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BAPTISTE TROTIGNON
Trotignon: Concerto pour Piano "Different Spaces", with other solo piano works Baptiste Trotignon (piano) & Nicholas Angelich (piano) / Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Paul Daniel [ Naive / CD - released 24/Sep/2015 ] "Trotignon's stylish score communicates strongly and without artifice, and it could hardly be more eloquently served than it is here by its thoughtful dedicatee, who in turn receives irreproachably alert backing from the Bordeaux orchestra under Paul... |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No. 2 / November Woods Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "...this recording has a physical impact and emotional involvement that genuinely compel. A veritable blockbuster." Gramophone |
CHRISTOPHER GUNNING
Gunning: Symphonies 2, 10 & 12 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kenneth Woods (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Christopher Gunning has composed twelve symphonies, as well as concertos for the piano, violin, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and guitar; many of these have now been recorded. He has also composed many scores for films and television... |
JOHN PICKARD
Pickard: Sixteen Sunrises & Symphony No. 5 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins [ BIS / CD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] "The music fair kidnaps the listener's attention at the outset and does not random it until the gripping, wholly satisfying close...The performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is stunning in its virtuosity" Gramophone |
KORNGOLD / THOMAS / GOUNOD / MASSENET / BRITTEN / WAGNER
Bo Skovhus sings Arias Bo Skovhus (baritone) / English National Opera Orchestra, James Conlon [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Apr/1997 ] Bo Skovhus studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, at the Royal Academy for Opera of Copenhagen and in New York with Oren Brown. |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mussorgsky: The Nursery, Sunless & Songs and Dances of Death plus eight other songs (recorded 1955-7) Boris Christoff (bass) Alexandre Labinsky, piano, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise / Georges Tzipine [ EMI Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] "The Mussorgsky songs constitute a complete world in themselves, and they cast a strong spell: their range is enormous and their insight into the human condition deep. Christoff was at the height of his vocal powers when he made this set" Rosette:... |
BIZET / BERLIOZ / DEBUSSY / MUSSORGSKY / RAVEL / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Andre Cluytens Boris Christoff (bass) / National Opera of Sofia / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra, André [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2018 ] Great Conductors of the 20th Century is a joint venture between the production and licensing expertise of IMG Artists and the international marketing and distribution clout of EMI. Sixty volumes were planned with hopes for even more. Unfortunately,... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Etudes-tableaux Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Aug/2017 ] "Giltburg certainly has something fresh to say in Rachmaninov's Second Concerto...and he says it elegantly and eloquently...one of the most appealing aspects of this performance is its grand trajectory." Gramophone Editor's Choice |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Nos 4 saisons [Four Seasons] Camille & Julie Berthollet (violin, cello, voice, piano) / String Ensemble of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse [ Warner Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] "We are so excited and thrilled to finally reveal this project, which we have been imagining and developing for months... «Nos 4 saisons», our four seasons! We heard The Four Seasons for the first time before we even knew how to talk, and the sound... |
SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
Berkeley: Piano Concerto,Op. 29 in B flat major / Berkeley, Michael-Gethsemane Fragment; Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila, Op. 27 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto) Celia Craig (cor anglais) Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Richard Hickox [ Chandos Berkeley Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] "This eloquent father-and-son series restores the scintillating concerto." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2005) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Idomeneo (complete opera) Christian Elsner / Kristina Hammarström / Henriette Bonde-Hansen / Raffaella Milanesi / Danish National Choir / Danish Radio Sinfonietta Adam Fischer [ DACAPO SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] fleet-footed orchestral playing and strong, characterful soloists...Elsner captures the conflict raging within the Lear-like Idomeneo and demonstrates some fiendish coloratura...Fischer understands this opera deeply and presents it as a convincing... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Op 41 The National Academic Choir of the Ukraine 'Dumka' / Yevhen Savchur [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] After their successful recording of Rachmaninov' s Vespers the Dumka Choir made a new recording of Tchaikovsky's masterwork the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, in which he captures the spirit of the Russ. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 / Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 Clifford Curzon (piano) / National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel, Enrique Jorda [ Dutton Concert Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/1998 ] "I found myself listening spellbound to Curzon's playing. This is the Curzon who, at the age of 39, was only now emerging into the full light of an international career after a long and inspiring apprenticeship with such a teacher as Arthur Schnabel" |
FRIEDRICH KUHLAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kuhlau: Overtures Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] Kuhlau was born on 11 September 1786 just south of Lüneburg in the Uelzen district of Lower Saxony (Germany). At the age of seven, he lost his right eye when he slipped on ice and fell. His father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even... |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 2 "The 4 Temperaments" & 3 "Sinfonia espansiva" Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michael Schonwandt [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "This, then, is a real bargain and the best way to have these symphonies at a very affordable cost. Indeed, I would recommend them at any price!" (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month July 2008) |
LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA
Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero Anna Maria Chiuri, Michael Nagy, Stephan Rugamer, Adam Riis / Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Opera |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Complete Symphonies, Ovetures, Haydn Variations, Violin Concerto, Requiem & Alto Rhapsody David Oistrakh, Christa Ludwig, Elizabeth Schwarkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion, Otto [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Klemperer and Brahms had much in common, which may go some way to explaining the empathy with which Klemperer conducts the works of the composer. Richard Osborne says 'no detail was insignificant, yet none was allowed to subvert the larger whole'. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (complete opera) Mireille Delunsch, Gerard Theruel, Armand Arapian, Gabriel Bacquier / Lille National Orchestra & Nord-Pas-de-Calais Chorus, Jean-Claude Casadesus [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "An outstanding bargain" Penguin Guide |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Dialogue Des Carmelites [complete opera recorded in Paris, 1958] Denise Duval, Regine Crespin, Rita Gorr, Denise Scharley, Liliane Berton / Choeurs et Orchestre du Theatre National de l'Opera de Paris / Pierre Derva [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 5/Mar/2012 ] "A classic and irreplaceable recording...Dervaux conducts an inspired, inspiriting account of the work, attentive to both its smaller detail and to its grander, elevated passages, raising the final scene of martyrdom to a proper degree of intensity" |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: 1812 Overture / Capriccio italien / Romeo and Juliet / Marche Slave Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D.C.,Antal Dorati [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 3/Feb/1987 ] Features the classic recording of the 1812 Overture with the real bells and cannons! |
