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GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: The Planets (with Matthews' 'Pluto' and other works) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Rundfunkchor Berlin / Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] "Rattle conducts the [Planets] suite with uncritical gusto, letting the orchestra's lush sheen show... This audacious project is carried by Rattle's flair, and nurtured with the optimal conditions needed to give new works a wider orbit. Watch the... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Beethoven/Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos (Rec 1928 & 1934) Bronislaw Huberman (violin) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Berlin Staatskapelle / George Szell [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "There is no reason to prefer the more expensive issues; Naxos's transfers, effected by David Lennick (Beethoven) and Mark Obert-Thorn (Tchaikovsky) are excellent." - Classical.Net (Raymond Tuttle) |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS
Europakonzert 1994 from Berlin [Recorded live in 2000] BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] New release of the EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc series. The EUROPAKONZERT annually celebrates the founding of the Berlin Philharmonics on 1st May 1882. Recorded at the Staatstheater Meiningen, in the middle of Germany, 5 years after the German... |
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W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 25 Daniel Barenboim (piano & cond) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ Warner Maestro / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic at a special price! |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas & Concertos Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ Warner Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2021 ] In his first recording of the cycle, the young Daniel Barenboim combines clarity of tone with freshness of thought to deliver superlative readings. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dreamtime David Aaron Carpenter (viola) Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ Ondine / CD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] The autumnal mood transfers effectively to an all-string ensemble; the playing is both fluent and sensitively shaped...and Carpenter's blend of mellowness and deftness is colourfully applied to Robert Mann's occasionally Bartokian Dreamtime. |
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W. A. MOZART / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Mozart/Brahms: Violin Concertos Gioconda De Vito (violin) / Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] Violinist Gioconda De Vito was a key figure in the renaissance of Italian string playing after 1945. With her broad phrasing, ample tone and generous vibrato, she excelled in performances of Brahms's Violin Concerto using Joachim's cadenza, as in... |
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MAHLER
Kindertotenlieder (with orchestral works by Mozart & Richard Strauss) [recorded live in 1962] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Boehm [ Testament / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2015 ] "Born in Graz in Austria in 1894, Karl Böhm began his professional career at the Munich Opera working alongside Bruno Walter and Richard Strauss. It was here that he acquired his Mozart style: cogent, balanced, and subtly various. Strauss, in... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Kindertotenlier / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (with Schumann - Liederkreis) (Rec 1952-1955) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe / Gerald Moore (piano [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "Naxos are to be congratulated on this welcome series and the welcome opportunity provided to enjoy these performances again. However, the sound, although lightly and sensitively re-mastered, is still clearly that of a historic recording. …This... |
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BEETHOVEN / WAGNER / FURTWANGLER
Furtwangler Vol. 2: Orchestral Concert (1937-1939) Edwin Fischer (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler (conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "This disc offers a good example of why Wilhelm Furtwängler is regarded by so many good musical judges as a great conductor. These are performances that will grace any collection and I strongly recommend this disc." -- John Quinn, MusicWeb, 4... |
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GRIEG / RAVEL / STRAVINSKY / RICHARD STRAUSS / etc
Dances & Dreams: Gala from Berlin 2011 Evgeny Kissin (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "Where Rattle and company radiate love, Kissin gives us duty. Still, nothing else casts a chill. Hearing the orchestra's splendours, observing the smiles and eye contact, you'd never believe the past stories of turbulence between musicians and conductor." |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem], Op. 45 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Grummer / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] On its first release, this 1955 recording was praised as 'a worthy performance of the work and a well recorded one' by Gramophone, which also commented that 'Elisabeth Grümmer sings her solo with beautiful tone and deep feeling' and 'Fischer-Dieskau... |
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W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (recorded 1937 & 1938) Helge Roswaenge, Tiana Lemnitz, Gerhard Husch, Erna Berger / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historic Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] "These singers, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, come through with unprecedented clarity in this new transfer by the gifted sound engineer Mark Obert-Thorn. The new reissue looks likely to replace them in the hearts of Mozart fans, offering a... |
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SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / LEIMER / BRAHMS
Karajan and his Soloists I (1948-1958 Official Remastered Edition) Walter Gieseking, Hans Richter-Haaser (piano) Dennis Brain (horn) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic,Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue. For... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Itzhak Perlman Edition / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "Perlman's newest digital account of the Brahms finds him at his most commanding, powerful and full of nonchant flair to a degree that no rival today can quite match." *** Three Stars Penguin Guide |
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LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Choral Fantasia (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] "They perform with the most tender expression in the slow movement, and there are fireworks from all three in the last movement" James Longstaffe "That Perlman and Barenboim have made distinguished-nay, superlative!-recordings of the Beethoven... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 3 (with John Barbirolli - Elizabeth Suite) Lucretia West (alto) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ Testament / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2005 ] Recorded 1969 & 1964 |
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ROSSINI / SCHUMANN / SIBELIUS
Europakonzert 2015 from Athens [Recorded live in 2015] BLU-RAY Leonidas Kavakos (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2016 ] The founding of the Berliner Philharmoniker on May 1st, 1882, is celebrated annually in an European city of cultural significance. In 2015 the EUROPAKONZERT took place in Athens' great concert hall, the Megaron, with Leonidas Kavakos joining the... |
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VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
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DVORAK / SMETANA
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 / SMETANA: Moldau (Kleiber) (1927-1948) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Berlin State Opera Orchestra / Erich Kleiber [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] |