DVORAK
Slavonic Dances Op 46 & Op 72 Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2010 ] "Fischer and the BFO have persuaded me there's plenty of fine music in these collections, much of it revealed to me as never before. Throw in excellent sonics and good liner-notes and you have a most desirable issue." (MusicWeb Oct 2010) |
DVORAK
Slavonic Dances Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer [ Philips SACD / SACD - released 5/Jan/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No 2 / Vocalise Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer [ Channel Classics Canal Grande / CD - released 11/Oct/2006 ] "Iván Fischer an his magnificent Budapest Orchestra have made a Rachmaninov Second for our time - staggeringly played and recorded. Do try to hear it in surround!...Fischer conducts the piece as Rachmaninov might have played in: with a free and... |
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No 2 / Vocalise Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer [ Channel Classics / SACD - released 29/Jul/2004 ] "A fresh, engaging look at Rachmaninov's symphony that spurns the epic approach" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (August 2004)- |
DVORAK
Legends Op 59 / Notturno in B major, op.40 / etc Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer [ Philips / CD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2000) - Rosette Recording (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
FELIX & FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 / etc. Budapest Festival Orchestra & Pro Musica (women's choir), Iván Fischer [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] "The playing throughout is of the highest quality" BBC Music |
Busch/Glyndebourne Festival
Mozart: Don Giovanni [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Carols of Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir, Owain Arwel Hughes [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] Cardiff Festival Choir, Owain Arwel Hughes |
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 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Giulio Cesare [complete opera recorded in 2012] Blu-ray Salzburg Whitsun Festival / Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl, Philippe Jaroussky, Anne Sofie von Otter. Christophe Dumaux / Giovanni Antonini (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 13/May/2016 ] "[Andreas Scholl's] coloratura is note perfect, he phrases recitatives with as much musicianship as arias, and the steadiness and purity of his voice are remarkable." The Financial Times |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem (filmed at St Ignazio Church in Rome) Cecilia Casdia / Mario Malagnini / Orchestra Sinfonica del Festival di Pasqua / Tamas Pal (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / DVD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] G : - |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (the complete opera, recorded at Aix-en-Provence in 2011) Festival Aix-en-Provence / Charles Castronovo, Natalie Dessay, Ludovic Tezier / Louis Langree (conductor) [ Virgin Classics / DVD - released 4/May/2012 ] "Natalie Dessay dominates the stage. A superb production. Well worth seeking out." (MusicWeb July 2012) |
JAMES HORNER / ENNIO MORRICONE / JOHN BARRY / PATRICK CASSIDY / JOHN WILLIAMS / etc
Cinema Choral Classics: Apocalypse (Glory, Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, Hannibal, Henry V, The Ninth Gate, etc) City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / Crouch End Festival Chorus / Kenneth Alwyn / Paul Bateman / etc [ Silva Screen Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2006 ] The third volume of this Best-Selling series of albums features 18 Spectacular works for Chorus and Symphony Orchestra |
MAURICE JARRE / ENNIO MORRICONE / JERRY GOLDSMITH / PATRICK DOYLE / etc
Cinema Choral Classics ( The Omen, Jesus of Nazareth, The Lion in Winter, The Abyss, etc) City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / Crouch End Festival Chorus / Kenneth Alwyn / Paul Bateman / etc [ Silva Screen Records / CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] New Digital Recordings. Over 70 minutes |
JOHN WILLIAMS
The Music of John Williams: 40 Years of Film Music City of Prague Symphony Orchestra / Crouch End Festival Chorus / Various conductors [ Silva Screen Records / 4 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] 4 CD Set • Over 220 Minutes of Music The Most Comprehensive Collection of Film Music by John Williams Ever |
MINKUS / PAULLI / HELSTED / GADE
Minkus and friends: Don Quixote, Paquita, La Bayadere, Napoli London Festival Ballet Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Elizabethan Trust Melbourne Orchestra, John Lanchbery [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] Ludwig Minkus composed some of the most important full-length ballet scores during the golden age of classical ballet in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. His works often involved exotic settings like Spain and India. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No 6 / Violin Concerto (Rec 1955/60) David Oistrakh (violin) / Stockholm Festival Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Kletzki [ Medici Masters / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "Another fine entrant in this increasingly useful series, this Tchaikovsky release is a testament to Kletzki's under-sung symphonic eloquence and adds the absorbing Oistrakh performance." (MusicWeb Dec 2007) |
BEETHOVEN / SIBELIUS
Violin Concertos David Oistrakh (violin) Stockholm Festival Orchestra, Sixten Ehrling [ Testament / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Stockholm Festival Orchestra, Sixten Ehrling |
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3 Denis Matsuev (piano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) [ Accentus Music / DVD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Video Performance |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (complete opera) Dimitra Theodossiou / Roberto de Biasio / Enrico Guiseppe Iori / Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Based on Victor Hugo's most sensational play, Lucrèce Borgia, a scandalous tale of murder, torture, incest, homosexuality, drunkenness and orgies, Donizetti's opera is one of the great masterpieces of Italian bel canto repertoire. While omitting... |