BARTOK / R. STRAUSS / PUCCINI / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings [1953-1976] Birgit Nilsson, with, Regina Resnik, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jon Vickers, Helen Donath, Walter Berry, etc [ Sony Classics / 31 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2018 ] "Many of these live recordings have been remastered, mostly very adequately, from radio broadcasts, and include samples at least of all her major roles...The casts for some of these performances are the stuff of legend now." The Guardian |
Bruno Walter
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No.7 (with Gluck - Iphigénie en Aulide: Overture) New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ Testament / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Throughout his later decades, Bruno Walter (1876-1962) was considered to be one of the world's most noteworthy Brucknerians. Among his valedictory recordings his most prized are arguably those of Bruckner's Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Symphonies with... |
Bruno Walter
Mahler:das Lied Von Der Erde [ Dutton / CD ] |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 / Overtures (rec 1930-1938) Bruno Walter (Conductor) / London Symphony Orchestra / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 5/Aug/2006 ] "Overall a fine, enlightening performance which it is a privilege to have on the shelves" (MusicWeb April 2007) |
Ludwig van
Egmont-Ouvertüre, Symphonie No. 4 Bruno Walter, Irmgard Seefried, Wiener Philharmoniker [ ORFEO / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Apr/2002 ] 50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 49) - BBC MUSIC "Recorded live in concert just weeks before the Anschluss in 1938, it was known that both Bruno Walter himself and the many Jewish players in the orchestra would soon be forced to leave." BBC |
JOSEF STRAUSS
Edition Vol. 1 (incls Etiquette, Polka francaise, & Wiegenlieder, Walzer) Budapest Strauss Symphony Orchestra / Alfred Walter (conductor) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 28/May/2006 ] "The Moulinet-Polka has just the right combination of charm and forward momentum." - Gramophone |
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / MAHLER / GLUCK / REGER / etc
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics Christa Ludwig (mezzo) with Walter Berry (bass-baritone) Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons, Gerald Moore, Leonard Bernstein (pianos) [ Warner Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2018 ] "I cannot strongly enough recommend this example of perfect Lieder singing, word and tone, and piano accompanying of some of the finest songs ever composed. It is a joy from start to finish." Gramophone on the Schubert Lieder |
MAHLER / BRUCKNER / WAGNER / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / etc
Bruno Walter: The Complete Columbia Album Collection Columbia Symphony, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter, with Rudolf Serkin, Ernst Haefliger, Maureen Forrester, Lily Pons, etc [ Sony Classical / 77 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2019 ] Walter was arguably the most old-world of the many long-lived conductors who were born in the latter part of the 19th century. Indeed, few maestros of any era were so big-hearted and warmly expressive, yet without undo sentimentality. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
German Romantic Overtures CSR Symphony Orchhestra (Bratislava), Alfred Walter [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] |
EMILE WALDTEUFEL
Waldteufel: The Best of Vol 1 (Incls 'Les Patineurs' & 'Estudiantina Waltz') Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Walter [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Emile Waldteufel was born in Strasbourg on 9 December 1837, just seven weeks after the elder Johann Strauss gave his first concert on French soil in that very city. |
WALDTEUFEL
The Best of Vol 4 (Incls 'Zig-zag polka' & 'Solitude Waltz') Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Walter [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Emile Waldteufel was born in Strasbourg on 9 December 1837, just seven weeks after the elder Johann Strauss gave his first concert on French soil in that very city. |
JOHANN STRAUSS JR
Edition Vol. 20 (incls Aurora Ball Tanze Waltz, Flugschriften Waltzer, & Kaiser-Jager Marsch) Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra / Alfred Walter (conductor) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] The Marco Polo Strauss Edition is a milestone in recording history, presenting, for the first time ever, the entire orchestral output of the 'Waltz King'. Despite their supremely high standard of musical invention, the majority of the compositions... |
JOHANN STRAUSS JR
Edition Vol. 23 (incls Deutschmeister-Jubilaumsmarsch, Wien, mein Sinn!, Walzer, & Die Pariserin, Polka francaise) Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra / Alfred Walter (conductor) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] |
JOHANN STRAUSS JR
Edition Vol. 24 (incls Idyllen, Walzer, Lockvogel, Walzer, & So angstlich sind wir nicht!, Polka schnell) Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra / Alfred Walter (conductor) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Phyllida Lloyd's all female Shakespeare: Julius Caesar / Henry IV / The Tempest (recorded 2012-2016) Dame Harriet Walter, and full cast [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this... |
Mozart, Wo
Symphonie g-moll KV 183, Requiem KV 626 della Casa, Malaniuk, Dermota, Siepi, Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Philharmoniker, Walter [ ORFEO / CD - released 26/Jun/1996 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Art Of Alfred Deller: Classic Vanguard Recordings Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupre (lute), Walter Bergman (harpsichord), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) / Deller Consort [ ALTO / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "Alfred Deller's singing is beguiling and timeless. ... Music for a while [is] from a number of songs which exhibit his essential mastery: everything from accuracy of pitching and magical floating phrases to subtlety of colour and expressive... |
W. A. MOZART
4 Horn Concertos / Piano and Wind Quintet (rec 1953, 1955) Dennis Brain (horn) / Walter Gieseking (piano) / Philharmonia Wind Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "This disc is pure joy. At the price, it is almost a crime not to snap it up." Bargain of the Month MusicWeb May 2007 |