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KAPUSTIN: Complete Piano Concertos
Frank Dupree ·
SWR Big Band · SWR Symphonieorchester · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Württ. Kammerorchester Heilbronn · Dominik Beykirch
4CD · C7480 · [11/2026] PC: UPC: 845221074801
“…our life is like jazz improvisation; it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free.” (Nikolai Kapustin) Mission accomplished! After six years of rehearsals, concerts, and productions, all six piano concertos by the Russian jazz wizard Nikolai Kapustin are now available as recordings. Concertos Nos. 1 and 3, along with the no less virtuosic 8 Concert Etudes Op. 40, are released here for the first time, thereby completing this successful cycle. Drawing a parallel to one of the most prominent figures of symphonic jazz, Kapustin is often described as a “Russian following in Gershwin’s footsteps.” Frank Dupree has tirelessly followed that path, finally presenting us this significant gap in musical history.
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MARC BLITZSTEIN
Parabola and Circula Opera in one act (1929) Libretto by George Whitsett
Aleksander Nohr · Mari Eriksmoen · Norrköping Symphony Orchestra · Karl-Heinz Steffens
C5564 · [11/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055640
MARC BLITZSTEIN (1905-1964)
The new CD edition “Bauhaus Music, Volume 1” by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung brings the rich and long-overlooked music history of the Bauhaus back to life. The series opens with an absolute sensation – Marc Blitzstein’s “Parabola and Circula”, believed to be the only geometric opera in the world. Developed in 1929/30, the piece was supposed to debut at a Bauhaus event but, for various reasons, remained unperformed for almost a century. It wasn’t until 2025 when the research project “Bauhaus Music”, initiated by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, presented the world premiere of a reconstructed version at the Musikfest Berlin in the Berliner Philharmonie. Modern, poignant and richly multifaceted, Blitzstein’s opera tells a tragic love story in the realm of geometric forms that evokes the artistic visions of the Bauhaus stage. With this CD, you can now enjoy the first recording of the 2025 debut performance – an acoustic document that captures an extraordinary moment of music and Bauhaus research.
Bauhaus Music is funded by the German Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media
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Nikolai Kapustin
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 · 8 Concert Etudes
Frank Dupree · SWR Big Band · SWR Symphonieorchester · Dominik Beykirch
C5570 · [12/2026] PC: 21 UPC 845221055701
“…our life is like jazz improvisation; it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free.” (Nikolai Kapustin) Mission accomplished! After six years of rehearsals, concerts, and productions, all six piano concertos by the Russian jazz wizard Nikolai Kapustin are now available as recordings. Concertos Nos. 1 and 3, along with the no less virtuosic 8 Concert Etudes Op. 40, are released here for the first time, thereby completing this successful cycle. Drawing a parallel to one of the most prominent figures of symphonic jazz, Kapustin is often described as a “Russian following in Gershwin’s footsteps.” Frank Dupree has tirelessly followed that path, finally presenting us this significant gap in musical history.
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Kurt Weill: Street Scene
A Broadway Opera in two acts (1947)
Giselle Allen · Robert Hayward · Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North · James Holmes
2CD-Set · C5560 [10/2026] PC: 22 UPC: 845221055602
Today Street Scene is Kurt Weill’s most frequently revived American stage work.
A polystylistic blending of operatic arias and ensembles, musical comedy songs and dances, dramatic dialogue both unaccompanied and underscored, and extraordinary emotional drama, Street Scene is arguably Weill’s breakthrough. Though Elmer Rice’s play was set in the 1920s, the popular music references are pure 1940s style (Glenn Miller, Rodgers and Hammerstein). After the successful release of "Love Life" (Capriccio C5550) this recording fills up the meanwhile large Kurt-Weill-Catalogue of Capriccio, again with a powerful cast from Opera North.
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HANS WINTERBERG
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1949-51) · Symphony No. 2 (1943-46)
Jonathan Powell, piano · Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Roland Kluttig
C5557 [10/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055572
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ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI
Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 40 · Ruralia Hungarica, Op. 32b
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Michael Francis
C5502 [09/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055022
Ernst von Dohnanyi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time but his works are now seldom played. A gap which Capriccio want to fill now with this already eight recording of his late romantical, sensual music, deeply rooted in the Austro-German classical tradition. His Symphony No. 2 is a colossal work, lasting around an hour and calling for an extraordinarily large orchestra. The composition coincided with his departure from war-torn Hungary during World War II. Ruralia Hungarica, written in 1923 and arranged for orchestra in the following year, makes use of familiar Hungarian folk-melodies, some of them known abroad through their appearance in the work of other Hungarian composers.
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MILOSLAV KABELÁČ
Children's Choruses
Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin · Kammersymphonie Berlin · Christian Lindhorst · Jürgen Bruns
2CD-Set · C5566 [09/2026] PC: 22 UPC: 845221055664
Music for children plays an important role in Miloslav Kabeláč's artistic oeuvre. Especially in the early days after the communist coup in 1948, the composer devoted himself to this genre: “I regard composing for children as a ‘touchstone’ not only for all creative abilities, but also for the human qualities of the composer. That is why I take this work as seriously and as importantly as any other". In his music, Kabeláč creates powerful atmospheric images with a playful sensitivity for language, some of which is highly onomatopoeic. His serious engagement with children's works is once again evident in the fact that Kabeláč repeatedly quoted motifs and melodies from children's works in larger symphonic works.
Sung in Original Czech Language · Booklet contains articles, complete Lyrics and translations
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Friedrich Schwindl
(1737 - 1786) Symphonies Op. 10 · Symphony Op. 3 "La Pastorale"
l'arte del mondo · Werner Ehrhardt
C5558 [08/2026] PC: 21 845221055589
Completely forgotten today, Friedrich Schwindl (1737 – 1786) was a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his time. His name appears repeatedly in the writings of Leopold Mozart, Charles Burney, and Daniel Schubart, yet his biography can only be reconstructed in a very fragmentary way. Born in Amsterdam, the stages of his life can be traced along the Rhine, from the Netherlands to Switzerland. The focus of his work was instrumental music, especially symphonies, of which 31 survive. They are influenced by the compositions of the Mannheim School but have a more folk-like character. A fascinating discovery of music history, brought to life virtuously and authentically by the musicians of the l'arte del mondo orchestra under Werner Ehrhardt.
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KJELL FLEM
Piano Concerto (1992) · Cello Concerto (2005)
Oliver Triendl, piano · Benedict Kloeckner, cello · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Markus L. Frank
C5565 [06/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055657
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NOSKOWSKI
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846 - 1909): Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Viotti · String Quartet No. 2 · Humorous Quartet
Meccore String Quartet
C5559 [06/2026] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055596
Zygmunt Noskowski, the influential Polish conductor and composer, is perhaps better remembered for his role as a teacher and mentor to later luminaries such as Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz – and for his connection to Stanisław Moniuszko – than for his own compositions. Yet for much of the 19th century, he was Poland’s leading exponent of modern music and his works are central to the Polish tradition. After the Capriccio recordings of his Symphonies (CD C5509 and C5547) this album presents some of his string quartets and shows us again a veritable picture book of Polish romanticism.
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Johanna Senfter (1879-1961)
Symphony No. 1 in F major Op. 22 (1914) · Symphony No. 9 in E flat minor, Op. 117 (1949)
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Chelsea Gallo
C5555 PC: 21 UPC: 845221055558
The German composer Johanna Senfter was a student of Max Reger, who recognized her musical talent and encouraged her to pursue advanced studies in his composition class in Leipzig, which she completed with distinction in 1909. In 1910, she was awarded the Arthur Nikisch Prize for the best student composition of the year. Born into a well-to-do industrial family, she was financially independent and able to devote herself entirely to her creative work throughout her life. In addition to numerous chamber music pieces, she left behind nine symphonies. From the youthful "Sturm und Drang" of her first symphony (1914) to the thoughtfully moving ninth (1949), composed after two world wars, the development of her musical language can be discovered here with this world premiere recordings.
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PAUL BÜTTNER
Symphony No. 3 (1915) Symphony No. 4 (1917-19)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Christopher Ward
C5554 [04/26 release] PC: 21 UPC: 845221055541
Paul Büttner was born in Dresden in 1870 and studied violin and oboe there at the Conservatory. Over the years Büttner could increasingly establish as a fantastic musician in Dresden. But he stayed virtually completely unknown before 1915, when famous Arthur Nikisch premiered his Symphony No. 3. Since that, Büttner was named one of the greatest and most important contemporary symphonists in succession to Brahms and Bruckner. His Symphony No. 4 from 1917 continued the success and was performed by many different orchestras. In 1933 his music was marked as "unwanted" and the regime deleted him completely from the public music culture.
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Max Meyer-Olbersleben
The Pupils of Franz Liszt - 3
Nina Karmon · Roland Glassl · Benedict Kloeckner · Oliver Triendl
C5424 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054247
Max Meyer-Olbersleben, born in 1850 in Olbersleben, Thuringia, studied at the Weimar Orchestral School under Franz Liszt, and later at the Royal Music School in Munich under Gabriel Josef Rheinberger and Peter Cornelius. He settled in Würzburg as a professor of counterpoint and composition and served as director of the Royal Conservatory of Music until his retirement in 1920. During his lifetime, 114 works were published, primarily smaller forms such as choral works, songs, and piano pieces. Through his studies in Weimar and Munich, Meyer-Olbersleben was familiar with both the traditionalist and the new German musical language of that era, and thus the chamber music gems recorded here for the first time bear witness to profound Romantic sensibility and the spirit of a new musical awakening.
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L. Kashperova
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940) · Piano Concerto Op. 2 Symphony Op. 4
Oliver Triendl Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Anna Skryleva
C5549 [03/2026] PC: 21 845221055497
She was Igor Stravinsky's piano teacher and studied herself with Anton Rubinstein. But to this day, her compositions have remained in the shadow of the great male masters. A fate that many women of this era share with her. Although her oeuvre is nowhere near as comprehensive as that of her composing colleagues, these few works still demonstrate incredible talent, mature skill and a deeply romantic Russian sound language that is so typical of this time.
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Hindemith: Cardillac
Tomasz Konieczny · Vera-Lotte Boecker · Wolfgang Bankl · Herbert Lippert
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper · Cornelius Meister
2CD · C5530 · [02/2026] PC: 22 UPC: 845221055305
Paris is gripped by fear. A series of murders is leaving a bloody trail through the city. We are talking about E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "Das Fräulein von Scuderi," published in 1819 and often cited as one of the earliest German crime stories. And even though the story is set in the Paris of the time of Louis XIV, the work has a deeply romantic quality, driven by a fascination with genius, coupled with dark passions and terrible crimes. In 1925, Hindemith came into contact with the publicist and poet Ferdinand Lion. To Lion's libretto, influenced by New Objectivity, Paul Hindemith set music that, for all its modernity, consciously takes up historical forms and brings them into play in a neo-baroque manner. The highly acclaimed, star-studded series of performances by the Vienna State Opera is hereby released for the first time as a gripping live recording.
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HK GRUBER
Piano Concerto · Short Stories from the Vienna Woods
Frank Dupree · ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra · HK Gruber
C5536 [02/2026] PC: 21 8452210555367
At over 80 years old, the ever agile and energetic HK Gruber has become an integral part of the
music scene – not only in Austria. As a composer, chansonnier and music educator with constructive depth and his distinctive, ironical jokes, he reliably amazes, moves, and evokes laughter in his audiences, far removed from the contrived, mathematical, contemporary musical art. His genre-spanning works are audible, vibrant journeys through the incredible diversity of music history, thus shaping his own, entirely unmistakable style. In Frank Dupree and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he finds his ideal partners, who skillfully realize this distinctive musical language.
