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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Yiddish Winterreisse - A Holocaust Survivor's Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song Mark Glanville (bass-baritone) / Alexander Knapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] A Yiddish Winterreise is a sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire devised by opera singer and cantor Mark Glanville, recreating the original, Schubertian journey in a Holocaust context. The singer reflects on the life and world he has just... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11 / Arias (with Handel-arias) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) with Ena Mitchell (soprano) William Herbert (tenor) William Pasons (bass) / Cantata Singers / Reginald Jacques [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] 'No summit of solemnity was inaccessible to her, and it was particularly music of spiritual meaning that seemed her most personal domain.' Thus wrote the distingushed conductor Bruno Walter about the contralto Kathleen Ferrier, whose highly... |
HANDEL
Athalia (English oratorio in three acts) Markus Brutscher (tenor) / Friederike Holzhausen (soprano) / Stephan MacLeod (bass) / Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra / Joachim Carlos Martini [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Jan/2005 ] "a thoughtful performance of a musically staisfying piece" - BBC Music Magazine |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Ballet Suites Nos. 1 - 4 Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] "Whether in waltz or gallop Shostakovich proves consistently full of verve and these performances, warmly recorded, are splendid ones" (MusicWeb Nov 2004) |
SHIRO FUKAI
Chantes de Java / Creation / Quatre Mouvements Parodiques Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] In the second half of the nineteenth century, Japanese westernisation in music led first to an interest in German musical traditions, while the Army Band, on the contrary, took France as its model, with many of its musicians trained in France... |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Clovis et Clotilde / Te Deum Katarina Jovanovic (soprano) / Philippe Do (tenor) / Mark Schnaible (bass) / Orchestre National de Lille / Jean-Claude Casadesus [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "There are many moments to cherish, notably Clotilde's prayer, starting on an exquisitely delicate pianissimo." Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 |
KALMAN
Csardasfurstin (Die) (The Gypsy Princess) (Complete operetta) Karl-Michael Ebner (tenor) Mojca Erdmann (soprano) Heinz Holecek (bass) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Naxos Opera Classics SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] Kálmán's great contribution to the musical language of Viennese operetta was to bring to it the brilliant colours, the heady rhythms and the dynamic energy of his native Hungary - not just as an imitator, like so many other composers, but as one who... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Hamlet, Op. 116 / 116a Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] Complete published film score (incorporating the Suite, Op.116a, arranged by Lev Atovmian) |
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BELLINI
I Puritani (Complete opera) (Recorded April 1953 ) Maria Callas (soprano) Aurora Cattelani (soprano) Carlo Forti (bass) Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Tullio Serafin (conducto [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "The thrill of hearing Maria Callas launching into Bellini's dramatic arias, replete with vocal acrobatics, is one of opera's great experiences. Recorded in 1953, at the peak of her career, it has that burning and dramatic intensity to carry the disc... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (highlights from the opera) Miriam Gauci (soprano) / Kaludi Kaludov (tenor) / Henk Lauwers (bass) / Vincente Sardinero (baritone) / Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic / [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "This 68 minutes of excerpts from Puccini's first great success is an excellent introduction to the opera. We get most of the music for Manon and Des Grieux in Act 1, Manon's second act aria and the big duet, the beautiful Intermezzo (rather... |
W.A. MOZART
The Marriage of Figaro (highlights) Natale de Carolis (baritone) / Donato di Stefano (bass) / Ingrid Kertesi (soprano) / Hungarian State Opera Orchestra / Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] Love, seduction, intrigue and comedy provide the confusing situations that has placed Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro among of the most popular of all the comic operas. |
J.S. BACH
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Complete oratorio) Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo) / Ann Hallenberg (mezzo) / Sunhae Im (sop) / Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos SACD / 2 SACD - released 17/Apr/2005 ] This, one of the greatest of choral works, ends with both thanks to God and a prayer for peace. - Keith Anderson |
ANTON ARENSKY
Arensky: Piano Concerto / Ryabinin Fantasia / To the Memory of Suvorov / Symphonic Scherzo Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "Not surprisingly, these performances are very Russian in feeling, and after a bold opening both orchestra and the excellent soloist make the very most of the concerto's memorable secondary theme...A most enjoyable collection." Penguin Guide |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Konstantin Scherbakov, piano / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "the best Third Concerto I've ever heard; stupefying brilliant sound in 8 different flavours" (MusicWeb) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem, Op. 48 / Messe basse / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Lisa Beckley (soprano) Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone) / Oxford Schola Cantorum / Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "The fresh, forward choral tone goes with an unmannered interpretation from Jeremy Summerly, with soloists comparably fresh toned" - Penguin Guide |
Milana Chernyavska, piano / Nicolas Koeckert, violin
Russian and Slavonic Miniatures [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] |
TRADITIONAL
Russian Chant - Divine Liturgy (Sung in Church Slavonic) Novospassky Monastery Choir, Igumen Mitrofan [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2001 ] a number of the most popular Russian religious-composers are represented |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Schopfung (Die) (The Creation) Max Ciolek (choirmaster) Sunhae Im (soprano) Jan Kobow (tenor) Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass-baritone) / Capella Augustina / Andreas Spering [ Naxos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/Jun/2005 ] "From the very first chord one feels that this recording is something special. The sound is crisp, well-balanced and detailed without being over-analytical." (MusicWeb May 2005) |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 / Serenade, Op. 75 Maxim Fedotov (violin) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Nov/2004 ] "A warm welcome for Bruch's neglected Serenade and his compelling Fantasy" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Dec 2004 |
