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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (LP) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Vinyl / 2 LP - released 16/Apr/2021 ] "Bernstein was never one to underplay the emotion of any piece that he conducted, and that intensity leads to a thrilling performance of the Fifth Symphony with the Vienna Phiharmonic. He wrings every last drop of emotion from the Adagietto, and some... |
THE STRAUSS FAMILY & OTHERS
New Year's Concert in Vienna 2018 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 8/Mar/2018 ] "Muti's conducting of the old favourites, Strauss Jr's Blue Danube and Sr's Radetzky March, bristles with Italianate swagger and brio" Sunday Times |
BERNSTEIN / GERSHWIN / DVORAK / COPLAND / STRAUSS / etc
Schoenbrunn 2019 - Summer Night Concert Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel, with Yuja Wang (piano) [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] The world's biggest annual classical open-air concert, The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, returns to the magical setting of Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna. |
STOLZ / ZIEHRER / WALDTEUFEL / STRAUSS FAMILY
New Year's Concert 2016 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] "Here is music and music-making in which elegance, dash and lightness of spirit sit side by side with pools of emotional quiet which can haunt the mind for days to come" Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, March 2016 |
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Vienna Philharmonic/Thielemann
Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (+Dvd) [ Sony Classical / 6 CD - released 2/Jan/2012 ] |
LUDWIG MINKUS
Minkus: Don Quixote (complete ballet choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev) Vienna State Ballet / Maria Yakovleva, Denys Cherevychko, etc / Kevin Rhodes (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 15/May/2016 ] Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. The world-famous ballet genius Rudolf Nureyev, with the Wiener Staatsballett, one of the greatest ballet companies in the world. 'A Don Quixote to love … Legris and company can count the evening a total success'... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Thomas Hampson / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 26/Mar/2009 ] "This production is something special: a Traviata so dramatically intense and vocally secure that no other contemporary contender can beat it." - The Times, London |
PUCCINI
La fanciulla del West (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Jonas Kaufmann, Nina Stemme, Tomasz Konieczny / Franz Welser-Most (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Mar/2016 ] A celebrated new production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West from the Vienna State opera featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Nina Stemme. Staged by Marco Arturo Marelli, who sets it in a modern-day mining village, with the feel of a gritty modern drama,... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 / Overtures Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Baroque Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen [ Deutsche Grammophon / 8 CD Box Set - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Complete symphony cycle in mono in remarkable sound quality Newly transferred from the original tapes and remastered to the highest standards |
J. S. BACH
Johann Sebastian Bach - Víkingur Ólafsson (2LP) Vikingur Olafsson (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 31/Jul/2002 ] "Every track has its own allure, and many reflect a virtuosity which is never flaunted; he treats the preludes and fugues as though they had been conceived as tone-poems or études." BBC Music Five Stars |
ARVO PART
Arvo Part Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi [ Onyx / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] "Immutable, austere, impassable - the strength of Arvo Pärt's music lies in its ability to project an image as powerful and complete as the religious iconography it often seeks to replicate." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Arrivederci Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Grigolo lets rip with popular Italian songs, emoting in a properly verismo manner about being lovesick and homesick for the southern sun and the Mediterranean moon" (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ave Maria Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) / Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, Fabio Cerroni [ Sony Classical / CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] The Italian Tenor - Vittorio Grigolo - has an extraordinary background story and he now shares this through a very personal album of sacred music. Schooled at the "very source of sacred music" - in the Sistine Chapel Choir, Vittorio returns to Rome... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ultimate Classical Piano: Includes the Moonlight Sonata, Ritual Fire Dance & Rondo all Turca Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alicia de Larrocha, Jorge Bolet, Andras Schiff, Radu Lupu and others [ Decca Budget Boxes / 5 CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] An outstanding collection of the great keyboard masterpieces featuring some of the world's greatest pianists. Substantially identical to "Pianomania". |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (complete) / Bagatelles Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Collector's Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 5/Aug/2013 ] "He is one of those pianists who so often seems to me to sound just right. No gimmicks, the music just speaks as it should . . . innate musicality, impeccable taste." Jed Distler, Gramophone (London) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ultimate Classical Relaxation (Incls 'Air on a G string', Meditation from Thais, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik & Dance of the Hours) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2008 ] This set includes two CDs devoted to the music of J.S. Bach and one devoted to Tchaikovsky. The remaining two contain a sublime programme of music by Dvorák, Barber, Saint-Saëns, Bruch, Canteloube and many more. |
LISZT / TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / SCHUBERT / LISZT / CHOPIN / etc
Vladimir Feltsman - The Complete Sony Recordings Vladimir Feltsman (piano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2019 ] Sony Classical is pleased to release Vladimir Feltsman's complete recordings for Columbia. Feltsman is an internationally renowned classical pianist. He debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at the age of eleven and he went on to win numerous... |
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Vladimir Horowitz
Original Jacket Collection [ Sony Classical / 10 CD - released 22/Nov/2004 ] |
SCARLATTI / MOZART / RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN / CHOPIN / etc
Horowitz in Moscow (LP) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Vinyl / LP - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Vladimir Horowitz's legendary 1986 recital in Moscow was the then 81-year-old pianist's first recital in Russia since he left the Soviet Union 61 years before - it was an immense success, as was Deutsche Grammophon's 'live' recording of the concert;... |
SCARLATTI / MOZART / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / CHOPIN / etc
Horowitz in Moscow (recorded in Moscow in 1986) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) [ Sony Classical / DVD - released 30/May/2006 ] "This is a virtuoso at his prime, at times excelling his youthful performances of Scriabin, Scarlatti, and others. No musical library is complete without this DVD." (review) |
