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Bachs Juloratorium uruppfördes julen 1734 i domkyrkan i Leipzig. Oratoriet är uppdelat i sex kantater som handlar om julevangeliets olika berättelser, och som ursprungligen framfördes på julens sex viktigaste dagar.<br/>Del 1: Jesu födelse, Juldagen, 25 december.<br/>Del 2: Herdarna får bud, Annandag jul, 26 december<br/>Del 3: Herdarna vid krubban, 27 december.<br/>Del 4: Jesu omskärelse och dop, Nyårsdagen, 1 januari.<br/>Del 5: Kung Herodes reaktion, första söndagen efter Nyår.<br/>Del 6: Vise männens ankomst, Trettondag jul, 6 januari.<br/><br/>Hungarian Radio Choir, Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Budapest. Geza Oberfrank, conductor.<br/>Soloists: Ingrid Kertesi, soprano, Judit Nemeth, alto, Jozsef Mukk, tenor, Janos Toth, bass.<br/><br/>"I enjoyed the freshness of approach and the spirited music-making which characterizes the set as a whole."<br/>(Gramophone)

3CD-box innehållande de tre barnskivorna: <br/>"Min Första Klassiska Skiva" <br/>"Min Första Mozartskiva" <br/>"Min Första Pianoskiva"<br/><br/>Serien "Min första skiva" från Naxos är den perfekta starten på en livslång resa genom den klassiska musiken. Varje samling är skräddarsydd för unga lyssnare och omfattar både berömda melodier och mer okända juveler. CD-boken är fullt av information om varje stycke. De unika och nytänkande skivorna i serien kommer att öppna dörren till en underbar värld som barn och föräldrar kan upptäcka tillsammans.<br/><br/>Om du lyssnar noga på den andra skivan kommer du att lära känna en av världens främsta kompositörer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart levde för 250 år sedan, men han är fortfarande världsberömd så han måste ha varit något alldeles extra. Han fnissade mycket. Han var också bra på att spela piano och fiol. Och så skrev han all denna underbara musik, musik som många fortfarande älskar. Kanske du också älskar den? Lyssna! <br/><br/>Hör när pianot förvandlas till en humla, en åsna, några troll, en fågel, en häst och en fjäril! Ibland är det inget annat än ett vanligt piano, men musiken som kommer ur det är vacker och spännande. Känner du igen Blinka lilla stjärna där? Mozart får den att blinka på alla tänkbara sätt. Det finns så mycket att tycka om här. Och allt kommer ur ett och samma fantastiska instrument: pianot.

Martin Fröst, clarinet<br/>Janine Jansen & Boris Brovtsyn, violins;<br/>Maxim Rysanov, viola; Torleif Thedéen, cello;<br/>Roland Pöntinen, piano<br/><br/>Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Quintet is core repertoire, not just for clarinettists but also in the entire chamber music genre. As such, it has been on Martin Fröst's 'to-be-recorded list' for a long time, and when he gathered a dream-team of string players for a concert in Stockholm in February 2013, it was the perfect opportunity for BIS to organize a recording session. Brahms's Quintet was written in 1891 by a composer who only a year previously had renounced composing, but whose creative urge had been reawakened by his encounter with the leading clarinettist of the time, Richard Mühlfeld. Some 120 years later, Fröst - one of today's most highly regarded musicians and the recipient of the 2014 Sonning Prize - steps into Mühlfeld's shoes, in the company of Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn, Maxim Rysanov and Torleif Thedéen. As a complement to this substantial work - with a duration of almost 35 minutes - Martin Fröst has transcribed six much-loved songs by Brahms, performing them with his chamber music partner of long standing, the eminent pianist Roland Pöntinen. The songs, composed between 1866-1886, range from high lyricism (Die Mainacht) to bitter-sweet nostalgia (Wie Melodien...), via the humourous Vergebliches Ständchen. To these new recordings has been added a substantial 'bonus' - Martin Fröst's performance with Pöntinen and Thedéen of the Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, which Brahms composed for Mühlfeld in the same year as the quintet. Originally released in 2005, the recording of the Trio received a warm welcome, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, as well as a 'Disc of the Month' on website ClassicsToday.com.

Larsson Lars-Erik: Förklädd Gud 1956-78 [CD]

Vi tror att alla, både barn och vuxna, tycker om klassisk musik. Men kanske behöver man lite hjälp att hitta det man gillar. Därför har vi gjort denna 3CD-box med klassisk musik för hela dagen! Musik att springa, dansa och pyssla till. Musik som mjukt vaggar till ro. Musik som inspirerar och utvecklar. Helt enkelt stor musik - för små öron!

Richard Hickox and Opera Australia's Australian premiere production of Dvorák's Rusalka opened to spectacular reviews in March 2007. 'Hickox and the orchestra capture its sudden changeability and dramatic force, elegantly shaping the luscious, sweeping melodies while inflecting the intoxicating, folk music-inspired rhythms with grace and bite', noted The Australian. Chandos recorded the performances live and here releases the opera on a 3-CD set.<br/><br/>Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's fairy-tale The Little Mermaid, Rusalka tells of a water-spirit who falls in love with a prince. Enlisting the help of a witch, Rusalka becomes human so as to marry him. When the prince tires of her, and is unfaithful, she tries to return to the water, but a condition of her becoming human has been violated and she eventually dies together with the remorseful prince. Her story is of human desire, self-sacrifice and the search for enlightenment.<br/><br/>By the time Dvorák came to write Rusalka, he was an experienced opera composer with nine works to his credit; Rusalka was to be his last and is now a seasoned favourite. Part of the secret of the score's magic lies in the instrumental colouring. Dvorák was always inspired in his handling of the orchestra, but in Rusalka he reaches new heights of expressive scene painting. In the hands of Richard Hickox these elements are skillfully realised.<br/><br/>Taking the role of Rusalka for the first time in this production, the Australian-born soprano Cheryl Barker won deserved plaudits for her performances throughout the Australian press. 'It is hard to imagine anyone doing the title role better" (The Australian). 'Cheryl Barker gives an astonishing performance. she manages to capture the ethereal other-worldly quality of the water spirit, both physically and vocally, and her realization that her love for the prince is not returned is heart wrenching' (The Canberra Review). She is joined in leading roles by Rosario La Spina, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Bruce Martin and Anne-Marie Owens who also received excellent reviews. The Sydney Morning Herald, for example, wrote, 'Barker is not the only star. Elizabeth Whitehouse is thrillingly venal as the rival foreign princess, and Bruce Martin, as the water sprite, has insistent potency'.

Herreweghe Philippe: A conversation... [5 CD]