CORELLI
Violin Sonatas Op 6 The Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin) [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2012 ] "the sense of ensemble is faultless and, in the faster movements, breathtakingly impressive." (Gramophone) |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler, Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, etc / Bach Collegium Japan chorus & orchestra / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "The musicians convey it with infectious zeal...Generic early music politesse is relegated to the shadows" Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Choral |
J. S. BACH
Secular Cantatas Vol III [BWV 173a, 202 "Wedding", 36c, 524] Joanne Lunn (soprano), Hiroya Aoki (counter-tenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Although two of the works on this disc were composed for weddings, they are completely different in character. Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten is a charming and gracious garland of recitatives and arias for soprano solo in which Spring, Flora, Apollo... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Oratorio de Noel - Christmas Oratorio Bachchor & Bachorchester Mainz [ Profil / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Baden-Baden Festspielhaus / Miah Persson, Rolando Villazon, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Roman Trekel / Pablo Heras-Casado (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "Villazon's Nemorino...comes across as individual, hyperactive, zany, but also a bit petulant and unlovable...Persson exudes easy-going charm...[d'Arcangelo] sings with fine, Italianate comic energy." (Gramophone) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (with Janacek-Violin Concerto) Baiba Skride (violin) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Munich Philharmonic Orchestra / Marek Janowski / Mikko Franck [ Sony Classical / CD - released 28/Oct/2007 ] "A natural musicaon to the ends of her fingertips." Classic FM Magazine |
W.A. MOZART
Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K. 216 / Rondo in C major, K. 373 (with Johann Michael Haydn-Violin Concerto) Baiba Skride (violin) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra / Hartmut Haenchen [ Sony Classical / CD - released 28/Oct/2007 ] "I'm a spontanteous person and if you've got to do the same thing ten times in a row and keep your concentration while you're at it..." (Baiba Skride) |
Bailey / Dinnerstein
Beethoven: Sonatas [ Telarc Classical / 2 CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] |
Bailey/Pratt
Brahms: Works For Cello & Pian [ Telarc Classical / CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] |
Bajofondo
Presente [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
Baluji Shrivastav
Classical Indian Ragas [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Five beautiful ragas played on sitar, surbahar (bass sitar) and dilruba (Indian fiddle) and combinations of the three instruments, played by Indian multi-instrumentalist Baluji Shrivastav, masterly accompanied on tabla by Sanju Sahai. A beautiful,... |
Baluji Shrivastav
Classical Indian Sitar & Surbahar Ragas [ Arc / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Baluji Shrivastav is an artist and multi-instrumentalist of world renown and has played innumerable concerts all over the world. Here he presents six sitar ragas and four surbahar ragas, accopanied on tabla by Ismail Sheikh and Sarvar Sabri. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Claus Peter Flor conducts Mendelssohn Lucia Popp (sop) Marjana Lipovšek (mezzo) Josef Protschka (tenor) Sergei Edelmann (piano) Kyoko Takezawa (violin) / Bamberg Symphony, Claus Peter Flor [ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2017 ] "Claus Peter Flor's Mendelssohn enjoys the classical virtues of good taste, fine attention to detail, and a real sense of style...these are perfectly respectable and entertaining performances, well recorded. You won't be disappointed." (ClassicsToday) |
J.S. BACH
Sacred Works: Masses BWV 232-236 / Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Soloists / Collegium Vocale, Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Virgin Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "the four Lutheran Masses have been absurdly undervalued because they were largely revamped from earlier cantatas. But who could resist the singing of Gerard Lesne, the invigorating Kyrie of the F major Mass, the G major's tenor aria with oboe... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Works For Solo Piano Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / 6 CD Box Set - released 5/Jan/2018 ] "..his tone is a deep velvet cushion, the legatos full of affection and the rhythms galvanised with great energy." BBC Music Magazine |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Story of American Classical Music Barrymore Scherer, author with Various Artists [ Naxos American Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] Includes music by MacDowell, Foote, Chadwick, Beach, Ives, Sousa, Joplin, Gershwin, Copland, Schuman, Barber, Cage, Bernstein, Carter, Glass, Adams and many others. |
Bart Coen
The London Flute [ Sony Classical / CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] |
WIDERKEHR
The Duosonatas Bart Schneemann (classical oboe) Paolo Giacometti (pianoforte) [ Channel Classics SACD / SACD - released 10/Jul/2009 ] "Bart Schneemann plays them with exceptional fluency and neat phrasing, Paolo Giacometti is an accomplished if occasionally mannered partner. The recording is excellent." BBC Music Magazine |
JOHANN LADISLAUS DUSSEK
Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Bart van Oort, Viviana Sofronitski, Petra Somlai, Wolfgang Brunner, Alexei Lubimov, Tuija Hakkila, Zvi Meniker, Ursula Dütschler, Piet Kuijken (period [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812) was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the foremost keyboard performers and composers of his age. |
Basel Co/Antonini
Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 4 [ Sony Classical / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2008 ] |