Since you are interested in Bach: Toccata / Partita No 2 / English Suite No 2, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
RICHARD STRAUSS / RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): A Hero's Life / Siegfried Idyll Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 20/Aug/2001 ] "His reading of this score has tremendous sweep and all the authority and mastery we have come to expect-and, indeed, take for granted. Nor is the orchestral playing anything other than glorious-in fact, in terms of sheer virtuosity they have never... |
JOHNANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer / 3 Quartette Op. 64 Edith Mathis, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel & Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "The rare elegance and stylishness of Karl Engel's and Wolfgang Sawallisch's piano-playing, too, lifts the Op. 52 way above the party pieces these can so often become; they energize the bolder variety of the Op. 65 group, and enhance the... |
CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Violin Sonata in A (with Szymanowski - Mythen) Kaja Danczowska (violin) / Krystian Zimerman (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 18/Mar/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "There is a sense of rapture here that is totally persuasive, and Krystian Zimerman plays with a virtuosity and imagination that silence criticism. An indispensable... |