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VERDI / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vittorio Grigolo - The Italian Tenor Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) with Danila Rigosa & Maria Cioppi / Coro e Orchestre del Teatro di Parma, Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "Now and then there are hints of another great Italian-style tenor, the stylish Alfredo Kraus. It's there in the hushed tone Grigolo adopts for the 'Favorita del re!...Spirto gentil' from La Favorita and Manrico's elegant swagger in 'Di quella pira' |
CHOPIN / LISZT / MOSZKOWSKI / RACHMANINOV / SCARLATTI / SCHUMANN / SCRIABIN
Vladimir Horowitz - The Legendary 1986 Berlin Concert Vladimir Horowitz (piano) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 15/May/2020 ] Tapes of this storied 1986 concert-his first in Berlin in 50 years-were recently found, and excitement has spread about this release just as it did back when the concert was announced. |
JOHN TAVENER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tavener: Innocence (Incls 'The Lamb' & 'Song for Athene') Westminster Abbey Choir, Martin Neary, with Alice Neary (cello), Graham Titus (bass), Leigh Nixon (tenor), Patricia Rozario (soprano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Oct/1985 ] "If I had to recommend a single disc to convince anyone of the mastery of John Tavener, this would be it." Gramophone |
STRAUSS FAMILY / etc
New Year's Concert in Vienna 2020 (Blu-ray) Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 31/Jan/2020 ] The New Year's Concert, one of the world's most famous and spectacular classical music events, returns for the 81st time to present to viewers a sensational programme made up of the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauss and its... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No.4 in E-flat Major, WAB 104 (Edition Haas) Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "A performance that is both of a piece with itself and at peace with one of the most glorious of all Bruckner's musical bequests." - Gramophone Magazine, November 2021 |
STRAUSS FAMILY / JOSEPH HELLMESBERGER / CARL ZIEHRER
New Year's Concert in Vienna 2022 (Blu-ray) Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 4/Feb/2022 ] There are few concerts in the world that are awaited with as much excitement as the New Year's Concert from Vienna. Under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, the Vienna Philharmonic ushers in the New Year with a concert in the magnificent Golden Hall... |
STRAUSS FAMILY / etc
New Year's Concert in Vienna 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] "This is a concert that grows to greatness…Never has a programme built to its own private apotheosis as surely as this, with lofty yet almost unbearably moving accounts of the Emperor Waltz and the Blue Danube itself," Gramophone |
STRAUSS FAMILY / etc
New Year's Concert in Vienna 2021 BLU-RAY Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 12/Feb/2021 ] "This is a concert that grows to greatness…Never has a programme built to its own private apotheosis as surely as this, with lofty yet almost unbearably moving accounts of the Emperor Waltz and the Blue Danube itself." Gramophone |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Christian Thielemann [ Sony Classical / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] "For Thielemann the Ninth is, it seems, less a universal theological meditation on last things and more a highly personal quest for spiritual quietude. His interpretation has intimacies hard to find in other versions." BBC Music |
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IVES / COPLAND / DELLO JOIO / SATIE / BOWLES / etc
William Masselos - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection [7 CD set] William Masselos (piano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Sony Classical's William Masselos Edition on 7 newly mastered and transferred CDs is a re- lease for which devotees of American piano music have long been clamouring. At last, the wait is over |
SCHUBERT / BRUCKNER / DUKAS / R. STRAUSS / STRAVINSKY / DVORAK
The complete RCA Victor Recordings William Steinberg & Boston Symphony Orchestra [ Sony Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Including "vital and inspiring performances", here are 4 CD's containing William Steinberg conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which includes some of his "best entries in his discography, and the finest recordings of the works." Mendelssohn's... |
WYNTON MARSALIS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sweet Release & Ghost Story - two more ballets by Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis (trumpet/conductor) / Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra [ Sony Music / CD - released 2/Sep/1999 ] The fifth in Wynton Marsalis's avalanche of eight releases in 1999 was another pairing of ballets, again issued on Sony Classical rather than Columbia. Sweet Release is easily the more ingratiating of the two - obviously, even slavishly, modeled on... |
REINHOLD GLIERE / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / ALEXANDER MOSOLOV
Glière, Mosolov: Harp Concertos Xavier de Maistre (harp), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Nathalie Stutzmann [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Romantic harp concertos, including the famous Glière Concerto and the fantastic Mosolov Concerto. This album by French harpist Xavier de Maistre contains an interesting combination and variety of two romantic harp concertos by Reinhold Glière and... |
J. S. BACH
Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites (2017 recording) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2018 ] "I don't think he has ever made a greater recording and his personal booklet notes help provide a conceptual setting for his playing." Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2018 |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites (3LP) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 20/Sep/2023 ] Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma's new album Six Evolutions - Bach Cello Suites, his third and final recording of these works. Bach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma's life when he was four, when he learned the first... |
TRADITIONAL
Songs Of Joy & Peace Yo-Yo Ma (cello) & friends, including Alison Krauss, Edgar Meyer, Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, Chris Botti, etc [ Sony Classical / CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] "joy can't exist in our world without the comfort of peace. As we all draw closer and closer together in this world, nothing is more important." Yo-Yo Ma |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla: Soul Of The Tango Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with Sergio & Odair Assar (guitars), Kathryn Stott (piano), Nestor Marconi (bandoneon), Antonio Agri (violin) etc [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] Yo-Yo Ma might seem like an unlikely protagonist for the tango, but this intrepid musical explorer has taken his task seriously, collaborating with experienced tango musicians. |
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
Salonen: Cello Concerto Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Sony Classical / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Contemporary |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Pierre Boulez conducts Berlioz (Incls 'Symphonie fantastique & Les Nuits d'ete) Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) Stuart Burrows (tenor) / New York Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Pierre Boulez [ Sony Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] Sony Classical is now making available all of their Berlioz recordings conducted by Pierre Boulez. All at a very attractive price. The recordings have all been remastered and remixed, and the box set is available at budget price. |
Hans Zimmer
Live (LP) [ Sony Classical / 4 LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "Hans Zimmer LIVE" features more of two hours of new reimagined arrangements of some of the most popular compositions by the L.A.-based composer icon. The album was recorded during the highly successful same-named concert tour in Europe in spring of... |
