RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Orchestral Songs / Tod und Verklärung Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Kurt Masur / Royal Concergebouw Orchestra Bernard Haitink [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] Lovers of Richard Strauss' music have long considered the Jerusalem disc of orchestral songs a 'must-have' in their collection. They are sheerly glorious - as is the 'heldentenor' of Siegfried Jerusalem. They are now reissued with Haitink's searing... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (complete opera directed by Wolfgang Wagner recorded in 1984) Bayreuther Festival / Bernd Weikl / Siegfried Jerusalem / Marianne Haggander / Marga Schiml / Graham Clark / Hermann Prey / Horst Stein (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel / 2 DVD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] G :- Staged and directed by Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1984, this production of Wagner's only comic opera features an all-star cast and the Bayreuther Festspiele chorus and orchestra under the direction of... |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Gotterdammerung (recorded 1992) Bayreuther Festspiele / Siegfried Jerusalem, Bodo Brinkmann, Anne Evans, Hilde Leidland, Eva-Maria Bundschuh / Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Music Vision / Unitel DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/May/2010 ] "If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone… Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian virtuosity" Gramophone 2007 |
RICHARD WAGNER
Complete Wagner Operas [34 CD set] Robert Holl, Falk Struckmann, Jane Eaglen, Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem, Siegfried Jerusalem, Günter von Kannen, Anne Evans / Daniel Barenboim [ Teldec Warner Classics / 34 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Barenboim's iconic Wagner performances, available for the first time in a complete set. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Siegfried Jerusalem, Sharon Sweet, Marjana Lipovšek, Philip Langridge / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Claudio Abbado [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] The reception at the first performance was overwhelming: the ovation lasted fifteen minutes; the composer's denigrators were silenced, and many members of the audience wept. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' Carol Vaness, Janice Taylor, Siegfried Jerusalem, Robert Lloyd / Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2003 ] "This is a wonderful performance. The first movement truly moves. It is overwhelming, which is what it should be...As for the great Ode, chorus and soloists-conductor and orchestra-all are magnificent." -High Performance Review |
MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde Cornelia Kallisch / Siegfried Jerusalem / SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Michael Gielen [ Hanssler / CD - released 17/Aug/2011 ] "..this is ultimately Gielen's 'performance', and those familiar with his Mahler will encounter the expected combination of formal precision and expressive spontaneity here." (International Record Review July 2011) |
SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder / Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 / Chamber Symphony Siegfried Jerusalem, Susan Dunn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Hermann Becht, Peter Haage / Royal Concertgebouw, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Riccard [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 7/Apr/2003 ] "Brigitte Fassbaender reigns supreme [as Waldtaube]...Susan Dunn is a vivdly drawn Tove...Best of all, there's finally a Waldemar who measures up to his part: Siegfried Jerusalem, who can sing the role as well as the notes." (Gramophone) |
KORNGOLD
Violanta (Complete Opera recorded in 1980) Eva Marton, Siegfried Jerusalem & Walter Berry / Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Marek Janowski [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "What strength and beauty [Marton] had in 1980! Siegfried Jerusalem, too, was on peak form...Walter Berry oozes his usual authority...all the glitter and occasional strangeness of the lush score comes across under Janowski's impeccably paced... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: The Ring Des Nibelungen (highlights) James Morris, Eva Marton, Cheryl Studer, Siegfried Jerusalem / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ EMI Studio / CD - released 23/Mar/1988 ] Highlights from the classic EMI recording |
Jerusalem
Escalator [ Mausoleum / CD ] |
Jerusalem In My Heart
Daqa'iq Tudaiq [ Constellation / CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) returns with Daqa'iq Tudaiq, the third full-length album from the Montréal-Beirut contemporary Arabic audio-visual duo, following the acclaimed 2015 release If He Dies, If If If If If If. Featuring voice, electronics,... |
Jerusalem In My Heart
Daqa'iq Tudaiq (LP) [ Constellation / LP - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) returns with Daqa'iq Tudaiq, the third full-length album from the Montréal-Beirut contemporary Arabic audio-visual duo, following the acclaimed 2015 release If He Dies, If If If If If If. Featuring voice, electronics,... |
Jerusalem In My Heart
If He Dies, If If If If If If [ Constellation Records / CD - released 18/Feb/2016 ] Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, alongside fellow Montreal artist Charles-André Coderre, returns with If He Dies, If If If If If If, a second full-length album from his acclaimed Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) project, conceived and recorded in his dual homes of... |
Jerusalem In My Heart
If He Dies, If If If If If If (LP) [ Constellation Records / LP - released 18/Feb/2016 ] |
Jerusalem In My Heart
Mo7it Al Mo7it [ Constellation Records / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] |
Jerusalem In My Heart
Mo7it Al Mo7it [ Constellation Records / LP - released 18/Mar/2013 ] |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4, 6 Jerusalem Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "To judge from the first disc of its new recorded Bartók set, with the even-numbered quartets, the group's account will not displace the Takács but promises to be in its league." Washington Post |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Op 64/5 'Lark', Op 76/2 'Fifths', Op 77/1 'Lobkowitz' Jerusalem Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] "Excellent performances by the Jerusalem Quartet, who must give us more Haydn recordings." The Sunday Times ***(Excellent) |
DVORAK
String Quartet No 12 American / Piano Quintet Op 81 Jerusalem Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] The Jerusalem Quartet was founded in 1993, and began its training in Jerusalem, under the direction of the violinist Avi Abramovitch. |