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The recordings featured in this 10-album collection audibly illustrate this exceptional conductor's life and career. Beginning with the first recording for gramophone of Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder", which he directed in Berlin in 1928, they...

The present 10-album compilation illustrates Louis Kentner as a successful soloist, chamber musician and concert pianist. A highly gifted musically, Kentner studied from 1911 to 1922 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, attracting early...

The piano music expert and music commentator Attila Csampai recently marveled at the "lasting impression of Gilels's implacable precision, the energetic clarity and purity of his musical logic, the profound, unshakeable humanity of his messages and a...

The pianist Maria Kihlgren studied at G?teborgs Musikh?gskola and at the Hochschule f?r Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna gaining her diploma in 1979. She has performed in Sweden and several European countries, the USA and South America. In recent...

The Masters Collection compiles the iconic recordings of some of the most renowned artists of Hungaroton. The series features albums which define an úuvre, a specific era and which will be an unforgettable experience for all listeners. The present...

The journey towards simplicity so comprehensively charted by Jeroen van Veen's discography over the past decade begins chronologically with the unique world of Erik Satie. In the quietly unique music of this ever-underrated pioneer lies the seeds of so...

The German-speaking nations of the 1950s and 1960s, when the recorded- music market had not yet succumbed to globalization, had a lot to offer. The proof is in the five complete recordings - complete, that is, but for the cuts so often made in those days...

The Danish King Frederik IX's preoccupation with music must be described as atypical, in fact, unique for a member of a royal house, since it is hardly possible to cite other examples of ruling monarchs whose favorite pastime was orchestral conducting...

The composer interprets himself, and don?t you do anything to help him! Swarowsky began his conducting career at the Stuttgart Opera in 1927, this after a short period as a r?p?titeur at the Vienna Volksoper. He then moved on to Hamburg and succeeded...

Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997) was one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Profil Edition G?nter H?nssler is progressively releasing all the recordings that the great Soviet virtuoso made in his Sturm und Drang period between 1945 and 1963...

Surely, no map could chart the fantastic voyage presented in this release. For while this odyssey takes us around a large part of the globe, via the music of Ireland and the British Isles, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, North Africa, Turkey, the...

Stories about Wunderlich's meteoric rise to success, his incredibly heavy workload or his seemingly effortless acquisition of new repertoire have been told again and again - sometimes painting an idealized and sometimes a distorted picture of the artist...