BORIS PIGOVAT
Requiem - 'The Holocaust' / Poem of Dawn Anna Serova (viola) / Croatian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Nicola Guerini [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Of Ukrainian origin, Boris Pigovat is now based in Israel where he has won several distinguished national awards. His Holocaust Requiem received the ACUM prize in 1995, and was premièred at a concert dedicated to the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar.... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Images / Le martyre de Saint Sebastien Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/1993 ] "Rahbari is a sensitive and perceptive Debussian." Gramophone |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: L'Arlesienne [complete incidental music] / Jeux d'enfants Belgium Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] Currently selling for $35 (US) on Amazon |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 / Brahms: Symphony No. 1 Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "Rahbari brings admirable sweep and dramatic fervour" CD Review |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "The impulse gives a feeling of live performance" Penguin Guide |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 / Serenade No. 2 Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "Rahbari's shaping of phrases and of long paragraphs is excellent and the tempi he sets are apt. He senses the dramatic crux of the slow movement perceptively and builds the finale to its climax with an admirable sense of inevitability" Hi-Fi Choice |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "Rahbari[']s…leadership is inspiring. The overall effect is low-key compared to some of the 'big guns', but it seems a legitimate other way to play the music. The Naxos sound is beautiful-better than many of the 'big' labels." American Record Guide |
DONIZETTI
Donizetti Heroines Elena Mosuc (soprano) / Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio-Television, Ivo Lipanovic [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/May/2014 ] "Mosuc is not found lacking when it comes to surmounting the fioriture of whichever cabaletta is being sung, her technical prowess ensuring admirable results and the voice well honed, with trills and clean articulation in florid stretches." (IRR) |
ERIC SATIE
Orchestral Music (Incls 'Parade') French National Radio & Television Orchestra. / Manuel Rosenthal [ Everest / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "If you'd like to hear a French orchestra playing Satie and having a whale of a time, this will be an excellent starting point." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
ANTON BRUCKNER / PAUL HINDEMITH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No.1 / Hindemith: Pittsburgh Symphony (recorded 1965 & 1983) Grand Symphony Orchestra of Radio & Television, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky & Eugeny Svetlanov [ Russian Revelation / CD - released 1/Jul/1996 ] The Revelation catalogue represents one of the most important cultural discoveries of the century - over 4000,000 tapes, most of them never heard before. Seventy years worth of repressed Russian recordings featuring some of the world's best musicians |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Hungarian Radio & Television Orchestra. Charles Munch [ ABC Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] The rarest amongst Charles Munch's many traversals of Symphonie fantastique (including those with the Boston and Paris Orchestras), this is an extraordinarily spacious reading of the first movement in particular, and will be much sought after by... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassinato Jenö Jandó (piano) / Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "satisfying and thoroughly sympathetic and musical" Classic CD |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 Jenö Jandó (piano) / Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra; Budapest Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD ] The Budapest Symphony Orchestra, part of the Hungarian Television and, Broadcasting Organisation, was established after the Second World War and under its Principal Conductor György Lehel has won some distinction. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (highlights from the opera) Miriam Gauci (soprano) / Kaludi Kaludov (tenor) / Henk Lauwers (bass) / Vincente Sardinero (baritone) / Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic / [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "This 68 minutes of excerpts from Puccini's first great success is an excellent introduction to the opera. We get most of the music for Manon and Des Grieux in Act 1, Manon's second act aria and the big duet, the beautiful Intermezzo (rather... |
Various / Original Television Series Soundtrack
Grey's Anatomy Volume 2 [ Hollywood Records / CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] 'Grey's Anatomy' features wall-to-wall music - and is an integral part of the program. This CD features Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" (exclusive previously unreleased live acoustic version) and the acoustic version of KT Tunstall "Universe and U". |
ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Original Television Soundtrack [ Silva Screen / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Robert Mellin - Special CD of score from 1960's TV series.Includes over 32 minutes previously unreleased music plus a new digital recording of a symphonic suite of music from the series Music composed by ROBERT MELLIN & GIAN-PIERO REVERBERI |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Egmont Op. 84 [Complete incidental music] / Leonora Overture No 3 Miriam Gauci (soprano) Dirk Schortemeier (speaker) / Belgium Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] "His performance of the complete Egmont music is what one would expect from a Swarowsky pupil: complete command over his forces, a sweeping style and good attention to detail." |
Television
The Blow Up - Live [ ROIR / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] The definitive live release from 1978, collated from Tom Verlaine's personal archives, no less |
Television
Marquee Moon [ Rhino Records / CD - released 23/Sep/2003 ] Starkly spare but structurally complex, emotionally without pretense but blazing with punk angst! Digitally re-mastered, with 5 bonus tracks & deluxe packaging |
Television Personalities
And Don't The Kids Just Love It [ Fire Records / CD ] |