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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Staatsoper Berlin / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska / Gustavo Dudamel (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Nothing is harder to put on stage than lightness. And humor is the sharpest weapon of the desperate. That is why it is an obligation, indeed a must, to enjoy this Figaro by Jürgen Flimm at the Staatsoper to the fullest." (ARD Radio) This production... |
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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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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (complete opera recorded in 2017, Sung in English with German dialogue) BLU-RAY Staatsoper unter den Linden / Anett Fritsch, Robin Johannsen, Benno Schachtner / Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, René Jacobs [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2020 ] The collaboration of the poet John Dryden and Henry Purcell marked a conspicuous leap forward for English opera. Their greatest project, King Arthur, is a five-act dramatick opera, the text of which had its origins in a patriotic musical play Dryden... |
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MOZART
Mozart W.A.-The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) (Complete Opera) Stader-Streich-Otto-Haefliger, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Fricsay [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 2/Sep/2001 ] Classic recordings remastered |
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PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Complete Works For Flute Stathis Karapanos, Jörg Widmann, Konzerthaus Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra [ Ondine / CD - released 3/May/2024 ] This new recording of Paul Hindemith's complete works for flute, featuring Stathis Karapanos and an impressive array of supporting musicians, shows his versatility as a composer. He wrote a sonata for almost every instrument of the orchestra as well... |
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Stefan Engels plays the Seifert organ of St. Matthias, Berlin
Great European Organs Vol. 69 [ Priory / CD - released 21/Nov/2003 ] Recorded on 8th & 9th November 2001 |
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ALEXANDER MOSOLOV
Iron Foundry / Piano Concerto No. 1 / etc Steffen Schleiermacher (piano), Ringela Riemke (cello) & Natalia Pschenitschnikova (soprano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke [ Capriccio / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] Among his contemporary countrymen, the Russian Alexander Mosolov certainly underwent one of the most individual developments. Most of his compositions have remained unknown both in the Soviet Union and abroad, but a single piece has ensured that his... |
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BLOCH / BRIDGE / HOUGH
In The Shadow of War Steven Isserlis (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hugh Wolff / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression." (5 Stars BBC Music) |
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Strauss/Berlin State Opera Orc
Beethoven:symphonies 5 & 7 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] |
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MAX REGER
Reger: Violin Concerto in A / Two Romances Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 11 / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "it's one of [Reger's] most heart-warming works, allowing his intensely lyrical streak free rein...Aided by first-rate orchestral playing, [Zagrosek] finds transparency in Reger's original" BBC Music Five Stars |
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HARTMANN
20TH CENTURY PORTRAITS TATJANA MASURENKO (VIOLA), FRANK-IMMO ZICHNER (PIANO), RUNDFUNK-SINFONIEORCHESTER BERLIN, MAREK JANOWSKI [ CAPRICCIO / SACD ] |
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BARTOK
Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Duke Bluebeard's Castle) / Canata profana Topper, Fischer-Dieskau, Krebs / RIAS Kammerchor / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Ferenc Fricsay [ DG The Originals / CD - released 23/Jul/2004 ] "Fricsay's conducting is like a man possessed, the orchesral playing is utterly magnificent...A quite wonderful disc." - www.musicweb.uk.net |
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WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Torsten Kerl, Kate Aldrich, Camilla Nylund / Sebastian Lang-Lessing (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "…spectacularly thanks to brilliant pseudo-historic footage in the style of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda films…The production is a knockout." The Sunday Times |
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Tortelier/Cappone/Berlin Po
Strauss: Don Quixote [ Testament / CD - released 24/Feb/2003 ] |
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Trojahn/Deutsches So Berlin
Pettersson: Symphony No.6 [ Cpo / CD ] |
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MAX BRUCH
Works for Violin and Orchestra Ulf Wallin (violin) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Okko Kamu [ BIS SACD / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] A highly versatile musician, Ulf Wallin has recorded a succession of discs for BIS, including music by Schoenberg, Schnittke, Janacek and Hindemith. Lately he has focussed on Romantic composers, resulting in an acclaimed recording of Schumann's... |
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Spontini,
Olympie Varady, Fischer-Dieskau, Toczyska, Tagliavini, Fortune, Becker; RSO Berlin, Albrecht [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 11/Aug/1987 ] |
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MACHALA / MEDAGLI / BARBER / CARTER / VILLA-LOBOS / etc
Summer Music Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, with Nigel Shore (cor anglais) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No.8 in C minor Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Testament / 2 CD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] Giulini's haunting interpretations of Bruckner with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra still linger in the memory. On 11 and 12 February 1984 he conducted his Symphony No.8. According to Klaus Geitel (Berliner Morgenpost on 14 February), Giulini's... |
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Hodges, Nicolas / Kalitzke, Johannes / Berlin Symphony Orchestra ao.
Mundry, Isabel / Mochizuki, Misato ao. - 40. Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt 2000 [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |