{"title":"Black Friday Deal 1","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\"\u003e20% Off all Trios, Quartets and Quintets in Classical and Jazz\u003c\/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\"\u003eDon't miss out! There's even more special offers to explore...\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #3366ff\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/black-friday-deals\/\"\u003eView all Black Friday Deals\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"18902-the-gentlemen-of-the-chapel-royal","title":"The Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first half of the sixteenth century followed a very turbulent course in all of Europe, and England, as well, went through troubled times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry VIII succeeded to the throne in 1509, and reigned for 38 years. In 1533 he founded the Anglican church, he married six times, waged wars, and even found a little time to do some composing. After his death in 1547, he was succeeded by Edward VI, who was followed in 1555, after the death of Mary, by Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's younger daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth had the task of bringing peace and stability to the country, and during her long reign, English music flourished as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738286764356,"sku":"18902-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738286797124,"sku":"18902-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738286829892,"sku":"18902-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738286862660,"sku":"18902-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738286895428,"sku":"18902-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307737522500,"sku":"18902-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334316761412,"sku":"18902S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334316794180,"sku":"18902S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334316826948,"sku":"18902S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/18902-15.jpg?v=1790114051"},{"product_id":"23005-beethoven-string-quartet-in-f-major-walton-sonata-for-strings","title":"Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major \u0026 Walton: Sonata for Strings","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy Beethoven and Walton? Sir William Walton's Sonata for Strings is a piece that the Amsterdam Sinfonietta has performed with great success both at home and abroad. For this reason we felt that a recording of this work was an obvious choice. It is a powerful composition which gives a string orchestra the opportunity to display all of its discipline, virtuosity, and tone-color. We chose Beethoven's string quartet op. 135 as a companion piece for this recording because of our admiration for the greatness of this final string quartet. The only other recording of this work to date is the Vienna Philharmonic's legendary recording of op. 135 in an arrangement for string orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. In this earlier recording, the work is performed with a very large group of strings, and Beethoven's composition is realized on a symphonic scale. One important characteristic of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta is that the orchestra is conceived in terms of a string quintet, i.e. a small- scale setting. The orchestra has deliberately remained small in size for the exact purpose of preserving the intimate character of works such as those by Walton or Beethoven. In this way we are able to perform with a maximum of flexibility and articulation. During the recording sessions, attention was devoted not only to the dynamic levels in the score but an effort was also made to give different colors to the various motives. The Amsterdam Sinfonietta strives for the greatest possible expression in this way. Our choice for the combination of these two works is due more to the differences in their musical language than to their similarities.....\u003c\/p\u003e\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RcwlYMLzcSU","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738307735876,"sku":"23005-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738307768644,"sku":"23005-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738307801412,"sku":"23005-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738307834180,"sku":"23005-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738307866948,"sku":"23005-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738307899716,"sku":"23005-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307779596612,"sku":"23005-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334328099140,"sku":"23005S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334328131908,"sku":"23005S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334328164676,"sku":"23005S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/23005-16.jpg?v=1790114884"},{"product_id":"23707-vivaldi-concertos-sonatas","title":"Vivaldi Concertos \u0026 Sonatas","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntonio Vivaldi (1678 1741) composed around 550 concertos. Most of these were written for the Ospedale della Piet, a kind of orphanage which was home for the female offspring of noblemen and their mistresses. Even after leaving Venice he supplied concertos and directed performances for this Institute, where the musical standards were the highest in Venice. After listening to many of these works we soon realized that the guitar concertos, originally written for mandolin and lute, are amongst Vivaldis best. Besides the double concerto for two mandolins we decided to arrange two solo concertos, originally written for lute and mandolin. In these arrangements the second guitar takes the role of the continuo, which would usually be played on the harpsichord. When listening to the mandolin and guitar versions, we found that the same piece played on the mandolin sounds a lot clearer. This is not only due to the fact that the register of the mandolin lays an octave higher than the guitars. Arpeggio-like formations sound harp-like on the guitar but not on the mandolin. Traditionally guitarists play these figurations by holding all the notes of the chord with the left hand, producing this harp like sound. These formations played on the mandolin, violin or on wind instruments would sound a lot more like melodies, where notes do not overlap and you can hear the jump between the notes. It is possible to achieve the same on the guitar by lifting the fingers of the left hand just like other instrumentalist would do. Once we listened to this clearer sound we nearly always preferred this technique. We also tried to play as much as possible with rest stroke, (a guitarist technique of the right hand) as it sounds louder and fuller, which is useful specially when playing with or against other instruments......\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738310160708,"sku":"23707-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738310193476,"sku":"23707-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738310226244,"sku":"23707-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738310259012,"sku":"23707-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738310291780,"sku":"23707-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307783921988,"sku":"23707-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334330392900,"sku":"23707S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334330425668,"sku":"23707S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334330458436,"sku":"23707S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/23707-2.jpg?v=1790426803"},{"product_id":"23906-quartets-kv370-kv421-sonata-kv377","title":"Quartets kv370 kv421 Sonata kv377","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat I really wanted was a motor scooter, if I remember correctly. But on that memorable day when I turned 13, it turned out to be something very different- a 45-rpm record, with a touching family portrait of Wolfgang, Nannerl, and Papa Leopold on the cover of the pretty little square case. The contents of that case were even more impressive: Mozart's Oboe Quartet! What wonderful music that was for me, and how beautiful the oboe sounded: open, warm, expressive, and piercing. It went straight to my childish soul. That was when I decided to start playing the oboe, and that's what I'm still doing today. Remarkable, really, that Mozart: he only lived for 35 years and he wasn't someone who immediately made an unforgettable impression when he walked into a room. In his day he was respected, in a sense he was famous. But there were composers who had more successful careers. He composed a staggering quantity of music, all of it in a style that you could describe as being of its time. Some 250 years later, it's a period in history that might or might not appeal to you. The appeal of a world of lace, periwigs, and Meissen porcelain. But the strange thing is that when you hear Mozart's voice 250 years later, that appeal becomes quite powerful, 250 years. Back then, as a 13 year old, I was hooked, and I'm not the only one: at the very moment that I'm writing this, we are all celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday. All you have to do is turn on the radio and you can hear Mozart. Either there's a wonderful opera, or one of his 41 symphonies, 27 string quartets, serenades, piano sonatas, incidental stage works, contradances, whatever. Of course there may be a potboiler here or there, but still, strangely enough, nearly all of Mozart's works are masterpieces, soaring far above the prevailing Stamitz-and Salieri atmosphere....\u003c\/p\u003e\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZxYCVTTCco","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738311176516,"sku":"23906-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738311209284,"sku":"23906-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738311242052,"sku":"23906-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738311274820,"sku":"23906-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738311307588,"sku":"23906-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738311340356,"sku":"23906-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307784085828,"sku":"23906-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334332653892,"sku":"23906S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334332686660,"sku":"23906S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334332719428,"sku":"23906S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/23906-2.jpg?v=1790426916"},{"product_id":"25907-haydn-string-quartets","title":"Haydn: String Quartets","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnlike his great contemporary Mozart, who died at 35 in 1791, Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) lived long enough to be feted as a musical colossus in his own lifetime. Writing in the influential, Leipzig-based Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1801, Johann Karl Friedrich Triest explains: all the composers of symphonies and quartets lag behind the man who has plied his craft for almost an entire half century with ever new, inexhaustible, genuinely amazing power, and became the greatest benefactor of German instrumental music. Johann Ferdinand Ritter von Schnfeld, author of A Yearbook of the Music of Vienna and Prague in 1796, holds Haydn in similarly high esteem, waxing lyrical about his string quartets: [they] are full of bewitching harmonies, and have this special quality of immediately attracting ones attention, holding it and moving on, as in a labyrinth, through flowering meadows, past babbling brooks, alongside roaring streams.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738318025028,"sku":"25907-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738318057796,"sku":"25907-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738318090564,"sku":"25907-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738318123332,"sku":"25907-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738318156100,"sku":"25907-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738318188868,"sku":"25907-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307798307140,"sku":"25907-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334380396868,"sku":"25907S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334380429636,"sku":"25907S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334380462404,"sku":"25907S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/25907-2.jpg?v=1790427649"},{"product_id":"26007-shostakovich-string-quartets-24","title":"Shostakovich - String Quartets 2\u00264","description":"\u003cp\u003eString quartet nr. 2 in A On 2 September 1944, Shostakovich wrote the last note of his second string quartet in a country house near Ivanovo. Two months later, the Beethoven-quartet played the première. The second string quartet was created after the famous second piano trio and was written at a terrific pace. Shostakovich dedicated this work to his good friend Vissarion Shebalin, the director of the Moscow Conservatory at that time. Like his great example Beethoven, Shostakovich did not publish his first string quartet until he was thirty. In the preceding years, he thoroughly studied the string quartets by Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn. According to his students, he could effortlessly quote from this classic literature. The piece opens with an energetic Ouverture that in its form and counterpoint has been entirely fashioned after the forementioned classic examples. This quartet is primarily exceptional because of the longest and slow movement of the piece. The movement consists of a Romance enclosed by two recitatives. These long and grievous episodes of the solo violin in recitative form are accompanied by static, low chords. One can directly associate this movement with sacred music, in which the recitative technique is so common. In the Waltz, a soft legato theme develops, first in the celli and later in the violins, over a waltz pattern to a turbulent percussion part full of changes of pace. The movement concludes in pianissimo with the return to a clear three-four time in which the altos ‘turn off the light’. The last movement, Theme with variations, starts from an adagio. Per variation, both the tempo and the drama increase. The theme ultimately simmers down in an adagio in E flat. String quartet nr. 4 in D In 1949 Shostakovich finished his fourth string quartet, although the première of this piece was not heard until 1953. In the years after the war the government got increasingly involved in the cultural world....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738318319940,"sku":"26007-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738318352708,"sku":"26007-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738318385476,"sku":"26007-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738318418244,"sku":"26007-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738318451012,"sku":"26007-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738318483780,"sku":"26007-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307803517252,"sku":"26007-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334380888388,"sku":"26007S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334380921156,"sku":"26007S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334380953924,"sku":"26007S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/26007-2.jpg?v=1790427704"},{"product_id":"27012-bach-organ-trio-sonatas","title":"Bach - Organ Trio Sonatas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe six Trio Sonatas for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) “are written in such galantstyle that they still sound very good, and never grow old, but on the contrary will outliveall revolutions of fashion in music.” Attributed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, this quote from A Comparison in 1788 of his father’s and Handel’s music continues to resonate with us today.Arrangements of these splendid works abound, and provide an opportunity to extract these jewelsfor the purpose of performing more of Bach’s music with chamber ensemble forces.The genre of the trio sonata was one of the most popular in the baroque era, yet Bach and evenHandel yielded very few works of this type during their careers. Although the terminology Sonata atre, Sonate en trio or Sonata of 3 Parts would suggest a total of three voices, the title in fact refers to thenumber of parts in the composition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738533933380,"sku":"27012-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738533966148,"sku":"27012-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738533998916,"sku":"27012-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738534031684,"sku":"27012-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738534064452,"sku":"27012-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307814003012,"sku":"27012-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334387409220,"sku":"27012S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334387441988,"sku":"27012S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334387474756,"sku":"27012S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/27012-1.jpg?v=1790116257"},{"product_id":"28209-haydn-string-quartets","title":"Haydn - String Quartets","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaydn String Quartets, Op. 20 no. 4, Op. 64, no. 6 and Op. 77, no. 1 Joseph Haydn's remarkable series of 68 string quartets encompasses, in effect, his entire compositional career. The ten works together comprising Op. 1, 2 and 'Op. 0' date from his 20s (c. 1758 - 1761); and the final nine works of Op. 76 (1797), 77 (1799) and 103 (1803) were written after the 'London' Symphonies, and in close proximity to his oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons. The stylistic journey Haydn took from beginning to end is striking indeed, on account of the extended time period involved and the inevitable changes in musical taste across Europe. The Op. 20 set (1772) is generally regarded as Haydn's first 'mature' contribution to the string quartet genre. Two early, unauthorized editions ensured widespread dissemination - from La Chevardière (1774) and Hummel (Amsterdam and Berlin, 1779). The title page of the latter, in fact, with its engraving of a blazing midday sun, was directly responsible for the nickname that accrued to the set ('Sun' quartets); equally, the order in which the quartets appear in this edition established the order in which they have usually appeared in editions ever since. Op. 20 was widely admired in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms (who owned the autograph scores) among others-and retained a prominent place in the twentieth-century concert hall as well....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738539274564,"sku":"28209-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738539307332,"sku":"28209-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738539340100,"sku":"28209-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738539372868,"sku":"28209-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738539405636,"sku":"28209-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738539438404,"sku":"28209-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307821932868,"sku":"28209-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334395961668,"sku":"28209S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334395994436,"sku":"28209S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334396027204,"sku":"28209S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/28209.jpg?v=1790116692"},{"product_id":"34613-vivere","title":"Vivere","description":"\u003cp\u003e This is ‘Vivere’. Not exactly a cheerful disc – all three compositions refer in various ways todeath. This is reflected in the key (D minor is the key of death), in the opposite number of theMaiden, and finally even literally, in the fact that cellist Geneviève ‘dies’ before the end of thealbum. For us, however, to record this dramatic repertoire is to offer an ode to life. ‘Vivere’– for by listening to this sombre music one realises how wonderful life can be. Performed bythe Ragazze Quartet, four young women in the midst of life. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738566766916,"sku":"34613-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738566799684,"sku":"34613-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738566832452,"sku":"34613-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738566865220,"sku":"34613-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738566897988,"sku":"34613-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307853685060,"sku":"34613-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334440460612,"sku":"34613S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334440493380,"sku":"34613S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334440526148,"sku":"34613S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/34613.jpg?v=1790118601"},{"product_id":"19804-le-grand-tango","title":"Le Grand Tango","description":"\u003cp\u003eAstor Piazzolla was born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the only child of Italian emigrants. He moved to New York as a child, where his father bought his first bandoneón at the age of 8. He studied with the Hungarian pianist Bela Wilda (disciple of Rachmaninov) and met Carlos Gardel, the king of classical tango, who became a good friend of the family. In 1936, he returned to Argentina and began playing in a number of tango orchestras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- pagebreak --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoon he became a member and arranger of the Anibal Troilo orchestra, one of the best tango orchestras of that time. To develop his skills he decided to study with Alberto Ginastera. He was listening to lots of jazz and in 1946 he formed his first orchestra. His search for his own style, became obsessive and decided to abandon tango and the bandoneón to dedicate himself to his musical studies. At a composition contest he won a scholarship to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, who encouraged him to return to tango.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1955 Piazzolla returned to Argentina and formed a group, the Octeto Buenos Aires. His new works broke away from classical tango and he created chamber music without singer or any dancers. These new works generated hatred among the followers of orthodox tango. In 1978, Piazzolla formed his second quintet (bandoneón, violin, bass, piano, and electric guitar), which would make him world famous. His popularity continued to grow and with his quintet he toured all over the world. He suffered a stroke and died two years later in Buenos Aires on July 4, 1992. His works continue to influence the best musicians in the world even after his death. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738569421124,"sku":"19804-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738569453892,"sku":"19804-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738569486660,"sku":"19804-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738569519428,"sku":"19804-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738569552196,"sku":"19804-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738569584964,"sku":"19804-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307872035140,"sku":"19804-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334445539652,"sku":"19804S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334445572420,"sku":"19804S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334445605188,"sku":"19804S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/19804-1.jpg?v=1790118860"},{"product_id":"21005-paris-quartets","title":"Paris Quartets","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite Georg Philipp Telemann's mother's clear efforts to warn her son against 'note-poison' (Notengift) as a youth, Telemann (1681-1767) became one of Germany's most prolific, accessible and popular composers in his day. When he set off to study law in Leipzig, he purposefully left all instruments, music and manuscript paper behind. However, as he recalled in his memoirs, when his roommate uncovered in his underwear a psalm he had set to music, his true vocation as a musician was never questioned again. Exposure to a large cross-section of society in his travels and in the many eminent positions he secured during his lifetime enabled him to soak up the latest vogue in musical styles. For instance, as Kapellmeister under Count Promnitz in Sorau, one of the earliest posts he held, he was obliged to study and compose in the manner of the great French master, Jean Baptiste Lully. The immediate result was the completion of two hundred French 'Ouvertures' in just two years. (Handel remarked that his compatriot composed music with the kind of ease another might write a letter.) It is well documented that Telemann's contemporaries marveled at his command of the French, Italian and even Polish national musical idioms he incorporated into his works. The 'Paris' Quartets (1730) and 'Nouveaux Quatuors' (1738) are a fine example of his contribution to instrumental music in the Baroque era. While they reflect his mastery of Corelli's Italian Sonata\/Concerto forms and Lully's French Suite influences, they also provide a departure point for the forward-looking conversational galant style........\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2f2f2f; font-family: calibrii, calibri; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738573943108,"sku":"21005-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738573975876,"sku":"21005-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738574008644,"sku":"21005-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738574041412,"sku":"21005-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738574074180,"sku":"21005-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738574106948,"sku":"21005-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307882357060,"sku":"21005-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334451962180,"sku":"21005S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334451994948,"sku":"21005S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334452027716,"sku":"21005S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/21005-1.jpg?v=1790119292"},{"product_id":"ssp110413d64-acoustic-trio-dsd-sessions-pure-dsd","title":"Acoustic Trio DSD Sessions [Pure DSD]","description":"Known worldwide as one of the purest acoustic direct DSD recordings the acoustic trio session began and ended on the same morning in the La Honda Hills above Hwy 1 (San Gregorio). This 4 hour session captured the sounds of 2 acoustic guitars and voices and an upright bass being played and sang within arm's length of the 3 musicians standing in a close circle.\r\n\r\nThe trademark minimal microphone approach taken by Elias in his previous SACDs was repeated here with microphones for each instrument and vocal. In addition, microphones in the ceiling and back walls were, as with \"The Window\" and \"Crossing\" used to capture the natural reverberation and ambient characteristics of the recording space. Only these tracks were used in the Pure DSD mix on the Sonoma workstation, avoiding all compression and outboard or digital effects. There are no overdubs or edits in these mixes.\r\n\r\nThis collection of original material from the independent acoustic singer-songwriter David Elias is a special organic, natural sounding set of pure DSD recordings created at the Slipperworld Studios in La Honda, California (www.slipperworld.net). These 14 tracks feature David Elias (acoustic\/vocal\/harmonica), Charlie Natzke (acoustic\/vocal) and Chris Kee (upright bass, Blue Coast Records).\r\n\r\nThis Acoustic Trio session release was captured in the studio on a single day as a series of live takes without any edits or overdubs. It was recorded by Charlie Natzke to no more than 8 tracks directly to a Sonoma DSD Workstation using Meitner converters.\r\n\r\nThe essence of the performance is the ambient and acoustic nature of all the instruments and vocals including natural resonance, harmonics, decay, and microphone bleed and decay using minimal micing without any artificial or digital effects.\r\n\r\nAcoustic Trio DSD Sessions was recorded on a sunny day among the redwoods with the windows open. The musicians recorded standing roughly arms length from each other in a small circle with no isolation. A pair of microphones were positioned overhead to capture a stereophonic image of \"the room\". This was used as the only source of natural reverb in the mix.\r\n\r\nThe songs were mixed as DSD using a Sony mixer card in the Sonoma workstation. These tracks have never left the original DSD format, even as analog conversions for mixing!\r\n\r\nAs a result, what you hear from these pure DSD master recordings are the natural live performances of the trio, as if you were standing or sitting with them in the studio during the session.\r\n\r\nDavid Elias is a DSD and SACD pioneer. He self-produced the world's first hybrid 5.1 SACD \"The Window\" in 2002 and released it in 2003. It was a final nominee in the Surround Music Awards in Beverly Hills that year. His next stereo and 5.1 surround sound acoustic live session production \"Crossing\" had 3 final nominations at SMA in Beverly Hills including \"Listener's Choice\" and \"Best Non-Orchestral Surround Mix\". Stereophile magazine called this one \"Extraordinary\".\r\n\r\nThe songs on the \"Acoustic Trio: DSD Sessions\" disc are just as extraordinary. Perhaps more so since they are the live session tracks of a very simple trio consisting of 2 acoustic guitars, 2 voices and an upright bass. The beauty of acoustic is revealed in this elemental setting where the musicians just played and were recorded by the industry's state-of-the-art high resolution DSD workstation (Sonoma). The way to listen to honest music is with an honest recording. This is it...\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Elias - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCharlie Natzke - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eChris Kee - Upright Bass\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-editor-squiggler\" style=\"color: initial;font: initial;background: initial;background-blend-mode: initial;border: initial;border-radius: initial;border-collapse: initial;caption-side: initial;clear: initial;columns: initial;column-fill: initial;column-rule: initial;column-span: initial;cursor: initial;flex: initial;flex-flow: initial;float: initial;height: 0px;letter-spacing: initial;margin: initial;max-height: initial;max-width: initial;min-height: initial;min-width: initial;overflow: initial;padding: initial;text-align: initial;text-decoration: initial;text-indent: initial;text-transform: initial;vertical-align: initial;border-spacing: initial;width: initial\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-editor-squiggler\" style=\"color: initial;font: initial;background: initial;background-blend-mode: initial;border: initial;border-radius: initial;border-collapse: initial;caption-side: initial;clear: initial;columns: initial;column-fill: initial;column-rule: initial;column-span: initial;cursor: initial;flex: initial;flex-flow: initial;float: initial;height: 0px;letter-spacing: initial;margin: initial;max-height: initial;max-width: initial;min-height: initial;min-width: initial;overflow: initial;padding: initial;text-align: initial;text-decoration: initial;text-indent: initial;text-transform: initial;vertical-align: initial;border-spacing: initial;width: initial\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-editor-squiggler\" style=\"color: initial;font: initial;background: initial;background-blend-mode: initial;border: initial;border-radius: initial;border-collapse: initial;caption-side: initial;clear: initial;columns: initial;column-fill: initial;column-rule: initial;column-span: initial;cursor: initial;flex: initial;flex-flow: initial;float: initial;height: 0px;letter-spacing: initial;margin: initial;max-height: initial;max-width: initial;min-height: initial;min-width: initial;overflow: initial;padding: initial;text-align: initial;text-decoration: initial;text-indent: initial;text-transform: initial;vertical-align: initial;border-spacing: initial;width: initial\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-editor-squiggler\" style=\"color: initial;font: initial;background: initial;background-blend-mode: initial;border: initial;border-radius: initial;border-collapse: initial;caption-side: initial;clear: initial;columns: initial;column-fill: initial;column-rule: initial;column-span: initial;cursor: initial;flex: initial;flex-flow: initial;float: initial;height: 0px;letter-spacing: initial;margin: initial;max-height: initial;max-width: initial;min-height: initial;min-width: initial;overflow: initial;padding: initial;text-align: initial;text-decoration: initial;text-indent: initial;text-transform: initial;vertical-align: initial;border-spacing: initial;width: initial\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sketti Sandwich Productions","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738586820932,"sku":"SSP110413D64-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738586853700,"sku":"SSP110413D64-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738586886468,"sku":"SSP110413D64-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738586919236,"sku":"SSP110413D64-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738586952004,"sku":"SSP110413D64-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307914502468,"sku":"SSP110413D64-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/David-Elias-DSD-Acoustic-Trio-1400.jpg?v=1790436465"},{"product_id":"sel5509-super-artists-in-super-audio-vol-6","title":"Super Artists in Super Audio Vol. 6","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn presenting our 6th SACD sampler, Channel Classics can look back at an exciting 8 years since the introduction of Super Audio CD technology. Many people think that SACD's have had limited success in the commercial market but I see more releases from more labels with each passing month. In the end the high quality of this format (together with the backward compatibility) is a deciding factor against all other forms of listening. We have selected 19 tracks which we feel are most representative of our past years releases. These are placed in a random order so that every release has its own distinct flavor. Enjoy!\u003cbr\u003eC. Jared Sacks\u003cbr\u003edirector\/producer\/recording engineer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738594128196,"sku":"SEL5509-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738594160964,"sku":"SEL5509-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738594193732,"sku":"SEL5509-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738594226500,"sku":"SEL5509-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738594259268,"sku":"SEL5509-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307942322500,"sku":"SEL5509-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334504522052,"sku":"SEL5509S1417","price":21.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334504554820,"sku":"SEL5509S69","price":19.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334504587588,"sku":"SEL5509S710","price":18.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SEL5509-1.jpg?v=1790120872"},{"product_id":"cobra0037-revolutions","title":"(R)Evolutions","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Revolutionary Evolution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Music resembles a language. Expressions such as musical idiom, musical intonation, are not simply metaphors. But music is not identical with language. The resemblance points to something essential, but vague.” These words were written by Theodor W. Adorno, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century – as well as a respectable composer. He goes on: “The resemblance to language extends from the whole work, the organized linking of significant sounds, right down to the single sound, the note as the threshold of merest presence, the pure vehicle of expression. The analogy goes beyond the organized connection of sounds and extends materially to the structures. The traditional theory of form employs such terms as sentence, phrase, segment, ways of punctuating - question, exclamation and parenthesis. Subordinate phrases are ubiquitous, voices rise and fall, and all these terms of musical gesture are derived from speech.” What follows constitutes our focus: “[Music] makes use of recurring ciphers. These were established by tonality. If tonality does not quite generate concepts, it may at least be said to create lexical items. […] Their unchanging identity has become sedimented like a second nature. This is why consciousness finds it so hard to bid farewell to tonality.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdorno’s words help us understand the conceptual framework for the musical phenomenon in Austro-German culture. They also make us see that, just like linguists consider language a living organism undergoing a continuous process of change, composers deal with their own ‘musical language’ in a similar manner. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen someone mentions Arnold Schönberg’s name, people tend to react defensively, irately or untrustingly. Many professional musicians and programmers, as well as the average music lover, share a deeply entrenched prejudice with regard to Schönberg. Below his name, we find music made up of strange, unintelligible and difficult sounds shaping compositions which are often considered inaccessible, unnecessary and, sometimes without reserve, simply ugly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the backdrop of the crisis that musical language experienced at the dawn of the 20th century, when chromatism progressively overtook the tonal system, not many proposals were as illjudged as Arnold Schönberg’s. His new path was (and still is) perceived as a terribly radical breakthrough, though it simply aimed at providing an honest, unaffected answer to the Classical and Romantic heritage, both formally and conceptually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchönberg and his two leading disciples, Anton Webern and Alban Berg, began writing strictly tonal music. While they evolved as composers in the intellectually and aesthetically stimulating context of early 20th-century Vienna, the three realised that the principles of clarity and unity, considered the unchanging fundamentals of musical expression, could only be maintained and guaranteed by delving into the path initiated by Bach, that is, the progressive substitution of tonality and the two modes, Major and minor, by a superior mode. Departing from a deep analysis and an exhaustive knowledge of the evolution of the linguistic system, which had influenced musical creativity in Europe from the Renaissance up until 1900, Schönberg and his disciples continued developing their composing technique until they concluded that chromatism had conquered the tonal language, thus condemning it to its definitive death or its necessary transformation into a different system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2QdEIVLp3c","brand":"Cobra Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738595144004,"sku":"COBRA0037-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738595176772,"sku":"COBRA0037-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738595209540,"sku":"COBRA0037-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738595242308,"sku":"COBRA0037-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738595275076,"sku":"COBRA0037-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307943567684,"sku":"COBRA0037-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334513271108,"sku":"COBRA0037S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334513303876,"sku":"COBRA0037S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334513336644,"sku":"COBRA0037S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/COBRA0037.jpg?v=1790121002"},{"product_id":"cobra0033-russian-generations-3","title":"Russian Generations 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the successful releases of parts 1 and 2 (being named “CD of the month” by Dutch Radio and a praiseful review in Strad magazine), the Ruysdael Quartet continue their journey with part 3 of their Russian Generations series. The new recor- ding features the third string quartets of Tchaikovsky and Gabriel Prokofiev, as well as the magnificent Sonata for two violins by Sergei Prokofiev.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTchaikovsky’s third quartet is a rarely-performed masterpiece with one of the most overwhelmingly emotional slow movements the composer ever wrote. This is juxtaposed by Sergei Prokofievs op. 56, a dialogue which alternates between unabashed virtuo- sic one-upmanship and intimate murmurings. Gabriel Prokofiev’s third quartet, like its predecessors, is a thrilling work with a gripping rhythmical drive. Here the instruments are stretched even further to the extremes of their capabilities, creating a fascinating sound world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ruysdael Quartet was formed in 1996. They studied with the Amadeus Quartet, Hagen Quartet, Quatuor Mosaïques and over a two-year period with the Alban Berg Quartet at the “Hochschule für Musik”, Cologne. Since then they have been regularly invited to take part in festivals and masterclasses, resulting in perfor- mances not only in Europe but also in Australia and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ruysdael Quartet received a full scholarship to attend the ‘In- ternational Chamber Music Academy Prague-Vienna- Budapest’ (‘99-’01) where they won the Bela Bartok Prize (1999), the Alban Berg Prize (2000) and the Tomastik-Infeld Prize (2001) with an invitation to make a recording for the Austrian National Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quartet were winners of the ‘Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition 2000’ in Holland and were awarded the ‘Prix de la SACEM’ at the International String Quartet Com- petition 2001 in Bordeaux. In March 2002 they received the Press Prize and the AVRO Prize in the ‘Vriendenkrans’ compe- tition in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. More recently they were recipients of the prestigious “Kersjes van de Groenekan” Prize, a major musical award in the Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HELqXcH32nM","brand":"Cobra Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738598814020,"sku":"COBRA0033-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738598846788,"sku":"COBRA0033-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738598879556,"sku":"COBRA0033-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738598912324,"sku":"COBRA0033-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738598945092,"sku":"COBRA0033-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307953922372,"sku":"COBRA0033-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334517629252,"sku":"COBRA0033S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334517662020,"sku":"COBRA0033S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334517694788,"sku":"COBRA0033S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/COBRA0033.jpg?v=1790121383"},{"product_id":"cobra0035-statements","title":"Statements","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe award winning Cuarteto Quiroga, one of the boldest, most personal and individual quartet sounds of Europe’s ne­west string quartet generation, presents this highly profiled CD program which features a musical trip in four stages, to state and claim the aesthetical recuperation for performance practice of the very nature that constitutes string quartet as musical genre: Challenge. These four works are the State­ment of three composers confronted with the Challenge of their time.\u003cbr\u003eThe op.20 nr 2 was one of Haydn’s most interes­ting statements as a response to the challenge of integrating the old forms into a new style of music writing, to configure a new stylistic horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWebern’s Langsamer Satz, the state­ment of a young composer facing the challenge of a musical language about to collapse. Here Webern is the keystone that leads into a fascinating solution, turn of a new era. His own Op.5 represents the Statement of what he himself saw later as the natural way of writing new music. Poetry and Culture of Composition combined in the most expressive minutes of quartet music ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnd finally, Giovanni Sollima, the voice that has stated a possible, brilliantly eclectic way of ap­proaching the challenge of composition for a generation who cannot escape the mediatic influence of popular music.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFour musical Statements in the Statement of a quartet for our time who gives us in this first-recording a sharp, individual and bold reading of String Quartet as a cultural phenomenon: testimony of our european culture, challenge of our future ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XhPQ6GPa6Ns","brand":"Cobra Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738599665988,"sku":"COBRA0035-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738599698756,"sku":"COBRA0035-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738599731524,"sku":"COBRA0035-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738599764292,"sku":"COBRA0035-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738599797060,"sku":"COBRA0035-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307957657924,"sku":"COBRA0035-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334517989700,"sku":"COBRA0035S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518022468,"sku":"COBRA0035S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518055236,"sku":"COBRA0035S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/COBRA0035.jpg?v=1790121465"},{"product_id":"cobra0042-sirus-saxophone-quartet-meet-carlos-michans","title":"Sirus Saxophone Quartet meet Carlos Micháns","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen asked about his origin and background, Carlos Micháns’ favorite answer is: “I am a Dutch composer born, raised and educated in Argentina.” And he adds: “Of course I am a combination of several cultural backgrounds and mentalities, like most people from countries built on immigration. Understandably, many believe to hear a tango or some other South American rhythm in my works, although only after they have heard where I come from.” On his own music he says: “I do believe it to be contemporary and to reflect some aspects of our time more strongly than others, ‘our time’ meaning not just this very instant but the last few decades and even further. After all, we haven’t spent more than a thousand years creating and developing techniques, in order to stick to the latest ones and discard the rest as obsolete.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe six works selected for this CD are good examples of Micháns’ great affinity with the saxophone. Starting with “Musique pour Saxophone” a solo of 1984, every single quality of the instrument is explored: its rich expressiveness, huge range and astounding technical possibilities. The music, however, remains central en ne- ver succumbs to the often extreme difficulty, as in “Purana”, or The complex, polyphonic texture of the Quartets and of “Trois Visions Tantriques”. With its pure, warm tone, the soprano saxophone sedu- ces us in each dialogue with the other instruments in “Après Minuit”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sirius Saxophone Quartet, one of Holland’s most exciting ensembles of its kind at the moment, decided to mark their fifth an- niversary with a series of concerts, workshops and a documentary film, all leading to a CD-recording of music by Carlos Micháns. What attracted them to the music by Micháns was, besides its challenging technical aspects, the richness of expression, contrasting moods and rhythmical diversity, all of which have an immediate ap- peal to both players and listeners. According to Sirius, “Micháns’ passion for music can be heard in each one of his works, which is greatly appreciated by the audience and often makes of a concert a me- morable experience.” The same can be said about this remarkable CD, thanks to the wonderful collaboration of the Sirius Saxophone Quartet with violinist Amarins Wierdsma, harpist Astrid Haring, percussionist Christiaan Saris and pianist Mariken Zandvliet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn short, a must for every (saxophone)music lover!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobra Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738600780100,"sku":"COBRA0042-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738600812868,"sku":"COBRA0042-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738600845636,"sku":"COBRA0042-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738600878404,"sku":"COBRA0042-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738600911172,"sku":"COBRA0042-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307958509892,"sku":"COBRA0042-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518284612,"sku":"COBRA0042S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518317380,"sku":"COBRA0042S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518350148,"sku":"COBRA0042S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/COBRA0042-1.jpg?v=1790121508"},{"product_id":"cobra0031-russian-generations-2","title":"Russian Generations 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the successful release of part 1 in December 2008, the Ruysdael Quartet continue their journey with part 2 of their Russian Generations series. The new recording features all second string quartets by Tchaikovsky, Sergei and Gabriel Prokofiev.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTchaikovsky’s second quartet is a seldom performed mas- terpiece with one of the most intensely personal slow move- ments the composer ever wrote. This is juxtaposed by Sergei Prokofievs op. 92, an exhilarating dance-like piece based on Kabardinian folk tunes. Gabriel Prokofievs 2nd quartet, like its predecessor, is a thrilling work with a gripping rhythmical drive. But here the instruments are stretched even further to the extremes of their capabilities, creating a fascinating sound world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ruysdael Quartet was formed in 1996. They studied with the Amadeus Quartet, Hagen Quartet, Quatuor Mosaïques and over a two-year period with the Alban Berg Quartet at the “Hochschule für Musik”, Cologne. Since then they have been regularly invited to take part in festivals and masterclas- ses, resulting in performances not only in Europe but also in Australia and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ruysdael Quartet received a full scholarship to attend the ‘International Chamber Music Academy Prague-Vienna- Budapest’ (‘99-’01) where they won the Bela Bartok Prize (1999), the Alban Berg Prize (2000) and the Tomastik-Infeld Prize (2001) with an invitation to make a recording for the Austrian National Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quartet were winners of the ‘Charles Hennen Internatio- nal Chamber Music Competition 2000’ in Holland and were awarded the ‘Prix de la SACEM’ at the International String Quartet Competition 2001 in Bordeaux. In March 2002 they received the Press Prize and the AVRO Prize in the ‘Vrien- denkrans’ competition in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. More recently they were recipients of the prestigious “Kers- jes van de Groenekan” Prize, a major musical award in the Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobra Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738601304388,"sku":"COBRA0031-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738601337156,"sku":"COBRA0031-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738601369924,"sku":"COBRA0031-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738601402692,"sku":"COBRA0031-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738601435460,"sku":"COBRA0031-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307958739268,"sku":"COBRA0031-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518382916,"sku":"COBRA0031S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518415684,"sku":"COBRA0031S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334518448452,"sku":"COBRA0031S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/COBRA0031-1.jpg?v=1790121553"},{"product_id":"hmu907427-schubert-string-quintet","title":"Schubert String Quintet","description":"\u003cp\u003eFOLLOWING a flurry of activity as a composer of string quartets at the tender age of sixteen, Schubert wrote only three further quartets during his period of apprenticeship – one in each of the three succeeding years. Looking back on his early efforts in the summer of 1824, just a few months after he had completed his Death and the Maiden Quartet D.810, he seems to have had scant regard for them. Responding to a letter from his elder brother Ferdinand, who described his pleasure at rediscovering those youthful pieces, Schubert told him, ‘it would be better for you to keep to quartets other than mine, for there is nothing to them, except perhaps that you like them, as you like everything of mine’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert had made a brief return to string quartet writing at the end of 1820, in a manner that showed his ambition to produce a work more intense and dramatic than anything he had attempted in the genre before. But just as his first serious efforts to master the piano sonata some three years earlier had resulted in several aborted projects, so, too, the string quartet of 1820 was destined to remain unfinished. Over the string quartet, as over the piano sonata, loomed the giant figure of Beethoven (‘Who can do anything after Beethoven?’,2 Schubert once complained to his friend Josef von Spaun); and perhaps it was unwise of Schubert to have chosen to make his return to the quartet arena with a piece in C minor – the key Beethoven had made so much his own. In terms of its actual material the one portion of the work Schubert did manage to complete – the so-called Quarttetsatz, or ‘Quartet Movement’, D.703 – is of the highest quality, though it is possible that he remained dissatisfied with its unorthodox form. At any rate, he abandoned the score after having composed no more than forty bars of its slow movement. The opening Allegro was published for the first time in 1870, more than forty years after Schubert’s death, while the fragmentary slow movement did not appear in print until 1897, when it was issued in the value to that of the ‘Unfinished’ Symphony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"harmonia mundi","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738605891908,"sku":"HMU907427-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738605924676,"sku":"HMU907427-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738605957444,"sku":"HMU907427-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738605990212,"sku":"HMU907427-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738606022980,"sku":"HMU907427-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57307968373060,"sku":"HMU907427-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334520348996,"sku":"HMU907427S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334520381764,"sku":"HMU907427S69","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334520414532,"sku":"HMU907427S710","price":29.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/HMU907427-1.jpg?v=1790121802"},{"product_id":"hmu907423-24-beethoven-razumovsky-quartets-op59-nos1-3","title":"Beethoven: \"Razumovsky\" Quartets (Op.59, Nos.1-3)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Beethoven boom continues apace. No other composer so completely defines our concert life in each important genre – symphonies, concertos, and chamber music – and no other is subject to such ongoing scrutiny of his life and his art. Indeed, with the passing of time and a deeper knowledge of historical incident has come increased appreciation of his breathtaking, path-breaking innovation. Perceived as unique in his own day, he remains so in ours. \u003cbr\u003eBeethoven’s early training with Christian Gottlob Neefe affirmed his abilities; the first published notice he received, in 1783, applauded a “youthful genius” (Thayer’s Life of Beethoven, p. 66) and Neefe praised him as “unquestionably now one of the foremost pianoforte players” (Thayer, op. cit, p. 113). His inevitable migration from Bonn to Vienna – the Imperial capital and artistically pre-emminent – came in 1792, when he was 21 years old. \u003cbr\u003eHaydn, we know, taught him briefly in a mutually unsatisfying relationship, and there also was tutelage with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Kapellmeister at St. Stephen’s Cathedral and the city’s foremost teacher of counterpoint, and with Imperial Kapellmeister Antonio Salieri. But nothing learnt from these men can directly account for the transformations he later wrought in how music was composed and how it was perceived. Although primarily known as keyboard virtuoso at first, as a soloist and improviser second to none Beethoven quickly won acknowledgement as the composer who would inherit the mantle of Classicism – nobody assimilated as fully the ethos of Mozart and Haydn. Yet, from the start of his Viennese career, he set about consciously to undermine the premises and practices of his artistic progenitors and redefine music’s most fundamental assumptions.\u003cbr\u003eBeethoven arrived in the Austrian capital with a modest portfolio; his earliest Viennese works, however, already displayed those characteristics we associate with the mature composer: his “longrange control over bold harmonic action,” (Grove, Beethoven entry, p. 379), including melodic concision, rhythmic vigor, and rigorous motivic development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"harmonia mundi","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738624930116,"sku":"HMU907423_24-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738624962884,"sku":"HMU907423_24-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738624995652,"sku":"HMU907423_24-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738625028420,"sku":"HMU907423_24-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738625061188,"sku":"HMU907423_24-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308042953028,"sku":"HMU907423_24-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334540534084,"sku":"HMU907423_24S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334540566852,"sku":"HMU907423_24S69","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334540599620,"sku":"HMU907423_24S710","price":29.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/HMU907423_24.jpg?v=1790122934"},{"product_id":"zz76106-on-the-spot","title":"On The Spot","description":"For a classical ensemble, improvisation is by no means an everyday pursuit. Yet during its 28-year history, Calefax Reed Quintet has repeatedly yielded to the temptation of extemporaneous performance. This often took place in the context of a pre-existing form, style or musical convention, and usually to a modest degree, for instance as part of a larger composition.\r\n\r\nCalefax, rooted in the eight centuries of music history from which it draws its concert repertoire, is well aware that music, as a rule, is the end result of improvisation and is often notated solely as a favor to the music-reading player. The desire inherent in the group’s past and present goal – to dissect and then reconstruct existing music – has resulted in the countless arrangements the group has performed the world over for nearly three decades.\r\n\r\nEach of the members is thus not only a performing but a creative artist as well, qualities that also define an improviser. Calefax underscores the importance of continuously exploring the link between these two styles of music-making. This has led to the music on this album - On the Spot.\r\n\r\nA survey of music history shows that composers from distinctly disparate periods and locales had surprisingly similar goals in mind. Arranging music for an essentially fixed instrumentation has more than once brought musical parallels to the fore that otherwise might have gone unnoticed. In doing so, the quintet has created a practice for the playing, playful musician with befriended composers from all places and all times.\r\n\r\nPerhaps this is most applicable to the trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. While he is otherwise difficult to categorize, Vloeimans, with his well-nigh vocal playing style, is undoubtedly the ideal person to guide five classical musicians in the world of improvisation. Along the way he also showed a hunger for the wealth of classical music, willingly allowing members of the quintet in turn to lead him, without sacrificing any of his own uniqueness.\r\n\r\nKinan Azmeh and Albert van Veenendaal both composed works especially for the marriage of these two types of musicians. Additionally, Ivar Berix and Raaf Hekkema were given free rein to delve into the extensive oeuvre of Eric Vloeimans.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCalefax Reed Quintet\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eEric Vloeimans - Trumpet \u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Buzz","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738631123268,"sku":"ZZ76106-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308074901828,"sku":"ZZ76106-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334554558788,"sku":"ZZ76106S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/ZZ76106-1.jpg?v=1790123492"},{"product_id":"807558di-brahms-quintets-op34-op115","title":"Brahms: Quintets Op.34 \u0026 Op.115","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo quintets from two very different periods in Brahms’s life. The Piano Quintet is the work of a frustrated but ambitious man. The Clarinet-led piece is an autumnal serenade by an experienced master. The journey between these two milestones was one marked by criticism, soul searching and ultimate triumph. Weighed down by the inheritance Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, Brahms often hibernated from public statements in the more modest realm of trios, quartets and quintets. But his symphonic ambitions soon found voice, not only in the composition of his first symphony, which he began in 1862, but also in the rich and radical landscape of his chamber music. Conviction and talent paid off and by the time we revisit Brahms in 1891, the year of the Clarinet Quintet, aggravation becomes reflection. 1862 was a crucial year. As well as starting that first symphony, the 29-year-old Brahms travelled to Vienna for the first time. There he met Wagner. Although history relates that Brahms’s conservative abstraction was at the opposite end of the musical spectrum to Wagner’s extremely theatrical music, Brahms felt nothing but admiration for his compatriot.\u003cbr\u003eWhile in the city, Brahms performed many of his new piano and chamber works, garnering the enviable support of Eduard Hanslick, the city’s most-feared music critic. With Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim already on his side, Brahms was set to become a major figure in European music. But rather than pandering to his ego, Hanslick, Schumann and Joachim gave Brahms vital input and criticism. Such friendships fostered genius, though Brahms wasn’t always as grateful as he should have been. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"harmonia mundi","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738639118660,"sku":"807558DI-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738639151428,"sku":"807558DI-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738639184196,"sku":"807558DI-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738639216964,"sku":"807558DI-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738639249732,"sku":"807558DI-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308108816708,"sku":"807558DI-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334579593540,"sku":"807558DIS1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334579626308,"sku":"807558DIS69","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334579659076,"sku":"807558DIS710","price":29.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/807558DI-1.jpg?v=1790124081"},{"product_id":"807429di-dvorak-quartet-no12-smetana-quartet-no1","title":"Dvorak: Quartet No.12 - Smetana: Quartet No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the nineteenth-century Czech National Revival, it was the symphonic poem and opera that dominated musical proceedings. The former, with its programmatic clout, and the latter’s ability to embrace politics and pomp made for nimble agents in the nation’s search for its soul. Bedrich Smetana and Anton.n Dvorak, its prime musical movers and shakers, dedicated their lives to these totemic art forms, while the string quartet trailed quietly behind. Intimate and domesticated, its four-way dialogue was seemingly not for the national stage. But as Dvorak and later Smetana demonstrated, their music was not always about the grand gesture. \u003cbr\u003eThese two composers are now inextricably linked, but during the latter part of the 19th century, Smetana and the younger Dvorak were considered total opposites. Smetana was the progressive figure, embracing Liszt and Wagner’s musical innovations and making them apparently indigenous. He was supported by a loyal band of followers called the mladoceši [young Czechs]. Dvorak, on the other hand, was seen as conservative, aligned with the staroceši [old Czechs]. His success in neighbouring German-speaking territories and his friendship with Brahms likewise did him few favours back at home. \u003cbr\u003eTo the outside world, such infighting was irrelevant and Dvorak was as much the quintessence of the Czech sound as Smetana. And it was in that spirit that Jeannette Thurber, the president of the National Conservatory of Music in America, invited Dvorak to New York in June 1891. Dvorak’s Slovansk. tance [Slavonic Dances] had done incredibly well in America and by offering him a new post at the Conservatory, Thurber hoped to provide not only a famous musician for her students but also one renowned for embracing a national style. It was just what was needed, Thurber felt, having always wanted America to have a musical idiom of its own. A generous salary secured Dvorak’s services in December 1891 and he arrived in New York on 26 September 1892.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"harmonia mundi","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738641445188,"sku":"807429DI-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738641477956,"sku":"807429DI-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738641510724,"sku":"807429DI-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738641543492,"sku":"807429DI-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738641576260,"sku":"807429DI-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308121530692,"sku":"807429DI-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334581133636,"sku":"807429DIS1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334581166404,"sku":"807429DIS69","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334581199172,"sku":"807429DIS710","price":29.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/807429DI-1.jpg?v=1790124250"},{"product_id":"807490di-oregan-threshold-of-night","title":"O'Regan - Threshold of Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe two short Emily Dickinson settings that open and close this programme of premiere recordings were commissioned by Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson for this recording. They frame the programme rather like a compositional ‘inhalation’ and ‘exhalation’, a crescendo and decrescendo or a prelude and postlude. Densely textured, the music aims to hint at the myriad readings Dickinson’s surface-simple poetry yields in its many readers. Each setting uses a solo soprano and tenor, their voices referencing the polarities inherent in each poem (‘sun’ and ‘shade’; ‘love’ and ‘hate’).\u003cbr\u003eThe Ecstasies Above takes for its title a phrase found in the lyric poem, Israfel, by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), which was first published in 1831 in The Southern Messenger. The poem is set in its entirety, with the exception of one stanza. Through his creative description of the angel, Israfel, and the heavens, Poe creates a virtuous image of the supernatural. Poe compares this heavenly vision to the harsh reality of human existence. Whilst the beauty of Israfel’s voice and lyre can silence even the moon and the stars in the heavens, Poe suggests that if Israfel were placed in an earthly environment, he would not sing with such zest. From the Koranic source of the name for the protagonist, the story is refashioned by Poe into an homage of ecumenicity to an all-encompassing angel of music. \u003cbr\u003eMusically the score makes much use of textural variation between the three groups (full chorus, solo octet and string quartet). The tug of war between material that is almost childlike in its playfulness and sections that seem more sombre reflect my own thoughts on Poe’s oeuvre. As a European transplanted to North America, I am intrigued by the seeming disparity between the quasi-adulation of Poe’s poetry in Europe and the much cooler reaction he has always encountered in his native environs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"harmonia mundi","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738642460996,"sku":"807490DI-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738642493764,"sku":"807490DI-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738642526532,"sku":"807490DI-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738642559300,"sku":"807490DI-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738642592068,"sku":"807490DI-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308132540740,"sku":"807490DI-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334582313284,"sku":"807490DIS1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334582346052,"sku":"807490DIS69","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334582378820,"sku":"807490DIS710","price":29.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/807490DI-1.jpg?v=1790124374"},{"product_id":"cc72181-two-generations-kuijken","title":"Two Generations Kuijken","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis recording, by two generations of musicians from the Kuijken family (Veronica, Sigiswald, Sara and Wieland Kuijken), with my wife Marleen Thiers, 2nd viola in the quintet, was made with so-called ‘modern’ instruments. Although our name is generally linked with ‘period performance practice’, listeners should not expect or seek a deliberate, specific ‘historic’ tendency\u003cbr\u003e in this recording: this was not what defined our collaboration for this production...\u003cbr\u003e I would even venture to say that in the first place we allowed ourselves to be moved and motivated by the immense strength exuded by these Beethoven pieces, based on our own musical experience and intuition; what we shared was astonishment – and joy. As we went along we became increasingly aware that it can be a gift to have kindred genes; and that an instrument is simply an instrument, no more... \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Challenge Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738650620228,"sku":"CC72181-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738650652996,"sku":"CC72181-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738650685764,"sku":"CC72181-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738650718532,"sku":"CC72181-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738650751300,"sku":"CC72181-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308167831876,"sku":"CC72181-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334598533444,"sku":"CC72181S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334598566212,"sku":"CC72181S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334598598980,"sku":"CC72181S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CC72181.jpg?v=1790125432"},{"product_id":"sacd062-dal-rigoletto-riduzione-per-quartetto-darchi-di-amelchiori-quartetto-in-mi-minore","title":"Dal \"Rigoletto\" riduzione per quartetto d'archi di A.Melchiori - Quartetto in Mi Minore","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe panorama of 18th century Italian instrumental music is less arid than one thinks. This is true, at least as far as string quartets are concerned. Cherubini composed six, Donizetti nineteen, Bazzini (Puccini’s teacher at the Milan Conservatory) wrote six and, during the last thirty years of the century, Busoni produced two, Verdi one and even Puccini composed various pieces, including a recently ‘reviewed’ Quartet. However in the majority of cases, there are pieces that can be traced to the composers’ student years and, as such are rather scholastic. At the same time they do show the completeness of preparation that the young composers underwent, imposed by their respective teachers, who encouraged the study of chamber music literature of the classical Viennese period, even though many were attracted to melodrama. The lack of instrumental technique that they are sometimes criticised for even today, seems to be commonplace because the comparison with German contemporary composers is misleading as these came from a completely different tradition. Antonio Melchiori’s (1827-1897) captivating transcription for string quartet from Rigoletto, that we hear on this CD, indirectly but concretely confirms the value of Verdi’s training where, as revealed in the Quartet in E minor, he also uses counterpoint.\u003cbr\u003eThe arrangement for a solo instrument, particularly the piano, or for a chamber ensemble, from the most famous operatic scores, was routine procedure in the 19th century. This contributed to the popularity and therefore its extended use. Liszt’s paraphrases for the piano by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi (including Rigoletto), Wagner etc and Muzio Clementi’s transcriptions for piano, flute, violin and cello of Mozart’s last six symphonies are further evidence. Melchiori was also active in transcribing many of Verdi’s works – Aroldo, Masked Ball, Traviata, Trovatore and especially Rigoletto – for solo flute or violin as well as string quartet, sometimes substituting the second violin with flute. Guided by a fine musical taste and a well developed instrumental technique, Melchiori selected more significant moments from Rigoletto, conferring on these a chamber quality that Verdi would call the most suited, when the scene on stage is aided by the dramatic and psychological quality of the moment.The distribution of the orchestral and vocal parts is always done well, especially where the timbre is concerned. In the Prelude, expertly interpreted by La Scala Quartet, the arrangement of the quartet harmony accentuates the original darkness of the motive of the curse. Another success is the instrumental rendition of “Questa o quella per me pari sono” (I\\2), where the Duke’s melody is given, not to the violin as one might have expected, but to the cello. As it unfolds, the ‘lightness’ of the sound seems to accentuate his fatuous character. Melchiori’s choice of the viola to represent Gilda’s heartbreaking expression of the deceitful meeting with that “giovine ..bello e fatale” (handsome and dangerous young man) is a refined one, while the accompaniment of the other three strings accentuates the expression of her suffering (II\\10).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fonè","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738659402052,"sku":"SACD062-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738659434820,"sku":"SACD062-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308192145732,"sku":"SACD062-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SACD062-1.jpg?v=1790126385"},{"product_id":"sel6413-super-artists-in-super-audio-vol-7","title":"Super Artists in Super Audio Vol. 7","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn presenting our 7th SACD sampler, Channel Classics can look back at an exciting twelve years since the introduction of DSD technology. With over 25 DSD native DAC players now on the market, the interest is growing rapidly for pure DSD and hopefully this year (2013) will also see DAC's with multichannel capabilities.We have selected 18 tracks which we feel are most representative of our 2009 \/2010 releases. These are placed in a random order, every release with its own distinct flavor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnjoy!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eC. Jared Sacks\u003cbr\u003edirector\/producer\/recording engineer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738661597508,"sku":"SEL6413-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738661630276,"sku":"SEL6413-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738661663044,"sku":"SEL6413-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738661695812,"sku":"SEL6413-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738661728580,"sku":"SEL6413-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308208398660,"sku":"SEL6413-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334607675716,"sku":"SEL6413S1417","price":21.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334607708484,"sku":"SEL6413S69","price":19.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334607741252,"sku":"SEL6413S710","price":18.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SEL6413-1.jpg?v=1790126689"},{"product_id":"cc72362-beethoven-string-quartets-op-59-string-quintet-op-29","title":"Beethoven: String Quartets op. 59, String Quintet op. 29","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis recording, by two generations of musicians from the Kuijken family (Veronica, Sigiswald, Sara and Wieland Kuijken), with my wife Marleen Thiers, 2nd viola in the quintet, was made with so-called ‘modern’ instruments. Although our name is generally linked with ‘period performance practice’, listeners should not expect or seek a deliberate, specific ‘historic’ tendency in this recording: this was not what defined our collaboration for this production... I would even venture to say that in the first place we allowed ourselves to be moved and motivated by the immense strength exuded by these Beethoven pieces, based on our own musical experience and intuition; what we shared was astonishment – and joy. As we went along we became increasingly aware that it can be a gift to have kindred genes; and that an instrument is simply an instrument, no more... Sigiswald Kuijken\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Challenge Classics","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738679685444,"sku":"CC72362-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738679718212,"sku":"CC72362-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738679750980,"sku":"CC72362-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738679783748,"sku":"CC72362-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738679816516,"sku":"CC72362-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":57308232319300,"sku":"CC72362-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334611575108,"sku":"CC72362S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334611607876,"sku":"CC72362S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334611640644,"sku":"CC72362S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CC72362.jpg?v=1790127159"},{"product_id":"sachr70114-boompetit","title":"Boompetit","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAlways follow your own identity, with respect for the music and the musicians you work with – that's my credo when making music. I also have a weaknessbfor musicians who use their knowledge of the tradition to go their own individual ways, so I consider myself lucky to have found kindred souls in Harmen Fraanje, Anton Goudsmit and Ernst Reijseger, who share this view of making music and who have the same autonomous drive to create. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFor some time now I've worked with two trios: Fugimundi, with Ernst and Anton, and Gatecrash, with Harmen and Anton. On this album, I've shifted the two trios around to my heart's content, with beautiful moments as a result. This produced an album of solo, duo, trio and quartet performances in all the shades and varieties that music means to me at this moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIs this jazz? Hmm... Is this improvised music? Definitely! Sometimes witty and absurd, sometimes romantic or funky, sometimes hasty and sometimes mean, hard and overwhelming, but always our own. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith pride I present to you the album BOOMPETIT.\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEric Vloeimans\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timeless Records","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738692202820,"sku":"SACHR70114-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738692235588,"sku":"SACHR70114-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738692268356,"sku":"SACHR70114-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738692301124,"sku":"SACHR70114-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738692333892,"sku":"SACHR70114-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":57308274065732,"sku":"SACHR70114-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334624223556,"sku":"SACHR70114S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334624256324,"sku":"SACHR70114S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334624289092,"sku":"SACHR70114S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SACHR70114.jpg?v=1790128151"},{"product_id":"sachr75056-alone-together","title":"Alone Together","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlone Together is a DSD 64 Stereo and DSD 64 Multichannel Jazz release. It features Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi with the Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine, the Dutch bassist Hein Van de Geyn, and American drummer Joe LaBarbera plus Guest trumpeter Eric Vloeimans (on 3 tracks). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey focus on a dozen time-tested standards from the Great American Songbook. The songs on the album include Speak Low, My Foolish Heart, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Sweet And Lovely, You've Changed, Just One Of Those Things, Alone Together, Tenderly, How Deep Is The Ocean, You Don't Know What Love Is, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, and Moonglow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough creative music fans from the United States are fond of calling jazz 'America's true art form,’ the music has been international since at least 1919 when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band caused a sensation during their tour of England. There have been a countless number of top European jazz musicians since that time with guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s (along with violinist Stephane Grappelli) emerging as probably the first European jazz innovator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timeless Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738702557508,"sku":"SACHR75056-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738702590276,"sku":"SACHR75056-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308304376132,"sku":"SACHR75056-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SACHR75056.jpg?v=1790129085"},{"product_id":"acdbl085-2-six-trio-sonatas-for-oboe-violin-and-bc","title":"Six Trio Sonatas for Oboe, Violin and B.C.","description":"In all likelihood these sonatas were written by Handel when he was around eleven years old, in 1696. At the time, he readily wrote for the oboe, which was, by his own admission, his favorite instrument. Consequently, these sonatas were long considered to be works for two oboes. Yet, the use of double strings in the first movement of the third sonata leads us to believe that the handwritten composition was for oboe and violin, two richly contrasting voices with complementary tones.\r\n\r\nFor the past four years and thanks to the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels’ mediation with his family, Handel had been a pupil of the Halle organist Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. This enlightened mind had already given him a very European musical culture, teaching him to compose and play the organ according to the different musical styles of the time.\r\n\r\nThe trio sonatas HWV 380-385 are all composed following the model of the sonata da chiesa which had remained hugely fashionable since Corelli's works: in four movements, slow-fast-slow-fast; they demonstrate a very strong and rigorous knowledge of counterpoint.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eEnsemble Amalthée\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Aliud Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738891104580,"sku":"ACDBL085-2-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738891137348,"sku":"ACDBL085-2-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738891170116,"sku":"ACDBL085-2-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738891202884,"sku":"ACDBL085-2-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738891235652,"sku":"ACDBL085-2-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ Auro3D","offer_id":56738891268420,"sku":"ACDBL085-2-61","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308599746884,"sku":"ACDBL085-2-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334860251460,"sku":"ACDBL085-2S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334860284228,"sku":"ACDBL085-2S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334860316996,"sku":"ACDBL085-2S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/ACDBL085-2-1.jpg?v=1790135942"},{"product_id":"acdbr078-2-out-of-bounds","title":"Out of Bounds","description":"Welcome to the world of bass trombone chamber music. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Bounds\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e contains interesting and little known 20th and 21st Century music for bass trombone in a chamber music setting.\r\n\r\nThe instrument is rarely heard as the soloist with chamber ensembles and most of the pieces on this album are rarely performed or have not previously been recorded. The bass trombone can be heard running as a rich thread through the works.\r\n\r\nMany thanks to all those appearing with me. For their time, effort and help in making the album come to fruition.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Eversden, Bass Trombone\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eGaudi String Quartet\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eAmsterdam Wind Quintet\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eNNO Brass\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Aliud Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738893758788,"sku":"ACDBR078-2-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738893791556,"sku":"ACDBR078-2-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738893824324,"sku":"ACDBR078-2-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738893857092,"sku":"ACDBR078-2-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738893889860,"sku":"ACDBR078-2-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308609118532,"sku":"ACDBR078-2-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57334888366404,"sku":"ACDBR078-2S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/ACDBR078-2-1.jpg?v=1790136252"},{"product_id":"cc72647-string-quintet-d-956-op-posth-163","title":"String Quintet D. 956 (Op. posth. 163)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNo language has the words to describe the essence of Schubert’s deepest musical outpourings. Probably the greatest tribute is paid to music of this quality not by talking about it, but by listening to it. Listening, not once, but many times; not with half an ear, but not too analytically either: listening in astonishment and with an open mind. Even so, a bit of commentary can sometimes be helpful, if only to place a work in its context. The environment, in the form of time and space, is always the breeding ground for every work of art. If we say “a tree is known by its fruit”, it is interesting to take a closer look at the tree.\u003cbr\u003eWhat tree produced a fruit like Schubert?\u003cbr\u003eIn the early nineteenth century, when Schubert was growing up and living in Vienna, the personal emotions of a poet (or composer, writer, painter) were of growing importance. At the same time as it was moving towards individual expression, art was still clearly leaning on its strong ‘classical’ foundations, the achievements of the late eighteenth century – but the borders had been shifted, towards monumental stature and towards small-scale intimacy (compare Beethoven’s development of the symphony and the string quartet to the many jewels of art songs written by his contemporaries, with Schubert leading the way). In short, from the waves of this renewal arose what we now know as romantic art, with its diverse range of emotions, now intensified, now held back…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Challenge Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738948153668,"sku":"CC72647-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738948186436,"sku":"CC72647-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738948219204,"sku":"CC72647-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738948251972,"sku":"CC72647-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738948284740,"sku":"CC72647-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308739567940,"sku":"CC72647-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335026319684,"sku":"CC72647S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CC72647-1.jpg?v=1790139508"},{"product_id":"cm0022006-jc-bach-symphonies-ensembles","title":"J.C. Bach  Symphonies \u0026 Ensembles","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe life of Johann Sebastian Bach’s youngest son Johann Christian (1735 – 1782) is notably different from those of his brothers and the majority of 18th-century German masters. Like hundreds of their colleagues in various German regions, Wilhelm Friedemann ‘the Gallic Bach’, Johann Christoph Friedrich ‘the Buckeburg Bach’ and ‘the Berlin’ or ‘Hamburg Bach’ Carl Philipp Emanuel sought and found an application for their talents in Germany.\u003cbr\u003eOnly a few Germans made a European career for themselves and won wide acclaim. One of them was Johann Christian, called by his contemporaries ‘the Milan’ or ‘London Bach’. After his successes in Italy and later England he gained a reputation as one of the most authoritative musicians of the second half of the 18th century. Any mention in Europe of ‘the famous Bach’ referred to the junior Bach, not his father. It is noteworthy, that his elder brother Carl Philipp Emanuel achieved the same fame in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738996650308,"sku":"CM0022006-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738996683076,"sku":"CM0022006-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738996715844,"sku":"CM0022006-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738996748612,"sku":"CM0022006-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738996781380,"sku":"CM0022006-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308801302852,"sku":"CM0022006-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335362945348,"sku":"CM0022006S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0022006-1.jpg?v=1790143368"},{"product_id":"cm0022008-2-telemann-complete-orchestral-suites-vol-2","title":"Telemann  Complete Orchestral Suites, vol. 2","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 1725 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) in addition to his official and other professional responsibilities started his own publishing firm with which he realized a variety of projects, some of them using innovative formats. While it is generally known that he engraved his music onto copperplates himself, a look at his correspondence reveals that he also organized the distribution of the finished products by selling copies from his own apartment and in the “music shop at the stock exchange” as well as through his contacts with musicians, booksellers and merchants throughout Europe. Until 1740 Telemann published severalhundred works gathered in almost fifty printed opera. The culminating point of his private publishing endeavor was his Musique de Table of 1733, which apart from enhancing his international reputation must have been highly profitable, as he was eager to invest in new projects. To this end he offered, in his catalogue flyers, “works that may be edited by and by” in order to whet his clients’ appetite for new compositions and to find out which kind of music might sell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738997469508,"sku":"CM0022008-2-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738997502276,"sku":"CM0022008-2-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738997535044,"sku":"CM0022008-2-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738997567812,"sku":"CM0022008-2-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738997600580,"sku":"CM0022008-2-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308801990980,"sku":"CM0022008-2-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335363567940,"sku":"CM0022008-2S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0022008-2-1.jpg?v=1790143454"},{"product_id":"cm0022010-2-telemann-complete-orchestral-suites-vol4","title":"Telemann  Complete Orchestral Suites, vol.4","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAmong the art treasures of Dresden is a collection of music manuscripts that in part goes back to the repertoire of the Dresden Hofkapelle, which was founded more than 450 years ago and became world famous in the 18th century. One of its patrons, the Saxon Elector Friedrich August I, known as August the Strong (reigned 1694–1733), had been elected King of Poland in 1697. According to the feudal concept of representation, this rise in status was the cause of an even further increase in the display of splendour, from which the residence and its court chapel profited as well. August had grown up into a fertile cultural tradition. Journeys abroad had rendered him susceptible to the refined culture at the French court as well as to Italian art. He was as fickle in his aesthetic predilections as in his amorous adventures, open to change in music, drama and the opera. Whereas particularly in the performing arts the artists were dependent on the Prince’s favour, the court chapel, which employed German, Italian, French and soon also Bohemian and Polish musicians, enjoyed a long tradition and was allowed to develop in a continuous fashion. Just as he absorbed into his Green Vault the most precious gems, in his royal household he employed the most exceptional talents, turning Dresden for a while into a melting pot of European culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738997797188,"sku":"CM0022010-2-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738997829956,"sku":"CM0022010-2-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738997862724,"sku":"CM0022010-2-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738997895492,"sku":"CM0022010-2-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738997928260,"sku":"CM0022010-2-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308802416964,"sku":"CM0022010-2-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335363928388,"sku":"CM0022010-2S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0022010-2-1.jpg?v=1790143497"},{"product_id":"cm0032003-js-bach-oboenwerke-vol2","title":"J.S. Bach Oboenwerke, vol.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy, judging by the survived music scores, different bodies of musicians were allowed for performing many works by composers of the Baroque epoch? What are the rules according to which the baroque instrumental ensembles were being formed? How to be about modern transcriptions of the ancient compositions? There is the only way to answer these questions, that is — to comprehend the special features of the baroque music, its key categories. The notion of trio widespread in that epoch deserves special attention here.\u003cbr\u003eThe baroque trio is a much wider category than trio in classical or romantic music since it indicates not the number of performers but the number and correlation of the musical tissue’s fibres: two expressive melodic voices are based on harmonic foundation of the figured bass (continuo part usually performed by one, two or three musicians). Such trio mode of musical thinking was as customary and natural for baroque composers as melodies to the accompaniment — for musicians of the next epoch. Thanks to the universal principles of the trio boundaries between the genres of the baroque instrumental music are transparent: one triple-voiced basis may be realized by varied bodies of performers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738998255940,"sku":"CM0032003-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738998288708,"sku":"CM0032003-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738998321476,"sku":"CM0032003-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738998354244,"sku":"CM0032003-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738998387012,"sku":"CM0032003-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308802580804,"sku":"CM0032003-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335364124996,"sku":"CM0032003S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0032003-1.jpg?v=1790143539"},{"product_id":"cm0032004-w-a-mozart-oboenspitze-vol1","title":"W.-A. Mozart. Oboenspitze, vol.1","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLittle is known about Giuseppe Ferlendis who was appointed oboist at the court of Archbishop of Salzburg Prince Hieronymus Colloredo on April 1, 1777. But irrespective of whether Ferlendis was a profound or average musician, his appearance in Salzburg orchestra inspired young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to create one of his rare compositions with solo oboe: Concerto in C major KV 314. Did the successful composer create this work out of boredom, having to spend months and years of his youth in the Austrian province he felt aversion for? \u003cbr\u003eWhatever it might be but when at the end of September of same year (1777) Wolfgang set out for an important musical tour of Europe in search of the worthy application of his talent (for the first time without his father, accompanied only by his mother), he took the manuscript of the new Concerto with him – as a kind of business card, one of spectacular samples of his composing accomplishment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738998616388,"sku":"CM0032004-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738998649156,"sku":"CM0032004-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738998681924,"sku":"CM0032004-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738998714692,"sku":"CM0032004-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738998747460,"sku":"CM0032004-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308802810180,"sku":"CM0032004-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335364288836,"sku":"CM0032004S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0032004-1.jpg?v=1790143582"},{"product_id":"cm0032005-telemann-in-major","title":"Telemann in Major","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGeorg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767), one of the most prolific composers in the history of music, was famous for the remarkable speed at which he wrote. He composed so quickly one gets the impression the notes appeared from under his pen quite naturally and spontaneously: the creative process was not onerous work for him.\u003cbr\u003eThe overwhelming majority of his compositions are written in the major key – in radiant, joyful colours; most of Telemann’s contemporaries also gave preference to this key. But just how carefree and spontaneous is, in fact, this joy? Telemann’s works could be described as an encyclopedia of late Baroque instrumental music, a highpoint in its philosophical interpretation. His total command of all the genre models of the age, ability to come up each time with new treatments bear testimony to Telemann’s superb skill. When writing in a particular genre he would explore all its potential, at times trying out quite unexpected combinations. A wise, philosophical viewpoint unites Telemann’s many different works, including the music in major key presented in this album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738999042372,"sku":"CM0032005-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999075140,"sku":"CM0032005-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999107908,"sku":"CM0032005-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738999140676,"sku":"CM0032005-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999173444,"sku":"CM0032005-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308802908484,"sku":"CM0032005-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335364485444,"sku":"CM0032005S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0032005-1.jpg?v=1790143624"},{"product_id":"cm0032006-joseph-wolfl-the-string-quartets","title":"Joseph Wolfl - The String Quartets","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJoseph Wölfl, once a popular composer and pianist, hailed from Salzburg. When Wölfl was born in 1773 his brilliant countryman Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was employed by the archbishop of Salzburg. The young composer had the good fortune to study with Mozart’s father Leopold and also with the brother of another Viennese classic composer, Michael Haydn. After receiving an excellent professional training Wölfl became a versatile musician. As a pianist he took part in competitions with Beethoven – according to Seyfried, these ‘duels between two giants’ gave the listening public extraordinary satisfaction, while as a composer Wölfl wrote masterpieces in every genre, showing exceptional diversity of style.\u003cbr\u003eLike Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, he was unable to resist the cultural magnetism of the Imperial capital. At the age of seventeen Wölfl declared his independence by setting off for Vienna to see Mozart. Quite possibly the latter showed sincere concern for the fate of his young countryman, for it was apparently under Mozart’s protection that Wölfl found employment with Count Oginski and moved to Warsaw. Here he began his concert performances and soon gained a reputation as an outstanding pianist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738999370052,"sku":"CM0032006-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999402820,"sku":"CM0032006-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999435588,"sku":"CM0032006-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738999468356,"sku":"CM0032006-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999501124,"sku":"CM0032006-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308803498308,"sku":"CM0032006-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335364682052,"sku":"CM0032006S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0032006-1.jpg?v=1790143671"},{"product_id":"cm0032008-2-telemann-complete-orchestral-suites-vol3","title":"Telemann, Complete Orchestral Suites, vol.3","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Universal Genre\u003cbr\u003eIf I hear the first part of a good overture I experience a peculiar elevation of my mood; during the second part my spirits spread out, full of delight; and when the serious ending comes along, they collect themselves and retreat to their usual abode. I think this is a pleasant alternation which an orator could hardly improve upon. A close observer might be able to trace these emotions in the mien of an attentive listener. (Johann Mattheson, Der vollkommene Capell-Meister, Hamburg 1739, p. 208, § 36) Johann Mattheson (1681–1764), the contemporary and fellow musician of Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), here puts into words what music connoisseurs particularly liked about a large group of instrumentalists playing together in the typical manner of a musical introduction to a French theatre performance: the beginning – nearly always marked by dotted rhythms – which draws in the audience with its broadly declamatory, harmonically rich presentation; the lively continuation based on the imitative texture of the various parts, which encourages a sophisticated manner of listening; and finally the return to the initial affect, often seasoned with a temporary harmonic deviation. This artful succession of concentration, distraction, and again concentration was an excellent way to prepare for what was to follow – a stagedpresentation or an instrumental suite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738999697732,"sku":"CM0032008-2-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999730500,"sku":"CM0032008-2-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999763268,"sku":"CM0032008-2-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738999796036,"sku":"CM0032008-2-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738999828804,"sku":"CM0032008-2-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308812411204,"sku":"CM0032008-2-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335364944196,"sku":"CM0032008-2S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0032008-2-1.jpg?v=1790143714"},{"product_id":"cm0042003-bortnyansky-the-italian-album","title":"Bortnyansky  The Italian Album","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe remarkable composer Dmitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky (1751–1825) is chiefly remembered in Russian cultural history as a master of Orthodox church music, although the complete list of over 200 works includes operas, instrumental concertos, sonatas and symphonies. A brilliant composer blessed with an ability to write with sincerity and spontaneity, he was also director of the Imperial Chapel Choir and an official censor of sacred music. Bortnyansky is unique among contemporary Russian colleagues since his music was not forgotten after his death but is still loved and admired today. Maybe the composer’s destiny would have taken a less fortunate turn if his youth and formative years as a musician had not coincided with the ‘Golden Age’ in the reign of Catherine the Great.\u003cbr\u003eJacob von Staehlin, ‘director of all the arts’ at the Russian Academy of Sciences wrote in his diary for 1769: ‘What lofty heights painting, culture and architecture have achieved in just a few years, to which she has erected a splendid shrine in St. Petersburg – the Academy! Nor has music … been forgotten by the Empress, for it has begun to scintillate at court with a new and unprecedented brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739001270596,"sku":"CM0042003-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001303364,"sku":"CM0042003-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001336132,"sku":"CM0042003-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739001368900,"sku":"CM0042003-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001401668,"sku":"CM0042003-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308812837188,"sku":"CM0042003-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335379788100,"sku":"CM0042003S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0042003-1.jpg?v=1790143887"},{"product_id":"cm0042004-telemann-in-minor","title":"Telemann in Minor","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA perceptive stylist and a man with an inexhaustibly inventive mind, a musical erudite whose creative heritage in all the genres prevailing in his time is so great that its scope and variety of solutions capture even the wildest imagination, a man epitomizing the glory of German art in the eyes of enlightened Europeans of the first part of the 18th century, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) is one of those composers whose artistic work has not been properly appreciated yet. \u003cbr\u003eTelemann’s creative uniqueness is said to be perceived only when his music is compared with that of his two great contemporaries – Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friederich Händel. But Telemann’s numerous compositions are so good, fresh and fascinating that nowadays we just wish to hear his wonderful music again and again and enjoy it without trying to make profound comparisons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739001598276,"sku":"CM0042004-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001631044,"sku":"CM0042004-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001663812,"sku":"CM0042004-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739001696580,"sku":"CM0042004-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001729348,"sku":"CM0042004-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308812869956,"sku":"CM0042004-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335379984708,"sku":"CM0042004S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0042004-1.jpg?v=1790143932"},{"product_id":"cm0042006-if-haydn-had-written-for-oboe-vol-1","title":"If Haydn Had Written For Oboe Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eI would very much like the world to see me as I am, a man of integrity and decency. I am grateful to the omnipotent God for my fame, for it is only to Him that I owe everything. My sole wish is to offend neither my neighbour, nor my gracious Prince, and still less would I want to disappoint my all-merciful Lord, wrote Joseph Haydn in the year 1776. These words are often quoted, commenting that Haydn used them in an authobiographical essay, destined for the almanach “Das Gelehrte Österreich” (Learned Austria). However in this case it could lead to a conclusion that they are directed at the “whole world”, and one could be tempted to see in them something of a declarative statement, creating an image flattering to the composer. That is unlikely to be a correct interpretation. Haydn submitted his autobiography to the publishing house through a certain Mademoiselle Leonore; his letter commences with an agitated apology addressed to this lady: the composer begs her forgiveness for his awkward language and lack of eloquence, since he had very little time to write that note; further followed by a brief text about his life’s events and his main works; as for the adduced quote, it is an ardent closure, again addressed to ‘mademoiselle’ and destined rather for the eyes of the editor than for the whole wide world. It is devoid of affectation, the trait absolutely alien to Haydn: it is a completely sincere confession. Moreover, Haydn generally produces the impression that one is actually left with after reading these humble phrases. He is usually seen as a modest and good man, who at the very same time was “one of the greatest geniuses of the 18th century, that golden age of music” (Stendhal); as a man with a wonderfully clear, harmonious and intergral inner world; a man whose wisdom and sensibility are only enhanced, softened by his good-natured humour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caro Mitis","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739001925956,"sku":"CM0042006-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001958724,"sku":"CM0042006-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739001991492,"sku":"CM0042006-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739002024260,"sku":"CM0042006-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739002057028,"sku":"CM0042006-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308812968260,"sku":"CM0042006-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335380443460,"sku":"CM0042006S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CM0042006.jpg?v=1790143979"},{"product_id":"36215-schubert-string-quintet","title":"Schubert String Quintet","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cathedral of tragic tones\u003cbr\u003e‘The richest and most productive eighteen months in music history’ is how the English composer Benjamin Britten described Franz Schubert’s final period, when works including the magisterial String Quintet in C major saw the light of day. For besides the quintet, Die Winterreise (Winter Journey), the Symphony in C major (‘the Great’) and the last three piano sonatas flowed from Schubert’s pen. Since Beethoven’s death in 1827, Schubert was engrossed in the development of largescale musical forms, and certainly succeeded in this in the fifty minutes of the quintet. It is not the music of a man who knows he will die by the age of thirty-one, but music born of an almost volcanic ambition, comparable to that of Beethoven when he entrusted his string quartets opus 18 to paper. Notable is Schubert’s preference for a second cello, shared with Boccherini, rather than a second viola as in the quintets of Mozart and Beethoven. Although the four-movement plan of Schubert’s quintet is entirely in the classical tradition of his age, it is already quite clear from the first two movements that there is mention of a grand scheme, as they slowly unfold to reveal a large-scale structure not unlike the later symphonic cathedrals of Anton Bruckner (who was four years old at the time).\u003cbr\u003eComposed in September and October 1828, the String Quintet in C major was Schubert’s instrumental swan song. In September he had taken up lodgings at his brother’s house in the Viennese suburb of Wieden. Thus new life was breathed into domestic music making in the family circle, as quartets and piano sonatas were played and songs were sung. As ever, Schubert was at the very centre, sitting at the grand piano or playing the viola in the quartets, and it was probably this that sparked off composition of the quintet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739012772164,"sku":"36215-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739012804932,"sku":"36215-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739012837700,"sku":"36215-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739012870468,"sku":"36215-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739012903236,"sku":"36215-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308824076612,"sku":"36215-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335699374404,"sku":"36215S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/36215-1.jpg?v=1790469375"},{"product_id":"acdbl073-2-the-vondelquartet-plays-paulus-folkertsma","title":"The Vondelquartet plays Paulus Folkertsma","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eComposer Paulus Folkertsma plays an important role in the musical history of Fryslân. He was born on January 15, 1901 in Wommels. Five years later, the family moved to Berlikum, where young Paulus got his first violin lessons from master Groenewold, the local teacher. When at age 14 Paulus went to the Maastricht College of Education for teachers, music became ever more important to him. This is where he wrote his first compositions. After temporary appointments in Leeuwarden and Sondel, he became a school teacher at the public primary school in Aldeboarn, where he worked for over 40 years. In 1956 he married Viennese Helga Khek; they had four children. Paulus Folkertsma passed away on May 4, 1972 in Aldeboarn. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aliud Records","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739034890564,"sku":"ACDBL073-2-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739034923332,"sku":"ACDBL073-2-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739034956100,"sku":"ACDBL073-2-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739034988868,"sku":"ACDBL073-2-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739035021636,"sku":"ACDBL073-2-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":57308851110212,"sku":"ACDBL073-2-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335872618820,"sku":"ACDBL073-2S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/ACDBL073-2-1.jpg?v=1790474332"},{"product_id":"807668di-lutoslawski-concerto-for-orchestra-brahms-piano-quartet-in-g-minor","title":"Lutoslawski Concerto for orchestra - Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAfter World War II, Poland was under the control of Stalin’s Soviet Russia. Artists in Poland found themselves subject to the same types of regimentation and censorship endured by their Russian colleagues. During this period, the Polish government mandated composer Witold Lutoslawski to fashion numerous works based upon Polish folk songs. At the same time, however, Lutoslawski began to experiment with couching these folk songs in a less traditional and more complex guise. Lutoslawski awaited the moment he could employ this technique in a serious concert work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"harmonia mundi","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739052552516,"sku":"807668DI-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739052585284,"sku":"807668DI-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739052618052,"sku":"807668DI-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739052650820,"sku":"807668DI-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739052683588,"sku":"807668DI-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":57308875424068,"sku":"807668DI-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335894737220,"sku":"807668DIS1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/807668DI.jpg?v=1790477756"},{"product_id":"37816-riley-four-four-three","title":"Riley - Four Four Three","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Ragazze Quartet with its classical roots, Slagwerk Den Haag with its contemporary sounds, and the unusual jazz trio Kapok... Contrasting contours, but a common denominator: none of these three ensembles belong to a specific category. All three push the boundaries of our genres in our quest for new forms and adventurous joint projects. It is through this inquisitive musicianship that the unusual combination feels so wonderfully natural.\u003cbr\u003eThe choice for Riley’s repertoire gave another stir to our boundary reconnoitre. For Riley’s music allows considerable space for creativity and improvisation. The tension that arises through freedom within strict frames means that every performance is different. And it brings with it that the music has a strong sense of spontaneity and joie de vivre.\u003cbr\u003eIn C, performed by the Ragazze Quartet and Slagwerk Den Haag, the dynamic range is enormous. Long, melodic lines as well as short, rhythmic motifs may be employed, producing an effect of both tranquil contemplation and pulsating explosiveness. Sunrise of the planetary dream collector was originally written for string quartet. But the Ragazze Quartet invited jazz trio Kapok to make a new arrangement together. The mix of string quartet and horn, electric guitar and percussion, all expanded with electronic effects, offers a rich pallet of timbres. All this goes to bring the groovy rhythm and whimsical, improvisatory character of the music further to the fore. In this way the combination of different ensembles forms the basis for our own unique version of Terry Riley’s In C and Sunrise. A version you have probably never heard before and will not hear anywhere else.\u003cbr\u003e-Ragazze Quartet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DwMaO7bMVD4","brand":"Channel Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739061727556,"sku":"37816-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739061760324,"sku":"37816-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739061793092,"sku":"37816-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739061825860,"sku":"37816-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739061858628,"sku":"37816-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739061891396,"sku":"37816-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739061924164,"sku":"37816-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739061956932,"sku":"37816-18","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739061989700,"sku":"37816-19","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739062022468,"sku":"37816-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739062055236,"sku":"37816-23","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308885385540,"sku":"37816-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335904174404,"sku":"37816S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335904207172,"sku":"37816S1517","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335904239940,"sku":"37816S1617","price":34.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/37816.jpg?v=1790479780"},{"product_id":"813543021988-jazz-choir","title":"Jazz Choir","description":"\u003cp\u003eJazz Choir (Dagen skimrar i graset) features Anders Eby conducting the Mikaeli Chamber Choir and a cast of acclaimed soloists on this program of Jazz works dedicated to works by composer Olov Olofsson. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was originally recorded in Analog in 1975 for Proprius, a Swedish audiophile label. It has been transferred to Stereo DSD 64fs and Stereo DSD 128fs by 2xHD-Naxos. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2xHD-Naxos","offers":[{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739074310468,"sku":"813543021988-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739074343236,"sku":"813543021988-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739074376004,"sku":"813543021988-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308924248388,"sku":"813543021988-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/813543021988-1-1_5814ffe4-5380-4687-8443-c4c34720f256.jpg?v=1790482646"},{"product_id":"yar54763dsd-sibelius-piano-trio-vol-i","title":"Sibelius Piano Trio vol. I","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003eIn my possibly somewhat subjective opinion, there is no other interpretation that brings Sibelius’s intent so remarkably to life. Summing it all up: This release is beyond the grasp of anyone else.\r\n\u003cem\u003e- Adrian Quanjer, NativeDSD \/ HRAudio.net\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\nRead full review \u003cspan style=\"color: #3366ff\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/dsd-reviews\/sibelius-piano-trio-from-yarlung-records\/\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\nJean Sibelius’ piano trios were important to him personally. He wrote them in his youth, during the summers he spent vacationing with his brothers and sisters on various islands in Houtskär, the Finnish archipelago off the southwest coast of Finland. Sibelius loved these islands, and the three trios we include in this recording were eventually named after two of his favorite islands, as well as the coastal town of Lovisa, where his Aunt Evelina had a house.1 Given their natural talents, the young Sibelius siblings formed a trio. Janne2 played the violin, his sister Linda played the piano, and his brother Christian played the cello. Given the family musicians at hand, it was natural for Sibelius to write piano trios for their mutual enjoyment.\r\nThe young Sibelius wrote his Havträsk Trio in A Minor (JS 207) during the summer of 1886, during his first vacation after beginning his studies in music composition. It feels like we hear everything Sibelius learned in class, experimenting as he was, but now not under his teacher’s watchful eye! Movement one begins bombastically, balanced by the three lighter movements which follow. The Andantino second movement gives voice to some of Sibelius’ most beautiful melodies, followed by the whimsical and virtuosic Scherzo third movement which reminds me a little of Mendelssohn. Sibelius finished the piece with a simple melody which culminates into a surprisingly passionate dance.\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\nViolinist \u003cstrong\u003ePetteri Iivonen\u003c\/strong\u003e, pianist \u003cstrong\u003eJuho Pohjonen\u003c\/strong\u003e and cellist \u003cstrong\u003eSamuli Peltonen\u003c\/strong\u003e founded \u003cstrong\u003eSibelius Piano Trio\u003c\/strong\u003e and catapulted to success on the European concert stage. When three international soloists of this caliber unite to form a chamber music ensemble, the results are predictably electric. These three friends love playing together, and this love is easy to hear in their concerts and in their recording.\r\n\r\nAs a proud Finn and as a representative of the Finnish government, I salute Sibelius Piano Trio for their talent and join them in celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Finland’s independence in 2017. Petteri, Juho and Samuli embody and exemplify the best of our country, and as someone who lives in Los Angeles, it gives me great pleasure that the Trio is so intimately connected with California and Yarlung Records. Please join me in celebrating this dynamic young trio, and in celebrating the magnificent country of Finland. Suomi 100!\r\n\u003cem\u003e– J.P. Markkanen, Consul General of Finland, Los Angeles, July 28th, 2016\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003ePetteri Iivonen, violin\r\nJuho Pohjonen, piano\r\nSamuli Peltonen, cello\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Yarlung Records","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739103310148,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739103342916,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739103375684,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739103408452,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739103441220,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739103473988,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739103506756,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739103539524,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-18","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739103572292,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-19","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739103605060,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739103637828,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-23","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Sonorus","offer_id":56739103670596,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-27","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Sonorus","offer_id":56739103703364,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-28","price":26.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Sonorus","offer_id":56739103736132,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-29","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57309887758660,"sku":"YAR54763DSD-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335962665284,"sku":"YAR54763DSDS1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335962698052,"sku":"YAR54763DSDS1517","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335962730820,"sku":"YAR54763DSDS1617","price":34.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/YAR54763DSD-1.jpg?v=1790488004"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/collections\/blackweek1.oembed","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}