More By Artist: Daniel O'donnell
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WAGNER
Parsifal (Complete Opera recorded in 1991) Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem, Jose Van Dam, John tomlinson / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2016 ] "For a studio performance my vote would go now-just-to the new version, largely on the strength of the recording and the performances of Meier and Jerusalem. (Gramophone) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' (with Schoenberg - Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31) West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] "It's a highly exciting performance, treating the work as a bravura concerto for orchestra...Lyricism could hardly be in short supply in the Tchaikovsky" (BBC Music) |
GERALD FINZI / ARNOLD BAX / JOHN IRELAND
Finzi / Bax / Ireland: Choral Music Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell, Daniel Cook (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] "The choir's diffuse tone - breathier in the upper voices than rivals at New College or even King's Cambridge - is very effective" Gramophone |
HUBERT PARRY
I was glad & other choral works Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell, Daniel Cook (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] The pageantry of a nation is encapsulated in the music of Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Baronet, Knight and fervent supporter of the suffragette movement. This new programme from Westminster Abbey contains some lesser-known early works... |
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ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Konigskinder (complete opera recorded in 2010) Zurich Opera / Jonas Kaufmann, Isabel Rey, Oliver Widmer / Jens-Daniel Herzog (cond) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] Tenor superstar Jonas Kaufmann leads the cast in the first-ever DVD release of the beautiful fairytale opera from the composer of Hänsel und Gretel. The German tenor is "the fairytale prince of most opera-goers' dreams - young, reckless,... |
JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Fasch: New Year's Cantata, 'Jauchzet dem Herrn' / etc Deborah York & Klaus Mertens / Accademia Daniel, Shalev Ad-El [ CPO / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] |
TELEMANN
Three Cantatas Dorothee Mields (soprano) & Klaus Mertens (bass baritone) / Accademia Daniel, Shalev Ad-El [ CPO / CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "CPO continue to produce very high quality performances and recordings of some of the German baroque's very best pieces." (Early Music Review) |
CESAR FRANCK / GABRIEL FAURE
Franck: Symphony in D minor / Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Albrecht Meyer (oboe), Emanuel Pahud (flute), Dominik Wollenweber (cor anglais), Berlin Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] "Barenboim, ever the elder statesman, takes [the Franck's 'inherent grandness'] his stride. He also has the Berlin Philharmonic at his bidding and for organ-like sonorities that seem to come up through the bass lines they are the business" Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Chamber Music with Horn Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Daniel Grimwood (piano), Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin) [ BIS / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] The horn was one of the instruments that Johannes Brahms learned in his youth, from his father who played it professionally. His fondness and familiarity with the instrument is clear from the glorious solos that he provided it with in his symphonies,... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / EDWARD ELGAR
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 / Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 [Europa Konzert 2010 from Oxford] Alisa Weilerstein (cello) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Daniel Barenboim [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 21/Dec/2010 ] 'Barenboim's approach was refreshingly un-English, a bonus in Elgar, and the sound of the orchestra in the climaxes was overwhelming.' Guardian |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / EDWARD ELGAR
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 / Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 [Europa Konzert 2010 from Oxford] BLU-RAY Alisa Weilerstein (cello) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Daniel Barenboim [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Daniel Barenboim´s programme played to the orchestra's strengths, and the sound was sumptuous." (Guardian) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanengesang Andrè Schuen (baritone), Daniel Heide (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] "one enjoys Schuen's fresh, beautifully contoured baritone, deployed with breath control that allows him to sail into long vocal lines with an illuminating sense of long-term musical direction, plus telling articulation of text." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos 3 & 5 Geister (with Hummel-Piano Trio No 4) Andreas Staier (pianoforte) Daniel Sepec (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "Anyone who has heard and admired Andreas Staier's bracing performances of 18th- and early-19th-century solo piano works, on a variety of historically appropriate keyboards, will be at home with this highly charged chamber-music playing." (The Guardian) |
VERDI
Falstaff (Complete Opera in English) Andrew Shore (baritone) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) / English National Opera, Paul Daniel [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] "It is serious competition for the currently available recordings in Italian." (Pick of the Month BBC Music Magazine Aug 2002) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne Andrew Staples, Christopher Parks, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] In these three song cycles, Britten draws his inspiration from the peaks of European poetry (Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Keats, but also Rimbaud), the better to push back the boundaries of the genre. He multiplies the relationship between voices and... |
ELENA LANGER
Landscape With Three People Anna Dennis, William Towers, Nicholas Daniel, Roman Mints, Meghan Cassidy, Kristine Blaumane, Robert Howarth, Katya Apekisheva [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] "[Landscape with Three People] nimble and light, sensual without forcing the point, folksy but not quite fey; whimsical, in the deconstructed manner of Berio or Nono. |
HENRY MADIN
Madin: Te Deum pour les Victoires de Louis XV Anne Magouet, Michiko Takahashi, Robert Getchell, Alban Dufourt, Alain Buet / Stradivaria & Les Cris de Paris, Daniel Cuiller [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] [Madin] writes vividly…[and] Daniel Cuiller is well in command of his forces in both pieces; worth investigating" (Gramophone) |
MARGARET HUBICKI
Dedication in Time (Incls Goladon Suite) Annemarie Sand (mezzo-soprano) Daniel Pailthorpe (flute) Robert Max (cello) James Kirby (piano) / Bochmann Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] Chandos expands its considerable discography of works by women composers with this CD of music by the distinguished composer and teacher, Margaret Hubicki (or Peggy, as she is more widely known). |
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roger Federer, John Williams, Daniel Barenboim, Andre Previn, Jorg Widmann, Lambert Orkis, Steve Cohen
Anne-Sophie Mutter: Vivace (Blu-ray) [ SWR Classics / Blu-ray - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Anne-Sophie Mutter is one of the greatest musicians of our age and for the last five decades has appeared at the world's leading concert venues. In addition to premiering 31 new works from leading composers, she is an inspiring mentor, has promoted... |
