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Chen Dacan, Li He, Cheng Yu
Classical Chinese Folk Music [ ARC / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] This double CD presents the Chinese artists: Chen Dacan, Li He, and Cheng Yu. All three of them have won awards for performances with their instruments and they have singly and together made their mark in Chinese classical music. The main instruments... |
IGNAZIO SPERGHER
Spergher: Organ and Harpsichord Music Chiara Minali (organ and harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] "..this recording should give Spergher's compositions much more prominence. This music deserves to be more widely known by performers and audiences alike." Choir & Organ |
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Chicago So/Reiner
Wagner: Reiner Conducts Wagner [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss (5 CDs) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, with Antonio Janiqro (cello) Bryon janis (piano) Inqu Borkh (soprano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] "These were the first stereo sessions the RCA engineers arranged with Fritz Reiner. The RCA recording team 'got it right' from the very beginning. Reiner achieves an admirable balance and whatever he does is convincing." Rosette (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Veni Emmanuel: Music for Advent The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Dec/2013 ] "Tavener's flair for drama is here; so are the influence of the Russian Orthodox liturgy and his gift for writing melodies and harmonies that are hard to shake off." (Times) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cantique De Noël: French Music For Christmas, From Berlioz To Debussy Choir Of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (Director), Michael How & Luke Fitzgerald (Organ) [ Delphian / CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Geoffrey Webber and his choir have developed a reputation for exploring the unusual, and this album is no exception. A number of traditional French melodies have been adapted over the years to become familiar Christmas fare in English-speaking lands;... |
TRADITIONAL
Christmas-Time Carols from King's College Cambridge Choir of King's College Cambridge, David Willcocks [ Griffin / CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] The earliest 15th century carols were based on simple folk melodies, with texts added representing Christmas ideas, but it was a long gap then until the Victorians, followed shortly by great 20th Century composers (Vaughan Williams, Holst etc),... |
DAVID BEDNALL
Welcome All Wonders: A Christmas Cantata The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford / Owen Rees [ Signum / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] 'Welcome all Wonders: A Christmas Cantata' is a large-scale work for choir, organ and trumpet spanning 15 movements. It celebrates the Christmas story through an imaginative selection and juxtaposition of poetry and liturgical texts, and provides a... |
TRADITIONAL
Christmas at Westminster Abbey Choir of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston, with Christopher Herrick, organ [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 10/Dec/2017 ] "The Choir of Westminster Abbey is on its toes in a lively mixture of old and new, familiar and less so." Gramophone |
CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Nielsen Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ] The second core cycle of symphonic works in this Masters Series comes from the 20th century. The six masterful symphonies by Nielsen with the Swedish Radio Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, "performances of great thrust and unflagging energy,... |
HOWARD ARMAN / PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Arman: Christmas Story / Davies: Carols from "O magnum mysterium" Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Howard Arman (Chorus Master) [ BR Klassik / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Based on the apocryphal Revelation of James with music by Johann Hermann Schein, Nicolaus Zangius, Hieronymus Praetorius, Hans Leo Hassler and Melchior Vulpius. In the Revelation of James, an apocryphal gospel that was not included in the Bible,... |
ANONYMOUS
Konrad Ruhland Conducts Gregorian Chant Choralschola of the Niederaltaicher Scholaren, Capella Antiqua Munchen Choralschola, Konrad Ruhland [ Sony Classical / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2018 ] "The hypnotic beauty of Gregorian Chant intoned in high-vaulted churches and cathedrals has found widespread popularity in recent decades through countless recordings. Some of the most distinguished of them were made in the 1970s, 80s and 90s by the... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / NIGG / FRANCK / BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / etc
Christian Ferras Edition Christian Ferras (violin) with Ernest Lush, Shuku Iwasaki, Pierre Barbizet, etc (piano) / various conductors [ Deusche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 19 CD Box Set - released 17/Feb/2023 ] This Limited Edition original-jackets collection brings together the Decca and Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Christian Ferras, supplemented by those he made for these labels' French and Japanese divisions. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Arias Christian Gerhaher (baritone) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Sony Classical / CD - released 28/Jan/2016 ] "You can hear every word, and when he's at his best, you sense the complete character behind the individual aria" (Gramophone) |
SCHUBERT
Nachtviolen Christian Gerhaher (baritone) Gerold Huber (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 22/Nov/2014 ] "a superlative recital by a singer who for vocal beauty, poetic insight and expressive immediacy is surely unsurpassed in Lieder today." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2015 - Solo Vocal) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Orchestral Songs Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano (conductor) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Aug/2013 ] "Admirers of Gerhaher's lieder singing won't need any encouragement to listen to this disc. They'll marvel once again at the astonishing range of colour and inflection he applies to every phrase" (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Solo Recital) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete four hand piano music Christian Koehn (piano) Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / 18 CD Box Set - released 10/Jun/2022 ] To make his works more accessible to the general public, Johannes Brahms produced a raft of arrangements for piano four hands and two pianos. These included his symphonic and orchestral music, as well as concertos, chamber works, and more. |
TAKEMITSU
How slow the wind: Orchestra Music Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo conducted by Tadaaki Otaka [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "It is rare to find a disc as creatively programmed as this BIS release. Enhanced by lovely performances, played with great devotion to the memory of the recently-deceased Japanese master, the repertoire was chosen by conductor Tadaaki Otaka and... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Beethoven / Sibelius: Violin Concertos Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati [ Ondine / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] If Beethoven's Concerto emerges as uncompromisingly provocative, Tetzlaff's Sibelius also errs on the side of danger…In many respects, a real knock-out." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Concerto |
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Christian-Pierre Marca
Various: L'heure.. [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] |
