National De Belgique/Franck
Rautavaara: Book Of Visions [ Ondine / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] |
CHABRIER
Espana / Suite Pastorale / Gwendoline Overture / etc Orchestre National de France, Armin Jordan [ Warner Apex / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] |
National Head Band
Albert 1 [ CD ] |
MARTINU
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 1 Lorenzo Gatto (violin) / National Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Weller has a natural feel of the swaying gait of Martinu's individual rhythmic language and his conducting, allied to fine orchestral playing and exceptionally good sound, certainly makes an impact." (Gramophone) |
PROKOFIEV
Symphonies 1 - 7 Orchestre National de France, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Erato Prokofiev Edition / 4 CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] "Undoubtedly the most accomplished among these performances are those of the Second and Fifth Symphonies. The Fifth was the earliest of the recordings to be made (October 1985) and is in many ways the most impressive. The woodwind voices are... |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Spellbound: - Classic Film Scores of Miklos Rozsa National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] Miklos Rozsa already had a promising career as a composer in the concert hall when he started writing movie scores in the mid-1930s. By the end of that decade, he was working on the most expensive movie being made in England, and by the end of the... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The 3 Ballets (Swan Lake / Nutcracker / Sleeping Beauty) National Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Decca Records / 6 CD - released 10/Jun/2000 ] All the famous Tchaikovsky Ballets under one roof! |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Aschenbradel, Ritter Pasman, Le Beau Danube (Ballets) National Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 11/Jul/2002 ] "The orchestra plays with enthusiasm and the 1974 sound is strikingly vivid." *** (Three Stars) Penguin Stereo Guide |
PUCCINI
Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1978) Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] "The great merit of this new version of Tosca...is that the stage picture is so clear, with the words sharply audible from beginning to end...Pavarotti makes an unusually positive and bright-eyed Cavaradossi, by no means the cipher this character can |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Symphony No. 5, Op. 76 / Sinfonietta No. 1, Op. 41 National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gabriel Chmura [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] '...Gabriel Chmura has a demostrable feel for the fine-honed intensity which chracterizes Weinberg's thinking. On the basis of its first instalment, the, this traversal of his symphonies is set to be a rewarding one.' International Record Review |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Symphonies Nos 14 and 16 National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice / Gabriel Chmura (cond) [ Chandos / CD - released 22/Oct/2006 ] 'This third volume of Gabriel Chmura's Weinberg cycle features two single-movement symphonies from the years of after Shostakovich's death. Each one is out of the top drawer… Here [in the Fourteenth] and in the Sixteenth, the Polish orchestra do... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Symphony No. 4, Op. 61, Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Op. 47 No. 1, Sinfonietta No. 2, Op. 74 National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice / Gabriel Chmura, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2004 ] "Gabriel Chmura and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra deliver vibrant and committed accounts of the Symphony and the Sinfonietta. Add to this equation Chandos's customary state-of-the-art engineering, and you have a release that deserves... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 10 (Edited Wheeler) National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) Robert Olson, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Feb/2002 ] "Olson's interpretation of Mahler's Symphony No. 10 remains insightful and affectionate, its character sharpened by time and experience." CDNow |
National Rso Ukraine/Williams
Flagello/Rosner [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] |
National S.O Of Ukraine
Brusa: Orchestral Works [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] |
MARTINU
Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 National SO of Ukraine / Arthur Fagen [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2001 ] Naxos records the Martinu Symphonies |
National S.O.Ireland/Leaper
Nielsen:symphonies 1 & 6 [ Naxos / CD ] |
National S.O.Ireland/Saccani
Respighi:ancient Airs & Dan [ Naxos / CD ] |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 Ireland National Symphony Orchestra, Reinhard Seifried [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Mar/1997 ] "Seifried draws refined playing from the Irish orchestra in readings with few idiosyncrasies." - Gramophone |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Syms.1 & 2/Dreams National S.O.Ukraine/Kuchar [ Naxos / CD ] |