Colorado String Quartet - Two Brahms String Quartets
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PACD 96007The first of our Colorado Quartets CDs is a disc of the two Brahms String Quartets,
Op. 51, played by the Colorado String Quartet. This recording was made in Holland in 1991 but has never been published before.
Colorado String Quartet: Schubert & Mendelssohn
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PACD96024 The Colorado String Quartet returns to Parnassus with its second CD for the label. These recordings of Schubert's famous "Death and the Maiden"
Quartet and Mendelssohn's last String Quartet, Op. 80, were made especially for Parnassus in 1997. the stunning intensity of these performances will
impress all listeners, even those who thought the already knew everything the Schubert work has to offer.
Colorado String Quartet: Beethoven
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PACD96034/5 The Colorado String Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with
newly-recorded performances of Beethoven String Quartets. The new recording marks the recorded debut of violist Marka Gustavsson
with the Colorado Quartet. These performance include all repeats marked by Beethoven in his
scores, extending their playing time so that the four works are on two
well-filled discs.
Colorado String Quartet: Beethoven - Late Quartets
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PACD96034/5 A 3 CD set (priced as 2 CDs) continues the Colorado Quartet's exploration of Beethoven's Quartets.
Eugene Drucker - Bach: Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
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PACD96009/10 is a two CD set featuring a founding member of the world-famous Emerson String Quartet. Remastered for
this, the first US release of a set originally available in a very limited edition in the UK.
This edition contain extensive analytical notes from the artist himself.
Janos Starker "The Road To Cello Playing +"
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PACD97008 is a collection of works for unaccompanied cello played by the great master cellist
Janos Starker. This disc includes the complete "Road to Cello Playing" a collection of etudes previously issued only on LP,
supplemented with concert works by Hindemith, Cassado, and Bernhard Heiden, taken from a broadcast and never before published.
Danielle Woerner "She Walks In Beauty"
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PACD96012 Danielle Woerner coached Otto Luening's songs with the composer,
and has performened Robert Starer's songs with the composer at the piano. This CD offers 77 minutes of music by these two
composers, newly recorded, with some of the Hudson Valley's finest musicians as collaborators and including Starer at the piano,
his first commercial recording in nearly 50 years.
Gregorian Chant: The Early Intepreters
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PACD96015/16More than 2½ hours of chants recorded from 1928 to 1936 in a variety of locations.
Most items
have never been published before and all are new to CD. Extensive liner notes and texts.
Night Skies: The Music of Katherine Hoover
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PACD96019 Katherine Hoover is one of America's finest and most successful
composers, with performances throughout the U.S. and Europe and nearly two dozen recordings of her music.
Yet there has never been an entire LP or CD devoted to her music until now. This disc offers more than an hour
of newly-recorded orchestral woks, most done under the composer's supervision. Hoover's accessible yet stimulating
music will appeal to any music-lover whose taste travel as far into the 20th century as the music of Bartók, one of
Hoover's favourites.
Kokopeli: Katherine Hoover Plays
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PACD96031 Demonstrating her abilities both as flutist and composer, this CD features
Katherine Hoover's title composition as well as her Masks and Winter Spirits. Also includes the "London Diversions"
program. Featuring collaborations with Stoddard Lincoln, Don Bailey, Scott Dunn and Victoria Drake.
Carole Bogard Sings Baroque Cantatas
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PACD96020 Carole Bogard was one of the most widely acclaimed American singers of Baroque
(and contemporary!) music. Our first reissue from her Cambridge label recordings includes more than 70 minutes of superb Bach,
A. Scarlatti, and Handel.
Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs
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PACD96021/22 Parnassus is pleased to present a superb collection of American songs,
half of them previously unpublished, and in two cases accompanied by the
composers. Groups of songs by John Duke and Richard Cumming feature the composers
as pianists also David del Tredici makes a rare
appearance as a performer. This 2 CD set includes much more and extensive notes and texts.
Carole Bogard: A Century of French Songs
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PACD96036/37 Showing her versatility, Carole Bogard moves beyond the Baroque and demonstrates her exquisite
command of french chanson. This 2 CD set includes extensive notes and tests.
Prokofiev and Stravinsky - Composers Conduct
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PACD96023 Prokofiev's only recording as a conductor has been reissued several times in incomplete or poor-sounding transfers. The clarity of this complete
transfer will come as a revelation. Stravinsky's only Mexican recording is his rarest, never before reissued.
The Stuyvesant Quartet Plays 20th Century Quartets
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PACD 96026 The Suyvesant String Quartet was one of the outstanding American chamber ensembles
of the 1940s and '50s. This disc is its first appearance on CD. The live performance of the Quincy Porter Quartet has never been published before.
Arthur Grumiaux: The Boston Recordings
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PACD96028 These were Arthur Grumiaux's first LP recordings, made at the time of his first U.S. tour in 1951-2. They reveal
a dynamic young artist, even more outgoing and vital than on his superb later LPs. These early Boston recordings are great rarities in their original editions and have never before been reissued.
"Piano - Four Hands" Igor Kipnis and Karen Kushner
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PACD96030 Parnassus Records is proud to offer the debut recording of the Igor Kipnis-Karen Kushner duo, in an extended program of music for piano four hands recorded at concerts and studio broadcasts.
Handel - Tamerlano
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PACD96039/40 The first recording ever made of Handel's opera Tamerlano, a
nearly-complete version highly acclaimed by critics, is now reissued on
the Parnassus label. The three-disc set, running
nearly four hours in length, is being offered with complete libretto for
the price of two discs..
Tom McDermott - All The Keys And Then Some
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PACD96041 Including 38 tracks and clocking in at 72 minutes, the disc is comprised of two suites. "All the Keys" is a cycle of 24 pieces for solo piano in the all the major and minor keys and has elements of klezmer, tango, boogie-woogie, rag, New Orleans R&B, Chopinesque waltz, Brazilian choro and forms not so easily described. "Some Friends of Mine" is a set of 14 portraits of friends from New Orleans and St. Louis, composed for piano or Kurzweil synthesizer.
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