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SCHUBERT
Winterreise Thomas Bauer (baritone) / Jos van Immerseel (piano) [ Zig Zag / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "This is a performance tingling with nervous energy, with Bauer's baritone a strong and heroic persona throughout its considerable range.. Bauer's quick vibrato, and the taut tension in every rhythmic phrase and figure is matched by the clarity and... |
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SCHUBERT
Winterreise D911 Thomas Bauer (baritone) / Jos van Immerseel (pianoforte) [ Zig-Zag Territories / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] "Bauer is a thoughtful, personable singer who uses his words expressively. At forte his baritone has an incisive bite: say, in the horrified final climax of "Die Krähe"...He affectingly realises the bleak weariness of "Rast", and addresses the... |
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CHARLES TOURNEMIRE
Tournemire: Complete Organ Music- Oeuvres d'Orgue Tjeerd van der Ploeg (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Charles Tournemire was born in Bordeaux in 1870. A child prodigy he became organist-accompagnateur at age 11 at the St. Pierre in Bordeaux. At the Paris Conservatory he had lessons from De Bériot and César Franck, after whose death he continued with... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Trio Fontenay, Jaap Schroder (violin), Wouter Moller (cello), Bob van Asperen (harpsichord), Andrew Manze (violin) [ Teldec Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 19/May/2008 ] "If the Fontenay seem more attuned to Haydn's inwardness and lyricism than to his animal spirits, there's much to savour in these affectionate, thoughtfully characterized readings, truthfully captured by Teldec's engineers." (Gramophone on the Trio... |
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BUXTEHUDE
Das Jungste Gericht Ulrike Hofbauer (sop) Monika Mauch (sop) Harry van der Kamp (bass) Hans-Jorg Mammel (ten) / Weser-Renaissance / Manfred Cordes (dir) [ CPO / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes |
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CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
Der Tod Jesu-Passion Cantata Uta Schwabe (soprano) Inge van de Kerkove (soprano) Christoph Genz (baritone) / La Petite Band Ex Tempore / Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] During his lifetime, Carl Heinrich Graun, a younger contemporary of Bach's, was one of the best-known exponents of Italian opera in Germany. Recorded here is his Passion Cantata Der Tod Jesu performed by an excellent team of soloists. |
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PIERRE de MANCHICOURT
Requiem for an Emperor Utopia Ensemble; Jan Van Outryve [ Ramée / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Charles V was certainly the most powerful and charismatic of the Renaissance rulers. Exhausted and worn down by the challenges of imperial rule, he abdicated towards the end of his life and led a secluded existence in the monastery of Cuacos de Yuste... |
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ERICH KORNGOLD
Korngold: Complete Works for Violin and Piano Sonja van Beek (violin), Andreas Frölich (piano) [ CPO / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "The duo plays beautifully in Korngold's own transcription of Marietta's Lute Song from Die tote Stadt-and Frölich is especially effective in adding warmth and color to this music." ClassicsToday |
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Johannes B
Intermezzo a-Moll op. 118/1, Ballade g-Moll op. 118/3, Sonate No. 23 f-Moll op. 57 "Appassionata", Sonate f-Moll op. 26, Van Cliburn [ ORFEO / CD - released 2/Aug/2011 ] |
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SCHUMANN / BRAHMS
Piano Concertos (recorded 1960) Van Cliburn (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ Testament / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] The origins of these live 1960 performances lie inevitably in Van Cliburn's legendary triumph in Moscow's inaugural Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in 1958, a time when competitions still mattered. |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op.30 / The Bells, Op.35 Van Cliburn (piano), Elizaveta Shumskaya (soprano), Mikhail Dovenmann (tenor) & Alexei Bolshakov (bass) Moscow Philharmonic & Russian Republic Capella [ Praga Digitals / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] "Is he the best?" Khrushchev asked a nervous Jury in 1958, "Then give him the prize". At the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow during the height of the Cold War, the gold medal went to the young American pianist Van Cliburn. On... |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (with Rachmaninov-Piano concerto No 3) Van Cliburn (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kyrill Kondrashin [ Testament / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "For interpretative genius allied to a nerve-jangling sense of occasion, this is unforgettable. A disc to shake you to the core." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2009) |
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Van Dael/Van Asperen
Bach: Violin Sonatas Vol.2 [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] |
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Wolfgang A
Le nozze di Figaro Van Dam, Tomowa-Sintow, Cotrubas, Von Stade, Krause; Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Herbert von Karajan [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 2/Apr/2012 ] |
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Van Den Heuvel Organ Danish Ra
Hakim: Plays Hakim [ Signum / CD - released 13/Dec/2010 ] |
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G. F. HANDEL
Handel: Six Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 Van Diemen's Band / Martin Gester, conductor and organ soloist [ BIS / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] What we know as 'Handel's Opus 3' is most likely little more than a brazen attempt by the London publisher John Walsh to make some quick money. In 1715, Walsh had issued a pirated edition of Corelli's 12 Concerti Grossi Opus 6 which proved an instant... |
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Van Halen
Ou812 [ Warner / CD ] |
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MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concertos Isabelle van Keulen (violin) / Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Lev Markiz [ BIS / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "Her taut musical intelligence and vivid sound combined with a fine instinct for the tender, searching quality of this music … absolutely magical." The Guardian |
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MASSAINO / ROBERT WHITE / MARBRIANUS de ORTO / ROLAND de LASSUS
Lamentations Of The Renaissance Huelgas-Ensemble / Paul van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Apr/2008 ] The heartrending words of the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah have at all times inspired a multitude of musical settings imprinted with a characteristic mixture of pain and hope. It would be wrong to imagine that these famous biblical poems... |
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Van Nieuwkoop/Van Oortmerssen
Mozart:trans.For Organ Duet [ Bis / CD ] |