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MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein (Unabridged) Read by Daniel Philpott, Roger May & Jonathan Oliver [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Mary Shelley's poignant exploration of the true depths of human ambition has had a profound effect on readers since its conception in 1816. When scientist Victor Frankenstein forms a creature from the body parts of corpses, thus shattering the... |
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Antonin Dv
Rusalka Piotr Beczala, Emily Magee, Camilla Nylund, Alan Held, Birgit Remmert, Adam Plachetka, Eva Liebau, Daniel Schmutzhand, A [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 15/Jul/2011 ] |
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PUCCINI, VERDI, MOZART, GOUNOD / MEYERBEER / WAGNER / SAINT-SAENS / etc
The Great Placido Domingo [3 CD set] Placido Domingo (tenor) with Daniel barenboim, Jose Carreras, Mirella Freni, Thomas Hampson & others [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] Saluting a glorious and unparalleled career that, since 1959, has embraced some 150 operatic roles and spans the the Italian, French, German and Spanish repertoires, this 3-CD collection draws on recitals and complete operas recorded over more than... |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Chamber Music for Bassoon and Guitar Rainer Seidel (bassoon) Daniel Valentin Marx (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Georg Philipp Telemann was the most famous of all German composers during his lifetime and a master of all musical genres. Every piece in this album dates from his triumphant years in Hamburg, where he was the city's music director. |
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DVORAK
Cello Concerto in A major, B10 Youth / Waldesruhe (Silent woods) for cello and orchestra, Op. 68 No. 5 / etc Ramon Jaffe (cello) / Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskin [ CPO / CD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] This extremely virtuosic concerto and other works are masterly performed by Ramon Jaffé, once described by Vladimir Ashkenazy as "a cellist of world class". |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mendelssohn/Schumann: Violin Concerto No.2 / Violin Concerto Renaud Capucon (violin) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Daniel Harding, conductor [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 19/Oct/2004 ] A new disc from the brilliant young French violinist Renaud Capuçon brings together two strongly contrasted works: Mendelssohn's luminous E minor concerto, one of the best-loved works in the repertoire, and Schumann's more introverted and... |
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JEAN SIBELIUS / SAMUEL BARBER
Sibelius/Barber: Violin Concertos Renaud Capucon (violin) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,.Daniel Harding, conductor [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/2025 ] Renaud Capuçon's new album is a return to core repertoire: Sibelius's Violin Concerto, op.47, and Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, op.14 - recorded with Daniel Harding as conductor and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. |
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W.A. MOZART
Apollo et Hyacinthus (complete opera) Robert Morvai (tenor), Antonia Bouerva (soprano), Anna Haase (soprano), Daniel Lager (alto) / European Chamber Soloists / Nicol Matt [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] This is a very recent recording of one of Mozart’s early operas. For this work 11 year old (!) Mozart used a story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text by Father Widl is in Latin. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano Robin Michael (cello), Daniel Tong (fortepiano) [ Resonus / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Cello and piano duo Robin Michael and Daniel Tong return to Resonus with this dazzling collection of the complete works for cello and piano of Ludwig van Beethoven. |
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J.S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 5: BWV178, BWV136, BWV45; BWV46, BWV101, BWV102 Robin Tyson, Brindley Sherratt, Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Elliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] John Eliot Gardiner's choral Pilgrimage exploring the magnificence and grandeur of all of Bach's cantatas continues with this 2CD release, combining cantatas for the eighth and tenth Sunday after Trinity, recorded live in August 2000. |
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ROXANA PANUFNIK
Roxana Panufnik: Heartfelt Roderick Williams (baritone), Robin Ashwell, Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Hannah Dawson, Andy Marshall, Any Harman, Charles Owen (piano), Mary Bevan (sopra [ Signum / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] Since Westminster Mass (2000) established Roxanna Panufnik's firm place among today'sleading British composers, she has often been celebrated for her choral music. Her instrumental and chamber works, however, are equally striking, filled with... |
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Rodgers/Maltman/Daniel
Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony [ Naxos / Hybrid SACD - released 2/May/2005 ] |
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GLANZBERG
Holocaust Lieder & Suite Yiddish Roman Trekel (baritone) / Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Daniel Klajner [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
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CHARLES WUORINEN
6 Trios Ronald Borror (Trombone), Alan Feinberg (Piano), Daniel Druckman (Marimba), Daniel Druckman (Vibraphone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] The ways in which the composer approaches the four types of ensemble here illustrate his participation in that tradition of the ensemble genre that has been a lure for generations of Western composers. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mitridate, re di Ponto (recorded live Covent Garden in 1993) Royal Opera House / Bruce Ford, Jochen Kowalski, Ann Murray, Luba Orgonasova / Paul Daniel (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] |
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MEYERBEER
Robert Le Diable (complete opera recorded in 2012) Royal Opera House / Bryan Hymel, Patrizia Ciofi, John Relyea, Marina Poplavskaya / Daniel Oren (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] A grand opera that dominated the stages of Europe for most of the 19th century, Robert le diable is a masterpiece. Director Laurent Pelly breathes new life into Giacomo Meyerbeer's great spectacle and audaciously entertaining moral fable, in this... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Gloriana (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Royal Opera House / Susan Bullock, Toby Spence, Patricia Bardon, Mark Stone, Kate Royal / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] Central to the Royal Opera's centenary celebrations marking the birth of Benjamin Britten was Richard Jones's witty and insightful new production of the royal operatic pageant that Britten wrote to honour the Coronation, exploring the late life, love... |
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ANTOINE MARIOTTE
Mariotte: Impressions Urbaines, Songs, Kakemonos Sabine Revault d'Allonnes (soprano) & Daniel Blumenthal (piano) [ Timpani / CD - released 29/Nov/2016 ] Antoine Mariotte: not only the composer of a Strauss-rivalling Salomé that was revived by the Montpellier Festival, but also of a piano cycle, Impressions urbaines, reputed to be on the outer edges of the playable and far indeed from the salon pieces... |
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VARIOUS
1291 Samuel Blaser (trombone), Daniel Humair (drums), Heiri Känzig (double bass) [ Outnote Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Three generations of top Swiss jazz musicians from three different parts of the country, Daniel Humair, Samuel Blaser and Heiri Känzig, form a new trio that promises to stimulate the interest of both music lovers and curious listeners. |
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FRANK MARTIN
Le Vin herbe (based on three chapters of the novel 'Tristan et Iseut' by Joseph Bedier) Sandrine Piau (sop) Steve Davislim (ten) Jutta Bohnert (sop) / RIAS Kammerchor / Scharoun Ensemble / Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "Often cited by those in the know as one of music's best-kept secrets, this is Tristan and Isolde as told by Frank Martin. As with the Wagner setting there are expressionist touches but also great directness of emotion. The score is full of... |