Since you are interested in Witches' Brew (Incls 'A Night on the Bare Mountain', 'Danse macabre' & 'Funeral March of a Marionette'), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CAMPION / DOWLAND / MORLEY / BARTLETT / etc
An Elizabethan Songbook Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rooley (lute) [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Jul/2005 ] "This a wonderful disc. Delightful songs. Kirkby's clear, pure voice complemented by Rooley's sympathetic lute accompaniment" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Slavonic Rhapsodies, Op. 45 / Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur [Rhapsodies] / Wiener Symphoniker / Karel Ancerl [Dances] [ Philips Australian Eloquence / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] Karel Ancerl's recording of the Dvorak's scintillating Slavonic Dances here receive their first release on CD. Recorded in 1958 they were some of the most popular LP recordings in their day and now, nearly 47 years later, receive their first... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Hungarian Radio & Television Orchestra. Charles Munch [ ABC Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] The rarest amongst Charles Munch's many traversals of Symphonie fantastique (including those with the Boston and Paris Orchestras), this is an extraordinarily spacious reading of the first movement in particular, and will be much sought after by... |
RACHMANINOV / ADDINSELL / LITOLFF / WILLIAMS / BATH / etc
Dangerous Moonlight - piano classics from the silver screen (Incls 'Warsaw Concerto' & 'Dream of Olwen') Isador Goodman (piano) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Patrick Thomas [ Philips ABC Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "A good selection of 'silver screen' romantic favourites for piano and orchestra." (MusicWeb July 2005) |
ZOLTAN KODALY / BELA BARTOK
Bartok/Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra (with Janacek's Taras Bulba) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta / Philharmonia Hungarica / Antal Dorati / etc [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 9/Sep/2006 ] Three of the very best of Eastern Europe's orchestral exports. This is the first CD release of Zubin Mehta's sought-after Kingwsay Hall recording of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra coupled with the much lesser known Kodaly Concerto for Orchestra, and... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Great Sacred Works (Incls Stabat Mater & Nisi Dominus) Jochen Kowalski (counter-tenor) Nico van der Meel (tenor) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Vittorio Negri [ ABC Eloquence / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] One could be forgiven for being surprised that sacred music does not account for a more substantial proportion of Vivaldi's life's work, especially in view of his having been ordained a priest. The music on this disc, however, presents the 'other'... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (complete ballet recorded in 1994) Royal Opera House / Viviana Durante, Zoltán Solymosi, Anthony Dowell, Benazir Hussein / Barry Wordsworth (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] G - 'Viviana Durante is outstanding as Aurora. Radiant and youthful, she dances with an ease and naturalness that is enchanting.' Evening Standard |