TCHAIKOVSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH / PAGANINI / SIBELIUS / BACH / MENDELSSOHN / BARTOK / etc
The Art of Midori Midori (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, with Robert McDonald (piano) [ Sony Classical / 10 CD Box Set - released 26/May/2017 ] "A very grand performance, full of swaggering confidence and interpretative panache..Strongly recommended for anyone fancying this coupling." (Gramophone on the Tchaikosvky/Shostakovich) |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Tchaikovsky / Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Midori (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Claudio Abbado [ Sony Classical / CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/1989 ] Midori Goto, born October 25, 1971) who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist. She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982. |
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 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Waldbuhne in Berlin 1994 - A Night of Dances and Rhapsodies Mikhail Rudy (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons [ Arthaus / Kultur / DVD - released 7/Sep/2010 ] |
BEETHOVEN / HONEGGER / MAHLER / PROKOFIEV / SIBELIUS / etc
Karajan & The Berliner Philharmoniker Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, etc / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "The performance is both grand and fiery, powerful and committed." - Records and Recording (on the Beethoven 9th) |
Wellesz, E
Die Bakchantinnen Mohr, Burt, Stamm, Alexander, Barainsky, Breedt; Aschenbach, Gottschick, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Deutsches Symphonieorchest [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2002 ] |
Monkemeyer/Berlin Rso/Andreesc
Berger: Viola Concerto/Symphon [ Cpo / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] |
Ennio Morricone / The Berlin Rundfunk Orchestra
Morricone Conducts Morricone [ Umbrella Entertainment / DVD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] G: |
TCHAIKOVSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH / GLAZUNOV
Tchaikovsky / Shostakovich / Glazunov: Cello Works Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Leningrad Philharmonic [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] "charismatic accompaniments by the splendid Leningrad Philharmonic under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Rostropovich is nothing if not a larger-than-life cellist … The sound is excellent" (Gramophone) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Prokofiev & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos Nareh Arghamanyan (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Alain Altinoglu [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "Arghamanyan's characterful yet non-idiosyncratic reading may be enthusiastically endorsed. She captures that protean work's playful classicism and its mournful ruminative side." BBC Music |
FRANZ LEHAR
Symphonic Lehar (3 CDs of Symphonic works plus bonus CD of piano sonatas) NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Klauspeter Seibel / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Michail Jurowski [ CPO / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "Excellent interpretations." (The Gramophone) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Also sprach Zarathustra / Don Juan / Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils New York Philharmonic / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Staatskapelle Dresden / Giuseppe Sinopoli [ DG Entrae / CD - released 6/Oct/2003 ] Entrée is a new reduced-price series offering a basic library of essential repertoire. It seeks to present classical music through some of the most popular repertoire and best known artists in the DG catalogue. |
MOZART / REINECKE / RODRIGO
Harp Concertos Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) / Berlin Philharmonic / Ernst MANrzendorfer [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 22/Aug/2001 ] "This is an attractive work, Zabaleta's performance is an outstanding one, and is truthfully recorded. If the couplings are suitable this is a highly recommendable disc." (Penguin Guide on the Reinecke) |
SHOSTAKOVICH / WEINBERG / LUTOSLAWSKI
Shostakovich / Weinberg / Lutoslawski: Cello Concertos Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) / Deutsches Symfonie-Orchester Berlin, Michal Nesterowicz [ Channel Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] "Shostakovich's flamboyant 1959 work is a classic, arguably the greatest cello concerto of the 20th century, which Alstaedt plays with easy bravura; and there's classy participation from Berlin's great DSO under a Polish conductor." (Sunday Times) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Concertos for Two Violins [2003 recording] Nigel Kennedy (violin) Daniel Stabrawa (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ EMI / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos / Concerto for oboe and violin / Concerto for two violins in D minor Nigel Kennedy (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, with Albrecht Mayer (oboe). [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "Charismatic Bach playing from Kennedy and the strings of the BPO in performances that are built on live concerts." (Gramophone) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies / Piano Concertos / Overtures / Haydn Variations Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Berlin Philharmonic & Royal Concertgebouw orchestras, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 17/Oct/2016 ] "The Berlin Philharmonic plays beautifully throughout, sounding in these 1996-97 recordings like its old, distinctive self" ClassicsToday |
HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRUCKNER / etc
The Symphony Collection Royal Concertgebouw, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Berlin Philharmonic, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2009 ] "Under Harnoncourt the music's gently descending lines truly glow [in the Third], distinctively but never conspicuously, and the gradual 'dying away' is beautifully handled" (Gramophone) |
BRUCH / TCHAIKOVSKY
Ning Feng plays Bruch & Tchaikovsky Ning Feng (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [ Channel SACD / CD - released 3/Feb/2014 ] After two very successful solo discs it was time for Ning Feng to move on and record two beautiful pieces for solo violin and orchestra. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Ivan The Terrible Olga Borodina (mezzo), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staats-und Domchor Berlin, Tugan Sokhiev [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Oratorio for Alto, Bass, Boys' Choir, Choir & Orchestra based on the original Film score (1942-44) |