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𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 Original title: 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬 Author: 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞 𝐇. 𝐀𝐳𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐲 First published: 𝐈𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗 Publisher: 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, Westport, Connecticut, and London…

𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐔 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐀 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 Sergiu Celibidache was one of the most original, demanding and controversial conductors of the twentieth century. Although he possessed the…

𝐄𝐔𝐆𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐎𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐌 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐘 For Eugen Jochum, Anton Bruckner’s symphonies were far more than monumental constructions designed to display the splendour of a great orchestra. He…

𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐍𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐑 — 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐋𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐂𝐘 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 Bruno Walter was much more than one of the leading conductors of the twentieth century. He was…

𝐋𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐈𝐍 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐍𝐎 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐒𝐄 Leonard Bernstein possessed a gift that was almost as remarkable as his ability to conduct and compose: he could explain how…

## 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐎 𝐓𝐎𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐈 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 Arturo Toscanini became legendary for stepping onto the podium and conducting vast symphonies, operas and choral works **entirely from memory**. To…

# **Shostakovich: Film Music** **CD 1** **Shostakovich: Hamlet — Concert Suite from the Film Score, Op. 116a** **Shostakovich: The Gadfly — Suite, Op. 97a** Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leonid Grin **CDs 2–3** **Shostakovich: New…

# **Shostakovich: Orchestral Songs - Vocal Symphonic Music ** **CD 1** **Shostakovich: Über unserer Heimat strahlt die Sonne, Op. 90** WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Rundfunk-Kinderchor Berlin, Michail Jurowski **Shostakovich: The Nose —…

# **Shostakovich: Chamber Music** **CD 1** **Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a** Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov **Shostakovich: Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, Op. 143, for contralto and piano** Zoryana Kushpler (mezzo-soprano), Petersen…

# **Shostakovich – The Symphonies, Orchestral, Chamber & Film Music on Capriccio** **CD 1** **Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10** Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Dmitri Kitayenko **Shostakovich: Symphony No. 3 in E flat…

𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗣 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 Few conductors have divided the musical world as violently as 𝗦𝗶𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻. To his admirers, he was a visionary who…

𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐇 𝐈𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝟐𝟒 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 In the summer of 𝟏𝟕𝟒𝟏, George Frideric Handel began composing the work that would become his most famous masterpiece. Working with extraordinary concentration, he completed 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞…

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 In 1705, the twenty-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach made one of the most remarkable journeys in music history. He walked nearly 400 kilometers (about 250 miles)…

𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐃 𝐀 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 Franz Schubert (1797–1828) lived a life unlike that of most great composers of his time. While Haydn served the Esterházy family, Mozart worked for the…

𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 Johann Sebastian Bach's music was largely forgotten after his death in 1750. Although respected by musicians, most of his major vocal works had disappeared from public concert…

𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐄𝐏𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐅 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) began losing his hearing in his late twenties, and by the final decade of his life he was almost completely deaf.…

𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) spent each concert season conducting some of Europe's greatest opera houses, leaving very little time to compose. His solution was remarkable: every…

𝐌𝐎𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart possessed 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. From early childhood, his astonishing ability to 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜…

𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐇𝐌𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 Johannes Brahms was 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. Throughout his life, he 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, convinced that they did not meet…

# **Symphonies Collection — Box Set 100 CDs** **CD 1–11** **Mozart** – Symphonies 1, 4–10, 12–36, 38–41, KV 19a, 111a, 196; first and second versions of No. 40, with and without clarinets **Jaap ter…

# **Teldec Collection — Box Set 50 CDs** **CD 1** **Bartók:** Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1–3 (András Schiff, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer) **CD 2** **Beethoven:** Symphonien Nr. 6 & 8 (Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus…

𝐀𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐀𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 (𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟎–𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟎) is widely regarded as 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞. More than any other twentieth-century composer, he…

𝐇𝐎𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐊𝐄𝐏𝐓 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐘 Howard Hanson (1896–1981) occupies a unique place in American music. At a time when many 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐡-𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 embraced 𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝…