FRANZ SCHUBERT
The Best of Schubert (LP) Royal Concertgebouw, Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) / Alban Berg Quartet / Barbara Bonney (sop) / Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] This collection of some of Schubert's greatest masterpieces features performances by first-class musicians including Elisabeth Leonskaja, Barbara Bonney, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Alexandre Tharaud, Alban Berg Quartett, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon,... |
HINDEMITH / BERG / CHAUSSON / SCHOENBERG
Infinite Voyage Barbara Hannigan (soloist), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Emerson String Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "..It's all wonderfully played, with the group favouring a Romantic view of the Berg and Schoenberg. The highlights, though, are the lesser known pieces: Hindemith's Melancholie and Chausson's brief, beautiful Chanson Perpétuelle." NZ Listener |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Orchestral Works [Incls 'An American in Paris'] St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, John Korman, Yuan Tung, George Silfies, Barbara Liberman, David Mortland, Leonard Slatkin [ Vox Classics / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] Soon after writing his great works for piano and orchestra (available on VOX-NX-3018CD), Gershwin turned to his 'tone poem for orchestra', An American in Paris. With indelible themes, and masterly string writing, it remains one of his best-known... |
ALBAN BERG / GUSTAV MAHLER
Sehnsucht: Berg - Mahler Live in Rotterdam Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Raoul Steffani (baritone) / Camerata RCO, Rolf Verbeek [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Sehnsucht, a central and nearly untranslatable word of the Viennese fin-de-siècle period, referring to aspects of longing, melancholy, and nostalgia. During the Covid-19 pandemic, a collective Sehnsucht arose, in performers and audiences alike.... |
A film by Jan Schmidt-Gar, with Asmik Grigorian, Barbara Hannigan, Ermonela Jaho
Fuoco Sacro - A search for the sacred fire of song [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Fuoco Sacro ('Sacred Fire') seeks out singers who have the power to pierce our hearts, presenting three of them at work in the most intimate details of their rehearsals and preparations. |
A film by Jan Schmidt-Gar, with Asmik Grigorian, Barbara Hannigan, Ermonela Jaho
Fuoco Sacro - A search for the sacred fire of song (Blu-ray) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Fuoco Sacro ('Sacred Fire') seeks out singers who have the power to pierce our hearts, presenting three of them at work in the most intimate details of their rehearsals and preparations. |
Barbara Lynn
The Atlantic Years 1968-1973 (LP) [ Atlantic / Warner / LP - released 3/Jul/2020 ] Barbara Lynn Ozen is an American rhythm and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter born in Beaumont, Texas and played piano as a child but switched to guitar, which she plays left-handed, inspired by Guitar Slim, Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley and Brenda... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
The Verdi Opera Selection: "Shakespeare" Otello / Macbeth / Falstaff Plácido Domingo, Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci, Thomas Hampson, Ruggero Raimondi, Manuel Lanza, etc [ Arthaus Opera Editrion / 3 DVD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Otello - Live from the Teatro alla Scala Milan, 2001 Macbeth - Live from the Opernhaus Zurich, 2001 Falstaff - Live from the Teatro del Maggio Muusicale Fiorentino, 2006 |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Barbara Hannigan: Equilibrium - Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress & Taking Risks: A documentary by Maria Stodtmeier Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble, Barbara Hannigan (conductor) / [ Accentus Music / DVD - released 1/May/2020 ] Taking Risks: A documentary by Maria Stodtmeier This production of 'The Rake's Progress' marks Barbara Hannigan's debut as an opera conductor and is a "labour of love" for her. Hannigan, who has sung the role of Anne Truelove many times,... |
LUIGI NONO / FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / GERARD GRISEY
La Passione Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor), Ludwig Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "The knowledge that Grisey himself died unexpectedly himself died unexpectedly at only 52 shortly before the work's premiere only heightens the impact of this mesmeric recording." BBC Music |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Ich habe viel Bekammernis Cantatas BWV21 & BWV42 Barbara Schlick (sop) Garard Lesne (counter-tenor) Howard Crook (tenor) Peter Kooy (bass) La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Superbly constructed, the cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis is incontestably one of Bach's finest works. The masterly arrangements of the material endows it with an emotional cohesion and a dramatic intensity worthy of the Passions and the Mass in B... |
ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: Strictly Private Diana Tomsche (soprano), Esther Valentin (mezzo-soprano), Miriam Burkhardt (soprano), Barbara Grabowski (alto), etc / Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, T [ hänssler CLASSIC / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Very little is known today about the personal life of composer Antonio Salieri..This recording seeks to bring us closer to Salieri the man - with works that he composed for performance among friends. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Andreas Scholl, Barbara Schlick, Sandrine Piau, Mark Padmore, Nathan Berg / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] |
HANDEL / MOZART / BRAHMS / BACH / FAURE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anthony Way: Wings of a Dove Anthony Way (treble), with Barbara Bonney, Tabitha Watling, Choir of Uppingham School [ Decca / CD - released 15/Aug/2019 ] Anthony Way was born in London on 14 December 1982, and was a chorister by the age of eight. He is the 6th child out of 8 siblings. Wings of a Dove was originally released in 1997. |
Jon Hendricks
Four Classic Albums (A Good Git-Together / Fast Livin' Blues / High Flying / Sing Ellington) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Another two classics by the titanic trio and for good measure offer up a taste of the vocalese master Jon Hendricks out on his own on two extraordinary albums. Released in 1959, A Good Git Together features Jon Hendricks during the time of his... |
GEORGE BENJAMIN
Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Stéphane Degout, Barbara Hannigan, Gyula Orendt, Peter Hoare / George (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2019 ] "At just 90 minutes, this is an opera of impressive concentration with not a word or note wasted." Gramophone |
SCHOENBERG / BERG / WEBERN / ZEMLINSKY
Vienna - Fin de Siècle Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Reinbert De Leeuw (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Solo Vocal |
BRETT DEAN
Dean: Hamlet (Complete opera recorded in 2018) Glyndebourne Opera / Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan, Rod Gilfry / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 WINNER - Contemporary |
BRETT DEAN
Dean: Hamlet (Complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan, Rod Gilfry / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 WINNER - Contemporary |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Ermonela Jaho, Marcelo Puente, Scott Hendricks, Carlo Bosi / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 5/Dec/2018 ] Puccini's Japanese tragedy Madama Butterfly is given a ravishing production by The Royal Opera. Its alluring imagery of Japan from the 19th-century European Imagination heightens the intense clash of East and West. When the American naval officer... |