HANDEL / RAMEAU / VIVALDI / CAMPRA / PURCELL / etc
The Enchanted Island (complete opera recorded in 2012) Metropolitan Opera / Joyce DiDonato, David Daniels, Danielle de Niese, Placido Domingo / William Christie (cond) [ Virgin Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 19/Oct/2012 ] "The singing from Danielle de Niese, David Daniels and Joyce DiDonato is stellar...William Christie conducts magisterially." (The Observer) |
Williams/Etheridge
Places Between -Live In Dublin [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] |
Wladislaw Szpilman
O.S.T. - The Pianist [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/Dec/2002 ] |
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Legendary Recordings [ Sony Classical / 3 CD - released 21/Nov/2005 ] |
LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Complete Organ Music Wolfgang Rübsam (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Organ works account for only 17 of Vierne's 62 opus numbers, and yet no one would now question his status as the organ's greatest symphonist after Franck and Widor. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (LP) Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Gerhard Stolze, Gustav Neidlinger, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 5 Vinyl Box Set - released 4/Aug/2023 ] For these new editions, a decade since the last remastering, a completely new set of high-definition 24 bit/192kHz transfers of the original master tapes have been utilized. |
Written by Genevieve Helsby
My First Classical Music Book [ Naxos / CD/Book - released 2/Feb/2009 ] This is a delightfully colourful introduction to classical music, aimed to fire the imagination of young children aged 5-7 years. Readers are asked to think about the different places in which we might hear music, whether it is in a concert hall, or... |
Xavier De Maistre
Mozart [ Sony Classical / CD - released 15/Jul/2013 ] |
Xavier De Maistre
Various: Notte Veneziana [ Sony Classical / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] |
GERARD SCHURMANN
Schurmann: Piano Concerto Xiayin Wang (soloist), BBC Philharmonic featuring Ben Gernon BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Sep/2024 ] The composer, pianist, and conductor Gerard Schurmann (1924 - 2020) was born in Kertosono, Java, which was then part of the Dutch East Indies. The family lived within earshot of the resident gamelan orchestras at the Sultan's Palace, and hearing the... |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Schütz: The Christmas story & other works Yale Schola Cantorum / David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] Schütz's 'Christmas story' is an absolute delight from beginning to end, its charming tableaux of angels, shepherds and wise men completely belying the composer's old age and constrained circumstances. Here it's the jubilant climax to a programme of... |
Yanni
Truth Of Touch (Deluxe Edition [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] |
Yehudi Menuhin & Ravi Shankar
West Meets East (LP) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 25/Mar/2016 ] Perhaps the most moving and exciting quality of Indian music is the innocence of its rapture, the ecstatic and spontaneous delight which binds performers and audience alike. However sophisticated the means, however complex the structure, not one... |
BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / WAGNER / FRANCK / etc
The complete Wilhelm Furtwangler on record Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Edwin Fisher (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Warner Classics / 55 CD Box Set - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Wilhelm Furtwängler is a musical titan, one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. Some would say he is the greatest of all. A supreme, inimitable interpreter of the Austro-German symphonic repertoire, and of Wagner's music dramas. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 / Piano Concerto No. 1 Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "With Sudbin asserting his interpretative personality [in the Concerto], the orchestra and conductor are inspired to match a thrilling performance that stands alongside the greatest." (Daily Telegraph) |
Ying Quartet
Dim Sum [ Telarc Classical / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] |
Yo Yo Ma
Soul Of The Tango (Translucent Red LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 4/Sep/2015 ] Inspired by a great passion for Astor Piazzolla's tango, The Soul Of The Tango is a critically acclaimed and essential work of the "Nuevo Tango", played by Yo-Yo Ma's world famous cello and many of Piazzolla's former friends and... |
J. S. BACH
Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites (3LP) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 5/Sep/2018 ] Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma's new album Six Evolutions - Bach Cello Suites, his third and final recording of these works. Bach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma's life when he was four, when he learned the first... |
Yoko Shimomura
Original Soundtrack: Final Fantasy XV [ Sony Classical / 4 CD - released 3/Feb/2017 ] |
Yolanda Kondonassis / Ling / S
Never Far Away [ Telarc Classical / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] |