More By Artist: B J Thomas
Displaying items 181 to 200 of 742
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Das Rheingold (complete opera recorded in 2021) Berlin Opera / Derek Welton, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas Blondelle, Markus Blondelle / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] As early as 1851, Wagner wrote, 'I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy Prelude.' The Prelude was Das Rheingold ('The Rhine Gold') the preliminary evening of Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Das Rheingold (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Derek Welton, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas Blondelle, Markus Blondelle / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 16/Feb/2024 ] As early as 1851, Wagner wrote, 'I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy Prelude.' The Prelude was Das Rheingold ('The Rhine Gold') the preliminary evening of Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Manuela Uhl, Mark Delavan, Matthias Klink, Thomas Blondelle / Andrew Litton (cond) [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "fine dynamic control (here is one heroic baritone who really can sing intimately), expansive personality and fabulously clear and meaningful textual projection...the orchestra revel in the score under Andrew Litton." (International Record Review) |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Nina Stemme, Clay Hilley, Thomas Lehmann, Aile Asszonyi / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 17/May/2024 ] Götterdämmerung ('Twilight of the Gods') is the final opera of Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung') in which his visionary masterpiece reaches its cataclysmic conclusion. Betrayal and death, murder and remorse,... |
![Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen [complete operas on Blu-ray audio] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10612/10612221.jpg)
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen [complete operas on Blu-ray audio] Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela, Thomas Stewart, Régine Crespin, Gundula Janowitz, Josephine Veasey, etc / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray audio / Blu-Ray Audio - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Deutsche Grammophon is reissuing, in Blu-ray audio, Karajan's monumental Ring cycle, which he recorded together with the Berlin Philharmonic and a stunning cast of singers. |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Dona Nobis Pacem & Towards the Unknown Region Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Corydon Singers, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Jul/1993 ] |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Eventyr / A Song Before Sunrise Betty Beecham (Piano) / Jean Pougnet (Violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Sir Thomas Beecham's almost single-handed promotion of the music of Delius to international acceptance through his own personal standing and his conducting genius, besides being among the singular feats of the twentieth century, remains unrivalled in... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos KV 365, Sinfonia concertante for Four Winds KV 279B, Adagio KV 261, Rondo KV 269 & 373 for Violin Bilal Alnemr, Gabriel Pidoux, Blaz Sparovec, Theo Plath, Nicolas Ramez ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Duo Sakamoto, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] This tenth volume in the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series presents works that are less frequently recorded, including a concerto for two pianos (in its original orchestration), separate movements for violin and orchestra (an Adagio and two... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Lutheran Masses, BWV233-236 Hanna Herfurtner (soprano), Elvira Bill (mezzo-soprano), Gwilym Bowen, (tenor), Thomas Bonni (bass-baritone), Kolner Akademie [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 3/Apr/2026 ] The Kölner Akademie, under the artistic direction of Michael Alexander Willens, presents J.S. Bach: Lutheran Masses, BWV233-236, a monumental exploration of the composer's four Kyrie-Gloria Masses. Written in the 1730s, during a period of profound... |
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy [ ECM / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Like their acclaimed ECM release Small Town of 2017 - which The Guardian called "wistful and mesmerizing… tonally ingenious and haunting" - Epistrophy by guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan was recorded at New York City's Village... |
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Small Town [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York's hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Troubadours, Trouveres, Minstrels Studio der Frühen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 5/May/2008 ] "The Studio's cult mezzo Andrea von Ramm and lutenist-director Binkley still chill the blood in the lament of a pilgrim captured by Saracens, just one highlight of this classic, bold imaginative survey." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Yuja Wang (piano), Thomas Rolfs (trumpet), Baiba Skride (violin) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 19 CD Box Set - released 18/Jul/2025 ] The Boston Symphony Orchestra and their music director Andris Nelsons announce their upcoming album, on which they present their acclaimed Shostakovich symphony cycle to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death in 1975. . |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 1 'Winter Daydreams', 2 "Little Russian", 4 / 'Nutcracker' Suite Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 2 CD - released 16/Mar/2017 ] "The New Philharmonia play with precision and polish … and on recording quality this DGG version […] is clearly the smoothest and most faithful" Gramophone Symphony No 2 |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Songs with Orchestra - II Orchestre de l'Opéra Normandie Rouen; Pierre Dumoussaud; Hélène Guilmette; Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur; Julien Henric; Thomas Dolié [ Bru Zane / CD - released 30/Jan/2026 ] If Massenet is best-known as the champion of French opera, his contribution to the genre of the mélodie merits reassessment - as is demonstrated by this programme of exquisitely orchestrated songs, all of which have remained in manuscript form. The... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi - Concerti (Including 'the Four Seasons') Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Ronald Thomas, conductor [ Chandos Collect / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2004 ] A collection of popular Vivaldi Concerti. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / GERALD BARRY
Beethoven & Barry Vol. 3 Britten Sinfonia / Thomas Adès (conductor) [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] The final installment in the BEETHOVEN & BARRY recording series which, over three volumes, has traced all nine of Beethoven's Symphonies coupled with music by the celebrated Irish composer Gerald Barry. |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (1927-1936) John Brownlee (baritone) / London Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] The orchestra which Beecham conducted on the disc was the ensemble of freelancers that played for the concerts of the Royal Philharmonic Society season. |
JOHN RUTTER
Rutter: A Christmas Festival The Cambridge Singers / Directed by John Rutter with Melanie Marshall, Clara Sanabras & Elin Manahan Thomas [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] No living composer has come to be more closely associated with Christmas than John Rutter: for more than thirty years, his carols and other seasonal choral music have been an indispensable feature of Christmas celebrations worldwide. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Canons and Musical Jokes Cantus Novus Wien / Ensemble Tamanial, Thomas Holmes [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] One of the least explored areas of Beethoven's compositions is the miscellaneous sequence of canons, early exercises in counterpoint, mature jokes and jeux d'esprit that he wrote over many years. He composed a two-part canon for the composer Hummel... |
