More By Artist: Boston
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JOHN WILLIAMS
Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Selected Film Themes Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Deutsche Grammophon is proud to present the world-premiere recording of John Williams's Violin Concerto no.2. The work was written for and recorded by the venerated composer's friend and frequent collaborator Anne-Sophie Mutter. |
ANONYMOUS
A Medieval Christmas - Hodie Christus Natus Est Boston Camerata, Anne Azema [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Sep/2021 ] Drawing on a wide variety of sources, mingling liturgical Latin with French, English, Italian and Iberian vernaculars, these magnificent songs, hymns and processionals show the multitude of ways in which the birth of Christ was celebrated in medieval... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 12 & 13 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Andris Nelsons, with Matthias Goerne (bass-baritone) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] "The cycle has been a monumental achievement, and this final instalment is as shattering and insightful as earlier ones. It is hard to single out highlights," Sunday Times |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: The Piano Concertos Seong-Jin Cho (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Seong-Jin Cho opens the Ravel Year 2025 with his most ambitious project to date for Deutsche Grammophon: to mark the French composer's 150th birthday, the Korean star pianist is releasing three Ravel albums between January and May. |
ANDRE PREVIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Previn: Violin Concerto (with Bernstein-Serenade) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Nov/2003 ] 2005 Grammy Award Winner: Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) |
CHOPIN / GRIEG / TCHAIKOVSKY / SCHUMANN / SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Rubinstein II Artur Rubinstein (piano) / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Symphony of the Air [ Philips / RCA / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2006 ] Few soloists have owned composers as definitively as Artur Rubinstein could claim |
Boston
Don't Look Back [ Sony Music / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] Digitally re-mastered American imported CD. |
Boston
Greatest Hits [ Epic / CD - released 17/May/2004 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fiedler Encores [Includes 'Finlandia', 'Send in the Clowns' & Theme from 'Jaws'] Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2018 ] 'Collections of encores do not usually show such originality in compilation as this well-balanced programme … Fiedler invests Finlandia with an imposing sonority.' Gramophone, June 1978 |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Offenbach In America (with Ibert: Divertissement) Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, with Samuel Mayes (cello) [ RCA Living Stereo / CD - released 20/Jan/1993 ] The inimitable charm of Arthur Fiedler meets the panache of Offenbach and Ibert in this delightful collection of French orchestral favourites. A joyous tribute to some of the most tuneful music of all time. |
MOZART / BRAHMS / PISTON / SCHUBERT / MILHAUD / HINDEMITH / etc
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players - The complete RCA album collection 1964-68 Boston Symphony Chamber Players [ Sony / RCA Red Seal / 10 CD Box Set - released 26/Aug/2023 ] Sony Classical are pleased to present a stunning new 10 CD boxset - the complete RCA Victor Recordings of The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, presented for the first time on CD. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 'The Year 1905' Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] "Nelsons keeps a firm grip on the unfolding of the drama [in the 11th]. And here, as in the Fourth, his Boston Symphony Orchestra responds with supreme virtuosity from every section." BBC Music Orchestral Choice Oct 2018 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1, 14, 15 & Chamber Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, with Kristine Opolais (soprano), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "No question that this latest release represents the Nelsons cycle at its best." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 202 |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTAKLE: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Erato Exhibition / CD - released 10/Apr/1994 ] Originally recorded at the Symphony Hall, Boston, on April 26th, 1986 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 5 'Emperor' Christoph Eschenbach (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa / London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] The seeds were planted in the early 1970s when Deutsche Grammophon realised what amazing results could be achieved by recording the multi-channel tapes, with either four or eight channels. Yet, due to a few restrictions, they never fully blossomed.... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Viola Concerto Daniel Benyamini (viola) / Boston Symphony / Orchestre de Paris [ SBS Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] 'the committed performance here by soloist and conductor shows the concerto in the best possible light; and the slow movement is really touching' Gramophone [Viola Concerto] |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Ruckert-Lieder Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone) / Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/1990 ] "Ozawa's 1977 Boston recording of Mahler's First Symphony is alert and clear-sighted with a fine youthful sheen to it. It was also very vividly recorded." |
XAVER SCHARWENKA / ICNACE JAN PADEREWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schwarwenka/Paderwski: Piano Concertos Earl Wild (piano) / Boston Symphony, Erich Leinsdorf, London Symphony, Arthur Fielder [ Elan / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] American pianist, composer and conductor. He was born 26 November 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and died 23 January 2010 in Palm Springs, California, USA. |
GEORGE ROCHBERG
Rochberg: Black Sounds / Phaedra / Cantio Sacra Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose [ Naxos American Classics / CD ] George Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on 5th July, 1918. He studied composition at the Mannes School of Music in New York from 1939 to 1942 with Hans Weisse, George Szell and Leopold Mannes. During World War II Rochberg served as a Second... |
BACH / DEBUSSY / PROKOFIEV / SAINT-SAENS / GERSHWIN / SINDING / HANDEL / etc
Selections from the Heifetz Collection Jascha Heifetz (violin) / RCA Victor Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brooks Smith, Emanuel Bay (piano), William Primrose (viola) [ RCA Victor Gold Seal / CD - released 12/Feb/1991 ] Recorded 1926 - 1972 |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame [Queen Of Spades] - highlights Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Maureen Forrester, Sergei Leiferkus / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] Tanglewood Festival Chorus & Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti Grossi 7-12 Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Telarc / CD - released 25/Feb/2008 ] |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos, Solo Works Yuja Wang (piano) Thomas Rolfs (trumpet) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/May/2025 ] "A genuine collaborative spirit presides over these Shostakovich concerto performances, not to mention the dazzling execution and playful characterisation one expects from this particular piano soloist." Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2025 |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust, Op.34 Stuart Burrows (tenor) Edith Mathis (soprano) Donald McIntyre (bass) Thomas Paul (bass) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Galleria / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Aug/1988 ] "This is quite the most exciting Faust I have heard on record, putting even Solti at least a touch in the shade." MusicWeb |
BUXTEHUDE / DUBOIS / CALLAHAN / MILHAUD / WIDOR / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Mother Church Organ Thomas Richner (The Mother Church Organ, Boston, MA) [ The Christian Science Publishing / CD - released 28/May/1989 ] Recorded at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA, USA |
KHACHATURIAN / PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Prokofiev / Khachaturian / Shostakovich: Piano Concert & Recital (1944-1949) William Kapell (piano) / Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Anton Dorati, Boston Symphony [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "During the past few years Naxos has carved out a considerable piece of the historic reissue market simply by providing shellac-era favorites in newly minted transfers at budget... |
Boston
Boston (2006 Re-master) [ Sony Music / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] The superior, digitally re-mastered edition of the fantastic debut album by Boston is a unique, melodic and highly polished, sonic audio experience! |
Boston
Greatest Hits [ Epic Records / CD - released 12/Jan/2009 ] Featuring smash hits from Boston, such as "More Than a Feeling", "Don't Look Back", "I Need Your Love", "Party", "Amanda", "Rock & Roll Band", "I Had a Good Time" and "Higher Power". |
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONAL
A Boston Camerata Christmas: Worlds of Early Christmas Music Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen [ Erato Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Oct/2008 ] Eight centuries of Christmas music from France, Spain, and the New World. Under Joel Cohen's vibrant direction, this generous and varied anthology, occupying three entire CD's and containing three hours of music, presents some of The Boston... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 / etc Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2019 ] Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and new Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, he is... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 / Passacaglia from 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] "Powerful and beautifully crafted, this recording - the first from the relationship between DG and the Boston Symphony under Nelsons - is a hugely impressive sign of just what this ensemble/maestro partnership may go on to achieve." Gramophone WINNER |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos 5, 8 & 9, etc Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "One of the joys of Nelsons' Fifth and Eighth is the depth of personality he finds in those works. As ever the BSO playing is immaculate and the recording is warm, weighty and refined." (MusicWeb) |
DEBUSSY
La Mer / Prelude a l'apras-midi d'un / Printemps / Nocturnes (with Ibert - Escales) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "This makes a superb introduction for the first-time buyer to Debussy's major orchestral masterpieces. It may even provide a point of entry to those unable to relate to the softer-centred impressionist Debussy more commonly heard." (MusicWeb July 04) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies Nos 4 & 2 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch [ Sony Classical Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Brisk tempos, wicked string and woodwind attacks keep this affectionate version on its toes. Without preliminaries, the Finale erupts out of the opening motifs, a series of punctuated lightning bolts interrupted by woodwinds' pipings and strings'... |
SESSIONS / PANUFNIK
Concerto for Orchestra / Eighth Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] 'Not to be missed' (San Francisco Chronicle) |
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GUSTAV HOLST / RICHARD STRAUSS
Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra [CD + Blu-ray Audio] Boston Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg [ Deutsche Grammophon CD + Blu-ray Audio / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Apr/2018 ] William Steinberg's famous readings of Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra and Holst's The Planets newly remastered at 24-bit/192kHz. 1 Blu-ray Audio disc (new quadrophonic remastering) + 1 CD (new stereo remastering) in DigiPack format. |
JOHN TAVENER
Lamentations and Praises Chanticleer / Handel and Haydn Society of Boston Ensemble / Joseph Jennings [ Teldec / CD - released 13/Jul/2002 ] "Chanticleer's blissful singing is all-consuming; might this be Tavener's greatest work yet?" Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2002) |
CARL ORFF
Carmina Burana Evelyn Mandac, Stanley Kolk, Sherrill Milnes / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "I would urge the mid-price RCA version by Ozawa every time...polished and incisive with Sherrill Milnes as a magnificent baritone soloist." (Gramophone) |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Very Best of Gershwin Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Nina Simone, Boston Pops orchestra, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, etc [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/1998 ] This European imported 2CD set is a fabulous collection of 28 Gershwin greats including Oscar Peterson "Strike Up the Band"; Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong "Summertime"; Sarah Vaughan "The Man I Love"; Fred Astaire "Funny Face", Audrey Hepburn... |
WAGNER / HAYDN / BERLIOZ / BRITTEN / R. STRAUSS
Jessye Norman - The Unreleased Masters Jessye Norman (soprano) / Gewandhauorchester, Kurt Masur, Berliner Philharmoniker, James Levine, Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa [ Decca / 3 CD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] Decca Classics presents Jessye Norman - The Unreleased Masters, showcasing never-before-heard recordings of one of the greatest classical singers of all time. |
