Mahler
Sinfonie Nr. 5/Neumann/Vaclav [ CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] |
Mahler
Symphony No 5 Zandler [ CD ] |
GEORGE BENJAMIN
Written On Skin / Duet for piano and orchestra Christopher Purves, Barbara Hannigan, Bejun Mehta, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin [ Nimbus / 2 CD - released 11/Feb/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Contemporary / BBC MUSIC AWARD WINNER 2014: Premiere Award |
Mahler / Saint Louis Symphony
Mahler: Symphony No 4 [ Pentatone / CD - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Das Lied von der Erde / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Margaret Ritchie (soprano), Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Nan Merriman (contralto) / Orchestras conducted by Eduard van Be [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2018 ] "Van Beinum delivers unfussy yet subtly nuanced performances, with highly expressive playing by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and particularly fine vocal soloists in Das Lied von der Erde." BBC Music |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Song Cycles: Rackert-Lieder / Kindertotenlieder / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano) / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] Marilyn Horne's plum-tinged mezzo and the music of Mahler are inseparable. So far, only the Fahrenden Gesellen songs and the Kindertotenlieder have made their way to CD (now deleted), so it is appropriate to collect on a single CD, the three... |
Mahler, Sc
Ausgewählte Lieder Marjana Lipovsek, Erik Werba [ ORFEO / CD - released 1/Mar/1989 ] |
BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / DVORAK / MAHLER / MOZART / SMETANA / etc
Live from Lugano 2012 Martha Argerich and Friends [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 13/May/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / DVORAK / MAHLER / MOZART / SMETANA / etc
Live from Lugano 2014 Martha Argerich and Friends [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/May/2015 ] Warner Classics is pleased to release the 12th annual 3CD set of highlights from the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, described in The Times (London), as "community music-making on a deluxe scale, with performers and listeners mutually uplifted by |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Martha Argerich (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Nov/2004 ] "Lightning strikes as Argerich's Beethoven 3 is finally heard on disc" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine January 2005 |
LUCIANO BERIO
Berio: Sinfonia (with Mahler/Berio - 10 Frühe Lieder) Matthias Goerne (baritone) / The Synergy Vocals / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Nov/2016 ] "this coupling is a must-have" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2017 - Vocal Winner |
MAHLER
Symphony No 8 Melanie Diener / Juliane Banse / Yvonne Naef / Anthony Dean Griffey / Stephen Powell / Schweizer Kammerchor / Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra / David Zinman [ RCA / Sony / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] "it's clear (Zinman) remains one of the world's most inquiring senior maestros, looking for fresh perspectives. In his Mahler cycle, he has certainly found those." Sunday Times, 25th April 2010 |
MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / LISZT / MAHLER
Auf Flugeln des Gesangs Claudius Tanski (piano) [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Love, happiness, passion, separation, and reconciliation - the lied genre played an important role in romantic music, and not a few transcriptions of the great virtuosos paid tribute to the song culture of high romanticism and paved its way to... |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Miah Persson (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Philharmonia Orchestra, Benjamin Zander [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 26/Nov/2013 ] "...Special ingredients? The tense opening bars; the feeling radiating from mezzo Sarah Connolly; the finale's first steps, so gravely beautiful; the prayerful singing of the Philharmonia Choir, steady at the slowest speeds" (The Times) |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 9 (with Boulez-Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, Notations 1-4) SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Michael Gielen (conductor) [ Hanssler / 2 CD Box Set - released 19/Apr/2008 ] "I have heard this music as a solitary, private listener, thinking about death." - Lewis Thomas: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Kindertotenlieder Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano) / Women of the San Francisco Chorus / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The San Francisco Orchestra is on fine form throughout and they are recorded with depth and spread in a realistic sound picture that packs a punch when needed but can pare down to intimacy too." (MusicWeb May 2003) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 Mihoko Fujimura (contralto) / Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott [ Tudor SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] "Nott rejects abstraction, finding tangible vocal expressivity in every little counterpoint and detail...Fujimura's voice is mysterious but young and fresh." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] The shimmering string harmonics at the opening of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony bring to mind the suspended breath of spring, and will have signalled even to the very first audiences that a new symphonic era was being ushered in. Soon enough the... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "The orchestral playing is crisp, the conductor's clinical tendencies tempered by an understanding that emotional extremism is an essential part of Mahler's idiom even if it need not be indulged" Gramophone |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.6 in A minor (1903-04) Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] Albert Camus once wrote 'when I describe what the catastrophe of modern man looks like, music comes into my mind - the music of Gustav Mahler'. If asked to specify a particular work, it is quite possible that Camus would have proposed Symphony No. 6... |