Nemanja Radulovic: Carnets De Voyage

Nemanja Radulovic: Carnets De Voyage

Nemanja Radulovic, Violin

Les Trilles Du Diable, Ensemble

Laure Favre-Kahn, Piano

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Michail Jurowski

Recording dates: March and June 2014

. . . An exhilarating album that crosses musical boundaries as if they don't exist . . .
Radulovic has exceptional talent, real charisma and serious youth appeal. This young man plays the fiddle brilliantly . . . The album allows Nemanja to display his musical range, with everything from a vivid arrangement of the "Sabre Dance" to traditional Serbian stuff that's utterly compelling at Nemanja's extraordinairy pace. There are also more soulful tracks, like a fine arrangement by his in-house guru, Yvan Cassar, of John Williams's "Schindler's List" theme. It's one heck of a visiting card, and not to be missed.  
Record Review / David Mellor, Daily Mail (London) / 01. February 2015

Zino Francescatti: Unreleased public performance recordings. Part 2

Zino Francescatti
Previously Unissued Recordings:

Works of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev,
Ravel, Paganini, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn

Music & Arts

Sergei Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel / Secunde, Lorenz, Terfel/ Gothemburg SO & Ch / Neeme Jarvi

Requested

Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel / Jarvi, Secunde, Lorenz, Terfel

"Järvi is steadier, more consistent in his pacing, and has better sound"

Reviewer: Robert Cummings , Prokofiev.org Staff Writer
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...It is a dark story,dealing with the supernatural and demonic,and the music and voices are excellent in representing those situations.Nadine Secunde stands out in her performance of the doomed Renata,as does Siegfried Lorenz in the role of the caring Ruprecht, but all the suporting cast it is splendid,and the chorus of nuns is wonderful.The music sometimes it is disturbing ,the same is the singing,but it is because the story asks for it.If you like the more melodic italian or french style of the 19th century, you could not like this.But if you really like opera,that is,if you really apreciate the tale being told and take that to understand why some operas are so different to the others,this is an opera for you....

Prokofiev: The Symphonies - Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne

Serge Prokofiev

The Symphonies
Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne

Until Gergiev’s set of live performances with the LSO appeared, the Prokofiev symphonies as a series had been nowhere near as well represented on disc as, say, those of Shostakovich or Sibelius. Now we have another fine set, by an equally distinguished Russian conductor, Dimitrij Kitajenko. Perhaps the most interesting thing about these performances is how different they are from Gergiev’s. Those readings are passionate, intense and angst-laden where appropriate; there is no shortage of those qualities in Kitajenko, but his readings are, on the whole, more measured, slightly more objective. Thus though the temperature may sometimes be a degree or two lower than in Gergiev, there can be a stronger sense of the architecture of individual works. The recordings, too, generally allow details of scoring to register with even greater clarity. 

Sergei Prokofiev: War and Peace - Spoleto festival Orchestra, Richard Hickox

 SERGEI PROKOFIEV

(1891-1953)

War and Peace, Op. 91

Total Time:235:10    
      Recorded live at the 1999 Spoleto Festival    
      Opera in thirteen acts    
      Libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson after the novel by Leo Tolstoy

ANOTHER GREAT ADITION TO CLASSICS FROM OUR FRIEND STUBBINS

Prokofiev : Complete Piano Sonatas, Visions Fugitives ~ Matti Raekallio - 3CDs, 1999

(click on image to enlarge and read tracklist)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Complete Piano Sonatas

Matti Raekallio, piano

"The most proficient, intelligent and compeling Prokofiev 

sonata cycle I've ever heard!" (Fanfare)

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Our mate Big Bad Wolf brought this album to our library! 

Thanks, BBW! Enjoy the music!

Schoenberg - Sibelius: Violin Concertos - H.Hahn - E.-P.Salonen, Swedish RSO / Sibelius - Prokofiev - Glazunov: Violin Concertos - Jascha Heifetz

Schoenberg - Sibelius : Violin Concertos

Hilary Hahn, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Symphony

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.36

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op.47

Hilary Hahn, Violin

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Recording : Stockholm, Berwadhallen, 3/2007 (Sibelius), 9/2007 (Schoenberg)

Sibelius - Prokofiev - Glazunov : Violin Concertos
Jascha Heifetz
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Boston Symphony Orchestra - Walter Hendl
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Martha Argerich - Mikhail Pletnev - Sergei Prokofiev : Cinderella Suite - Maurice Ravel : Ma mere l'Oye - SuperAudioCD - 2004.

Martha Argerich - Mikhail Pletnev

Sergei Prokofiev : Cinderella Suite

Maurice Ravel : Ma mere l'Oye
 

Grammy Awards 2005 : Best Chamber Music Performance
 

Gramophone Magazine : Awards issue 2005

Two masters of the keyboard caught enjoying themselves in music of colour and variety. The main attraction is a delectable surprise: Pletnev's arrangement for two pianos of music from Prokofiev's Cinderella is tremendous, not surprsing given Pletnev the conductor's mastery of the orchestral score. The Ravel is sheer joy from start to finish with some exquisite textures and real magic from its pianists. The sound is exemplary - you can close your eyes and imagine exactly where the two instruments are positioned.

Serge Prokofiev : Cinderella : Suite from the Ballet op.87
Transcibed for 2 Pianos by Mikhail Pletnev

(Mikhaill Pletnev's arrangement of Prokofiev Cinderella written for and dedicated to Martha Argerich)

Maurice Ravel : Ma Mere l'Oye

Cinderella:

 Martha Argerich, First Piano (left channel)
Mikhail Pletnev, Second Piano (right channel)

Ma Mere l'Oye:

 Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev playing Four Hands on 1 piano,

 Martha Argerich sitting left

Recorded,edited and mastered by Emil Berliner Studios, 2004