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IGOR STRAVINSKY / BELA BARTOK
Stravinsky: Firebird (complete ballet) / Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Piano Concerto No 3 Yefim Bronfman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "...the combination of largeness of scale and extreme tonal refinement in Yefim Bronfman's solo Bartok playing is answered with wonderful specificity by conductor and orchestra. It's a concert well worth recreating at home" BBC Music |
STRAUSS / LEHAR / HEUBERGER / KALMAN / MOZART / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / HANDEL / etc
Richard Bonynge: The Opera Collection Yvonne Kenny, Isabel Buchanan, Joan Sutherland, Deborah Riedel, Heather Begg, Angela Denning, etc / Richard Bonynge, conductor [ ABC Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 9/May/2025 ] Richard Bonynge is renowned as one of the finest opera conductors of his generation. His musicianship has been acclaimed around the globe - but it is at home in Australia that many of his closest musical collaborations have developed. |
BENAJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Cello symphony / Cello Sonata Zuill Bailey (cello), North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Grant Llewellyn, Natasha Paremski (piano) [ Telarc / CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] In his sold-out New York recital debut, Bailey performed the complete Beethoven sonatas with pianist Simone Dinnerstein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Verdi: The Four Seasons I Musici, with Francesco Buccarella (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] A brand new recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Italian ensemble I Musici, the ensemble who made the first ever stereo recording. Released to mark the 70th anniversary of their debut concert in Rome in March 1952. |
BELLINI / BERLIOZ / DELIBES / HANDEL / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI
Flower Duet: The World's Most Beautiful Duets Brigitte Fassbaender, Marilyn Horne, Dame Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Since the beginning of opera, the convention of the duet, in which two characters simultaneously express their feelings, has been one of the staple ploys of musical dramatists. Collected here are all the most beautiful opera duets ever written. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 1 Christopher Maltman (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] 'Christopher Maltman has already distinguished himself as a lieder singer, but now he reveals himself as a stunningly apt exponent of French mélodies' (Opera News) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / HENRY PURCELL
Britten/Purcell: The Complete Purcell Realizations Felicity Lott, Susan Gritton (sopranos) Sarah Walker (mezzo soprano) James Bowman (countertenor) John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge (tenors) etc [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] 'Altogether a marvellous treat - Another Hyperion triumph' (Classic CD) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera) Gregory Kunde, Laura Claycomb, Darren Jeffery, Andrew Kennedy / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Jun/2008 ] 'Conductor and tenor are the joint heroes of this exhilarating release...Davis remains the supreme Berliozian of our day, brilliantly evoking the mercurial wit of the comic repartee...anyone who doesn't own this fabulous score should snap it... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust Karen Cargill, Bryan Hymel, Christopher Purves, Gábor Bretz / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "Hymel's Faust is the most convincing soloist. But it's the vivid detail Rattle conjures up, the brilliant playing and the force and intensity of the choral singing that give greatest satisfaction." Sunday Times |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda [ LSO Live / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] Urgent, supercharged and violent in places, Tchaikovsky's Fourth is said to reflect the turmoil he found himself in while composing: a disastrous marriage, struggles with his sexuality and severe depression. Yet, despite the gloomy outlook, the... |
STEVE REICH / CHICK COREA / MAKOTO OZONE / GWILYM SIMCOCK / etc
Quartet Quintet LSO Percussion Ensemble [ LSO Live / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "A varied and vibrant programme, impeccably played and recorded; percussion albums don't come much better than this." MusicWeb |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky / CD - released 19/Apr/2019 ] Valery Gergiev is widely recognised as the greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky's music and the Mariinsky holds a peerless reputation in the repertoire. Together they deliver definitive interpretations of one of Tchaikovsky's most popular... |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / GLUCK / MASSENET / KRIELER / MENDELSSOHN / FAURE / etc
Renaud Capucon - Le violon Roi Renaud Capucon (violin) with Gautier Capucon (cello) Frank Braley (piano) Martha Argerich (piano) Mischa Maisky (cello), etc [ Erato Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds. He was awarded first prize for chamber music in 1992 and first prize for violin with a special... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Songs Stephan Genz (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Sep/2003 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 1999 PREIS DER DEUTSCHEN SCHALLPLATTENKRITIK |
JOHN TAVERNER
Taverner: Missa Mater Christi sanctissima / Western Wynde Mass Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jul/2016 ] "Performances that are beautifully judged in both their balance and shaping." MusicWeb |
