JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Sextets Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - CHAMBER |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU / BELA BARTOK
Martinů: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hiruša (cond) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht [ EMI / CD Box Set - released 27/Oct/2007 ] Frank Peter Zimmermann was born in Duisburg, West Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10. |
MOZART / STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
European Concert 1993 - Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major / The Rite of Spring / Romeo & Juliet: Fantasy Overture Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Bernard Haitink [ Arthaus Musik Berliner Philharmoniker DVD / DVD - released 21/Dec/2010 ] Under Bernard Haitink's baton, the Berlin Philharmonic have demonstrated here their possibilities in the reduced classical instrumentation, before the full orchestra put on a show after the interval with Stravinsky's „Rite". |
MAGNUS LINDBERG
Lindberg: Tempus Fugit / Violin Concerto No 2 Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] "Under Hannu Lintu, the Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays with such clarity and insight that is feels like a beautifully balanced clockwork mechanism - albeit one with a mightily exuberant spirit." The Strad |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Don Quixote / Till Eulenspiegel Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] After two memorable recordings devoted to Mahler's Third and Fifth symphonies, François-Xavier Roth continues his exploration of the major works premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra. |
TELEMANN / BARTOK / MOZART / HINDEMITH / BRAHMS / etc
Vivid Viola: Best loved classical viola music Ladislav Kyselák, Hong-Mei Xiao, Roger Chase, Roberto Díaz, Tabea Zimmermann, Heinrich Koll (Violas) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The viola is only slightly larger than the violin but possesses a middle range that is richly expressive and full of pathos. It has been played by some of the greatest composers, including JS Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Dvorak. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie / Nuits d'été Stéphane Degou (baritone) Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Les Siècles use woodwind and brass instruments from the middle decades of the 19th century, which, combined with the gut strings, create busy, buoyant textures over which Tabea Zimmermann's solo viola can soar with ease" Sunday Times |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Ermione (complete opera recorded in 1988) Cecilia Gasdia, Margarita Zimmermann, Ernesto Palacio / Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo, Claudio Scimone [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Ermione was first performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 27 March 1819. For reasons that are as yet unclear, the opera was withdrawn on 19 April after only seven performances, and was not seen again until well into the 20th Century. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / W. A. MOZART
Brahms / Mozart: Violin Concertos Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] Two great milestones in the discography of Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of the finest of German violin virtuosi. Graceful elegance marks his Mozart interpretation, while his Brahms is all virtuoso fire and dreamy, romantic rapture. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Odyssey Ben Heppner, Michelle de Young, Petra Lang, Enkelejda Shkosa, Tabea Zimmermann / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / CD / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2002 ] This 16 disc box set brings together all of Davis' iconic Berlioz recordings made for LSO Live, from celebrated interpretations of popular orchestral works to landmark opera recordings, including the double Grammy Award-winning Les Troyens. |
J. S. BACH
The Imaginary Music Book of J.S Bach Café Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] "One of the best of Café Zimmermann's very fine recordings, with Pablo Valetti and Céline Frisch the binary stars around which the other luminaries revolve in the harmony of the spheres." MusicWeb recommended Oct 2021 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamento Café Zimmermann, Damien Guillion (countertenor) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] "This is a release you will want to listen to over and over again for its beauty, but perhaps also for its power to heal." Editor's Choice Gramophone Awards Issue 2020 |
J.S. BACH
Complete Concertos for Various Instruments (includes Brandenburg Concertos, Orchestral Suites and Keyboard Concertos) Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / 6 CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] This complete set of instrumental works for large forces by J. S. Bach represents, for the ensemble Café Zimmermann and for Alpha, the fruit of ten years' work and research. The great care taken over each volume - in the choice of musicians and... |
J. S. BACH
Concerts avec plusiers instruments Vol. 5 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Oct/2011 ] "the bracing effect of hearing this over-familiar music pared down to its essentials to a degree not even the most radical of Cafe Zimmermann's predecessors have managed is refreshing indeed." International Record Review, July/August 2011 |
J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol. 4 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] The French Ensemble Café Zimmermann, conducted by violinist Pablo Valetti and harpsichord player Céline Frisch, is renowned throughout the world for the clarity and precision of its interpretations and its extraordinary collective virtuosity. This is... |
J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol.1 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] Grouped around the Brandenburg Concertos these 3 volumes of "concertos for various instruments" collect some of J.S.Bach's most famous concertos. |
J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol.2 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] Grouped around the Brandenburg Concertos these 3 volumes of "concertos for various instruments" collect some of J.S.Bach's most famous concertos. |
J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol.3 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] Grouped around the Brandenburg Concertos these 3 volumes of "concertos for various instruments" collect some of J.S.Bach's most famous concertos. |
JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY / MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / JEAN HENRY d"ANGLEBERT / etc
Splendeurs de Versailles [10 CD set] Cafe Zimmermann, Le poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre, Ensemble Pierre Robert, Frederic Desenclos, etc [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Versailles: its court, its atmosphere and its music . . . So many splendours emblematic of a monument with an incomparably rich history. The works associated with the palace have travelled down the centuries and today represent a precious part of our... |