BEETHOVEN / ELGAR / SVENDSEN / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / KREISLER
Romances Gil Shaham (violin) / Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Apr/2006 ] This features some of the best-known "romance" works for violin from Beethoven to Elgar. |
VIVALDI
Concertos for Violin, Strings and Continuo Giuliano Carmignola (baroque violin) / Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 28/Jul/2006 ] "The engineers are to be congratulated for providing a well balanced sound that is cool and clear. The high standard liner notes add to the excellent presentation of the release. Vivaldi lovers will not want to be without this beautifully performed... |
J. S. BACH
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051 (complete) Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Michala Petri (recorder) & Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet) / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/May/2011 ] |
VIVALDI / LOCATELLI / TARTINI
Concerto Veneziano Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] "An immensely novel sound . . . able to evoke the rough often abrasive sounds of early Italian music yet also deliver an incredible sweetness of tone . . . Carmignola's gestures called to mind both the wild spontaneity of a Hirschfeld caricature and... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 (with Schumann - Manfred Overture) Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Deutsche Grammophon Orginals / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "Giulini's refined and individual reading, with its very measured view of the first movement, remains a striking example of a conductor transforming an orchestra." (Penguin Guide) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: A German Requiem (Ein Deutsches Requiem) [rec 1964] Gundula Janowitz, Eberhard Wachter / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] "Beautifully refined performance" (Penguin Guide) |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Cello Conerto (with Brahms:- Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11) Natalia Gutman (cello) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Apr/2007 ] "This is prime-quality Abbado: points are made but never overstated, and there's always the sense that quality musicians are working together with a common musical aim. Who could possibly ask for more?" Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 |
ANTONIN DVORAK / ALBERTO GINASTERA / PABLO de SARASATE
Hilary Hahn - Eclipse Hilary Hahn (violin) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrés Orozco-Estrada [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2023 - Concerto |
JENNIFER HIGDON / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Higdon/Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos Hilary Hahn (violin) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "This release is a must acquisition for anyone interested in new music, and for all lovers of great violin playing." (10 / 10 ClassicsToday Oct 2010) |
NICOLO PAGANINI / LOUIS SPOHR
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8 Hilary Hahn (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eiji Oue [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Sep/2006 ] 'Hilary Hahn, this queen of Apollonian clarity and compelling concentration...In her playing the wondrously singing lyrical passages were a response to the flawless ecstasy of supreme violinistic artistry.' Süddeutsche Zeitung |
MOZART / Max RICHTER / DOWLAND / ADES / BOWIE
Music of the Spheres Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist) Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] "Aurora is the most bracing breath of fresh air to invigorate the British classical music scene in the past ten years." (Richard Morrison, The Times) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 (complete opera) Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Luca Pisaroni, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Rolando Villazón / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2012 ] This is the first of a new Deutsche Grammophon cycle of Mozart's seven main operas in collaboration with Festspielhaus Baden-Baden..and kind support of Rolex and an enthusiastic advocate - Rolando Villazón - in love with Mozart! |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass (Cecilien-Messe) Irmgard Seefried, Gerhard Stolze & Hermann Uhde / Czech Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Igor Markevitch [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 11/Oct/2007 ] "In his straight-faced way Markevitch makes the incongruity of Gounod's jolly and vulgar tunes all the more delectable, and soloists, chorus and orchestra are all first rate." Penguin Guide |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Petrushka [complete ballets] Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Virtuoso / CD - released 30/Aug/2014 ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Works for piano and orchestra Jan Lisiecki (piano) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] "a sense of exploration permeates all the performances here, too; the first-movement cadenza is particularly imaginative in that regard" (Gramophone) |
JANACEK
The Excursions of Mr Broucek (complete opera) Jan Vacik, Peter Straka, Roman Janal / BBC Singers / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Jiri Belohlavek [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Opera - "Belohlávek is at home here in a lively account of a loveable opera." Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 |
BERNSTEIN
Candide (Complete musical) Jerry Handley, June Anderson, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig / London Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 26/May/2003 ] "It was an Original Cast highlights LP that first turned Candide into a cult musical after what was only modest success for the show on Broadway in the winter of 1956-7. Nowafter what seems like an eternity of revivals and revisions Candide once... |
WAGNER
Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 1967) Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela, Thomas Stewart, Gundula Janowitz / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2013 ] |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete operetta) Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey / Bavarian State Opera Orchestra / Carlos Kleiber [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 22/May/2000 ] "Twenty-five years after its original release there's still no recording of Die Fledermaus that, for many collectors, matches this one for the compelling freshness of its conductor's interpretation." Gramophone |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Invitation To Dance / Overtures Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] A classic Karajan recording available again. |