Super-Audio CD

German pianist Burkard Schliessmann is a performer with a passion and vision, to seek out and interpret the forms, colors and textures, indeed the soul and expression: the poetic impact, of works we believe have already been fully explored. His previous...

Georges Soyka and Kyoko Kashii present their new album of music for trumpet and piano, Indigo. The album is a showcase of beauty, including works from Daniel Schnyder, Maurice le Boucher, Jules Massenet, Jaques Ibert, and many more. Georges Soyka is...

Georg Solti / DAS RHEINGOLD - 2xCD - The greatest recording of all time is sounding better than ever before. Now, Solti and Culshaw's Ring Cycle can be enjoyed in the highest quality possible. The Hybrid SACD format combines the high-density 24bit/192kHz...

Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777) belongs, as his Viennese colleague Georg Matthias Monn, to that avant-garde of the 18th century, which replaced the instrumental music and thus also the then new symphonic genre from the dependence of Baroque dance...

Gems on a Jewel Jan Von Busch presents Sonatinas and Sonatas by Johann Ludwig Krebs In 1802, in his famous Bach biography, Nikolaus Forkel stated that "only one crayfish [Krebs] was caught in one stream [Bach]." Johann Ludwig Krebs was in fact one of...

Gaede's Kreisler recording, on the other hand, is enchanting. The thirty-year-old violinist plays with a spirit we thought had died out. His playing technique is lit with a rare turn-of-the-century charm. He implores and pleads, he whistles, his chords...

Gabriel Feltz writes: "The choral symphonic poem "The Bells" was written during Rachmaninoff's last years in Russia (first performance 1913, emigration 1917). It is, without a doubt, note- worthy that the Russian translation of a poem ("The Bells") by...

Gabriel Faure has frequently been termed "the father of Impressionism." Why this is so rendered very apparent on this state-of-the-art album featuring interpretations of his two Piano Quartets by the superb Mozart Piano Quartet. With great virtuosity, a...

Full Title - Misia Fifth Anniversary Single Collection. Japanese exclusive compilation for the Japanese R&B star includes both tracks from all seven of her singles for BMG, digitally remastered, & pressed onto a SACD/Hybrid. 14 tracks. BMG. 2003.

From the very beginning fantasies on the famous operas of the nineteenth century belonged to the on-the-road staples of traveling virtuosos. Volker Reinhold knows his way around this genre like no other musician. After his release of Pablo de Sarasate's...

From the total of nineteen symphonies that C.P.E. Bach wrote, six are featured on this album. Commissioned in 1773 by Bach's patron Gottfried von Swieten, these works perfectly represent the late 18th c. Sturm und Drang movement in music afoot at that...

From the symphony, the largest form for the largest orchestra, to the song, the smallest form for the smallest ensemble, would seem to be an enormous step. Mahler nonetheless brought them together and interwove them in Das Lied von der Erde. Ivn Fischer...