DONIZETTI
L'elisir d'amore (Complete opera) Barbara Bonney, Gasta Winbergh, Bernd Weikl, Rolando Panerai. Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Gabriele Ferro [ DG Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] 'A performance that bubbles along as brightly and affectionately as the music itself' BBC Record Review |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Barbara Hendricks, Michael Chance, Jeffrey Black / London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Franz Welser-Most [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] "There is no question the tingling energy which informs Franz Welser-Most's performance of Carmina burana, which reaches its climax in the ''Cours d'amour'' sequence where both the Boys' and Men's Chorus get carried away by the exhilaration of the... |
BOCCHERINI
Stabat Mater Barbara Vignudelli (soprano) Orchestra da Camera 'Benedetto Marcello', Flavio Emilio Scogna conductor [ Brillinat Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] The French violinist and composer Jean‐ Baptiste Cartier once said: 'If God wanted to speak to man through music, he would do so through the works of Haydn; if he wished to listen to music himself, he would choose the works of Boccherini.' |
REFLECTION
Reflection: Music for peace and tranquility (Elgar, Barber, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Satie, Mozart, etc) Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) Emil Gilels (piano) Barbara Bonney (sop) Goran Sollscher (guitar) / Choir of New College, Oxford / Berlin Philharmonic [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] |
AMANTE FRANZONI
Franzoni: Vespro per la festa di Santa Barbara Accademia Degli Invaghiti, Concerto Palatino, Cappella Santa Barbara, Francesco Moi (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] The scene is Mantua in Lombardy, Italy. The Duke of Mantua - himself a composer and eager to become a patron of the arts ¬- establishes a Basilica in the city. Freed from the auspices of Rome and with its own bespoke liturgy, the Basilica became the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / WOLF
10 Lieder Barbara Bonney (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Deutsche Gramophone Australian Eloquence / CD - released 25/May/2005 ] "A really lovely recital (MusicWeb July 2005) |
DEL TREDICI
Final Alice-Grand concerto for voice and orchestra Barbara Hendricks (soprano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Commissioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to Sir Georg Solti, Final Alice is scored for gargantuan forces and is based on the last two chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It has been described by the composer as a "grand... |
Barbara Streisand
The Second Barbra Streisand Album [ Sony / Columbia / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] Restored and remastered from first generation master audio recordings |
Barbara Streisand
What About Today? [ Sony / Columbia / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] Restored and remastered from first generation master audio recordings |
TELEMANN
Ino Cantata Dramatic Barbara Schlick (soprano) / Music Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 31/Aug/2009 ] Of all the composers who witnessed the widespread blossoming of the arts in the middle of the 18th century, it was Georg Philipp Telemann who responded the most enthusiastically to each new phase of musical development. In his last works in... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Choral" Barbara Bonney, Birgit Rammert, Kurt Streit, Thomas Hampson / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "These discs are history: nine indubitable masterpieces lovingly recorded in gripping reinterpretations of our age." (NZ Herald on the complete set) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Stabat Mater Barbara Bonney, Elisabeth von Magnus, Herbert Lippert, Alastair Miles / Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Das Alte Werk / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Harnoncourt's is a spacious and eloquent account of the Stabat Mater, with a good solo team." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
Barbara Carlotti
Les Lys Brises [ Microbe / 4AD Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2006 ] This is the beautiful debut album from a young French chanteuse. "Delicate and sober, the songs of Barbara Carlotti release an elegance, a refinement of tone which go against the current... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria in D, RV589 (with Bach - Magnificat in D BWV243) Barbara Hendricks, Ann Murray, Jean Rigby, Uwe Heilmann / Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields / Sir Neville Marriner [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] "Barbara Hendricks and Ann Murray are the admirably paired soloists in Vivaldi's Gloria; both bring beauty of line and a feeling of élan. Hendricks and Murray recur in Bach's Magnificat along with Jean Rigby, Uwe Heillman and Jorma Hynninen" MusWeb |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47 Barbara Schlick, Nancy Argenta, Guillemette Laurens, Guy de Mey, Klaus Mertens / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2017 ] La Resurrezione, composed in Rome in 1708, was Handel's first oratorio on a sacred theme. The soloists take the roles of an Angel, Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleophas, St John and Lucifer, who are portrayed in vivid operatic terms with the help of a... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Best of Messiah HMV56 Barbara Schlick (soprano) Michael Chance (alto) Howard Crook (tenor) Peter Kooy (bass) /English Chamber Orchestra & Chorus, Raymond Leppard [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD ] "Tempos are lively, though never breathless, and always well judged, and ornamentation is judicious. Choruses are resilient and have an agreeable sense of joy." Gramophone |
BERNSTEIN / STYNE / RODGERS / STROUSE / LOEWE / SONDHEIM / et
Broadway Magic: 1960s Original Cast Compilation Judy Holliday, Barbara Cook, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger / Original Broadway Casts [ Columbia / Sony / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] A selection of the very best of Broadway featuring recordings from the original cast albums. Featured shows include 'Hallelujah, Baby!', 'George M!', 'Do I Hear a Waltz?', 'Anyone Can Whistle', 'Camelot' and 'The Sound of Music' |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Candide (Original Broadway Cast) Original Broadway Cast, with Max Adrian & Barbara Cook [ Sony Music / CD - released 4/Oct/2004 ] This original 1956 production, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, and libretto by Lillian Hellman, based on Voltaire's novel of the same name, was not a hit, except as a recording. Presenting the remarkable Broadway debut of... |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Mors et Vita Barbara Hendricks (sop) Nadine Denize (mezzo) John Aler (ten) José van Dam (bass-bar) / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience." BBC Music |
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. |