WEBER
Weber: Der Freischutz (complete opera recorded in 1996) Luba Orgonasova, Endrik Wottrich, Matti Salminen, Christine Schäfer, Gilles Cachemaille / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker, Nikolaus Harn [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] 1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die (1801-1850) "The recording is exemplary." (Alan Blyth, The Daily Telegraph) |
BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto (with Brahms - Double Concerto) Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) Pierre Fournier (cello) Gaza Anda (piano) / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Ferenc Fricsay [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 19/Apr/2005 ] "Worth investigation if you need a top-class performance of the Triple Concerto." (Gramophone) |
WAGNER
Wolfgang Windgassen sings Wagner Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) / Bamberger Symphoniker / MAnchner Philharmoniker / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [ Deutsche Grammophon Spotlight / CD - released 19/Mar/2007 ] To this day Wagner presents special challenges to every singer, and natural Wagner interpreters are rare. One such was the unforgettable Wolfgang Windgassen, the leading postwar Heldentenor, who sang all the major tenor roles - from Rienzi,... |
VIVALDI / MARCELLO & OTHERS
Concerto - Venice: The Golden Age Xenia Löffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Aug/2014 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2015 - Concerto / Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Baroque Instrumental |
C.P.E. BACH
C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos Xenia Löffler (oboe), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Hamonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Mingling athletic precision and devil-may-care abandon, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin relish the music's seething energy and harmonic and dynamic shocks" - Gramophone Award 2020 Short List - Concerto |
HINDEMITH
Complete Viola Works Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hans Graf [ Myrios SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "Zimmermann's first volume of a complete survey immediately takes its place among the very best, not least for the warmer, woodier tone that she produces and puts to such musically penetrating use." (Five Stars) Finalist BBC Music Magazine Awards |