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FREDERICK DELIUS / JEAN SIBELIUS
Delius & Sibelius: String Quartets George Isaac (cello), Martin Jones (piano) / Fitzwilliam String Quartet [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "Powerhouse performances of three little known works" MusicWeb |
MOZART / SPOHR / WEBER
Clarinet Concertos Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) / London Symphony Orchestra / Colin Davis / Peter Maag [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] 'There are plenty of other recorded performances of Mozart's and Weber's concertos to choose from, even a couple of Spohr's, but these have acquired classic status ... De Peyer gives a fluent, easy performance of Mozart's concerto - the Adagio is... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano) Wandsworth School Boys Choir & Ambrosian Opera Chorus / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2017 ] "As a combination of top-class recording, orchestral playing and conducting, this is one of the finest recordings I have ever listened to." Gramophone on No 1 |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Hungarian Radio & Television Orchestra. Charles Munch [ ABC Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] The rarest amongst Charles Munch's many traversals of Symphonie fantastique (including those with the Boston and Paris Orchestras), this is an extraordinarily spacious reading of the first movement in particular, and will be much sought after by... |
RACHMANINOV / ADDINSELL / LITOLFF / WILLIAMS / BATH / etc
Dangerous Moonlight - piano classics from the silver screen (Incls 'Warsaw Concerto' & 'Dream of Olwen') Isador Goodman (piano) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Patrick Thomas [ Philips ABC Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "A good selection of 'silver screen' romantic favourites for piano and orchestra." (MusicWeb July 2005) |
ZOLTAN KODALY / BELA BARTOK
Bartok/Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra (with Janacek's Taras Bulba) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta / Philharmonia Hungarica / Antal Dorati / etc [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 9/Sep/2006 ] Three of the very best of Eastern Europe's orchestral exports. This is the first CD release of Zubin Mehta's sought-after Kingwsay Hall recording of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra coupled with the much lesser known Kodaly Concerto for Orchestra, and... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor / En Saga / Tapiola / Finlandia / Four Legends / etc (rec 1953 & 1958) Jan Damen (violin) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Eduard van Beinum [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] Eduard van Beinum was quite a Sibelius pioneer and collected here are his complete Sibelius recordings for Decca and Philips. The set also marks the first appearance on CD of his Violin Concerto in a 1952 performance by Jan Damen. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Royal Opera Gala: Covent Garden Anniversary Album Joan Carlyle, Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey, Yvonne Minton, Amy Shuard, Peter Pears, David Ward, etc [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2009 ] "Lots of riches on these two well-filled discs." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Overtures - Prometheus, Fidelio, Leonore 2 & 3 / Grosse Fuge Joan Sutherland, Norma Procter, Arnold Van Mill / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "…the depth and concentration of the Ansermet shines decisively out… Ansermet's reading is taut and imposing" Gramophone |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Great Sacred Works (Incls Stabat Mater & Nisi Dominus) Jochen Kowalski (counter-tenor) Nico van der Meel (tenor) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Vittorio Negri [ ABC Eloquence / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] One could be forgiven for being surprised that sacred music does not account for a more substantial proportion of Vivaldi's life's work, especially in view of his having been ordained a priest. The music on this disc, however, presents the 'other'... |
DEBUSSY
16 Preludes Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] The Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet isn't readily associated with the music of Debussy, but his selection of sixteen of the composer's Préludes yield performances of refinement and fluidity. |
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonatas D 959 & 784 Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Schubert and Jorge Bolet may seem rare bedfellows for a virtuoso who excelled in the music of Liszt and Rachmaninov and whose lineage extended, through his teacher David Saperton, to Leopold Godowsky (Saperton's teacher). But he finds in this music... |
GOUNOD / BACH / HANDEL / MENDELSSOHN / MASCAGNI / etc
Kiri te Kanawa - Songs of Inspiration Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / The Mormon Tabernacle Choir / Utah Symphony Orchestra [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Dame Kiri te Kanawa sings radiantly" Penguin Stereo Guide |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure [Acts I & III] (recorded in 1957) Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm, Otto Edelmann / Vienna Philharmonic / Sir Georg Solti & Hans Knappertsbusch (Act 1) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "It is a monumental reading, sensitive and glorious and sung with admirably steady tone. No one can really mistake this singer for a young or middle-aged woman but no one could believe either that it is a woman of sixty-two with behind her a career... |
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / WOLF / RICHARD STRAUSS
The Flagstad Recitals Vol 1: Lieder Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Edwin McArthur (piano) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "Throughout, one is stirred by the sheer beauty of the sound." Gramophone |
RICHARD WAGNER
The Flagstad Recitals Vol 3: Opera Arias / Wesendonk-Lieder (with Mahler - Kindertotenlieder, etc) Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic / Sir Georg Solti / Hans Knappertsbusch / Sir Adrian Boult [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "The recorded sound is excellent and at Eloquence price this should be attractive for all lovers of great singing" (MusicWeb Jan 2010) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Ballades, Legends & Consolations Lilya Zilberstein (piano) [ ABC Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Zilberstein is awfully good and receives magnificent recorded sound; absolutely essential in this repertoire." (MusicWeb Sept 2005) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 / Four Interludes from 'thamos, Kanig in a„gypten' / Six German Dances / etc London Symphony Orchestra / Peter Maag [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] Peter Maag's celebrated recording of the Mozart 'Prague' Symphony (widely requested for reissue, internationally), now presented in a stunning remaster from the original tapes, leads into a program of Mozart rarities |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (complete ballet) / Suite No. 3 / Suite No. 4 'Mozartiana' LOrchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The 2CD Tchaikovsky/Ansermet sets represent his complete Tchaikovsky recordings for Decca. For many, Ansermet's recording of The Nutcracker is in a league of its own. Refined, yet passionate, many of the pieces on these recordings make their first... |
PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6 LOrchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/May/2009 ] These 2CD sets represent all of Ansermet's Prokofiev recordings for Decca. Both, the Paris Conservatoire and the Suisse Romande versions of the 'Classical' Symphony are included. |
