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Ivan Fischer and Petra Lang Wagner Opera Excerpts
May 10, 2013 | MDT Mail Order
Wagner is the giant among composers by reason of the fact that he created his own world. Whereas others interpreted ancient and familiar mythology, Wagner created his own myth. Whereas others composed to librettos by poets, Wagner wrote his own texts. He even built his own opera house, which had to be different and innovative. [...]
Britten The Complete Works
May 8, 2013 | MDT Mail Order
Pre-order at a special price. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of England’s greatest composer since Henry Purcell, Decca Classics presents the ultimate Britten box, the first ever Complete Works. Includes all works with opus numbers and all works commercially recorded to date. Includes folksongs, excludes Purcell realisations and Hindmarsh’s arrangements of incidental [...]
Ready to Ship Suzuki Vol 53 Bach Cantatas
April 24, 2013 | MDT Mail Order
Suzuki Vol 53 Bach Cantatas. Available for release this Monday, MDT has stock that is ready to be shipped. This landmark series is nearly at its end in this antepenultimate recording. The three cantatas on this recording come from the first half of the 1730s and clearly show Bach’s affinity for instrumental colour and expressive [...]
Bach Cantatas Gardiner Soli Deo Gloria
February 28, 2013 | MDT Mail Order
This album features the missing cantatas from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, the Ascension Cantatas. Recorded in the City of London in 2012. They were recorded live at St Giles Cripplegate (one of Soli Dero Gloria’s original Pilgrimage venues) in two concerts entirely funded by the generosity of hundreds of donors across the world, following a [...]
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Rene Jacobs Pergolesi Septem verba a Christo
February 15, 2013 | MDT Mail Order
Now attributed to Pergolesi on the basis of recent research, the ‘Seven Words of Christ’ has been regarded as ‘one of the most heartfelt works of art, full of profound tenderness and an all-conquering sense of beauty’ [Hermann Scherchen, on its discovery in 1930]. However, his judgment has remained unheeded and only the discovery of [...]
