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WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN BULL / WILLIAM TISDALE / GILES FARNABY / etc
Elizabethan Virginals Music Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2003 ] "I can't recall a more attractive virginal programme than this: largely familiar music from the positively frisky to the deeply sombre, played on two markedly contrasting version of a beautiful Italian pentagonal virginal. Sophie Yates plays with... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Harpsichord Works (Volume 2): Suites Nos 1 - 5 Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "Sophie Yates confirms her credentials as one of Britain's most talented harpsichordists" |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: The Transcriptions of Concertos by Vivaldi Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "performances that outclass most of the catalogue competition...Her finely honed legato technique shines in slow movements...Yates's informative, well-written notes complement the stylish sensitivity of her harpsichord artistry" Gramophone Magazine, Aug |
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ALBINONI / BELLINI / HANDEL / BACH FAMILY / MOZART / TELEMANN / VIVALDI / etc
Oboe Concertos Stefan Schilli, Pier Luigi Fabretti, Andrius Puskunigis, Anthony Camden, Julia Girdwood, Anna Starr, etc (oboes) / Various orchestras [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 16/Jan/2017 ] "There is an abundance of enticing music, well performed by all the soloists. The orchestral sound is beautifully blended and well recorded." (MusicWeb on the Albinoni) |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: The Indian Queen (complete opera directed by Peter Sellars recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Julia Bullock, Vince Yi, Nadine Koutcher, Christophe Dumaux / Teodor Currentzis (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "punchy playing from Perm Opera's MusicAeterna orchestra under Teodor Currentzis...The Perm chorus...also field Purcell's sacred anthems with refreshing directness." (Gramophone) |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Edgar (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio Torino / Amarilli Nizza, Jose Cura, Julia Gertseva / Yoram David (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] "José Cura as Edgar in disguise, holding forth with burnished tone, and Amarilli Nizza singing "Addio, mio dolce amor" - the one passage that has become fairly well known - with considerable feeling." (Gramophone) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
The Gustav Mahler Celebration (recorded live at Kalište) Thomas Hampson / Anne Sophie von Otter / Marita Solberg / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Manfred Honeck [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] The renowned Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Austrian maestro Manfred Honeck, and world famous soloists commemorate the composer with an unique outdoor live concert. |
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J. S. BACH / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Bach & Telemann: Arias Valer Barna-Sabadus (counter-tenor), Julia Schröder (violin) / Basel Chamber Orchestra, Julia Schröder [ Sony Classics / CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] In 2013, Valer made his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Menelao in Cavalli's opera Elena. Since 2014, he has been under contract with the major label Sony. At the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe and at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruh |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Julia Varady sings Tchaikovsky Arias Julia Varady / Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Roman Kofman [ ORFEO / CD - released 30/May/2001 ] All arias sung in German |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Wiener Staatsoper / Soile Isokoski, Daniela Fally, Sophie Koch, Johan Botha / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Unitel / Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] Director Sven- Erich Bechtolf "has again delved deeply into music and text", observed the opera magazine Opernnetz in its rave review of the performance captured here. "In Rolf Glittenberg's beautiful Jugendstil salon, he is constantly in touch with... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms Cycle [Symphonies, Concertos & Overtures] (recorded in 2015) Yefim Bronfman (piano) Julia Fischer (violin) / The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ Belvedere / BBC Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2017 ] The Cleveland Orchestra is the aristocrat among American orchestras (The Telegraph) and its conductor, Franz Welser-Möst, rules his subjects with a velvet glove. Indeed, velvet and silk keep showing up in descriptions of the Clevelanders sound under... |
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FRANZ LEHAR
Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns [The Land Of Smiles] (complete operetta recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Piotr Beczala, Julia Kleiter, Rebeca Olvera, Spencer Lang / Fabio Luisi (conductor) [ Accentus Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2018 ] Always smile and always be cheerful, always satisfied, no matter what happens, smile in spite of your sorrows and a thousand aches and pains', sings Prince Sou-Chong, thus introducing the fundamentally melancholic tone of Das Land des Lächelns ('The... |