  Presto

Samples from Tracks:
Sylvia: Les Chasseresses, Valse Lente, Marche et Cortége de Bacchus
Coppélia: Mazurka, Czárdás (Danse hongroise), Valse des Heures, Galop Final

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DELIBES 
Sylvia/Coppélia 
Martin West
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Extended Suites From the Ballets

RR-125HDCD

“... what charm, what wealth of melody!” —Tchaikovsky on Delibes

Leo Delibes’ COPPÉLIA is pure delight, a feast of musicality and humor for all ages. Probably the greatest ballet comedy ever written! On this disc we also present Delibes’ SYLVIA, a romance filled with sighs of longing and the thrill of infatuation. Set in antiquity, the ballet literally places love on a pedestal in the person of the Greek god Eros.

Like many popular compositions, Delibes’ works, including pieces of these ballets, have repeatedly been used in films dating back to the earliest talkies. His music is also a favorite of cartoon series “Ren and Stimpy” and “The Simpsons.”

The San Francisco Ballet, the oldest professional ballet company in America, was also one of the first dance companies to have its own permanent body of musicians. By the 1990s the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra was generally regarded as one of the finest ballet orchestras in the world. Notably, in 1995, the Orchestra accompanied 12 international dance companies, as well as San Francisco Ballet, during the ambitious, weeklong United We Dance Festival, which promoted international communication and understanding.

The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra performs a vast repertory including hundreds of works spanning four centuries of music history, from Monteverdi and Mozart to film scores. The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra has made critically acclaimed recordings of composers from Handel to Goldenthal, as well as five televised recordings for the PBS series “Dance in America” (Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker; Lar Lubovitch’s Othello; Michael Smuin’s The Tempest, Cinderella, and Romeo & Juliet)

CONDUCTOR MARTIN WEST is acknowledged as one of the foremost conductors of ballet, garnering critical acclaim throughout the world. West conducted the English National Ballet starting in fall 1997 until 2007. He has worked with many of the top companies in North America, such as New York City Ballet, Houston Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada. In fall 2005, West was appointed music director & principal conductor for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.

Founded in San Francisco in 1976, Reference Recordings believes that how a recording sounds is as important as the music itself. RR thanks everyone who was instrumental in bringing this outstanding album to life including Conductor: Martin West; Producers: Victor and Marina Ledin (Multi-Grammy Nominations for Producer of the Year, Classical); Engineer: “Prof.” Keith O. Johnson (Grammy® award-winning engineer, inventor and entertainment technologist) and very special thanks to all the Sponsors of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra without whom this recording could not have been made.

REVIEWS:

"Both scores receive first-rate performances... [Martin West] obviously knows the scores like the back of his hand... As such, both Coppélia and Sylvia are performances of grace and elegance... [Keith] Johnson captures his usual glorious sound." —Anthony Kershaw, Audiophilia.com

"The beautifully full and rich Keith Johnson recording will please most music lovers with not even a hint of harshness or distortion to be heard." —Karl Lozier, PositiveFeedback.com


Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia Sampler Pack

Huapango de Jóse Pablo Moncayo

Khachaturian's famous Toccata in E-flat minor is originally a piece for solo piano written in 1932. Played here by Paul Chamberlain in an arrangement for accordion , this track is from his recent CD release "Classical Accordion" 

The CD can be purchased online at - www.theaccordionist.com, Amazon, or Itunes 

Toccata - Aram Khachaturian

Director: Baldur Brönnimann. Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santodomingo, 6 de Agosto 2012, 8:00 pm. 

Obertura Caballeria Ligera

Danza de las Horas (Ballet de la Ópera "La Gioconda")
Amilcare Ponchielli (Italia: 1834-1886)
Edición: William Conrad
Piano: Arturo Sherman
2011

1834-1886 8 min Ponchielli Danza de las Horas

Φιλαρμονική Ορχήστρα Πνευστών Δήμου Αθηναίων
Ζωντανή ηχογράφηση

Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain

Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain

Arturo Marquez Danzon No. 2, arr. for wind ensemble by Oliver Nickel
University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble
Craig Kirchhoff, conductor
Recorded Live October 9, 2012 at Ted Mann Concert Hall

Arturo Marquez Danzon No. 2

Khatchaturin Masquerade ,,, Waltz 
Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra 
Conductor: Nader Abbassi 

Khachaturian - Masquerade - Waltz

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