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Johann Simon MAYR (1763–1845) Amor non ha ritegno Opera semiseria in two acts (1804) Libretto by Francesco Marconi Anna-Doris Capitelli, Anna Feith, Yeree Suh, Sopranos • Philipp Polhardt, Markus Schäfer, Tenors Niklas Mallmann, Daniel Ochoa, Basses • Simon Mayr Chorus • Concerto de Bassus Franz Hauk, Harpsichord, Conductor From the mid-1790s to the early 1820s Johann Simon Mayr wrote just under 70 operas, a good number of which went on to triumph across Europe. Set in the Spanish city of Zamora, and described as a comico- heroic melodrama, Amor non ha ritegno (‘Love Knows No Bounds’) was admired for its exquisite music, exemplifying the early Romantic style that was evolving circa 1800. This is an opera filled with bizarre happenings and a range of seria and buffa characters, from the sublimely inconsolable heroine, Donna Luigia, to her ridiculous suitors, proving as hugely entertaining today as it did over two centuries ago. BUY NOW!
8.660523-25 Release date: 13 Jun 2025
Click to listen to Duettino: Ai vostri piè depongo
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Companion titles – Other operas by Johann Simon Mayr
8.660367-68 | 8.660388-89 8.660399-400 | 8.660483-84
Adolf von HENSELT (1814–1889) Complete Piano Études 12 Études caractéristiques • 12 Études de Salon • Étude in A minor • La Gondola Marcel Tadokoro, Piano Adolf von Henselt belongs firmly in the realm of 19th-century composer-pianists such as Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. He was influential in establishing a true Russian school of pianism and held in high esteem by Rachmaninov. Henselt’s virtuoso technique was admired for its cantabile qualities but his performing career was cut short by extreme stage fright. Dating from early in his career, the études blend technical demands with clarity of vision and a lyrical poetic expressiveness often reflected in colourful descriptive titles. BUY NOW!
Click to listen to 12 Études de Salon, Op. 5: No. 12 in G sharp minor ‘Nächtlicher Geisterzug’
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8.574704 Release date: 13 Jun 2025
DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE SINGLE Release date: 16 May 2025 Adolf von HENSELT Etude Op. 13, No. 2 ‘La Gondola’ * Only available for download and streaming
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Companion titles – Other piano recordings from the Romantic period 8.574614 | 8.555668 | 8.573436 | 8.574052
Franz LISZT (1811–1886) Complete Piano Music, Vol. 66 Mozart and Donizetti Opera Transcriptions Konstantin Scherbakov, Piano
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By 1840 Liszt had perfected the art of operatic transcription, one that characterised the music but was not dependent on the sequential presentation of it. Indeed, in his transcription of themes from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor he includes music from another Donizetti work, and, in the coda, includes his own thematic material that blends seamlessly together. The Réminiscences de Don Juan , with its technical demands and innovations, stands at the pinnacle of his procedure, not only compacting the material from Mozart’s Don Giovanni but reflecting all the music’s tensions and drama in a heroic demonstration of bravura brilliance. Key feature: Konstantin Scherbakov has recorded five albums in this series containing the complete Beethoven symphonies in Liszt’s transcriptions. They can be found in Vols. 15, 18, 19, 21 and 23.
8.574667 Release date: 27 Jun 2025
Companion titles – Previous volumes in the series 8.550457 | 8.555354 | 8.557170 8.557366 | 8.557856
Click to listen to Réminiscences de Don Juan (Mozart), S418/R22
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