More By Artist: Alexander O'Neal
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU / HANS KRASA / VIKTOR KALABIS
Martinů, Krása & Kalabis: Harpsichord Concertos Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) / Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Liebreich [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "An unalloyed joy from first chord to last...The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra's accompaniment is sensitive and ideal, and Esfahani plays like an angel." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Concerto |
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WAGNER
Overtures [Incls Faust, Rienzi & Christoph Columbus] Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra / Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The Faust overture, remnant of a Faust Symphony project, begins to glimmer with possibility. But the masterful power of the Rienzi overture is apparent from the extraordinary first note, that solitary trumpet A." - The Sunday Times |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (complete opera) Alberto Rinaldi, Tatiana Lisnic, Mabel Perelstein, Stefano Secco, Gerardo Lopez, Sara Galli Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jan/2004 ] Recorded in 2002 |
LUIGI CHERUBINI
Cherubini: Cantatas Maïlys de Villoutreys, Ursula Eittinger & Andreas Karasiak / Kölner Academie, Michael Alexander Willens [ CPO / CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] CPO presents unknown Cherubini cantatas. Cherubini never fails to give the sorrow, rage and pain of his subjects a truly personal dimension. |
DVORAK
Rusalka (Complete opera) Marcel Rosca, Ursula Furi-Bernhard, Nelly Boschkova, Walter Coppola / Academic Choir Ivan Goran & Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] 'The standard of the orchestral playing is high' Gramophone 1999 |
GIOCOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2016 ] This 2008 production is staged by Chen Kaige, the film director of Farewell My Concubine and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 (Complete ballet recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY/DVD Mariinsky Theatre / Diana Vishneva, Vladimir Shklyarov, Alexander Sergeyev, Ilya Kuznetsov / Valery Gergiev (cond) [ Mariinsky DVD + Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] "Balanchine's 1967 creation is a dazzling stylistic potpourri of pure dance ... a spectacular sight and a fitting climax to a great evening" The Times |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: War and Peace (complete opera recorded in 1991) Mariinsky Theatre / Yelena Prochina, Irina Bogachova, Alexander Gergalov / Valery Gergiev (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances DVD / DVD - released 12/Sep/2016 ] Sergei Prokofiev devoted the last twelve years of his life to War and Peace. He completed the orchestration by April 1942 and the entire score was ready in March 1943. Having completed the first version (containing eleven scenes) unusually quickly,... |
Marina Shaguch, soprano, Alexander Kisselev, bass, Residentie Orchestra The Hague
Nabokov, Nicolas - Ode: Maditation sur la majesta de Dieu / Union Pacific [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2002 ] "projected with great fervour and commitment by Polyansky" (BBC Music) |
RACHMANINOV
Music for Cello & Piano Marina Tarasova (cello) Alexander Polezhaev (piano) [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Marina Tarasova (cello) & Alexander Polezhaev (piano) |
KARL DAVIDOV
Davidov: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Marina Tarasova(cello) / Alexander Polzhaev (pno) / Davydov Symphony Orchestra, Konstantin Krimetz [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Marina Tarasova (cello) & Alexander Polezhaev (piano) |
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HANDEL
Harnoncourt conducts Handel (incls 'Messiah' [excerpts] & Organ Concerto, op.4 no.3} Lucia Popp, Paul Esswood, Roberta Alexander, Alice Harnoncourt, Herbert Tachezi / Concentus musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty - Harnoncourt & Handel |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Yiddish Winterreisse - A Holocaust Survivor's Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song Mark Glanville (bass-baritone) / Alexander Knapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] A Yiddish Winterreise is a sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire devised by opera singer and cantor Mark Glanville, recreating the original, Schubertian journey in a Holocaust context. The singer reflects on the life and world he has just... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Ma Mere L'Oye / Gaspard de la Nuit / Piano Concerto in G - 'Adagio assai' (LP) Martha Argerich (piano) / Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Alexander Mogilevsky (piano) [ Warner Classics LP / LP - released 21/Feb/2025 ] "Martha Argerich, "Unquestionably one of the greatest pianists of all time" (Gramophone magazine) |
REINHOLD GLIERE
Complete Duets with Cello Martin Rummel & Alexander Hülshoff (cellos), Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) & Till Alexander Körber (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] A highly decorated composer in Soviet Russia, Reinhold Glière maintained a low political profile and a conservative but astonishingly inventive melodic style. His interest in national harmonies and folk-music emerges in the Twelve Album Leaves, and... |
SCHUBERT
Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition 5: Nacht und träume Matthias Goerne (baritone) Alexander Schmalcz (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "This is a lovely recital, Goerne's intelligence, grace and lack of ostentation giving each song its due, with admirable support from Schmalcz." (International Record Review) |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Maxim Rysanov plays Martinu Maxim Rysanov (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek, with Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/May/2015 ] Maxim Rysanov, one of today's leading viola players, explores Martinů's clear fascination with the viola on this disc, opening with the Rhapsody-Concerto from 1952. |
HOSOKAWA
Landscapes: Music for Sho and Strings Mayumi Miyata (sho) / Münchener Kammerorchester / Alexander Liebreich [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] ECM's ongoing series of recordings with the Munich Chamber Orchestra continues with an intriguing album of new and recent pieces by Japan's leading composer Toshio Hosokawa. Amongst the compositions are Sakura für Otto Tomek and Cloud and Light, both... |
Michelle Breedt, soprano / Renato Girolami, bass / Judith Halasz, soprano / Alexander Klinger, tenor / Peter Koves, bass / Marina Mescheriakova, sopra
Mozart, W.A. - Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) K. 492 (Highlights) [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 7/Jul/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "The MArriage of Figaro" won considerable success both in Vienna and subsequently in Prague, and was revived in the former in 1789, when two... |
ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Mikhail Adamovich (piano) / Valery Brill (cello) / Leonid Lebedev (flute) / Russian Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Pavlova paints delicately with the unconventional ensemble, creating a sound-world simultaneously precise but also somehow suspended in dream." (BBC Music) |
