This musical release from Spanish guitar player Benise captures a number of performances, recorded during concerts staged all over the world. Some of the songs featured in the program include "The Marionettes", "Malaguena", "The Priestess", and more.

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One of an enticing looking series this Deutsche Grammophon Original Masters series – others include Kempff, Hotter, Eugen Jochum and Furtwängler – releases recordings made not only by them but also by Decca and Westminster between 1956 and 1963.They made other recordings of course (notably for Supraphon) and remade some here in this set (such as the Janáček Intimate Letters in 1963 and there is also a 1968 Mendelssohn Octet again with the Smetana) but there is a freshness and very attractive musicality to these earlier traversals that strike one just as immediately as those other recordings (and indeed perhaps even more so).

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From the Artist "While we were working on our album these past few months, we could literally feel how powerful and creative our work was - and how much fun we were still having, in the process," said KLAUS MEINE. "We want to end the SCORPION's extraordinary career on a high note. We are extremely gracious for the fact that we still have the same passion for music we've always had since the beginning." RUDOLF SCHENKER stated, "The three year tour through five continents is meant to be a huge blowout, where we can party with our fans and say good-bye." "When I started out, I had a lot of wishes," SCHENKER noted. "It's crazy, I achieved more than I ever even dreamed of."

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"A seriously elevating account, one that integrates the piano with the orchestra in a long-breathed, carefully modulated dialogue." [Franck] - GRAMOPHONE

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This Zimerman recording of the Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1 may have received some critical lambasting when it was originally released. However, despite this, I find that this recording is unjustly underrated because in its own special way it plumbs the depths of Brahms' heart and soul. Zimerman, although he recorded this in his late-twenties, interprets the solo part with insight, and does not go over-the-top with pianistic pyrotechnics, as most other pianists tend to do. Bernstein leads the Viennese musicians in a sympathetic accompaniment that serves as a perfect foil to Zimerman's parts and allows him to integrate into the orchestral texture. And the DG recording, although not entirely clear, is characterised by the atmosphere and bloom of the Vienna Musikverein, despite the extreme forward balance of the piano.

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These 15 CDs catch her when there was almost nothing she could not sing effectively... this is a bargain and a swell compendium of the art of a very important singer.

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Bernstein and Zimerman have established a masterly understanding of the work, and their artistic symbiosis is impressive. The first movement of Brahm's B flat Piano Concerto is marked Allegro non troppo, but it is not untraditional to begin this work relatively slowly and then press onwards to establish full momentum at the first orchestral tutti. Bernstein's opening tempo is a leisurely Andante and the pace almost slows to Adagio before a burst of energy from the pianist signals that the performance is going to spring to life with the orchestral re-statement of the main theme... [O]ne realizes that Bernstein and Zimerman have established a masterly understanding of the work, and their artistic symbiosis is impressive... [T]here are moments of genuine grandeur, and poetry too, as when the horns steal in seductively to announce the first movement's recapitulation. In the second movement Bernstein again pulls back at the tranquille e dolce and Zimerman is at one with him in his considered response... The andante is poetically intense, with the cello solo played con amore and a measured tempo justified by the rapt concentration. Towards the end where Brahms's marking is piu adagio, the piu is emphasized, but the sustained pianissimo has such strength of feeling that the listener surely must become involved. The finale's balance between bravura and lyricism is managed with considerable flair... -- Ivan March, Gramophone [1/1986]

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Rudolf Serkin's classic 1957 recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations sounds more vibrant and powerfully projected than ever in this remastered edition. Not only do the fine mono sonics improve upon the CBS Portrait reissue, but now each variation has its own track, whereas the earlier CD incarnation provided only one access point for the entire work. Serkin's angular pianism is alive to every startling subito dynamic, every harmonic surprise, every rhythmic quirk, plus every inflection that helps intensify the music's inner rhythmic workings and transitions between variations. Moreover, Serkin was at the height of his technical powers, although the blinding virtuosity he brings to Variations 25 and 28, for example, puts the music ahead of the instrument. I even like the Vermont cricket chirping in gentle counterpoint to the later minor-key variations! The unerring timing and variety of character Serkin brings to the Op. 119 Bagatelles remain a point of reference. And if Serkin's 1970 recording of the G minor Fantasy doesn't quite equal the dynamic scope and impulsive sweep of his 1947 mono version, it's still an impressive, concentrated piece of work all the same. You'll notice how Serkin atypically breaks his hands in the opening measures à la Paderewski, probably in keeping with the work's improvisatory nature. This disc belongs in every serious piano collection, in spite of André Tubeuf's frilly, pretentious, and utterly useless booklet notes. --Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com

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* Between 1981 and 1984 Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahms´s orchestral works with the Wiener Philharmoniker to honor the 150th anniversary of the composer´s birth in 1983. * For the concertos, Bernstein enlisted the services of some of the finest Brahms interpreters of the time: the violoninst Gidon Kremer, the cellist Mischa Maisky and the pianist Krystian Zimerman. R E V I E W S "Nobody conducts Brahms with as much originality and imagination as Leonard Bernstein. Nobody but Bernstein summons such warmth, humanity and sheer inspiration from the Wiener Philharmoniker." -- USA Today "Humphrey Burton captures the relationship these players have with their instruments and their music. The camera revisits them so frequently from one performance to the next, it’s like getting to know the secondary characters in a drama." -- USA Today

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This re-issue at bargain price of the Emerson's complete Shostakovich quartet cycle is a reminder that their breakthrough readings are roughly a decade old now (the set was taped in concert from Aspen 1994-99). Instead of Russian soul we get clean, often faster interpretations that brought out Shostakovich's modernist side, aided by the ultra virtuosity of the playing. In the meantime, however, other groups like the St. Lawrence and Hagen Quartets have made even more severe, biting, stark, haunted, and tragic recordings of selected works from the fifteen quartets. This doesn't mean the Emersons have been eclipsed, only that they started a trend that shows no sign of ending. Also, I'd like to point out that if you want the best all-around modern set from a Russian group. the Shostakovich Quartet, which recorded for Olympia, can now be found on bargain reissues from Regis (Berkshire Record Outlet offers the complete quartets for $20). The SQ play beautifully, are well recorded, and imbue Shostakovich's music with more emotional intensity than the cooler Emersons. By comparison, the old standby set from the Fitzwilliam Quartet on Decca seems dated and stodgy. The choice for me comes down to 1. Emerson complete cycle 2. Shostakovich Quartet complete cycle or 3. Pick and choose among outstanding individual readings from the St. Lawrence, Kronos, Hagen, and of course older Soviet groups like the Borodin and Beethoven Quartets. That's just a thumbnail sketch. Many die-hard fans won't give up their beloved Emerson cycle, while older aficinados would never part with their traditional Soviet favorites.

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