CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Janice Harsanyi (soprano) Rudolf Petrak (tenor) / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / The Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy [ Sony Essential Classics / CD - released 7/Dec/2001 ] Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
GUSTAV HOLST / WILLIAM WALTON
Holst: Planets / Walton: Facade New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein / Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, with Vera Zorina (reciter) [ Sony Essential Classics / CD - released 20/May/1996 ] Recorded December 7, 1971 and February 19, 1961. |
Being Julia
[ Sony Pictures Classics / DVD - released 16/May/2018 ] In the role that brought her amazing critical acclaim, an Academy Award nomination, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Annette Bening plays a beautiful and beguiling actress who finds herself bored with her role as the toast of the town in... |
Classics Remastered: Universal Soldier (1992)
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 25/Mar/2020 ] The future has a bad attitude. Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren are members of a prototype military unit known as the Universal Soldiers, the two possess extraordinary skills and powers, and are devoid of pain, emotions…or memories of... |
Don't Look Now
[ Sony Pictures Classics Remastered / 2 DVD - released 4/Sep/2019 ] Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star in Nicolas Roeg's brilliantly atmospheric adaptation of the short story by Daphne du Maurier. Following the death of their daughter, John and Laura Baxter travel to Venice where he is to oversee the... |
Various Artists
Back In The Day - Hip Hop Classics [ Sony / CD - released 8/Aug/2014 ] |
TCHAIKOVSKY / MEYERBEER / ADAM
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake / Adam: Giselle / Meyerbeer: The Skaters Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy [ Sony Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: The Cello Suites (Nos. 4, 5 & 6) Anner Bylsma (Violoncello Stradivarius) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/1999 ] Anner Bylsma plays the Servais Stradivarius from the collection of Smithsonian instruments |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 3 Pinchas Zukerman (violin & conductor) / Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra [ Sony Essential Classics / CD - released 20/May/2002 ] Israeli-born Pinchas Zukerman has kept his face and music before the public for more than four decades with his wide range of activities: he is a world-class violinist, violist, conductor, and administrator. |
Bob Dylan
Original Album Classics (3CD) [ Sony / 3 CD - released 28/Jun/2013 ] The three Dylan albums collected here are 1985's Empire Burlesque, 1988's Down in the Groove, and 1990's Under the Red Sky. |
Classics Remastered: Breathless (1960)
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 24/Mar/2021 ] A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. |
Wall.E (Disney Pixar Classics)
[ Walt Disney Studios / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Jan/2009 ] After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL·E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a search robot named EVE and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to cinemas. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Solo Piano Works: Sonata In E Major D157 / Sonata In G Major D894 / etc Arcadi Volodos (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - Gramophone Magazine - Recording of the month (June 2002) |
Aretha Franklin
Sings The Greatest Diva Classics [ Sony / CD - released 24/Oct/2014 ] Aretha Franklin is showing some R-E-S-P-E-C-T to her fellow diva: The Queen Of Soul will release an album covering classic songs from other female singers. 'Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics' includes songs such as Glady's Knight's... |
Various Composers
Charlotte Church Charlotte Church [ Sony Classics / CD - released 21/Nov/1999 ] Includes "Just Wave Hello" - the Ford Millennium Anthem |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier' Grigory Sokolov (Piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] "Sokolov's voicing of textures throughout the sonata is a marvel in itself…there is certainly a massive self-belief and artistic presence here" Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Grigory Sokolov (Piano) / Münchner Philharmoniker, Witold Rowicki [ Sony Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] "No comparisons. An extraordinary document, with Solokov's integrity and humanity illuminating every bar" Gramophone |
ALBENIZ / BACH / BARRIOS / GRANADOS / SATIE / TARREGA / etc
The Guitarist [3 CD set] John Williams, guitar [ Sony Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] "A comprehensive survey of unmatched prowess" [BBC Music Magazine] |
BACH / ALBENIZ / TELEMANN / SCARLATTI / COUPERIN / GIULIANI / etc
John Williams - Five Classic Original Album Classics [5 CDs] John Williams (guitar), with John Etheridge (guitar), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti [ Sony Music / 5 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2016 ] John Williams, classical guitar virtuoso, is known for his wide-ranging approach to repertory, which includes appearances playing electric rock guitar and international music. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: My Piano Hero Lang Lang (piano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Sony Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2011 ] "There is some quite exquisite playing here (Consolation No. 3, 'Un sospiro' and the rarely-heard Romance 'O pourquoi donc' that opens the programme) and bursts of electrifying dexterity (Grand galop chromatique and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6). The... |