LULLY
Thesee (complete opera) Aaron Engebreth, Aaron Sheehan, Amanda Forsythe, Teresa Warkim, Yulia Van Doren / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus / Paul O'Dette [ CPO / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2008 - Baroque Vocal - "Still often underrated, Lully is an operatic giant, and this fine recording makes eloquent proof" Gramophone Magazine |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Melancolía - Música Temprana Olalla Alemán (soprano), Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, Luciana Cueto (mezzo-soprano) Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel / Música Temprana [ Pentatone / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Música Temprana, one of today's most exciting Hispanic early music ensembles, presents its first PENTATONE album Melancolía, on which they present Spanish courtly songs on mourning and unrequited love around 1500 together with the apocalyptic... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) (Complete Oratorio in German) Alastair Miles, Jard van Nes, Helen Donath / Israel Philharmonic, Kurt Masur [ Teldec / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1993 ] Contains comprehensive book and translations |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Sonatas Alexander Melnikov (piano) with Isabelle Faust (violin) Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet) Teunis van der Zwart (althorn), etc [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] 'The patron saint of neglected instruments, Hindemith composed more than 30 sonatas for very diverse resources … The Hindemith anniversary of 2013 opened the gates to a welcome flood of excellent recordings, and this new release stands high among the |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Life Of Tango Alfredo Marcucci (bandoneón), Michel van der Meire (bass), Juan Masondo (guitar & voice) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Nov/2004 ] |
Alice Foccroulle, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Lambert Colson
Teatro Spirituale [ Ricercar / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] This recording transports us to Rome's Chiesa Nuova, the Oratory Church where in 1600 the premiere took place of the first spiritual opera, La Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo by Cavalieri. That pioneering spirit has inspired this programme... |
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Music for the Stage Andrea Chudak, Ruxandra Voda van der Plas, Harrie van der Plas, Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Engelbert Humperdinck won a worldwide reputation through his application of Wagnerian techniques to folk music in Hänsel und Gretel. But he wrote far more widely for the stage than is acknowledged. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / FRANZ BERWALD
Schubert & Berwald: Chamber Music Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Jos van Immerseel: "While since its foundation in 1987 Anima Eterna Brugge has grown organically into a symphonic orchestra, chamber music once again forms an important part of our repertory today. We will continue our journey through orchestral... |
JANACEK / DVORAK
Jos van Immerseel conducts Dvorak & Janacek Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Jos Van Immerseel is celebrating his 70th birthday with three important releases...These anthologies will once again demonstrate everything the pianofortist brings to the interpretation of the symphonic and chamber repertoires. |
DEBUSSY
Mer, Images & Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] After discs devoted to Ravel and Poulenc (ZZT060901 & ZZT110403 - critical and popular successes, the latter measured in sales), Jos van Immerseel returns to French music, tackling Debussy and his most famous orchestral works. This he does... |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (with Ravel - Ma Mere L'Oye) Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos Van Immerseel [ Zig-Zag Territories / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "It's very interesting but not entirely successful. As always with Immerseel and his band, attention to detail is faultless, and it's good to hear more portamento in their phrasing than we're used to." (Guardian) |
MOZART
Mozart: Concertos Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade op 35 / Russian Festival Easter Overture (with Borodin - Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, etc) Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] "The recording is crystal clear and has some great dynamics, especially on the percussion and heavy brass. Anima Eterna is probably the most interesting and significant orchestra recording at the moment." (Amazon.co.uk) |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month - May 2010 - "...it is the sheer raw clarity of every line and colour in these Flemish players' performance, and its effect on the rhythms, that strikes you, especially in their revelatory account of the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel (conductor) [ Zig Zag Territoires / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphonies / Concertos / Sonatas Midori C. Seiler (vio) Jos van Immerseel (piano) Ulrich Hübner (hn) Frank Theuns (fl) Marjan de Haern (hp) / Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Zig-Zag Territoires / 6 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2013 ] This economically priced box set of six CDs brings together all the previous releases on ZZT of Mozart works performed by Jos van Immerseel: Symphonies nos.29, 39, 40 & 41, the Bassoon Concerto, Violin Concertos nos.2 and 3, the Concerto for two... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem / Coronation Mass (rec 1975) Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, Werner Krenn, JosAC van Dam / Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Karajan Master Recordings / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] The French review magazine Diapason wrote of this Coronation Mass: "The choral and orchestral forces are very effective, the soloists prestigious and the conductor's interpretation spectacular and very lyrical", and of the Requiem: "The tempos are... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLEL: Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem] (recorded in 1976) Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano) & Jose van Dam (baritone) / Wiener Singverein, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Studio / CD - released 2/Jul/1988 ] Originally recorded at the Philharmonie, Berlin, 1976 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 / Overtures Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Marianne Beate Kielland, Markus SchANfer, Thomas Bauer / Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel (conductor) [ Zig Zag Territoires / 6 CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] "The eternal question with new Beethoven symphony cycles - is there room for another? When it's as good as this, absolutely...a stimulating, exhilerating experience." (Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice June 2008) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust) - From the Royal Albert Hall 1989 Anne Sofie Von Otter, Keith Lewis, Jose Van Dam, Peter Rose / The Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ AWD DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2006 ] Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berlioz's concert cantata. |