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ANTON BRUCKNER / MICHAEL HAYDN
Anton Bruckner & Michael Haydn: Motets MDR Leipzig Radio Choir Philipp Ahmann [ Pentatone / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] TWO MASTERS OF AUSTRIAN CHURCH MUSIC COMBINED The MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and its chief conductor Philipp Ahmann present motets by Anton Bruckner and Michael Haydn. While Bruckner's Locus iste, Christus factus est and Ave Maria enjoy great... |
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EUGEN D'ALBERT
Symphony in F major / Tiefland, Op. 34 MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra / Jun Markl [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Feb/2013 ] The ambitious Symphony in F major is d'Albert's single work in this form, showing him as a gifted composer in the tradition of Brahms. |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Symphony in C Major / Symphony in E MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Although he is best known for his innovative operas and iconic music dramas, Richard Wagner maintained a keen interest in symphonic composition throughout his career. Written in his late teens and early twenties, these two symphonies stand as a... |
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FAURE / DURUFLE
Requiems Miah Persson (soprano) Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano) Olle Persson (baritone) / Swedish Radio Choir / Fredrik malmberg (conductor) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] Musical settings of the Mass for the Dead have a tendency to dwell on the dramatic high points of the day of judgement and the trumpets of doom (Dies irae and Tuba mirum) – partly for the reason that they really are dramatic high points. |
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ANDERS ELIASSON
Quo Vadis for Tenor, Choir and large Orchestra Michael Weinius (tenor) / Swedish Radio Choir / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Johannes Gustavsson [ CPO Records / CD - released 10/Aug/2011 ] The Swedish composer Anders Eliasson is one of the great nonconformists in the world of contemporary music. |
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PETER EOTVOS
DoReMi / Cello Concerto Grosso / Speaking Drums Midori, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Martin Grubinger Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] "The first of these three concertos was not only written for Midori, but playfully takes the (adjusted) syllables of her name as a quasi-tone row from which to concoct a tripartite argument." (Sunday Times) |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Capriccio & Octuor Mikko Franck; Nathalia Milstein; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] After Franck, Debussy and Strauss, Mikko Franck and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France here continue their collaboration with Alpha Classics, this time with the spotlight on Igor Stravinsky. The programme begins with two pieces from his... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 Peter Mikulas (bass) / Czech Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] "The orchestral playing is outstanding" Classics CD |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (highlights from the opera) Miriam Gauci (soprano) / Kaludi Kaludov (tenor) / Henk Lauwers (bass) / Vincente Sardinero (baritone) / Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic / [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "This 68 minutes of excerpts from Puccini's first great success is an excellent introduction to the opera. We get most of the music for Manon and Des Grieux in Act 1, Manon's second act aria and the big duet, the beautiful Intermezzo (rather... |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Fantasia appassionata / Ballade and Polonaise / Fantaisie-Caprice / Greeting to America Misha Keylin (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "The recorded sound (from 2008 except for the Ballade from 2002) sets the violin in a respectable balance with the orchestra. Recommended, accordingly, to all types of listeners." (Fanfare Nov 2010) |
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Moscow Radio
Fine: Blue Towers [ Delos / CD ] |
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MIKHAIL GLINKA
"Kamarinskaya" Orchestral Dances Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Ermler, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Konstantin Ivanov [ Alto / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "almost 80 minutes of Russian-sourced dance music by Glinka and all in vivacious, colourful and spatially well-upholstered recordings. Ballet recordings conducted by Ermler are already well known. Here we are treated to the pointedly delicate, airily... |
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NIKOLAJ RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Russian Symphonies Moscow Radio Symphone / Columbia Symphony / CBC Symphony / Boris Khanin (conductor) [ Praga Digitals SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/Aug/2017 ] Master and pupil? A youthful venture on the part of Rimsky-Korsakov while a naval officer, his first symphony deploys fine rhetoric, worthy of Haydn's 'military' model incorporating contemporary material. His 'cadet' applies himself studiously. After... |
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ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: Symphony no.8, Raymonda (excerpts), Finnish Fantasy, etc Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra USSR TV & Radio Grand Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov [ Alto / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] 'Every time I listen to a Glazunov symphony I think, why isn't this more often performed? The sound is gorgeous and we set out with good symphonic material, so that the ear is captured and one's mind engaged" Gramphone |
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BORIS TCHAIKOVSKY
Sebastopol Symphony / Music for Orchestra / The Wind of Siberia Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] The works on this disc represent some of Boris Tchaikovsky's finest orchestral music, and the release marks the start of a mini-series of Boris Tchaikovsky historical recordings which will feature some major Russian artists. |
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ALLA PAVLOVA
Elegy / Symphony No. 5 Moscow Radio Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Ziva [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "The recording is bright and forward in the usual Naxos style. The orchestral playing of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio is accomplished enough. It's good to hear that the former Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in its new guise and... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphonies Nos 38 Prague, 39, 40, 41 Jupiter Mozart Akademie Amsterdam under Jaap ter Linden [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major / Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491 Julian Trevelyan (piano) / ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien; Christian Zacharias [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] For the fourth volume in this collection dedicated to Mozart concertos by the younger generation of performers, the Orpheum Foundation and Alpha Classics present the Concertos nos. 23 and 24 (K488 & 491) performed by the British pianist Julian... |
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Munich Radio Orch/Schirmer
Lehar: Das Furstenkind [ Cpo / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] |
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EDWARD GRIEG / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos (Rec 1989) Murray Perahia (piano) / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Murray Perahia's 1987 Schumann and Grieg concertos with Colin Davis remain the most recommendable digitally recorded pairing of these war-horses, and they bloom even more via Sony's Expanded Edition remastering." (ClassicsToday) |