More By Artist: Alexander O'Neal
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (The Valkyries) (complete opera recorded live in 1941) Astrid Varnay / Helen Traubel / Lauritz Melchior / Kerstin Thorborg / Friedrich Schorr / Alexander Kipnis / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Erich Leins [ Naxos Great Opera Performances / 3 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Saturday 6th December 1941 was a momentous afternoon in the history of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, The opera - Die Walkure - was well enough known to the theatre and radio audiences that day, but this particular performance was eagerly... |
STEFAN LEVIN
Written on Water - A Dance Film by Pontus Lindberg BLU-RAY Aurélie Dupont, Alexander Jones, Pontus Lidberg, Stina Ekblad, Leslie Caron [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Written on Water is a dance feature film about an artist whose happy and comfortable married life is upended when she unexpectedly falls in love with someone else. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Written on Water - A Dance Film by Pontus Lindberg [DVD] (Aurélie Dupont, Alexander Jones, Pontus Lidberg, Stina Ekblad, Leslie Caron, Magnus Svensso Aurélie Dupont, Alexander Jones, Stina Ekblad, Leslie Caron [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Written on Water is a dance feature film about an artist whose happy and comfortable married life is upended when she unexpectedly falls in love with someone else. Featuring Paris Opera Ballets Aurélie Dupont, Ballet Zurich principal dancer Alexander... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 10 in E minor Opus 93 Australian Youth Orchestra / Alexander Anissimov (conductor) [ Melba / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Whatever the moral implications of this massive music, the Australian Youth Orchestra give it full realization, masterfully led by Anissimov" (Four Stars AudAud.com) |
J.S. BACH
The Best of J.S. Bach Eteri Andjaparidze, Hae Won Chen, Pi-hsien, Nicholas Goluses, Alexander Jablokov, Takako Nishizaki & Wolfgang Rubsam [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/1997 ] The best of J.S Bach from across the vast Naxos catalogue. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Baden-Baden Opera / Kristine Opolais, Marcelo Álvarez Mario, Marco Vratogna, Alexander Tsymbalyuk / Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "Rattle and his orchestra add both depth and gloss: to hear the shimmer of the Berlin strings in the eerie dwells of the Te Deum is enough to absolve the conductor of his reverential tempos" Gramophone |
DELIUS / BRIDGE / IRELAND / RUBBRA / etc
Twentieth Century Cello Sonatas Alexander Baillie (cello), John Thwaites (piano) [ Somm / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "Six significant British cello sonatas impeccably performed. " (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Aug 2013) |
ZOLTAN KODALY / ANTONIN DVORAK
Kodály: Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 7 - Dvorák: Piano Trio, Op. 90 "Dumky" Barnabás Kelemen; Nicolas Altstaedt; Alexander Lonquich [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] After the success of the recent recording of works by Veress and Bartók, which won both a Gramophone Award and a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2020, the Lockenhaus Festival series, curated by its artistic director Nicolas Altstaedt, continues its... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Images / Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/1993 ] "Rahbari is a sensitive and perceptive Debussian." Gramophone |
RAVEL
Orchestral Works (Incls 'Gaspard de la Nuit' & 'Valses nobles et sentimentales') Bielefelder Philharmoniker, Alexander Kalajdzic [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] Maurice Ravel instrumented many of his piano compositions for full orchestra, but even this tone-color magician kept his safe distance from his bloodcurdling Gaspard de la nuit. It was left to Marius Constant to accomplish this Herculean task, and... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera recorded at the paris Opera in 2008) Bolshoi Theatre / Marius Kwiecien / Makvala Kasrashvili / Tatiana Monogarova / Alexander Vedernikov (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / 2 DVD - released 10/May/2009 ] G - "Kwiecien is scoring a triumph in the title role, a part everywhere identified with his immediate predecessor, Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky…Kwiecien commands the stage with his good looks, rich and resonant voice and the volatile... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 / Brahms: Symphony No. 1 Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "Rahbari brings admirable sweep and dramatic fervour" CD Review |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No.1 / Haydn Variation BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels / Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] "A strong, direct reading, spacious yet with plenty of impetus." Penguin Guide |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "The impulse gives a feeling of live performance" Penguin Guide |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 / Serenade No. 2 Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD ] "Rahbari's shaping of phrases and of long paragraphs is excellent and the tempi he sets are apt. He senses the dramatic crux of the slow movement perceptively and builds the finale to its climax with an admirable sense of inevitability" Hi-Fi Choice |
IAN CUSSON / RICHARD STRAUSS
Terra Nova - Cusson: Sinfonietta Metamoderna / Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley [ Analekta / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] Terra Nova, the second opus in the Poema series, explores themes of the search for meaning and the human experience. Alexander Shelley offers an interpretation of Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra that highlights the fragile balance between light and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Songs of Cricket Cantabile - The London Quartet, with Chris Hatt and Alexander L'Estrange (pianos) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "Brilliant moments - a droll psalm-chant recitation of the "rules" and an ingenious Pärt-style setting of a pleasingly circular explanation of the game ("Cricket Tea Towel") - show just what these singers can do." (The Independent) |
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Messiaen,
Quatuor pour la fin du temps Carolin Widmann, Jörg Widmann, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich [ ORFEO / CD - released 10/Aug/2012 ] |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète & Pulcinella Suite Alexander Janiczek, Chamber Orchestra of Europe [ Linn Records / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] The Chamber Orchestra of Europe performs Stravinsky's Apollon musagète and Pulcinella Suite, repertoire that demands the fresh and energetic delivery for which the COE is renowned. The COE deliver the 'wonderful freshness' Stravinsky himself... |
