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MOZART
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 3/Jul/2006 ] |
CHRISTOPHER TIN
Christopher Tin: Calling All Dawns Soweto Gospel Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with Frederica von Stade, Anonymous 4, Sussan Deyhim [ Decca / CD - released 2/Aug/2009 ] Twelve songs are featured on the album, each sung in a different language. Many of the lyrics find their sources in important pieces of world literature, including excerpts of long works such as the Hebrew Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, and The Rubaiyat. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Staatsoper Stuttgart / Michaël König, Simone Schneider, Martin Gantner, Okka von der Damerau / Cornelius Meister [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2020 ] What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly ? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, lying at the core of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Rec 1954) Streich Rita (Soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Otto Ackermann (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] In 1942 Richard Strauss, then approaching his eightieth birthday, recalled that the original intention behind Ariadne auf Naxos was as a grateful offering to the theatre director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943). It was to form an epilogue to a comedy by... |
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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 ] |
AZIO CORGHI
Divara - Wasser un Blut (complete opera) Susanna von der Burg / Hanslutz Hildmann / Michael Holm / Christopher Krieg / Robert Schwats [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
SCHUMANN / TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concertos Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Wislocki & Herbert von Karajan [ ALTO / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] (Schumann): "lacks no style" (Tchaikovsky): "The element of struggle for which this work is famous is all too clear: these two musical giants did not always agree" (Penguin Guide) |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos nos. 2 (with Tchaikovsky-Piano Concerto No 1) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Stanislaw Wislocki / Wiener Symphoniker / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Svyatoslav Richter, one of the greatest pianist of the 20th century who was largely self-taught, had survived traumatic events and restrictions on his concert tours during the... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah... The 250th Anniversary Performance recorded in 1992 Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jerry Hadley, Michael Chance and Robert Lloyd / Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner [ Philips / DVD - released 23/Aug/2004 ] G :- This famous 1992 performance of Handel's great masterpiece was filmed at the Point Theatre, Dublin, on the 250th anniversary of the work's premiere, which took place in Dublin on 13 April 1742. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Martin Summer, Yasmin Özkan, Martin Piskorski, Fatma Said, Till von Orlowski / Ádám Fischer (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2017 ] Accompanied by a luxurious team of professionals, consisting of the renowned stage director Peter Stein, stage designer Ferdinand Wöger and conductor Ádám Fischer, Teatro alla Scala presents Mozart's Zauberflöte. In this production, orchestra,... |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete operettas recorded in 2014) Teatro Real / Anne Sofie von Otter, Vito Priante, Eric Cutler, Ana Durlovski, Measha Brueggergosman / Sylvain Cambreling (cond) [ Bel Air Classics DVD / DVD - released 8/Sep/2015 ] "Musically it's mostly excellent...Cutler is all vocal ease, elegance and passion. Von Otter's communicative and dramatic powers remain wonderfully persuasive." Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 1959) Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Giulietta Simionato / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Alto / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "One immediately registers the sheer size of Tebaldi's soprano on her entry...This (Aida) has held its place in the hierarchy for the sixty years since its issue" (MusicWeb) |
MAHLER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Ruckert-Lieder / Kindertotenlieder Thomas Quasthoff, Violeta Urmana, Anne Sofie von Otter. Wiener Philharmoniker. Pierre Boulez [ DG Boulez 2005 / CD - released 28/Feb/2005 ] Anne Sofie von Otter sings the Kindertotenlieder, Violeta Urmana will be heard in the Rückert Lieder and Thomas Quasthoff in the early Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies / Overtures / Violin Concerto Thomas Zehetmair (violin) / Cleveland orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnanyi [ Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Apr/2007 ] Four CDs of classic performances at a very special price |
100 BEST WALTZES & POLKAS
100 Best Waltzes & Polkas Various artists including John Barbirolli, Willi Boskovsky, Andrew Davis, Louis Fremaux, Herbert von Karajan, Andre Previn, John Lanchbery, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 3/Oct/2011 ] This 6 CD set contains a collection of 100 waltzes and polkas performed by some of the world's leading orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wiener Johann Strauss-Orchester,... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Opera Arias Cynthia Sieden, Charlotte Margiono, Anne Sofie von Otter, Rodney Gilfry, Bryn Terfel, Gerald Finley / English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardin [ Archiv Deutsche Grammophon Virtuoso / CD - released 8/Oct/2012 ] "Gardiner's Mozartian style is well sprung and subtly moulded rather than severe. The principals sing beautifully...The electrifying singing of the Monteverdi Choir adds to the dramatic bite." Penguin Guide |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age Of Light Music: From the Vintage Vaults Various Artists incls Edward Elgar, Haydn Wood, Marek Weber, Arthur Wood, Barnabas von Geczy, Ernst Fischer, etc [ Guild Light Music / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] The title of this CD could almost apply to every release in Guild's "Golden Age of Light Music" series so far, because our mission is to make available once again those recordings which have been neglected for far too long, and are no longer... |
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DVORAK
Symphonies No. 8 & No. 9 / Slavonic Dances (selection) / Scherzo capriccioso op. 66 (with works by Smetana) Vienna Philharmonic / Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan [ DG Karajan Collection / 2 CD - released 24/Apr/2003 ] This 2-CD album is essentially a run-down of the most famous pieces classical music has to offer, in the interpretation of the most famous conductor ever, conducting one of the world's leading orchestras, the Berliner Philharmoniker. |
STRAUSS FAMILY / MOZART / GOUNOD / WAGNER / KODALY / etc
100 Best Wiener Philharmoniker Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra], John Barbirolli, Andre Cluytens, Mariss Jansons, Herbert von Karajan, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] This 6CD set contains 100 tracks from the finest EMI recordings of the famous Wiener Philharmoniker, know in English as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, under some of the world's greatest conductors including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von... |
