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This week, Classical Music Discoveries is proud to visit one of our long-time friends, the world famous violinist Alexandre Brussilovsky. Born in the Ukraine, Alexandre Brussilovsky completed his musical education at the Moscow Conservatoire. He won top prizes at several international competitions, including the Grand Prix at the International Prague Competition in 1969, and the Grand Prix and Albert Roussel Special Prize at the Jacques Thibaud Competition in 1975. In 1985, after having been prohibited from performing abroad for eight years, Brussilovsky was able to leave the USSR and establish his residency in France. As an international soloist, Alexandre Brussilovsky is invited to give master-classes at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the School of Music in Bloomington and the Longhy School of Music in Boston. He also participates in numerous festivals and summer academies, such as those in Geneva, Nice, Les Arcs, Prades and New York, at the University of Montreal and the festival of the Chaise Dieu... Alexandre Brussilovsky is the artistic director of the chamber music festivals Randonnées Musicales en Essonne and the Pont Alexandre III French Music Festival in Moscow and Paris. He is also artistic director of the Suoni e Colori recording label. For this show we will be playing several of Mr. Brussilovsky's performances including selections from his latest CD "La Mer." We invite you to purchase Alexandre's CDs on Amazon or Itunes. Or, you can click on the hyperlink appearing below his photos during this broadcast and you will be taken to his CD store where you can purchase his magnificent recordings.
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This recording was made in 1975 when the Bolshoi Opera Company, under the direction of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, performed at the Metropolitan Opera. The recording was initially held by Melodiya and finally released 2 years later in 1977 and then scraped!  No one knows why and only a handful of copies were ever sold. This extremely rare recording doesn't even show up on any list as having ever been done! But here it is. Sung entirely in Russian, this superb recording (remastered by Classical Music Discoveries) is a definite MUST for your library. "The Gambler" is an opera in 4 acts to a Russian libretto by Dostoyevsky. Composed in the years of 1915 and 1916 the opera did not receive its first performance until 1929 and it had been extensively revised in 1927. First performed in the United States in 1975 by the Bolshoi Opera, "The Gambler" did not receive its first American production until 2001. This lost recording of 1977, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky is the US Premiere of the work which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. Purchase this recording here: CD or Digital plus Shipping Destination Digital Download ONLY $5.99 USD CDs with USA Shipping $14.99 USD CDs with International Shipping $24.99 USD
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This week we return to our sponsors at La Musica International Chamber Music Festival as we bring to you the La Musica Chamber Music Hour which brings to our listeners the greatest collection of chamber music in the world. For this show we are delighted to bring to you: Haydn's "Divertimento in C Major for Violin, Cello and Double Bass" Faure's "La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61" Bruckner's "String Quintet in F Major" Performers are: Federico Agostini and Ari Noda, violins Daniel Avshalomov and Bruno Giuranna, violas Eric Kim and Julie Albers, cellos Dee Moses, Double Bass Dina Kuznetsova, soprano James Winn, piano Become a Friend of Classical Music Discoveries. Your kind donation of ANY amount is greatly appreciated.
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The Philadelphia International Music Festival is a summer music program offering students of all ages and skill levels - from throughout the U.S. and abroad - the unique opportunity of spending 14 days immersed in classical music education and performance with members of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra. Festival highlights include private lessons, daily orchestra rehearsals, daily music education courses, optional daily chamber music rehearsals, solo performance and competition opportunities, daily private practice time, faculty recitals and master classes featuring principal players and other members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, and much more. Our summer music camp program includes full symphonic repertoire (at appropriate junior and senior levels), and is conducted on the exquisite, estate-like grounds of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. PIMF is sponsored in part by The Cunningham Piano Company. The festival is divided into three divisions: the Children's Division (summer music camp for students 8 - 10 years of age, with exceptions made for intermediate and advanced students between those ages), the Senior Division for students 11 - 18 years of age, and the College and Young Professionals Division. The Senior Division consists of four programs: the Symphony Program (which is the Signature Program here at PIMF), the Solo Performance Preparation Program (by audition only), the College Auditions Preparation Program (for high school Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors), and the Piano Program. PIMF also conducts Senior Programs in Franklinville, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, and Groznjan, Croatia. For more information about any of the summer music camps in the PIMF program, including our orchestra camp, solo performance camp, piano camp, winter music camp, and international camp browse our extensive web site, or phone our East Coast office at: 856-875-6816. To purchase the music used on this show, please visit our CD store at: ClassicalRecordings.co
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Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's play La houppelande. It is the first of the trio of operas known as Il trittico. The first performance was given on 14 December 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Place: A barge on the Seine in Paris. Time: 1910. It is close to sundown in Paris, and the stevedores work unloading Michele's barge. Giorgetta, Michele's wife, asks her husband if she can bring wine to the workers. He agrees but does not join them because she refuses his kiss. The stevedores start dancing to the music of a nearby organ grinder and one of them steps on Giorgetta's foot. Luigi, a stevedore, dances with her, and it is evident that there is something between them. Upon hearing of Michele's return the stevedores' gathering breaks up. Work is getting scarce and Giorgetta and Michele discuss which of the stevedores should be dismissed; she prefers that it be anyone other than Luigi despite this being Michele's first choice. Soon the conversation turns into a fight. La Frugola enters, looking for Talpa, one of the stevedores and her husband. She shows everyone the fruits of her scavenging in Paris and scolds the men for their drinking. Luigi laments his lot in life, and La Frugola sings of her wish to one day buy a house in the country that she and her husband can retire to. Giorgetta and Luigi sing a duet remembering the town they were both born in. The stevedores depart except for Luigi who asks Michele to dismiss him and that he be allowed to disembark in Rouen, but Michele convinces him against this notion. When alone, Giorgetta asks Luigi why he requested to be dismissed and they acknowledge their mutual love. They plan to meet later that evening upon the signal of a match being lit on-board. By now Luigi seems very determined to kill Michele and flee with Giorgetta. Michele reminisces with Giorgetta of the days before their child died and how all three would fit under his cloak. He is distressed about the fact that he is twice her age; she comforts him but she will still not kiss him. Michele wonders if his wife is still faithful to him and ponders who might have changed her so much. He reviews for himself the list of all the men that have shared in their lives but dismisses all of them as improbable. Michele then lights his pipe and Luigi, seeing it from afar, thinks that it is Giorgetta's signal. He returns to the barge only to be confronted by Michele. In the ensuing fight Michele gets the upper hand and forces Luigi to confess his affair before killing him and hiding the body under his cloak. Giorgetta returns to the barge, feigning remorse, and Michele opens wide the cloak to reveal her dead lover Purchase this new recording below: Select Media and Shipping CD and USA Shipping $7.50 USD CD and International Shipping $13.50 USD Digital Download Only $5.00 USD
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Welcome to our 10th edition of our very popular series - Play My Music where our listeners have the opportunity to have their music broadcast on our show to millions of our listeners spanning the globe. In this month's edition we are pleased to feature tenor Ernest Revell and the CMD Philharmonic of Paris.  The Philharmonic performs Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.  You can find this new recording of Symphonie Fantastique in our online store at www.ClassicalRecordings.co  Tenor extraodinaire Ernest Revell is no stranger to our listeners. With the voice that rivals any operatic tenor, past or present, Mr. Revell's voice commands attention even from the most discerning ear. Having started his singing career when in his 50's, Ernest Revell is living proof that is it never too late to start singing. Be sure to visit his website at www.ErnestRevell.net for more information on Mr. Revell or just click on the hyperlink, below his photos, while his music is playing. We guarantee that his performances will astound you as he brings the Golden Age of opera into your living rooms. First Mr. Revell sings "Ungrateful Heart" by Salvatore Cardillo Next we hear "A Furtive Tear" from the opera "The Elixir of Love" by Donizetti. For his final number, Mr. Revell sings "Torna a Surriento": by Ernesto De Curtis. Leonard Bernstein described Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique as composed by a musician on opium. Whether this is true or not of Berlioz, this is how, the artist in this work is described by Berlioz in the score.   Fantastic Symphony: An Episode in the Life of an Artist, in 5 Parts, Op. 14 is a programmatic symphony from the early Romantic period. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatory in December of 1830 and this performance by the CMD Philharmonic of Paris marks the return trip back home for this masterpiece. The idée fixe of this work is an unrequited love that the artist has constantly going through his opium-based dreams. In the first movement, our doomed artist dreams of his love in a passionate sequence. Next he dreams of her at a ball. The excitement of the ball commences and he sees his true love in the crowd. He runs to her, only to find she has vanished. In the 3rd scene we find a serene scene in the fields. Now our artist's true love is off in the distance, dressed as an alluring peasant girl. He goes to her only to find that the more he moves toward her, the further away she appears. Shepherds call to him to continue on, but to no avail. In the 4th movement, our artist is convicted of having killed his true love. As he is placed in the scaffold and as the guillotine comes down to sever his head from his body, he looks up and sees his true love, not dead, but alive and standing in the crowd watching his execution. As his head thumps down the steps, his true love picks up his rolling head and laughs at her latest conquest. In the final movement, our artist has received his everlasting reward of being cast down to hell and finds himself in the middle of a Witch's Sabbath.  To our artist's total amazement, the head of the Witch's Sabbath turns out to be his true love.  He realizes, only too late, that she has carefully led him down to Hell. As Leonard Bernstein describes, "Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral." Just as true today, as it was in 1830. Purchase our new digital recording of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" below. Digital downloads are also available. Please select a CD with shipping to USA or International. Or select Digital Download. Please pick shipping/purchase option USA Shipping $6.50 USD International Shipping $16.50 USD Digital Download Only $5.00 USD
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This week, in our continuing series of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, we bring to you their concert performed on April 11, 2013. Works performed in this concert are: Boccherini: String Trio in C minor, Op. 14. No. 2 Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen Tchaikovsky: String Trio in A minor, Op. 50 The musicians are: Frederico Agostini, Eri Noda and Laura Zarina, violins Bruno Giuranna, Daniel Avshalomov, violas Julie Albers and Eric Kim, cellos Scott Faulkner, Double Bass Derek Han, Piano To learn more about "La Musica" please visit their website at "www.LaMusicaFestival.org" or click on the hyperlink appearing below the photos of the festival while the concert is being played.
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Last season we were proud to debut a new ensemble in Italy called the Quartetto degli Afetti which was founded by cellist Barbara Bertoldi. Since their debut on Classical Music Discoveries, this group has been extremely active in Europe with even bigger plans in the near future. This week we present to you a concert by their new "Ensemble degli Affetti" entitled "Vivaldi Meets Bach" which was recorded live at the San Marco Church in Trento, Italy. All works were performed on period instruments for this concert so the audience could gain a better understanding of how the composers heard the music when originally composed. Joining the ensemble for this concert is soprano Stefanie Steger and the ensemble is conducted by Stefano Chicco. Comprising the "Ensemble degli Affetti" are: Sergio la Vaccara and Andrea Marmolejo Ortiz, violins Barbara Bertoldi, cello Adriana Dallape, organ Works performed for this concert are: The 2nd Canzon from "La Enricuccia" by Girolamo Frescobaldi Sonata, Correnti ed Ari, Op. 4 by Marco Uccellini Sonata 26 from "La Prosperina" by Antonio Vivaldi Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera by Antonio Vivaldi and the concert concludes with a Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata To order a CD of this performance, just click on the hyperlink below the photos the concert at any time during the broadcast. Now, just sit back and let's travel back in time to the 17th century of Italy as we enjoy the unique sounds of Barbara Bertold's "Ensemble degli Affetti" Order CD here: Order CD with Shipping Option CD - USA Shipping $13.00 USD CD - International Shipping $29.95 USD Digital Download Only $8.00 USD
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Welcome to the opening concert of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival! This season, titled Celebration, is in honor of Maestro Bruno Giuranna for his 80th birthday and his international accomplishments as leading violist and artistic director of the festival. The program for this opening concert consists of: Dvorak's "Trio for Piano and Strings in E minor, Op. 90" Frank Bridge's "Quintet for Piano and Strings in D minor" Brahms' "String Quintet in F Major, Op. 88" Performers for this concert are: Laura Zarina, violin Eri Noda, violin Daniel Avshalomov, viola Bruno Giuranna, viola Dimitri Atapine, cello Derek Han, piano This wonderful festival continues through April 19th so it isn't too late to make the final 2 concerts of the season on April 17th and 19th. For more information please visit La Musica's website at: www.lamusicafestival.org or just click on their hyperlink during this broadcast. Become a Friend of Classical Music Discoveries! Support our continuing mission to support classical music throughout the world. Your kind donation of ANY amount is greatly appreciated.
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This month we bring to you the Award Winning lost recording of the satirical opera "The Nose" composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. The plot of this opera concerns a St. Petersburg official who loses his nose due to his drunken barber giving him a shave. Of course, the nose develops a life of its own. According to British composer Gerard McBurney, "The Nose" is one of the young Shostakovich's greatest masterpieces, an electrifying tour de force of vocal acrobatics, wild instrumental colors and theatrical absurdity, all shot through with a blistering mixture of laughter and rage. The result is an operatic version in the style of Charlie Chaplin or Monty Python despite its magnificently absurd subject matter. This Lost Recording is the World Premiere of this opera performed by the Moscow Chamber Opera Company conducted by Gennandy Rozhdestvensky. This digitized recording, by Classical Music Discoveries, is mastered from the 1975 Melodiya Master Recording. Act 1 The morning after shaving Kovalyov, one of his regular customers, a barber finds a nose in his bread. He tries to get rid of it by throwing it in the Neva River, but he is caught by a police officer. Meanwhile Kovalyov wakes and finds his nose missing. He later sees his nose in the Kazan Cathedral, but it has acquired a higher rank than he and refuses to return to his face. Act 2 Kovalyov visits the newspaper office to place an advertisement about the loss of his nose, but is refused. He returns to his flat, where his servant sings a love song and Kovalyov is left in despair. Act 3 A group of policemen are at a coach station, in order to prevent the nose from escaping. The nose tries to get on the coach at the last minute: the horse is frightened and runs away, while the driver tries to shoot the nose. The nose is caught, beaten and returned to Kovalyov; however, he is unable to reattach it. He suspects that he has been enchanted by a woman called Madame Podtochina, because he would not marry her daughter. He writes to ask her to undo the spell, but she misinterprets the letter as a proposal to her daughter. She convinces him that she is innocent. In the city, crowds gather in search of the nose. Epilogue Kovalyov wakes up with his nose reattached. He is shaved by the barber and flirts as he walks along Nevsky Prospekt. Order you CDs below or purchase a digital only copy - Format (price includes shipping) USA Purchase CD $20.00 USD International Purchase CD $30.00 USD Digital Download only $10.00 USD
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