Voted Young British Classical Performer of the Year at the 2006 Classical Brits, Alison Balsom follows her critically-acclaimed album Bach: Works for Trumpet with Caprice, a novel and demanding program of specially arranged popular classical works. The album features sparkling transcriptions of Mozart’s ‘Rondo alla Turca’ and the Queen of the Night’s aria (from the Magic Flute) as …
Acclaimed for her lyricism and virtuosic technique, Sharon Isbin is widely acknowledged to be one of today’s finest guitarists. This collection is a showcase of her extraordinary versatility. It brings together cornerstones of the guitar concerto repertoire by Rodrigo and Villa-Lobos, arrangements of perennial Baroque favorites, concertos by Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun that were written for Isbin …
2005 release. Dr. Karl Jenkins OBE B. Mus FRAM, educated at Gowerton Grammar School, Cardiff University and the Royal Academy of Music, London, is one of the most prolific and performed composers in the world today. The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace alone has been performed nearly four hundred times in recent years while his recorded output …
This recital brings together three operas from the earlier years of Verdi’s career (Nabucco, Ernani and Macbeth) and one of his greatest mature masterpieces (Don Carlo). Callas sang all of them on stage apart from Ernani, and Lady Macbeth proved a triumph for her when she opened the La Scala season in December 1952. Gramophone greeted this recital …
30 CDs of visionary compositions by the musical poet of the English landscape! From the pastoral to the bombastic, here are all of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ celebrated masterworks including many rarely performed pieces: The Lark Ascending; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis ; the symphonies including a Sea Symphony; London Symphony; Pastoral Symphony, and Sinfonia Antarctica; the …
Trumpet Star, Alison Balsom, Transforms the Traditional Italian Baroque Concerto in This New EMI Classics Release Following the popular and critical international success of her Haydn and Hummel concertos recording, Alison Balsom has recorded a program of Italian Baroque concertos. In this new recording, Balsom, plays various popular concertos originally composed for the violin or oboe by Vivaldi, …
Six CD holiday box set. Christmas is a holiday filled with magic and wonder. One of the many things that make it more special are the beautiful Christmas carols that have become a part of the holiday season. So, this year when you gather family and friends together or when you spend time decorating the house, it’s time …
EMI Classics releases an exclusive 4-CD collection honoring the career of Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund who died earlier this year at the age of 82. Best known for his interpretations of Jean Sibelius s symphonies, the set features all seven symphonies the core of Sibelius s complete works. This collection also contains a number of tone poems ranging …
2008 double CD anthology from the British boy choir vocal group. Eternal contains 26 Libera favorites drawn from earlier releases, as well as four brand new tracks: ‘Mother of God’, ‘Gaudete’, ‘You Were There’ and ‘How Can I Keep From Singing?’. This collection also features two remixed songs previously only available as digital downloads and released here for …
One of the most exciting conductors in the latter half of the 20th century first found fame in the ’70s in Florence-the birthplace of Luigi Cherubini. Muti has long been an outward admirer of Cherubini’s music, particularly his sublime sacred pieces, the focus of this set celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Bonus overtures conducted by …