ALBINONI / BACH / BEETHOVEN
Adagios I Solisti Veneti, the Amerdam Baroque Orchestra, Academy of St martins in the Fields, Ton Koopman, Daniel Barenboim, etc [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 18/Aug/2008 ] "Scimone's complete set is very recommendable… They radiate simple vitality, a love of life and a youthful exuberance that belies the composer's age. The playing is warm and musical…" (Penguin Guide on Albinoni) |
Various Artists Incl Daniel Barenboim, Thomas Hampson, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Peru: Kingdom Of The Sun And Fiestas of Peru [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 28/Jul/1995 ] German import (catalog 7559791972) |
100 BEST RELAXING PIANO
100 Best Relaxing Piano (6 Discs) Various artists incls Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand Chamayou, Aldo Ciccolini, Georges Cziffra, Samson François, Hélène Grimaud, Stephen Kovacevich, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2018 ] The collection gathers the best relaxing tunes from the piano repertoire performed by most eminent musicians from the catalogues of Warner and Erato. |
50 BEST RELAXING PIANO
50 Best Relaxing Piano (3 Disc) Various artists incls Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand Chamayou, Aldo Ciccolini, Samson François, Hélène Grimaud, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] The collection gathers the best relaxing tunes from the piano repertoire performed by the most eminent musicians from the catalogues of Warner and Erato. |
Soundtrack / Daniel Pemberton
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Remake) [ Watertower Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugene Onegin (complete opera Recorded at the 2007 Salzburg Festival) Vienna State Opera / Peter Mattei / Anna Samuil / Joseph Kaiser / Daniel Barenboim (com) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Aug/2008 ] G : - Recorded at the 2007 Salzburg Festival, this production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin features an excellent, young cast and the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by maestro Daniel Barenboim. |
LISZT
Wild and crazy [2 CD set] Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, Wilhelm Kempff, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] This is a revelatory compilation of Liszt's most daring and virtuosic piano music, a special celebration of his wild and crazy side from an array of great pianists - dazzling virtuosity, extreme harmonies and textures. |
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) |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART
Ramallah Concert-Symphony No. 5 / Sinfonia Concertante K297b West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / CD - released 19/Feb/2006 ] "A marvellous score set alight by these young players, going for broke in Gaza" (MusicWeb March 2006) |
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) |
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) |
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,... |
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 |
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) |
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) |
BERG
Wozzeck (Complete opera in English) Andrew Shore (baritone); Alan Woodrow (tenor); Peter Bronder (tenor); Geoffrey Mitchell Choir ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Paul Daniel [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 26/May/2003 ] "This English language version is an almost unqualified success … a fresh and illuminating perspective a harrowing and original masterpiece." (Music Web) |
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... |