More By Artist: Simone
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Au Revoir Simone
Still Night Still Light [ Moshi Moshi / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] |
LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: From The House of The Dead (complete opera) Bayerische Staatsoper / Peter Rose, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Aleš Briscein, Charles Workman / Simone Young (cond) [ Bel Air DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "The cast is large and too numerous to acknowledge everyone, and there are no weak links. Bo Skovhus scores another career highlight as Šiškov and makes almost a mini-opera of his long scene." Five Stars OperaNow |
LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: From The House of The Dead (complete opera) BLU-RAY Bayerische Staatsoper / Peter Rose, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Aleš Briscein, Charles Workman / Simone Young (cond) [ Bel Air Blu-ray / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Death is never far away in Leo Janáeks work : in The Cunning Little Vixen, the main character falls under the fire of a hunter, Katia Kabanova kills herself, Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case has to deal with the hard consequences of eternal youth.... |
BRETT DEAN
Composer and performer Brett Dean (viola) / Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Simone Young / Hugh Wolff [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "The concerto has plenty of good ideas - a brief, meditative introduction, a vivid hunt of soloist by orchestra, and finally a dank reverie, the elegiac quality of which is suffused with quasi-expressionist angst. Curiously beautiful, somewhat... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K492 [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera) [plus Blu-ray audio] Fanie Antonelou, Christian van Horn, Simone Kermes, Andrei Bondarenko / MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis [ Sony Classics / 4 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Aug/2017 ] "Currentzis's cast has a character and blend of its own. A premium has been put on crackling recitative, deft vocalisation (limited vibrato) and dramatic truthfulness: the sense of ensemble is palpable." Financial Times, 14th February 2014 *****t |
PONCHIELLI
Concertos Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet) Simone Sommerhalder (oboe) Roland Froscher (euphonium) / Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin, Matthius Foremny [ MDG / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "The music itself is all appealingly wrought and displays an almost extravagant level of melodic fecundity. Don't expect the sweeping, veristic style of La Gioconda, however...The soloists are all excellent. Giuliano Sommerhalder's clear, open tone... |
PONCHIELLI
Trumpet Concertos / Gran Capriccio for Oboe / Concertos for Euphonium Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet) / Simone Sommerhalder (oboe) / Roland Fröscher (euphonium) / Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin / Matthias Foremn [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/May/2011 ] "Magnificent playing..especially by brand-spanking new Principal Trumpeter of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, 26-year-old Giuliano Sommerhalder, whose astounding technique redounds in every bar, and who approaches this music with a real... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola (complete opera recorded in 2009) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Florez, Bruno De Simone / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Decca Music Group DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Oct/2012 ] Tenor superstar, Juan Diego Flórez, adds the role of Prince Ramiro in Rossini's sparkling comedy 'La Cenerentola', to his rapidly growing catalogue of performances on Decca DVD. Taking the title role in one of Rossini's most popular operas is one... |
DONIZETTI
Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2007) Grand Theatre de Geneve / Patrizia Ciofi / Simone Alaimo / Norman Shankle / Evelino Pido (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] G : - "Donizetti's final comic masterpiece dmands velocity, pathos and above all wit. This Don Pasquale from Geneva has them all, and with Evelino Pidò conducting in the pit, it bubbles with excitement." BBC Music Magazine DVD Choice - May 2008 |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Hamburg Philharmonic, Simone Young [ Oehms Classics / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] It is a bold undertaking indeed nowadays to launch a Bruckner cycle in SACD quality. Dieter Oehms, together with Simone Young and the Hamburg Philharmonic, have succeeding it bringing it off! The climax of this extraordinarily fruitful and congenial... |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No 0 Hamburg Philharmonic, Simone Young [ Oehms Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "[Young] presides over a conscientious, deeply considered reading, beautifully played by her Hamburg orchestra" (Gramophone) |
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WILLIAM YOUNG
An Englishman Abroad: Works for Viola da Gamba Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert [ CPO / CD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] |
ANONYMOUS / FROBERGER / LEOPOLD I / SCHMELZER / etc
Felix Austria: Works for Viola da Gamba Consort Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert [ CPO / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] A disc of Viola da Gamba music from the Habsburg Court. |
ELGAR
The Very Best Of Elgar Jenö Jandó (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Maria Kliegel (cello), Peter Donohoe (piano), Simone Lamsma (violin), Yurie Miura (piano), NZSO [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] From raucous marches to private enigmas, the music of Elgar represents, for many, the ultimate symbol of England in the early 20th century, contrasting royal ceremonies with intimate family gatherings. This 2-CD set features Elgar's most frequently... |
FRANCK
Sonata for Violin and Piano / Three chorals for organ Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano), Simone Riniker (violin) & David Riniker (violoncello) [ MDG / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "This is an intriguing release, mainly for the arrangement of César Franck's wonderful Sonata for violin and piano as a piano trio. This is a work which exists in duo versions with flute and for cello, and it was a liking for certain passages in the. |
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Lady Sings the Blues Volume 2 [ EMI / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Feuersnot, Op. 50 Lars Woldt, Simone Schneider, Arabella Wäscher, Monica Mascus, Wilhelm Schwinghammer / Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Ulf [ CPO / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] Just after the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss's birth, cpo are releasing a concert performance of his rarely performed sung poem "Feuersnot" under the baton of Ulf Schirmer. The satirist Ernst von Wolzogen, who wrote the libretto for this... |
ERMENEGILDO del CINQUE
Del Cinque - Sonatas for Three Cellos Ludovico Minasi; Cristina Vidoni; Teodoro Baù; Simone Vallerotonda; Andrea Buccarella [ Arcana / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] "It's all immensely elegantly shaped and dispatched, simultaneously understated and brimming with different shapes and shades of tone colouring and articulation." Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2022 |
PAGANINI
Music for Guitar and Viola Luigi Attademo (guitar) & Simone Gramaglia (viola) [ Brilliant Classics / CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Although Paganini is mainly regarded as a super virtuoso on the violin (achieving a pop star status in his time) and composer for his instrument of concertos of the highest difficulties, he composed a substantial oeuvre of chamber music for a... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Bruno de Simone, Francesca Longari, Anna Maria Chiuri, Dave Monaco / Valerio Galli (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Aug/2021 ] "Bruno de Simone is an amiable, bespectacled Schicchi who could win anyone around with his mellow voice and floral shirt. He sparks off nicely against Anna Maria Chiuri, an unusually young 'vecchia' Zita, who brings a welcome vocal freshness" BBC Mus |
