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MOZART / WEBER / ROSSINI / VERDI / etc
Great Singers Live: Margaret Price (recorded 1977-1991) Margaret Price (soprano) / Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Heinz Wallberg, Leopold Hager & Thomas Fulton [ BR Klassik Great Singers Live / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] These first releases of Margaret Price with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester cover a time period from 1977 to 1991. Her work was largely concentrated on Mozart and Verdi, to which this CD pays ample credit, and also features arias by Bellini, Cilea,... |
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MARIA CALLAS
Maria Callas - Magic Moments of Music Maria Callas (soprano) with interviews with Antonio Pappano, Rolando Villazon, Rufus Wainwright, Thomas Hampson & others [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Pappano says illuminating things about Callas's voice and what she did with it…Kristine Opolais is interesting about her acting…Tito Gobbi is his expansive self…The performance itself remains miraculous, however often you see it." BBC Music |
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Schubert,
Salzburger Liederabend 1987 Marjana Lipovsek, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Thomas Riebl [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] |
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J. S. BACH
St John Passion BWV245 Markus Schafer / Thomas Oliemans / Peter Kooij (bass) / Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "This is a most moving performance. It is beautifully conducted by Franz Brüggen, unfolding with a natural expressiveness that is never short on drama but avoid the slash-and-burn vigour of some other period-instruments versions..This is a very... |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Orchestral Songs Sunhae Im (soprano), Thomas Hampson (baritone) / Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck [ Aparte / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] "The orchestral versions of these songs - four of which are getting their first recordings - provide depth of a particular sort." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2023 |
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Mats Eilertsen, Haarmen Fraanje, Thomas Strønen
And Then Comes The Night [ ECM / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen has been a distinctive presence on ECM recordings by, amongst others, Tord Gustavsen, Trygve Seim, Mathias Eick, Nils Økland, Wolfert Brederode and Jakob Young and has long maintained several projects of his own,... |
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REINHARD KEISER
Pomona Melanie Hirsch, Doerthe Maria Sandmann, Olivia Vermeulen, Magdalene Harer / Capella Orlandi Bremen, Thomas Ihlenfeldt [ CPO / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] Reinhard Keiser is regarded as one of the most important German opera composers of the baroque era, and his Pomona forms the ideal introduction to the world of the German-language baroque opera. A few deities come together to participate in a... |
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MARCEL DUPRE
Dupre: Organ Symphony / Cortege et Litanie / Organ Concerto Michael Dudman (organ) / Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Patrick Thomas [ ABC Classics Discovery / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Marcel Dupre was one of the master organists of his time and one of the major figures in French organ music of the 20th Century. Deploying the stunning range of colours of the organ of the Sydney Town Hall, this recording presents works for both solo... |
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J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 (Complete oratorio) Michael George (bass) Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) David Thomas (bass) / The Choir of King's College, Cambridge. The Choir of [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "This is a fine recording...For many people, though, the King's forces and Emma Kirkby, with Michael Chance doing all the alto solos, will prove a willing combination. And at super budget price, you cannot go far wrong. There is a complete libretto... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Keeping Score - Symphony No. 4 Michael Tilson Thomas / San Francisco Symphony [ SFS Media / CD - released 22/Mar/2010 ] "charismatic musical evangelism … genuinely fresh ideas about the presentation of classical music to a mass audience" International Record Review |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Kindertotenlieder Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano) / Women of the San Francisco Chorus / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The San Francisco Orchestra is on fine form throughout and they are recorded with depth and spread in a realistic sound picture that packs a punch when needed but can pare down to intimacy too." (MusicWeb May 2003) |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 8 / Symphony No. 10 (Adagio) Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano) / Women of the San Francisco Chorus / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie SACD / 2 SACD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony reach the 11th instalment of their award-winning Mahler cycle with a live recording of the mighty Eighth Symphony, "Symphony of a Thousand", coupled with the Adagio from Symphony No. 10. |
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BASSET / BOLCOM / TICHELI
Angels in the Architecture Middle Tennessee State University Wind Ensemble, Reed Thomas [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Angels in the Architecture was inspired by the forms and ornamentation of the Sydney Opera House, contrasting divine light with turbulent darkness to pose the unanswered question of existence. |
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HANDEL
Messiah (Highlights from the complete oratorio) Midori Suzuki (soprano) Yoshikazu Mera (alto) John Elwes (tenor) David Thomas (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] "This, I felt throughout, is the way the music is supposed to go; this is what Handel meant... Go ye and listen." - Fanfare |
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HANDEL
Messiah (Complete Oratorio) Midori Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera, John Elwes, David Thomas / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/1997 ] Rosette Recording (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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BEETHOVEN
Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin [Recorded live in 2000] BLU-RAY Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Eike Wilm Schulte / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] For this newly released EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc all recordings were lovingly restored and converted to High Definition video. The 10th EUROPAKONZERT was performed in the newmillennium |
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CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
Graun: Christmas Oratorio Monika Mauch (soprano), Marion Eckstein (alto), Georg Poplutz (tenor) & Raimund Nolte (bass) / Baroque Ensemble L'arpa festante, Thomas Gropper [ Oehms / CD - released 21/Sep/2017 ] A work caught the attention of musicians during the late 1990s - a Christmas Oratorio by C.H. Graun. The only known copy of it was being housed in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. But it has so far been impossible to determine either the... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg & Violin Concertos / Orchestral Suites Musica Amphion, P.J. Belder / Amsterdam Bach Soloists, Thomas Zehetmair (violin) / Netherlands Bach Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] ."Zehetmair is by no means just a brilliant violinist; he is a very sincere musician...This is a most rewarding reissue. Even those lovers of baroque music who usually avoid modern instrument performances, should consider this disc." MusicWeb |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Nadja Michael, Michael Volle, Michaela Schuster, Thomas Moser / Philippe Jordan [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Nadia Michael… is an attractive Salome, moving like a dancer, as physically unafraid as she is vocally… Michael Volle is an imposing, rich-toned Narraboth" (Gramophone) |
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HENRI DUPARC
Complete Songs of Duparc Malcolm Martineau (piano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), William Thomas (bass) [ Signum / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] "There's a terrific and consistently persuasive grandeur and sweep in much of Martineau's playing…This is a fine and fascinating addition to his discography" - Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Song |