Following his critically acclaimed recording of all the Mozart concertos, Giuliano Carmignola fulfills his long-held wish to record the unjustly neglected violin concertos of Joseph Haydn. Carmignola's technical precision, disciplined musicality and gorgeous tone bring every one of the composer's intentions to vivid life. His musical collaborators here, the remarkable Orchestre des Champs-Élysées - known for performing repertoire from Haydn to Mahler on period instruments - makes an ideal partner.

This is a 3-CD limited-edition hardcover book, with repertoire chosen personally by the artist, consisting of complete works (not extracts or 'bits and pieces') from his repertoire - so, from Stravinsky's Petrushka and Chopin's op.25 Études to complete concertos by Beethoven and Mozart. As an added bonus there is the 1960 performance of Chopin's First Piano Concerto from the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.

Andreas Scholl follows up his much-praised Purcell collection, 'O Solitude' (4782262), with a project perfectly matched to his artistry and musical heritage. Andreas Scholl first sang the music of JS Bach as a boy chorister. Now the leading countertenor of our time returns to his musical roots with his own selection of arias from Bach's cantatas - including one of the best-loved of all Bach's vocal works, 'Ich habe genug'.

Albrecht Mayer - the acclaimed principal oboeist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - delves into German Romantic music with his oboe and close friends Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Marie-Luise Neunecker (Horn), and Markus Becker (Piano), to create this virtuosic, original, and intimate recording of diverse romantic works for oboe.

Along with his friend Caruso, Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) was one of the superstars of the early gramophone era. He was 'the master musician among the violinists of the day' (New York Times); he died 50 years ago (29 January 1962). As a composer, he is famous for his Viennese-style melodies, such as Liebesfreud and Liebesleid, for his notorious pieces 'in the style of' various 18th-century masters (which he passed off as their original works, claiming to have rediscovered them in old manuscripts), and for his arrangements of well-known works by other composers.

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Created in 2004 Bel Air Classiques is a French video release company specializing in live show recordings - Operas, ballets, concerts and theatre. Bel Air Classiques releases in DVDs shows recorded live in High Definition for TV channels like ARTE, France Television and Mezzo, in co-production with foreign partners such as BBC in the UK and NHK in Japan. Bel Air Classiques struggles to propose a very high level of artistic material, in association with the greatest European Opera Houses such as the Opera national de Paris, The Grand Theatre de Genève, The Theatre des Champs Elysées, The Bolshoi Theatre, The Zurich Opera, The Mariinsky Theatre or world reputed festivals like Aix-en-Provence.
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harmonia mundi, the label, was founded in 1958 and has been at the forefront of the authentic Early Music movement ever since. They were and still are innovators of the genre thanks to world class artists such as René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe and Anonymous 4.
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