CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: The Five Piano Concertos / Wedding Cake Pascal Roge, Daniel Chorzempa, Bella Davidovich, Michele Campanella, Magda Tagliaferro (pianos) / various orchestras [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2007 ] Saint-Saëns complete piano concertos on a 2CD Eloquence set presents some truly rare recordings - Campanella's of the Fourth and Tagliaferro's of the Fifth. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra La Scala Opera / Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Anja Harteros (Amelia Grimaldi (Maria), etc / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "[Barenboim] delivers the kind of eloquently moulded, dramatically succinct phrases heard in his Wagner performances of late...[His] status as a Verdian outsider - and the fresh insights that come with that - is a genuine drawing card." |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Chamber Music for Bassoon and Guitar Rainer Seidel (bassoon) Daniel Valentin Marx (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Georg Philipp Telemann was the most famous of all German composers during his lifetime and a master of all musical genres. Every piece in this album dates from his triumphant years in Hamburg, where he was the city's music director. |
HILDEGARD von BINGEN / HENRY PURCELL / CLARA SCHUMANN / AMY BEACH / FLORENCE PRICE / etc
Raphaela Gromes - Femmes Raphaela Gromes (cello), Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds, Julian Riem (piano) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] For years the star cellist and Opus Klassik laureate Raphaela Gromes has taken up the cause of women composers. Three of her albums, acclaimed by critics and listeners alike, have featured music by unknown women composers, and she maintains a... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2002 at the Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin) Dorothea Roschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanno Muller-Brachmann, Werner Gura / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ TDK/Euroarts DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "It is very well performed. All the singers are on good form, and work well together in this most ensemble-based of Mozart operas. The picture quality and sound quality are both excellent, and there are loads of index points." (MusicWeb) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (with Mark-Anthony Turnage: "Shadow Walker" Concerto) Vadim Repin, Daniel Hope (violins) / Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] "Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are, not surprisingly, ideally fluent, and the excellent Turkish players recreate Turnage's enigmatic soundworld with aplomb." BBC Music |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Bryan Hymel, Patrizia Ciofi, John Relyea, Marina Poplavskaya / Daniel Oren (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "Meyerbeer's vocal writing demands virtuoso singing, and receives that here. Bryan Hymel hurls himself unstintingly at the title role, impossible high notes and all." BBC Music |
ALLEGRI / VICTORIA / GUERRERO / POULENC / SCHUTZ / etc
Miserere (For Lent, Holy Week & Easter) Saint Cecilia Choir of St John Cantius Church, Daniel V Robinson [ Sony Classical / CD - released 26/May/2017 ] From the heart of Chicago, St. John Cantius presents the St. Cecilia Choir through the emotional depth of Holy Week from Chicago's St. John Cantius Church. The triumphal Ingrediente Domino of "Palm Sunday" marks Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem... |
HEGGIE / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN
Violins Of Hope Sasha Cooke, Daniel Hope, Sean Mo, Dawn Harms, Kay Stern, Emil Miland, Patricia Heller [ Pentatone / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Violins of Hope presents instruments that were owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, representing strength and optimism for the future during mankind's darkest hour. They have been refurbished by luthiers Amnon and Avshalom... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms The Symphonies Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] ""The blend of clarity, intimacy and power the engineers have been able to achieve here fits the lustre and glow of these Staatskapelle performances like a glove" Editor's Choice Gramophone |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Accentus Music DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] BBC Music Magazine August 2014 - Orchestral Choice |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Symphonies [2 CDs + Blu Ray Audio] Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon 2 CDs + Blu-ray audio / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Dec/2022 ] "Barenboim masterfully clarifies textures (violins are on his right and left), proving that Schumann's orchestration is wonderfully effective when tended to with care." TheClassicReview |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Feb/2019 ] "An impressive achievement...utterly coherent and never overwrought" The Guardian |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Who are these Children? - Songs Daniel Norman (tenor) Christopher Gould (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2008 ] This Britten recital combines two of the composer's major song cycles, Winter Words, from 1953, and Who are these Children? (1969). In them he explored themes of loneliness, transcience and war. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 2016) Teatro Regio di Parma / Michele Pertusi, Jose Bros, Vladimir Stoyanov / Daniel Oren (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-ray / CD ] "Daniel Oren conducts a vibrant and dramatic performance weaving his way between Verdi's diverse demands." MusicWeb |
W. A. MOZART
50 Best Mozart Classics [3 CDs special price] Thomas Allen, Cheryl Studer, Daniel Barenboim, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sabine Meyer, Neville Marriner, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] All the greatest works of Amadeus Mozart performed by teh world's top soloists and performers. |
STEFAN WOLPE
String Quartet / Second Piece for Violin Alone / Trio in 2 Parts / Oboe Quartet Toby Appel / Theodore Arm / Aleck Karis / Daniel Kennedy [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2006 ] The surface of Wolpe's late music is deceptive. Herbert Brün observed that if you listen from the outside, it all sounds the same, but inside "everything is exploding. You are full of stuff". Wolpe limited himself to a relatively simple palette of... |
Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, Steve Gouveia, John Lloyd Young / Original Broadway Cast (US pressing)
Jersey Boys [ Rhino Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and breakup of the 1960s rock 'n' roll group The Four Seasons. The musical is... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Tribute to Gerald Moore (recorded 1967) Victoria de los Angeles, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Janet Baker, Daniel Barenboim, Nicolai Gedda, Leon Goossens, Yehudi Menuhin [ EMI / 11 CD - released 15/Feb/1987 ] The first release on CD of the complete original LPs of the recording made live at the concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London in February 1967 to mark the retirement of Gerald Moore |