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BACH / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / LISZT / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / etc
Wilhelm Kempff - The Decca Legacy Wilhelm Kempff (piano) with Pablo Casals, Paul Grümmer (cellos) Georg Kulenkampff (violin) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 13 CD Box Set - released 18/Apr/2022 ] The Decca legacy of WILHELM KEMPFF, one of the last century's greatest keyboard poets. |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Music for Flute (Incls Bachianas Brasileiras No 6) William Bennett (flute) with Thea King (clarinet) Neil Black (oboe) and others [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] 'A disc of pure delight from beginning to end. Another example of why Hyperion gets my vote as the most innovative record label. Full marks!' (Which CD) |
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IVES / COPLAND / DELLO JOIO / SATIE / BOWLES / etc
William Masselos - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection [7 CD set] William Masselos (piano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Sony Classical's William Masselos Edition on 7 newly mastered and transferred CDs is a re- lease for which devotees of American piano music have long been clamouring. At last, the wait is over |
Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare: Richard III WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [ Opus Arte / DVD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Young Richard of Gloucester uses the chaos of the Wars of the Roses to begin his unscrupulous climb to power. Despite being manifestly unfit to govern, he seizes the crown as King Richard III. But how does he do it? How do we let tyrants get away... |
SCHUBERT / BRUCKNER / DUKAS / R. STRAUSS / STRAVINSKY / DVORAK
The complete RCA Victor Recordings William Steinberg & Boston Symphony Orchestra [ Sony Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Including "vital and inspiring performances", here are 4 CD's containing William Steinberg conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which includes some of his "best entries in his discography, and the finest recordings of the works." Mendelssohn's... |
JOHN TAVENER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tavener: Angels & other choral works Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2019 ] "This is a showroom demonstration of just what boy and girl choristers singing together can achieve. A truly magnificent birthday present." Gramophoe Editor's Choice May 2019 |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / KRENEK / BRAHMS / DUPARC / RAVEL / etc
Wolfgang Holzmair - The Philips Recitals Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) Imogen Cooper, Gérard Wyss, Peter Stamm (piano) / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra [ Decca Austrailian Eloquence / 13 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] From Haydn to Eisler: the collected Philips recordings of WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR, a supreme art-song interpreter, including many long-deleted albums. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Awesome Organ: Best loved classical organ music Wolfgang Rubsam, Simon Lindley, Stephen Tharp, Philippe Lefebvre, Robert Delcamp, Christiaan Teeuwsen, Éric Lebrun (organs) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] For those who are new to an instrument, the first question is often: where to start? The 'Best Loved' series offers an easy answer to that question and a perfect introduction to the wonderful, varied world of classical music. Spotlighting individual... |
FRANK MARTIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martin: Concertos & Orchestral Music Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/1996 ] "..particularly magnificent, thanks in no small part to Marga Höffgen's superlative singing; but all the parts are beautifully sung and played, and the recording engineers have taken their roles accordingly.' High Fidelity (In terra pax) |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Abu Hassan / Symphony No. 1 in C Wolfgang Völz, Jörg Dürmüller, Johanna Stojkovic / Cappella Coloniensis, Bruno Weil [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] "The Cappella Coloniensis is an exceptional period instrument band with crisp attack and ensemble playing. Weil consistently whips up the exhilaration and keeps the musical arguments fresh and logical." MusicWeb |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cathedral Music Worcester Cathedral Choir, Adrian Partington (organ) Donald Hunt (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] 'The Worcester performances are near ideal... vividly atmospheric recording' - Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart's Magic Fantasy Writen by Douglas Cowling with Richard Binsley, Russell Braun & Barbara Budd [ Classical Kids / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Travel back in time with Classical Kids! a dramatic story, a little bit of history and the world's best-loved classical music set the scene for fun-filled musical adventures for all ages. In all Classical Kids recordings, the story is based on... |
WYNTON MARSALIS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sweet Release & Ghost Story - two more ballets by Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis (trumpet/conductor) / Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra [ Sony Music / CD - released 2/Sep/1999 ] The fifth in Wynton Marsalis's avalanche of eight releases in 1999 was another pairing of ballets, again issued on Sony Classical rather than Columbia. Sweet Release is easily the more ingratiating of the two - obviously, even slavishly, modeled on... |
REINHOLD GLIERE / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / ALEXANDER MOSOLOV
Glière, Mosolov: Harp Concertos Xavier de Maistre (harp), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Nathalie Stutzmann [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Romantic harp concertos, including the famous Glière Concerto and the fantastic Mosolov Concerto. This album by French harpist Xavier de Maistre contains an interesting combination and variety of two romantic harp concertos by Reinhold Glière and... |
ALBENIZS / GOSS / TARREGA / GRANADOS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Xuefei Yang - 40 Degrees North Xuefei Yang (guitar) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] "Aficionados of fine music, irrespective of specific disposition, will not be disappointed by this excellent recording." (MusicWeb July 2008) |
STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky, Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky (rec June 2009) BLU-RAY Yefim Bronfman (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2014 ] The famous yearly Berliner Philharmoniker Open-Air concert at the Berlin Waldbühne attended by more than 20,000 people. The atmosphere is unique and unconventionally relaxed. People bring champagne, salmon and caviar, making the Waldbühne a giant... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms Cycle [Symphonies, Concertos & Overtures] (recorded in 2015) Yefim Bronfman (piano) Julia Fischer (violin) / The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ Belvedere / BBC Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2017 ] The Cleveland Orchestra is the aristocrat among American orchestras (The Telegraph) and its conductor, Franz Welser-Möst, rules his subjects with a velvet glove. Indeed, velvet and silk keep showing up in descriptions of the Clevelanders sound under... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Play Gershwin Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli (violins) [ EMI / CD - released 12/Nov/1988 ] Today it does not look in the least absurd, but in the early 1970s it seemed strange to match a self-taught, somewhat unorthodox jazz violinist who came to prominence with the guitarist Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club de France with a... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (with works by Scriabin) (LP) Yevgeny Kissin (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] In 1988 pianist Evgeny Kissin, then 17 years old, started his world career with an electrifying interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Berliner Philharmoniker's New Year's Eve Concert. |
Yo Yo Ma
Soul Of The Tango (Translucent Red LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 4/Sep/2015 ] Inspired by a great passion for Astor Piazzolla's tango, The Soul Of The Tango is a critically acclaimed and essential work of the "Nuevo Tango", played by Yo-Yo Ma's world famous cello and many of Piazzolla's former friends and... |
