FRANCIS POTT
Pott: At First Light / Word Joseph Spooner (Cello) Christian Wilson (Organ) / Commotio, Matthew Berry [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] "Every now and then you hear a new work and feel that excitement, the knowledge that here is a piece that is going to become part of the landscape." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2020 . |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K620 (Highlights from the complete opera) Walter Berry, Kurt Bohme, Hilde Gueden, August Jaresch, Wilma Lipp, Emmy Loose, Leopold Simoneau / Vienna State Opera Chorus, Karl Bohm [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] " Böhm performed Die Zauberflöte as a sublime work of transcendent humanity... Decca's 1955 sound is clear and evocative" AllMusic.com |
J. STRAUSS II
Strauss: Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 1971) Anneliese Rothenberger, Renate Holm, Brigitte Fassbaender, Nicolai Gedda, Adolf Dallapozza, Walter Berry / Wiener Staatsoper, Willi Boskovsky [ Warner Classics Cologne Collection / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2016 ] The original source for Die Fledermaus is a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix (1811-1873), Das Gefängnis (The Prison). Another source is a French vaudeville play, Le Réveillon, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Their play was... |
Chuck Berry
Chuck [ Decca CD / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Comprised of ten new recordings, eight of which were written by Berry, 'Chuck' is his first new album since 1979's 'Rock It!' Recorded and produced by Berry in various studios around St. Louis, the album also includes guest performances from Gary... |
Chuck Berry
Four Classic Albums (After School Session / One Dozen Berry's / Chuck Berry Is On Top / Rockin' At The Hops) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Emerging from under the influence of the blues, gospel, country and R'n'B, musicians such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and of course Elvis Presley were taking the music world by storm in the 1950's. In many ways Chuck Berry must... |
Chuck Berry
The Ultimate Collection [ RCA / CD - released 4/Mar/2008 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (opera recorded 1962/63) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Walter Berry, James King, Christa Ludwig, Lisa Otto / Artur Rother (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2011 ] For the four main roles, singers were chosen who already had international experience but were still fresh and vigorous. Christa Ludwig, James King and Walter Berry. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 [Complete 1963 recordings on CD & Blu-ray audio] Gundula Janowitz, Hilde Rassel Majdan, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Berry / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Gramophone / 6 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Jul/2022 ] The classic recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies conducted by master Karajan with the addition of a Blu-ray audio of all the symphonies plus rehearsals. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: La Flute enchantee [The Magic Flute] (Complete Opera recorded in 1964) Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, Lucia Popp / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ EMI Classics La voix de son maitre / CD - released 23/Sep/1999 ] "I have never heard The Magic Flute sound so magical and the complete ease and seeming rightness of this performance is a wonder. The cast, chorus and orchestra are inspired under Klemperer, whom I here salute as a real genius" (Gramophone) |