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Takács Quartet <br/><br/>These quartets date from 1793 and were written when Haydn returned home to Vienna after a visit to London which had cemented his international fame as a composer and public figure.<br/><br/>The composer wrote a set of six string quartets for Count Anton Apponyi, a chamberlain at the Imperial Court. The set was broken up into two groups of three and sold to separate publishers, thus becoming the Op 71 and Op 74 Quartets, both released this month by the acclaimed Takács Quartet.<br/><br/>The quartets possess an orchestral sonority, and the frequent modulations, dynamic variations and increasingly virtuosic writing can be derived from elements of the six London Symphonies. They demonstrate the composer's astonishing elegance, lyricism and his immense skill in fusing the profound with the light-hearted.<br/><br/>In these compelling interpretations the Takács Quartet display an absolute unanimity of tone and style and cement their reputation as one of today's greatest string quartets.

Sjostakovitj: Piano Quintet [CD]

Isabella Lundgrens och Musica Vitaes kärleksförklaring till en av jazzhistoriens giganter, Dorothy Fields - nu även på vinyl!<br/><br/>"Fenomenal vokal bedrift når in i hjärtat" (Mats Hallberg, Kulturbloggen.com)<br/><br/>Isabella Lundgrens kärleksförklaring till en av jazzhistoriens giganter: Dorothy Fields (1904-1974) som skrev texter till över 400 låtar, 15 Broadwaymusikaler och 26 filmer. Vi vågar lova att du känner igen de flesta på detta album som Isabella Lundgren spelat in med Musica Vitae, i underbara stråkarrangemang av Carl Bagge.

Scarlatti: Sonatas [CD]

Sjostakovitj: Song of the Forests Op 81 [SACD Hybrid]

Rachmaninov: Études-tableaux [CD]

Ludvig Norman (1831-1885) var en tonsättare av stor betydelse i det svenska musiklivet. På detta album presenterar den Stockholmsbaserade, japanska pianisten Kiyo Wada två av hans stora kammarmusikverk, tillsammans med Ludvig Norman Strings: pianokvartetten och -sextetten. Som bonus ryms även pianosviten Lifvets åldrar. Sextetten och sviten är världspremiärer på CD!