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FERENCZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Favourites Goran Filipec (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Franz Liszt was a unique personality in the musical world of the 19th century. He was a model and inspiration for many generations of musicians and was magnificently successful as a virtuoso pianist, educator, composer and conductor. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Complete Opera recorded at the New Zealand Festival 2000) Gordon Hawkins, Vladimir Vaneev, Yaron Windmuller, Nuccia Focile / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus, Marco Guidarini [ Trust / 2 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2006 ] Verdi's sombre and powerful operatic masterpiece, with its themes of love, hate, treachery and reconciliation, is brought to life in this production from the 2000 New Zealand Festival, featuring the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Chapman... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 / Serenade for Strings in C major Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2008 ] "Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburgers hit their stride and turn in a generally excellent Fifth Symphony. The first-movement exposition takes a few minutes to settle down, largely due to Järvi's somewhat casual approach to rhythm, but once the music gets... |
HILDEGARD von BINGEN
Hildegard of Bingen: A feather on the breath of God (LP) Gothic Voices / Christopher Page [ Hyperion / LP - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground... |
W. A. MOZART
Paris and Vienna Gottlieb Wallisch (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "Wallisch's reading contain many attractive qualities: immaculately clean fingerwork, fine phrase-characterisation and sense of balance. But this is, of course, much-recorded repertory..the CD is a pleasurable play-through, and recommendable as such" |
HEINRICH AUGUST MARSCHNER
Marschner: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] Heinrich Marschner's role as Germany's leading Romantic operatic composer in the generation between Weber and Wagner has tended to draw attention away from his accomplished chamber compositions. Marschner had a high regard for the piano trio genre,... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music Graf Mourja (violin), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet), Francoise Groben (cello) [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2022 ] " Acclaim for these recordings can be summed up by the comment 'you simply can't go wrong with any of the discs in this series.' (ClassicsToday.com on their original release) |
MANUEL PONCE
Complete Guitar Music Gérard Abiton (guitar) & Beatrice Martin (harpsichord) Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo, Jean Thorel [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2014 ] Manuel Ponce was one of Mexico's best and most popular composers. His compositions are imbued with the native music and folklore of his beloved Mexico, irresistably lively, sensual and passionate. |
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: Benvenuto Cellini (Complete opera recorded in 2003) Gregory Kunde, Joyce DiDonato, Patrizia Ciofi, Laurent Naouri / Orchestre Nationale de France. John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2018 ] 'A splendid achievement. Here indeed is the 'verve and vitality' Berlioz always believed he had found.' - Gramophone |
Greta Bradman
Forest of Dreams - Classical Lullabies to Get Lost In [ Sony Music Entertainment / CD - released 16/Aug/2010 ] Australian soprano, Greta Bradman presents a joyous ode to the sweet, gentle art form we know as the 'lullaby' - a musical expression that spans generations. |
EDVARD GREIG
The Best Of Grieg Jenö Jandó (piano) Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Istropolitana, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/1997 ] The best bits of Grieg across the vast Naxos catalogue. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.1 'Winter Daydreams' / The Snow Maiden, Op.12 / etc Gateborgs Symfoniker / Neeme Jarvi [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] On the second installment in our series of Tchaikovsky Symphonies with the Gothenburg SO and Neeme Järvi, we go directly from the composer's symphonic testament, Symphony No.6 'Pathétique', to his first attempt at the form. |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / The Fairy Queen Guillemette Laurens, Jill Feldman, Agnes Mellon, Nancy Argenta, Lynne Dawson, Veronique Gens, Sandrine Piau / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Jun/2014 ] "Purcell's semi-opera sounds fresh in this recording under Christie, with spirited playing from Les Arts Florissants and vivid singing from the large cast." (Five Stars BBC Music on The Fairy Queen) |
CARL ORFF
Carl Orff Edition Gundula Janowitz, Gerhard Stolze, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Berlin Opera, Eugen Jochum [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / 11 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2020 ] To celebrate the 125th birthday of one of Germany's most famous composers (July 10th 2020), Deutsche Grammophon presents The Carl Orff Edition 11-CD Original Jackets Collection - Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings of Carl Orff |
R. STRAUSS / BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / MOZART / HAYDN / WAGNER / etc
The Gundula Janowitz Edition: A Voice of Silver & Gold Gundula Janowitz (soprano) / with Irwin Gage (piano), James King (tenor), Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 14 CD Box Set - released 6/Mar/2020 ] This box set celebrates the beloved Gundula Janowitz's clear and honest soprano voice through a selection of her opera, oratorio and Lieder recordings. |
BRUCE PAINE
Paine: Waitemata Reverie, New Zealand Guitar Music, Vol. 3 Gunter Herbig (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Classical guitar music has flourished in New Zealand in recent years, and Bruce Paine, among the country's leading composers for the instrument, is one of the most imaginative and original. This album charts the course of his writing from one of his... |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Cello Concerto / An English Mass Guy Johnston (cello), Stephen Cleobury (organ) Britten Sinfonia, King's College Choir Cambridge, King's Voices, Christopher Seaman [ King's College Cambridge / 2 CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] "All told, a hugely rewarding issue, and absolutely not to be missed." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2019 |
FAURE / GLAZUNOV / RACHMANINOFF
The Swan - Classic Works for Cello & Orchestra Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Erato / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] This recording takes a new look at some of the most enduring smaller-scale works in the cello's literature. Among those chosen and performed by Han-Na Chang, several are heard in their original forms. Elsewhere, however, new orchestral arrangements... |
ENRICH JAQUES WOLFF
Wolff: Complete Songs, Vol. 3 Hans Christoph Begemann Klaus Simon [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Regarded as a first-rate but tragically neglected composer of Lieder, Erich J. Wolff has, until recently, only been familiar to a small number of music enthusiasts. The beautiful 1909 song cycle Neun Gedichte, set to texts by the composer's close... |
