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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 ] |
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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,... |
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BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique / LAClio (excerpts) San Francisco Symphony / San Francisco Symphony Chorus / Michael Tilson Thomas [ RCA Red Seal / CD ] "Michael Tilson Thomas' Symphonie fantastique remains the finest version to appear in recent memory, and its reissue at mid-price should induce any who hesitated the first time around to wait no longer." [Classics Today 8/6/2004] |
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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... |
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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) |
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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... |
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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) |
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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 ] |
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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. |
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SCHUBERT
Complete Schubert Edition: Schiller Settings Thomas Allen (baritone) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 16 / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 'Thomas Alen is in commanding form, singing with unforced beauty of tone and intelligent, unobtrusive attention to the words' (Classic CD) |
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W. A. MOZART
50 Best Mozart Classics [3 CDs special price] Thomas Allen, Cheryl Studer, Daniel Barenboim, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sabine Meyer, Neville Marriner, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] All the greatest works of Amadeus Mozart performed by teh world's top soloists and performers. |
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CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Thomas Allen, Sheila Armstrong, Gerald English / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "...a vividly characterised performance" (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Notturno: Songs by Richard Strauss Thomas Hampson (Baritone) & Wolfram Rieger (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "All the songs benefit from Hampson's impeccably clear German and his ability, with Rieger's support, to set ideally well-judged speeds..it is Hampson who generally shapes the songs most persuasively, even if Fischer-Dieskau scores for intimacy" Gram |
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MAHLER
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (12 songs, complete) Thomas Hampson (baritone) / Wiener Virtuosen [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/May/2011 ] "no performer has ever had a more comprehensive knowledge of the manuscript sources...Instrumentally speaking, the results are fabulous." (Gramophone) |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: King Roger (Complete Opera) / Symphony No. 4 Thomas Hampson, Elzbieta Szmytka, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Philip Langridge / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - Gramophone Magazine 2000 Winner - Opera |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera) Thomas Hampson, Sonya Yoncheva, Angela Brower, Christiane Karg, Luca Pisaroni / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Aug/2016 ] "Yoncheva's magnificently melancholic Countess is a peach of a performance, lusciously, dreamily sung...[Villazón] grabs hold of every bar with comic gusto." (Sunday Times) |
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Thomas Newman
Scent of a Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ MCA / CD - released 19/Jan/1993 ] |