JOHANN KUHNAU
Kuhnau: Cantatas & Arias For Soprano Barbara Christina Steude (soprano) concerto con voce, Jan Katzschke (direction) [ CPO / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] Johann Kuhnau owes his fame today mainly to the fact that he was Bach's predecessor as cantor at St. Thomas's in Leipzig. The 17th and 18th centuries meet in Kuhnau's cantatas, where a heavily text-bound musical language following on from the Schütz... |
ROSSINI
Moise et Pharaon (complete opera recorded in 2004) Teatro all Scala / Barbara Frittoli / Sonia Ganassi / Giuseppe Filianoti / Ildar Abdrazakov / Erwin Schrott / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] G :- "A vivid and well-sung performance of a work that deserves greater circulation. It is a very welcome and highly recommended issue" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
RODRIGO / ALBENIZ / BARRIOS / COSTE / GIULIANI / VILLA-LOBOS / etc
Panorama de la guitare: The world of classical guitar music Turibio Santos, Oscar Caceres, Graciela Pomponio, Maria Luisa Anido, Leo Brouwer, Konrad Ragossnig, Barbara Polasek, Angel Romero, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 25 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2018 ] A treasury of the classical guitar: as a solo and concerto instrument, and as a partner to other instruments, in music from Europe and Latin America that spans five centuries. Most of these recordings are making their first appearance on CD. |
VARIOUS
100 Best Carols [6 CD set] Various Artists includes Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Kiri te Kanawa, Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Barbara Hendricks, Hermann Prey, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Nov/2007 ] This 6-CD set contains all the best-loved carols that gladden and enrich the Christmas season, performed by outstanding choirs, ensembles and soloists from all over the world. |
VIVALDI / BARBER / SIBELIUS / MENDELSSOHN / GLAZUNOV / MAHLER / etc
40 Most Beautiful Autumn Classics Various Artists including Andrew Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, Borodin Quartet, etc [ Warner Classics & Jazz / 2 CD - released 13/Apr/2009 ] Autumn masterpieces from Vivaldi, Mozart, Faure, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Haydn over a double disc set. All performed by top artists from the Warner catalogues. |
VIVALDI / TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / GLAZUNOV / DEBUSSY / etc
40 Most Beautiful Winter Classics Various Artists including Monique Haas, Daniel Barenboim, Barbara Bonney, Piero Toso, Kiri Te Kanawa, etc [ Warner Classics & Jazz / 2 CD - released 13/Apr/2009 ] Winter masterpieces from Vivaldi, Bach, Debussy, Schubert, Prokofiev and Mendelssohn over a double disc set. All performed by top artists from the Warner catalogues. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album Various Artists including Barbara Hendricks, Tallis Scholars, Arleen Auger, Cecile Ousset, etc [ EMI / Capital / CD - released 14/Sep/2012 ] A 15-track album featuring classical music personally selected by author E L James herself and referenced in her bestselling Fifty Shades book trilogy. |
Various Artists incls Barbara Dickson, Lesley Garrett, Marti Webb, Paul Jones, etc
The Magic of the Musicals [2 CDs plus DVD] [ Metro Sound and Vision / 3 CD/DVD - released 11/May/2012 ] This fantastic 2 CD + DVD collection features the biggest songs from the best loved musicals of our time. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Coronation Mass / Vesperae Solennes Barbara Bonney, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, etc / English Concert & Chorus, Trevor Pinnock [ Archiv / Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 5/Mar/2012 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music for the Mind: Classic Music for Your Well-Being [2 CD set] Seraphim Trio, Lin Jiang (horn), Barbara Jane Gilby (violin), Stephanie McCallum (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, etc [ ABC for Life / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2012 ] This collection is called 'Music for the Mind' but really it's for the mind and the heart. |
TELEMANN
Ino Cantata Dramatic Barbara Schlick (soprano) / Music Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 31/Aug/2009 ] Of all the composers who witnessed the widespread blossoming of the arts in the middle of the 18th century, it was Georg Philipp Telemann who responded the most enthusiastically to each new phase of musical development. In his last works in... |
PACHELBEL / VIVALDI / MARCELLO / HANDEL / PERGOLESI / TELEMANN / SCARLATTI / BACH / etc
Baroque Adagios-Over two and a half hours of sublime music Various artists incl Dame Janet Baker, Arthur Grumiaux, Barbara Bonney, Salvatore Accardo and I Musici [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 13/Mar/2002 ] A two-for-the-price-of-one set containing the most peaceful and relaxing of baroque music including Pachelbel's Canon, Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' (excerpts), Albinoni's 'Adagio', Handel's 'Largo', Bach's 'Air on a G String'...and many, many more... |
Various - The Phil Woods Quartet / The Jon Hendricks Group
Tribute to Charlie Parker - Birdmen [ Umbrella Entertainment / DVD - released 19/Jan/2005 ] G :- All Regions - Regular 1.33:1 / 4:3 - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Colour - 65 Minutes - PAL Recorded at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, 1990, this tribute to the most daring jazz innovator of his generation.... |
50 BEST SACRED MUSIC
50 Best Sacred Music: Includes 'Zadok the Priest', 'Ave Maria' & 'Panis angelicus' Veronique Gens, Barbara hendricks, Philippe Jaroussky, Christa Ludwig, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kiri te Kanawa, King's College Choir, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 3/Aug/2017 ] Fifty of the very best popular sacred pieces performed by performers and artists from the giant Warner and Erato catalogues. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Falstaff (complete opera recorded in October 2012) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera House / Ambrogio Maestri, Barbara Frittoli, Meg Page, Mistress Quickly, Massimo Cavalletti / Daniele Gatti (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "The cast, led by a secure Maestri, can boast a lovable Nannetta in Liebau and further clever variations on Quickly's eccentricity from Naef." Gramophone |