SAINT-SAENS
Music for the Prix de Rome Julie Fuchs, Marina De Liso, Solenn’ Lavanant Linke, Bernard Richter / Brussels Philharmonic & Flemish Radio Choir, Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2011 ] "The performances seem uniformly excellent and the sound quality is first-rate." (International Record Review) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
The Best of Sibelius Capella Istropolitana / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, the son of a doctor, in a small town in the south of Finland, the language and culture of his family being Swedish. It was at school that he was to learn Finnish and acquire his first interest in... |
ELGAR
Enigma Variations / Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos. 1 and 4 / Serenade for Strings Capella Istropolitana, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "Freshly spontaneous throughout", said the Gramophone of the Enigma, "undoubtably good value", added the Penguin Guide. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mass No. 16 'Coronation Mass' / Missa longa Carolina Ullrich, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Angelo Pollak, Konstantin Krimmel /Cologne West German Radio Chorus, Cologne Chamber, Christoph Poppen [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The occasion for the composition of Mozart's Missa longa is still a matter of speculation, but the Mass remains an exceptional work with its elaborate choral writing, extended orchestration and dramatic changes. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Sacred Choral Music (Incl Via Crucis, Ave Maria, etc) Choir of Radio Svizzera, Lugano. Diego Fasolis, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2002 ] "an outstanding recording" - Gramophone |
CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Nielsen Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ] The second core cycle of symphonic works in this Masters Series comes from the 20th century. The six masterful symphonies by Nielsen with the Swedish Radio Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, "performances of great thrust and unflagging energy,... |
FRANK MARTIN / KAZIMIERZ SEROCKI / ERNEST BLOCH / JAN SANDSTROM
A Trombone Odyssey Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Leif Segerstam [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/1992 ] "Lindberg has added another rung to the ladder." (American Record Guide) |
DUTILLEUX
Toute un monde lointain... / Trois strophes sur le nom se Sacher (with Lutoslawski - Cello Concerto, etc) Christian Poltera (cello) / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen / Jac Van Steen [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] Christian Poltéra (cello) |
FRANZ LISZT
Transcriptions Christian Schmitt, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Martin Haselböck [ CPO / CD - released 16/Sep/2013 ] Franz Liszt was one of the most dazzling and influential musical personalities of the nineteenth century. He repeatedly set out on new paths and engaged in a permanent quest for new expressive opportunities. His Weimar period (from 1843) was... |
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
Gubaidulina - Sonnengesang Christian Schmitt (organ) Ivan Monighetti (cello) Elbtonal Percussion / NDR Chor (North German Radio Choir) / Philipp Ahmann [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] "Ondine's new Bartók CD is an out-and-out winner...Tetzlaff's account of the First Concerto elevates this work to a whole new level of musical excellence..It's that good!" Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Concerto |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra / Partita for Violin and Orchestra / Novelette Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 26/Jan/2024 ] "This compelling release from conductor Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra makes clear the evolutionary exuberance of Lutosławski's creative development." Five Stars BBC Music January 2024 Orchestral Choice |
MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN
Violin Concertos Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ Ondine / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "Christian Tetzlaff is an absolutely fabulous violinist, and this repertoire suits him perfectly. His tone is unfailingly sweet, penetrating, and lyrical, but never burdened with excessive vibrato." (10/10 ClassicsToday Jan 2012) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op 45 Christina Gansch, Matthias Winckhler, Bachchor Mainz, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Ralf Otto [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem was initially conceived as a 'cantata of grief' - it was the death of his mother and the desire to create a memorial to his friend Robert Schumann that makes this music so intensely personal. With its radiant messages of... |
CHARLES KOECHLIN
Vers la Voa»te etoilae / Le Docteur Fabricius Christine Simonin (ondes martenot) / Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR / Heinz Holliger [ Hanssler / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "Heinz Holliger is very much at home here, and the Stuttgart Radio orchestra play most responsively. The recording is full and atmospheric if not demonstration-class: one ideally needs a more voluptuous ambience. But this is well worth... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tüür: Peregrinus Ecstaticus Christoffer Sunqvist (clarinet) Pekka Kuusisto (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2017 ] "Hannu Lintu's Finnish Radio SO show their class in all three performances, each full of considered phrasing, deep listening and impressive agility (the same can be said of the soloists). Tüür is blossoming into a composer of true significance. Go li |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (complete original opera production from 1859) Véronique Gens, Andrew Foster-Williams; Benjamin Bernheim; Jean-Sébastien Bou /Flemish Radio Choir, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset [ Bru Zane / 3 CD/Book - released 23/Aug/2019 ] "It also happens to be a terrific recording on its own terms...Rousset underpins it all with conducting that is fleet and dramatically engaged." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short list - Opera |
PROKOFIEV
Eugene Onegin (incidental music) / Pique Dame (film music) Chulpan Chamatova (speaker) Jakob Kaf (speaker) Boris Statsenko (baritone) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michail Jurowski [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
Chœur de Radio France, Maîtrise de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Solistes de l'Orchestre National de France
Thierry Escaich: Cris [ Formations musicales de Radio France / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] For its 28th edition in 2018, the Festival Présences of Radio France paid tribute to Thierry Escaich -one of the greatest French living composers. Composer, but also organist and improviser, Thierry Escaich does not dissociate the three aspects of... |
NIELSEN / IBERT / ARNOLD
Flute Concertos Clara Andrada (flute), Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Jaime Martín (conductor) [ Ondine / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] In this album Clara Andrada, solo flutist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, performs three 20th century flute concertos together with the orchestra conducted by Jaime Martín. Malcolm Arnold's delightful Flute Concerto No. 1 makes a pleasant addition... |