MUSIC FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
Music from the Middle Ages [5 CD set] Andrea von Ramm, Richard Levitt & Sterling Jones / Studio der fruhen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Virgin / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
PORPORA / HASSE / BROSCHI / GIACOMELLI / GALUPPI
Vivica Genau - Arias for Farinelli Vivica Genau (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fAr Alte Musik Berlin, RenAC Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
CARL MICHAEL ZIEHRER
Die drei Wuensche (The Three Wishes) Complete operetta Volker Vogel, Donna Ellen, Valeriy Serkin, Lorena Espina, Klemens Slowioczek / Orchester des Musik Theater Schoenbronn / Herbert Mogg [ CPO / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Carl Michael Ziehrer's career shared many similarities to that of Johann Strauss II. His waltzes, marches and polkas were extremely popular in Vienna and he was one of Strauss's biggest rivals. His legacy includes nearly 600 dance pieces and marches... |
J. S. BACH
Johannes-Passion [St John Passion] BWV245 - 1749 Version Werner Güra, Benno Schachtner, Sunhae Im, Sebastian Kohlhepp / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Staats-& Domchor Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi SACD+DVD / 3 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 1/May/2016 ] "a powerful and individual reading...He favours strongly profiled rhythms, chorales with end-of-line pauses, and full-throated singing from the RIAS Chamber Choir (16 singers, augmented for the chorales)." (Guardian) |
OSKAR NEDBAL
Die Winzerbraut (complete operetta) Wolfgang Mueller-Lorenz / Martin C. Turba / Marcus Niedermeyr / Chor und Orchester des Musik Theater Schoenbrunn / [ CPO Records / 2 CD - released 18/May/2011 ] The Schönbrunn Music Theater and its director Herbert Mogg once again have made an important discovery with this new find! |
VIVALDI / MARCELLO & OTHERS
Concerto - Venice: The Golden Age Xenia Löffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Aug/2014 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2015 - Concerto / Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Baroque Instrumental |
C.P.E. BACH
C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos Xenia Löffler (oboe), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Hamonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Mingling athletic precision and devil-may-care abandon, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin relish the music's seething energy and harmonic and dynamic shocks" - Gramophone Award 2020 Short List - Concerto |