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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Jazz Suites
Jazz Suites Nos. 1 & 2 · Moscow Cheryomushki · The Golden Age (Ballet)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Steven Sloane · MDR Sinfonieorchester · Dmitrij Kitajenko
3CD-Set · C7460 [06/2025] PC: 04 UPC: 845221074603
Dmitri Shostakovich is first and foremost known for his symphonies and string quartets – works that contain some humor, but even more darkness, brooding, and desolation. But there is the jaunty side of the great composer, too, and nowhere does it come to its cheerful fore than in these works, the Jazz Suites, the Tahiti Trot, and his Ballet Suites. This set, accompanying Capriccio’s boxes of Shostakovich’s Symphonies, Film Music, Orchestral Songs, and Chamber Music, is rounded out with two concertos. In the playful Piano Concerto, that humorous side comes through in the many quotations of songs, own works, and Beethoven. Only the grim Violin Concerto, held back, like the 4th Symphony, for fear of retribution, offers no smile.
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Vocal Symphonic Music
Song Of the Woods · Sun Shines Over Our Homeland · Execution of Stepan Razin
WDR Rundfunkchor · WDR Sinfonieorchester MICHAIL JUROWSKI
4CD-Set · C7465 [06/2025] PC: 04 UPC: 845221074658
Dmitri Shostakovich is known for his symphonies, his chamber music, maybe the popular Suites, and to some extent even his film. Largely unknown, however, is his vocal symphonic music, of which only the cycle on Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79, has gained some wider popularity. Here these hidden gems are brought together in authoritative interpretations under Michail Jurowski and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne with its rich Shostakovich tradition under Semyon Bychkov and Rudolf Barshai, among others, from the Six Romances on words by Japanese poets to the Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Chamber Music
Chamber Symphony · Piano Quintet · String Quartets · Piano Sonatas
Petersen Quartet · Ewa Kupiec · Moscow Virtuosi · Vladimir Spivakov
4CD-Set · C7470 [06/2025] PC: 04 UPC: 845221074702
Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the indubitably great composers of the 20th century and left works of greatness in every genre, from the symphonies to opera, film- and light music, concertos, and, of course, chamber music. This collection offers a great overview of his contributions to that genre. It features a few favorites, like Rudolf Barshai’s Chamber Symphony (arranged from String Quartet No.8), String Quartet No.1, and the Piano Quintet to lesser-known gems and rarely heard works for two pianos like the tiny, witty Tarantella or his dramatic, cinematic Concertino. It is capped with Alfred Schnittke’s tribute to the master, the Prelude in Memory of Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Miklós Rózsa
Sinfonia concertante · Rhapsody for cello and orchestra · Notturno ungherese
HARRIET KRIJGH · NIKITA BORISO-GLEBSKY DEUTSCHE STAATSPHILHARMONIE RHEINLAND-PFALZ · GREGOR BÜHL
C5535 [04/2025] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055350
This release further explores the rarely performed or recorded concert music of Miklós Rózsa (of Ben Hur fame), coupling his Rhapsody for Cello in which the young composer truly found his style, his Notturno Ungherese (“a nostalgic night piece, harking back to the memories of my childhood in Hungary”), and the late Sinfonia concertante for violin and cello, a fiendishly difficult violin-cello double concerto that is among Rózsa’s finest, least film-music-like concert works – and one of his most underrated. Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz, who instigated its composition, never ended up playing it, but Harriet Krijgh and Nikita Boriso-Glebsky certainly do.
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Charles Koechlin
Symphony No. 1, Op. 57bis Au loin, Op. 20 · 3 Mélodies, Op. 17
Patricia Petibon Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen · Ariane Matiakh
C5533 [05/2025] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055336
It took almost 100 years for Charles Koechlin’s First Symphony to get a proper recording and over a year for Ariane Matiakh to prepare the material. After her highly praised recording of Koechlin’s Seven Stars Symphony (C5449), this is a much-appreciated further foray into the largely unexplored symphonic world of this fascinating composer, a French Chameleon of sorts, who felt comfortable anywhere between Bachian counterpoint and the heights of French impressionism. The earlier Au loin, Poème symphonique and 3 Mélodies (orchestrated posthumously) round out the scintillating picture.
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Emil von Sauer / Conrad Ansorge
Piano Concertos
OLIVER TRIENDL, piano Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · ROLAND KLUTTIG
C5511 [03/2025] PC: 21 845221055114
THE PUPILS OF FRANZ LISZT
Emil von Sauer and Conrad Ansorge had the privilege of studying under the legendary Franz Liszt. Liszt himself never claimed to be a teacher but rather an advisor. But anyway, for both of them, these lessons with the world-famous composer and pianist influenced and increased their style and extraordinary capabilities. With this recording Capriccio presents two outstanding and unjustly forgotten piano concertos which shows the deep understanding of musical forms and structures and versatility of the Pupils of Franz Liszt.
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Phillip & Xaver Scharwenka
Violin Sonatas · Suite for violin and piano · Serenade
YOERAE KIM, violin · MATTEO WEBER, piano
C3012 [05/2025] PC: 01 UPC: 845221030128
After a prolonged period during which they were ignored wholesale, the compositions of both Philipp and Xaver Scharwenka are performed again – occasionally, anyway—and some of them have been seen the light of day on record. However, no discographic attempt has yet been made to explore their music in relation to each other, which might seem surprising, given their very similar artistic influences and the close connection between the two composing brothers. In this collection, Yoerae Kim and Matteo Weber demonstrate their sensitivity to a dramaturgically cohesive program, which highlights those intriguing biographical connections. They pair a violin sonata by each brother with a serenade and a suite, spanning a creative period of some 35 years.
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Christian Sinding
THE SYMPHONIES Nos. 1-4
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra · Karl-Heinz Steffens
2CD-Set · C5540 PC: 22 UPC: 845221055404
Remembered by ambitious amateur pianists for his Rustle of Spring, Christian Sinding was a more important figure in the music of his native Norway than this might suggest; there, in his time, he was second only to Grieg. Trained in Leipzig, he fell under the influence of Liszt and Wagner, producing a large quantity of music that, although it enjoyed contemporary popularity, remains forgotten in today's concert programmes. In revealing the inherent fervour of his four symphonies, this album enjoys sensitive and enthusiastic interpretations from the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under Karl Heinz Steffens, for whom Sinding has become a composer close to his heart.
Dmitri Shostakovich - Film Music Edition
The Fall of Berlin Hamlet · New Babylon King Lear · The Gadfly Five Days - Five Nights Golden Mountains · Odna
DSO Berlin · RSB Berlin
7CD-Set · C7450 PC: UPC: 845221074504
Dmitri Shostakovich is best known for his symphonies and string quartets, which paint him as a very serious composer, indeed. But he was also one of the most prolific film composers of the 20th century, with 36 films for which he wrote the music and which span virtually his entire professional career. It’s a fascinating panoply that shows Shostakovich from a side that sometimes gets lost when we think of him merely as tormented and dark. There is the truly unburdened humour and coy delight in quirkiness, which we assume must be “ironic” in his concert works. Still, Shostakovich never took composing lightly, and whether he wrote music for cartoons or symphonic “tombstones”, the musical merits are always impeccable.
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Dmitri Shostakovich - The Symphonies
Marina Shaguch Arutjun Kotchinian Prague Philharmonic Chorus
GÜRZENICH-ORCHESTER KÖLN · DMITRIJ KITAJENKO
12CD-Set · C7435 PC: UPC: 845221074351
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphonies are arguably the most impressive symphonic cycle of the 20th century – certainly, if you don’t count Gustav Mahler. The depth and variety of these 15 Symphonies, so closely tied to Shostakovich’s personality and the times he lived in, make it particularly rewarding to listen to varying interpretations. Dmitrij Kitajenko’s survey, recorded between 2002 and 2004, has found its place among the great such cycles, both for its artistic merits and its reference sonics, the wide dynamics and the impassioned playing from the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne that the native Leningrad native Kitajenko gets from his musicians.
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Karl Weigl - Symphony No. 3
SYMPHONIC PRELUDE
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Jürgen Bruns
C5489 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054896
The two works recorded on this disc both come from a creative period at the beginning of the 1930s. In terms of style, with his works linked to basic tonalities Weigl drew on the sound realm of late Romanticism, from whose aesthetics he never departed in favour of more progressive contemporary trends. Weigl’s knack for orchestration shows both in the hymnic climaxes as well as the chamber music-like passages. Weigl never lived to hear any performances of either his Third Symphony or the Symphonic Prelude. Like so many of his larger works, these scores were not (re-)discovered until interest in Weigl’s music resurged, decades later. This release allows audiences to hear both works for the first time on record.
