BEETHOVEN / BRUCH / BARTOK / BRAHMS / VIVALDI / TCHAIKOVSKY
The Complete Warner Recordings [11 CDs + DVD] Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) / with Peter Frankl (piano), Itamar Golan (piano), Paul Tortelier (cello), André Previn (piano) [ Warner Classics / 12 CD/DVD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2015 ] "This CD would make a worthy addition to the collection of any Romantic concerto enthusiast, with the Beethoven in particular ranking among the most enduring and sensitive performances I have had the pleasure to come across." (MusicWeb) |
Les Paul & Mary Ford
All Time Greatest Hits [ EMI Special Products / CD - released 1/Nov/1995 ] Direct American import |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Les Vents Français: Beethoven Les Vents Français [Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Francois Leleux (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn), etc] [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] This extra helping of Beethoven's music for winds comes on the heels of Les Vents Français's recent triple-CD release WINDS & PIANO, praised by The Telegraph for "stylistically sure and interpretatively ear-catching" performances, including one of... |
POULENC / FARRENC / ROUSSEL / CAPLET / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / etc
Les Vents Français: Winds & Piano Les Vents Français [Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Francois Leleux (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn), etc] [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "The engineers have provided crystal clear sound that superbly captures that often difficult balance between winds and piano. For admirers of chamber music this release makes indispensable listening." (MusicWeb Feb 2015) |
GLUCK
Paride ed Elena (Complete Opera) Magdalena Kozena, Susan Gritton, Carolyn Sampson / Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / 2 CD - released 24/Jul/2005 ] "If anyone can, Kozena can - an impressive restoration of a forgotten opera" (Gramophone) |
SAINT-SAENS / BIZET / BERLIOZ / LALO / IBERT / THOMAS / RAVEL / AUBER
Paray conducts French Orchestral Music Marcel Dupre (organ) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray [ Mercury Living Presence / 5 CD - released 5/Nov/2004 ] “Paul Paray’s style of conducting has virtually vanished today: it represents what is often referred to as the ‘French style of conducting’: clear, elegant, superbly balanced and – what will instantly strike listeners – often very fast. This... |
ROSSINI
The Cantatas Vol 1 Mariella Devia, Paul Austin Kelly, Francesco Piccoli, Michele Pertusi. Orchestra e coro Filarmonico Della Scala. Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Jan/2004 ] "Chailly gives lightly articulated and well-sprung accounts of both and draws excellent singing from his splendid team" (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
HANDEL
Harnoncourt conducts Handel (incls 'Messiah' [excerpts] & Organ Concerto, op.4 no.3} Lucia Popp, Paul Esswood, Roberta Alexander, Alice Harnoncourt, Herbert Tachezi / Concentus musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty - Harnoncourt & Handel |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lulu (complete opera recorded in December 2016) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter / Lothar Koenigs [ Nonesuch Classics Blu-Ray+DVD / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] "conducting, singing, direction: they're all of a piece, working to domesticate Berg's feral beast, and making it the funniest, least absurd and most approachable Lulu on film" Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded 2000) Metropolitan Opera / Renee Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Solveig Kringelborn, Paul Groves / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] "It's hard not to give this Don a warm welcome. For those irritated by modern psychological stagings, this set could well provide the perfect answer" - MusicWeb April 2005 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mitridate, Rè Di Ponto (complete opera) Michael Spyres, Julie Fuchs, Sabine Devieilhe, Elsa Dreisig, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djia / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Erato / 3 CD Box Set - released 29/Oct/2021 ] "that this is probably the most successful recording of Mozart's opera we will ever see on disc; there is no doubt in my mind that it is the most exciting by a long stretch." MusicWeb Recommended Jan 2022 |
VIVALDI / TARTINI / BOCCHERINI
Cello Concertos Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Collegium Musicum Zurich / Paul Sacher [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 15/Feb/2007 ] "Rostropovich turns each phrase to perfection…"the reading of the tragic slow movement (on Tartini) is deeply moving.." Stereo Review, New York |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI / C.P.E. BACH
Vivaldi / Tartini / CPE Bach: Baroque Cello Concertos Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, with Layton James (harpsichord continuo) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] While J.S. Bach's Suites for solo cello are, by definition, closely identified with Mstislav Rostropovich as the supreme cellist of his time, the B flat concerto of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach represents a more unusual departure. It is programmed here... |
MONTEVERDI
L'incoronazione Di Poppea (complete) Helen Donath, Elisabeth Söderström, Cathy Berberian, Kurt Equiluz, Paul Esswood & Philip Langridge, Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 3 CD - released 23/Feb/2009 ] |
Paul Anka
30th Anniversary Collection - His All Time Greatest Hits [ Rhino Records / CD - released 26/Oct/1989 ] American imported disc. |
Paul Anka
A Body of Work [ Sony Music / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] American imported disc. |
Paul Anka
Dianacally Yours [ Bear Family / CD - released 18/Feb/2013 ] |
Paul Bollenback
Portraits in Space and Time [ Sony Music / CD - released 23/Sep/2014 ] |
Paul Brown
The City [ CD ] |