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BEETHOVEN
Symphony No 7 / Triple Concerto Gordan Nikolitch (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) Lars Vogt (piano) London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink (conductor) [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] "Haitink demands attention from an orchestra, in his telling pauses as much as in the playing itself and the results were revelatory … To experience Haitink conducting is to witness a master at work" Daily Telegraph (UK), 19 November 2005 |
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BRAHMS
Symphony No 2 / Double Concerto Gordan Nikolitch (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ LSO Live / CD - released 15/Jan/2004 ] "Haitink revisits Brahms in these imposing and beautifully shaded new accounts" Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2004) |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera) Gregory Kunde, Laura Claycomb, Darren Jeffery, Andrew Kennedy / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Jun/2008 ] 'Conductor and tenor are the joint heroes of this exhilarating release...Davis remains the supreme Berliozian of our day, brilliantly evoking the mercurial wit of the comic repartee...anyone who doesn't own this fabulous score should snap it... |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 d-Moll op. 125 Gundula Janowitz, Grace Bumbry, Jess Thomas, George London, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Orfeo / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] The well-known "classical" exception to the canon of ten Wagner works that can be performed on the Green Hill goes back to the master himself: it is of course Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The most famous recording of one of the rare Bayreuth... |
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TIPPETT
Triple Concerto / Concerto for Orchestra Gyargy Pauk (violin) Nobuko Imai (viola) Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis [ Philips Awards Collection / CD - released 8/May/2005 ] Gramophone Award Winner: Record of the Year / Concerto Award 1983 |
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HUMMEL
Piano Concerto in E major / Double Concerto Hagai Shaham (piano) / London Mozart Players / Howard Shelley (piano/director) with Hagai Shaham (violin) [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] 'Shelley… is outstanding in this music, synthesizing the classical and romantic elements perfectly.A natural Mozartian, he allies his poise and clarity to a fearless technique, and absorbs Hummels most ostentatious demands into the musical fabric,... |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / SUK / DVORÁK
LCO Live: Vaughan Williams, Suk & Dvořák London Chamber Orchestra / Christopher Warren-Green (cond) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] This release by the London Chamber Orchestra marks the start of the build up to the orchestras 100th anniversary year. Featuring three sublime recordings of pieces for strings, this is a nod to the fact that the orchestra truly are one of the best in... |
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PARRY / CLARKE / BYRD / ELGAR / WALTON / HANDEL
Rule Britannia: Stirring songs and patriotic music Harlow Chorus / The Elizabethan Consort / Martin Souter / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / London Pro Arte Orchestra [ Britannia / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] Music chosen for its thrill factor: from trumpets and drums to soaring choral voices, this programme has a 'Last Night of the Proms' feel. It features the great and the good of English music of the past including Handel, Holst, Elgar and Walton. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem] Harolyn Blackwell, Davis Wilson-Johnson / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Andre Previn [ LSO Live / CD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] 'A performance which emphasis the drama of the piece in high contrasts ... bitingly dramatic ... Altogether outstanding, fresh and revealing' Gramophone |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio) Heather Harper, Helen Watts, John Wakefield, John Shirley-Quirk / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] "You can still enjoy Davis' lively and sympathetic direction, enthusiastic singing and playing by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, two fabulous female soloists." Arkivmusic |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classic Hauser Deluxe [CD + DVD 'Alone, Together - From Croatia'] Hauser, London Symphony Orchestra [ Sony Classical / 2 CD/DVD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Hauser, the dynamic young cellist who rocketed to fame as half of the genre-busting worldwide musical sensation 2Cellos, re-releases his first solo album, now with a DVD. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classic Hauser II Hauser, London Symphony Orchestra [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Global cello sensation HAUSER brings his artistry and passion to a new selection of classical music's greatest melodies with the release of his new album Classic II, a follow-up to the worldwide success of 2020's Classic. For the new album, which... |
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Hausmusik London
Brahms: The Sextets [ Signum / CD - released 8/Apr/2002 ] |
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Hausmusik London
Cherubini: Complete String Qts [ Cpo / 3 CD - released 5/May/2003 ] |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: War Requiem / Sinfonia da Requiem / Ballad of Heroes Heather Harper (soprano) John Shirley-Quirk (bass) Martyn Hill (tenor) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "Heather Harper has at last recorded the 'role' she created-indeed it is her farewell to her many admirers as she has now retired. I heard her sing it in St Paul's not long ago and thought then that her peculiar accents, her inevitable shaping of so... |
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / HENRYK WIENIAWSKI / JEAN SIBELIUS
Tchikovsky/Sibelius/Wieniawski: Violin.Concertos Jascha Heifetz (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Barbirolli, Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "Heifetz's first (mono) recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, made in 1937, as tremendous virtuosity and warmth. The sound is opaque by modern standards...this is a fine bargain." Penguin Guide |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX BRUCH / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Brahms: Double Concerto / Bruch: Scottish Fantasy / Glazunov: Violin Concerto Jascha Heifetz (violin) Emanuel Feuermann (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "Bruch's Scottish Fantasy was always a favourite work with Heifetz…the passion and brilliance of the playing here are most compelling, with the songful Adagio section even more moving in its simpler, more flowing manner, hushed and dedicated" Penguin |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (complete opera recorded in 1950) / Overtures Heinz Woester, Walther Ludwig, Wilma Lipp, Emmy Loose / London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2019 ] The supreme exponent of Viennese Mozart and his first recording of Mozart's 'rescue opera' set in a Turkish harem (Decca's first opera to be issued on LP), coupled with a superbly stylish collection of overtures. Weber's verdict on Die Entführung... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano) Wandsworth School Boys Choir & Ambrosian Opera Chorus / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2017 ] "As a combination of top-class recording, orchestral playing and conducting, this is one of the finest recordings I have ever listened to." Gramophone on No 1 |
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NIGEL HESS
Hess: The Winds of Power Pupils of Daubeney Middle School, The London Symphonic Wind Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Nov/1999 ] |