More By Artist: B. J. Thomas
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DOWLAND
Collected Works The Consort Of Musicke / Anthony Rooley with Emma Kirkby, Glenda Simpson, John York Skinner, Martyn Hill & David Thomas [ Decca Budget Boxes / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2012 ] '...this box cannot be recommended too highly' The Penguin Guide To Compact Discs |
BEETHOVEN
Folksong Settings DELETED Dame Felicity Lott / John Mark Ainsley / Christopher Maltman / Ann Murray / Sarah Walker / Catrin Wyn Davies / Thomas Allen / Malcolm Martineau (piano [ DG Collector's Edition / 7 CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Specially recorded for Deutsche Grammophon's monumental Beethoven Edition in 1997, this seven-CD set of the complete Beethoven folksong arrangements was undoubtedly one of the edition's highlights and one of the volumes to gain most praise. Now it is... |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Old American Songs / Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson / Billy the Kid Thomas Hampson, Dawn Upshaw /Saint Paul Chamvber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff [ Teldec Apex / CD - released 6/Jun/2005 ] BARGAIN OF THE MONTH MusicWeb October 2005 "Copland is in the first rank of those whose skill has created an American music, quite distinct from that of their own roots. A great disc." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
Edita Gruberova, John Aler, Thomas Hampson, Berlin Philharmonic, Ozawa
Orff - Carmina Burana [ Philips 50 / CD - released 20/Jan/2001 ] Classic recordings digitally remastered and reduced in price |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The 'London' Symphonies / The Seasons Elsie Morison, Alexander Young & Michael Langdon / Beecham Choral Society / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ Warner Classics Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2013 ] From the outset of his career, Sir Thomas Beecham gained a reputation for his groundbreaking interpretations of the symphonies of Joseph Haydn. This collection brings together Symphonies 93-104 - among them, the 'Surprise' and the 'Miracle' - as well... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) Elsie Morison (soprano) Alexander Young, Michael Langdon / Beecham Choral Society / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Thomas Beecham [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] In 1798 Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung (The Creation) received its première; such was the enthusiasm that a sequel was duly requested. The subject was to be the four seasons of the year rather than the seven days of creation - which still allowed the... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Musical Tribute Evelyn Lear / Thomas Stewart [ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD ] |
J. S. BACH
Orchestral Suites Nos 1 - 4 (with works by J.L. Bach, Fasch, Telemann & Zelenka) Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] This set is a tribute to the Orchestral Suite (Ouvertüren), a major genre during the German Baroque era. It assembles works from Johann Bernhard and Johann Ludwig Bach - much admired by their cousin Johann Sebastian Bach - and Zelenka, Fash and... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Gioachino Rossini Edition (50 CD set) Gabriel Bacquier, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Rockwell Blake, Beverly Sills, Thomas Hampson, etc [ Warner Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2018 ] The Rossini Edition is the most comprehensive edition devoted to Rossini ever produced. |
MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov (excerpts) / Pictures at an Exhibition (Rec 1961) George London (bass) Mildred Allen (mezzo) Howard Fried (tenor) / Columbia Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Thomas Schippers / Philadelphia Orch / Eugen [ Sony Great Performances / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] "At mid-price this is a find: a truly great version of Pictures and one of the great Borises at the height of his powers. Not to be missed." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb August 2006) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro [the Marriage of Figao] (complete opera recorded in 1994) Thomas Hampson, Anton Scharinger, Barbara Bonney, Charlotte Margiono / Royal Concertgebouw / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner The Teldec Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2009 ] "A version that gets the best of both interpretative worlds, new and old." (Five Stars Penguin Stereo Guide) |
LEBRUN
Lebrun: The Oboe Concertos (with Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C, K314) Heinz Holliger (oboe) Camerata Bern / Thomas FAri [ Archiv blue / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2002 ] new dedicated reduced-price catalogue series for Archiv Produktion |
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Irma Thomas
Simply Grand [ CD - released 22/Aug/2008 ] |
WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera) Rene Pape, Peter Seiffert, Thomas Hampson, Jane Eaglen / Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2016 ] Recording of the Month - Gramophone Magazine (May 2002) |
THE BACH FAMILY
Dynastie: Bach Concertos Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) with Sophie Gent, Louis Creac'h (violin) Fanny Paccoud (viola) Antoine Touche (cello) Thomas de Pierrefeu (contrabass) etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 16/Mar/2017 ] "This spirited and eloquently ornamented playing serves the music of JS Bach and three of his sons uncommonly well" BBC Music Five Stars Concerto Choice March 2017 |
J. S. BACH
St Matthew Passion (complete oratorio) Johannes Chum (tenor) Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass) Thomas Quasthoff (bass) / Gewandhausorchester / Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Here's Bach's great Easter Passion straight from Bach's heartland, Leipzig, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, St Thomas's Boys Choir, and an ease of delivery that can come only when you breathe in the composer every day. Conducting, Chailly... |
WAGNER
Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 1967) Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela, Thomas Stewart, Gundula Janowitz / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2013 ] |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlos (complete opera [Five-act French version] recorded in 1996) José van Dam, Roberto Alagna, Karita Mattila, Thomas Hampson / Chœur du Théâtre du Châtelet, Orchestre de Paris, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2018 ] Don Carlos, one of Verdi's supreme achievements, received its premiere in Paris and this live recording from the city's Théâtre du Châtelet presents the original, five-act version of the opera. |
HANDEL
4 Coronation Anthems / Foundling Hospital Anthem / Utrecht te Deum / Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne HWV74 Judith Nelson, Shirley Minty, James Bowman, David Thomas / Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, The Brandenburg Consort, David Hill [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "the choir sing most beautifully throughout and of the soloists, John Elwes is particularly sensitive to Handel's setting of charitable texts." (Gramophone on the Foundling Hospital Anthem) |
W. A. MOZART
Cosi fan Tutte (Complete Opera recorded in 1990) Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Allen, Francisco Araiza / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca Classic Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "A strikingly light, fresh Così with a truly superb ensemble, idiomatic and characterful; the voices are large, but only Mattila sounds a little weighty." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
