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RICHARD SCHUMACHER CDs HIGHLIGHTS SUPERB PERFORMANCES RECORDED WITH THE ORCHESTRA THE MASTERPLAYERS THE BUCHAREST PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA „GEORGE ENESCU“ ORCHESTRA ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI DI NAPOLI DELLA RAI THE ROMANIAN RADIO NATIONAL ORCHESTRA BUCHAREST THE SLOVAK RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BRATISLAVA THE FINNISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HELSINKI THE ORCHESTRA DELLA RADIO SVIZZERA ITALIANA THE ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI ROMA DELLA RAI THE HAMBURG RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THE ANGELICUM STRING ORCHESTRA MILANO THE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM HELVETICUM THE COLORADO FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA AND WORLDCLASS SOLOISTS HEINZ HOLLIGER MAXENCE LARRIEU KARL LEISTER HERMANN BAUMANN PETER LUKAS GRAF DENES ZSIGMONDY LUIGI ALBERTO BIANCHI SUSANNA MILDONIAN ELZBIETA STEFANSKA JULIAN VON KAROLY VALENTIN GHEORGHIU BACH Suite No.2, The Masterplayers, Maxence Larrieu, Flute, Decca Aristocrate Paris Production BACH Violinconcerto BWV 1042, The Masterplayers, Denes Zsigmondy, Violin, Amadeo Amanda Production, Vienna BACH Concerto for Violin and Oboe, The Masterplayers, Vladimir Mally Oboe, Vesselin Paraschkevov Violin, Liveconcert Washington BACH Concerto for 2 Violins, The Masterplayers, Vesselin Paraschkevov, Jan Tomes, Violins, Liveconcert Washington BARBER Adagio for Strings, The Masterplayers, Liveconcert Merkin Hall New York BEETHOVEN Symphony 4, Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana, RSI Production Lugano BEETHOVEN Octet for Winds, Collegium Musicum Helveticum, Liveconcert Festival Ascona .Swiss Radio Production CIMAROSA Sinfonie, The Masterplayers, Warner Fonit Production. Recorded in Orvieto at medieval church CIMAROSA Harpsichord Concerto, The Masterplayers, Elzbieta Stefanska harpsichord, Warner Fonit Production DVORAK Nocturno for Strings, The Masterplayers, Liveconcert Merkin Hall New York EGK WERNER Georgia, Vier Bauernstücke, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI. Liveconcert Foro Italico Roma DE FALLA The Cornered Hat Dancesuite, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Helsinki. Finnish Radio Production FRANCK Symphony d minor, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Liveconcert in Bratislava FRANCK Symphonic Variations, Romanian Radio National Orchestra Bucharest.Valentin Gheorghiu Piano. Electrecord Production GRETRY Suite Zemire et Azor, Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, NDR Hamburg Production HANDEL Alexander’s Feast Concerto, The Masterplayers, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.5, The Masterplayers, Liveconcert in Los Angeles HANDEL Watermusic Suite, The Masterplayers, Liveconcert in Washington HAYDN Symphony No.83 „Poule“ Colorado Festival Orchestra, Liveconcert in Boulder Colorado HAYDN Symphony No.88, The Masterplayers, Decca Aristocrate Paris Production HAYDN Symphony No.46, The Masterplayers, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna HAYDN Symphony No.46 The Masterplayers, Liveconcert Merkin Hall New York HAYDN Symphony No.55, Orchestra Scarlatti di Napoli, Liveconcert Palazzo Reale Napoli HAYDN Symphony No.55, Collegium Musicum Helveticum, Liveconcert Teatro Colon Buenos Aires HAYDN Concerto for Piano in D, The Masterplayers, Julian von Karoly Piano, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna HONEGGER ARTHUR Concerto da Camera, Collegium Musicum Helveticum, Liveconcert Teatro Colon Buenos Aires MARCELLO Concerto for Oboe, The Masterplayers, Heinz Holliger Oboe, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna MAYR JOHANN SIMON Pianoconcerto, Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, Peter Hollfelder Piano, NDR Production Hamburg MENDELSSOHN Pianoconcerto G, Romanian Radio National Orchestra Bucharest, Valentin Gheorghiu Piano, Electrecord Production MERCADANTE Concerto for Flute, The Masterplayers, Maxence Larrieu Flute, Warner Fonit Production MERCADANTE Concerto for Clarinet, The Masterplayers, Karl Leister Clarinet, Warner Fonit Production MERCADANTE Concerto for Horn, The Masterplayers, Hermann Baumann Horn, Warner Fonit Production MOZART Symphony No.36 „Linz“ Bucharest State Philharmonic „George Enescu“ Electrecord Production Bucharest MOZART Symphony K.201, The Masterplayers, Decca Aristocrate Production Paris MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for Violin Viola Cello K.104, The Masterplayers, Decca Aristocrate Production Paris MOZART Concerto K.299, The Masterplayers, Maxence Larrieu Flute, Susanna Mildonian Harp, Decca Aristocrate Production Paris MOZART Divertimento K.136, The Masterplayers, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525, Collegium Musicum Helveticum, Liveconcert Teatro Colon Buenos Aires MOZART Pianoconcerto K.271, Romanian Radio National Orchestra Bucharest, Valentin Gheorghiu Piano, Electrecord Production NARDINI Violinconcerto, The Masterplayers, Nikola Petrovic, Violin, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna PORRINO ENNIO Sardegna, Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, NDR Production Hamburg ROGALSKI THEODOR Romanian Dances, Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, NDR Production Hamburg ARDEVOL JOSÈ Suite Cubana, Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, NDR Production Hamburg ROSSI MARIO Studi Sinfonici su 5 Capricci di Paganini, Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, NDR Production Hamburg ROSSINI Sonata No.3 for Strings, The Masterplayers, Liveconcert in Los Angeles SATIE Parade, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Liveconcert in Bratislava STAMITZ Orchesterquartett, The Masterplayers, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna STÖLZEL Concerto Grosso a quattro chori, Romanian Radio National Orchestra Bucharest. Electrecord Bucharest Production TELEMANN/SCHUMACHER Suite for Orchestra, Romanian Radio National Orchestra Bucharest. Electrecord Bucharest TELEMANN Concerto for Violin and 2 Horns. The Masterplayers, Liveconcert in Washington TURINA La Oracion del Torero, The Masterplayers, Liveconcert Merkin Hall New York VIVALDI 4 Concerti, Orchestra Angelicum Milano, Angelicum Production Milano VIVALDI Concerto for 2 Violins Op.3 No.8. The Masterplayers, Amadeo Amanda Production Vienna VIVALDI Concerto for 4 Violins, The Masterplayers, Liveconcert in Washington

		WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART SINFONIA CONCERTANTE FOR VIOLIN VIOLA AND CELLO K.104 (320e) THE MASTERPLAYERS conducted by RICHARD SCHUMACHER Soloists Hervé Le Floch, Violin Luigi Alberto Bianchi. Viola Ulrich Heinen, Cello Decca Paris Production



	In addition to the 626 works which Mozart composed in his brief 35 years and to which the familiar Köchel numbers have been assigned, there also exists in the composers „oeuvre“ more than 100 fragments or beginnings of works which Mozart, for one reason or another, never completed It was in 1870-71 that Otto Bach, the director of the Mozarteum of Salzburg where the manuscript was preserved, thought of reconstructing the Triple Concerto about which Alfred Einstein had declared: „if Mozart had completed it, the result would have been nothing less than a companion piece to the magnificent Sinfonia Concertante in E flat“ Since then another version of this work has been advanced by Richard Schumacher who presented the first performance at Zug, in 1975 with his orchestra The Masterplayers