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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 27 String Quartets Amadeus Quartet [ Decca / 10 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2009 ] "This is poised and civilised music-making, much of which is familiar and all of it intensely thoughtful and revealing...the playing of slow movements especially seems to anticipate the profundity of Beethoven." Guardian |
Andre Rieu
The Christmas I Love [ Universal / CD - released 17/Dec/2012 ] The Christmas I Love is a lovely collection of standard Christmas carols and holiday-themed classical pieces performed by "the Waltz King of PBS," Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra. It's an understated and enchanting collection of holiday... |
Andre Rieu
Happy Together [ Universal / 2 CD/DVD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] A joyful, new album by the King of Waltz, superstar André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra!, featuring all brand new recordings. "Happy Together" is a wonderful and emotional "ode to joy", celebrating the return to life, happiness and love... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Intimate Chopin (LP) Andrei Gavrilov, Alexandre Tharaud, Samson Francois, Nicholas Angelich, Nikolai Lugansky, Ingrid Fliter [ Warner Classics / LP - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Not very forthcoming as a person, Chopin invents a new type of touch, able to render the immaterial, to encompass absolute limpidity, and the full gamut of modern pianism...the versions collected here are all performed by Warner's greatest artists. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Heroic Beethoven (LP) András Schiff, Stephen Kovacevich, Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Artemis Quartet / etc [ Warner Classics / 2 LP - released 22/May/2020 ] Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the towering heroes of music. As a composer, he became a transformational, sometimes revolutionary force. As a man of spirit and inspiration, he triumphed over deafness to produce a wealth of masterpieces. Over the... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Rondine (Complete opera recorded in 2009) Metropolitan Opera / Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Lisette Oropesa / Marco Armiliato (cond) [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "I have never heard Alagna sing better, and Gheorghiu is at her sumptuous best. There are comparably beautiful performances by the younger couple, Marius Brenciu and Lisette Oropesa" New York Daily News |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations (LP) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 LP - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Sixteen years have passed since Angela Hewitt's first, justly celebrated, version of the 'Goldbergs'. She here commits to record her ever-evolving response to a work which contains the 'shadowed lesson of the whole world', and which continues to play... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): 6 Partitas BWV 825-830 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD Box Set ] "Effortlessly eclipsing all competition … the whole disc gives unalloyed pleasure; definitely one of my choices of the year" (Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: French Suites Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD Box Set ] "..the extra decorations she adds in repeats everywhere sound properly spontaneous and are in the best of taste; ornaments are always cleanly played and matched up in imitative voices." (Gramophone) |
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J. S. BACH
Das wohltemperirte Clavier [The Well-Tempered Clavier] (complete 2008 recording) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2009 ] 'Her best Bach yet..Not everyone can improve on the best, but it looks as it Angela Hewitt might have done just that..This is a defining moment in the performance history of the '48'..Hewitt's second thoughts" BBC Music |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): The English Suites Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2003 ] CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK (The Sunday Times) CD OF THE WEEK (Daily Telegraph) DISC OF THE WEEK (BBC Radio 3) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem (recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] "It's a 'through-composed' linked-up performance, paced withy a dramatic curve that makes even the punchiest Italian-led ones..feel like number opera...The non-Italian soloists are in good fearless voice and aurally well integrated into this concept" |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Orchestral Works [5 CD set] Anna Tomowa-Sintow (sop) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, with Lothar Koch, oboe, & Norbert Hauptmann, horn [ Deutsche Grammophon Collector's Edition / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2012 ] Herbert von Karajan's Strauss recordings of the early 1980s, remastered in the 1990s, for the Karajan Gold Edition are a benchmark of lifetime of engagement with the composer in the concert hall and studio, and won unparalleled critical acclaim. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Etudes (LP) Anne Queffelec (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Anne Queffélec is consistently notable for her insight and eloquence. Gramophone magazine has described her recordings thus: 'Delicious playing …', 'Outstanding … thoughtful, poetic …', 'Articulate, clear-textured and vivacious … |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde (complete operetta) Anne-Catherine Gillet, Virginie Verrez, Antoinette Dennefeld, Josh Lovell / Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel [ Opera Rara / 2 CD Box Set - released 22/Sep/2023 ] "... the whole thing has an immediacy that Daniel suggests is an attempt to recreate the acoustic of the Bouffes-Parisiens." Gramophone Recording of the Month November 2023 |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: The Opera & Operettas Collection Anneliese Rothenberger, Teresa Berganza, Michel Dens, Jose Carreras, Nicolai Gedda, Gabriel Bacquier, John Aler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, etc [ Warner Classics / 30 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2019 ] He was born in Cologne, but it was in Paris that Jacques Offenbach achieved fame. A special feature of this 30-CD collection are star-studded recordings in both French and German of his most celebrated operettas. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 (LP) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Vinyl / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] "...no one can deny the sheer beauty that this pair lovingly conjures." ClassicalNet |
EDOUARD LALO / PABLO SARASATE
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Sarrasate: Zigeunerweisen (LP) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Orchestre National de France, Seiji Ozawa [ Warner Classics LP / LP - released 10/May/2024 ] "...pure intonation, the sweet tone and the warmly emotional and committed treatment that this much admired young artist gives the work." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / LISZT / BARTOK / SCHUBERT
Annie Fischer: The Complete London Studio Recordings Annie Fischer (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Otto Klemperer, etc [ Warner Classics Icon / 8 CD Box Set - released 23/Aug/2014 ] 'I can find no praise too high for Annie Fischer's playing, for she makes every phrase a delight. Sawallisch partners his soloist to perfection. Everybody has here combined to produce something really outstanding among recordings of Mozart... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 (complete) Arleen Auger, Janet Baker / City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Berlin Philharmonic / Vienna Philharmonic / Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 4/Aug/2017 ] "There's no doubt that Rattle has inspired all concerned to an achievement which joins his groundbreaking readings of the Third, Seventh and Tenth Symphonies in the Mahlerian heaven." ***** BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, on Mahler 8 |
