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From the album "Ins stille Land" (PENTATONE)

SONGS AND QUARTETS OF FINAL JOURNEYS AND CONSOLATIONS

After their multi-award-winning album Aus der Ferne, the Signum Quartett continues their Schubert journey for PENTATONE with Ins stille Land, another recording that explores the fascinating connections between his string quartets and songs, the latter arranged for string quartet by Xandi van Dijk, the ensemble’s violist. The concept for this recording project grew out of the Schubertiad, where chamber music and vocal works would be heard side by side in an intimate setting. Many of the songs and quartets featured on Ins stille Land share a fascination for death, but death as a final journey that ultimately offers consolation. While the song Ins stille Land (Into the silent land) fully epitomizes this idea, the world famous “Death and the Maiden” quartet is the album’s centrepiece.

Franz Schubert: 3. Scherzo from String Quartet in d minor D 810 "Death and the Maiden"

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D 485: II. Andante con moto

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - 1762 Edition with 1774 Paris Revisions

Orfeo ed Euridice, Act I, Scene 1: 5. Ah! se intorno a quest'urna funesta

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Dawn on the Moskva River

Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. Ballet of Little Chicks in Their Shells

Dvořák: Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44, B. 77 & Serenade in E Major, Op. 22, B. 52

Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22, B. 52: II. Tempo di Valse

Big Russian Music Box

Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition (orch. Ravel) II. Gnomus

Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22, B. 52: IV. Larghetto

Big Schubert Box

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485: ii. Andante con moto

Big Great Symphonies Box, Vol I

Franz Peter Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C Major, D.589 ('Little C Major'): II. Andante

Alexander Tsfasman. Suite for piano and orchestra (1945)
1 1. Snowflakes
2 2. Lyrical Waltz
3 3. Polka
4 4. Rapid Movement
Dmitri Shostakovich. Concerto No. 1 for piano, trumpet and string orchestra in C minor, Op. 35
5 I. Allegretto
6 II. Lento
7 III. Moderato
8 IV. Allegro con brio
Nikolai Kapustin. Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra, Op. 14
9 I. Allegro molto
10 II. Andante
11 III. Rondo-toccata
Total time: 53.43

Dmitry Masleev, piano
Leonid Gourjev, trumpet (5–8)
The Siberian State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Vladimir Lande

Recorded in 2019.
Sound engineer – Alexey Barashkin
Project supervisor – Andrey Krichevskiy
Label manager – Karina Abramyan
Release editor – Tatiana Kazarnovskaya
Project manager – Marina Bezrukova
Design – Grigory Zhukov
Photos by Dmitry Masleev, Daniil Rabovsky, Nikita Larionov
Translation – Nikolai Kuznetsov
Digital release: Dmitry Maslyakov, Roman Tomlyankin
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06. Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 - II. Lento

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 - I. Allegro molto appassionato

Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22, B. 52: IV. Larghetto

Sir Charles Mackerras

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