Van Morrison
Van Morrison: The Authorized bang Collection [ Sony / 3 CD Box Set - released 7/Aug/2017 ] These are recordings Van Morrison made for Bang Records in 1967, including an entire disc of tracks seeing official release for the first time. |
Van Morrison
What's Wrong With This Picture? [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 20/Oct/2003 ] Van the man is back in very stylish form, invoking a smoky jazz club with swinging electric guitar lines and lush strings |
Van Zant
My Kind of Country [ CD ] |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Operas Victoria de los Angeles, Nicolai Gedda, Cheryl Studer, Beverly Sills, Renee Doria, Teresa Berganza, Jose van Dam, Sherrill Milnes, etc [ Erato / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] "This is as good a performance as we are likely to get of this persuasive work. Victoria de los Angeles as Charlotte is adorable, both in character and in the sheer beauty of sound." (Gramophone on Werther) |
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) |
LULLY
Thesee (complete opera) Aaron Engebreth, Aaron Sheehan, Amanda Forsythe, Teresa Warkim, Yulia Van Doren / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus / Paul O'Dette [ CPO / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2008 - Baroque Vocal - "Still often underrated, Lully is an operatic giant, and this fine recording makes eloquent proof" Gramophone Magazine |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Melancolía - Música Temprana Olalla Alemán (soprano), Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, Luciana Cueto (mezzo-soprano) Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel / Música Temprana [ Pentatone / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Música Temprana, one of today's most exciting Hispanic early music ensembles, presents its first PENTATONE album Melancolía, on which they present Spanish courtly songs on mourning and unrequited love around 1500 together with the apocalyptic... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Life Of Tango Alfredo Marcucci (bandoneón), Michel van der Meire (bass), Juan Masondo (guitar & voice) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Nov/2004 ] |
Alice Foccroulle, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Lambert Colson
Teatro Spirituale [ Ricercar / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] This recording transports us to Rome's Chiesa Nuova, the Oratory Church where in 1600 the premiere took place of the first spiritual opera, La Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo by Cavalieri. That pioneering spirit has inspired this programme... |
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Music for the Stage Andrea Chudak, Ruxandra Voda van der Plas, Harrie van der Plas, Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Engelbert Humperdinck won a worldwide reputation through his application of Wagnerian techniques to folk music in Hänsel und Gretel. But he wrote far more widely for the stage than is acknowledged. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / FRANZ BERWALD
Schubert & Berwald: Chamber Music Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Jos van Immerseel: "While since its foundation in 1987 Anima Eterna Brugge has grown organically into a symphonic orchestra, chamber music once again forms an important part of our repertory today. We will continue our journey through orchestral... |
JANACEK / DVORAK
Jos van Immerseel conducts Dvorak & Janacek Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Jos Van Immerseel is celebrating his 70th birthday with three important releases...These anthologies will once again demonstrate everything the pianofortist brings to the interpretation of the symphonic and chamber repertoires. |
DEBUSSY
Mer, Images & Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] After discs devoted to Ravel and Poulenc (ZZT060901 & ZZT110403 - critical and popular successes, the latter measured in sales), Jos van Immerseel returns to French music, tackling Debussy and his most famous orchestral works. This he does... |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (with Ravel - Ma Mere L'Oye) Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos Van Immerseel [ Zig-Zag Territories / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "It's very interesting but not entirely successful. As always with Immerseel and his band, attention to detail is faultless, and it's good to hear more portamento in their phrasing than we're used to." (Guardian) |
MOZART
Mozart: Concertos Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade op 35 / Russian Festival Easter Overture (with Borodin - Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, etc) Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] "The recording is crystal clear and has some great dynamics, especially on the percussion and heavy brass. Anima Eterna is probably the most interesting and significant orchestra recording at the moment." (Amazon.co.uk) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphonies / Concertos / Sonatas Midori C. Seiler (vio) Jos van Immerseel (piano) Ulrich Hübner (hn) Frank Theuns (fl) Marjan de Haern (hp) / Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel [ Zig-Zag Territoires / 6 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2013 ] This economically priced box set of six CDs brings together all the previous releases on ZZT of Mozart works performed by Jos van Immerseel: Symphonies nos.29, 39, 40 & 41, the Bassoon Concerto, Violin Concertos nos.2 and 3, the Concerto for two... |
Anneke Van Giersbergen
Drive [ CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] "Drive" - the fifth studio album of Dutch singer-songwriter (ex- The Gathering) Anneke van Giersbergen - shows Anneke to be on top form and more multifaceted than ever, with songs ranging from her signature intimate ballads to euphoric stadium rock... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Decca Conductors' Gallery Ansermet, Van Beinum, Bernard, ·Blech, Celibidache, Coates, Coppola, Desormiere, Enescu, Fitelberg, Furtwangler, Harty, Van Kempen, Kleiber, Knapperts [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 21 CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] An A-Z of 23 conductors in a feast of classic recordings from Decca's early years - 1929-1949 - including the golden age of its 'ffrr' technology. Newly remastered from the best available sources. |
Armin Van Buuren
Mirage (Deluxe Edition) [ 405 Recordings / Armada / 4 CD/DVD - released 19/Dec/2011 ] Includes the original album and bonus tracks, as well as a CD with previously unreleased remixes, plus a DVD with all music videos of the single releases, as well as many, many extras! |