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Sir John Eliot Gardiner - The Complete Erato Recordings
[ Erato / CD Box Set - released 19/May/2023 ] 64 CD Box Set. "My love for baroque music has never been exclusive. Of course I am attracted by period instruments, but that has never been an end in itself. For me, it is simply a matter of always moving further towards the truth, towards a fresh... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Cantatas Aleksei Tanovitski (bass) & Kostiantin Andrejev (tenor) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Narva Boys Choir & Estonian Concert Choir, Paavo Järvi [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2015 ] "Järvi's Estonians perform with fervour and the Razin makes the issue worthwhile." (Sunday Times) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Journal Intime Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] "memorably refined and stylish performances...Here, as so often with Tharaud, there is an aristocratic balance of sense and sensibility, though his brilliant fury in the Second Ballade's Presto storm is breathtaking" Gramophone |
ALEXANDER SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Alexandre Tharaud plays Scarlatti Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] "Tharaud brings all of the resources of the modern grand piano to Scarlatti's music and is unapologetically pianistic in his approach." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb March 2011) |
BARBARA
Barbara Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with with Juliette Binoche, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Radio Elvis, Bénabar, Juliette, Dominique A, Tim Dup, Jean-Louis A [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2019 ] "As usual, Tharaud confounds expectations and the two discs here, each of which is actually a self-contained album, approach Barbara's music in very different ways." Gramophone |
CHRISTINE / YVAIN / SIMONS / HAHN / MORETTI / MESSAGER
Croisette - Operettas des Annes Folles Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Patricia Petibon, Marion Tassou, Pauline Sabatier, Rémy Mathieu, Laurent Naouri, + / Orchestre National de Cannes, Benjamin Levy [ Erato / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Taking its name from la Croisette, the beachside boulevard in glamorous Cannes on the Côte d'Azur, this album evokes the fun-loving 1920s. It takes a trip around opérettes, French musical comedies of the era, composed by Maurice Yvain, Henri... |
FRANZ von BIBER
Cantatas Amsterdam Baroque Orcestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] By 1683 Buxtehude - who had a huge influence on the young Johann Sebastian Bach - had established an annual concert series which was held over five Sundays late in Trinity and Advent. These Abendmusik concerts, which were given following the... |
HANDEL
Water Music Suites 1, 2 & 3 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato / The Erato Story / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] |
FRANZ von BIBER
Missa Salisburgensis / Requiem for 15 Voices Amsterdam Baroque Orcestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] This set presents a lavish performance of Biber's Missa Salisburgensis, composed for fifty-three vocal and instrumental parts to celebrate Salzburg's 1100th anniversary as a centre of Christianity in 1682. It is coupled with the composer's A-Major... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (complete opera) Andreas Schmidt, Lella Cuberli, Joan Rodgers, John Tomlinson, Cecilia Bartoli / Berlin Philharmonic / Daniel Barenboim [ Erato / Warner The Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2017 ] "Everything that Barenboim does provides some sort of illumination of the drama," said Gramophone of this Figaro; "It has something to say, something that arises from deep and serious musical perception." |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI & OTHERS
Scarlatti: Sonatas / Variaciones del fandango español Andreas Staier (harpsichord) [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Scarlatti published just 30 of his 550 or so keyboard sonatas. They appeared in London in 1738/9 under the title Essercizi per gravicembalo ('Keyboard exercises'). In the preface he warned players: "Do not expect, whether you be amateur or... |
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C.P.E. BACH
Bach (C.P.E.): Cello Concertos, Symphonies Anner Bylsma (cello) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Gustav Leonhardt [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] [Cello Concertos Wq.170-2] 'It is difficult to imagine a better partnership to provide authentic versions of these three fine works.' Penguin Guide |
GLAZUNOV / PROKOFIEV
Glazunov / Prokofiev: Violin Concertos (with Shchedrin - Stihira) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., Mstislav Rostropovich [ Erato Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Three highly contrasted works from 20th century Russia. Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Glazunov's richly lyrical violin concerto, first performed in 1905, and in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1, dating from the time of the Revolution and a... |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Glazunov/Prokofiev: Violin Concertos (with Shchedrin's Stihira) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / National Symphony Orchestra / Rostropovich [ Erato / CD - released 1/Oct/1989 ] "Mutter is more volatile and more freely expressive than she has usually been on disc, sounding totally spontaneous, and in the Glazunov that is particularly impressive." (Gramophone) |
Anthony Hopkins, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Pryce, Aled Jones, Mary Hopkin, etc
Under Milk Wood: A play for voices by Dylan Thomas [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2016 ] A Play for voices by Dylan Thomas With original music by George Martin & Elton John Produced by George Martin |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: String Quartets 1 & 2 Artemis Quartet [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 Artemis Quartet [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] The Artemis Quartet pairs Brahms' intense first quartet with his lighter-spirited third quartet, both works that the Artemis' cellist, Eckart Runge, describes as "remarkable and multi-faceted". He says that "Brahms marries a Romantic spirit with the... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 6 Artemis Quartet [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] These glorious recordings radiate the emotional directness of all his best music, while capturing the questing spirit and tingling sensitivity of the Artemis's recent tour performances. |
SCHUBERT
String Quartets 'Rosamunde' & 'Death and the Maiden' Artemis Quartet [ Erato Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "The Artemis enjoy growling, clashing, shivering, and the relentless energy of the last movements. Theirs is an impressive, vividly recorded approach." (BBC Music) |
