True Legends in Full Bloom, PENTATONE’s Remastered Classics Series
Remember Deutsche Grammophon’s quadraphonic recordings from the 1970s? Although amazing results were achieved on the recording side, it turned out to be almost impossible to reproduce the major increase in quality of the record of the time due to the drawback in consumers’ sound systems at homes. And now – over 30 years later – thanks to the arrival of the multi-channel Super Audio CD, there is finally a system available which permits us to release these recordings in their original form.
Baarn, Netherlands, November 06, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Today PENTATONE launched the Remastered Classics series, a collection of quadraphonic recordings originally produced by Deutsche Grammophon in the 1970s. The series features conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Pinchas Zukerman, Leonard Bernstein, Christoph Eschenbach, Claudio Abbado, and orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and Berliner Philharmoniker.
“This is the quality they deserved more than 30 years ago,” said Dirk van Dijk, one of PENTATONE’s co‑founders and an initiator of the project. PENTATONE was granted the honour of remastering these precious recordings thanks to the prime quality represented in their multi-channel recordings. “We are thrilled that music lovers can finally listen to these precious recordings in the way the artists, original engineers and producers wanted,” van Dijk added.
Released over the course of a year, the first 5 of 20 titles are available just in time for the holiday season. The PENTATONE web store offers the series for a special price.
Also released today, Piano Concertos by Serge Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian with PENTATONE’s Artist of the Season August‑November 2014, Nareh Arghamanyan. It is recorded with Alain Altinoglu conducting the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Her third recording with PENTATONE demonstrates once again Arghamanyan’s calibre, which certifies her as one of the promising generation of today’s finest pianists.
PENTATONE, winner of the 2013 BBC Music Magazine ‘Technical Excellence Award’ for Parsifal from the Wagner Edition, solidifies its reputation with the releases of the complete Wagner Operas with conductor Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony with conductor Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra, the complete Beethoven Sonatas with Mari Kodama and its recording of the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn violin concertos with conductor Charles Dutoit and PENTATONE’s exclusive artist, Arabella Steinbacher.
About Nareh Arghamanyan
Acclaimed for her rich and colourful tone, dazzling virtuosity and unique talent storytelling, Nareh Arghamanyan belongs to the best pianists of her generation.
Winner of more than 18 international competitions, including the 2008 Montreal International Musical Competition, the 2007 Piano Campus International Competition in Pontoise, France, and the 2005 Josef Dichler Piano Competition in Vienna, she has since performed at many of the world’s most prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall in London, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Laieszhalle in Hamburg, the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Lucerne Piano Festival, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Kimmel Centre in Philadelphia and the Gardner Museum in Boston.
Find out more at: http://arghamanyan.com/.
About Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Since 2002, the beginning of Marek Janowski’s era as artistic leader and chief conductor, the Rundfunk‑Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) has earned itself a prominent position among the top Berlin orchestras as well as among the German radio orchestras. The remarkable level achieved under Janowski has made the RSB highly attractive to top international conductors. The orchestra also has a strong relationship with prominent conductors of the younger generation, such as Andris Nelsons, Kristjan Järvi, Yannick Nézet‑Séguin, Vasily Petrenko and Marc Albrecht.
The RSB is the oldest radio symphony orchestra in Germany and was founded in the early days of radio in October 1923. Under its various chief conductors — including Sergiu Celibidache, Eugen Jochum, Hermann Abendroth, Rolf Kleinert, Heinz Rögner, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos — the RSB has become a flexible symphonic orchestra, where great composers of the 20th century have also been happy to conduct their own works. These have included Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss and Arnold Schönberg, to mention a few. Numerous recordings made by the orchestra have received renowned international prizes. The orchestra receives regular invitations to perform at major European and Asian festivals and music centres.
For more information visit: http://www.rsb-online.de/.
About PENTATONE
PENTATONE is a Dutch classical music label specialising in high-end, multi-channel surround sound recordings. It was founded in 2001 by three former Philips Classics executives. PENTATONE’s catalogue includes performances by conductors Kent Nagano, Marek Janowski, Sir Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Jurowski and Lawrence Foster; instrumentalists Julia Fischer, Mari Kodama, Arabella Steinbacher, Nikolai Lugansky, Nareh Arghamanyan, Martin Helmchen, Sa Chen; and orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Rundfunk‑Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the New Dutch Academy and the Bolshoi Theatre.
“This is the quality they deserved more than 30 years ago,” said Dirk van Dijk, one of PENTATONE’s co‑founders and an initiator of the project. PENTATONE was granted the honour of remastering these precious recordings thanks to the prime quality represented in their multi-channel recordings. “We are thrilled that music lovers can finally listen to these precious recordings in the way the artists, original engineers and producers wanted,” van Dijk added.
Released over the course of a year, the first 5 of 20 titles are available just in time for the holiday season. The PENTATONE web store offers the series for a special price.
Also released today, Piano Concertos by Serge Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian with PENTATONE’s Artist of the Season August‑November 2014, Nareh Arghamanyan. It is recorded with Alain Altinoglu conducting the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Her third recording with PENTATONE demonstrates once again Arghamanyan’s calibre, which certifies her as one of the promising generation of today’s finest pianists.
PENTATONE, winner of the 2013 BBC Music Magazine ‘Technical Excellence Award’ for Parsifal from the Wagner Edition, solidifies its reputation with the releases of the complete Wagner Operas with conductor Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony with conductor Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra, the complete Beethoven Sonatas with Mari Kodama and its recording of the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn violin concertos with conductor Charles Dutoit and PENTATONE’s exclusive artist, Arabella Steinbacher.
About Nareh Arghamanyan
Acclaimed for her rich and colourful tone, dazzling virtuosity and unique talent storytelling, Nareh Arghamanyan belongs to the best pianists of her generation.
Winner of more than 18 international competitions, including the 2008 Montreal International Musical Competition, the 2007 Piano Campus International Competition in Pontoise, France, and the 2005 Josef Dichler Piano Competition in Vienna, she has since performed at many of the world’s most prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall in London, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Laieszhalle in Hamburg, the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Lucerne Piano Festival, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Kimmel Centre in Philadelphia and the Gardner Museum in Boston.
Find out more at: http://arghamanyan.com/.
About Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Since 2002, the beginning of Marek Janowski’s era as artistic leader and chief conductor, the Rundfunk‑Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) has earned itself a prominent position among the top Berlin orchestras as well as among the German radio orchestras. The remarkable level achieved under Janowski has made the RSB highly attractive to top international conductors. The orchestra also has a strong relationship with prominent conductors of the younger generation, such as Andris Nelsons, Kristjan Järvi, Yannick Nézet‑Séguin, Vasily Petrenko and Marc Albrecht.
The RSB is the oldest radio symphony orchestra in Germany and was founded in the early days of radio in October 1923. Under its various chief conductors — including Sergiu Celibidache, Eugen Jochum, Hermann Abendroth, Rolf Kleinert, Heinz Rögner, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos — the RSB has become a flexible symphonic orchestra, where great composers of the 20th century have also been happy to conduct their own works. These have included Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss and Arnold Schönberg, to mention a few. Numerous recordings made by the orchestra have received renowned international prizes. The orchestra receives regular invitations to perform at major European and Asian festivals and music centres.
For more information visit: http://www.rsb-online.de/.
About PENTATONE
PENTATONE is a Dutch classical music label specialising in high-end, multi-channel surround sound recordings. It was founded in 2001 by three former Philips Classics executives. PENTATONE’s catalogue includes performances by conductors Kent Nagano, Marek Janowski, Sir Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Jurowski and Lawrence Foster; instrumentalists Julia Fischer, Mari Kodama, Arabella Steinbacher, Nikolai Lugansky, Nareh Arghamanyan, Martin Helmchen, Sa Chen; and orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Rundfunk‑Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the New Dutch Academy and the Bolshoi Theatre.
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