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The KDFC CD of the Week
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Listen for spotlight tracks from this choice new release, picked by KDFC Music Director Rik Malone, throughout the week.
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Two Pianists
Two pianists, one established, one up-and-coming, tackling the daunting Chopin Preludes, and you get a rare chance to compare them, on the air and in our special Club KDFC Listening Room. You can also hear the 20-year-old Blechacz in concert this Sunday at Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
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Debussy: Complete Works For Piano Vol 2 / Bavouzet
CD $14.99  In Stock, On sale!
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French pianist Bavouzet is a master at getting all of Debussy’s colors out of the piano, even finding some you might not have expected. He has a reputation for somewhat unusual interpretations, but they’re always interesting and always grounded in the music. This is how Impressionism was meant to sound (even if Debussy himself didn’t like that term!). |
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Los Romeros: Golden Jubilee Celebration
CD $15.99
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The “Royal Family of the Guitar” now spans three generations, and this double-CD set covers recordings from 1962 to 1985, including favorites like Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez,” a “Carmen” suite, and Concertos by Vivaldi, for one, two, three and four guitars. Essential listening for guitar lovers!
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Handel: Water Music / Labadie, Les Violons Du Roy
CD $15.99
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Bernard Labadie is in town this week to work his magic with the San Francisco Symphony; this is his latest recording with the orchestra he founded in Canada. Fresh, clean, and very stylish performances! |
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Our picks for the hottest, most exciting artists on the classical scene – all under age 30. Link
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The Magic of Lang Lang
CD $15.99 On Sale!
 The superstar pianist will be a guest judge and performer and the KDFC Classical Starsearch finals. His latest is an anthology of some of his best recordings so far, including some live cuts. Hear what all the excitement is about!
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Air On A G String / David Russell
CD $17.99
 It seems as though Scottish guitarist David Russell puts out a new CD every year, but why not? They sound great, and he is not just a masterly player but an enjoyable one as well. He won a Grammy Award a couple of years ago, and when he’s not organizing charity golf tournaments for drought relief in Africa, he’s finding beautiful but little-known works to record, or devising ways to make familiar music sound fresh. This new CD has a little bit of both.
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Jie Chen: Chinese Piano Favorites
CD $8.99
This is the debut album from this multiple-prize-winner, and it’s an original – and, I think, successful – way to launch a recording career. Most of these songs were written during the 1950s and 1960s, which was not an especially friendly time for Western-style music in China; but somehow piano music thrived, and these songs range from folk-style melodies to stirring, proletariat work songs, arranged in a modern, classical style.
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New Year's Concert 2008 / Georges Prêtre, Vienna Po
CD $17.99
 The New Year’s Concerts in Vienna have been an annual tradition since 1939, but 2008 is the first year a French conductor has led the Vienna Philharmonic. Georges Pretre leads the Vienna Philharmonic in plenty of festive music from Johann Strauss and friends, recorded live!
DECCA B0010611
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Dustin O'Halloran: Piano Solos Vol.2
CD $15.49
 KDFC’s Music Director Rik Malone has picked out a piano disc by pianist Dustin O’Halloran, whose day job is with Devics, a “dream pop” band from L.A. He also wrote music for Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film “Marie Antoinette.” This is his second disc of Piano Solos (hence the creative album title), and the pieces (all titled simply with Opus numbers) could be called “dream classical”; very moody, atmospheric and melodic in the style of KDFC favorites Helen Jane Long and Ludovico Einaudi.
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Elgar: Cello Concerto, Etc / Clein, Handley, Et Al
CD $15.99
 Release Date: 02/05/2008 Label: Emi Classics Catalog: 01409 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Sir Edward Elgar
Performer: Natalie Clein
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
31-year-old British cellist Natalie Clein made a big splash when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1994 with a performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto. Now she has finally put that sensational performance on disc, along with several of Elgar's miniatures, arranged for cello and orchestra. You can learn more about her on her own web page and Myspace page. -- Rik Malone
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Vivaldi: L'estro Armonico / Lamon, Tafelmusik (W/Dvd)
CD $18.99
 Release Date: 11/06/2007 Label: Analekta Catalog: 29835 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Conductor: Jeanne Lamon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Tafelmusik
A Gramophone Magazine 'Editor's Choice,' this is another terrific-sounding disc from one of the world's premiere period-performance groups. The package also inlcudes a DVD multi-cultural re-imagining of Vivaldi's 'The Four Season.' -- Rik Malone
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No 8, 15, 27 & 30 / Jonathan Biss
CD $15.99
 Release Date: 10/02/2007 Label: Emi Classics Catalog: 94422 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Jonathan Biss
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The Essential Leon Fleisher
CD $19.99
 Release Date: 01/15/2008 Label: Sony Catalog: 721581 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Edvard Grieg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Maurice Ravel
Performer: Leon Fleisher, Robert Mann, Isidore Cohen, Raphael Hillyer, Claus Adam,
Jaime Laredo, Joseph Silverstein, Yo-Yo Ma
Conductor: George Szell, Seiji Ozawa
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra, Juilliard String Quartet, Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Best Of British From The Bbc Proms 2007 - Delius, Elgar, Etc
CD $17.99
 Release Date: 01/22/2008 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog: 001061002 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Sir Edward Elgar
Performer: Paul Watkins
Conductor: Jiri Belohlávek
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra
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