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Adolf BARJANSKY
BARJANSKY: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 1 Julia Severus (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Adolf Barjansky was born in Odessa into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family, and received his musical education in Vienna, Paris and Leipzig, studying piano with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Judassohn. Barjansky composed relatively few works, but his highly... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Rare Piano Transcriptions Julia Severus (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2017 ] Sergey Rachmaninov's songs rival his piano works in terms of popularity, and are the culmination of a uniquely Russian lyrical tradition. Piano transcription became a fashionable art form in its own right after Liszt's work in the genre, and... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Where Corals Lie - a journey through songs by Elgar Julia Sitkovetsky (soprano) Christopher Glynn (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "..she addresses some of Elgar's greatest songs with the full might of a fine coloratura, highly appropriate for pieces that, to the uninitiated, might sound like Puccini. She does a creditable Sea Pictures, too, in their original soprano key." |
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MANOLIS KALOMIRIS
Complete Songs Julia Souglakou (soprano) / Eva Kotamanidou (narrator) / Russian State Symphonic Capella / Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra / Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos Greek Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] Manolis Kalomiris is honoured as the father of Greek national music. The inspired orchestration of Kalomiris's Piano Rhapsody No. 1 by Gabriel Pierné moved Byron Fidetzis to orchestrate the second of these, sub-titled Song of the Night. The versatile... |
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Tschaikows
Lieder Julia Varady, Aribert Reimann [ ORFEO / CD - released 11/Nov/1988 ] |
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Verdi, Giu
Heroinen, Vol. I Julia Varady; Bayer. Staatsorchester, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [ ORFEO / CD - released 1/Jul/1995 ] |
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Verdi, Giu
Verdi-Arien, Heroinen Vol. II (Otello, Aida, Macbeth, Don Carlos) Julia Varady; Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [ ORFEO / CD - released 23/Apr/1996 ] |
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Mozart, Wo
Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito, Arabella, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, La forza del destino, Julia Varady, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bernhard Klee, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Pinchas Steinberg [ ORFEO / CD - released 11/Jun/2004 ] |
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Wagner, Ri
Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Mathilde Wesendonk, Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel zum 1. Aufzug, Isoldes Liebestod; Götter Julia Varady, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [ ORFEO / CD - released 4/May/1998 ] |
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Strauss, R
Julia Varady - Primadonnen: Salome, Ariadne, Danae, Capriccio Julia Varady, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bamberger Symphoniker [ ORFEO / CD - released 12/Nov/1999 ] |
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Mozart, Wo
Lieder Julia Varady, Elena Bashkirowa [ ORFEO / CD - released 28/Jul/1992 ] |
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Meyerbeer,
Gli Amori di Teolinda Julia Varady, Jörg Fadle, RIAS Kammerchor; RSO Berlin, Gerd Albrecht [ ORFEO / CD - released 8/Jun/1984 ] |
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JOHANN STRAUSS II
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete operetta) Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey / Bavarian State Opera Orchestra / Carlos Kleiber [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 22/May/2000 ] "Twenty-five years after its original release there's still no recording of Die Fledermaus that, for many collectors, matches this one for the compelling freshness of its conductor's interpretation." Gramophone |
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JOHANN STRAUSS II
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete operetta) [2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio] Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey / Bavarian State Opera Orchestra / Carlos Kleiber [ Deutsche Grammophon 2 CDs + Blu-ray audio / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2019 ] "Twenty-five years after its original release there's still no recording of Die Fledermaus that, for many collectors, matches this one for the compelling freshness of its conductor's interpretation " Gramophone |
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PUCCINI
Edgar (Complete Opera) Julia Varady, Mary Ann McCormick, Carl Tanner / ChAœur de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Yoel Levi [ Astree Naive / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] "there is much to enjoy, especially when the piece gets the right degree of belief and commitment, as it does here. Levi plays the score as if it's top-drawer Puccini, and though the only really star name here is Julia Varady, the rest are in good... |
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Puccini, G
Berühmte Opernarien Julia Varady; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marcello Viotti [ ORFEO / CD - released 29/Jun/1994 ] |
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MENDELSSOHN / CORNELIUS / SCHUMAN
Romantic Duets Julia Varady (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) [ Hanssler Profil / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2017 ] This recording made on February 26, 1989 in the Deutsche Oper in Düsseldorf and featuring Dietrich's 4th wife, soprano Julia Varady (born in 1941) included songs that the baritone, who was to retire from active performance in 1992, planned to record. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
3 Centuries of Bagatelles (bagatelles by Couperin, Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Liadov, Bartok, Tcherepnin + Denisov) Julia Zilberquit (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] This innovative recording by the gifted Russian-born American pianist Julia Zilberquit traces the development of the bagatelle from Couperin through to Bartók and beyond, revealing the remarkable character and drama in the genre. |
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ROBERT ALDRIDGE
Aldridge: Elmer Gantry (complete opera) Keith Phares, Patricia Riseley, Vale Rideout, Julia Hardin / Florentine Opera Company / Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Boggs [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "Robert Aldridge's Elmer Gantry is, for me, the operatic discovery of the year. Musically expressive, dramatically engaging, and emotionally moving, the work is an opera for those who do not like opera/" Fanfare |