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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (includes concert performance) BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Bluray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2015 ] Following the success of the enlightening first series of Keeping Score, MTT and SFS return with three further programmes that combine one-hour documentaries with live concert performances. The new programmes explore the music and stories behind the... |
CHARLES IVES
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Ives's Holiday Symphony (includes concert performance) The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / DVD - released 15/Oct/2010 ] Coming of age at the dawn of the twentieth century, Charles Ives saw the halcyon days of his youth fading fast. Not willing to let them go, he invented a striking new musical language to enshrine the feelings and ideals of a simpler time. |
CHARLES IVES
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Ives's Holiday Symphony (includes concert performance) BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2015 ] Coming of age at the dawn of the twentieth century, Charles Ives saw the halcyon days of his youth fading fast. Not willing to let them go, he invented a striking new musical language to enshrine the feelings and ideals of a simpler time. |
MAHLER
Keeping Score - Revealing classical music - Mahler: origins and legacy BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2015 ] "Tilson Thomas presents Mahler as embracing both [Jewish and Christian roots] as part of a universal musical and moral outlook...overall, Tilson Thomas and his associates bring Mahler's music to life in a way that makes even the novice appreciate its... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 (includes concert performance) The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Classical music historian Michael Tilson Thomas hosts this unusual glimpse into the life and work of seminal Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which rests on an unusual historical footnote. As an added bonus, the program includes a full-length... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 (includes concert performance) BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Bly-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2015 ] Following the success of the enlightening first series of Keeping Score, MTT and SFS return with three further programmes that combine one-hour documentaries with live concert performances. The new programmes explore the music and stories behind the... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Keeping Score - Revealing classical music - Mahler: origins and legacy The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Dec/2011 ] "...overall, Tilson Thomas and his associates bring Mahler's music to life in a way that makes even the novice appreciate its astounding unity within diversity." (BBC Music) |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Complete Symphonies São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Villa-Lobos's symphonies well reflect the composer's status as the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music, from the early works that challenge European traditions through to his twelfth and final symphony |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Révolution Vol. II Symphonies 6 to 9 Sara Gouzy, Salome Fischer, Mingjie Lei, Manuel Walser / Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2022 ] "This is a very special release...Savall's may well have just become my favourite period-instrument Beethoven cycle of them all." Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Orchestral |
Sarah Brightman
Dreamchaser - Deluxe Edition [ Other Classical / CD - released 11/Apr/2013 ] Dreamchaser is classical crossover superstar Sarah Brightman's first studio recording in five years. The offering was inspired by her decision to become the first singer in outer space. She has already spent time training, and is scheduled to blast... |
BEETHOVEN / REICHA / WRANITZKY / VORISEK
Beethoven, Wranitzky, Reicha, Vorisek: Concertos Sarah Christian (violin) Stephan Koncz (cello) Christoph Eß (horn) Yaara Tal (piano) Nils Monkemeyer (viola) etc / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Reinhar [ Sony Classical Beethoven's World / CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] "Beethoven's World" have received great attention and excellent reviews worldwide. "If the discovery of Beethoven contemporaries, which Goebel has just signed up for the Beethoven Year, continues in this way, it will be a fine year" (Deutschlandfunk) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Il Re Pastore (complete opera) Sarah Fox, Ailish Tynan, John Mark Ainsley, Anna Devin & Benjamin Hulett / Classical Opera, Ian Page [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2015 ] "Page's unobtrusive pacing of the pastoral mini-drama and sage weighting of orchestrally accompanied recitatives pull the listener along gently." (Gramophone Editors Choice Nov 2015) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mozart y Mambo (Limited Edition LP) Sarah Willis (horn) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the French horn, which she champions around the world. A horn player with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001, she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme,... |
Sarah Willis; Jonathan Kelly; Wenzel Fuchs; Stefan Schweigert; Harold Madrigal Frías; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; The Sarahba
Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana LP) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] |
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Schafer/Berlin So/Salemkour
Various: Arias [ Sony Classical / CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] |
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Schneider/La Stagione Frankfur
Various: Il Primo Uomo [ Sony Classical / CD - released 28/Mar/2011 ] |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ete / La Mort de Cléopâtre / etc Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/May/2013 ] "One of the striking facets of Ticciati's conducting and the SCO's playing in Les nuits d'ete is the clarity and details that spring from the score" (Gramophone Disc of the Month June 2013) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies (Nos 1-7) Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "The recorded sound is great, the Scottish National Orchestra plays like a world class band. All in all, this is not only a set to complete your Prokofiev collection, it's also the one to start it - if you haven't yet." (MusicWeb bargain of the... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical' / Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / 'Romeo and Juliet' Excerpts / etc Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'Beautiful, persuasive playing from the Scottish National Orchestra' The Penguin Complete Guide |
J. S. BACH
Sean Shibe: Bach Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Delphian / CD - released 22/May/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Instrumental |
