PENTATONE 2016 - Remastered Classics - The Legend Continues
After last year’s successful launch of the Remastered Classics Series from the Deutsche Grammophon’s quadraphonic recordings, PENTATONE is now presenting the original Philips Classics’ recordings from the 70s in the Remastered Classics series on Super Audio CD, finally permitting these gems to be heard as they were originally intended.
Baarn, Netherlands, February 10, 2016 --(PR.com)-- A Look Ahead. In March 2016, PENTATONE presents you the first two albums of the series.
Philips Classics began making multi-channel recordings back in the 1970s, at a time when most companies were still only recording in two-channel stereo. The concept of surround sound, let alone the possibility that this might someday be reproduced at home in the living room, was as yet unheard of. After remastering them, PENTATONE is now presenting these original Philips Classics recordings in the Remastered Classics series on Super Audio CD, thereby making it possible to finally enjoy these recordings in the quality they were intended to possess from the beginning.
Just as the flowers for the Deutsche Grammophon edition symbolize the blossoming of these precious recordings in the quality they already deserved back then; the birds of the Philips Classics intensify and refine the beauty of nature with their song – at times soothing, at others forceful, or amusing, yet on the whole extremely attractive.
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite-Capriccio Italien-Polonaise & Waltz From Onegin
Leopold Stokowski
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Remastered quadraphonic recording from Philips Classics dating 1970, now released on SACD [PTC 5186229]
Revealed on this album is a 1973 recording of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 and Polonaise and Waltz from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Leopold Stokowski. This legendary British conductor of Polish and Irish decent has been one of the leading music directors of the first half of the 20th century. During his 60-year conducting career he was a great advocate for contemporary composers. He became known for his appearance in the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia and even more so for his long-lasting relationship with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he developed into one of America’s leading orchestras. However, his greatest achievement in conducting may well have been the creation of the so-called ‘Stokowski sound’, a combination of ‘free bowing’ for the string section, ‘free breathing’ for the brass section and conducting without baton, which resulted in a very warm and free orchestral sound. This release gives the perfect opportunity to experience the legendary ‘Stokowski’ sound.
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Sir Colin Davis
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
John Alldis Choir
Josephine Veasey, Helen Donath, Delia Wallis, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Gillian Knight, Thomas Allen, John Shirley-Quirk, Frank Patterson
Remastered quadraphonic recording from Philips Classics dating 1970, now released on SACD [PTC 5186230]
When Henry Purcell wrote his one and only opera Dido and Aeneas in the second half of the seventeenth century, there was no existing opera tradition in England. With a libretto based on Virgil’s Aeneid and its music stylistically close to and derived from the typically English ‘Masque’ form (a festive courtly entertainment involving music, dancing, singing and acting, within an elaborate stage design) Purcell created a monumental baroque opera. Dido and Aeneas is considered by many to be the most important opera to appear between Claudio Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea and W.A. Mozart’s later masterpieces. It is still widely performed and its most famous aria ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s lament) arguably can be counted amongst some of the most famous opera arias ever.
On this 1970 multi-channel Philips Classics recording, Dido is interpreted by soprano Josephine Veasey. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the John Alldis choir are conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The recording has been remastered in 2015 and is now re-released in PENTATONE’s Onegin series, which finally gives it the chance to expose its magnificent sound quality.
About PENTATONE
PENTATONE is a Dutch classical music label specialising in high-end, multichannel surround sound recordings. It was founded in 2001 by three former Philips Classics executives. PENTATONE’s catalogue includes performances by conductors Kent Nagano, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Sir Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Jurowski, Marc Albrecht and Lawrence Foster; artists Arabella Steinbacher, Johannes Moser, Denis Kozhukhin, Joyce DiDonato, Julia Fischer, Jake Heggie, Mari Kodama, Nareh Arghamanyan, Martin Helmchen; and orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the New Dutch Academy and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.
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If you haven’t done so, we would like to cordially invite you to join our press & distribution portal on our website to directly access further information such as audio files, booklets, artist biographies, extra photos and video material: http://www.pentatonemusic.com/press-distributors
Philips Classics began making multi-channel recordings back in the 1970s, at a time when most companies were still only recording in two-channel stereo. The concept of surround sound, let alone the possibility that this might someday be reproduced at home in the living room, was as yet unheard of. After remastering them, PENTATONE is now presenting these original Philips Classics recordings in the Remastered Classics series on Super Audio CD, thereby making it possible to finally enjoy these recordings in the quality they were intended to possess from the beginning.
Just as the flowers for the Deutsche Grammophon edition symbolize the blossoming of these precious recordings in the quality they already deserved back then; the birds of the Philips Classics intensify and refine the beauty of nature with their song – at times soothing, at others forceful, or amusing, yet on the whole extremely attractive.
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite-Capriccio Italien-Polonaise & Waltz From Onegin
Leopold Stokowski
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Remastered quadraphonic recording from Philips Classics dating 1970, now released on SACD [PTC 5186229]
Revealed on this album is a 1973 recording of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 and Polonaise and Waltz from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Leopold Stokowski. This legendary British conductor of Polish and Irish decent has been one of the leading music directors of the first half of the 20th century. During his 60-year conducting career he was a great advocate for contemporary composers. He became known for his appearance in the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia and even more so for his long-lasting relationship with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he developed into one of America’s leading orchestras. However, his greatest achievement in conducting may well have been the creation of the so-called ‘Stokowski sound’, a combination of ‘free bowing’ for the string section, ‘free breathing’ for the brass section and conducting without baton, which resulted in a very warm and free orchestral sound. This release gives the perfect opportunity to experience the legendary ‘Stokowski’ sound.
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Sir Colin Davis
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
John Alldis Choir
Josephine Veasey, Helen Donath, Delia Wallis, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Gillian Knight, Thomas Allen, John Shirley-Quirk, Frank Patterson
Remastered quadraphonic recording from Philips Classics dating 1970, now released on SACD [PTC 5186230]
When Henry Purcell wrote his one and only opera Dido and Aeneas in the second half of the seventeenth century, there was no existing opera tradition in England. With a libretto based on Virgil’s Aeneid and its music stylistically close to and derived from the typically English ‘Masque’ form (a festive courtly entertainment involving music, dancing, singing and acting, within an elaborate stage design) Purcell created a monumental baroque opera. Dido and Aeneas is considered by many to be the most important opera to appear between Claudio Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea and W.A. Mozart’s later masterpieces. It is still widely performed and its most famous aria ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s lament) arguably can be counted amongst some of the most famous opera arias ever.
On this 1970 multi-channel Philips Classics recording, Dido is interpreted by soprano Josephine Veasey. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the John Alldis choir are conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The recording has been remastered in 2015 and is now re-released in PENTATONE’s Onegin series, which finally gives it the chance to expose its magnificent sound quality.
About PENTATONE
PENTATONE is a Dutch classical music label specialising in high-end, multichannel surround sound recordings. It was founded in 2001 by three former Philips Classics executives. PENTATONE’s catalogue includes performances by conductors Kent Nagano, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Sir Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Jurowski, Marc Albrecht and Lawrence Foster; artists Arabella Steinbacher, Johannes Moser, Denis Kozhukhin, Joyce DiDonato, Julia Fischer, Jake Heggie, Mari Kodama, Nareh Arghamanyan, Martin Helmchen; and orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the New Dutch Academy and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.
Online:
Website: http://www.pentatonemusic.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PENTATONE/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/PentaTone1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PENTATONEmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pentatonemusic/
B2B Section of the Website
If you haven’t done so, we would like to cordially invite you to join our press & distribution portal on our website to directly access further information such as audio files, booklets, artist biographies, extra photos and video material: http://www.pentatonemusic.com/press-distributors
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www.pentatonemusic.com
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+31 35 548 07 26
www.pentatonemusic.com
info@pentatonemusic.com
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