More By Artist: B. J. Thomas
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music / Overtures Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] "The performance captures the idea of flitting, frenetic activity in a parallel world, activity we are not sure is entirely benign, yet does so without the ideal gossamer lightness Mendelssohn's writing demands." (The Guardian) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The Symphonies Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 5/Aug/2022 ] It was only after his death that Franz Schubert's symphonic works made an impact in music history. In fact, the first public performance of any of Schubert's symphonies took place at a memorial concert held a few weeks after the composer had passed... |
SCHUMANN
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] 'These performances, including the revelatory first version of the fourth symphony, succeed in providing a genuinely new, and entirely convincing, approach to two familiar works.' BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2008: Orchestral |
DVORAK
Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] "This clearly recorded performance is one to return to even if it does not displace either Kertész or Harnoncourt's classic interpretations." (BBC Music) |
SCHUBERT
Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] BIS releases the next in their 'Opening Doors' series in which Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra make a case for performing 19th-century symphonic works with a chamber ensemble. They have previously recorded Schumann's symphonies as... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No 1 / Hungarian Dances / etc Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] A weighty symphony, swaying Viennese waltzes and fiery Hungarian dances make up the colourful programme when Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra engage with Johannes Brahms in Opening Doors, the team's acclaimed series of Romantic... |
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 / Symphony in G minor / Overtures Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "Schumann with a 'Spring' in his step from the energetic Swedish band" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2008 |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (1877 version) Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Given the excellence of the performance and utter fidelity of the recording. I recommend this disc for the doors it can open on Bruckner's Second Symphony." (Fiev Stars AudAud.com) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No 6 "Pathetique" / Romeo and Juliet Overture Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] The works here come from either end of Tchaikovsky's career and are linked by the tragedy apparent in their endings. |
J.S BACH / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Brandenburg Project: Twelve Concertos The Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard (cond) [ BIS SACD / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Bach's celebrated concertos are joined by new commissions. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No.3 / Alto Rhapsody / etc Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "If some of the rubato and tempos in the Third Symphony don't always feel natural, the sound and phrasing is always stylish." BBC Music |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Symphonies and Overtures Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard, conductor [ BIS SACD / 3 CD Box Set - released 3/Feb/2023 ] During their long collaboration (1997 - 2019) Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra developed a project they named 'Opening Doors', performing orchestral works from the Romantic era with the smaller-than-usual forces of a chamber... |
SCHUBERT
Symphony No 6 in C major, D589 / Incidental music to Rosamunde, D797 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ Bis / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] This is the second disc in an on-going cycle of Schubert's symphonies with the SCO and Thomas Dausgaard, described by BBC Music Magazine described as 'an excitingly combative, and ultimately very plausible new look at Schubert.' |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem / Pelleas et Melisande Suite / Pavane / etc Sylvia McNair, Thomas Allen / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] "Marriner's pacing is ideal, and the clean choral attack is matched by superb singing from Sylvia McNair and Thomas Allen." (Three Stars Penguin Guide) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ERNEST BLOCH
Prokofiev/Bloch -: Violin Concertos (with Bartok - Portrait Op 5 No 1) Joseph Szigeti (violin) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, Charles Munch / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 2/Jun/2003 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Winner |
JEAN-FREY REBEL / FRANCOIS FRANCOEUR
Pirame & Thisbe (complete opera) Thomas Dolie, Judith Van Wanroij, Jeffrey Thompson, Katia Velletaz / Choeur de l'AcadACmie Baroque, Stradivaria / Daniel Cuiller [ Mirare / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2008 ] "The Baroque violinist Daniel Cuiller, making his operatic debut in this recording, brings to life a delightful forgotten Rococo work, full of beguiling instrumental music, compelling monologues… and duets." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
GLAZUNOV / KODALY / KREISLER / LISZT / WIENIAWSKI / etc
Romance oubliée: Tabea Zimmermann Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Thomas Hoppe (piano) [ Myrios SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2015 ] "Zimmermann and Hoppe capture the poetry of these works, in their hands free from sentiment and rich as short stories." (Observer) |
W.A. MOZART / VERDI / CILEA / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / PUCCINI / PEERGOLESI
La Scala Collection: 11 DVD set of the world's most popular operas Teatro alla Scala / Daniela Dessi, Delores Ziegler, Alessandro Corbelli, Mirella Freni, Renato Bruson, Thomas Allen, Samuel Ramey, etc [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade / La Scala Collection / 11 DVD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Soloists include Thomas Allen, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Daniela Dessì, Alessandro Corbelli, Giorgio Zancanaro, Chris Merritt, Cheryl Studer and Sara Mingardo |
MAURICIO SOTELO
Sotelo: El Público (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / José Antonio López, Thomas Tatzl and Jesús Méndez / Pablo Heras-Casado (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Klangforum Wien and the Coro Titular del Teatro Real in this performance of Mauricio Sotelo's opera. Soloists include José Antonio López, Thomas Tatzl and Jesús Méndez. |
W. A.MOZART / JOSEPH HAYDN
Mozart: Coronation Mass K317 / Exsultate Jubilate K165 (plus Haydn Symphony No. 85 "La Reine") Teresa Wakim, Paula Murrihy, Thomas Cooley, Sumner Thompson / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ CORO / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "Christophers draws out plenty of detail, and ensemble and intonation slip only occasionally given that this is a live performance; speeds are brisk" (Gramophone) |
