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PROKOFIEV
Symphony No.5 in B flat, Op.100 / Symphony No.3 in C minor Op 44 Boston Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf [ Testament / CD - released 24/Oct/2005 ] The Boston Symphony had a close relationship with Prokofiev. Their great conductor, Serge Koussevitzky conducted the première of the Second Symphony in Paris and commissioned the Fourth for the orchestra's fiftieth anniversary. |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 1 'Winter Daydreams', 2 "Little Russian", 4 / 'Nutcracker' Suite Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 2 CD - released 16/Mar/2017 ] "The New Philharmonia play with precision and polish … and on recording quality this DGG version […] is clearly the smoothest and most faithful" Gramophone Symphony No 2 |
DEBUSSY
Images / Nocturnes / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas & Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] "Abbado's account of the Nocturnes is one of the finest in the catalogue ... The playing of the Boston Orchestra is immensely polished but not glossy, and there is a naturalness about this performance that also distinguishes the recording" Penguin |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites: Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Swan Lake Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ DG Entree / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] "Ozawa with his light ballet touch is a natural for this score. He is a superb orchestral technician as well, so he achieves a finely calculated and polished orchestral response. He begins particularly well after a stylish account of the ''Miniature... |
SESSIONS / PANUFNIK
Concerto for Orchestra / Eighth Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] 'Not to be missed' (San Francisco Chronicle) |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Ballets: The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty (complete) Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa / Russian National Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev [Sleeping Beauty] [ DG Collector's Edition / 5 CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Squeezed onto just 5 CDs, here are Tchaikovsky three great ballets, complete, and offered at budget for the first time. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Overtures (with Brahms - Academic Festival Overture) (Rec 1946-49) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "Mark Obert-Thorn has done a valuable service in transferring these recordings from a number of different sources, including 78-rpm and 45-rpm records. As always in his work, he demonstrates a golden ear for how to extract maximum sound from old... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies 2 And 5 (recorded 1935-1936) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] "..the playing is hair-raising throughout. Superlative stuff, a great bargain and absolutely unmissable." -- The Guardian. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 / Finlandia / Valse Triste / Swan of Tuonela Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips / CD - released 20/Oct/1989 ] "The new digital transfers give greater presence to the wind and brass, and place them more vividly in the aural picture." (Gramophone on the reissue) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 / En Saga Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "This is a disk well worth having for the superb performances offered and the insights which Davis brings to the music." (MusicWeb August 2008) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Tone Poems (Incls Pohjola's Daughter & Karelia Suite) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips ABC Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] 'In short, what you have here are Sibelius' three greatest tone poems (En Saga, Pohjola's Daughter, and Tapiola) in outstanding interpretations and great sound, along with two popular favorites done every bit as well. Need I say more?' 10/10... |
David Bowie (narrator) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy / Boston Pops / Arthur Fiedler
Prokofiev: Peter & The Wolf (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Oct/2014 ] David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf (1978) is a classical music album containing David Bowie's narration of Sergei Prokofiev's 1936 composition Peter And The Wolf. The music is performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by... |
LULLY
Psyche (complete opera) Carolyn Sampson, Karina Gauvin, Aaron Sheehan, Colin Balzer / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus / Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs [ CPO / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2009 ] Gramophone Awards 2009 Finalist: Baroque Vocal - "Carolyn Sampson, charming of voice and intelligent with detail as ever, is Psyché, and Karina Gauvin, as Venus. Shows herself a natural in French dramatic recitative..." Gramophone |
JOHN TAVENER
Lamentations and Praises Chanticleer / Handel and Haydn Society of Boston Ensemble / Joseph Jennings [ Teldec / CD - released 13/Jul/2002 ] "Chanticleer's blissful singing is all-consuming; might this be Tavener's greatest work yet?" Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2002) |
VIVALDI
The Four Seasons (with Geminiani-Concerto Grosso) Christina Day Martinson (violin) / Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman [ Telarc / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] For years, Telarc has urged its premier baroque orchestra to record Vivaldi's great violin showpiece, the ever fresh, ever popular Four Seasons. |
GLUCK
Iphigenie en Tauride (Complete Opera) Christine Goerke / Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman [ Telarc Records / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2000 ] Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque perform Gluck's famous Opera |
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GLUCK
Iphigénie en Tauride [complete opera] Christine Goerke, Rodney Gilfry, Vinson Cole, Stephen Salters, Sharon Baker / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Telarc Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2012 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 5 'Emperor' Christoph Eschenbach (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa / London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] The seeds were planted in the early 1970s when Deutsche Grammophon realised what amazing results could be achieved by recording the multi-channel tapes, with either four or eight channels. Yet, due to a few restrictions, they never fully blossomed.... |
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JAMES MACMILLAN
Clemency David Kravitz, Michelle Trainor, Christine Abraham / Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra / David Angus [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Clemency is the third operatic collaboration between the composer James MacMillan and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts to date - a chamber opera which explores a central but enigmatic episode in the Old Testament |
