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DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Complete Harpsichord Music Simone Stella (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 30/Jan/2012 ] "you can hardly go wrong with Stella's performances which are very good. He uses the harpsichord well and explores its various stops, mostly in a convincing and stylistically appropriate manner." MusicWeb |
JOHANN PACHELBEL
Pachelbel: Complete Keyboard Music Simone Stella (harpsichord & organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2019 ] "..the organ used here has much greater possibilities in variety of tonal colours, and Stella uses it to fine effect in the many fugues and chorale variations." Choir & Organ |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies [Complete] Sinfonia Finlandia, Patrick Gallois / Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Bela Drahos / Toronto Chamber Orchestra, Kevin Mallon [ Naxos / 34 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2009 ] One of the most extraordinary bequests in the history of music, Haydn's symphonies established his reputation as the greatest composer of his time. |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (2LP) Sir Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker [ Warner Classics LP / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Bruckner was working on the Ninth Symphony until the day he died. He left a stark and magnificent torso that marks the end of the 19th-century symphony - but he also left fragments and sketches for a magnificent finale that would cap his life's work.... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Sir Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker [ Warner Classics / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] In 1999, Sir Simon Rattle was appointed as successor to Claudio Abbado as the Berliner Philharmoniker's principal conductor. He gave his first concert as principal conductor on 7 September 2002, leading performances of Gustav Mahler's Symphony no.5... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Maurice Ravel: The Complete Works Sir Simon Rattle, Martha Argerich, Bertrand Chamayou, Samson François, André Cluytens, Armin Jordan, Lorin Maazel, Charles Münch, etc [ Warner Classics / 21 CD Box Set - released 4/Sep/2020 ] An essential collection of landmark performances, this 21-CD box of Ravel's complete works brings together major interpreters of the present day and preceding generations. |
VLADIMIR MARTYNOV
Martynov Edition The Sirin Choir, Alexei Lubimov, Opus Posth Ensemble, Tatiana Grindenko and others [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Vladimir Martynov (b. 1946) is one of the leading composers of the Russian avant-garde, an experimentalist of serial, minimalist and electronic music. His ethno-musicological studies into the folk music of Russia, his philosophical and religious... |
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Hodie Christus Natus Est [Christmas Mass] / etc The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro Palestrina Edition Volume 2 / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] Following the success of the first volume in their Palestrina series which won the International Classical Music Award for Early Music, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen release the second recording in the series which has a Christmas... |
BYRD / TALLIS / LASSUS / VICTORIA etc
A Renaissance Christmas The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD ] Following The Sixteen's hugely successful album, 'Song of the Nativity', which featured Christmas music from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, this new seasonal offering explores a stunning selection of festive works from the Renaissance. The... |
ALLEGRI / BYRD / TALLIS / PALESTRINA / etc
Sacred Music - An Easter Celebration The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Simon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London, performed by the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by founder Harry Christophers. The music takes us on a journey of over six hundred years, from... |
TRADITIONAL
Traditional Christmas Carol Collection The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] "Simple, sincere and thoroughly engaging" American Record Guide |
TRADITIONAL
Traditional Christmas Carol Collection Vols 1 & 2 The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] CORO is very proud to release a double CD containing wonderful, festive music that deserves to be better known. The collection is both traditional and genuine, and performances have been kept as close as possible to the original texts. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Four Last Songs and other Lieder Soile Isokoski (soprano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski, conductor [ Ondine 20th Anniversary / CD - released 10/Jun/2004 ] "Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. I suspect that the composer him∆self‚ with his love of the soprano voice‚ would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing." (Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2002) |
FRANZ XAVIER GRUBER
Gruber: Ukrainian Christmas Solomiya Ivakhiv Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Serhii Khorovets [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Ukraine has a long and vibrant tradition of Christmas carols, whose melodies and meaning - now, more than ever - hold an important place in the hearts of the country's people. Some carols date back centuries and cover a wide variety of themes, but... |
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MAHLER
Symphony No 4 [Chamber arrangement by Erwin Stein] (with Debbusy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune} Sonia Grane (soprano) / Royal Academy of Music Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 27/Jul/2013 ] "Under Pinnock, the Royal Academy of Music's Chamber Ensemble bring to the surface the lithe counterpoint that usually lumbers under thicker string textures." Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: The Piano Music Of Sonia Rubinsky (piano) [ Naxo / 8 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2010 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The String Quartets [Live from Suntory Hall, Tokyo] Kuss Quartet [ Rubicon Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2020 ] "This is one of the finest cycles I've heard and one I'll most certainly be returning to, especially over this Beethoven anniversary year." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
Phil Dadson
Sound tracks: Solo improvisations [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 8/Jul/2004 ] SOUND TRACKS is the result of a unique collaboration between Phil Dadson and producer Wayne Laird of Atoll CDs. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Orchestral Works (Incls Symphonies, Concertos & The Isle of the Dead) St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra & Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, with Mikhail Rudy (piano) [ Warner classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2014 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) "Mariss Jansons is among the most respected musicians of his generation. He is a human dynamo, tireless in his pursuit of the highest musical standards." - David Gutman |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Eroica", 4 & 5 (2 LP) Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / 2 LP - released 27/Jun/2025 ] "This fine 1999 set of Beethoven's symphonies offers a near-ideal balance of expressive warmth, moment-to-moment imagination and wide musical vision." ClassicFM |
