Desi Halban & Bruno Walter
Mahler: Symphony No 5 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] |
MAHLER
Symphony No 5 / Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit (Rec 1947) Desi Halban (soprano) Bruno Walter (piano) / New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter, conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] "Another fantastic addition to the Naxos Historical Great Conductors series, joining Walter's versions of Mahler 9 and Das Lied von der Erde." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS
Complete Chamber Music with Keyboard Despres, Jacques / Friesen, John / Schwede, Walter [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792), proclaimed by Joseph Haydn one of the two most talented composers of the eighteenth century (along with Mozart). |
Dick Walter/Syd Dale & The Ott
Metropolis Now & Mix And Match [ Vocalion / CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] |
Mozart, Wo
Opernarien 1922-1942 Div. Solisten; Wiener Philharmoniker, Alwin, Krauss, Krips, Toscanini, Walter [ ORFEO / CD - released 4/Jul/1995 ] |
BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN
Elisabeth Schumann: Lieder Vol 2 Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) Studio orchestra / Walter Goehr (Conductor) / Leo Rosenek (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] Apart from the last eleven Brahms songs on this disc, all the items on this disc were made when Elisabeth Schumann was a member of the Vienna State Opera, the happiest, and in operatic terms, the most successful time of her career. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion [highlights] Elly Ameling, Julia Hamari, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Fritz Wunderlich, Walter Berry, Tom Krause / Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Munchinger [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] 'Many will be glad to hear Peter Pears's superb performance of the Evangelist' Gramophone, March 1965 |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps [Quartet for the end of time] Ensemble Walter Boeykens [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] "Once a winner in Radio 3's Building a Library feature, this performance of Messiaen's prison-camp meditation on eternity, enormously but unshowily virtuosic and very well balanced, remains highly recommendable." (BBC Music) |
KORNGOLD
Violanta (Complete Opera recorded in 1980) Eva Marton, Siegfried Jerusalem & Walter Berry / Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Marek Janowski [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "What strength and beauty [Marton] had in 1980! Siegfried Jerusalem, too, was on peak form...Walter Berry oozes his usual authority...all the glitter and occasional strangeness of the lush score comes across under Janowski's impeccably paced... |
Fagen Donald & Walter Becker
You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It [ El / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] |
JOHAN STRAUSS 11 / OFFENBACH / LEHAR
Best of Operetta:-Die Fledermaus / La Belle Helene / Merry Widow (complete operettas) Felicity Lott, Lucia Popp, Dagmar Schellenberger, Edita Gruberova, Walter Berry, etc / Various conductors [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2012 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Edition: Complete works [Symphonies, chamber, concertos, dances, operas, songs, instriumental & incidental music] Alfred Brendel, Staatskapelle Dresden, Elly Ameling, Suske Quartett, Janet Baker, Yefim Bronfman, Walter Klien, Academy St Martins-in-the-Fields, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 86 CD Box Set ] t would not be an overstatement to declare that Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most significant figures in Western civilisation: a composer who shaped the course of music history through his mastery of rhythm, melody and harmonic... |
Beethoven,
Sinfonie No. 9 d-Moll op 125 Güden, Högen, Majkut, Frick, Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter [ ORFEO / CD - released 5/Oct/2005 ] |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: His First Performers Claude Debussy, Ricardo Viñes, Alfred Cortot, Walter Gieseking (pianos), Jacques Thibaud (violin), Lily Laskine (harp), Maggie Teyte (soprano), etc [ Warner Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2018 ] Claude Debussy, who died 100 years ago in March 1918, is one of history's greatest composers and the most influential of all French composers. A father of modern music, Debussy lived in the early days of the recording era. |
Mozart, Wo
Die Zauberflöte Greindl, Ludwig, Schöffler, Gallos, Dönch, Lipp, Seefried, Grob-Prandl, Wagner, Höngen, Schmitt-Walter, Oravez, Klein, R [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 11/Jul/2005 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9 Gundula Janowitz / Christa Ludwig / Jess Thomas / Walter Berry / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 3 DVD - released 18/Jan/2006 ] These performances pay tribute to the legendary Herbert von Karajan, who recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies three times for Deutsche Grammophon. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 [Complete 1963 recordings remastered at 24 bit Blu-ray audio] Gundula Janowitz, Hilde Rassel Majdan, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Berry / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray audio / Blu-Ray Audio - released 12/Sep/2017 ] Blu-ray Audio comprises ALL 9 SYMPHONIES plus the rehearsal of the Ninth Symphony |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 Gundula Janowitz (sop) Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Walter Berry (bass) / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon CD + Blu-ray audio / CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Newly remastered by Emil Berliner Studios and presented on Blu-ray Audio in 24bit/192kHz + 1 CD produced from the new remastering |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) - highlights Gundula Janowitz, Werner Hollweg, Walter Berry / Chor der Deutschen. Opera Berlin. Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Studio / CD - released 1/Dec/1987 ] Original recording made in 1973 |
Schubert,
Große Sänger unseres Jahrhunderts: Hans Hotter - Liederabend Hans Hotter, Walter Martin [ ORFEO / CD - released 21/Jan/2000 ] |