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VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLURAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
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J. S. BACH
Lisa Batiashvili: Bach Lisa Batiashvili (violin) with Emmanuel Pahud (flute) & François Leleux (oboe) / Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Radoslaw Szulc [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] "Batiashvili's violin is seductive and the spirit lively - a pleasing, middle-of-the-road selection." (Financial Times) |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem, Op. 48 / Messe basse / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Lisa Beckley (soprano) Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone) / Oxford Schola Cantorum / Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "The fresh, forward choral tone goes with an unmannered interpretation from Jeremy Summerly, with soloists comparably fresh toned" - Penguin Guide |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Vier letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs) / Scenes from 'Arabella' & 'Ariadne auf Naxos' Lisa della Casa, with Rudolf Schock & George London [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] Neewly reissued. |
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DEBUSSY / FAURE
Essence - Lisa Friend plays Fauré & Debussy Lisa Friend (flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] The flute takes a very special place in French music, particularly so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result (and in addition to a great deal of original repertoire for the instrument) there is a significant body of work... |
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Lisa Gerrard
Come Tenderness [ Gerrard Records / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Lisa Gerrard, the renowned Australian vocalist and composer, presents the compilation 'Come Tenderness' With the inspiration of the healing power of water at its core, the album has been personally curated by Lisa and features ten of her most... |
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WILLIAM FINN
Finn: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Lisa Howard & Jay Reiss / Original 2005 Broadway Cast [ Ghostlight / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version) Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Kennedy/ Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 11/May/2011 ] "[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner parts." (BBC Music) |
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ANDREW IMBRIE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Imbrie: Requiem / Piano Concerto No. 3 Lisa Saffer (soprano) Alan Feinber (piano) / The New York Virtuoso Singers, Riverside Symphony, George Rothman [ Bridge / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] 2000 Grammy Nominee: Best Contemporary Composition Fanfare: Critic's Choice, Best of Year |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber: Der Freischutz (complete opera with libretto) Hermann Prey, Elisabeth Grummer, Lisa Otto, Rudolf Schock / Berlin Philharmonic, Joseph Keilberth [ EMI Studio / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/1989 ] "All soloists in this effort shine like the stars. Particularly the lovely (as always) Elisabeth Grummer...my God this lady was wonderful, and is, I am sure, greatly missed by all the great German opera houses today." (review) |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: With All My Breath and All My Blood Giorgi Gigashvili (piano), Lisa Batiashvili (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] For his second recital, Giorgi Gigashvili chose Prokofiev, a composer he has been playing intensively for ten years. Nicknamed the "War Sonatas", these three masterpieces are, for him, "battles in themselves", sonatas to which one gives "heart and... |
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PAGANINI
24 Caprices for Violin Solo op. 1 (with Piano Accompaniment by Robert Schumann) Benjamin Schmid (violin) Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 10/Feb/2005 ] "... beautiful recording ... Smirnova is an ultra-sensitive accompanist, Schmid a fearless yet endearing violinist. Most highly recommended." (Soundscapes) |
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J.S.BACH / SCHUMANN
Six Sonatas for Violin (with Schumann's piano accompaniment) Benjamin Schmid (violin) Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ MDG / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Believe it or not, this CD is the first recording ever of Bach's violin solo compositions as interpreted by Robert Schumann, performed here by critically-acclaimed violinist Benjamin Schmid |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K492 [The Marriage of Figaro] (highlights) Cesare Siepi, Hilde Gueden, Alfred Poell, Lisa Della Casa / Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kleiber [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] A legendary cast of Vienna State Opera stars and the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Erich Kleiber at the peak of his career were the essential ingredients in the making of this 1955 recording of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro that is... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Concertos For Oboe And Oboe D'Amore Christian Hommel (Oboe/Oboe D'Amore) / Lisa Stewart (Violin) / Cologne Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos Bach Complete Orchestral Works 1 / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "A delightfully different disc that is most entertaining." - Sunday Tribune (Dublin), March 19, 2000 |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 2 Lorna Anderson (soprano) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The first thing to say that the performances by sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne are consistently beautiful, alert to the implications of Debussy's word-setting, whether ecstatic or subdued...Martineau matches them in the subtlety,... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw (complete opera) City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox / Mark Padmore / Lisa Milne / Catrin Wyn Davies / Diana Montague / Nicholas Kirby Johnson / Caroline Wise [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Mar/2005 ] G :- "With its short intimate scenes and concentrated lines, the Screw is so cinematic that it's surprising there's only been one previous film. This has just won a Viennese TV award. It's one of the truest opera films to date." (BBC Music) |
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POULENC
Complete Songs Vol. 3 John Mark Ainsley / Lorna Anderson / Sarah Fox / Jonathan Lemalu / Lisa Milne / Malcolm Martineau [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his most breathtaking moments, but the level of intensity is... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Arias and Duets (rec 1949) Jussi Bjorling (tenor) Anna-Lisa Bjorling (soprano) / San Francisco Opera Orchestra [ Naxos Historical In Concert / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] 'This hour is yours' the announcer tells us at the opening of this CD, a pleasing hour indeed, in the company of the finest tenor of his day and his wife Anna-Lisa, a Conservatory-trained lyric soprano. The programme consists of favourite arias from... |