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FRITZ WUNDERLICH
Icon: Fritz Wunderlich: A Poet Among Tenors (works by Mozart, Mahler, Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovksy, etc) Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) with various orchestras & conductors [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "The recordings are clean, balanced and digitally re-mastered. I urge every lover of the tenor to buy this set; it offers nearly seven hours of one of the most beautiful, natural, refined and unforced tenor voices we have ever heard." (MusicWeb Oct... |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / BERLIOZ / BRAHMS / HAYDN / KODALY / etc
Ferenc Fricsay: Complete Recordings On DG - Vol.1 - Orchestral Works Gaza Anda (piano) Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2015 ] Deutsche Grammophon unites all of its Fricsay recordings into 2 volumes, of which this is the first. FERENC FRICSAY - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Vol. 1 presents Fricsay's orchestral output in its entirety. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
George Szell - Complete Warner Recordings George Szell (conductor) with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, David Oistrak, Emil Gilels, etc [ Warner Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2020 ] George Szell's commitment to musical truth made him an intimidating figure - even among the other formidable conductors of the 20th century. |
W. A. MOZART / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / etc
Géza Anda: Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings Geza Anda (piano) / Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / 17 CD Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] D. G. celebrates one of the greatest pianists of our time, Géza Anda - the "troubadour of the keyboard" (Furtwängler) - in a limited edition 17-CD set. Anda was for the most part of his sadly too-short career a Deutsche Grammophon artists. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Complete opera recorded in 2003) Gregory Kunde, Joyce DiDonato, Patrizia Ciofi, Laurent Naouri / Orchestre Nationale de France. John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2018 ] 'A splendid achievement. Here indeed is the 'verve and vitality' Berlioz always believed he had found.' - Gramophone |
FAURE / GLAZUNOV / RACHMANINOFF
The Swan - Classic Works for Cello & Orchestra Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Erato / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] This recording takes a new look at some of the most enduring smaller-scale works in the cello's literature. Among those chosen and performed by Han-Na Chang, several are heard in their original forms. Elsewhere, however, new orchestral arrangements... |
J. S. BACH
The Passions / Christmas Oratorio / B Minor Mass / Motets Agnes Giebel, Helmut Krebs, etc / Heinrich Schutz-Choir, Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, Fritz Werner [ Warner Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2004 ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J.S. - The Organ Works (Incls the Preludes & Fugues and the Art of Fugue) Helmut Walcha (organ) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 12 CD Box Set - released 7/Jul/2000 ] Every organ work you could possibly want by Bach! |
TOMASO ALBINONI
Tomaso Albinoni: The Collector's Edition I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone / Ensemble Strumentale Albalonga, Annibale Cetrangolo, with Pierre Pierlot & Pietro Bongonovo (oboes) [ Warner Classics / Erato / 16 CD Box Set - released 29/Jan/2021 ] The 'Adagio' (re)composed by Remo Giazotto had been enjoying huge popularity for ten years when Claudio Scimone and his chamber orchestra joined the Erato family and began to investigate the authentic Albinoni catalogue. |
THREE TENORS
The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 Luciano Pavarotti / Jose Carreras / Placido Domingo / Zubin Mehta [ Warner Music Vision / DVD - released 24/Sep/2007 ] Carreras... Domingo... Pavarotti... These three great opera stars - possibly the most famous in the world - reunited for this this glorious concert at Dodger Stadium on July 16, 1994 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Warner Classics / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] The distinctive character of each of Prokofiev's Violin Concertos seems rooted in its genesis: the first, nervy and iconoclastic, coincided with the Russian Revolution; the second, more sober and expansively lyrical, dates from 1935, when Prokofiev... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rodney Friend [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] Itzhak Perlman is the supreme violinist of his time, adored by audiences around the world and a musician whose powerful but sympathetic artistic personality provides a model for the players who have followed him. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Serenade Melancolique (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ornandy [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] In Perlman's words, Tchaikovsky "wears his heart on his sleeve" and his violin concerto is a work of "unabashed Romanticism". While bringing sensitivity and substance to his interpretation, Perlman never slips into sentimentality, and he leads an... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas [complete] Itzhak Perlman (violin) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Ovation / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "The recording boasts unusually truthful violin sound capturing all the colour of Perlman's playing." (Gramophoen Classical Music guide) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Renowned as a great interpreter of Brahms, Jacqueline du Pré, here at the peak of her art and technical abilities, delivers the latest version recorded with her husband Daniel Barenboim in May-August 1968. |
CAVALLI / BORETTI / BONONCINI / Orlandini / HANDEL / etc
Jakub Józef Orliński: Facce d'Amore (LP) Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor) / Il pomo d'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 1/Jun/2020 ] "It's music by Luca Antonio Predieri (a nearcontemporary of Handel's) that really hits the mark. Predieri's gentle lyricism and clean lines suit Orliński's soft-grained voice well." Gramophone |
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James Last
Classical Collection (2CD) [ 2 CD ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
It Ain't Necessarily So: violin favourites from classical to jazz. Jascha Heifetz (violin) [ DG / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] Heifetz (1901-1987) has regularly been dubbed 'The Violinist of the Century', and there is no doubt he set standards of technical perfection and virtuosity that all violinists look up to. |
BACH / MOZART / SIBELIUS / TCHAIKOVSKY / GLAZUNOV / etc
Icon: Jascha Heifetz- The Master Violinist (6 CD set) Jascha Heifetz (violin) with various orchestras, conductors & accompaniments [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Jascha Heifetz was a Jewish Lithuanian-born American violin virtuoso who was born in 1901 and died in 1987. His father was a professional violinist who started to give him lessons when Heifetz was only three-years-old. He then went on to further... |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera) Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Royal Opera House Covent Garden / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonyng [ Decca / 3 CD - released 10/Aug/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) -- Building a Library First Choice - January 2005 |
