BERLIOZ / HAYDN / MUSSORGSY-RAVEL / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / BEETHOVEN
Colin Davis: The Concertgebouw Legacy Arthur Grumiaux, Salvatore Accardo (violin) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Colin Davis's complete Concertgebouworkest recordings for Philips, collected together for the first time CD premieres of Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 84, 86, 87, 88 (on Decca), and the Dvořák Romance with Accardo (first international CD release). |
DEBUSSY / FELDMAN / DAHL / BERNSTEIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / COSTELLO / GRIEG / SCHUMANN
Michael Tilson Thomas - Complete Deutsche Grammophon & Argo Recordings Jean-Marc Luisada (piano), Paul Zukofsky (violin), Frederica von Stade; Thomas Hampson / London Symphony, Boston Symphony, etc, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 14 CD Box Set - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Michael Tilson Thomas's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon (1970-2003) and Argo (1992-1995) encapsulate the conductor's restlessly exploratory nature and masterful handling of the modern orchestra. The recordings in this collection... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 Oslo Philharmonic, Klaus Mäkelä [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - due 13/Sep/2024 ] "...the account of the Sixth Symphony is beautifully controlled and paced, the Oslo strings radiant as the first movement steadily intensifies, the woodwind fabulously agile in the scherzo second, and the finale a joyous, witty romp." The Guardian |
BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
Misha Dichter - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings Misha Dichter (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2024 ] It was inevitable, perhaps, that Dichter's debut release for the label would be given over to the Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto, the same work that catapulted the competition's first winner Van Cliburn to international stardom. |
Paul Robeson
Voice of Freedom; His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV, and Victor Recordings [ Sony Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2024 ] This is a special edition, documenting Paul Robeson's complete major-label discography recorded 1925-1947! It contains the first release of Robeson's groundbreaking Victor recordings on CD with 16 recordings reissued for the first time. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: TheComplete Symphonies, Ovetures, Haydn Variations, Violin Concerto, Requiem & Alto Rhapsody David Oistrakh, Christa Ludwig, Elizabeth Schwarkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion, Otto [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Klemperer and Brahms had much in common, which may go some way to explaining the empathy with which Klemperer conducts the works of the composer. Richard Osborne says 'no detail was insignificant, yet none was allowed to subvert the larger whole'. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Pierre Boulez conducts Arnold Schoenberg Ensemble Intercontemporain, BBC Symphony Orchestra [ Sony Classical / 13 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Released via the 'Sony Classical' label - The collection "Pierre Boulez Conducts Arnold Schoenberg: The Complete Columbia and Sony Recordings" is a comprehensive box set featuring the renowned conductor Pierre Boulez interpreting the works of Arnold... |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Juilliard String Quartet …Plays Schoenberg Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / 7 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century, was born in Vienna in 1874. Columbia was a pioneer in documenting Schoenberg's achievements and already demonstrated that commitment during his lifetime (he died in... |
HANDEL / BEETHOVEN / BACH / VERDI / ROSSINI / DELIBES / GOUNOD / etc/
Joan Sutherland: Oratorios & Recitals Dame Joan Sutherland, with Sir Peter Pears, Marilyn Horne, Kenneth McKellar, Barry Tuckwell, Richard Bonynge and others [ Decca / 37 CD Box Set - released 19/Jul/2024 ] The first set comprises Sutherland's complete Recitals and Oratorio recordings for Decca, ranging from the 1959 operatic recital recorded in Paris, with Nello Santi (has Verdi's "Santo di patria" ever rung out with greater thrill?). |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded at the Bayreuth Festival in 2023) Andreas Schager, Elīna Garanča, Georg Zeppenfeld / Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Bayreuther Festspielchor, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2024 ] The acclaimed new production of Wagner's final opera "Parsifal" is "a musical godsend" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The successful partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival continues, and what was started with the 2015... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 1-16 (complete, inc. Grosse Fuge) Budapest String Quartet [ Sony Classical / 8 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Founded 100 years ago in 1917, the Budapest Quartet was at the height of its success in the early 1950s, under the leadership of first violinist Joseph Roisman....Recorded in Stereo 1958-61. |
RACHMANINOV / CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / LISZT
Rafael Orozco - The Philips Legacy Rafael Orozco (piano) / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart [ Decca / Eloquence / 8 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Collected here are the complete Philips recordings of one of Spain's piano aristocracy, winner of the 1966 Leeds Piano Competition. There is passion and poetry in equal measure, and an instinctive feeling for the ebb and flow of a phrase... |
MUSSORGSKY / RAVEL / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / JANÁČEK / FRANCK / etc
Rudolf Firkusny Edition Rudolf Firkušný (piano), with Erica Morini (violin) & Pierre Fournier (cello) [ Deutsche Grammophon / Eloquence / 12 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2024 ] "Firkušný is a sensitive, intellectual pianist, and his refined musical playing falls very pleasantly on the ear. He plays [Pictures] remarkably well … The Ravel pieces are beautifully done too, and as the recording quality is quite outstandingly." |
MAURICE RAVEL / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Ravel [Includes Piano Concertos & La Valse] Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Stéphane Degout (bartone) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Les Siècles present two of their successful series of Ravel recordings on period instruments under François-Xavier Roth, with Cédric Tiberghien at the piano and baritone Stéphane Degout. |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / J. STRAUSS / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Josef Krips Edition - Volume 2 Josef Krips, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta, Inge Borkh, Wiener Staatsoper [ Decca Eloquence / 21 CD Box Set - released 7/Jun/2024 ] Mozart was Josef Krips's yardstick in music: 'My maxim is that everything has to sound as though it were by Mozart, or it will be a bad performance.' Collected here are his Mozart symphony recordings with the Concertgebouworkest for Philips. |
MOZART / CANTELOUBE / HANDEL / MAHLER / STRAUSS / BERNSTEIN / etc
Kiri Te Kanawa - Complete Philips & Decca Recordings Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), with Elizabeth Bainbridge, Roger Vignoles, André Previn, José Carreras, Georg Solti, etc [ Decca / 23 CD Box Set - released 7/Jun/2024 ] Released to celebrate Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 80th birthday, this set features her complete recital recordings for Decca and Philips, filled out with excerpts from the large number of complete recordings of sacred music and opera she made for these... |
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Mendelssohn: Symphonies [ Alpha Classics / 4 CD - released 7/Jun/2024 ] "I don't think Mendelssohn gets the attention he deserves," said Paavo Järvi at the start of the 2020 -2021 season. Faced with this observation, he undertook to record a complete cycle of Mendelssohn's orchestral works with the Zurich Tonhalle... |
MOZZART / SCHUBERT / BRUCKNER / R. STRAUSS / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition Complete Symphonic, Lieder & Choral Recordings Wolfgang Sawallisch, with Peter Schreier, Peter Zimmermann, Lucia Popp, Annie Fischer, Dennis Brain, etc [ Warner Classics / 65 CD Box Set - released 7/Jun/2024 ] For five decades Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) held a central position in the musical world. That centrality was reflected in a series of top orchestral and operatic posts and in his interpretations, free of self-regarding eccentricities. His... |
PROKOFIEV / TCHAIKOVSKY / ROSSINI / BERNSTEIN / VERDI / BRUCKNER / etc
Antonio Pappano: Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano, with Beatrice Rana, Alexandre Tharaud (piano) Han-Na Chang (cello) Anna Netrebko [ Warner Classics / 27 CD Box Set - released 31/May/2024 ] The collaborative efforts, the mutual emulation and inspiration of Sir Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome have spanned 18 years, led to one of the world's greatest and most versatile virtuoso ensembles and to... |
JOHN ADAMS
John Adams - Collected Works San Francisco Symphony, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, London Sinfonietta, Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Leila Josefowicz (violin), etc [ Nonesuch Records / 40 CD Box Set - released 17/May/2024 ] Nonesuch Records releases the forty-disc John Adams Collected Works, a box set featuring recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer's career with the label. |