FRANZ LEHAR
Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns [The Land Of Smiles] (complete operetta recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Piotr Beczala, Julia Kleiter, Rebeca Olvera, Spencer Lang / Fabio Luisi (conductor) [ Accentus Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2018 ] Always smile and always be cheerful, always satisfied, no matter what happens, smile in spite of your sorrows and a thousand aches and pains', sings Prince Sou-Chong, thus introducing the fundamentally melancholic tone of Das Land des Lächelns ('The... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded at the Bayreuth Festival, August 2011 BLU-RAY Bayreuth Festival / Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, Petra Lang, Jukka Rasilainen / Andris Nelsons (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] Hans Neuenfels's striking new production of Wagner's fairytale opera gives this medieval story of doomed love and sorcery the Bayreuth treatment. As controversial as it is stimulating, this production was the talk of the 2011 Festival, and showcases... |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' (recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Diana Damrau & Petra Lang / Staatskapelle Berlin & Staatsopernchor, Pierre Boulez [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2011 ] Born in 1925 in Montbrison, France, Pierre Boulez is one of the most distinguished composers and conductors in the world today. |
MOZART / CHOPIN
The Highest Level: Prokofiev 3 and Bartok 2 BLU-RAY Lang Lang (piano) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 4/Nov/2013 ] Lang Lang's first concerto album on the Sony label unites the world's greatest International music stars: Lang Lang, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This highly awaited collaboration resulted in a recording which will mark one... |
MOZART / CHOPIN
Lang Lang At The Royal Albert Hall (recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Lang Lang (piano) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 31/Oct/2014 ] In November 2013 Lang Lang returned to London's legendary Royal Albert Hall for two recitals that sold out within 48 hours of tickets being released. This 120 minute film captures the complete recital and offers an opportunity to re-live an... |
BEETHOVEN / ALBENIZ / PROKOFIEV / CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lang Lang - Live in Vienna BLU-RAY Lang Lang (piano) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Jun/2016 ] "the technical command is peerless and the emotional warmth envelops us. He is surely the Horowitz of our generation" The Observer, 12th September 2010 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dragon Songs [includes the Yellow River Concerto] BLU-RAY Lang Lang (piano) / Fan Wei / Zhang Jial / Ji Wei / Long Yu / Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra / Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2014 ] Lang Lang has fascinated audiences all over the globe - with "Dragon Songs" he takes them home to show them "his" China. Discover the musical culture that forged one of the most acclaimed classical musicians of our day. |
W. A. MOZART
Mission Mozart BLU-RAY Lang Lang (piano) / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2016 ] As a tribute to Nikolaus Harnoncourt Sony Classical release on DVD & Blu-Ray the TV film "Mission Mozart". This film documented the one and only recording project between these two great musicians, recorded at Vienna's Musikverein in 2014. The... |
WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Torsten Kerl, Kate Aldrich, Camilla Nylund / Sebastian Lang-Lessing (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "…spectacularly thanks to brilliant pseudo-historic footage in the style of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda films…The production is a knockout." The Sunday Times |
BERLIOZ / LISZT / MOZART / R. STRAUSS / etc
Summer Night Concert 2014 BLU-RAY Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, with Lang Lang (piano) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Jul/2014 ] |
BARTOK
The Miraculous Mandarin (arr two pianos) / Sonata for two pianos and percussion Akos Hernadi, Karoly Mocsari (pianos) with Franz Lang & Jochen Schoerer (percussion) [ Hanssler / CD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] Bartók's chamber music for multiple pianos. The composer's own arrangement of the searing, expressionist score for his ballet, "The Miraculous Mandarin" reveals the audacity of Bartók's creative vision with a clarity that is often lost in the popular... |
JOHN CAGE
Cage: Melodies & Harmonies Annelie Gahl & Klaus Lang [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] Cage is by no means a synonym for obligingness. All the more astonished we listen to the melodious and harmonious objects Annelie Gahl and Klaus Lang present on this album. Lang, the trained organist and internationally renowned composer, performs... |
HUGO WOLF
The Complete Songs Volume 4 Mary Bevan / Quirijn de Lang / Sholto Kynoch [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] |
Case / Lang / Veirs
Case / Lang / Veirs [ Anti / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] CASE/LANG/VEIRS is a true collaboration between three phenomenal, self-driven artists: avantrock icon Neko Case, legendary musical nomad k.d. lang, and indie folk star Laura Veirs. The women wrote all 14 songs and shared lead vocals equally,... |
COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |
Don Lang
Introducing The Hand Jive [ Vocalion / 2 CD - released 21/Nov/2005 ] |
Don Lang & Johnny Keating
Twenty Top Twenty Twists & Six [ Vocalion / CD - released 20/Dec/2010 ] |
SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Rosemarie Lang, Manfred Jung, Wolf Appel, Ulrik Cold, Gert Westphal / Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] Gurrelieder is a gigantic, post‐Wagnerian cantata that, in retrospect, seems like the terminus ante quem for Romanticism in music, beyond which further elaboration or intensity was surely impossible, and led surely if not inevitably to the... |
Frank/Helsingborg So/Lang
Wagner:wesendonck-Lieder [ Bis / CD ] |
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto 1 & 2 / Variation on a Theme by Haydn / Solo Piano Pieces Horacio Gutierrez, Lang Lang (pianos) / Royal Philharmonic, Andre Previn [ Telarc Everybody's Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "The richly enjoyable performance benefits from an aural frame in which the piano and orchestra are especially well balanced, and the overall sound quality equalsthe finest yet achieved on this label." -Stereo |