Respighi – Transcriptions for Orchestra – López-Cobos

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) - transcriptions:
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): La Boutique Fantasque
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Cinq Etudes-Tableaux

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Jesus Lopez-Cobos - conductor

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Various Composers – 'Up to 8 pianos' Arrangements for various pianos – Baynov-Piano-Ensemble

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Rhapsody in Blue - 8 Hands, 4 Pianos
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943):
Valse et Romance - 6 Hands, 1 Piano
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946):
Fire Dance - 8 Hands, 4 Pianos
Heinz Benker (1921-2000):
Three Dances - 30 Fingers, 1 Piano
Albert Lavignac (1846-1916):
Galop-Marche - 8 Hands, 1 Piano
Leonard Gautier (1866-1955):
Le Secret - 6 Hands, 1 Piano
Franz Hirtler (b.1914):
Heitere Variationen über ein schwäbisches Lied - 32 Hands, 8 Pianos
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)/ Carl Czerny (1791-1857):
Overture to "Semiramide" - 32 Hands, 8 Pianos

Baynov-Piano-Ensemble

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Rossini – Petite Messe solennelle – Marcus Creed

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Petite Messe solennelle

Krassimira Stoyanova - soprano
Birgit Bemmert - contralto
Steve Davislim - tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann - bass
Philip Mayers - fortepiano [Pleyel, 1869]
Phillip Moll - fortepiano [Pleyel, 1858]
Ryoko Morroka - harmonium [Debain, 1869]
Rias Kammerchor
Marcus Creed - conductor

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Rossini – Works for Clarinet and Orchestra – Dieter Klöcker

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major/B flat major
Konzertstück (Concerto) No. 1 for two Clarinets and Orchestra in C minor/A flat major/E flat major
Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in B Flat minor/B flat major
Grand Duo Concertant for Clarinet, Bassoon and Orchestra in E flat major
Fantasie for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major
Konzertstück (Concerto) No. 2 for two Clarinets and Orchestra in E flat major/A flat major/E flat major

Dieter Klöcker - clarinet
Oliver Link - clarinet
Karl-Otto Hartmann - bassoon
SWF - Sinfonieorchester
Holger Schröter-Seebeck - conductor

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Rossini, Verdi – Overtures – Claudio Abbado

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Overture to "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"
Overture to "La Cenerentola"
Overture to "La gazza ladra"
Overture to "L'Italiana in Algeri"
Overture to "Signor Bruschino"
Overture to "L'assedio di Corinto"
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901):
Prelude to "Macbeth"
Prelude to "Un ballo in maschera"
Prelude to "Aida"

London Symphony Orchestra
Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Claudio Abbado - conductor

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Rossini Discoveries – Riccardo Chailly

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Robert Bruce: Ouverture
Le Chant des Titans
Grande Fanfare (Le rendez-vous de chasse)
Moise et Pharaon: Ouverture et Introduction *
Guillaume Tell: Final du divertissement
Guillaume Tell: Pas de deux
Le Siege de Corinthe: Ballabile - Galop
Inno alla pace: "E foriera la Pace" + §
Ermione: Sinfonia
Hymne: "De l'Italie et de la France" + #
Hymne a Napoleon III et a son Vaillant Peuple *

Ildar Abdrazakov - baritone *
Michele Pertusi - baritone +
Laura Giordano - soprano #
Nelson Calzi - fortepiano §
Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Riccardo Chailly - conductor

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Rossini – Cantatas – Chailly (Vol.2)

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) - The Cantatas (Vol.2):
Le nozze di Teto, e di Peleo
Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo

Elisabetta Scano - soprano
Juan Diego Flórez - tenor
Cecilia Bartoli - mezzo-soprano
Daniela Barcellona - mezzo-soprano
Luigi Petroni - tenor
Paul Austin Kelly - tenor
Coro Filarmonico Della Scala
Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
Riccardo Chailly - conductor

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Great Pianists of the 20th Century – Earl Wild

Transcriptions

CD 1:
Gluck-Sgambati:
Mélodie d'Orphée
Rameau-Godowsky:
Rigaudon
Elegie
Tambourin
Bach-Tausig:
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Wagner-Moszkowksi:
Isoldens Tod
Rimsky-Korsakov-Rachmaninov:
The flight of the Bumble-Bee
Kreisler-Rachmaninov:
Liebesleid
Mendelssohn-Rachmaninov:
Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Rossini-Thalberg:
Grande Fantaisie on "Semiramide"
Chopin-Liszt:
Chants Polonais
Tchaikovsky-Wild:
Pas de quatre from "Swan Lake"

CD 2:
J.Strauss-Schulz-Evler:
Arabesques on "An der schoenen, blauen Donau"
Glinka-Balakirev:
Fantasy on "A Life for the Tsar"
Rossini-Herz:
Variations on "Non piu mesta"
Donizetti-Thalberg:
Fantasy on "Don Pasquale", Op. 67
J.Strauss-Godowsky:
Symphonic Metamorphosis on "Kuenstlerleben"
Gershwin-Wild:
The Man I Love
I Got Rhythm
Embraceable You
Fascinatin' Rhythm
Somebody Loves Me
Liza
Oh, Lady Be Good

Earl Wild - piano

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Rossini – Cantatas – Chailly (Vol.1)

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) - The Cantatas (Vol.1):
La Morte de Didone
Cantata in onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio Nono

Mariella Devia - soprano
Paul Austin Kelly - tenor
Michele Pertusi - bass-baritone
Francesco Piccoli - tenor
Coro Filarmonico Della Scala
Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
Riccardo Chailly - conductor

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Rossini – Symphonic Works – Julian Reynolds

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
La Cenerentola - Overture
La Cenenentola - Thunderstorm music
Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in C major *
Il Barbiere di Seviglia - Thundestorm music
Grande Fanfare - rendez-vous de chasse
Variations for various instruments and Orchestra in F major +
Semiramide - Overture

Frank van den Brink - clarinet * +
Johannes Leertouwer - violin +
Marin Mars - violin +
Matthew Souter - viola +
Michiel Weidner - cello +
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Julian Reynolds - conductor

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Rossini – Flute Quartets – Constantin Talmaciu

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in G major
Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in A major
Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in B flat major
Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in D major

Constantin Talmaciu - flute
Ovidiu Rusu - violin
Victor Varady - viola
Peter Freiman - cello

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Rossini – Music for Two Pianos – David Bradshaw, Cosmo Buono

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
L'Assedio di Corinto - overture (transcr.Rossini)
Stabat Mater - "Cujus Animam Gementem" & "Inflammatus et Accensus" (transcr.Czerny)
Grande Fantaisie sur le "Barbiere de Seville" (S.Thalberg)
Il viaggio a Reims - overture (transcr.Alessandro Peroni)
La Charité (transcr.Liszt & Cramer)
Guglielmo Tell - overture (transcr.Gottschalk)
Regata Veneziana (transcr.Liszt)
La danza (transcr.Liszt)

David Bradshaw - piano
Cosmo Buono - piano

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Various Composers – Works for Horn and Piano – Hansjörg Angerer

Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Adagio and Allegro for Horn and Piano, op.70
Richard Strauss (1864-1949):
Introduktion, Thema und Variationen for Horn and Piano, op.17
Paul Dukas (1865-1935):
Villanelle for Horn and Piano
Werner Pirchner (1940-2001):
Feld-, Wald- und Wiesen-Soli for Horn in F major
Eugène Bozza (1905–1991):
En forêt for Horn and Piano
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868):
Prélude, Thème et Variations

Hansjörg Angerer - horn
Bozidar Noev - piano

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Rossini – Stabat Mater – Richard Hickox

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Stabat Mater

Helen Fields - soprano
Della Jones - mezzo-soprano
Arthur Davies - tenor
Roderick Earle - bass
London Symphony Chorus
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox - conductor

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Rossini – Serenata, Sonata, Duett, 'Une larme' – Ensemble Explorations

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Serenata in E flat major
Sonata a quattro No.6 in D major
Duetto for Cello and Double-bass in D major
Sonata a quattro No.3 in C major
"Une larme" for Cello and Piano

Ensemble Explorations [on period instruments]
Roel Dieltiens - direction

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Rossin - Il Signor Bruschino – Viotti

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Il Signor Bruschino - opera in one act

with:
Natale de Carolis
Patrizia Orciani
Bruno Praticò
Luca Canonici
Pietro Spagnoli
Katia Lytting
Fulvio Massa

I Filarmonici di Torino
Marcello Viotti - conductor

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Rossini – Stabat Mater – Antonio Pappano

remembering Gioachino Rossini on the anniversary of his death

(29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868)

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Stabat Mater

Anna Netrebko - soprano
Joyce Didonato - mezzo-soprano
Lawrence Brownlee - tenor
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo - bass
Coro dell'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Roma
Orchestra dell'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Roma
Antonio Papano - conductor

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Schumann – Piano Concerto; Mozart – Sinfonia concertante – Richter, Muti

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Semiramide - overture
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, KV 364 *

Sviatoslav Richter - piano
Gerhart Hetzel - violin *
Rudolf Streng - viola *
Wiener Philharmoniker
Riccardo Muti - conductor

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Rossini – Cantata 'Giovanna d'Arco', Songs – Cecilia Bartoli

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
La pastorella
Beltà crudele
Il trovatore
La regata veneziana
Mi lagnerò tacendo
Il resentimento
La Grande Coquette
Ariette à l'ancienne
L'Orpheline du Tyrol
La Légende de Marguerite
Nizza
L'âme délaissée
Canzonetta spagnuola 'En medio a mis colores'
Giovanna d'Arco (cantata)

Cecilia Bartoli - mezzo-soprano
Charles Spencer - piano

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The Art of Riccardo Chailly

Celebrating the International Music Day

with Riccardo Chailly

CD 1:
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896):
Symphony No. 7 in E major

CD 2:
Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893):
Romeo & Juiliet - ouverture fantasia
Francesca da Rimini - fantasia sinfonica

CD 3:
Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893):
Symphony No.5 in E minor, op.64

CD 4:
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904):
Carnival Overture, Op.92
Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 "From the New World"

CD 5:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847):
Symphony No.3 in A minor "Scottish", op.56
Opening Sketch of "Scottish Symphony"
Piano Concerto No.3 in E minor, op.posth.
Overture "The Hebrides", op.26

CD 6:
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
Overture of Guillaume Tell
Overture of Il signor Bruschino
Overture of Bianca e Falliero
Overture of Il barbiere di Siviglia
Overture of Armida
Overture of Semiramide
Overture of L'inganno felice
Overture of Matilde di Shabran
Overture of Demitrio e Polibio
Overture of La gazza ladra

CD 7:
Béla Bartók (1881-1945):
Concerto for Orchestra
The Miraculous Mandarin, op.19

CD 8:
George Gershwin (1898-1937):
Rhapsody in Blue *
Lullaby
An American in Paris
Cuban Overture

Katia and Marielle Labèque - piano duo *


CD 9:
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911):
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

CD 10:
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
Bolero
Claude Debussy (1862-1918):
Sarabande
Danse
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) / Maurice Ravel:
Pictures at an Exhibition

CD 11:
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951):
Verklärte Nacht, Op.4
5 Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16
Anton Webern (1883-1945):
Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op.1
Alban Berg (1885-1935):
Piano Sonata, Op.1 (orchestral version by Theo Verbey)

CD 12:
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):
Petrushka, ballet
Pulcinella, ballet *

Anna Caterina Antonacci - soprano *
Pietro Ballo - tenor *
William Shimell - bass *


CD 13:
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965):
Tuning Up
Amériques original version
Poème électronique
Arcana
Nocturnal
Un grand sommeil noir (orchestration by Antony Beaumont)

CD 14:
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) - transcriptions:
Henry Purcell (1659-1695):
The modification and instrumentation of a famous hornpipe
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Contrapunctus XIX (Die Kunst der Fuge)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805):
Quattro versioni originali della 'Ritirata notturna di Madrid'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Variations on the Papageno's Aria 'Ein Maedchen oder Weibchen'
Franz Schubert (1797-1828):
Rendering for orchestra
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Sonata for clarinet and orchestra, Op.120 No.1 *

Fausto Ghiazza - clarinet *


CD 15:
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992):
Turangalila-Symphonie

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Takashi Harada, ondes martenot


CD 16:
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975):
Moscow, Cheryomushki, Operetta, Op. 105
The Bolt, Suite From The Ballet, Op. 27a:
The Gadfly, Suite From The Film Score, Op. 97a


Cleveland Orchestra
Gewandhausorchester
Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Wiener Philharmoniker

Riccardo Chailly - conductor

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