More By Artist: Gerard Way
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CHARPENTIER
David & Jonathas (complete) Gérard Lesne, Monique Zanetti, Jean-François Gardeil, Dominique Visse, Véronique Gens / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] Released for the first time in 1988, 'David and Jonathan' is a timely reissue to coincide with Les Arts Florissants' concerts at the Edinburgh Festival, directed by William Christie. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Lieder Recital Gerard Souzay (baritone) with Dalton Baldwin (piano) [ Testament / CD - released 13/Dec/2002 ] Gérard Souzay has complete understanding of the brilliant writingsof Schumann |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise / Schwanengesang Gerard Souzay (baritone) with Dalton Baldwin (piano) [ Testament / 2 CD - released 13/Dec/2002 ] A whole life is encapsulated here; and only by experiencing it can we possibly understand the meaning of vocal simplicity |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Works for Orchestra & Soprano Saxophone Greg Banaszak (saxophone) / Eastern Music Festival Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] Alan Hovhaness's remarkable legacy of 67 symphonies and hundreds of other works stands as a testimony to one of the most individual musical voices of the 20th century. Written when Hovhaness was 25, the Prelude and Quadruple Fugue represents not only... |
JOACHIM NIKOLAS EGGERT
Eggert: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Gérard Korsten [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] "Kraggerud revels in [the Halvorsen's] exuberance and easy melody. His advocacy for the Nielsen is justly famed, Svendsen's Romance an exquisite encore." Sunday Times |
JOACHIM NIKOLAS EGGERT
Eggert: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Gérard Korsten [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Welcomed overwhelmingly on its première, Eggert's largescale First Symphony hints at Mozart and Haydn but foreshadows Mendelssohn in its wind textures and rich harmonies. |
DAVID DIAMOND
Diamond: Symphony No. 1 / Violin Concerto No. 2 / The Enormous Room Ilkka Talvi (Violin) / Seattle Symphony / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 30/Sep/2009 ] "The music's directness and overwhelming sense of nostalgia causes much of the piece to sound like a romantic historical film score. It's all very pleasing…The chamber recording is clear and bright." Classics Today |
Inva Mula, soprano / Valerie Millot, soprano / Claire Brua, mezzo-soprano / Gerard Theruel, baritone / Laurent Naouri, baritone / David Abramovitz, pi
Ravel - Songs for Voice and Piano (Chanson espagnole Noel des jouets Si morne! and others) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] From his father, a Swiss engineer, Ravel inherited a delight in precision and, incidentally, in mechanical toys, while from his Basque mother he acquired a familiarity with something of Spanish culture. |
THIERRY LANCINO
Violin Concerto & Prelude and Death of Virgil Isabelle Faust (violin) Orchestre national de France, Gerard Schwarz / Matteo de Monti (baritone) Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg, Arturo Tamay [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] Lancino writes of his Violin Concerto that his imagination was fired by 'the thought of a little piece of wood (in reality a 1704 Stradivarius), played by Isabelle Faust, confronting a gigantic machine (the full orchestra)'. |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem (with Verdi-Four Sacred Pieces) Janet Baker, Gerard Souzay / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra / Carlo Maria Giulini [ BBC legends / CD - released 27/Jan/2008 ] This 1962 broadcast of a gala occasion at the Royal Festival Hall brings together two of Carlo Maria Giulini's choral specialities, the Fauré Requiem and Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces. |
DAVID DIAMOND
Symphony No. 3; Psalm; Kaddish Janos Starker (cello); Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Sep/2004 ] "Fresh, devoted performances of music fully worthy of continued attention would be a fair reaction to this disc." MusicWeb Sept 2004 |
HINDEMITH
Nobilissima Visione (complete ballet) / 5 Stücke, Op. 44/4 Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2014 ] "Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony prove ideal exponents, capturing the essence of the music in a searing performance, and making the Five Pieces - despite their pedagogical origin - more than a mere filler." (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS
The American Trumpet Jeffrey Silberschlag (trumpet), Deborah Greitzer (bassoon) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] The unique qualities of the American trumpet tradition are celebrated in this wide-ranging disc. From the drama of Leo Eylar's dazzling Dance Suite to the wit of William McKinley's Miniature Portraits, virtuosity and brilliance are assured. |
HONEGGER / LAZAROF
Gerard Schwarz conducts Honegger & Lazarof Jeffrey Silberschlag (trumpet) / Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "The mournful tone of the introduction to the first movement is overwhelming in its description of the oppressiveness of the Occupation. This feeling continues in the Allegro proper and Schwarz and the Seattle strings forcefully convey the movement's... |
W. A. MOZART / SPOHR
Clarinet Concertos Jon Manasse (clarinet) / Seattle Symphony / Gerard Schwarz [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] American clarinetist Jon Manasse delivers a buoyant reading of the clarinet concertos by W.A. Mozart and Ludwig Spohr (the second of four such works). Manasse receives nimble support from the Seattle Symphony led by Gerard Schwarz. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphonia Domestica / Eine Alpensinfonie / Oboe Concerto / Duett-Concertino Jonathan Small (oboe) Nicholas Cox (clarinet) Alan Pendlebury (bassoon) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Avie / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "It is a tribute to the recording that even the most cacophonous climax makes sense, and there is no impression at any time of any loss of detail. What an advert for the RLPO this set is! The cultural life of Liverpool is clearly thriving" (MusicWeb) |
VIVALDI / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BACH / REINECKE / KUHLAU / etc
Flute Favourites Kazunori Seo, Petri Alanko, Béla Drahos, Patrick Gallois, Jean-Claude Gérard, Uwe Grodd, Wolfgang Schulz (flute) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2019 ] From its origins as one of the oldest musical instruments known to man to the sophisticated mechanics and elegant design today, the flute has been highly significant for every culture and historical period. |
HOWARD HANSON
Hanson: Merry Mount, Op. 31 Lauren Flanigan, Walter MacNeil, Richard Zeller / Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Girls' Choir, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] The plot of his 1933 opera, Merry Mount, set in New England in 1625 during a conflict between the Puritans and the Cavaliers, is anything but merry. However, the composer described the music as "warm-blooded…essentially a lyrical work [that] makes... |
PROKOFIEV
Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra in E minor (with Shostakovich-Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 126) Lynn Harrell (cello) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Avie / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] "a generous coupling of two masterworks, both of which are delivered in performances of distinction and personality." (MusicWeb may 2006) |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade / The Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite / Flight of the Bumble Bee Maria Larionoff (violin) / Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 4/May/2011 ] "In this new recording I hear all the good of Ansermet, and more. It is even more powerful, even more beautiful...if I'm asked for my pick, this will be it. It's the best one I've heard." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month June 2011) |
