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BERNARD HAITINK conducts: SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY No. 15 in A major op. 141. The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt...

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Release Date: January 24, 2025

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A very fine Enigma coupled with a successful live Vaughan Williams Sixth. Sir Colin Davis’s live recordings of Elgar’s symphonies were amongst the earliest releases on the London Symphony Orchestra’s own label. I reviewed them...

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Release Date: October 26, 2010

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The Bach project that began in 2010 with the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Peter Dijkstra will conclude with the complete recording of the Mass in B minor that was made in the Herkulessaal of...

Format: DVD

Release Date: November 11, 2016

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For today’s musicologists, performers and concert-going audiences, Mozart’s final symphonies are still a veritable miracle. Why they were written remains a mystery, and no one knows whether Mozart ever heard them performed during his lifetime....

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Release Date: September 07, 2018

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"In this particular incarnation the conductor is Mariss Jansons, often criticized for leading glossy performances that are exciting but lacking detail, but here it is precisely his reticence to overplay the music that, for me,...

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Release Date: January 25, 2011

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The Symphony No. 5, which came about over a very short time period some twelve years after beginning his career, today one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular works. As early as the world première in St....

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Release Date: October 04, 2019

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Handel: Israel in Egypt

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Release Date: March 30, 2010

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BR Klassik: Greatest Moments

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Release Date: November 11, 2016

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Under the direction of Florian Helgath, the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks sings German holiday classics along with selections from France, Italy and Great Britain. Music between the carols is provided by oboist Francois Leleux, enriching...

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Release Date: November 19, 2013

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For his ''Occasional Oratorio'', composed in 1746 in an age of personal and political upheaval, Handel made generous use of much of his own earlier material, and this resulted in something quite close to an...

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Release Date: July 07, 2017

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Telling the story of Christmas from the Nativity to the visit of the Three Wise Men, J.S. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" and comprised of six cantatas, this piece remains for many, ubiquitous to the holiday season....

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Release Date: November 13, 2015

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The Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks has already performed Beethoven symphony cycles on several occasions. Mariss Jansons has now extended the cycle concept in two respects: with works specially commissioned from contemporary composers, who have contributed...

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Release Date: October 09, 2015

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Long considered one of the seminal works in the classical oratorio tradition, St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach also holds a strong connection with many to the Passion weeks. A part of the BR-KLASSIK WISSE/N...

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Release Date: September 29, 2009

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One of the most popular symphonic poems by Richard Strauss -actually one of the most famous tone poems ever -is his "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" op. 30, from 1896. The distinctive theme, followed by timpani blows...

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Release Date: February 07, 2020

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During the Weimar Republic era, alongside Richard Strauss, the then oft-performed composer Walter Braunfels was considered an important exponent of a moderate modernism. Despite his Jewish roots, his works are characterized by a deep Christian...

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Release Date: October 14, 2014