Ramin Djawadi
Ost: Pacific Rim [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Jul/2013 ] |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach Raphaela Gromes (cello), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), Julian Riem (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] On 20 June 1819, 200 years ago, the famous composer Jaques Offenbach was born "Jakob" Offenbach in Cologne. The young cellist Raphaela Gromes, who already received excellent reviews for her first two albums for Sony Classical and even celebrated... |
Ray Chen
Various: Virtuoso [ Sony Classical / CD - released 17/Jan/2011 ] |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Reformations-Oratorium 1755, TWV 13:18 Regula Mühlemann (sop) Daniel Johannsen (ten) Benjamin Appl (bari) Stephan MacLeod (bass) / Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Reinhard Goebel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Aug/2017 ] "I enjoyed the singing a lot (especially the soloists), and I loved the music and wondered at the still fertile and creative mind of its septuagenarian composer." Early Music Review |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Arias Regula Mühlemann (soprano) / Kammerorchester Basel, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli [ Sony Classical / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] "Mühlemann's soprano suits this repertoire, though its clear brilliant sound does turn hard at times…for a debut solo disc this makes an attractive proposition" Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (bass) / Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antoni [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] "If you're in the market for a Ninth full of surprise and delight rather than soulful yearning or triumphalist breast-beating, look no further." Gramophone |
DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / HUMPERDINCK / STRAVINSKY
Summer Night Concert 2017 Renee Fleming (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] Fairytales and myths have inspired composers from time immemorial, and audiences, too, have invariably been enthralled by the unending struggle between good and evil. Central to the Vienna Philharmonic's 2017 Summer Night Concert are German, French,... |
Richard Tucker
The Song & Cantorial Album Col [ Sony Classical / 14 CD - released 10/Jun/2013 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Nuove Invenzione Rolf Lislevand (lute, baroque guitar) / Concerto Stella Matutina [ Sony Classical / CD - released 25/Jul/2018 ] Bringing the elements of baroque and jazz together and developing a new kind of music by optimizing the instruments of Early Music and giving each instrument section its moment on the recording was the goal of this release. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera recorded in 2014) Royal Opera House / Jonas Kaufmann, Kristine Opolais, Christopher Maltman / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] 'Antonio Pappano has few peers today as a Puccini conductor, and gives the score a tremendous sense of vivid theatricality' THE GUARDIAN |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La fanciulla del West (complete opera recorded in 2013) Vienna State Opera / Jonas Kaufmann, Nina Stemme, Tomasz Konieczny / Franz Welser-Most (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] 'Their singing is magnificent' BBC Music Magazine - Opera Choice - March 2016 |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (compete opera recorded in 2016) The Royal Opera / Vittorio Grigolo, Kate Lindsey, Thomas Hampson, Christine Rice, Sonya Yoncheva / Evelino Pidò (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "Vittorio Grigolo acts with terrific fervour as both the drunken wreck of the exordia and the ingenuous patsy of the central episodes, making the conflicted character deeply sympathetic if faintly risible." Telegraph |
Royal Stockholm Po/Oramo
Schumann: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] |
Rudolf Serkin
The Essential [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 6/Oct/2008 ] |
J. S. BACH / BARTOK / MESSIAEN / MOZART / STRAVINSKY / etc
Rudolf Serkin: The Complete RCA Album Collection Rudolf Serkin (piano) with Peter Serkin, Ruth Laredo, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Pablo Casals, etc [ Sony Classical Masters / 35 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2020 ] a "brilliant instrumentalist, sensitive, original interpreter and performer of uncommon vitality" (Michael Steinberg) |
BEETHOVEN
Rudolf Serkin Plays Beethoven [11 CD set] Rudolf Serkin (piano) with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy & others [ Sony Classical Masters / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "It goes without saying that this is among the finest of current versions, for Serkin as a master pianist has the power to convince one against initial preconceptions." (Gramophone on Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2) |
Rundfunkchor/Kinderchor/Jarvi
Orff: Carmina Burana [ Sony Classical / CD - released 17/Sep/2012 ] |
Sakari Oramo
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & [ Sony Classical / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] |
Salvatore Licitra
Forbidden Love [ Sony Classical / CD ] |
Salvatore Licitra
Various: Il Tenore [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] |