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BACH / HANDEL / MENDELSSOHN / PARRY / etc
Sir Adrian Boult - The Decca Legacy, Volume 2 - Baroque & Sacred Music London Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Kirsten Flagstad, Jennifer Vyvyan, Norma Procter, Kenneth McKellar, Joan Sutherland, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 13 CD Box Set - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The second volume of Sir Adrian Boult's Decca legacy brings together the conductor's Messiah recordings of 1954 and 1960, plus Baroque and sacred music recitals from Kenneth McKellar, Kirsten Flagstad and Kathleen Ferrier. LIMITED EDITION. |
GUSTAV HOLST
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Holst (Incls 'The Planets' & 'The Perfect Fool') London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Adrian Boult, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood, The Purcell Singers [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/1995 ] Holst's works were played frequently in the early years of the 20th century, but it was not until the international success of The Planets in the years immediately after the First World War that he became a well-known figure. (Wiki) |
TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / PROKOFIEV / DOHNÁNYI / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MAHLER
Sir Adrian Boult - The Decca Legacy, Volume 3 - 19th & 20th Century Music London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Kirsten Flagstad, Julius Katchen, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 16 CD Box Set - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The third volume of Boult's complete Decca recordings features Boult the insightful accompanist and inspired Russian interpreter, featuring many long-unavailable and newly remastered Decca recordings. LIMITED EDITION. |
SCHUTZ / PURCELL / GABRIELI / MONTEVERDI / HASSLER / etc
Glad Tidings: A Baroque Christmas London String Players / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / Camden Wind Ensemble / Roger Norrington [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
DVORAK / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MOZART / VERDI / SCHUBERT / etc/
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Edition - Volume 2 London Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, with Alfred Brendel, Henryk Szeryng, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Supplementary to his legendary Beethoven cycles for Decca are Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt's recordings for Philips, Mercury, Deutsche Grammophon and Accord. They date from 1944 (Sutermeister) to 1972, when he made his last recording, fittingly by Mozart. |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Respighi: Belfagor Overture / Pines and Fountains of Rome / The Birds / Ancient Airs & Dances London Symphony Orchestra. Lamberto Gardelli, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner [ EMI Forte / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/1996 ] Respighi settled in Rome in 1913 and composed The Fountains of Rome five years later in honour of his adopted city. The Pines of Rome was written later in 1924, in his words '…in order to recall memories and visions' |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Lucy Crowe (soprano) [ LSO / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2019 ] LSO Live presents Sir John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning Mendelssohn series together in its entirety for the first time. Captured over three seasons during critically acclaimed concerts in the Barbican Hall, this set offers listeners the definitive... |
RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Symphonic Dances London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live / 4 CD Box Set - released 27/Apr/2018 ] Recorded live at the Barbican Hall, London September 2008 - February 2015 This highly anticipated box set brings together Valery Gergiev's acclaimed cycle of the complete Rachmaninov symphonies, which were recorded alongside the London Symphony... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet (The Complete Ballet) (180g 3LP) London Sympony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Warner Classics / 3 LP - released 4/Apr/2019 ] The violent feud between the Montagues and Capulets is evoked by the swaggering Dance of the Knights, but Prokofiev's score brims with bittersweet lyricism in its depiction of the young lovers, proving him Russian ballet's heir to Tchaikovsky. First... |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (complete opera recorded in 2021) l'Opéra National de Lyon / Nina Minasyan, Margarita Neksarova, Andrey Popov, Dmitry Ulyanov / Daniele Rustioni (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 12/Aug/2022 ] In the autumn of 1906, at a time when he was saying he didn't want to write anything further, Rimsky-Korsakov had the idea of starting an opera based on The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, the last of Pushkin's folk tales in verse, written in 1834. |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (complete opera recorded in 2021) Blu-ray l'Opéra National de Lyon / Nina Minasyan, Margarita Neksarova, Andrey Popov, Dmitry Ulyanov / Daniele Rustioni (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 12/Aug/2022 ] In the autumn of 1906, at a time when he was saying he didn't want to write anything further, Rimsky-Korsakov had the idea of starting an opera based on The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, the last of Pushkin's folk tales in verse, written in 1834.... |
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L'orchestre De Chambre De Gene
Mozart: In-Between [ Sony Classical / CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
DELIBES / ADAM / TCHAIKOVSKY / MINKUS / OFFENBACH / MASSENET / etc
Richard Bonynge - Complete Ballet Recordings L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, English Chamber Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / 45 CD Box Set - released 18/Dec/2020 ] 48 CDs compiled by Cyrus Meher-Homji, a long-time friend of Richard Bonynge, including familiar scores by Tchaikovsky & Delibes alongside works revived by Maestro Bonynge throughout his career. |
RAVEL
Bolero / Rapsodie Espagnole / la Valse / etc (rec 1984) L'Orchestre National de France, Lorin Maazel [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "La valse is high powered with a mannered ending, but I enjoyed the rather sultry performance of the Rapsodie espagnole, while the Alborada is certainly brilliant." (Gramophone) |
CHOPIN / PROKOFIEV / LISZT / BRAHMS / RACHMANINOV / RAVEL / etc
Lorin Hollander: Complete RCA Collection Lorin Hollander (piano), with Erick Friedman (violin) & Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony [ RCA Red Seal / Sony Classical / 8 CD Box Set - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Sony Classical is now pleased to present a new 8-disc box set offering Lorin Hollander's complete RCA discography for the first time on CD with original LP sleeves and labels and a booklet with full discographical notes. |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain (LP) The Cleveland Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ Craft / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Hailed as "one of the best recordings Telarc has ever done" by Stereophile, the 1980 recording of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by The Cleveland Orchestra and conducted by the legendary Lorin Maazel, cemented Telarc's status as... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (complete opera recorded in 2015. Directed by Woody Allen) BLU-RAY Los Angeles Opera / Plácido Domingo, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Andriana Chuchman, Greg Fedderly / Grant Gershon (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Jun/2016 ] Puccini's Gianni Schicchi is the only opera Woody Allen has ever staged. The 2015 version on this release is a revival of Woody Allen's 2008 production for L.A. Opera, a hilarious parody of classical Italian cinema stereotypes. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: Complete Decca Recordings Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta [ Decca / 38 CD Box Set - released 29/May/2020 ] This 38-CD collection provides proof of just how catholic Mehta's tastes were. The foundation of his music making continues to lie in the central European masterworks and he has never lost sight of that tradition. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Christmas Concert With Robert Shaw Louise Seidel (soprano), Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw [ Vox Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] |
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Lso/Davies
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1-7 [ Sony Classical / 7 CD - released 4/Mar/2013 ] |
