This volume concludes Tianwa Yang’s internationally acclaimed series of recordings of Pablo de Sarasate’s works for violin and orchestra. This stunning program includes the popular Introduction et Tarantelle and two delightful jotas. Sarasate’s scintillating flying staccato technique is heard in the Fantaisie on Weber’s Der Freischütz, while Le Rêve is a remarkable work in every way. “Yang is splendidly equipped as a Sarasate violinist, with her clear tone, pure intonation, impressive dexterity and light touch …startlingly beautiful” (Gramophone on Volume 3)

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Sarasate: Introduction And Tarantella, Op. - Tianwa Yang, Violin

Argerich plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 - III. Allegro Scherzando

PUCCINI: Turandot: Signore Ascolta! (Act I)

This is the first movement of Widor's Symphony No. 6 in G Minor for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 42b. Recorded live at the concert marketing the Wanamaker Organ Centennial in Macy's City Center. It is the largest operational pipe organ in the world with 28,543 pipes.

Widor: Symphony No. 6 in G Minor, I. Allegro Maestoso

Coloreando: Traditional Songs for Children in Spanish is a compilation of popular folk and classic songs that Spanish speakers typically learn in childhood. The album brings vivid pictures of childhood to life, while creating a familiarity and igniting a love of the Spanish language for native and non-native speakers. The songs for the project were chosen because of their infectious melodies and universal relevance to children around the world. A portion of proceeds from Coloreando provides free language education programs to underserved students.

Marta Gomez: Coloreando (Traditional Songs for Children in Spanish) -- Materile Rile Ro

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Rachmaninoff: All-night Vigil: Priidite, poklonimsya

Called “an unquestioned master of the violin” (American Record Guide) who “rises above her competition” (Fanfare), Tianwa Yang has quickly established herself as a leading international performer and recording artist. The young violinist, a resident of Germany and heralded by the Detroit News as “the most important violinist to come on the scene in many a year”, has debuted with such major orchestras as the Detroit, Seattle, Baltimore, Pacific Symphonies, in addition to the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, MDR Radio Symphony Leipzig, SWR Symphony Baden-Baden and Freiburg, German Radio Philharmonic, Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysia Philharmonic and New Zealand Symphony.

The Best of Tianwa Yang - Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25

This wide-ranging program of English music for strings includes the world première recording of Howard Goodall’s moving And the Bridge is Love, in which Julian Lloyd Webber plays cello, and of William Lloyd Webber’s The Moon, only performed for the first time in 2014. There are also established classics such as Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47, as well as novelties in the case of the never- before-recorded arrangements by Elgar’s friend and biographer W.H. Reed of the two Chansons.

A Downland Suite: III. Minuet: Allegretto grazioso (version for string orchestra)

Nigerian songstress Asa will release her soulful and uplifting sophomore album, Beautiful Imperfection, in the US on September 6th through Naive Records. Building upon the tremendous international success of her 2007 self-titled debut, Asa expands both her emotional and stylistic range on her follow-up. Beautiful Imperfection has already received acclaim in numerous countries across the sea, and now Asa is setting her sights on the US.

01 Why Can't We

02 Maybe

05 Bimpé

03 Be My Man

06 The Way I Feel

Aubade for Large Orchestra, Op. 77

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphonies - Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor, Op. 110a

Messiaen: Organ Works - L'Ascension: III> Transports de joie

Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 "Orchestrations"

Debussy: Sarabande et Danse

Purcell- Theatre Music, Vol. 2: The Old Bachelor, Z. 607

Four Virtuosi Play Chinese Traditional Music, Vol. 2: Melody of a Hundred Birds

Catoire: Works for Violin & Piano - Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 20 "Poeme"

Electric - or perhaps more fittingly electrifying - are the sounds emanating from the loudspeakers.  And all of it is unplugged.  The sounds are created by sonic.art - not only one of the finest saxophone quartets but also perhaps the most compelling chamber music formation anywhere. Featuring works by Philip Glass and Michael Nyman.

Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3 - sonic.art Saxophone Quartet

Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores the relationships between machines, humanity and nature in three unique concertos. ‘Dreamachine’ for solo percussion and orchestra is a colorful tribute to the imagination of inventors who dreamed of new machines, both real and surreal. The flute concerto ‘Trail of Tears’ dramatizes the tragic governmental forced relocation of Native Americans in 1838 and meditates on how the human spirit discovers ways to deal with adversity. ‘Reflections on the Mississippi’ for tuba and orchestra is a musical voyage down the legendary Mississippi River from Iowa to Louisiana. The Albany Symphony, conducted by David Alan Miller, delivers mesmerizing performances by three outstanding women soloists: Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, flutist extraordinaire Amy Porter, and Carol Jantsch, the remarkable principal tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Michael Daugherty | Dreamachine III. Electric Eel

Albert Camus once wrote ‘when I describe what the catastrophe of modern man looks like, music comes into my mind – the music of Gustav Mahler’. If asked to specify a particular work, it is quite possible that Camus would have proposed Symphony No. 6 in A minor – the symphony that Bruno Walter claimed portrayed ‘a terrifying, hopeless darkness, without a human sound’. Nevertheless, the period during which Mahler wrote his Sixth was one of the most successful and happiest of his life – prior to any marital difficulties, at the time of the birth of his second daughter Anna, his professional reputation growing. Alma Mahler, in her memoirs, suggested that the symphony was in fact predicting instances of future distress in the composer’s own life, and she and various commentators have proposed various interpretations of different elements. Most famous of these are possibly the hammer strokes in the Finale, falling, according to Alma, like ‘blows of fate’ on the ‘hero’ of the symphony. But Osmo Vänskä has a reputation for engaging with even the most iconic scores at face value, avoiding preconceived ideas and ‘time-honored’ traditions. His and the Minnesota Orchestra’s recording of Mahler’s Sixth follows upon the 2017 release of the composer’s Fifth Symphony. Nominated to a 2018 Grammy Award, that interpretation has been described as ‘at once committed and detached, intense and transcendentally timeless’ (Norman Lebrecht) and ‘an exceptional performance that promises great things to come’ (allmusic.com).

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Minor "Tragic" I. Allegro Energico, Ma Non Troppo. Heftig, Aber Markig

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Minor "Tragic" II. Andante Moderato

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Minor "Tragic" III. Scherzo; Wuchtig

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Minor "Tragic" IV. Finale; Allegro Moderato - Allegro Energico

This re-release of orchestral suites from two stage works by Jean-Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764) marks the first occasion on which Jeanne Lamon the Tafelmusik Orchestra, Toronto's award-winning period instrument orchestra, recorded music of the French baroque.  The two suites featured on this CD are drawn from Rameau's epic five-act "tragedie en musique" Dardanus, and from the less familiar "opera-ballet" Le Temple de la Glorie.

Dardanus: Overture

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection) - V. Finale: Im Tempo Des Scherzos

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor (Resurrection) - IV. Urlicht

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)- III. In Ruhig Fließender Bewegung

Mahler- Symphony No. 2 In C Minor (Resurrection) - II. Andante moderato

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor (Resurrection) - I. Allegro maestoso

This is Toots and the Maytals’ first ever recorded acoustic set, performed at Island Records founder Chris Blackwell’s property overlooking Kingston. The album includes a bonus DVD documentary (‘Reggae Got Soul’), featuring rare live footage from Toots’ unforgettable performance at Rockpalast in 1981, and special liner notes contributed by Grace Jones.
 
The album was recorded at sunset with the Blue Mountains providing the stunning backdrop. The gorgeous, sun-kissed acoustic session depicts a soulful and intimate side to revered classics like ‘Funky Kingston’, ‘Pressure Drop’ and ‘54-46’.

Toots & the Maytals - Pressure Drop

With the first complete German recording of this musical by Stephen Sondheim, made even more famous by the film version starring Johnny Depp, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester celebrated it 60th birthday. The complex structure of this musical, composed at the borderline of grand opera is performed here by a blue-ribbon cast of soloists, featuring Jane Henschel and Mark Stone as well as the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, all under the direction of Ulf Schirmer.

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd

This new release of keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach features the most beautiful and popular keyboard concertos of their output. Originally written for harpsichord, they are played on a modern piano on this recording.

Anastasia Injushina, prize winner of the ARD competition in Munich among others, has been invited to perform internationally and made numerous recordings for radio and television. Having a poetic, sensitive and even inner spiritual approach she has given concerts both as a soloist and a chamber musician with the world leading musicians as partners. Her strong 
relationship to chamber music has been a thriving force for her and since 2009 she is artistic director of the “Springlight Chamber Music Festival” in Helsinki.

Anastasia Injushina - Bach: II. Siciliano

This is the third installment in the Pacifica Quartet’s highly anticipated, and already highly acclaimed four-volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries. 

The Soviet Experience is the first Shostakovich quartet cycle to include works by other important composers of the Soviet era, adding variety and perspective to the listening experience. 

Pacifica Quartet - Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9, 3rd movement

First prize winners of the seventh Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, top prizewinners and Listeners’ Choice Award recepients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premier young performing ensembles. The Attacca Quartet is comprised of violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming and cellist Andrew Yee, and was formed at the Juilliard School in 2003. Praised by Strad for possessing “maturity beyond its members’ years,” they made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.

Attacca Quartet - Fellow Traveler (John Adams)

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