Little Walter
Confessin' The Blues (LP) [ Chess / LP ] This collection of 1953-1959 recordings from blues harmonica player Little Walter was originally released in 1974. Features the song "Rock Bottom," featuring Muddy Waters on slide guitar. 180 gram vinyl reissue. |
Little Walter
His Best Chess 50th Anniversary Collection [ CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] |
Little Walter
Rock Bottom [ Not Now Music / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2011 ] |
Little Walter
Boom, Boom Singles As & Bs 1952 - 60 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Little Walter was without a doubt the most influential blues harmonica player of the 20th Century, and here for the first time in one collection are the A & B sides of every single he released from his debut in 1952 to 1960. |
MAHLER
Symphony No.1 (with Strauss - Tod und Verklarung) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bruno Walter [ Testament / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] In the winter of 1947 Bruno Walter returned to London to conduct some concerts with an orchestra that he had appeared with several times since the end of the War - the London Philharmonic. |
PROKOFIEV
Chout [The Buffoon] - ballet suite London Symphony Orchestra / Walter Susskind [ Everest / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] From the Historic Catalogue of Everest Record label, Active Media are pleased to release the first 15 titles. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Walter Weller [ ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Although they have been intermittently available, Walter Weller's cycle of the three Rachmaninov Symphonies have hidden their blazing light under the Decca bushel for far too long. Recorded in absolutely thrilling Decca sound with L'Orchestre de la... |
RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 / The Rock L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / London Philharmonic Orchestra. Walter Weller [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Surging, romantic readings from a re-juvenated Suisse Romande under their then chief conductor, unfortunately, not long with them" (MusicWeb) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 9 / The Age opf Gold - ballet suite L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Walter Weller / London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon (conductor) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Venerated for their perky, piquant performances and the ripe, rich Decca sound, Walter Weller's thrilling readings of Shostakovich's Symphonies 1 and 9 have long been on the reissue request lists. Now, they appear on CD for the first time. |
SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT
Lieder Recordings, Vol. 3 (1941) Lotte Lehmann (soprano) / Bruno Walter and Paul Ulanowsky (accompanists) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] With her impassioned delivery, warm tone, telling word-painting and occasional use of portamento, Lehmann makes her own very personal yet utterly compelling case for Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -Leben and Dichterliebe. |
DVORAK
Rusalka (Complete opera) Marcel Rosca, Ursula Furi-Bernhard, Nelly Boschkova, Walter Coppola / Academic Choir Ivan Goran & Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] 'The standard of the orchestral playing is high' Gramophone 1999 |
JOHANN STRAUSS
Eine Nacht in Venedig [A night in Venice] (complete opera broadcast in 1938) Marcel Wittrisch / Karl Schmitt-Walter / Carla Spletter / Heinrich Steiner (cond) [ Naxos Immortal Performances / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2010 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-7 Mayumi Fujikawa (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Weller [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2015 ] "Fujikawa brings unexpected sparkle to the finale of the Second Concerto. She is at her best in the marvelous Adagio of the G major which she sustains most beautifully at an unusually slow tempo […] There is plenty of polished, stylish orchestral pla |
BEETHOVEN / HONEGGER / MAHLER / PROKOFIEV / SIBELIUS / etc
Karajan & The Berliner Philharmoniker Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, etc / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "The performance is both grand and fiery, powerful and committed." - Records and Recording (on the Beethoven 9th) |
MARTINU
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 1 Lorenzo Gatto (violin) / National Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Weller has a natural feel of the swaying gait of Martinu's individual rhythmic language and his conducting, allied to fine orchestral playing and exceptionally good sound, certainly makes an impact." (Gramophone) |
Nellie Melba (soprano) with Enrico Caruso, tenor, Charles Gilibert, baritone, Studio Orchestra / Walter B. Rogers, conductor
Nellie Melba: American Recordings, Vol. 1 (1907) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "A representative collection of Melba is more of a necessity than a luxury and admirers should have these 1907 sessions in their collection." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
MAHLER
Bruno Walter conducts Mahler [7 CD set] New York Philharmonic, Columbia Symphony, Bruno Walter [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "This record comes to us so loaded with history and legend, and it carries its burden with such triumphant sure-footedness, that I have no hesitation in declaring it one of the greatest musical monuments of our time." (Gramophone on Symphony No 9) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] (Complete Opera recorded in 1964) Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, Lucia Popp / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Warner Classics Legendary Opera Recordings / 2 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2016 ] "I have never heard The Magic Flute sound so magical and the complete ease and seeming rightness of this performance is a wonder. The cast, chorus and orchestra are inspired under Klemperer, whom I here salute as a real genius" (Gramophone) |
Nishizaki/Rtbf Orch/Walter
De Beriot:violin Concs 1,8,9 [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2003 ] |
VARIOUS
Pablo Casals - Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 4 (1916-1920) Pablo Casals, cello / Charles Albert Baker, piano / Walter Golde, piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] |