Why produce a publication of unforgettable Strauss melodies performed live by orchestras certainly not used to the „Viennese“ sound that is of such importance for these waltzes and polkas? Simply because Peter Maag was a great interpreter of Johann Strauss and we now take this unique chance to ...
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The cooperation of ARTS with the Italian RAI brings another breathtaking archives recording back to the day of light! Maag has with Tchaikovsky that privileged relationship that made him an outstanding performer of the music of Mozart and Mendelssohn: a dense, dramatic reading of extraordinar...
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Many interpretations of historical importance fall back on great "encounters": Fischer – Furtwängler – Berlin Philharmonic, Backhaus-Böhm-Vienna Philharmonic, Horowitz-Toscanini-NBC, Gilels-Jochum-Berlin Philharmonic, Zimmermann-Bernstein-Vienna Philharmonic etc. Somewhat less charismatic undoubtedl...
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Maag was the student of a true Ravel-admirer such as Ernest Ansermet, and his recordings by RAI reflect his exceptional feel for this music. In the 1950's and 1960's, RAI organised great concerts with all of the most important soloists and conductors performing at the time. The Diptychon of the two ...
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A successful encounter of two great figures in the world of music: Maag shared the stage of the Turin auditorium with the pianist Lazar Berman, for the performance of Liszt’s Concerto in E flat. The Russian pianist was at the pinnacle of his dazzling international career, crowned in those year...
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ARTS is proud to release a unique and as yet undiscovered true rarity: a recording of Debussy’s L’Enfant prodigue, directed by no less than the great musician André Clytens. Written by Claude Debussy to a libretto by Edouard Guinand, this „Scčne lyrique“ re-tells the Biblical story of the retu...
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The career of the highly talented Dino Ciani as pianist, and indeed his life, was short: it lasted no longer than a decade. His rise to full celebrity as a concert performer in Italy came about quickly and was awarded by winning the second price of the international Liszt-Bartók Competition in Budap...
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Luisa Miller has long been relegated to a secondary level in Verdi’s production by the incumbent ''Rigoletto-Trovatore-Traviata'' triology. But in the 1970s this unjustly underrated title celebrated its reappraisal as a number of great artists chose to include it among their favourites. Thus singers...
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Thematically suitable to the beginning of May we present a further achievement in our Peter Maag collection: The first Walpurgis-Night (Die erste Walpurgisnacht) from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Inspired from the poem The first Walpurgis-Night that Mendelssohn persumably got to know during hi...
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After the end of the Second World War André Cluytens certainly was one of the most acclaimed conductors all over Europe. He studied at the Flemish Royal Conservatory in his hometown Antwerp and was afterwards employed as a répétiteur at the theatres of Antwerp, Toulouse, Lyon and Bordeaux. In 1947 h...
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To the posthumous tribute that ARTS is paying to Peter Maag by presenting a number of selected recordings, another production is added in September: Symphony No. 1 Op. 68 and the Alto-Rhapsody Op. 53 from Brahms.As speciality Maag selected the at that time 30 year old contralto Lucia Valentina Terra...
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The second concerto by Johannes Brahms, the “great” concerto, and the Robert Schumann piano concerto are two masterpieces of romantic piano writing, performed on this ARTS ARCHIVES new release by Arthur Rubinstein, one of the most famous interpreters of Romanticism.
In these newly-restored live pe...
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