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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] Anne-Sophie Mutter's reading of Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons', conducted by the man who discovered her, Herbert von Karajan, was the first classical CD to go platinum. And to this day, its legendary status remains untarnished. |
ELIZABETH MACONCHY
The Sofa / The Departure Nicholas Sharratt (tenor) Sarah Tynan (sop) Anna Leese (sop) George von Bergen (baritone) Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano) / Independent Opera Ensemble [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "Independent Opera's young singers do full justice to both works, with good diction and a real sense of ensemble performance, finely honed under Dominic Wheeler's incisive direction. There's some fine instrumental playing, and an exceptionally clear... |
J. S. BACH
Mass in B minor BWV 232 (recorded 1952-53) Nicolai Gedda / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Von Karajan (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Critical comment on this recording when it first appeared in 1954 was virtually unanimous. The Record Guide (Collins, 1955) remarked “The principal qualities of Karajan’s reading are lightness, absolute clarity of sound and rhythmic buoyancy, all of... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
4 letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs) / Arabella (highlights) (Rec 1953/54) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Ackermann (Conductor) Lovro von Matacic (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] (Schwarzkopf) had all the requisite vocal qualities for a first-rate singer of the music of Richard Strauss: radiance, tenderness, vocal colour, always alive to the nuances of the text, and very observant of what the composer demanded. |
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) |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No 9 (Live at the Salzburg Festival) Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi [ Signum Classics / CD - released 10/Sep/2015 ] Recorded in 2014 at the beginning of a series marking his 85th birthday season, Christoph von Dohnányi leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in a rousing live performance of Bruckner's monumental Ninth Symphony, which stands alongside the other... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche / Ein Heldenleben Philharmonia Orchestra / Christoph Von DohnAInyi [ Signum Philharmonia Orchestra / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] The fourth release in Signum's hugely successful collaboration with the Philharmonia Orchestra combines two favourite tone poems by Richard Strauss, Til Eulenspiegel and a blistering Ein Heldenleben, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. |
SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi conductor [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "The Andante adds mellifluous intimacy, the Scherzo a boisterous joy, and in the finale a resolute finesse epitomises the spritely, judicious precision of Dohnányi's lively reading." (The Scotsman) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies & Overtures (1951-1955 Official Remastered Edition) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Marga Haffgen, Ernst Haefliger, Otto Edelmann / Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1 & 3 Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] Herbert von Karajan established himself as one of the 20th century's greatest conductors, both in live performances and on recordings. Taken from the first of Karajan's four Beethoven symphony cycles, made in the splendid acoustic of London's... |
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Krenek, Er
Spätwerk: Zwei Zeitlieder op. 215, Drei Lieder op. 216, Opus 231 für Violine und Orgel, Streichtrio in zwölf Stationen o Phyllis Bryn-Julson; The Southwest Chamber Music Society, Jeff von der Schmitt [ ORFEO / CD - released 4/Apr/1997 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Missa in C Major 'Coronation' K 317 / Requiem in D minor K 626 Rachel Yakar, Ortrun Wenkel, Robert Holl, Joan Rodgers, Josef Protschka, Elisabeth von Magnus / Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt describes Mozart's Requiem as "an intensely personal confrontation, frightening and moving in the case of a composer who normally kept his life and experience divorced from his art to an astonishing degree". This recording uses... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande (Complete Opera recorded in 1978) Richard Stilwell, Frederica von Stade, Josa van Dam. Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2017 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "a very characteristically Karajan performance, deeply committed and full of beautiful things. The casting is excellent." (Gramophone) |
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SMETANA
Ma Vlast / Overtures / Bartered Bride [excerpts] Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antal Doráti / The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "The sound is resonant and full-bodied,..this remains an enjoyable programme." (Gramophone on the Overtures & Dances) |
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Bedrich Sm
Má Vlast RSO Wien, Lovro von Matacic [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers [Orpheus in the Underworld] (complete operetta recorded in 2019) Salzburg Festival / Kathryn Lewek, Joel Prieto, Anne Sofie von Otter, Martin Winkler / Enrique Mazzola (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] "A frantic and fabulous show" (New York Times) |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers [Orpheus in the Underworld] (complete operetta recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Kathryn Lewek, Joel Prieto, Anne Sofie von Otter, Martin Winkler / Enrique Mazzola (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Operetta enthusiast Barrie Kosky has landed a gigantic success with Offenbach's subversive and hilarious reversion of the Orpheus myth at the Salzburg Festival. Kosky created a magically precise and witty staging with numerous extravagant costumes in... |
MOZART
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 3/Jul/2006 ] |
BARTOK / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / SHOSTAKOVICH / MAHLER / R. STRAUSS / etc
Orchestral Music in the 20th Century Sir Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Felicity Palmer, Gidon Kremer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Willard White, etc [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jan/1999 ] "The series was one of the last intelligent contributions to classical music by British television and, even by 1996, one suspects that only a musician of Rattle's stature and determination could have got it made." Gramophone |
