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The Best of Opera, Vol.4
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Verdi: Ritorna vincitor! from Aida – Manrico?…Di quella pira from Il Trovatore – 36943 46822
Follie!…Sempre libera from La Traviata / Mozart: Come scoglio from Cosí fan tutte – Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön from Die Zauberflöte / Massanet:
Méditation from Thaïs / Puccini: Sola, perduta, abbandonata from Manon Lescaut / Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima from L’elisir d’amore / Korngold: Gluck,
das mir verblieb from Die tote Stadt / Rossini: Nacqui all’affanno from La Cenerentola / Leoncavallo: Bell Chorus from Pagliacci / Ponchielli: Cielo e mar from La
Gionconda / Gluck: Ombre larve from Alceste / Bizet: Entr’acte, Act 3 from Carmen / Mascagni: Mamma, quel vino é generoso from Cavalleria Rusticana
Playing Time: 77:58
From rousing orchestral works like the Overture to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg to acrobatic showpieces like the aria from Rossini’s
La Cenerentola or Mozart’s Così fan Tutte, this latest volume of the Best of Opera includes arias and orchestral works from some of the genre’s seminal works.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Duets
Sonata in C major, K.521 – Andante with Five Variations in G major, K. 501 – Sonata in D major, K. 381 –
Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ, K.608 (version for piano duet) – Sonata in C major, K.19d
Jenö Jandó / Zsuzsa Kollár • Playing Time: 68:58
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Although it is for his symphonies, concertos and operas that Mozart is best remembered, he also wrote extensively for the solo keyboard, having made his
début as soloist at the age of six. This recording presents some of his least known music, for piano duet. The precocious Sonata K.19d, written at the age of
nine, and the Sonata K.521, written only four years before Mozart’s death, recall the idiom and the turbulence of the great piano concertos of the period.
These works offer charm, elegance and brilliance in abundance.
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John Field (1782-1837)
Piano Music Volume 2 – Nocturnes and Sonatas
Nocturne No.10 in E minor – Nocturne No.11 in E flat major – Nocturne No.12 in G major – Nocturne No.13 in D minor – Nocturne No.14 in C major –
Sonata in C minor, Op.1/3 – Nocturne No.15 in C major – Nocturne No.16 in F major – Nocturne No.17 in E major – ‘Midi’ (Nocturne No.18) in E major
Benjamin Frith, Piano
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Born in Ireland, educated in England and adopted by Russia, John Field became one of the most famous pianists of the early nineteenth century. The legendary delicacy
of Field’s playing is reflected in his poetic, often melancholic and innovative Nocturnes. Though he was not the first to compose in this genre, he was certainly
the first to develop the Nocturne as the musical form that was subsequently popularized by the great composers of the nineteenth century.
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Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Wind Quintets, Volume 1
Wind Quintet in C minor, Op.91, No.6 – Wind Quintet in F major, Op.88, no.6
Michael Thompson Wind Quintet • Playing Time: 68:41
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Born in Prague in 1770, Antoine Reicha ran away from home at the age of eleven and was adopted by his uncle, who taught him to play the violin, piano,
and flute. A prolific composer and highly regarded teacher, Reicha was appointed professor in composition at the Conservatoire in 1818. His catalogue of
compositions includes many operas, symphonies, concertos, large-scale choral works and a vast collection of chamber music. The wind quintets, always
regarded among his finest scores, possess an abundance of melodic invention, the quintet’s tonal colors skillfully and charmingly explored.
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
Ballets de Village
Premier ballet, Op.52 – Cinquième gentillesse, Op.45 – Deuxième ballet, Op.52 – Première sérénade ou première simphonie françoise, Op.39
Troisième ballet, Op.52 – Quatrième ballet, Op.52
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Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet • Playing Time: 74:45
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was born in France in 1689, and became one of the first composers whose income totally depended upon his ability to provide a
constant flow of new works. He had no patrons, few of his scores were commissioned, and it seems that in his mature life he never appeared as an instrumental
musician. Yet he was so prolific, and his music so frequently performed, that he became very wealthy. Though he introduced many novel features in instrumental
combinations, he was a composer of the popular classics of the day, relying on tunefulness and elegance. His group of divertissements, the Ballets de
Village, was composed in 1734, and displays the composer’s ability to please the listener with simple charms.
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Salon Orchestra Favourites I • Light Classics
Heinrich Strecker (1893-1964): Drunt’in der Lobau / Frantisek Alois Drdla (1869-1944): Serenade No.1 ("Kubelík-Serenade") /
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909): Tango / Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919): Brise de mer - Mattinata / Luigi Arditi (1822-1903): Il bacio
Paul Lincke (1866-1946): Sie hören Paul Lincke-Potpourri / Enrico Toselli (1883-1926): Serenata / Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900): Poème
Robert Stolz (1880-1975): Spiel auf deiner Geige das Lied von Leid und Lust / Ruggero Leoncavallo: Mattinata / Rudolf Sieczynski (1879-1952): Wien, du Stadt meiner
Träume / José Padilla (1889-1960): El relicario / Riccardo Drigo (1846-1930): Die Millionen des Harlekin-Serenade / Emil Waldteufel (1837-1915): Die Schlittschuhläufer
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894): Mélodie in F major
Salonorchester Schwanen / Georg Huber • Playing Time: 63:16
At the turn of the last century salon music, a genre ranging from original compositions to arrangements of orchestral works, operas or operatic extracts, was a
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phenomenon found all over Europe. A growing market, in which direct means of musical reproduction were still unknown, had to be supplied with compositions
which were easy on the ear. Later generations have tended to regard these compositions as inferior, a prejudice which is refuted by this collection of pearls.
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