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RICHARD STRAUSS
Vier letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs) / Scenes from 'Arabella' & 'Ariadne auf Naxos' Lisa della Casa, with Rudolf Schock & George London [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] Neewly reissued. |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version) Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Kennedy/ Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 11/May/2011 ] "[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner parts." (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Tea For Two - Dances London Brass [ Teldec Warners Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2010 ] |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending / Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis / ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro / Serenade for Strings London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (cond/violin) [ Virgin LCO2 / CD - released 28/Oct/1989 ] "Coupled with the great sound of the London Chamber orchestra this album is a rare jewel." (review) |
JOHN ADAMS / PHILIP GLASS / STEVE REICH / DAVE HEATH
Adams/Glass/Reich/Heath - Minimalist London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 7/Aug/2006 ] Minimalism was originally the word used to describe certain movements in the visual arts and design of the immediate post World War II period. |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Total Eclipse - Handel at Home Vol 2 London Handel Players [ Somm Recordings / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] …"full of the most delicious music you could ask to hear, and the players give every indication of loving every note they play" was how one enthusiastic reviewer described the first volume of aria arrangements on SOMM, of "Handel at Home" (SOMMCD... |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets, Op. 17 (2 CDs) The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] The quartets are performed here on period instruments by the dazzling London Haydn Quartet, whose disc of the Op 9 quartets drew the most extravagant praise from the critics. Their second disc has been eagerly awaited, and comes as part of Hyperion's... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 50 'Prussian' The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] The London Haydn Quartet turns to the six Op 50 quartets. More serious-intellectually taut-than the Op 33 'Russian' quartets which they follow in Haydn's output, these six 'Prussian' quartets dazzle in such committed performances as these. |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Op 9 (2 CDs) The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2007 ] 'Without a doubt one of the all-time great Haydn quartet recordings … The original instrument London Haydn Quartet play Op 9 with such deep feeling, dynamic subtlety and phrasal sensitivity that even the simplest of ideas become things of wonder.... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Opp 54 & 55 [performed from the 1789 London edition] The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] "I never thought that a HIP (historically-informed performance) quartet such as the London Haydn Quartet would ascend to the level of the greatest quartet of our generation" AudAud Best of the Year 2017 |
JANACEK / HINDEMITH / PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Janacek:Suite for Strings / On An Overgrown Path / Idyll For String Orchestra London Jupiter Orchestra, Gregory Rose [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Feb/1993 ] "The sound quality is impeccable... enjoyable. Recommended." MusicWeb |
JONANN BAPTIST CRAMER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cramer: Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 7 & 8 London Mozart Players / Howard Shelley (piano/director) [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Oct/2002 ] 'Howard Shelley plays with dazzling brilliance throughout...' The Guardian |
SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL
Herschel: Symphonies (Nos 2, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17) London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 20/Mar/2003 ] 'Matthias Bamert's lively direction and the higly professional playing of the London Mozart Players provide Herschel with the best imaginable advocacy...' Gramophone |
VOGLER
Symphonies, Overtures and Ballets London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The celebrated Contemporaries of Mozart series continues apace with the compositions of German composer George Joseph Vogler. The London Mozart Players which celebrates their 60th anniversary in 2009 perform under the direction of Matthias Bamert. |
GIACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: String Sonatas 1,3,4,5 London Musici, Mark Stephenson [ Conifer / CD - released 20/May/1990 ] Original recording from 1990 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sacred Treasures of Spain The London Oratory Schola Cantorum / Charles Cole (cond) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Music to illustrate the Golden Age: a selection of motets from sixteenth-century Spain culminating in Alonso Lobo's great funerary ode for Philip II, Versa est in luctum. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (The First of May) / The Age of Gold Suite London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Bernanrd Haitink [ Decca Records / CD - released 19/Nov/2000 ] "The Decca recording is outstandingly clear and brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Complete Tone Poems Vol 2 (Includes 'Mephisto Waltz No. 1') London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/1993 ] Original recordings from 1970 - 1972 |
FRANZ SCHMIDT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Symphony No.4 / Variations on a Hussar's Song London Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ EMI Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/1996 ] Writing in The Symphony (ed. Robert Simpson, Penguin Books: 1967) the late Harold Truscott made out a strong case for Franz Schmidt. He robustly dismissed the notion that his music does not travel. "It 'travels' very well, when allowed to do so" |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Gortchakov) (with Prokofiev: 'Classical' Symphony) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur [ Teldec Basic Edition / CD - released 16/Aug/2001 ] "Masur conducts an often electrifying performance, while a spritely rendition of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony completes (the) disc." BBC Music |
