BRAHMS
Four Symphonies / Overtures / Variations on a theme by Haydn Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 7/Mar/2005 ] "These well-played performances provoke modified rapture. […] the orchestral execution is quintessentially Brahmsian, with the conductor cultivating a dark, mellifluous, echt-German sonority, in contrast to the usual chrome-plated American style." (I |
Daniel Hope
East Meets West [ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Sep/2004 ] |
VIVALDI
Violin Concertos (with Aria 'Sovvente il sole') Daniel Hope (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / with Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "Out-of-Season Vivaldi delivered with a winning blend of love and intelligence. As so often with Daniel Hope, for some reason a much bigger star in Germany than in his native UK, the watchword here is intelligence." Editor's Choice - Gramophone... |
MENDELSSOHN / REICH / TAVENER / ELGAR / ENESCU / RAVEL
My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin Daniel Hope (violin) / Kammerorchester Basel [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "Hope has created a loving homage." (The Guardian) |
VIVALDI / RICHTER
Vivaldi Recomposed: The Four Seasons (Recomposed by Max Richter) [plus bonus concert DVD] Daniel Hope (violin) Max Richter (moog) Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD/DVD - released 6/May/2014 ] Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote the four violin concertos known as Le quattro stagioni - "The Four Seasons." Today The Four Seasons may be the most widely heard piece of classical music ever composed. Max Richter, the award-winning British... |
Daniel Johnston
Hi How Are You (Vinyl) [ High Wire Music / LP - released 6/Nov/2007 ] |
Daniel Johnston And Jack Medicine
The Electric Ghosts [U.S. Import] [ CD ] [U.S. Import] |
Daniel Lanois
Heavy Sun [ Eone / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Daniel Lanois releases his new album Heavy Sun through eOne, the first release under his new "Maker Series" brand. "We want to lift people's spirits with this music," says Lanois. "It's so easy to feel isolat... |
Daniel Moore
Limited Parking [ CD ] |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Arias Dorothea Roschmann (soprano) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Sony / CD - released 26/Jan/2016 ] "she is so winning an artist that almost all the arias made me want to listen to the complete opera from which they come, with her in the relevant role." (BBC Music) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Chamber Music with flute Emmanuel Pahud (flute) with Daniel Barenboim, Daishin Kashimoto, Amihai Grosz, Sophie Dervaux & Silvia Careddu [ Warner Classics / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] Warner Classics' final release for Beethoven's 250th anniversary year is a charming programme of chamber music with flute. The four works, all dating from the earlier years of the composer's career, were recorded in June 2020. |
W. A. MOZART
Symphony Nos. 32, 35 'Haffner', 36 'Linz', 40, 41 English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "These were highly regarded versions when they were first issued, notable for the warmth of the playing in slow movements, with imaginative phrasing from strings and woodwind alike. Tempos are apt and the performances, using a relatively small band... |
CHOPIN / SCRIABIN / GRIEG / BEETHOVEN / etc
Verbier Festival - Best of 2014 Evgeny Kissin, Sergei Babayan, Martha Argerich, Daniil Trifonov (piano), Ingela Brimberg (soprano), Daniel Hope (violin), etc / Verbier Festival Orche [ Erato / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] Evgeny Kissin has recorded a captivating recital of Chopin Polonaises and Impromptus. The live performance was recorded at Switzerland's acclaimed Verbier Festival in July, 2004. |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
The Sound of Piazzolla Gidon Kremer, Julia Zenko, Haracio Ferrer, Alison Balsom, Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Pahud, Daniel Barenboim, Artemis Quartet, etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2017 ] "Violinist Gidon Kremer and a tight ensemble of colleagues show keen empathy for this symbolist allegory of an ambiguous, archetypal journey of the soul." --Thomas May on Maria de Buenos Aires |
50 BEST CHOPIN
50 Best Chopin: Includes 'Andante Spianato And Grande Polonaise' & 'Minute' Waltz Ingrid Fliter, Stephen Kovacevich, Maurizio Pollini, Garrick Ohlsson, Daniel Barenboim, Dmitri Alexeev, Dinu Lipatti, Cecile Ousset.etc [ EMI / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2011 ] This 3 CD box set contains all the most familiar and best-loved works by the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, performed by a galaxy of star pianists. |
J. S. BACH
Violin Concertos / Double Concertos [2 CD set] Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman / English Chamber Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (with Neil Black, oboe) [ Itzhak Perlman complete Warner Recordings / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2015 ] Perlman has said that "the transparency of Bach's writing leaves it open to many interpretations". Here, in partnership with conductor Daniel Barenboim, violinist Pinchas Zukerman and oboist Neil Black, he brings his distinctive musical wisdom to six... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Itzhak Perlman Edition / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "Perlman's newest digital account of the Brahms finds him at his most commanding, powerful and full of nonchant flair to a degree that no rival today can quite match." *** Three Stars Penguin Guide |
W.A. MOZART
Sonatas for violin and piano K301, K304, K378, K526 Itzhak Perlman (violin) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ DG Mozart Collection Vol 14 / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "Impeccable teamwork" (Gramophone) |
W.A. MOZART
The Violin Sonatas (Complete) (4CD) Itzhak Perlman (violin) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ DG Collector's Edition / 4 CD - released 12/Oct/2004 ] "All in all, though, this Perlman-Barenboim set is consistent interpretatively and a major achievement on its own terms" - Gramophone |
TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN / BACH / ELGAR / SIBELIUS / etc
The Perlman Sound [3 CD set] Itzhak Perlman (violin) with Martha Argerich, Placido Domingo, Daniel Barenboim, Andre Previn, Eugene Ormandy, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Aug/2015 ] Born in Israel in 1945, Itzhak Perlman completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He came to New York and soon was propelled into the international arena with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. |