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High Res Downloads and Streaming Now on Presto Music!
The Musical Concepts Group of labels is thrilled to announce the rollout of our entire catalogue of recordings available at CD-Quality and higher downloads and streaming on Presto Music! Click below to start exploring:
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The Greatest Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 EVER
Alto’s release of Yevgeny Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra’s recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 is dubbed, “The Greatest Recording EVER” by ClassicsToday’s Dave Hurwitz!
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Urlicht AudioVisual Announces New LP!
Urlicht AudioVisual is releasing its first LP — and employing a unique jacket design to showcasing both sides of the album — in a limited-edition, 180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl. The album utilizes Direct Metal Mastering for maximum fidelity to the original high-definition sources, pressed by Precision Record Pressing, and includes an insert with complete liner notes…
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February Gramophone Features for Musical Concepts Releases
Rob Cowan’s “Replay” column in the February issue of Gramophone Magazine features two lovely reviews for releases from Parnassus and Alto: “Another master in Dvorak was the cellist Emanuel Feuermann, well known for his recordings of the Concerto (two captured live, one set down in the studio), and two shorter works. Silent Woods, Op 68,…
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The Maestro – Leonard Bernstein
With the announcement of SEVEN Academy Award nominations for the new Leonard Bernstein biopic, we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite Leonard Bernstein releases from our catalogue of labels – and sharing a short playlist on Spotify! Bernstein at the Piano and Podium: Bernstein the Composer
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Limited Edition Alto CDs
This collection features first-run CD discs that have never gone to re-manufacturing. Sign up for our new Musical Concepts mailing list and jump-start your collection with these fine recordings:
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5 Star Review of the Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8, Serenade for Orchestra, Sinfonietta No. 2
Gary Lemco of Audiophile Audition gives Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8, Serenade for Orchestra, Sinfonietta No. 2 Five Stars! “The 1952 Sinfonietta No. 2 in A Minor for string orchestra and timpani is performed by Rudolf Barshai and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in 1962. In four movements of approximately equal duration, the piece opens with…
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Václav Talich Conducts Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Suk Serenade For Strings gets a 5 Star Review from Gary Lemco in Audiophile Audition
Audiophile Audition’s Gary Lemco gives Václav Talich Conducts Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Suk Serenade For Strings 5 Stars “The Dvorak G Major Symphony, composed for the composer’s reception in England, has long enjoyed happy readings, from the likes of Talich and Bruno Walter. The authority of the Czech Philharmonic woodwinds proves especially luminous, both…
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Throwback MusicWeb International Review for Abravanel and Utah Symphony’s Complete Sibelius
MusicWeb International‘s Ralph Moore has a newly published review for the Musical Concepts label release of the Complete Jean Sibelius Symphonies from Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony! “Still available on the Musical Concepts label, this super-bargain set remastered in excellent analogue sound offers all seven of Sibelius symphonies on three CDs such that you…
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Textura Review for Miranda Cuckson’s Világ
“Világ, a Hungarian word meaning “world” or “illumination,” is an apt title choice for Miranda Cuckson’s double-CD collection of unaccompanied violin performances. In featuring pieces by composers from Hungary, Iran, Canada, Germany, and Italy, the release is global in span. It’s also illuminating, not only for its compositional diversity but for Cuckson’s extraordinary playing. In…
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Denis Stevens Remembered in Gramophone
Orpheus director Gregory Barbero has written an in-depth look at the work of Denis Stevens and the new Orpheus recordings highlighting his groundbreaking work for Gramophone: “I came to know of Denis Stevens (1922–2004) because he took up a remarkable amount of room. I was going through the offices of Vanguard Classics a few months…
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The Young János Starker Named an Editor’s Choice
Parnassus release, The Young János Starker is an April 2023 Gramophone Editor’s Choice for Re-issue/Archive! An unmissable insight into cellist János Starker’s early work, featuring a performance of Kodály’s Solo Cello Sonata that’s ‘truly sensational’ “I heard János Starker play [Kodály’s Cello Sonata] on the radio. I loved it, though hearing his Columbia LP version…
