Since you are interested in Bizet: Les Pecheurs des Perles [The Pearl Fishers] (Complete Opera recorded in 1963), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (with Dvorak - Slavonic Dances) Michel Beroff, Jean-Philippe Collard (pianos) [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Brahms recommended DvoĆák, eight years his junior, to his publisher, Simrock, in 1877 and the following year duly published the first set of Slavonic Dances which they commissioned. |
BEETHOVEN
Mass in C major, Op. 86 / Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123 New Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "As in Missa Solemnis, Giulini inspires his forces to give of their best for him. The recorded sound for both performances struck me as being pretty good" (MusicWeb Oct 2008) |