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WAGNER
Die Walküre Anita Välkki, Claire Watson, Hans Hotter, Jon Vickers / The Royal Opera House, Georg Solti [ Testament / 4 CD Box Set - released 31/Jul/2014 ] This release marks the first appearance of Georg Solti on Testament as an opera conductor in an historic performance of Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in October 1961. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Image of Melancholy Barokksolistene / Bjarte Eike, artistic director & violin Berit Norbakken Solset, soprano; Jon Balke, organ / soundscapes; Milos Valent, viola and voc [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Joined by the soprano Berit Norbakken Solset and by the jazz pianist Jon Balke, Eike and his ensemble have created an intensely atmospheric and highly suggestive disc, which richly lives up to its motto - 'Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.' |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde (complete opera) Jon Vickers, Helga Dernesch, Christa Ludwig, Karl Ridderbusch, Walter Berry / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2016 ] "There is no question that Karajan stands head and shoulders above every conductor in the world today," said Jon Vickers, acknowledged as the greatest Tristan of his era. Conductor and tenor are joined by Helga Dernesch as a youthful, ardently... |
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BARTOK / R. STRAUSS / PUCCINI / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings [1953-1976] Birgit Nilsson, with, Regina Resnik, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jon Vickers, Helen Donath, Walter Berry, etc [ Sony Classics / 31 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2018 ] "Many of these live recordings have been remastered, mostly very adequately, from radio broadcasts, and include samples at least of all her major roles...The casts for some of these performances are the stuff of legend now." The Guardian |
PAUL SCHOENFELD / STEVEN STUCKY / JOHN HARBISON
Schoenfeld/Stucky/Harbison: Three American Violin Sonatas Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Jon Kimura Parker (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] The three sonatas on this recording were written at the behest of violinist Cho-Liang Lin, who worked closely with each composer at their premiere performance. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
Dave Brubeck (piano) with Jon Hendricks and Michael Brecker
Young Lions & Old Tigers [ Telarc Discover Jazz / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] Celebrating his 75th birthday, Dave Brubeck hosts three generations of modern jazzmen on his new release, Young Lions & Old Tigers. Three lush standards anchor a collage of nine Brubeck originals written especially for each honored soloist. |
Deborah Voigt - Johan Botha - Jon Villars, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sinopoli
Strauss, Richard - Der Friedenstag (Complete Opera) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Oct/2001 ] Richard Strauss´s underrated and underrecorded opera 'Friedenstag' |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Highlights] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Stewart, Josephine Veasey, Gundula Janowitz, Jon Vickers, Jess Thomas / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Dec/2013 ] Highlights from Herbert von Karajan's mighty 'Ring' cycle. The disc includes extended highlights from the four 'Ring' operas and allows us to sample Karajan's choice of different singers for the same character in different operas - Fischer-Dieskau's... |
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Dino Saluzzi / Jon Christensen
Senderos [ CD ] |
The Goons featuring Andrew Secombe, Jon Glover, Jeffrey Holland & others
Goon Again - The 40th Anniversary Cardboard Replica Show [ BBC Audio / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] Using scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, the Goon Show was recreated at the Playhouse Theatre in London for one night, with Andrew Secombe (Harry's son), Jon Glover (as Spike Milligan) and Jeffrey Holland (as Peter Sellers). |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1985) Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Justino Diaz / Vienna State Opera Choir & Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deusche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] This famous film of the world's best-loved opera, directed by Herbert von karajan, features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time. - "overwhelming in its truthfulness to the tragic vision of Carmen", wrote the... |
Jon Hassell
Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] This recording from the innovative & influential Jon Hassell is conceived as "a continuous piece, almost symphonic, with a cinematic construction" and drifting "clouds made out of many motifs". |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Complete Opera recorded in 1970) Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kéléman, Helen Donath / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "Helga Dernesch as Leonare gives a glorious, thrilling peformance. The orchestral playing is superb." (Penguin Guide) |
Jon Hopkins
Insides [ Domino Records / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes affecting, bold electronic music, using walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. |
Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |
Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Jon Christensen
Gefion (LP) [ ECM / LP ] 'Gefion' is Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's first ECM album as leader, following recordings for the label as sideman with Paul Motian and Tomasz Stanko. Like the work of those masters Bro's balladeering distils a sense of jazz history in its specific... |
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HANDEL
Messiah (orchestrated by Eugene Goossens and recorded in 1959) Jennifer Vyvyan, Monica Sinclair, Jon Vickers, Giorgio Tozzi / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham [ RCA Victor Gold / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2013 ] |
MOZART / WAGNER / DONIZETTI / SPOHR
The Golden Age of Covent Garden Joan Sutherland (soprano) Jon Vickers (tenor) / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Rafael Kubelik / with Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Pearl / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers in roles they never recorded commercially, at the very peak of their powers in 1957 and 1958. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (complete opera recorded in 1993) John Cheek, Jon Garrison, Jeffrey Johnson, Shirley Love, Melvin Lowery, Jane West, Wendy White, Arthur Woodley / Robert Craft [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "That we have such a direct link to Stravinsky's living thoughts and intentions in Robert Craft and such a powerful performance makes this recording as much a 'must have' as the composer's own." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
