TCHAIKOSVKY / CHOPIN / SCHUBERT / LISZT/ MUSSORGSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 & piano works (2 LP) Daniil Trifonov (Piano) / Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky LP / LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Daniil Trifonov's classic Mariinsky Label album is now available on vinyl. Originally released in 2012, this album includes Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 alongside a unique selection of recital repertoire, including Trifonov's interpretation of... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Danish National Concert Choir, Danish Chamber Orchestra, Ádám Fischer [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "I find these performances utterly fascinating, though it would be next to impossible to offer a comprehensive catalogue of the various colourful twists and turns that characterise Fischer's performances (there are far too many of them)." Gramophone |
SERGEI RACHMANIMOV
Destination Rachmaninov: Departure - Piano Concertos 2 & 4 (LP) Daniil Trifonov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deusche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Grammy winner Daniil Trifonov presents a cycle of Sergei Rachmaninov's highly virtuosic Piano Concertos. Recorded with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the orchestra most closely associated with the composer with which... |
Danny Elfman
Ost: Epic [ Sony Classical / CD - released 27/May/2013 ] |
Danny Elfman
Ost: Promised Land [ Sony Classical / CD - released 15/Apr/2013 ] |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Complete String Quartets Danubius Quartet [ Marco Polo / 6 CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] This year marks 200 years since the proclamation of Brazil's independence, by Dom Pedro I in September 1822. Developed in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The 'Music of Brazil' series presents around 100 orchestral,... |
HANDEL
Suites For Keyboard Daria Van Den Bercken [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Aug/2013 ] Daria van den Bercken is an excellent ambassador for good music in the Netherlands and beyond, performing regularly for children and in "unusual and surprising places", and communicating with straightforward honesty and passion about music. |
Dave Brubeck
Brubeck Meets Bach [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2007 ] |
Dave Brubeck with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The London Symphony Orchesra. The London Voices. Russell Gloyd, conductor
Classical Brubeck: Beloved Son / Pange Lingua Variations / Voice of the Holy Spirit / Regret [ Telarc Records / 2 CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] Classical Brubeck is an incredible 2-CD collection based on sacred text and is comprised of four specific works: Beloved Son, Pange Lingua Variations, Voice of the Holy Spirit and Regret. CD |
David Greilsammer
Various: Baroque Conversions [ Sony Classical / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] |
David Lee Roth
Skyscraper [ Sony Classical / CD ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
David Oistrakh Volume 1 (LP) David Oistrakh (violin) Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin [ Melodiya / LP - released 8/Oct/2014 ] "The world had one of the greatest violinists in the person of David Oistrakh", wrote the prominent conductor Eugene Ormandy. His other fellow musicians - violinists, pianists, composers and conductors - spoke about Oistrakh with as much admiration.... |
David Palmer
Plays Queen - Import [ Sony Classical / CD ] |
David Raksin
Ost: The Bad & The Beautiful [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] |
David Russell
Albeniz: Spanish Music For Cla [ Telarc Classical / CD - released 16/May/2011 ] |
David Zinman & The Tonhalle Or
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigals [Books 1 - 9] Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini [ Naxos / 15 CD Box Set - released 24/Jul/2020 ] The editions used in these recordings are the most authentic and uncut, and, in keeping with 17th-century practice, employ male voices only. Praised as 'compelling, simultaneously controlled and imaginative' (American Record Guide) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 3 / Rhapsody On A Theme of Paganini (2LP) Denis Matsuev (piano) / Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky LP / LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Pressed on heavyweight 180g vinyl, this new verison of Denis Matsuev's deubt Mariinsky Label album also includes his 2015 recording of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1, which was described as 'electrifying' by Classica. This beautiful double LP set... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies / Vocalise / Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] "Slatkin is with Rachmaninov, all the way. He revels in the first movement's restless shifts, pitting the brute power of full ensemble against woodwind detail and soaring cellos." (William Dart NZ Herald on Symphony No. 3) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2016 ] The recordings of Beethoven's nine symphonies collected together here for this 5 disc album - for which Paavo Järvi received the 2010 ECHO Klassik Conductor of the Year award - and the orchestra's live performances of the complete Beethoven symphony... |