More By Artist: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (the complete opera recorded in 1981) Bayreuth Festival / Siegfried Jerusalem / Eva Randova / Bernd Weikl / Horst Stein (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 DVD - released 26/Feb/2009 ] G : - "A production and performance that showed the festival at its finest" (The New York Times) |
HINDEMITH / MAXWELL DAVIES / ELGAR / LEIGHTON / BRIDGE / etc
Simon Preston: The Argo Organ Recordings - 20th-Century Organ Recordings Simon Preston (the organ of the Church of St John, Islington, Organ of Royal Festival Hall, etc) [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 13/Dec/2017 ] Three original Argo albums demonstrating the vitality and variety of 20th-century organ music, newly remastered and compiled together for the first time in a 2CD set, with new booklet notes on the music and a tribute to Simon Preston. Simon... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera recorded in 2007) Spoleto Festival / Ann Hallenberg / Laura Cherici / Carlo Lepore / Alan Curtis (cond) [ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jun/2008 ] G : - "...this is a very very good DVD of a great Handel opera. If you yourself need to expand your horizon and move into the baroque - or know someone who would like to do so - then you will be hard put to start with anything better." (MusicWeb... |
Stanley Black & The London Festival Orchestra
France / Russia (Recorded 1965/67) (2 Original LPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] Reissued from recordings made in 1966 & 1967 |
Stanley Black with the London Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Tribute to Chaplin / Dimensions in Sound (2 original LPs on one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] 2 Original Decca recordings on a single CD |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Kammermusik Stephen Waarts (violin) Timothy Ridout (viola) Ziyu Shen (viola d'amore) / Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ Ondine / CD - released 20/Sep/2020 ] "Stephen Waarts plays the solo part with brilliant attack...Eschenbach has a special feeling for this music, and his project is well worth exploring." BBC Music Five Stars Concerto Choice Dec 2020 |
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Strauss Festival Orch/Lenard
J.Strauss:most Famous Waltz [ Naxos / CD ] |
MENOTTI
The Consul (Complete opera) Susan Bullock (soprano) John Horton Murray (tenor) Louis Otey (baritone) / Spoleto Festival / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 1001 Classical Recording you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Rondine (complete opera) Svetla Vassileva / Maya Dashuk / Fabio Sartori / Puccini Festival Orchestra and Chorus / Alberto Veronesi [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Although one of his most consistently lyrical operas, La rondine (The Swallow) remains one of Puccini's least known... |
SAMUEL BARBER
The Best of Barber (includes the Adagio-both string & choral versions) Sylvia McNair (soprano) Jon Kimura Parker (piano) / Leonard Slatkin / Robert Shaw Festival Singers / Robert Shaw and others. [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] Delving into its vast classical catalog, Telarc has compiled a disc full of Samuel Barber's most memorable works. The Best of Barber is an exquisite collection featuring Sylvia McNair singing "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," Leonard Slatkin and the Saint... |
ZOLTAN KODALY
Kodaly: Psalmus hungaricus, Op. 13 / Missa brevis / Pange lingua / etc (with Bartok - Cantata Profana 'The Nine Enchanted Stags') Tamas Daroczy, Alexandru Agache, Elizabeth Gale, Sally le Sage, Hannah Francis, Benjamin Luxon, etc / Brighton Festival Chorus, László Heltay, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ] "Kertesz's intense Psalmus Hungaricus is the keeper here but Heltay's Missa Brevis and Weir playing the rarely heard Laudes Organi are among other considerable valuables." (Gramophone) |
BRIAN GALANTE / STEPHEN PAULUS
So Hallow'd the Time - Christmas Music by Brian Galante and Stephen Paulus Taylor Festival Choir, Robert Taylor [ Delos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (Complete opera recorded 1953) Theo Adam (bass) Hans Braun (baritone) Josef Greindl (bass) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) / Bayreuth Festival / Joseph Keilberth [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 3 CD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] "for this price and with this quality of transfer, the Naxos stands alone." (MusicWeb June 2005) |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat [The Soldier's Tale] Tianwa Yang (violin), Fred Child (narrator), Jared McGuire (the soldier), Jeff Biehl (the devil) Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, JoAnn Fallett [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] Stravinsky conceived the idea of a small-scale theatrical work towards the end of the First World War. Collaborating with Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz and painter and designer René-Victor Auberjonois, he wrote Histoire du Soldat (The... |
BRAHMS / LISZT / LUTOSLAWSK / RACHMANINOV
Paganini Variations Tzimon Barto (piano), Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchester, Christoph Eschenbach [ Ondine / 2 CD - released 2/Dec/2014 ] NZ LISTENER BEST CLASSICAL Recordings 2014 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classical Meditation (Incls 'Agnus Dei' by Barber & 'The Lark Ascending' by Vaughan Williams) Various performers incls St. John's College Choir, Ormond College Choir, Elora Festival Singers, English Northern Philharmonia, Maggini Quartet [ NAXOS / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] The perfect antidote to these troubled times, this MEDITATION set from Naxos will help you calm down and unwind after a stressful day. |
WAGNER / MOZART / LORTZING / WEBER / NICOLAI
German Operatic Choruses Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Hungarian Festival Chorus, Budapest Radio Chorus [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] German opera came into its own in the nineteenth century, notably with the first great romantic German opera of Weber, Der Freischutz. |
WAGNER
Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 1967) Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Gustav Neidlinger, Ludmilla Dvoráková / Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Karl Böhm [ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "a performance dominated by conductor and orchestra. You will never hear so much detail of the orchestral score in the opera-house...with Böhm at his most incandescent, the Immolation must rank as one of the noblest accounts of this music ever record |
DURUFLE / FAURE / MOZART / BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / etc
Sacred: Inspirational and Spirtual Music for Choir and Orchestra Various Artists including the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Dawn Upshaw, etc [ Telarc Records / CD - released 18/Jun/2006 ] Slow down and take a momentary pause, compliments of Telarc. Breathe: The Relaxing Harp, the fourth in a series of wonderful relaxing recordings from the distinguished classical label, is the perfect entree to an interlude of quiet in an otherwise... |
RICKY IAN GORDON / MARK CAMPBELL
Rappahannock Country Virginia Arts Festival Orchestra, Rob Fisher [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] With its remarkably strong cast Rappahannock County is a richly expressive and fresh new work, having a global and contemporary appeal its universal messages of human suffering and survival amidst conflict and crisis. |
