ALMA MAHLER
Alma - Meine Seele: Complete Songs of Alma Mahler Elise Caluwaerts; Marianna Shirinyan [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Mostly written in her youth, Alma Mahler's Lieder are rarely performed, yet each one is a musical gem that forms an important part of the Romantic song repertoire. This album is the first recording that includes all 17 of her songs. Like her... |
BACH / MOZART / RICHARD STRAUSS / MAHLER / SCHUBERT / etc
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: The Radient Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) with Victoria de los Angeles, Imgard Seefried, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, etc [ Warner Classics Icon / 10 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/2011 ] Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Blessed with a voice of exquisite beauty, as well as a striking physical presence, she shone brightly in opera, excelled in the concert hall and... |
Elly Ameling / Kathleen Battle / Arleen Auger / Barbara Hendricks / Dawn Upshaw / Marie McLaughlin / Prague Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras
Divine Sopranos (music of Berlioz, Handel, Mahler, Vivaldi, Richard Strauss, etc) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 11/Aug/2003 ] More than any other singer, the public has always been enticed by the scandals and mysteries that surround the diva. Because of this curiosity and genuine love for the soprano voice, there has always been a strong interest in the recordings. |
BACH / VIVALDI / HANDEL / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / WOLF / etc
Elly Ameling - The Philips Recitals Elly Ameling (soprano) with various accompaniments [ Philips Australian Eloquence / 29 CD Box Set - released 21/Apr/2023 ] All of Elly Ameling's recital discs for Philips (together with Schubert trios and quartets she recorded for Deutsche Grammophon) collected for the first time. A glorious celebration of 'the Dutch nightingale': all of Elly Ameling's song-recital... |
ELMAR LAMPSON
Elmar Lampson: Mysterienszenen International Mahler Orchestra / Yoel Gamzou [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] Elmar Lampson's music has got what is commonly referred to as "soul." It becomes apparent in the way the music embraces the listeners and accompanies them through time in images of sound. The Mysterienszenen were inspired by the Mystery Dramas of... |
KORNGOLD / ZEMLINSKY / MAHLER / BERG / SCHONBERG
Vienne 1900 Emmanuel Pahud / Paul Meyer / Daishin Kashimoto / Zvi Plesser / Eric Le Sage [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 11/Jul/2020 ] Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese... |
W.A. MOZART
Die ZauberflAte (The Magic Flute) complete opera Erika MiklAsa / Dorothea RAschmann / Julia Kleiter / Christoph Strehl / Hanno MAller-Brachmann / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 24/May/2006 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2006: Opera - "Abbado's first shot at the flute proves to be a strong contender" (Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2006) |
W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflate (The Magic Flute) Highlights Erika Miklasa / Dorothea Raschmann / Julia Kleiter / Christoph Strehl / Hanno Maller-Brachmann / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Jun/2007 ] Since the release of Claudio Abbado's first recording of Mozart's Magic Flute in April of 2006, the international press has been in raptures over the magnificence of the performance. Now, on one single CD, all of the greatest moments from Mozart's... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.6 Essener Philharmoniker, Tomáš Netopil [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] The 6th symphony of Gustav Mahler was written between 1903 and 1904, mostly in Vienna, in a period of professional success and private happiness. But musically, the "Tragic", as the symphony is sometimes called seems like a bizarre reversal of... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' BLU-RAY Eteri Gvazava / Anna Larsson / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "It's different having best friends together. Everyone is there to enjoy making music, to take pleasure, to play with enthusiasm, with passion. They are prepared to do any crazy thing I ask them for the sake of the music. To fly, to walk through... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies 1 - 9 Eteri Gvazava (soprano) Anna Larsson (contralto) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 11 CD Box Set - released 21/Oct/2017 ] The 11 CD MAHLER box brings together Abbado's complete Berlin cycle for the first time. It is regarded as one of the crowning achievements of his final years. "In performance, he became a conduit between the forces assembled on stage and the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R): Eine Alpensinfonie [Alpine Symphony] (with Mahler - Adagio from Symphony 10) European Union Youth Orchestra, James Judd [ Alto Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2017 ] "Special praise is due to the twenty horns who play flawlessly and of which a band is atmospherically positioned for the "offstage" hunting passage." Recording of the Month MusicWeb June 2017. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Symphony No. 10 (Adagio) Ewa Podles (alto) / Cracow Philharmonic Choir / Cracow Boys' Choir / Polish NAtional Readio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ NAXOS / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "This is a very impressive recording indeed" (American Record Guide) |
Ewa Poodles/Polish Nrso/Wit
Mahler:adagio [ Naxos / CD ] |
MAHLER
Das Lied Von Der Erde Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Francisco Araiza (tenor) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Deutsche Grammophon First Choice / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza may not be everyone's immediate choice for this piece, but I like the way he brings out the lyricism in Mahler's writing. He is joined by Brigitte Fassbaender, who gives us a moving account of the final movement, ably |
Fox/Philharmonia Orc/Mackerras
Mahler: Symphony 4 [ Signum / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY/ ANTON WEBERN / ALMA MAHLER / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Transfigured Francesca Chiejina (soprano) / Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, with Tom Poster (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Known for its championship of neglected repertoire, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective presents a programme of works by members of the Second Viennese School, based around Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 3, 4 & 5 Helen Donath (soprano) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Eliahu Inbal [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] "A highly recommendable issue for impecunious Mahler fans." (MusicWeb April 2003 Bargaibn of the Month) |
MARKUS KRALER / ANDREAS SCHETT
Mahler: Mahlerlieder Franui [ Col Legno / CD - released 2/Jun/2011 ] Composers Markus Kraler and Andreas Schett and their ten fellow musicians, jointly operating a battery of sounds comprising woodwind and brass, bowed and other string instruments, take Mahler's Lieder seriously while at the same time expanding them... |
FAURE / STRAUSS / MAHLER / COPLAND / IVES / etc
Lieder (recorded 1986) Frederica von Stade (mezzo) Martin Katz (piano) [ ORFEO / CD - released 30/Aug/2013 ] "the mezzo-soprano on excellent form in a fascinating programme … Katz is a consistently birlliant accompanist and the programme is as absorbing as it is enterprising. Nobody who admires this singer should hesitate for a moment." (International Record Rev |