VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Waldteufel: Famous Waltzes Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Alfred Walter [ Naxos / CD ] "an attractive programme....a delightful disc" - Fanfare |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Famous Operetta Overtures Zecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra Kosice, Alfred Walter [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "In our current age, very few are the opportunities where so little money can buy so much happiness." Fanfare |
KABALEVSKY
Suite - The Comedians / Piano Concerto No 1 / etc Anatoly Sheludiakov (piano) / Russian Cinematographic Symphony Orchestra/Walter Mnatsakanov [ Alto / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] " While Kabalevsky may, on this evidence, lack the gritty individuality of Prokofiev or Shostakovich it would be a shame to ignore this smoothly attractive, and only occasionally brash, music." (MusicWeb Sept 2014) |
FRANZ von SUPPE
Boccaccio (complete operetta) Anneliese Rothenberger, Adolf Dallapozza, Edda Moser, Hermann Prey, Walter Berry / Willi Boskovsky [ Warner Classics Cologne Collection / 2 CD - released 1/May/2014 ] The waltz and the Viennese Singspiel tradition are just as present in Franz von Suppé's operettas as French and Italian influences: his Boccaccio of 1879 carries the audience off to 14th century Florence. The turbulent comedy about poet Giovanni... |
Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness [ Verve Originals / CD - released 18/Aug/2008 ] |
Schubert;
Symphonie h-Moll D 759 Symphonie No. 1 D-Dur Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bruno Walter [ ORFEO / CD - released 3/Apr/2002 ] |
BRAHMS
Piano Quartets Op.25, 26 & 60 Beaux Arts Trio (with Walter Trampler - viola) [ Pentatone SACD / 2 SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] The first quartets written by Brahms were not strings quartets, as one might expect, but these piano quartets, with which Brahms refers to the works written by Mozart in this genre and on which he worked simultaneously |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Quartets Op.25, 26 & 60 / piano Trio in A Beaux Arts Trio (with Walter Trampler - viola) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] Beaux Arts Trio |
WAGNER/ LEONCAVALLO / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / BIZET / SULLIVAN / etc
Great British Tenors Ben Davies, John Coates, Gerwase Elwes, Walter Hyde, Frank Mullings, John McCormack, Joseph Hislop, Parry Jones, Hubert Eisdell, Tudor Davies, etc [ Heritage / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Commercial recording arrived at the ideal time to capture a golden age of British tenor singing. A range of distinctive qualities had developed in the 19th century - firm yet elegant tone, emphasis on text and on clarity of diction - that... |
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... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker (Complete ballet recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Berlin State Ballet / Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Michael Banzha, Arshak Ghalumyan / Robert Reimer (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] In combination with the brilliance of modern dance, this production - a loving reconstruction designed as a great ballet féerie - reveals its nostalgic charm and the promise of Christmas: it's as if Tchaikovsky had composed the falling of snowflakes |
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 |
Bruno Walter
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No.7 (with Gluck - Iphigénie en Aulide: Overture) New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ Testament / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Throughout his later decades, Bruno Walter (1876-1962) was considered to be one of the world's most noteworthy Brucknerians. Among his valedictory recordings his most prized are arguably those of Bruckner's Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Symphonies with... |
Bruno Walter
Mahler:das Lied Von Der Erde [ Dutton / CD ] |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 / Overtures (rec 1930-1938) Bruno Walter (Conductor) / London Symphony Orchestra / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 5/Aug/2006 ] "Overall a fine, enlightening performance which it is a privilege to have on the shelves" (MusicWeb April 2007) |
Ludwig van
Egmont-Ouvertüre, Symphonie No. 4 Bruno Walter, Irmgard Seefried, Wiener Philharmoniker [ ORFEO / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Apr/2002 ] 50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 49) - BBC MUSIC "Recorded live in concert just weeks before the Anschluss in 1938, it was known that both Bruno Walter himself and the many Jewish players in the orchestra would soon be forced to leave." BBC |
JOSEF STRAUSS
Edition Vol. 1 (incls Etiquette, Polka francaise, & Wiegenlieder, Walzer) Budapest Strauss Symphony Orchestra / Alfred Walter (conductor) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 28/May/2006 ] "The Moulinet-Polka has just the right combination of charm and forward momentum." - Gramophone |
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / MAHLER / GLUCK / REGER / etc
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics Christa Ludwig (mezzo) with Walter Berry (bass-baritone) Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons, Gerald Moore, Leonard Bernstein (pianos) [ Warner Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2018 ] "I cannot strongly enough recommend this example of perfect Lieder singing, word and tone, and piano accompanying of some of the finest songs ever composed. It is a joy from start to finish." Gramophone on the Schubert Lieder |