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WAGNER
Parsifal (Complete opera recorded in 1985) Sir Donald McIntyre, Waltrud Meier, Phillip Joll, Warren Ellsworth, Chorus and orchestra of the Welsh National Opera / Reginald Goodall [ EMI The Opera Series / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2011 ] Parsifal was Wagner's last and many say most accomplished opera, the culmination of the development of the emotional intensity of the German Romantic movement. |
BLOCH / SHOSTAKOVICH / CASALS
Sol Gabetta - Prayer Sol Gabetta (cello) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Orchestre National de Lyon, Cello Ensemble of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta [ Sony Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "Wit, aristocratic poise and elegance; mercurial shifts of mood, intensity and lightness of touch in near miraculous balance." The Herald on Sol Gabetta |
SCHNITTKE
Symphonies Nos 0 - 9 Soloists & Choirs / Cape Philharmonic Orchestra / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Stockholm Sinfonietta / Gothenburg Symphony / etc [ BIS / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] BIS is proud to present the only available collection of the complete symphonies by Alfred Schnittke. The recordings, part of the Schnittke Edition begun in 1987, have been brought together in a 6-CD boxed set, which includes an initiated essay by... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
G & S: H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete Operetta) Richard Suart, Thomas Allen, Rebecca Evans, Donald Adams / Welsh National Opera, Charles MacKerras [ Telarc Records / CD - released 7/Jul/2000 ] "Richard Suart is an excellent as Sir Joseph and Donald Adams is well cast (as usual) as Deadeye. It's great to have the women's chorus actually sounding 'out at sea' in Act One." Mel@Marbecks |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov Martti Talvela, Nicolai Gedda, Leonard Mroz / Polish rdio Chorus iof Krakow, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra,Jerzy Semkow [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Mar/2013 ] "It has many virtues, not least the great Talvela in a role tailor-made for his massive bass. He gives us a deeply felt Boris without resorting to the admittedly effective but increasingly unfashionable histrionics typical of his predecessors; his... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: Violin Concerto / Two Aquarelles / On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring / etc Tasmin Little (violin) / Welsh National Opera rchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Argo / CD - released 1/Oct/1992 ] Recorded: 1991 Recording Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea |
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ERNESTO LECUONA
The Complete Piano Music Volume 3 Thomas Tirino (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michael Bartos (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/1996 ] |
CLASSICS FOR FUNERALS
In Memory of... (Classics for Funerals) Various performers incls Scottish National Orchestra, the Sixteen, BBC Philharmonic, Emma Kirkby, Detroit Symphony [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] Morbid though the subject of this disc may seem, it was very definitely the logical next Bear Essentials release. We are regularly contacted by bereaved relatives, who ask us to suggest suitable music for use at funerals - as indeed, we are told, are... |
