FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Edition [17 CD set] Alessandro Deljavan, Ewa Kupiec, Vittorio Ceccanti, Lucius Ruhl, Earl Wild, Frank van de Laar, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 17 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2015 ] This 17CD set is the third Chopin Edition by Brilliant Classics, an all-time favourite of one of the most popular and universally loved composers of all times. |
LOUIS VIERNE
24 Pieces en style libre Ben van Oosten (organ) [ MDG / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Jan/2001 ] |
LOUSIS VIERNE
24 Pieces de Fantaisie Ben van Oosten (organ) [ MDG / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Van Oosten paces Vierne´s miles of tonal corridors with sympathy." (Gramophone) |
BEST / ELGAR / HOLLINS / STANFORD / WHITLOCK
A Festival of English Organ Music Ben van Oosten (organ) [ MDG / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] During the Victorian era English organ building and organ music experienced a flourishing in every way equal to that on the Continent. Ben van Oosten, a proven expert in the field of late romantic organ artistry, now turns to this music.... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 8 (Incls Suite op. 39) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Beuchet-Debierre Organ, Angouleme [ MDG / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] After brief stints in Canada and the United States – as always on the trail of Marcel Dupré – Ben van Oosten has returned to France. On Vol. 8 of his recording of Dupré’s complete organ oeuvre, this specialist in French organ music presents four... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 11 (Incls Les Nymphéas op. 54) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Casavant Organ, Brick Church, New York City [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Never before have Les Nympheas Op.54 been heard outside Dupré's native Meudon. Ben van Oosten presents this extraordinary composition on the Casavent organ in New York's Brick Church. This instrument was inaugurated by van Oosten in 2005 and is... |
LOUIS VIERNE
Complete Organ Symphonies Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Cavailla-Coll Organs in St. Francois des Sales, Lyon, etc [ MDG / 4 CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] "The three instruments used here are famous examples of the work of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, the romantic organist´s ideal builder ... van Oosten paces Vierne´s miles of tonal corridors with sympathy." (Gramophone) |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 10 (Incls Trois Praludes et Fugues op. 36) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Organ of Birmingham Town Hall [ MDG / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] On his tenth Dupré tour Ben van Oosten presents to us not only a new volume in his complete recording but also one of England's most magnificent historical organs. This extraordinary organist and the tireless MDG recording team pay a visit to the... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 7 (Incls Poame haroa¯que, Op. 33) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Organ of Princeton University Chapel [ MDG / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] Ben van Oosten was born in The Hague in 1955. He studied the organ and the piano at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and subsequently in Paris. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3, 7, 8 & Consecration of the House Overture Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Paul van Kempen [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "this is an outstanding issue. […] Van Kempen and the Berlin orchestra do indeed play the work in a wonderfully sensitive manner" (Gramophone on Symphony 3) |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Thaïs (complete opera recorded in 1976) Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Gedda, Ann Murray, Richard van Allan / John Alldis Choir & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2017 ] "There is a beat in some of Miss Sills' sustained notes, but she tosses off Thaïs' airier statements with convincing charm and conveys from the first the latent serious side of the character, which later gains dominance." (Opera News) |
LOUIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Organ Works Bob Van Asperen (organ) [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2018 ] Like the Bach family, the Couperin were a musical dynasty. Louis - the uncle of François 'le Grand' had established himself as organist of St Gervais by the mid-1650s and entering royal service shortly after as 'chamber musician' on the treble viol.... |
C. P. E. BACH
Prussian & Wurttemberg Sonatas Bob Van Asperen (harpsichord) [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 3 CD Box Set - released 6/Oct/2008 ] |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Organ Concertos Op. 7 Bob Van Asperen (organ) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2015 ] A classic recording now available again |
ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-6, Op. 5 Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) / Bob van Asperen (organ) / Lucy van Dael (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "Ms. van Dael plays these wonderful works brilliantly and arrestingly." - MusicWeb Jan 2005 |
J. S. BACH
Bram van Sambeek plays Bach on the Bassoon Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] Following a rock/metal album recorded with his band ORBI [BIS-2297], Bram van Sambeek returns with his own idea of a dance album. For it he has selected four works by Johann Sebastian Bach that consist mainly of typical baroque dances . |
JORIS ROELOFS
Roelofs: Rope Dance Bram van Sambeek, bassoon; Joris Roelofs, bass clarinet and clarinet; Bram de Looze, piano; Clemens van der Feen, double bass; Martijn Vink, drums [ BIS / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] The award-winning Dutch composer and bass clarinet player Joris Roelofs is also currently working on a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, improvisation and the notion of freedom. On the album Rope Dance he is able to combine all of this, in a... |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND / KALEVI AHO
Fagerlund / Aho - Bassoon Concertos Bram van Sambeek (bassoon), Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu, Dima Slobodeniouk [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] "A truly captivating disc…Bram van Sambeek takes everything in his evidently extensive stride. The agility, conviction, impish humour and searing seriousness all stem from a remarkably rounded musicianship" BBC Music Award WINNERt 2018 - Concerto |
DUPUY / OLTHUIS / VIVALDI / VILLA-LOBOS
The Art of the Bassoon Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) / Sinfonia Rotterdam, Conrad van Alphen [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) |
W. A. MOZART / CARL MARIA von WEBER / ÉDOUARD DU PUY
Mozart, Weber, Du Puy - Bassoon Concertos Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Alexei Ogrintchouk, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "None shall sleep through this disc - what a winner!" MusicWeb recommended May 2020 |