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CESAR FRANCK / GABRIEL FAURE / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Josef Suk Plays Josef Suk (violin) Josef Hala (piano) [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/1996 ] Recorded at the Domovina Studio in Prague, September 1994 |
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DEBUSSY / DVORAK / JANACEK / BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / SUK / etc
Early Recordings [6 CD set] Josef Suk (violin) with various orchestras & accompanists [ Supraphon / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2012 ] On the morning on 7 July 2011 the agencies brought the sad news that one of the legends of 20th century music had passed away. Josef Suk ranks among the most accomplished violinists of the epoch. When he launched his artistic career, he was gifted... |
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LEOPOLD KOŽELUCH
Kozeluch: Cantata for the Coronation of Leopold II, "Hail to the Monarch" Kristýna Vylíčilová (soprano), Tomáš Kořínek, Josef Moravec (tenors), Filip Dvořá k (harpsichord) Martinů Voices & Prague Symphony, Marek Štilec [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2018 ] The coronation of Leopold II in Prague in 1791 came at a difficult time for European monarchs, although Leopold himself enjoyed a reputation as an enlightened ruler. Two musical works were commissioned for the occasion: Mozart's opera La clemenza di... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / W. A. MOZART
Lisa Della Casa sings Handel & Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Roberta Peters (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Heinrich Hollreiser, Josef Krips, Ka [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] Among the legendary opera singers of the post-war era was Lisa Della Casa, one of the few internationally known musical stars produced by the little country of Switzerland, and a member of the exceptional Mozart ensemble built up by the Vienna State... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies No 94 'Surprise', 92 'Oxford', 104 'London', 99 (with symphonies by Schubert & Mendelssohn) London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Josef Krips [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "This remains the best available version of Haydn's splendid Symphony No. 99 in E flat" (Gramophone) |
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BRAHMS / SCHUMANN
Symphonies 1 & 4 (recorded 1950 - 1957) London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Josef Krips [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "An extremely fine performance in many ways with plenty of weight and sense of purpose. The playing of the Vienna Philharmonic is both sensitive and splendidly alive." (Reissue of the Month Gramophone August 2011) |
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Richard Wa
Der fliegende Holländer, Ludwig Weber, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Elisabeth Schärtel, Josef Traxel Hermann Uhde [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] |
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Bruckner,
Motetten Masková, Zbytovská, Nacházel, Uherek, Seiler, Votova, Ksica, Prager Kammerchor; Josef Pancik [ ORFEO / CD - released 9/Oct/1995 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Favourite Ballads of Yesteryear Peter Dawson, Josef Locke, Joan Hammond, Richard Tauber, Webster Booth, Father Sydney McEwan, etc [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] 24 Classic tracks - 'The Floral Dance', 'All in the April Evening', 'The Yeomen of England', 'Bless This House' & many others. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) (complete opera recorded in 2003) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Simon Keenlyside / Dorothea Roschmann / Will Hartmann / Diana Damrau / Franz-Josef Selig / Sir Colin Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 24/Oct/2003 ] G :- "This production by David McVicar has been rightly lauded, and with such a cast of singers and sound quality to match, I urge you to take advantage of a first-rate venture." -CLASSICWEB |
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W.A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) (complete opera recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Simon Keenlyside / Dorothea Roschmann / Will Hartmann / Diana Damarau / Franz-Josef Selig / Sir Colin Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "Diana Damrau's supremely sung Queen of the Night oozes class, while Simon Keenlyside's profoundly human, touchingly sympathetic view of Papageno deserves an Olivier Award." (Classic FM) |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / EDVARD GRIEG / FREDERIC CHOPIN / CARL MARIA von WEBER
Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls, Vol. 3 (1905-1926) Artur Schnabel, Ferruccio Busoni, Xaver Scharwenka, Josef Hofmann, and others at the player piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 3/May/2004 ] As must be expected of a story that begins in Germany before one war and ends after another, this is a tale of triumph and tragedy, of glory and despair. The contraption known as the Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano was a product of man's better nature... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (complete opera) Christian Gerhaher, Magdalena Kožená, Bernarda Fink, Franz-Josef Selig / London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live SACD + BLU-RAY AUDIO / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 6/Dec/2017 ] "Rattle maintains both a clear pulse in individual scenes and a through line which positively celebrates Debussy's and Maeterlinck's radical intercutting of scenes of varied physical and emotional locations in the central acts." Gramophoe |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Semiramide (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Vlaamse Opera Antwerpi / Myrtò Papatanasiu, Ann Hallenberg, Josef Wagner, Robert McPherson, Igor Bakan / Alberto Zedda (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/May/2016 ] "The singer's unfailing musicality and sincerity offer much pleasure..Zedda's speeds are well judged." (International Record Review) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (Complete opera recorded 1953) Theo Adam (bass) Hans Braun (baritone) Josef Greindl (bass) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) / Bayreuth Festival / Joseph Keilberth [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 3 CD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] "for this price and with this quality of transfer, the Naxos stands alone." (MusicWeb June 2005) |
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J. S. BACH
St Matthew Passion Ian Bostridge, Franz-Josef Selig, Sibylla Rubens, Andreas Scholl / Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/1999 ] |
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VERDI
The Best of Verdi Volume 1 CSR Symphony Orchestra, Miriam Gauci, Thomas Harper, Monika Krause, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Aida Ferrarini, Josef Abekl, Robert Szuos, etc [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The very best of Verdi collected from the vast Naxos catalogue. |
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WAGNER
Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 1967) Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Gustav Neidlinger, Ludmilla Dvoráková / Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Karl Böhm [ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "a performance dominated by conductor and orchestra. You will never hear so much detail of the orchestral score in the opera-house...with Böhm at his most incandescent, the Immolation must rank as one of the noblest accounts of this music ever record |
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JAKUB JAN RYBA
Czech Christmas Mass - Missa Pastoralis Vladimir Dolezal / Josef Ksica / Pavla Ksicova / Vaclav Sibera / Dagmar Vankatova / Czech Madrigalists Orchestra & Choir / Frantisek Xaver Thuri [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] Czech Madrigalists Orchestra, Czech Madrigalists Choir, Frantisek Xaver Thuri |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A - Z of Pianists [300 biographies & selected recordings] Vladimir Horowitz, Ferruccio Busoni, Sergei Rachmaninov, Josef Lhevinne, Clara Haskill, etc [ Naxos Educational / 4 CD/Book - released 1/Feb/2010 ] The A-Z of Pianists surveys the lives, careers and recordings of 300 pianists. Illustrious names from past and present, forgotten titans of the keyboard, unsung geniuses. |