PUCCINI
Messa di Gloria / Preludio sinfonico, Op. 1 / Crisantemi (Rec 2000) Roberto Alagna (tenor) Thomas Hampson (baritone) / London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2013 ] "Puccini's early Mass is not a great piece of religious music, but its virtues shine forth in Pappano's loving performance." - Five Stars BBC Music Mag (Sept 2006) |
Rosie Thomas
With Love [ Sub Pop Records / CD ] |
EDVARD GREIG
Grieg: Peer Gynt / Symphonic Dance No.2 / In Autumn / etc. Ilse Hollweg (soprano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2012 ] "Beecham showed a very special feeling for this score and to hear (these excerpts) under his baton is a uniquely rewarding experience. Ilse Hollweg makes an excellent soloist." Rosette - Penguin Stereo Guide |
HANDEL
ARIAS RUSSELL OBERLIN (COUNTERTENOR) / BAROQUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / THOMAS DUNN [ DG / CD ] |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Balda (Comic Book Opera) / Orchestral Suite from Lady Macbeth Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling (with the State Chamber Choir conducted by Alexander Soloviev) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jul/2006 ] Shostakovich wrote the comic book opera Balda for an animated film based on text by Pushkin’s The Priest and the Fool; the film was never released and largely destroyed during the siege of Leningrad in 1941. |
San Francisco So/Tilson Thomas
Mahler: Symphony No 9 [ Avie / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/May/2005 ] |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Symphony No 3 "The Camp Meeting" / Symphony No 4 / Selected American Hymns San Francisco Symphony & Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2019 ] Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony add an evocative recording of Ives's songful Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 to the SFS Media label's Grammy award-winning discography. With nineteenth-century Americana spirit, MTT and the SF Symphony,... |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique / LAClio (excerpts) San Francisco Symphony / San Francisco Symphony Chorus / Michael Tilson Thomas [ RCA Red Seal / CD ] "Michael Tilson Thomas' Symphonie fantastique remains the finest version to appear in recent memory, and its reissue at mid-price should induce any who hesitated the first time around to wait no longer." [Classics Today 8/6/2004] |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Orchestral Songs and Waltzes Sergei Leiferkus / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jul/2006 ] "Shostakovich having fun, and so are the musicians who relish the satire....Sergei Leiferkus is entering the final stage of his magnificent career. The voice is showing signs of wear but on this evidence – as he gleefully caricatures Lebyadkin and... |
WEBER
Der Freischutz (Complete opera) Siegfried Lorenz, Karita Mattila, Eva Lind, Thomas Thomaschke / Staatskapelle Dresden / Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Classic Opera / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "The actual sound in this new recording is, especially in the Wolf's Glen, vivid and detailed, well capturing the eloquence of Weber's wonderful scoring." (Gramophone) |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town Kim Criswell, Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Voices, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Original Jacket Recordings / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] An enormous success at the time, with a Broadway run of 559 performances, Wonderful Town shows off the talents of Bernstein, Comden and Green, who wrote the songs against the clock in just four weeks. Whether it's jazz, cod-Irish, ragtime, ballad or... |
Various Artists / Thomas Newman
Angels in America (Original Soundtrack) [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 2/Aug/2004 ] From Thomas Newman - four-time Academy Award nominee and composer of the celebrated scores for 'American Beauty', 'The Road to Perdition,' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: On The Town Frederica von Stade, Tyne Daley, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Ramey, Cleo Laine / London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Deutsche Grammophon First Choice / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "The energy and fun make this irresistable" (Five Stars BBC Music) |
MUSIC FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
Music from the Middle Ages [5 CD set] Andrea von Ramm, Richard Levitt & Sterling Jones / Studio der fruhen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Virgin / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlos (Complete French version recorded in 1996) Theatre du Chatelet, Paris / Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Warner Music Vision DVD / DVD - released 18/Jan/2001 ] G - Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille du Locle after Schiller's dramatic poem Don Carlos. The original French version in five acts by Ursula Gunther, revised after the original version by Ursula Gunther and Luciano Pelazzoni. |
W. A. MOZART
50 Best Mozart Classics [3 CDs special price] Thomas Allen, Cheryl Studer, Daniel Barenboim, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sabine Meyer, Neville Marriner, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] All the greatest works of Amadeus Mozart performed by teh world's top soloists and performers. |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Thomas Allen, Sheila Armstrong, Gerald English / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "...a vividly characterised performance" (Gramophone) |
Thomas Ditronc
S/T [ CD ] |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / HAYDN / SCHUBERT
Arias Thomas Hampson (baritone) / Concentus musicus Wien. Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics / CD - released 28/Oct/2005 ] EDITOR'S CHOICE GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE Awards Issue 2005 "Songs in joyful company - singer, band and conductor capturing their spirit" |