J. S. BACH
Bach: Bass Cantatas David Greco (baritone), Van Diemen's Band [ ABC Classics / CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Celebrated Australian baritone David Greco joins with acclaimed period-instrument ensemble Van Diemen's Band to present treasures from Bach's sacred music, including two complete bass cantatas. |
Dick Van Dyke
Songs I Like: Expanded Edition [ Jasmine / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] Something of a late starter, Dick Van Dyke was already in his mid-30s when he landed the lead role of Albert J. Peterson in the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie, in 1960, following which his career began to take off. The Original Cast soundtrack LP... |
The Dick Van Dyke Show
7 Of The Best [ Possum / DVD - released 16/Jan/2015 ] The "Dick Van Dyke Show" centres around the life of Rob Petrie, a New York Comedy writer who lives in Suburban new Rochelle with his wife Laura and son Ritchie, plus a pair of zany next door neighbours, Jerry and Millie Helper. Rob is the head of the... |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn Portrait: Complete works [Symphonies, chamber, concertos, operas, songs, choral & instrumental] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Klara Wurtz, Gil Sharon, Frans Bruggen, Frank van de Laar, Jos van Immerseel, and many more [ Brilliant Classics / 41 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2009 ] This 40CD set includes all his major orchestral works, including the 5 symphonies, the evergreen violin concerto in E minor, the music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Elijah, the First Piano Trio, Octet, Songs without Words and a selection of his Lieder. |
ONSLOW / CHERUBINI
String Quintets Diogenes Quartett, with Manuel van der Nahmer (cello) [ CPO / CD - released 29/May/2006 ] |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: 4-Hand Piano Music Dúo Van Duá (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Albéniz's distinctive musical vocabulary, with its sensual harmonies, rich melodic lines and characteristic rhythmic figures, has ensured lasting popularity, not least in his music for the piano. |
DVORAK
Symphony No. 6 & Overtures Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol. 9 (Incls 'Trois Hymns') Ben van Oosten (Organ) [ MDG / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Klassik heute raved of Vol. 1 of the Dupré complete recording, "Ben van Oosten once again proves to be one of the few organ interpreters who do not forget the performance aspect in their attention to musicological precision." |
Dutch National Ballet (ballet company), Hans van Manen, Reiner E. Moritz
Moving To Music (a Film By Reiner E. Moritz) & Hommage à Hans van Manen (metaforen; Adagio Hammerklavier; Frank Bridge Variations) [ Naxos / Blu-ray - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Guided by his idol George Balanchine, Hans van Manen has striven all his life to create meaning in his choreography. |
Eberhard Weber (electric double bass, keyboards) with Ack van Rooyen (flugelhorn)
Encore [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Encore is a companion volume to Résumé the widely-praised solo album issued in 2011. Eberhard Weber returns once more to the many live recordings of his tenure with the Jan Garbarek Group, isolating his bass solos and reworking them into new pieces... |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 9, 12 & 14 Edna Stern (piano) Orchestre d’Auvergne, Arie van Beek (direction) [ Zig-Zag Territories / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] After a praised discography; Ciacconas of JS BACH diapason découverte in 2005, Préludes, Chorals & Fugues de JS BACH diapason d'or in 2009, several records in romantic music; Schumann in 2007, Chopin in 2010, Edna Stern offers her first concerto... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Overtures & incidental music (with works by Haydn & Brahms) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Eduard Van Beinum [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] A newly remastered collection of Decca and Philips recordings made by the under-rated Dutch conductor in Austro-German classics including a little-known account of Beethoven's Prometheus Overture. The ballet music which Beethoven wrote to... |
CHOPIN / GLUCK / GRANADOS / HAYDN / HINDEMITH / MENDELSSOHN / etc
The Emanuel Feuermann Edition: The Complete English Columbia Recordings & Early German Parlophone Recordings Emanuel Feuermann (cello) with Michael Taube (piano), Gerald Moore (piano), Theo van der Pas (piano), etc [ Heritage / 4 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2013 ] The first Heritage release to re-issue material from the Pearl catalogue. This 4 CD set brings together the complete English Columbia recordings and rare, early German Parlophone recordings of Emanuel Feuermann. Feuermann is the cellist's cellist par... |
PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas [recorded 1994] Emily Van Evera, Ben Parry, Janet Lax, Hanne Mari Ørbaek / Taverner Choir, Taverner Players, Andrew Parrott [ Avie / CD - released 18/Dec/2014 ] AVIE continues to mine the rich catalog of recordings made by Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players with a sumptuous reissue of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas. The performance is as fresh as when the recording was made in 1994, with baritone Ben... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera) Emily Van Evera / Ben Parry / Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott [ Sony Essential Masterworks / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] "Tempos are not particularly brisk but the playing is throughout fresh and vivid...the whole ensemble, down to Douglas Wootton's down-to-earth entertaining Sailor and the charming enchantresses, is superb." MusicWeb |
J. S. BACH
Trauer-Musik: Music to mourn Prince Leopold, BWV 244a Emily Van Evera / Clare Wilkinson / Charles Daniels / Tom Meglioranza / Taverner Consort and Players / Andrew Parrott [ Avie Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] A unique document and superb performance make this a recording for classical music aficionados and lovers of Bach's music alike. |
Emily Van Evera, soprano / Christopher Morrongiello, lute
My Lady Rich (Music inspired and written for Lady Penelope Rich - Works by Bartlet, Byrd, Coprario, Dowland, Holborne) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Aug/2005 ] "The disc concludes with a very impressive and moving song cycle by John Coprario, an English composer who was strongly influenced by the Italian style. The cycle was subtitled 'For the death of the Right Honorable the Earle of Devonshire', and... |
MARTIN LUTHER / MICHAEL ALTENBURG / MICHAEL PRAETORIUS / BACH FAMILY / ANONYMOUS / etc
Music In Germany From Schütz To Bach [8 CDs plus Book] Ensemble Clements, Vox Luminis, Choeur de Chambre de Namur Choir, Ricercar Consort / Lionel Meunier, Denis Menier, Philippe Pierlot, Erik Van Nevel [ Ricercar / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2017 ] After exploring the evolution of Italian and French music in the seventeenth century, Jérôme Lejeune devotes a new volume in his History of Early Music to Germany. During this century in which the Lutheran musical tradition developed further, Germany... |