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THOMAS ADES / COLON NANCARROW
In Seven Days / Studies Nos 6 & 7 (with bonus DVD) Nicolas Hodges (piano) / London Sinfonietta, Thomas Ades [ Signum CD/DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "Evocative without being merely descriptive, In Seven Days is a highly cohesive work that understatedly fulfils its intention. The piano-writing is expertly integrated into the ensemble, Nicolas Hodges amply exploiting the judicious range of timbral... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera) Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Thomas Hampson, Olga Borodina / Wiener Philharmoniker & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2017 ] 'It's a fantastic cast. We know each other very well, we trust each other greatly and we like one another's work. It's a wonderful atmosphere, of course galvanised by this driving force of genius called Nikolaus Harnoncourt' Thomas Hampson |
RICHARD DUBUGNON
Dubugnon: Klavieriana and Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Noriko Ogawa, (piano) / Musikkollegium Winterthur, Thomas Zehetmair (cond) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A leading Swiss chamber orchestra champions works by a compatriot. |
HANS GAL
Kindred Spirits: Symphony No. 1 Op. 30 (with Schubert - Symphony No. 6 in C D589) Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "Zehetmair finds a mellifluous way of shaping melody while keeping the momentum virile and the music buoyant...the entire performance exudes a genuine delight in Schubert's palette of orchestral colours" (Gramophone) |
HANS GAL
Gal: Symphony No. 2 (with Schubert's Symphony No. 9 "Great") Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair [ Avie Records / 2 CD - released 2/May/2011 ] "gloriously tuneful late-Romantic masterworks … music that compels attention." - Gramophone |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Orchestral Works Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra & Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling, with Ilya Kaler (violin) & Gnesin Academy Chorus [ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set - released 27/May/2022 ] Sergey Taneyev was a monumental figure of late 19th-century Russian music. He was a student of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, and became teacher to Rachmaninov and Scriabin. |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] A pupil of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, and a teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, Sergey Taneyev was a monumental figure in Russian music of the second half of the nineteenth century. Although highly independent as a mature artist, Taneyev was... |
TANEYEV
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 Novosibirsk Academy Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 11/May/2010 ] Known to Tchaikovsky as the 'Russian Bach' and to Rachmaninov as 'a master composer [and] a pinnacle of musical Moscow', Sergey Taneyev was one of the most highly regarded and influential musical figures of his time. |
OLA GJEILO
Ola Gjeilo: Voices - Piano - Strings Ola Gjeilo (piano) Thomas Gould (violin) Ciaran McCabe (violin) Jon Thorne (viola) Matthew Sharp (cello) / Voces 8 / Chamber Orchestra of London [ Decca / CD - released 15/May/2016 ] A rising composer's debut release on a major label, Gjeilo's album on Decca is an important release of heavenly, bewitching, eternal new choral music for our time. Ethereal yet tangible, this is music with wide appeal; music of purity and beauty;... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.) - Intermezzo (complete opera recorded in 2024) Oper Berlin / Maria Bengtsson, Philipp Jekal, Thomas Blondelle, Elliott Woodruff, Anna Schoeck / Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 5/Dec/2025 ] "Assuming that performances of Intermezzo will, alas, continue to be rarities even in German-speaking lands, catch this if and when you can' (Seen and Heard International). |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.) - Intermezzo (complete opera recorded in 2024) BLU-RAY Oper Berlin / Maria Bengtsson, Philipp Jekal, Thomas Blondelle, Elliott Woodruff, Anna Schoeck / Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 5/Dec/2025 ] "Assuming that performances of Intermezzo will, alas, continue to be rarities even in German-speaking lands, catch this if and when you can' (Seen and Heard International). |
JULES MASSENET
Jules Massenet: Grisélidis Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Thomas Dolié, Vannina Santoni, Julien Dran, Adrien Fournaison, Thibault de Damas, Chœur [ Bru Zane / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Paris discovered Massenet's Grisélidis at the Opéra-Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music several times in the Baroque era. It gave Massenet the... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 KV 459 - Concerto for Flute & Harp KV 299 - Andante for Flute KV 315 - Horn Concerto No. 1 KV 412/514 ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehetmair, Aaron Pilsan, Nicolas Rames, Diren Duran, Elisabeth Plank [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] For the seventh volume in this collection devoted to Mozart by the younger generation of soloists, the award-winning Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan records the concerto K.459 with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester in Vienna. French horn player Nicolas... |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 2003) Glyndebourne Opera / Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Ragnar Ulfung, Hakan Hagegard / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "Malena Ernman is a stunning Orlofsky (at the end, Lawless reveals that the prince was really a princess after all), and Håkan Hagegård and Pamela Armstrong are very satisfying as Dr. Falke and Rosalinde, respectively." ClassicalNet |
GLUCK
Orphee et Eurydice (recorded at the Palais Garnier February 2008) Paris Opera Ballet / Maria Riccarda Wesseling / Julia Kleiter / Sunhae Im / Agnes Gillot / Yann Bridard / Thomas Hengelbrock (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Filmed in HD at the Palais Garnier February 2008 Orpheus and Eurydice is Pina Bausch's masterpiece and the ultimate symbol of the genius of this German choreographer, who died last June, five days after being diagnosed with cancer. Bausch was the... |
GLUCK
Orphee et Eurydice (recorded at the Palais Garnier February 2008) BLU-RAY Paris Opera Ballet / Maria Riccarda Wesseling / Julia Kleiter / Sunhae Im / Agnes Gillot / Yann Bridard / Thomas Hengelbrock (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Dec/2009 ] G - Filmed in HD at the Palais Garnier February 2008 Orpheus and Eurydice is Pina Bausch's masterpiece and the ultimate symbol of the genius of this German choreographer, who died in June 2009, five days after being diagnosed with cancer. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Paris Opera / Thomas Johannes Mayer, John Graham-Hall, Nicky Spence / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2017 ] Moses und Aron, Arnold Schönberg's masterpiece, at the Paris Opera in a glorious and poetic staging by Romeo Castellucci and conducted by Philippe Jordan, now available on DVD and Blu-ray! A profound, powerful and yet unfinished opera, Moses und Aron... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / EUGÈNE YSAŸE / IVAN WYSCHNEGRADSKY / ANDRZEY PANUFNIK
Exile Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thomas Kaufmann, Camerata Bern [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] This programme brings together composers who, for the most part, were compelled to flee their homeland. |
WILLIAM McCLELLAND
McClelland: Where the Shadows Glides - Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works Krista River (mezzo) Thomas Meglioranza (baritone) Donald Berman,Blair McMillen (piano) David Enlow (organ) / The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harols Ro [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of... |
LENNOX & MICHAEL BERKELEY
Berkeley, Michael - Concerto for Organ and Orchestra; Viola Concerto / Berkeley, Lennox - Voices of the Night, Op. 86; Symphony No. 2 Paul Silverthorne, viola; Thomas Trotter, organ; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'The fourth volume of the invaluable Chandos Berkeley series repeats the successful formula of the previous issues... like the others in this series, this is a disc to return to for ever-increasing rewards.' International Record Review |
