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SCHUBERT
Lied Edition 35 - Rarities, Fragments, and Alternative Versions Sibylla Rubens / Detlef Roth / Daniel Grogurin / Uta Jungwirth / Reto Kuppel / Peter Riehm / Ulrich Eisenlohr [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] The Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition: The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition presents all Schubert's Lieder, over 700 songs, grouped according to the poets who inspired him. This final volume in Naxos's acclaimed edition includes a number of... |
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IMOGEN HOLST
String Chamber Music Simon Hewitt Jones (violin), David Worswick (violin), Tom Hankey (viola), Oliver Coates (cello), Thomas Hewitt Jones (cello), Daniel Swain (piano) [ NMC Recordings / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] This award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst's chamber works (originally released on the Court Lane Music label) is an important addition to the NMC catalogue, and a wonderful tribute to a significant 20th-century British composer.... |
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RESPIGHI
Sinfonia Drammatica Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Nazareth (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Dec/2005 ] "...very satisfying in every respect. " - David Hurwitz, Classicstoday.com |
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (with Borodin: Polovtsian Dances) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Nazareth [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] "throughout, the performance is imaginatively detailed and very fresh." Gramophone |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Eroica", 4 & 5 (2 LP) Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / 2 LP - released 27/Jun/2025 ] "This fine 1999 set of Beethoven's symphonies offers a near-ideal balance of expressive warmth, moment-to-moment imagination and wide musical vision." ClassicFM |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Accentus Music DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers' works: In this series he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckner's mature symphonies. |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Symphonies [2 CDs + Blu Ray Audio] Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon 2 CDs + Blu-ray audio / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Dec/2022 ] "Barenboim masterfully clarifies textures (violins are on his right and left), proving that Schumann's orchestration is wonderfully effective when tended to with care." TheClassicReview |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca / CD - released 15/May/2016 ] "Barenboim's long association with, and love for, Elgar has effectively made it part of his musical DNA..That is the really startling achievement here and it manifests itself in playing that is as exciting as it is nuanced." Gramophone Disc of May 16 |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63 Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca / CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ] "this is a marvellously full-blooded reading of the Symphony, full of drama and passion...This must be one of the finest performances currently on offer." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major BLU-RAY Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Accentus Music Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2016 ] In Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousness and profound solemnity, a music which speaks of grief and lamentation, but also of their transcendence. With its monumental architecture and... |
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WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2014) Staatsoper Berlin / Peter Seiffert, Marina Prudenskaya, Ann Petersen, Peter Mattei, René Pape / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Dec/2015 ] A brand new production of 'Tannhäuser' from the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has brought to the stage this Romantic Wagner opera with a star cast of some of today's best Wagnerian sin |
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LOUIS GLASS
Complete Symphonies Vol. 1 Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskin [ CPO / CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] After Carl Nielsen, Louis Glass surely has to be regarded as Denmark's greatest composer of the first half of the twentieth century. He began his career as a pianist, but when illness forced him to retire from active concertizing, he focused all his... |
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SAMUEL BARBER
Eternal Barber (Incls 'Adagio for Strings') Stephen Prutsman, Daniel Pollack (pianos) / Ormond College Choir / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Samuel Barber is widely known for his famous Adagio for Strings, the slow movement of a string quartet he wrote in 1936. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1910, he was one of the first students at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where he... |
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BRIAN ELIAS
Brian Elias: Electra Mourns Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais) / Psappha, Nicholas Kok / Britten Sinfonia, Clark Rundell [ NMC / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] The title work on this new album by Brian Elias sets text from 'Electra', a 5th Century BC play by the Greek dramatist Sophocles. It is sung in the original ancient Greek by mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley, accompanied by cor anglais and string... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony no.5 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] "In a market where modern rivals sound pedestrian or perfumed with finesse by comparison, this Fifth raises high hopes for what the graphic cover artwork implies may become a complete cycle." Gramophone |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ / JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] Harding's Berlioz is resilient, pliant, conducted with a temporal freedom that always seems ambitious but ends up feeling electrifyingly right. Turn from Harding to his current peers and it's like going from IMAX cinema to living-room black-and-white |
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JESPER NORDIN
Nordin: Voices From the Past Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor) Musica Vitae, Malin Broman (electric violin), Jesper Nordin (electronics) [ BIS / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Music in which Swedish folklore, rock and electronics meet. |
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WAGNER
Götterdämmerung (complete opera recorded in 2013) Teatro alla Scala / Lance Ryan, Iréne Theorin, Mikhail Petrenko, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gerd Grochowski, Waltraud Meier / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Lance Ryan, Peter Bronder, Terje Stensvold, Johannes Martin Kränzle / Daniel Barenboim [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "Stensvold (Wanderer) sings with perfectly centred tone, terrific staying power and command of broad legato phrases...Surprisingly, though, it's Alberich here who possesses the more beautiful voice: baritone Johannes Martin Kranzle." (IRR) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Simon O'Neill, John Tomlinson, Vitalij Kowaljow, Waltraud Meier / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "Gubanova is a steely, imperious Fricka. Best of all, though, is Nina Stemme's Brunnhilde. It's a radiant performance, occasionally effortful, but Stemme's golden tone stands the pressure." (BBC Music) |