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ZELENKA / BACH / LOTTI
Thomas Hengelbrock conducts Zelenka, Bach & Lotti Balthasar Neumann Ensemble & Choir, Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "This is nothing short of revelatory." Gramophone Awards 2010 WINNER: Baroque Vocal |
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GERALD BARRY
Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest (complete opera) Barbara Hannigan, Peter Tantsits, Joshua Bloom / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Thomas Adès [ NMC / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Opera |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Poets Of Sensibility Vols 1 & 2 Thomas Bauer (baritone) Simone Nold (soprano) Marcus Ullman (tenor) / Ulrich Eisenlohr (fortepiano) [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition Vol 19 / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Richard Wagner Edition - Bayreuth Festival Bayreuth Festival / Martha Mödl; Ludwig Weber, Wolfgang Windgassen; Eberhard Wächter, Jess Thomas; George London, Birgit Nilsson, Christa Ludwig; etc [ Decca / 25 CD Box Set - released 11/Jul/2025 ] A quarter-century of postwar Bayreuth recordings, made live at the Festspielhaus by Decca, DG and Philips: this is an absorbing history in sound of Wagner interpretation featuring several albums of timeless authority. |
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BELA BARTOK
Bartok Orchestral Works Volume 1 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ Onyx / CD - released 18/Nov/2019 ] "The Concerto for Orchestra is played with tremendous relish…Recorded sound quality is sympathetic and clear, enabling the detailed writing to be heard without resonant overkill." BBC Music |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 / etc Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ Testament / CD ] |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (original 1873 version) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Bruckner's 'Wagner Symphony' from Bergen and Dausgaard. |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Das Rheingold (complete opera recorded in 2021) Berlin Opera / Derek Welton, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas Blondelle, Markus Blondelle / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] As early as 1851, Wagner wrote, 'I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy Prelude.' The Prelude was Das Rheingold ('The Rhine Gold') the preliminary evening of Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Das Rheingold (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Derek Welton, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas Blondelle, Markus Blondelle / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 16/Feb/2024 ] As early as 1851, Wagner wrote, 'I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy Prelude.' The Prelude was Das Rheingold ('The Rhine Gold') the preliminary evening of Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Manuela Uhl, Mark Delavan, Matthias Klink, Thomas Blondelle / Andrew Litton (cond) [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "fine dynamic control (here is one heroic baritone who really can sing intimately), expansive personality and fabulously clear and meaningful textual projection...the orchestra revel in the score under Andrew Litton." (International Record Review) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Nina Stemme, Clay Hilley, Thomas Lehmann, Aile Asszonyi / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 17/May/2024 ] Götterdämmerung ('Twilight of the Gods') is the final opera of Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung') in which his visionary masterpiece reaches its cataclysmic conclusion. Betrayal and death, murder and remorse,... |
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WEIGL
Symphony No.6 / Old Vienna Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Alun Francis / Thomas Sanderling [ BIS / CD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] "Committed playing for music of gravitas and craftsmanship" (Gramophone April 2006) |
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ERNST TOCH
Toch: Tanz-Suite / Cello Concerto Berlin Spectrum Concerts, Thomas Carroll [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "These works are very much redolent of their time and place, and if the period or the idiom interests you, then so will these very polished and well recorded performances." -Classics Today |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen [complete operas on Blu-ray audio] Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela, Thomas Stewart, Régine Crespin, Gundula Janowitz, Josephine Veasey, etc / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray audio / Blu-Ray Audio - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Deutsche Grammophon is reissuing, in Blu-ray audio, Karajan's monumental Ring cycle, which he recorded together with the Berlin Philharmonic and a stunning cast of singers. |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Eventyr / A Song Before Sunrise Betty Beecham (Piano) / Jean Pougnet (Violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Sir Thomas Beecham's almost single-handed promotion of the music of Delius to international acceptance through his own personal standing and his conducting genius, besides being among the singular feats of the twentieth century, remains unrivalled in... |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos KV 365, Sinfonia concertante for Four Winds KV 279B, Adagio KV 261, Rondo KV 269 & 373 for Violin Bilal Alnemr, Gabriel Pidoux, Blaz Sparovec, Theo Plath, Nicolas Ramez ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Duo Sakamoto, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] This tenth volume in the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series presents works that are less frequently recorded, including a concerto for two pianos (in its original orchestration), separate movements for violin and orchestra (an Adagio and two... |
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Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy [ ECM / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Like their acclaimed ECM release Small Town of 2017 - which The Guardian called "wistful and mesmerizing… tonally ingenious and haunting" - Epistrophy by guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan was recorded at New York City's Village... |
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Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Small Town [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York's hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the... |
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WAGNER
Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 1968) Birgit Nilsson, Thomas Stewart, Leonie Rysanek / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Berislav Klobucar [ Sony Metropolitan Series / 3 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] The first of two Wagner operas, Die Walküre, boasts a cast of fine Wagnerian singers, including Birgit Nilsson, considered one of the greatest Brünnhildes, and iconic performances by Thomas Stewart as Wotan, Leonie Rysanek as Sieglinde, Jon Vickers... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Yuja Wang (piano), Thomas Rolfs (trumpet), Baiba Skride (violin) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 19 CD Box Set - released 18/Jul/2025 ] The Boston Symphony Orchestra and their music director Andris Nelsons announce their upcoming album, on which they present their acclaimed Shostakovich symphony cycle to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death in 1975. . |