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GERALD BARRY
Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest (complete opera) Barbara Hannigan, Peter Tantsits, Joshua Bloom / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Thomas Adès [ NMC / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Opera |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY / GYORGY LIGETI / ALBAN BERG / ANTON WEBERN
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabe / etc (Blu-ray/DVD) Barbara Hannigan (soprano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live DVD + BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 24/Nov/2017 ] Sir Simon Rattle is joined by virtuosic soprano Barbara Hannigan for a modernist programme that showcases the immense capabilities of the London Symphony Orchestra. |
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ALBAN BERG / GUSTAV MAHLER
Sehnsucht: Berg - Mahler Live in Rotterdam Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Raoul Steffani (baritone) / Camerata RCO, Rolf Verbeek [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Sehnsucht, a central and nearly untranslatable word of the Viennese fin-de-siècle period, referring to aspects of longing, melancholy, and nostalgia. During the Covid-19 pandemic, a collective Sehnsucht arose, in performers and audiences alike.... |
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SCHOENBERG / BERG / WEBERN / ZEMLINSKY
Vienna - Fin de Siècle Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Reinbert De Leeuw (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Solo Vocal |
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Barbara Hendricks
Barbara Sings The Blues (LP) [ Arte Verum / 2 LP/CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] Barbara Hendricks, considered to be one of the greatest classical music interpreters of our time, has left her unique and indelible mark on all that she has sung. On this disc, she explores the blues. Through famous tunes by Billie Holiday, Bessie... |
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W.A. MOZART
Der Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) Highlights Barbara Hendricks / June Anderson / Ulrike Steinsky / Jerry Hadley / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles MacKerras [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] "...the sound is outstanding-both clean and rich." -American Record Guide |
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DEL TREDICI
Final Alice-Grand concerto for voice and orchestra Barbara Hendricks (soprano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Commissioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to Sir Georg Solti, Final Alice is scored for gargantuan forces and is based on the last two chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It has been described by the composer as a "grand... |
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Barbara Lewis
Many Grooves Of Barbara Lewis [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 26/Jul/1993 ] |
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TELEMANN
Passions Oratorium: Das selige Erwagen des bittern Leiden und Sterbens Jesu Christi Barbara Locher (soprano) Zeger Vandersteene (tenor) Stefan Darr (tenor). L'Arpa Festante Manchen. Wolfgang Schafer [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2005 ] "This seems to be the only recording of Telemann's 'Passion Oratorio' in the catalogue at the moment. Brilliant Classics are to be congratulated yet again for their ongoing commitment to making Telemann's music available. This is an entirely... |
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Barbara Manning
1212 [ Matador Records / CD - released 10/Jun/1997 ] |
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Barbara Morgenstern
Nichts Muss [ Monika Enterprise / CD - released 12/Sep/2003 ] A prime cut of teutonic electronic beauty; exquisite German pop music |
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C. P. E. BACH
Cantatas Barbara Schlick, Johanna Koslowsky, Hilke Helling Rheinische Kantorei, Hermann Max [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 9/Feb/2014 ] Carl Philipp Emanuel wrote an enormous oeuvre, in which the instrumental music form the most important part, but he also excelled in vocal music, and followed the tradition of his father in writing sacred Cantatas for the liturgical year. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Ich habe viel Bekammernis Cantatas BWV21 & BWV42 Barbara Schlick (sop) Garard Lesne (counter-tenor) Howard Crook (tenor) Peter Kooy (bass) La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Superbly constructed, the cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis is incontestably one of Bach's finest works. The masterly arrangements of the material endows it with an emotional cohesion and a dramatic intensity worthy of the Passions and the Mass in B... |
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Barbara & The Browns
Can't Find Happiness - The Sounds Of Memphis Recordings [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 26/Jun/2007 ] |
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BOCCHERINI
Stabat Mater Barbara Vignudelli (soprano) Orchestra da Camera 'Benedetto Marcello', Flavio Emilio Scogna conductor [ Brillinat Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] The French violinist and composer Jean‐ Baptiste Cartier once said: 'If God wanted to speak to man through music, he would do so through the works of Haydn; if he wished to listen to music himself, he would choose the works of Boccherini.' |
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Bregenzer Festspiele / Gaëlle Arquez, Daniel Johansson, Scott Hendricks, Elena Tsallagova / Paolo Carignani (cond) [ C-Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray - released 24/Sep/2017 ] "The French singer Gaëlle Arquez proves to be a lucky find. Not only her massive, shimmering mezzo-soprano is convincing, but her high-quality acting skills as well." Salzburger Nachrichten |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Serse (complete opera recorded in 1979) Carolyn Watkinson, Barbara Hendricks, Paul Esswood / la Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Sony Classical Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Jean-Claude Malgoire conducts his Parisian ensemble, La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, in a complete 1979 recording of Handel's delightful comic opera Serse, best known for its universally familiar opening aria "Ombra mai fu". |
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Dave Brubeck (piano) with Jon Hendricks and Michael Brecker
Young Lions & Old Tigers [ Telarc Discover Jazz / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] Celebrating his 75th birthday, Dave Brubeck hosts three generations of modern jazzmen on his new release, Young Lions & Old Tigers. Three lush standards anchor a collage of nine Brubeck originals written especially for each honored soloist. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Gideon (Complete oratorio arr. J. C. Smith) David Cordier (counter-tenor) Barbara Hannigan (soprano) Stephan MacLeod (bass) Linda Perillo (soprano) / Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra [ Naxos English Choral Music / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2004 ] After the death of Handel in 1759, the London public was still eager for more music from a composer who had been so dear to them. John Christopher Smith responded to this demand and to his own purposes in collaborating with Handel's former... |
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ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: Strictly Private Diana Tomsche (soprano), Esther Valentin (mezzo-soprano), Miriam Burkhardt (soprano), Barbara Grabowski (alto), etc / Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, T [ hänssler CLASSIC / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Very little is known today about the personal life of composer Antonio Salieri..This recording seeks to bring us closer to Salieri the man - with works that he composed for performance among friends. |