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Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin
Blue Train [ Profil / CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] |
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Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin
Music at the Court of Henry VIII [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 8/Sep/2004 ] This is a fascinating anthology which shows the richness and variety of music performed at the court of Henry VIII. |
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ANONYMOUS / CORNYSHE / HENRY VIII / etc
Pastyme With Good Companye: Music at the Court of Henry VIII Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 9/Aug/2004 ] When Henry VIII was crowned king in 1509, aged seventeen, he was the youngest king in Europe. He spent the first decade of his reign predominantly on chivalrous self-display. This was his most productive period as a composer. Pastyme with good... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Six Divertimenti Ensemble Sans Souci Berlin [ CPO / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] Joseph Haydn first turned to chamber music for the flute in his Six Divertimenti Hob. IV:6-11. The Six Divertimenti and the Trio Hob. XI:82 are performed on this disc by the Ensemble Sans Souci Berlin. |
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GEORGE TSONTAKIS
Tsontakis: Anasa / True Colors / Unforgettable Eric Berlin, Luosha Fang, Eunice Kim, David Krakauer / Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 7/Aug/2017 ] "These recent concertos demonstrate Tsontakis's remarkable ability to absorb and transform sources as disparate as klezmer and popular song. Conductor Miller is one of the composer's most ardent champion" Gramophone |
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ARENSKY / BORTKIEWICZ / KABALEVSKY / RACHMANINOV / PROKOFIEV / etc
Russian Piano Concertos Evgeny Kissin, In-Ju Bang, Felicja Blumental, Ştefan Doniga, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony etc [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 23/Mar/2018 ] There is a special quality to Russian Piano Concertos: apart from their jawdropping virtuosity and orchestral brilliance they share that common Slavonicflavor, an undefinable mixture of melancholy and passion, whether smouldering or blazing. |
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GRIEG / RAVEL / STRAVINSKY / RICHARD STRAUSS / etc
Dances & Dreams: Gala from Berlin 2011 Evgeny Kissin (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "Where Rattle and company radiate love, Kissin gives us duty. Still, nothing else casts a chill. Hearing the orchestra's splendours, observing the smiles and eye contact, you'd never believe the past stories of turbulence between musicians and conductor." |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem], Op. 45 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Grummer / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] On its first release, this 1955 recording was praised as 'a worthy performance of the work and a well recorded one' by Gramophone, which also commented that 'Elisabeth Grümmer sings her solo with beautiful tone and deep feeling' and 'Fischer-Dieskau... |
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WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollande [The Flying Dutchman] Gottlob Frick, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Marianne Schech, Rudolf Schock / Staatskapelle Berlin & Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Franz Konwitsch [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] One of the greatest and most revolutionary composers of the nineteenth century, Richard Wagner transformed the realm of musical drama. Years before his towering successes of the Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, he... |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Kreisler: Complete Concerto Recordings Vol.1 Fritz Kreisler (Violin) / Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Leo Blech [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 23/Jun/2001 ] The first of an important series |
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Furtwangler/Berlin Po
Bruckner:symphony No.8 [ Testament / CD ] |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 3 and Op. 6 Georg Kallweit, Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Pentatone / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Mar/2021 ] BRILLIANT PERFORMANCES OF HANDEL'S MASTERWORKS Handel's concerti grossi Op. 3 and Op. 6 are among the most exceptional instrumental music of the baroque age, and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin brings out all the brilliance of these delightful... |
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Gerard Rso Berlin/Schwarz
Genesis Suite [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] |
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MAHLER
Symphony No.2 Resurrection / Kindertotenlieder (rec 1915-1931) Gertrud Bindernagel (soprano) / Emmi Leisner (contralto) / Berlin State Opera Orchestra / Oskar Fried / Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone) / Jascha Horenst [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] "Mahlerians, and fans of any of these artists will all find something to enjoy here." - www.classicstoday.com |
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W. A. MOZART / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / etc
Géza Anda: Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings Geza Anda (piano) / Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / 17 CD Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] D. G. celebrates one of the greatest pianists of our time, Géza Anda - the "troubadour of the keyboard" (Furtwängler) - in a limited edition 17-CD set. Anda was for the most part of his sadly too-short career a Deutsche Grammophon artists. |
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CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Gundula Janowitz, Gerhard Stolze, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Berlin Opera, Eugen Jochum [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Jochum's 1968 recording of Carmina Burana has never sounded better than it does in this reissue in DG's 'Originals' series. The recording has a wide dynamic range and when the music blazes it has real spedour and excitement." (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 Gundula Janowitz (sop) Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Walter Berry (bass) / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon CD + Blu-ray audio / CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Newly remastered by Emil Berliner Studios and presented on Blu-ray Audio in 24bit/192kHz + 1 CD produced from the new remastering |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Gunter Wand Gunter Wand, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [ Hanssler Profil / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] |
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BELA BARTOK
Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (complete) Géza Anda (piano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay (conductor) [ ALTO / CD - released 7/Apr/2014 ] "Every Bartók collection worth its salt should have this on its shelves. It's one of the gems of the 1960s DGG catalogue. Geza Anda and Ferenc Fricsay were both born in Budapest and they make a formidable partnership. They were leading exponents of t |