CHABRIER / SAINT-SAENS / MASSENET / RAVEL / POULENC
New Year's Eve Concert 2015 BLU-RAY Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Sep/2016 ] The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart's last 8 piano concertos. The music of Mozart has quite literally been an essential driving force of Daniel Barenboim's... |
KRIEGER / HAMMERSCHMID / DEDEKIND / ALBERT / ERLEBACH / KINDERMANN
German Baroque Lieder Annette Dasch (soprano) / Members of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Annette Dasch is a young German soprano who is picking off the formative stage-posts of professional opportunity with a special interest in period performance. This surprisingly esoteric debut disc of 17th century German song draws on this penchant... |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Viola Concertos Antoine Tamestit, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sabine Fehlandt, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] A precursor in this field as in so many others, Telemann gave the viola its very first masterpieces, immediately establishing it as a solo instrument in its own right. Alongside Sabine Fehlandt and the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin,... |
DVORAK / SZYMANOWSKI
Violin Concertos Arabella Steinbacher (violin) / Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] This is Steinbecher's debut on Pentatone. She is 27 and was taught by the same teacher as Julia Fischer. Her previous recordings for Orfeo have all got great reviews. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 and solo piano works Arcadi Volodos (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine [ Sony Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] "So many things about it are distinguished and thrilling. The flowing tempo of the opening bars and the subtle assertion of soloistic presence augur well....Levine ensures that the following orchestral transition keeps moving (how often conductors... |
LISZT
The 2 Piano Concertos / etc Nareh Arghamanyan (piano) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Nov/2012 ] In April of this year PentaTone released the debut album of exclusive artist Nareh Arghamanyan, born in Armenia who was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 14 (youngest ever). This Rachmaninov recital was very well received. Classics... |
URSULA MAMLOK
String Quartet No. 1 & Polyphony No. 1 Armida Quartet / Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] Ursula Mamlok lived for many years in New York before returning to Berlin, the city of her birth, in her eighties. Featuring a conspectus of her much admired chamber music, this recording is of the concert given in the city's prestigious Philharmonie... |
ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Schulhoff: Chamber Music Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Oct/2016 ] The music of the Prague-born prodigy Erwin Schulhoff has become increasingly popular in recent decades. He moved through successive creative phases and, on this recording, Spectrum Concerts Berlin focuses on music written between 1924 and 1927. The... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (with Janacek-Violin Concerto) Baiba Skride (violin) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Munich Philharmonic Orchestra / Marek Janowski / Mikko Franck [ Sony Classical / CD - released 28/Oct/2007 ] "A natural musicaon to the ends of her fingertips." Classic FM Magazine |
DSO Berlin / Kontarsky, Bernhard / Grau, Andreas / Schumancher, Götz
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois - Dialoge, Monologe, Perspektiven [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
C.P.E. BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART / PAUL WRANITZKY
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
C.P.E. BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART / PAUL WRANITZKY
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 (Blu-ray) Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
LUIGI CHERUBINI / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / IGNAZ HOLZBAUER / JUSTIN HEINRICH KNECHT / etc
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
LUIGI CHERUBINI / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / IGNAZ HOLZBAUER / JUSTIN HEINRICH KNECHT / etc
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 (Blu-ray) Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
Berlin, Dash
United Destination 2012 [ 405 Recordings / 2 CD - released 31/Aug/2012 ] |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg (complete opera recorded in 2019) Berlin Deutsche / Elena Tsallagova. Emily Magee, Philipp Jekal, Flurina Stucki / Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2020 ] Based on Oscar Wilde's story The Birthday of the Infanta, Zemlinsky's single-act opera Der Zwerg is the tragic tale of a dwarf who is presented at court, falls in love with the beautiful Donna Clara, but is ultimately forced to see himself as others... |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Berlin Deutsche / Elena Tsallagova. Emily Magee, Philipp Jekal, Flurina Stucki / Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/May/2020 ] Based on Oscar Wilde's story The Birthday of the Infanta, Zemlinsky's single-act opera Der Zwerg is the tragic tale of a dwarf who is presented at court, falls in love with the beautiful Donna Clara, but is ultimately forced to see himself as others... |
JOHANN GOTTLIEB JANITSCH
Janitsch: Trio Sonatas Berlin Friday Academy [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] New recordings of elegantly crafted chamber music by one of the leading musical lights of Berlin during the mid-18th century. A contemporary biographical sketch of Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-ca 1763) presented him as 'cheerful and... |
ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK
Symphonic Works Volume 6 [Incls Symphony No. 9] Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Ćukasz Borowicz [ CPO / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The composition of a ninth symphony has represented a symbolic challenge within the tradition for almost every composer after Beethoven. Andrzej Panufnik met this challenge with his most ambitious and large-scale work. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 [with Bruckner-Symphony No 7] (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 7) Berlin & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] If the most notable trait of this 1948 recording of Brahms' Second Symphony, Furtwängler's only commercial recording of the work, is the extreme variance of tempo, the composer's characteristically restless contrast of dynamism and lyricism is... |