Month: August 2018

Various Artists – 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon

Jovan Stosic August 26, 2018 
- The Collector's Edition -

(55-CD box-set) 
- DG - 477 8167
 


This unique collection of 55 CDs forms DG¡¯s major release in its 111th anniversary celebrations. The limited edition box set gathers together many landmark recordings ? from the past to the present. Most of them appear complete, as originally programmed, in their original cover art ? and several include additional material.

This is a great Library of Music, Artists and Recordings extending from Abbado to Zimerman, Monteverdi to Part, Furtwangler to Dudamel ? there¡¯s never been anything quite like it before! The opulent deluxe box with hinged lid opens up to reveal the neatly stacked contents of 51 ¡°original jacket¡± albums and the 140-page booklet.


Disc  1 - Claudio Abbado: Brahms, Ungarische Tanze Nr. 1-21 (Wien PO/1982)
Disc  2 - Amadeus Quartett: Beethoven, Streichquartette Nr. 7 & 15 (1959 / 1962)
Disc  3 - Martha Argerich: Chopin, Preludes Nr. 1-26; Klaviersonate Nr. 3 op. 35 (1976)
Disc  4 - Daniel Barenboim: Ravel, La Valse; Daphnis et Chloe-Suite Nr. 2; Pavane (Orchestre de Paris / 1981)
Disc  5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Debussy, Preludes Heft 1; Images I & II (1977)
Disc  6 - Leonard Bernstein: Berstein, West Side Story / 1984)
Disc  7 - Karl Bohm: Mozart, Requiem KV 626 (Mathis, Hamari, Ochmann, Wien PO/1971)
Disc  8 - Pierre Boulez: Strawinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps; Der Feuervogel (Cleveland O, Chicago SO/1991)
Disc  9 - G.Carmignola: Vivaldi, Violinkonzerte RV 190, 217, 303, 325, 331 (Venice Baroque O, A Marcon / 2005)
Disc 10 - Placido Domingo / Carlo Maria Giulini: Opera Gala (Los Angeles PO, Giulini / 1981)
Disc 11 - Gustavo Dudamel: Mahler, Symphonie Nr. 5 (Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela / 2006)
Disc 12 - Emerson Quartet: Bach, Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 fur Streichquartett (2002)
Disc 13 - Dietrich Fischer Dieskau: Schubert, Winterreise D. 911 (Gerald Moore, Klavier/ 1971)
Disc 14 & 15 - Pierre Fournier: Bach, Cellosuiten BWV 1007-1012 (1960)
Disc 16 - Ferenc Fricsay: Verdi, Requiem (Stader, Radev, Krebs, Borg, RIAS SO/1953)
Disc 17 - Wilhelm Furtwangler: Schumann, Symph. Nr. 4 / Haydn, Symphonie Nr. 88 (Berlin PO/1953 / 1951)
Disc 18 & 19 - John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi, Vespro della beata vergine; Magnificat a sei voci (Monoyios, Pennicchi, Chance, Tucker, Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / 1989)
Disc 20 - Emil Gilels: Beethoven, Klaviersonaten Nr. 21, 23, 26 (1971-1974)
Disc 21 - Reinhard Goebel: Bach, Orchestersuiten Nr. 2 & 5 / Pachelbel, Canon & Gigue in D/Handel, Sonate fur 2 Violinen HWV 399 / Vivaldi, Sonate fur 2 Violinen RV 63 (Musica Antiqua Koln / 1982)
Disc 22 - Helene Grimaud: Credo: Part, Credo for Piano, Choir & Orchestra / Beethoven, Piano Sonata Nr. 17 "Tempest"; Chorfantasie op. 80 / Corigliano, Fantasie (Swedish Radio Choir, Swe. RSO, E-P Salonen / 2002)
Disc 23 - Hilary Hahn: Bach, Violinkonzerte BWV 1041-1043, 160 ((BWV 1043 fur 2 Violinen; BWV 1060 fur Violine & Oboe) (Hilary Hahn, Margaret Batjer, Allan Vogel, LA Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane / 2003)
Disc 24 - V. Horowitz: In Moscow: Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Chopin, Schumann,etc (1985)
Disc 25 - Eugen Jochum: Orff, Carmina Burana (Janowitz, Stolze, Fischer-Dieskau, O der D. Oper Berlin / 1968)
Disc 26 - Herbert von Karajan: Beethoven, Symphonie Nr. 9; Coriolan-Ouverture op. 62 Berlin PO/1962)
Disc 27 - Wilhelm Kempff: Beethoven, Klavierkonzerte Nr. 4 & 5 (Berlin PO, Leitner / 1962)
Disc 28 - Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven, Symphonien Nr. 5 & 7 (Wien PO/1974 / 1975)
Disc 29 - Magdalena Kozena: Handel Arien (Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon / 2006)
Disc 30 - Rafael Kubelik: Dvorak, Symphonien Nr. 8 & 9 (Berlin PO/1967 / 1972)
Disc 31 - Lang Lang: Tschaikowsky, Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 op. 23 / Mendelssohn, Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 op. 25 (Chicago SO, Daniel Barenboim / 2003)
Disc 32 - Lorin Maazel: Mendelssohn, Symphonien Nr. 4 & 5 (Berlin PO/1961)
Disc 33 - Mischa Maisky: Werke von Saint-Saens, Faure, Respighi, Dvorak, Glasunow, Tschaikowsky, Bruch, Strauss, Haydn (Orchestre de Paris, Bychkov / 1991)
Disc 34 - Igor Markevitch: Cherubini, Anacreon-Ouverture / Auber, La Muette de Portici-Ouverture (Lamoureux Orchestra / 1958)
Disc 35 - Paul McCreesh: Praetorius, Christmette (Lutherian Christmas Morning Mass ) (Gabrieli Consort & Players / 1993)
Disc 36 - Marc Minkowski: Rameau, Une Symphonie imaginaire ((Suite of 20 Orchestral pieces from 11 Rameau-Operas,selected by Marc Minkowski) (Les Musiciens du Louvre / 2004)
Disc 37 - Anne Sophie Mutter: Brahms, Konzert fur Violine, Cello & Orchester op. 102; Violinkonzert op. 77 (Mutter, Meneses, Berlin PO, Karajan / 1983 / 1981)
Disc 38 - Anna Netrebko: Opera Arias - Szenen & Arien von Mozart, Berlioz, Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, Massenet, Gounod, Dvorak (Wien PO, GIanandrea Noseda / 2001)
Disc 39 - David Oistrach: Tschaikowsky, Violinkonzert op. 35 / Wieniawski, 3 Etudes-Caprices / Sarasate, Navarra op. 33 (Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Konwitschny / 1961)
Disc 40 - Anne Sofie von Otter: Lamenti (Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (1997)
Disc 41 - Trevor Pinnock: Vivaldi, Concerti op. 8 Nr. 1-4, RV 548; Konzert fur 2 Violinen RV 516 (Standage, Willcock, The English Consort / 1981)
Disc 42 & 43 - Maria Joao Pires: Chopin, Nocturnes Nr. 1-21 (1995)
Disc 44 - I. Pogorelich: Scarlatti, Klaviersonaten K. 1, 8,  , 11, 13, 20, 87, 98, 119, 135, 159, 380, 450, 487, 529 (1991)
Disc 45 - Maurizio Pollini: Chopin, Etuden Nr. 1-24 (1971)
Disc 46 - Thomas Quasthoff: Die Stimme - Arien & Duette von Lortzing, Wagner, Weber, Strauss (Quasthoff, Oelze, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Thielemann / 2001)
Disc 47 & 48 - Karl Richter: Bach, Messe h-moll (BWV 232 / 1961)
Disc 49 - Svjatoslav Richter: Rachmaninoff, Klavierkonzert Nr. 2, 6 Preludes (Warschau PO, Wislocki / 1959)
Disc 50 - M.Rostropovich: Dvorak, Cellokonzert/ Tschaikowsky, Rokoko-Variationen (BPO, Karajan / 1968)
Disc 51 - Bryn Terfel: The Vagabond - Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Butterworth, Ireland, (Malcolm Martineau, Klavier / 1994)
Disc 52 - Rolando Villazon: Cielo e mar - Cilea, Donizetti, Gomes, Mercadante, Ponchielli, Verdi, Boito, Pietri (Giuseppe Verdi Chor & SO Mailand, Danielle Callegari / 2007)
Disc 53 - Helmut Walcha: Bach, Toccata & Fuge d-moll BWV 565; Praludium & Fuge BWV 552; Triosonate BWV 525; Partita BWV 768; Chorale BWV 645-650 "Schubler-Chorale" (Orgel Laurenskerk Alkmaar / 1958-1963)
Disc 54 - Fritz Wunderlich: Schumann, Dichterliebe, Beethoven, Schubert (Hubert Giesen, Klavier /1965)
Disc 55 - Krystian Zimerman: Liszt, Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1 & 2; Totentanz fur Klavier & Orchester (Boston SO, Ozawa / 1987) 

Detail tracklists are included in each Disc's folder as a <Info.txt> file.


Offical Website
http://www.dg-111.com/en_GB/albums/55-cd-box-set
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Coulomb barrier – Wikipedia

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The Coulomb barrier, named after Coulomb’s law, which is in turn named after physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, is the energy barrier due to electrostatic interaction that two nuclei need to overcome so they can get close enough to undergo a nuclear reaction.

To overcome this barrier, nuclei have to collide at high velocities, so their kinetic energies drive them close enough for the strong interactionto take place and bind them together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb_barrier

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Quantum tunnelling

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Quantum tunnelling or tunneling (see spelling differences) is the quantum mechanical phenomenon where a particle passes through a potential barrier that it classically cannot surmount. This plays an essential role in several physical phenomena, such as the nuclear fusion that occurs in main sequence stars like the Sun. It has important applications to modern devices such as the tunnel diode, quantum computing, and the scanning tunnelling microscope. The effect was predicted in the early 20th century, and its acceptance as a general physical phenomenon came mid-century.
Fundamental quantum mechanical concepts are central to this phenomenon, which makes quantum tunnelling one of the novel implications of quantum mechanics. Quantum tunneling is projected to create physical limits to how small transistors can get, due to electrons being able to tunnel past them if they are too small.
Tunnelling is often explained in terms of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the premise that the quantum object has more than one fixed state (not a wave nor a particle) in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

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Deuterium

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Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol D or 2H, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being protium, or hydrogen-1). The nucleus of deuterium, called a deuteron, contains one proton and one neutron, whereas the far more common protium has no neutron in the nucleus. Deuterium has a natural abundance in Earth’s oceans of about one atom in 6420 of hydrogen. Thus deuterium accounts for approximately 0.0156% (or, on a mass basis, 0.0312%) of all the naturally occurring hydrogen in the oceans, while protium accounts for more than 99.98%. The abundance of deuterium changes slightly from one kind of natural water to another (see Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium

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Oppenheimer–Phillips process

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The Oppenheimer–Phillips process or strip reaction is a type of deuteron-induced nuclear reaction. In this process the neutron half of an energetic deuteron (a stable isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron) fuses with a target nucleus, transmuting the target to a heavier isotope while ejecting a proton. An example is the nuclear transmutation of carbon-12 to carbon-13.

The process allows a nuclear interaction to take place at lower energies than would be expected from a simple calculation of the Coulomb barrier between a deuteron and a target nucleus. This is because, as the deuteron approaches the positively charged target nucleus, it experiences a charge polarization where the “proton-end” faces away from the target and the “neutron-end” faces towards the target. The fusion proceeds when the binding energy of the neutron and the target nucleus exceeds the binding energy of the deuteron and a proton is then repelled from the new, heavier, nucleus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer%E2%80%93Phillips_process

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Melba Phillips

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Melba Newell Phillips (February 1, 1907 – November 8, 2004) was an American physicist and pioneer science educator. One of the first doctoral students of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, Phillips completed her Ph.D. in 1933, a time when few women pursued careers in science. In 1935 Oppenheimer and Phillips published[1] their description of the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect, an early contribution to nuclear physics that explained the behavior of accelerated nuclei of radioactive hydrogen atoms. Phillips was also known for refusing to cooperate with a U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee’s investigation on internal security during the McCarthy era that led to her dismissal from her professorship at Brooklyn College, where she was a professor of science from 1938 until 1952. (The college publicly and personally apologized to Phillips for the dismissal in 1987.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melba_Phillips

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Cyclotron

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Lawrence’s 60-inch cyclotron, with magnet poles 60 inches (5 feet, 1.5 meters) in diameter, at the University of California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, in August, 1939, the most powerful accelerator in the world at the time. Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin M. McMillan (right) used it to discover plutonium, neptunium, and many other transuranic elements and isotopes, for which they received the 1951 Nobel Prizein chemistry. The cyclotron’s huge magnet is at left, with the flat accelerating chamber between its poles in the center. The beamline which analyzed the particles is at right.

A modern cyclotron used for radiation therapy. The magnet is painted yellow.

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929-1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932. A cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying (radio frequency) electric field. Ernest O. Lawrence was awarded the 1939 Nobel prize in physicsfor this invention.

Cyclotrons were the most powerful particle accelerator technology until the 1950s when they were superseded by the synchrotron, and are still used to produce particle beams in physics and nuclear medicine. The largest single-magnet cyclotron was the 4.67 m (184 in) synchrocyclotron built between 1940 and 1946 by Lawrence at the University of California at Berkeley, which could accelerate protons to 730 million electron volts (MeV). The largest cyclotron is the 17.1 m (56 ft) multimagnet TRIUMF accelerator at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia which can produce 500 MeV protons.

Over 1200 cyclotrons are used in nuclear medicine worldwide for the production of radionuclides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron

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