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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets (complete) Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / 24 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "This is fine, traditional (in a good sense) quartet-playing, and unlike other complete quartet cycles currently available (Tatrai, Angeles), this set is REALLY complete." (ClassicsToday) |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Piano Music (Including Antiche Danze ed Arie (Ancient Airs and Dances) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] "Sherbakov rises magnificently to the considerable technical and expressive demands of Respighi's piano writing" - Fanfare |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ LISZT
Beethoven/Liszt: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Transcriptions) S464/R128 Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Vol 21 / 5 CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "... one of the most capable, daring and interesting musicians of these days." (Peter Cossé) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Very Best of Shostakovich Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) Michael Houstoun (Piano) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Conductor) Ilya Kaler (Violin) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "As an introduction to the composer's work, it gives a wide-ranging and typical selection, which is in itself some achievement." (MusicWeb August 2006) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Amati Chamber Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 5/Apr/2024 ] A divertimento is defined as music intended for light entertainment, 'to please the ear' rather than arouse the emotions in the phrase of one early-19th-century theorist. The word was used interchangeably at the time with serenade and cassation, and... |
TRADITIONAL
La Capella Reial de Catalunya: 25 Years La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 8/Apr/2013 ] To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Capella Reial de Catalunya, the choir he founded in 1988, Jordi Savall has gathered 4 rexamples of their work, rich in Catalan heritage, luxuriously presented in a box and all published originally on the Astré |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The French Connection La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "The orchestral sound, as always with La Serenissima, achieves bright attractiveness and vivacity without feeling the need to pursue the taut energy of some other groups." Gramophone Awards 2010 - Finalist (Baroque Instrumental) |
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MICHEL-RICHARD DELALANDE
Delalande: Symphonies Pour Les Soupers Du Roy [Symphonies for the King's Supper] La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne [ Camera Obscura / Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/1990 ] Hugo Reyne, known until then as the 'recorder-player of Les Arts Florissants', presented the first-ever completed recording of the Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy with his ensemble La Simphonie du Marais, founded three years previously |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Ascanio - Ballet: Andromaque / Overtures / etc Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "This disc is a mandatory acquisition for anyone who cares about either the composer or good French theater music." 9/9 ClassicsToday |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Tone Poems (incls En Saga, Op. 9 & Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22) Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänska & Neeme Jarvi [ BIS Complete Sibelius Edition / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "To hear Osmo Vänskä conducting Jean Sibelius is to change one's view of the music." Financial Times |
MOZART / DITTERSDORF / HAYDN / VANHAL
Classical Oboe Lajos Lencses (oboe) / Budapest Strings / Franz-Liszt-Kammerorchester [ Hanssler / CD - released 19/Apr/2008 ] "Lajos Lencsés is one of the greatest oboists of our time" - wrote the French Diapason magazine in 1990, when his recording won the prestigious" Diapason d'Or" Award. |
BENDA / PISENDAL / TORELLI
Concerti By Benda, Pisendal, Torelli Lara Hall (baroque violin) / NZ Barok, Peter Walls [ Atoll Records / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] This CD is the culmination of a long-held desire to record little-known 18th century concerti. Players' parts were prepared for this project from digital copies of manuscripts in the Schank II Collection (Dresden) including Pisendel's scores of his... |
TELEMANN
Telemann - 12 Fantasias for solo violin Lara Hall (violin) [ Atoll Records / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "As a performer on both the baroque and modern violin, I have two very different musical personas. With this CD I have tried to create, on a modern violin, as much of the sound world of a baroque violinist as possible with minimal concession to the... |
KAPSBERGER / LANDI / CAVALIERI / LA TARANTELLA
La tarantella e un po'di follie L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar [ Alpha Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Oct/2022 ] L'Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar have blazed new trails in the rediscovery and interpretation of Baroque music, Italian in particular. The five recordings they made for Alpha are among the biggest-ever successes in this repertory. La Tarantella,... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5 'Emperor' Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "Vogt's playing in the slow movement [of the Emperor] is suitably rapt, and the whole performance radiates that sense of well-being which the piece demands" BBC Music |
AARON MESSING / ANNI HOCHHALTER / CHARLES MUELLER / ARIELLE KASNETZ / CAMERON LECRONE
Recall, Recall (LP) Late Aster [ Delos / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] The latest release by the two classically trained brass musicians/composers Aaron Messing and Anni Hochhalter, 'Recall, Recall', is an overflowing menagerie of sounds and melodies featuring textured injections of trumpet and French horn, with some... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196 (complete opera sung in Italian recorded in 2014) Le Concert d'Astrée / Carlo Allemano, Erin Morley, Enea Scala, Marie-Adeline Henry / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] The French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm conducts here her music ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée during this performance of Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera at the Opéra de Lille (France) on March 22nd and 25th 2014. This production, directed by David Lescot |
GREGORIO ALLEGRI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Anamorfosi Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "This is an album so nuanced you can almost taste it." Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2019 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9 Leipzig Radio Choir / Dresden Opera Chorus / Staatskapelle Dresden. Herbert Blomstedt [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "Highlights of this cycle are many: a grand and glorious Eroica, a lithe and lyrical Second and Fourth, a pellucid Sixth with luminous wind playing, an exciting Ninth (with) a marvelously well sung finale." (ClassicsToday 10/10) |
