MAHLER
Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 Sylvia McNair / Jard van Nes / Ernst Senff Chor / Berliner Philharmoniker. Bernard Haitink [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2004 ] Bernard Haitink was one of the first conductors to record a complete Mahler cycle, a project he embarked on while chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and an orchestra that has a long tradition of performing Mahler. He started this... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink (conductor) [ BR Klassik / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.9 (live recording Oct 2016) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons [ Br Klassik / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony is primarily regarded as the composer's reaction in the summer of 1908 to the diagnosis of a heart ailment, which he received just before writing the first sketches for the work. Mahler was deeply distraught and cannot... |
Mahler, Gu
Symphonie No. 6 a-Moll (Tragische) Symphonieorchester des BR, Erich Leinsdorf [ ORFEO / CD - released 28/Jun/2001 ] |
Tennstedt
Mahler: Symphony No 4 [ Profil / CD ] |
GUSTAV MAHLER
The Gustav Mahler Celebration (recorded live at Kalište) Thomas Hampson / Anne Sophie von Otter / Marita Solberg / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Manfred Honeck [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] The renowned Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Austrian maestro Manfred Honeck, and world famous soloists commemorate the composer with an unique outdoor live concert. |
MAHLER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Symphony No. 1 in D major 'titan' Thomas Hampson (baritone) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Klaus Tennstedt [ LPO Live / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] 'Thomas Hampson impressively sustained his long lines both here and elsewhere, finding an enviable range of colour between and within songs.' (Barry Millington, The Times 1991) |
MAHLER
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (12 songs, complete) Thomas Hampson (baritone) / Wiener Virtuosen [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/May/2011 ] "no performer has ever had a more comprehensive knowledge of the manuscript sources...Instrumentally speaking, the results are fabulous." (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera) Thomas Hampson, Sonya Yoncheva, Angela Brower, Christiane Karg, Luca Pisaroni / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Aug/2016 ] "Yoncheva's magnificently melancholic Countess is a peach of a performance, lusciously, dreamily sung...[Villazón] grabs hold of every bar with comic gusto." (Sunday Times) |
MAHLER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Ruckert-Lieder / Kindertotenlieder Thomas Quasthoff, Violeta Urmana, Anne Sofie von Otter. Wiener Philharmoniker. Pierre Boulez [ DG Boulez 2005 / CD - released 28/Feb/2005 ] Anne Sofie von Otter sings the Kindertotenlieder, Violeta Urmana will be heard in the Rückert Lieder and Thomas Quasthoff in the early Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. |
Tilling/Philharmonia/Zander
Mahler: Symphony No.4 [ Telarc / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2001 ] |
CANTELOUBE / DELIBES / DVORAK / MAHLER / SIBELIUS / etc
Storyteller Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet) with orchestra & piano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Tine Thing Helseth is blessed with a combination of great wind-playing attributes: a soulful - dare one say brooding, Nordic - approach to phrasing, quite astonishingly outstanding intonation and a sound which is open and honest" (Gramophone) |
Tonhalle Orch Zurich/Zinman
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (recorded live in 1997) Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] Commemorating the 10th anniversary of Solti's death is the release of his last concert on 13th July 1997, recorded live with the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich. |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 1 in D major 'titan' Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / David Zinman [ RCA Red Seal SACD / SACD - released 12/May/2007 ] |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / David Zinman [ RCA Red Seal SACD / SACD - released 12/May/2007 ] "[Zinman's] chamber-music approach that worked well for the earlier symphonies seems less appropriate here, where Mahler's contrapuntal mastery of the orchestra as a whole reaches its zenith." Matthew Rye, The Telegraph, 13th September 2008 |
MAHLER
Symphony No 8 Twyla Robinson, Erin Wall, Adriane Queiroz, Robert Holl / Cor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin / Staatskapelle Berlin / Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] "I enjoyed the experience...Firstly, the presentation...soloists, orchestra and choruses...is top-drawer. The collective weight and momentum of these massive forces are well contained by DG's engineers, wave upon wave of exultant sound" Gramophone... |
VIVALDI / BARBER / SIBELIUS / MENDELSSOHN / GLAZUNOV / MAHLER / etc
40 Most Beautiful Autumn Classics Various Artists including Andrew Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, Borodin Quartet, etc [ Warner Classics & Jazz / 2 CD - released 13/Apr/2009 ] Autumn masterpieces from Vivaldi, Mozart, Faure, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Haydn over a double disc set. All performed by top artists from the Warner catalogues. |
DVORAK / MAHLER / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / BEETHOVEN / etc
Adagios Various artists [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Excellent performances by Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists Klára Würtz and Misha Goldstein. |
Various Artists
Mahler - Symphony No. 2/Eschen [ Ondine / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] |