Volker Hoeh
Gala D'opera Fuer Gita [ Naxos / CD ] |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / LISZT
Piano Concertos Walter Gieseking (Piano) Berlin State Opera Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Henry Wood (Conductor) Hans Rosbaud (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] 'Mr Gieseking's skill is great enough in some ways… and his pianissimo now and then becomes as nearly nothing as is possible to imagine…' |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Wiener Staatsoper / Soile Isokoski, Daniela Fally, Sophie Koch, Johan Botha / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Unitel / Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] Director Sven- Erich Bechtolf "has again delved deeply into music and text", observed the opera magazine Opernnetz in its rave review of the performance captured here. "In Rolf Glittenberg's beautiful Jugendstil salon, he is constantly in touch with... |
PIERRE-ALEXANDRE MONSIGNY
Le Déserteur (complete opera) William Sharp / Dominique Labelle / Ann Monoyios / David Newman / Opera Lafayette / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Monsigny and Sedaine's brilliant opéra-comique Le Déserteur, was an immediate and lasting success for its melodic charms and musical variety, its blend of comedy with moments of great sentiment and pathos, and its intellectual radicalism prefiguring... |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete Operetta) (Rec 1950) Wilma Lipp / Hilde Gueden / Sieglinde Wagner / Chorus of the Vienna State Opera [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 1/May/2002 ] Die Fledermaus was first performed on 5th April 1874 |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Songfest (with works by Gershwin & Copland) Wolf Trap Opera, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, James Judd [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] An American in Paris is one of Gershwin's most vivacious works, an orchestral ballet saturated in homesickness and the blues. This recording, however, uses the new 2019 critical edition and offers Gershwin's original orchestration. |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Le Due Duchesse (complete opera) Young -Jun Ahn, Jaegyeong Jo, Eun-Hye Choi, Markus Scafer, Jorg Lindemann / Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century... |