More By Artist: John D'Amato
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STRAUSS FAMILY / MOZART / GOUNOD / WAGNER / KODALY / etc
100 Best Wiener Philharmoniker Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra], John Barbirolli, Andre Cluytens, Mariss Jansons, Herbert von Karajan, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] This 6CD set contains 100 tracks from the finest EMI recordings of the famous Wiener Philharmoniker, know in English as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, under some of the world's greatest conductors including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von... |
BARKER / BOYSEN / NELSON / TULL
Fanfare, Capriccio and Rhapsody Vince DiMartino (trumpet) / Chicago Saxophone Quartet, Indiana State University Faculty Winds, Indiana State University Wind Orchestra / John Boyd [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Fanfare, Capriccio and Rhapsody embraces an extraordinary range of musical styles from a wide variety of sources. The Medieval Suite pays homage to Léonin, Pérotin and Machaut, three master-composers from the Middle Ages, while the Sketches on a... |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) (with Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35) Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich, with John Wallace (trumpet) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 11/Apr/2011 ] An overwhelming performance of Mussorgsky's masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian virtuoso Vladimir Ovchinnikov. Ovchinnikov made an impressive career after winning the 1987 Leeds piano competition. He recorded extensively for EMI,... |
BERLIOZ / RAVEL
Véronique Gens sings Berlioz & Ravel Véronique Gens (soprano) / Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, John Axelrod [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Gens bring [Herminie] to life as sympathetically as any of her operatic portrayals...It is unusual to encounter a recording of Les nuits d'ete in which the colouring is so consistent throughout...Gens has in her sights a purer kind of poetry."... |
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WAGNER
Parsifal (Complete Opera recorded in 1991) Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem, Jose Van Dam, John tomlinson / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2016 ] "For a studio performance my vote would go now-just-to the new version, largely on the strength of the recording and the performances of Meier and Jerusalem. (Gramophone) |
JOHN ADAMS / SAMUEL BARBER / GEORGE GERSHWIN / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / STEVE REICH / etc
American Classics Hélène Grimaud, Renaud Capuçon, Labèque Sisters, Peter Donohoe, John McGlinn, Paavo Jarvi, Christopher Warren-Green, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Aug/2016 ] "Under Rattle the foxtrot from The Chairman Dances has unabated energy" (Rosette Penguin Stereo) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem Op 48 / Messe Basse / Motets Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill, St John's College, Cambridge, Robinson [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Top recordings at a special price |
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BEETHOVEN
Resound Beethoven: Egmont [with narration in English & German] Wiener Akademie Orchester, Martin Haselböck, with Bernardo Bobro (soprano) & Herbert Föttinger, John Malkovich (narrators) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] With RESOUND the orchestral works of Beethoven are brought back to the halls and theatres of their Viennese premieres or other venues where they received their earliest performances. .. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (BBC Third Programme Live Broadcast, 1948) (Abridged) Sir John Gielgud, Andrew Cruickshank, Hugh Griffith, Marian Spencer & cast [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 31/Jul/2006 ] This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments. Though he went on to record it for commercial release, nothing matched this... |
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Carpenter: Adventures in A Perambulator / Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/May/2001 ] You have to hand it to Naxos. Here--on one very-nicely-performed program (played with gusto, polish, and complete sympathy by those specialists in American repertoire, the Ukraine National Symphony!!) and recorded in clean, bright, engaging sound." |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Life And Works (4CD Box) Written and narrated by Jeremy Siepmann, with John Shrapnel as Bach [ Naxos Life and Works / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2012 ] |
FLORENCE BEATRICE PRICE
Price: Concert Overtures / Songs of the Oak / Suite of Dances Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, John Jeter [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] The rediscovery of Florence Price's music has revealed one of the most significant bodies of work by an African American composer in the 20th century. The variety of genres represented on this release place Price's immense artistic imagination on... |
EDWARD MACDOWELL
MacDowell: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Xiayin Wang (Solo Piano), Peter Dixon (Solo Cello), John Wilson (Conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] In July 1884, MacDowell and his wife, Marian, spent their honeymoon in England, and were both captivated by performances of Shakespeare plays at London's Lyceum Theatre. The young composer started immediately on sketches based on six characters, but... |
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RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 [original 1926 version] (with Medtner - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 50) Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "…Sudbin's relatively low-key playing, never leaves you in doubt of his musicianship and dexterity." Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 |
TCHAIKOVSKY / MEDTNER
Piano Concertos Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Yevgeny Sudbin's performance here fairly explodes with imagination, feeling and desire." Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month May 2007 |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass, K.626 Yvonne Kenny (sop) Sarah Walker (mezzo) William Kendall (tenor) / Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / English Chamber Orchestra/ George Guest [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] 'George Guests new recording is distinguished by its deliberate tempos but also its very powerful rhythmic momentum and an expressive intensity of a kind one might not expect from a conductor and choir who belong to the English cathedral tradition.... |
ELGAR
Dream of Gerontius (with Holst - The Hymn of Jesus / Delius - Sea Drift) Yvonne Minton, Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk / London Symphony / Benjamin Britten [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2001 ] A specially priced double CD |
ROSSINI
Otello (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Cecilia Bartoli, Peter Kálmán, John Osborn, Javier Camarena / Muhai Tang (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jul/2014 ] DVD/Blu-ray of the Month - July 2014 |
