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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Hodie / Fantasia on Christmas Carols Janice Watson (soprano) Peter Hoare (tenor) Stephen Gadd (baritone) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Hilary Davan Wetton [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Nov/2007 ] "The performances are distinctive and good. That Naxos chose two of the composer's works which are not so popular or well known today is to be applauded." (MusicWeb Dec 2007) |
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. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz plays Beethoven [7 CD set] Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Emanuel Feuermann (cello) William Primrose (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "Heifetz gives an altogether admirable performance of the Beethoven, alike assured and restrained; and he is sensitively accompanied by the Boston orchestra." (Gramophone) |
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BRAHMS / BACH / BRUCH / MOZART / PROKOFIEV / ROZSA / etc
Jascha Heifetz plays Great Violin Concertos [6 CD set] Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Erick Friedman (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) & William Primrose (viola) [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] This new compilation assembles violinist Jascha Heifetz's landmark stereo recordings of some of the greatest violin concertos with an equally distinguished selection of guest artists including legendary cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Sir Malcolm Sargent... |
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... |
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Jean-Marc Luisada
Chopin: Ballades [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Jean-Marc Luisada plays Chopin Jean-Marc Luisada (piano) with Quatuor Talich [ RCA Red Seal / 7 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] "These are unabashedly full-blooded readings....overall the quality of his pianism and his total emotional and intellectual commitment add up to a very impressive disc indeed - beautifully recorded too." (BBC Music) |
BACH / MESSIAEN / WIDOR/ HANDEL / FRANCK / etc
Jeanne Demessieux - The Decca Legacy Jeanne Demessieux (organ) [ Decca Eloquence / 8 CD Box Set - released 19/Mar/2021 ] From her legendary debut through the succeeding years, Jeanne Demessieux brought virtuosity allied to intellect and sensitivity, and went on to become the glory of the French organ school. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (Complete opera recorded in 1982) Jeannine Altmeyer, Peter Meven, Theo Adam / Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Men's Choir Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur [ Sony Classical Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The most telling contributions certainly come from conductor, orchestra and chorus. The playing here is in the highest class, and Masur's control of speed and balance is not to be questioned" (Gramophone) |
MOZART / VIVALDI / BOLLING / TELEMANN / HAYDN / BACH FAMILY / etc
Jean-Pierre Rampal - The Complete CBS Masterworks Recordings Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) with Maurice Andre, Claude Bolling, Placido Domingo, Kathleen Battle, Juilliard String Quartet, English Chamber Orchestra [ Sony Classical Masters / 56 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The most comprehensive boxed sets ever to feature the recordings of the great master of the flute: Jean-Pierre Rampal. |
JEAN-DANIEL BRAUN
Braun: Sonatas for Flute & Bass Continuo Jed Wentz (flute) / Musica ad Rhenum [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Very little is known about Jean-Daniel Braun (ca 1703-before 1740). He seems to have been a flutist of some renown, and he worked for the Duke d'Épernon. He published several books of Sonatas for the traverse flute and basso continuo, which are... |
ANNA CLYNE
lyne: Mythologies (Limited Edition LP) Jennifer Koh (violin), Irene Buckley (voice), BBC Symphony Orchestra [ Avie / 2 LP - released 5/Feb/2021 ] Anna Clyne's Mythologies became an instant media and popular success when it was released in October 2020 - "hands-down one of the half-dozen best classical albums of 2020", according to New York Music Daily. The album is now presented... |
LEOPOLD KOZELUCH
Kozeluch: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 4 Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] This fourth and last installment of the Complete Keyboard Sonatas by Kozeluch contains the last batch: Sonatas nos. 34 till 50. Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) was in his time a highly regarded, even famous composer, on a par with C.P.E. Bach and... |
JAN ANTON KOZELUCH
Kozeluch: Complete Sonatas Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 23/Oct/2020 ] 'Kim's playing is crystalline and lyrical...This set will interest pianists who would like to augment their repertoire with unknown gems from the period.' (Early Music America). |
LEOPOLD KOZELUCH
Kozeluch: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 3 Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) was in his time a highly regarded, even famous composer, on a par with C.P.E. Bach and even Mozart. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Incidental Music Jenny Wollerman, Pepe Becker (sopranos) / Varsity Voices / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] "The self-contained numbers...may be familiar items, but on disc...you discover and enjoy so much more: the flashes of instrumental colour, the exquisite little tone paintings that intersperse or accompany the spoken text...Judd's New Zealand and... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Complete) Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2009 ] The variety and boldness of invention found in Haydn's piano sonatas are rewarded by Jeno Jandó's "no-nonsense, down-to-earth vivacity" (BBC Music Magazine) in this boxed set. |
SIMEON TEN HOLT
Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato XL Jeroen Van Veen (piano) and friends [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2014 ] Anyone having experienced the power of Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt will come under the spell of the hallucinatory effect of this iconic work, the most famous Dutch work for piano of the 20th century, one of the "classics" of minimal music. |
GEORGES GURDJIEFF / THOMAS de HARTMANN
Gurdjieff / de Hartmann: Complete Music For the Piano Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Oct/2021 ] Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen, a pioneer of unusual repertoire, recorded the complete piano music of Gurdjieff/De Hartmann, 6 CDs of extraordinary, meditative and deeply spiritual music. |
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence - Piano Music; Jeroen van Veen (piano) with Sandra van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 2/Sep/2019 ] "This is an interesting and enjoyable set. I would not recommend that you sit down and listen to the whole set at once...this was an enjoyable listen. Brilliant Classics should be applauded for bringing us such a comprehensive set as this." MusicWeb |
