More By Artist: L'dia On Bass
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BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique / Lélio, ou Le Retour a la vie Gérard Depardieu (narrator), Mario Zeffiri (tenor) & Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ CSO Resound / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] This recording features Berlioz's 'Symphonie fantastique' with its sequel 'Lelio' presented as Berlioz intended. Actor Gerard Depardieu is the narrator in 'Lelio', and Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as part of their 120th season,... |
HOFFMEISTER / SPERGER / VANHAL / MOZART:
Travels With Goliath Grigory Krotenko (double bass), Barocco Concertato [ Rubicon Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Josef Kämpfer (1735-88?) A cavalry officer in the Hungarian army, self - taught double bass virtuoso and double bass designer led a peripatetic life moving through musical circles at the highest levels in Austria, Germany, Paris, London and St... |
JON LEIFS
Edda, part 1 - The Creation of the World Gunnar Guobjarnsson (tenor) Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (bass-baritone) / Schola Cantorum / Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Hermann Baumer [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Choral -- "It's been a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. As for the music itself, it will come as a very pleasant surprise to those familiar with Leifs' other works. The influence of Icelandic... |
BARTOK
Bluebeard's Castle (complete opera) Gustav Belacek (bass) Andrea Melath (mezzo-soprano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos Opera / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra prove worthy interpreters of Bartók's psyco-drama. Alsop bathes the score in an impressionist glow, dark and glistening. She gives her excellent soloists… ample room to define the drama, while tightening |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Tatiana Troyanos (alto), Jess Thomas (tenor), Karl Ridderbusch (bass) / Vienna Philharmonic / Karl BAhm [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "one of the greatest recordings the piece has ever enjoyed... there is literally none better" - ClassicsToday.com |
W.A MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 (highlights) Wilfried Gahmlich (tenor), Hellen Kwon (soprano), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano), Kurt Rydl (bass), Georg Tichy (baritone [ Naxos / CD ] "With so much to praise and a clearly balanced recording to boot, this set provides the strongest possible competition to more expensive versions of the opera." - CD Review |
A. VIVALDI / J. S. BACH
Lutheran Masses I Hana Blažíková & Joanne Lunn (sopranos), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Gerd Tark (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] By Bach's time, the Reformation had fundamentally altered the traditional forms of church service, and in German churches Latin had yielded to the country's own language. To a limited extent, however, the Latin mass text did remain in use in the... |
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ZELENKA
Immisit Dominus pestilentiam, ZWV58 / etc Hana Blažíková (soprano), David Erler (alto), Tobias Hunger (tenor) & Tomáš Král (bass) / Collegium Marianum [ Supraphon / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas, Volume 52 (BWV 29, 112, 140) Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Gerd Turk (tenor) / Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "BWV112 is universally outstanding. Suzuki draws attention to the strongly directed bass-lines of the chorus, the bucolic effervescence of 'Zum reinen Wasser' - delectably delivered by Robin Blaze - and the carefree, generous coloratura of the... |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas, Volume 48 (BWV 34, 98, 117, 120) Hana Blažíková (soprano) / Robin Blaze (countertenor) / Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) / Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] 'With Suzuki you can hear Bach's heart beat...' (International Record Review) |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas (Vol 51) BWV195, BWV192, BWV157 & BWV120a Hana Blazikova (soprano) Christoph Genz (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki return to their cantatas cycle with four cantatas composed for specific events. These sacred occasional pieces are independent works and did not form part of his cantata cycles for the Sundays and feast days... |
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J. S. BACH
Cantatas (Vol 53) Nos 9, 97, 177 Hana Blazikova (soprano) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Gert Turk (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "This is a wonderful celebration of all-too-rare late Bach vocal works, revealed to us by Suzuki with joy and an impeccable understanding of its unique essence." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas (Vol 46) BWV102, BWV45, BWV17, BWV19 Hana Blazikova (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] "The Japanese ensemble is at its very best in the sprung and textural luminosity of Herr, deine Augen, whose juxtaposition of dance and remorseful chromatic inflection bursts with character. A high-water mark in the series as we approach the home... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas (Vol 43) BWV57, BWV110, BWV151 Hana Blazíkova (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Gerd Türk (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Three Christmas cantatas from 1725 make up the programme of the 43rd volume in Masaaki Suzuki's and Bach Collegium Japan's highly praised cycle of Bach's cantatas. |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas (Vol 50) BWV49, BWV145, BWV149, BWV174 Hana Blazíkova (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Gerd Türk (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "Hana Blazikova delivers a clarion brightness...very much in the elegant Collegium Bach Japan vein: luminosity and purity of sentiment prevailing above an overlaid or projected personality...rugged fervour and brilliance spring off the page here.... |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas (Vol 47) BWV27, BWV36, BWV47 Hana Blazíkova (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Suzuki and company continue their excellent work in this superb series, easily the best- sounding of the complete, fuller-chorus versions currently going, done in excellent surround sound. Not much else to say here except keep it coming!" (AudAud.com) |
JON LEIFS
Leifs: Edda II: The Lives of the Gods Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir (mezzo-soprano), Elmar Gilbertsson (tenor), Kristinn Sigmundsson (bass), Schola cantorum, Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Hermann [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Soloists, choir and large orchestra perform the Icelandic sagas as told by Jón Leifs. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Hanna Herfurtner (sop), Gaia Petrone (alto), Michael Schade (ten) Christian Immler (bass) / Salzburger Bachchor & Bach Consort Wien, Rubén Dubrovsky [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Apr/2017 ] Described by librettist Charles Jennens with typical English understatement as "a fine entertainment", Handelʼs Messiah was initially controversial as a biblical oratorio written for secular theatres. Within years it was however being "received with... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Transcriptions Hanna Shybayeva (piano), Animato Quartet, Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] The first volume (8.551400) with Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos for piano and string quintet already showed that this would be quite a special complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos-and not just... |
