MOZART / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER / C.P.E. BACH / HANDEL / DVORAK / etc
Dennis Brain - Homage Dennis Brain (horn) with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac, Walter Gieseking, George Malcom, Gerald Moore, Malcolm Sargent, Herbert von Karajan, etc [ Warner Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 14/May/2021 ] This 11CD collection presents all of Brain's Warner recordings as concerto soloist and chamber and ensemble player - including music composed with him in mind - and his most notable contributions to symphonic, choral and operatic works. |
Jutta Hipp/Walter Davis/McCoy Tyner/Herbie Hancock
Jazz Piano - Four Classic Albums (Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims/Davis Cup/Inception/Takin' Off) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] AVID Jazz is proud to introduce an exciting new addition to our Four Classic Album series, Four Classic Jazz Instrumentalists. The idea behind the series is to include many artists who for a variety of different reasons do not have four of their own... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder + Songs & Arias by Gluck, Greene, Handel, Purcell etc Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] "...outstandingly beautiful, so moving and deeply felt" (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Piano Sonatas Robert Levin (fortepiano, Anton Walter, 1782) [ ECM New Series / 7 CD Box Set - released 2/Sep/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - INSTRUMENTAL |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Piano Concerto / Eight Humoresques Rudolf Firkunsny (piano) / Saint-Louis Symphony Orchestra, walter Susskind [ Vox Prima / CD - released 27/Jun/1987 ] A rare performance of the Humoresques. Remastered from the original Dolby-encoded 4 channel recording |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K620 (Highlights from the complete opera) Walter Berry, Kurt Bohme, Hilde Gueden, August Jaresch, Wilma Lipp, Emmy Loose, Leopold Simoneau / Vienna State Opera Chorus, Karl Bohm [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] " Böhm performed Die Zauberflöte as a sublime work of transcendent humanity... Decca's 1955 sound is clear and evocative" AllMusic.com |
J. S. BACH
Walter Gieseking: Complete Bach Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Walter Gieseking (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Deutsche Grammophon / 7 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2019 ] 'His tone is attractive (warmed by a little pedal) and subtly nuanced, his phrasing is musicianly, he gives the fugues (often long, in this book) control and cohesion; there is gentleness in the E flat major Prelude and lightness in that in G major.'... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / W. A. MOZART / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Walter Giesking II Walter Giesking (piano) [ EMI / Philips / Sony / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Walter Wilhelm Gieseking (5 November 1895 - 26 October 1956) was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control-particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made integral... |
J. STRAUSS II
Strauss: Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 1971) Anneliese Rothenberger, Renate Holm, Brigitte Fassbaender, Nicolai Gedda, Adolf Dallapozza, Walter Berry / Wiener Staatsoper, Willi Boskovsky [ Warner Classics Cologne Collection / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2016 ] The original source for Die Fledermaus is a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix (1811-1873), Das Gefängnis (The Prison). Another source is a French vaudeville play, Le Réveillon, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Their play was... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Violin Sonatas Arthur Grumiaux, Walter Klien, Gerard Poulet, Blandine Verlet, etc [ Philips Complete Mozart Edition Vol 15 / 7 CD Box Set - released 11/Jan/1991 ] Original Recording From 1975, 1985, 1991 |