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MASSENET
Massenet: Werther (complete opera recorded in 1980) Jose Carreras, Frederica von Stadt, Thomas Allen / Orchestra Royal Opera House, Covent garden, Colin Davis [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "von Stade's performance can hardly be faulted. Her voice is the very incarnation of Charlotte's essential simplicity of character" (Gramophone) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Overture: 'Le Corsaire' / Royal Hunt and Storm & Trojan March ('Les Troyens') (recorded 1957-59) Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Rosette Recording (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide - 'If you want a genuinely French Symphonie fantastique, wonderfully performed and superbly recorded, go out and get this release before it's snapped up by your neighbour.' (Gramophone) |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 2003) Glyndebourne Opera / Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Ragnar Ulfung, Hakan Hagegard / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "Malena Ernman is a stunning Orlofsky (at the end, Lawless reveals that the prince was really a princess after all), and Håkan Hagegård and Pamela Armstrong are very satisfying as Dr. Falke and Rosalinde, respectively." ClassicalNet |
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PUCCINI, VERDI, MOZART, GOUNOD / MEYERBEER / WAGNER / SAINT-SAENS / etc
The Great Placido Domingo [3 CD set] Placido Domingo (tenor) with Daniel barenboim, Jose Carreras, Mirella Freni, Thomas Hampson & others [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] Saluting a glorious and unparalleled career that, since 1959, has embraced some 150 operatic roles and spans the the Italian, French, German and Spanish repertoires, this 3-CD collection draws on recitals and complete operas recorded over more than... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera recorded in 2001) Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Thomas Hampson, Larissa Diadkova, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo / London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 20/May/2018 ] "More and more I'm finding the real Italian in me," said British-born, American-trained Antonio Pappano shortly after making this recording of Il trovatore. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Boheme (Complete opera recorded in 1995) Roberto Alagna / Leontina Vaduva / Thomas Hampson / Ruth Ann Swenson / Philharmonia Orchestra / Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "This is a version to stand alongside the classics of the past." Rosette - Penguin Stereo Guide |
EDVARD GREIG
Grieg: Peer Gynt / Symphonic Dance No.2 / In Autumn / etc. Ilse Hollweg (soprano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2012 ] "Beecham showed a very special feeling for this score and to hear (these excerpts) under his baton is a uniquely rewarding experience. Ilse Hollweg makes an excellent soloist." Rosette - Penguin Stereo Guide |
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HANDEL
ARIAS RUSSELL OBERLIN (COUNTERTENOR) / BAROQUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / THOMAS DUNN [ DG / CD ] |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Balda (Comic Book Opera) / Orchestral Suite from Lady Macbeth Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling (with the State Chamber Choir conducted by Alexander Soloviev) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jul/2006 ] Shostakovich wrote the comic book opera Balda for an animated film based on text by Pushkin’s The Priest and the Fool; the film was never released and largely destroyed during the siege of Leningrad in 1941. |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Motets Philip Salmon (ten), Graham Chambers, Jeremy Gough, Martin Kelly, Christopher Stearn (trom), Thomas Trotter (organ) / Corydon Singers, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD ] 'A superb record. Exploring these pieces is a moving experience when the performances are as superlative as these. Very strongly recommended. Record of the Month' (The Monthly Guide to Recorded Music) |
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San Francisco So/Tilson Thomas
Mahler: Symphony No 9 [ Avie / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/May/2005 ] |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Symphony No 3 "The Camp Meeting" / Symphony No 4 / Selected American Hymns San Francisco Symphony & Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2019 ] Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony add an evocative recording of Ives's songful Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 to the SFS Media label's Grammy award-winning discography. With nineteenth-century Americana spirit, MTT and the SF Symphony,... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Orchestral Songs and Waltzes Sergei Leiferkus / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jul/2006 ] "Shostakovich having fun, and so are the musicians who relish the satire....Sergei Leiferkus is entering the final stage of his magnificent career. The voice is showing signs of wear but on this evidence – as he gleefully caricatures Lebyadkin and... |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana (LP) Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Thomas Allen (baritone), St Clement Danes Grammar School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Chorus, LSO [ Warner / 2 LP - released 24/Oct/2025 ] André Previn's landmark 1974 recording of Carmina burana with the London Symphony Orchestra remains one of the most electrifying accounts of Orff's exuberant cantata. From the momentous opening "O Fortuna" to the rapturous closing chorus, Previn... |
WEBER
Der Freischutz (Complete opera) Siegfried Lorenz, Karita Mattila, Eva Lind, Thomas Thomaschke / Staatskapelle Dresden / Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Classic Opera / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "The actual sound in this new recording is, especially in the Wolf's Glen, vivid and detailed, well capturing the eloquence of Weber's wonderful scoring." (Gramophone) |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town Kim Criswell, Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Voices, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Original Jacket Recordings / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] An enormous success at the time, with a Broadway run of 559 performances, Wonderful Town shows off the talents of Bernstein, Comden and Green, who wrote the songs against the clock in just four weeks. Whether it's jazz, cod-Irish, ragtime, ballad or... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: On The Town Frederica von Stade, Tyne Daley, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Ramey, Cleo Laine / London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Deutsche Grammophon First Choice / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "The energy and fun make this irresistable" (Five Stars BBC Music) |
ADES / KURTAG / FAURE / LISZT / JANACEK
Lieux Retrouves Stephen Isserlis (cello) Thomas Ades (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "This blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed recital takes memory in all its facets as its theme...the recording throughout gives the players all the space and atmosphere they need to characterise the varied moods and textures of an... |
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MUSIC FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
Music from the Middle Ages [5 CD set] Andrea von Ramm, Richard Levitt & Sterling Jones / Studio der fruhen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Virgin / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlos (Complete French version recorded in 1996) Theatre du Chatelet, Paris / Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Warner Music Vision DVD / DVD - released 18/Jan/2001 ] G - Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille du Locle after Schiller's dramatic poem Don Carlos. The original French version in five acts by Ursula Gunther, revised after the original version by Ursula Gunther and Luciano Pelazzoni. |
