More By Artist: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
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Festival Strings/Fiedler
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto 1 [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2006 ] |
PACINI
Saffo (Complete Opera) Francesca Pedaci / Carlo Ventre / Reoberto De Candia / Wexford Festival Opera Chorus / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / Maurizio Benini [ Marco Polo Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] "Pedaci's has refreshing purity and clean voice ... Congratulations are due to the record company" - Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (Highlights) Zsuzsa Csonka (sop), Maurizio Frusoni (tenor), Franco de Grandis (bass), Daniela Longhi (sop) Irina Tschistiakova (mezzo) / Budapest Festival Chorus [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] "Will Humburg leads an exciting series of globs of the opera. Unbeatable at this price." ClassicsToday |
PHILIPPE BOESMANS
Julie (complete opera recorded in 2005) Festival d'Aix-en-Provence / Gary Magee / Malena Ernman / Kerstin Avemo / Kazushi Ono (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] G - "Bondy's purely naturalistic production is beautifully filmed with telling use of close-ups..." BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 ***** |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: Operettas (Nine operettas and other miscellaneous works) George Baker, Owen Brannigan, Elsie Morison, Richard Lewis, etc / Glyndebourne Festival, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Warner Classics / 16 CD Box Set - released 15/May/2015 ] A splendiforous collection of Gilbert and Sullivan's finest operettas including, Patience, Pirates Of Penzance, Mikado, HMS Pinafore, The Yeomen of the Guard and Ruddigore. Also includes the Symphony in E "Irish" and the Cello Concerto. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 Gerhild Romberger (alto) / Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor) [ Channel Classics SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2017 ] "Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, lasting one and a half hours or more, is not only his longest work but at the same time an exuberant and sunny ode to nature, mankind, the world and indeed life itself. And for this song of praise the composer... |
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MESSIAEN
Le Banquet Celeste / Les Corps Glorieux / etc [recorded in 1966] Gillian Weir, at the organ of the Royal Festival Hall [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] An undiscovered treasure! Recorded in 1966 but never released we have nearly 100 minutes of Messiaen recorded by Gillian Weir shortly after she won the St. Alban's Competition. At the centrepiece of this recital is Les Corps Glorieux and the other... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Marin Faliero (complete opera) Giorgio Surian, Rachele Stanisci, Ivan Magrì / Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti, Bruno Cinquegrani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Donizetti's fiftieth opera, Marino Faliero, was first performed in Paris on 12 March 1835 with a cast comprising four of the finest singers of the period.Set in Venice in 1355, it remains a major work of Italian Romanticism. |
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JANACEK
The Makropulos Case (complete opera recorded in 1995) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Anja Silja, Kim Begley, Victor Braun, Andrew Shore / Andrew Davis (cond) [ Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "The wide vibrato at Silja's top might worry some, but her genius as a singer-actress makes Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Gyndebourne Makropulos unforgettable. Riveting music; the production's half stark, half fussy." (BBC Music Magazine, May 2014) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Rodelinda / Theodora (complete operas recorded in 1996 & 1998) plus A Night with Handel Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Anna Caterina Antonacci, Kurt Streit, Andreas Scholl, Dawn Upshaw, David Daniels / William Christie (cond) [ Warner Classics NVC Arts / 3 DVD Box Set - released 4/Feb/2017 ] "Jean-Marie Villegier's brilliant, unnerving production...A great show - don't miss it." The Guardian on Rodelinda |
WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival) Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth [ Testament / 4 CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2006: Historic - "I keep relistening to Keilberth's forging scene closing Act I. Keilberth naturally unfolds the lyrical strength of full rich Bayreuth strings, basses and timps deepen and gather force, Mime animates... |
RACHMANINOV / STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
A Russian Night (Incls Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2) Helene Grimaud (piano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] G - "This Tempest blazes with all of the wanton passion inherit in the score, and Abbado actually gives the work more than it deserves. Thrilling indeed." (**** AudAud.com) |
EDWARD GERMAN
German: Merrie England Suite / Nell Gwyn / Gipsy Suite / etc Hellgren Staykov / Richard Morrison / Heather Schipp / National Festival Chorus and Orchestra / David Russel Hulme [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] 'There is only one man to follow me who has genius, and that is Edward German.' Thus did Sir Arthur Sullivan, in the last years of his life, acknowledge the stature of the modest but highly talented composer German Edward Jones, born 17 February 1862 |
EDWARD GERMAN
German: Tom Jones (operetta) Hellgren Staykov / Richard Morrison / Heather Schipp / National Festival Chorus and Orchestra / David Russel Hulme [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "David Russell Hulme imbues the score with freshness in his spirited reading. The orchestra plays magnificently in the warm acoustic of the RNCM's Concert Hall." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Theresa Mass / Mass in the Time of War Ruth Ziesak, Ingeborg Danz, Simona Saturova / Oregan Bach Festival Choir & Orchestra / Helmuth Rilling (conductor) [ Hanssler / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] "He seizes zestfully on the overt picture of an advancing army, and rises to the optimism of an imassioned "Dona nobis pacem". " Gramophone Magazine, June 2008 |
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WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1955) Hermann Uhde / Ludwig Weber / Astrid Varnay / Rudolf Lustig / Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth [ Testament / 2 CD - released 24/Aug/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1801-1850) - For this 1955 production Wolfgang and his conductors chose to perform the so-called 'one-act' version of the opera, incorporating the modifications that Wagner made to the score... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: The Complete Façades Hila Plitmann, Fred Child, Kevin Deas (narrators) / Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Edith Sitwell's invitation to William Walton to collaborate on an innovative, revolutionary new work came at a critical moment in the young composer's career, and Façade proved to be his first great success. The peerless combination of a peculiarly... |
W. A. MOZART
Così fan tutte, K588 (complete opera recorded in 1934-35) Ina Souez, Luise Helletsgrüber, Heddle Nash / Chorus & Orchestra of the Glyndebourne Festival, Fritz Busch [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Recorded 1934-35 |
