Wholenote Review - July/August 2009
Wholenote Magazine is the source for Concerts and Reviews in Toronto and beyond. The following CDs were reviewed in This Month's Wholenote magazine. Click Here if you would like to visit the Wholenote website | Oscar Peterson: The Songbooks Label: VERVE Catalog: VERW3933072 Format: CD Oscar Peterson: piano, Ray Brown: bass, Ed Thigpen: drums Disc 1: The Cole Porter Songbook: In The Still Of The Night / It’s All Right With Me / Love For Sale/ Just One Of Those Things / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Every Time We ... CANADIAN EXCLUSIVE BOX SET!!! The legendary Oscar Peterson, an icon on the world’s jazz scene since the early 1950’s, recorded all of the tracks on Oscar Peterson: The Songbooks in ... |  Price: $36.98(  34.87*)On Sale |
 | Louis-philippe Marsolais: L'heritage Beethoven Label: ATMA Catalog: ACD22592 Format: CD Louis-Philippe Marsolais: horn / David Jalbert: piano Beethoven: Sonate en fa majeur, op.17 Czerny: Andante poloacca, op. posth. Ries: Sonate en fa majeur, op.34 Moshceles: Theme varie du Feullet d'Album de ... Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 The French horn probably isn't the first instrument that springs to mind when you think of solo sonatas with keyboard accompaniment, but this fascinating CD ... | Price: $17.98 ( 16.96*) |
 | Furtwangler : Complete Rias Recordings (13 Cds) Label: AUDITE Catalog: AUD21403 Format: CD Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. Yehudi Menuhin,violin; Gerhard Taschner, violin CD 1: Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ & No. 5 25-05-1947 CD 2: Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night's Dream 28-09-1947 Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Y. Menuhin) 28-0... Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 More than half a century has passed since the death of Wilhelm Furtwangler who was, as the saying goes, a legend in his own lifetime. His reputation around th... | Price: $109.98 ( 103.71*) |
 | Bernarda Fink: Virgin's Lament  Label: L'OISEAU-LYRE Catalog: 4781466 Format: CD Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini Gramophone Editor's Choice - September 2009 Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Bernarda Fink is a singer of extraordinary measure and a brilliant match for two rare settings of the Virgin... | Price: $15.98 ( 15.07*) |
 | Ann Southam: Simple Lines Of Enquiry / Egoyan Label: Catalog: CMCCD14609 Format: CD Eve Egoyan: piano Ann Southam: Simple Lines of Enquiry Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Unlike Southam’s other piano cycles where we are presented with pieces of contrasting textures, dynamics and tempi, this evocative set encompasses variatio... | Price: $18.98 ( 17.90*) |
 | Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um / Legacy Edition Label: LEGACY Catalog: 886974801023 Format: CD Charles Mingus / Jimmy Knepper / John Handy / Booker Ervin / Horace Parlan / Dannie Richmond CD 1: 1. Better Git It In Your Soul 2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 3. Boogie Stop Shuffle 4. Self-Portrait In Three Colors ... Equally adept at playing the bass and composing, Charles Mingus is arguably the most forward-looking of each over the last long while. His grasp of harmony and orchestration put him alongside more... | Price: $23.98 ( 22.61*) |
 | Sultans Of String: Yalla Yalla! Label: CHRIS MCKHOOL Catalog: 7502094232 Format: CD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Produced by six-sting violinist Chris McKhool, the Sultans of String also features Kevin Laliberté and Eddie Paton on a host of guitars, Drew Birston on bass... |
 | Tony Palmer: Menuhin - A Family Portrait Label: UNIVERSAL Catalog: TPDVD120 Format: DVD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 This is an outstanding film about Yehudi Menuhin, his career, and most significantly his family and their dominating matriarch, Yehudi’s mother. Originally ... |
 | Mahler: Symphony no 6 / Tennstedt, London PO Release Date: 06/30/2006 Label: LPO Catalogue: LPO0038 Number of Discs: 2 Format: CD Composer: Gustav Mahler Ensemble / Conductor: London Philharmonic Orchestra / Tennstedt, Klaus | Price: $36.98 ( 34.87*) |
 | Music Transfigured: Remembering Ferenc Fricsay Label: MEDICI ARTS Catalog: 3078528 Format: DVD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Ferenc Fricsay (1914-1963) was well on his way to becoming a major conductor of international stature. Born in Budapest, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy... | Price: $26.98 ( 25.44*) |
 | Art Of Time Ensemble: Black Flowers Featuring Sar Label: UNI Catalog: PHERCD1008 Format: CD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 The Art of Time Ensemble has come out with an absolute stunner of an album. “Black Flowers” is a project spearheaded by piano virtuoso Andrew Burashko, fe... | Price: $15.98 ( 15.07*) |
 | Dave Brubeck: Time Out (50th Anniversary) Label: LEGACY Catalog: 886973985229 Format: CD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Three of the most important contributors to jazz in the late ‘50s are highlighted in a series of recent double album re-issues. This was a very fruitful era... | Price: $30.98 ( 29.21*) |
 | Miles Davis: Sketches Of Spain (legacy Edition) Label: LEGACY Catalog: 886974394921 Format: CD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Three of the most important contributors to jazz in the late ‘50s are highlighted in a series of recent double album re-issues. This was a very fruitful era... | Price: $24.98 ( 23.56*) |
 | Janacek: Sinfonietta / Taras Bulba Label: TUDOR Catalog: T7135 Format: SACD HYBRID Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Nestled near the remote eastern border of Bavaria, Bamberg is the home of an orchestra founded in 1946 from the post-war remnants of the former German Philhar... | Price: $23.98 ( 22.61*) |
 | Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Label: TUDOR Catalog: T7151 Format: SACD HYBRID Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Nestled near the remote eastern border of Bavaria, Bamberg is the home of an orchestra founded in 1946 from the post-war remnants of the former German Philhar... | Price: $25.98 ( 24.50*) |
 | Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps Label: TUDOR Catalog: T7145 Format: SACD HYBRID Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Nestled near the remote eastern border of Bavaria, Bamberg is the home of an orchestra founded in 1946 from the post-war remnants of the former German Philha... | Price: $25.98 ( 24.50*) |
 | Verdi: Messa Da Requiem / Maazel Label: MEDICI ARTS Catalog: 2072438 Format: DVD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 In 2007 for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Toscanini’s death Lorin Maazel, his erstwhile protégé, gave a series of concerts in Italy. The fo... | Price: $24.98 ( 23.56*)On Sale |
 | Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen Label: MEDICI ARTS Catalog: 3078388 Format: DVD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 A mere 30 years ago Leos Janáček’s operas were virtually unknown in the West, but today there is hardly a reputable opera company that hasn’t performed ... | Price: $36.98 ( 34.87*) |
 | Concours Molinari Release Date: 05/26/2009 Label: ATMA Classique Catalogue: 2368 Number of Discs: 1 Format: CD Composer: Kazutomo Yamamoto , José Luis Hurtado , Luca Antignani , Stephen Yip Performer: Olga Ranzenhofer, Johannes Jansonius, Jasmine Schnarr, Julie Trudeau Ensemble / Conductor: Molinari Quartet / | Price: $18.98 ( 17.90*) |
 | Diana Krall: Live In Rio Label: EAGLE VISION Catalog: 302739 Format: DVD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 When I first heard that Diana Krall had released a DVD of a concert in Rio de Janeiro, I marvelled at the chutzpah it takes for a girl from Nanaimo, B.C. to p... | Price: $19.98 ( 18.84*) |
 | Saint-Lubin: Virtuoso Works for Violin Vol 1 / Khitruk, Kopelman Release Date: 05/26/2009 Label: Naxos (USA / Record Label) Catalogue: 8-572019 Number of Discs: 1 Format: CD Composer: Napoléon Saint-Lubin Performer: Anastasia Khitruk, Elizaveta Kopelman | Price: $8.98 ( 8.47*) |
 | Purcell: Fantasias Pour Violes Label: ATMA Catalog: ACD22591 Format: CD Wholenote Discoveries - July 2009 Henry Purcell composed his fifteen Fantasias and In nomines just after becoming the organist at Westminster Abbey. Composed for consorts of three to seven vio... | Price: $17.98 ( 16.96*) |