Niccolò Jo
Te Deum D-Dur; Messe D-Dur Berry, Benacková, La Pierre, Meer; Prager Kammerchor, Virtuosi di Praga, Griffiths [ ORFEO / CD - released 15/Mar/2001 ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera) Andrea Bocelli, Jennifer Wilson, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, German Olvera / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta [ Decca / 2 CD - released 31/Jul/2015 ] In this new and much-anticipated complete opera recording from superstar Andrea Bocelli, the tenor heads up a fine cast to explore Puccini's last opera. |
Boni Raposo Y La 21 Division
Afro-Caribbean Chants And Drums [ CD ] |
MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov (Complete Opera - 1952 recording) Boris Christoff, Eugenia Zareska, Ludmilla Lebedeva / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise / Issay Dobrowen [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] '..the digital transfers bring out the excellence of the original engineering. So this version really is essential listening for admirers of the work.' Gramophone |
Boris Kova & La Campanella
Eastern Moon Rising [ Riverboat / CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem op.45 [A German Requiem] Christiane Oelze / Gerald Finley / La Chapelle Royale / Collegium Vocale Gent / Orchestre des Champs-AlysACes / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] 'Herreweghe's innate sense of Brahms's musical lines is evident everywhere as he sculpts this works. Herreweghe's combined choirs respond magnificently to his direction.' - Stereophile |
CLEMENTI
Clementi: Piano Concerto in C major Bruno Canino (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] These four works are among the few surviving examples of Muzio Clementi's early orchestral music. The two Symphonies, Op. 18 follow Classical models but are full of the surprise modulations and dynamic contrasts to be found in his piano sonatas. The... |
C & O La Scala/Fabritiis
Giordano: Andrea Chenier [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 29/Sep/2003 ] |
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (Complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Rolando Panerai / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] While Pagliacci's regular companion piece, Cavalleria rusticana, figured prominently in Callas's early career, Leoncavallo's one-acter had no place in her stage repertoire. But as Gramophone wrote of this recording: 'When Callas [as Nedda] and Gobbi... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco In Italia (complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas, Nicola Rossi-Lemen, Nicolai Gedda / Milan La Scala Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] Callas's Fiorilla is the tenth complete opera recording she made, the only one for EMI [Columbia/Angel] that she undertook of a then unknown work, and which she would later sing at La Scala, Milan. |
Camaron De La Isla
Legends of Flamenco [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
BACH / MONTEVERDI / GESUALDO / VICTORIA / GABRIELI / etc
The Sacred Flame: European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras The Cambridge Singers / La Nuova Musica / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "A new recording by John Rutter and his Cambridge Singers is always welcome...You'll be happy with the performances, which throughout this recording are at the high level we always expect from this choir and director." (10/10 ClassicsToday.com) |
TELEMANN
Wind Concertos Volume 1 Camerata Köln & La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider [ CPO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] The Camerata Köln and La Stagione Frankfurt under Michael Schneider interpret these works with freshness, verve, and depth. |
DEBUSSY
Pellaas et Melisande (Complete opera) Camille Maurane; Erna Spoorenberg; George London; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Compact Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2003 ] This is the first release on CD of this particular recording. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Air Music - Tales of Flying Creatures and Heavenly Breezes Capella De La Torre, Katharina Bauml [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "This enjoyable album has a stylish snap, especially in the dance music that Capella de la Torre perform so well. And, as ever with this superb ensemble, the percussion subtly steals the show at every opportunity." Gramophone |
FRANCISCO SOTO DE LANGA
Soto De Langa: 20 Laude Spirituali Capilla Musical de la Iglesia Nacional Espanola de Roma|Alessandro Quarta [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Born in the context of the popular devotion of the peoples of the Mediterranean during the late Middle Ages, the spiritual lauda became well established in the central part of Italy, where a strong oral tradition is still preserved today. They were... |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 2: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV 29 & 6 others Carolyn Sampson (sop) Charles Brett (alto) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Kooy (b) / La Chapelle Royale / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi Herreweghe Bach Edition / 3 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The soloists are outstanding, with Carolyn Sampson and Mark Padmore in especially communicative form… Outstanding work; Herreweghe's occasional oratorios are beginning to achieve some kind of critical mass, a very fine series of Bach recordings... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Serse (complete opera recorded in 1979) Carolyn Watkinson, Barbara Hendricks, Paul Esswood / la Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Sony Classical Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Jean-Claude Malgoire conducts his Parisian ensemble, La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, in a complete 1979 recording of Handel's delightful comic opera Serse, best known for its universally familiar opening aria "Ombra mai fu". |
Caspir/Conti/Maolaioli/La Scal
Verdi: La Traviata [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2001 ] |
Paul Moravec
Paul Moravec: Useful Knowledge Cecilia Brauer (glass harmonica), Randall Scarlata, Amy Burton, Simon Mulligan (piano), La Fenice & Trio Solisti [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Moravec's tribute to Benjamin Franklin, Useful Knowledge, is a soliloquy-come-fantasy that celebrates Franklin's pioneering rationality with music of dextrous imagination. |