W. A. MOZART
Clarinet Concerto (with Beethoven - Clarinet Concerto [arr Collins]) Michael Collins, clarinet, Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Nov/2000 ] An extradinary version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto on Clarinet |
SCRIABIN
Symphony No. 3 'Le Divin Poame' Russian National Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 25/May/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - The latest addition to Pletnev's catalogue of Russian music! |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No 5 Mikhail Pletnev / Russian National Orchestra / Christian Gansch [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ] "For me Beethoven is like a god. I worship him, and I admire his music. It always produces very deep emotions in me when I'm conducting it or playing it on the piano." |
The National Bank
Come On Over to the Other Side [ Universal Music / CD - released 25/Feb/2008 ] This Norwegian band consists of musicians already well-known in their native country, from such bands as Jaga Jazzist, Susanna & The Magical Orchestra, In The Country and Bigbang, and featuring the accomplished singer/songwriter Thomas Dybdahl on vocals. |
CHABRIER
Espana / Suite Pastorale / Gwendoline Overture / etc Orchestre National de France, Armin Jordan [ Warner Apex / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] |
National Head Band
Albert 1 [ CD ] |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Spellbound: - Classic Film Scores of Miklos Rozsa National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] Miklos Rozsa already had a promising career as a composer in the concert hall when he started writing movie scores in the mid-1930s. By the end of that decade, he was working on the most expensive movie being made in England, and by the end of the... |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Aschenbradel, Ritter Pasman, Le Beau Danube (Ballets) National Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 11/Jul/2002 ] "The orchestra plays with enthusiasm and the 1974 sound is strikingly vivid." *** (Three Stars) Penguin Stereo Guide |
PUCCINI
Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1978) Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] "The great merit of this new version of Tosca...is that the stage picture is so clear, with the words sharply audible from beginning to end...Pavarotti makes an unusually positive and bright-eyed Cavaradossi, by no means the cipher this character can |
The National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Kamen - The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms [ Decca Records / CD - released 23/Jan/2001 ] The first recording of Kamen's complete symphonies!! |
SAINT-SAENS / TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI / BERLIOZ / de FALLA / MOUSSORGSKY / etc
Olga Borodina: Portrait Olga Borodina (mezzo) / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / etc [ Philips Portrait of an Artist / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2006 ] "A mezzo-soprano is usually a woman with a tragic past, a tragic life - strong women, wilful women, and these roles have strengthened me as a character" (Olga Borodina) |
ROUSSEL / FRANCK / LALO / BEETHOVEN / RAVEL / BERLIOZ / etc
André Cluytens: The Complete Orchestral Recordings Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Orchestre de l'Association des Concert Colonne, Orchestre National de France, Wiener Philharmoniker / André [ Erato / Warner Classics / 65 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2017 ] André Cluytens, though born in Belgium, achieved fame as one of the supreme French conductors of his era, renowned for his refinement and the sheer joy of his music-making. In the mid-20th century he built a substantial, varied and distinguished... |
MILHAUD / BERLIOZ / SCHUMANN / BLOCH / RACHMANINOV / RAVEL / etc
Leonard Bernstein: An American In Paris - Recordings & Concerts with Orchestre National de France Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein, with Boris Belkin (violin) Donald McInnes (viola) Marilyn Horne (mezzo) etc [ Warner Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2018 ] This 7CD set is the fruit of the love affair that developed in Paris between Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestre National de France in the 1970s. Beside long-admired studio recordings, featuring Mstislav Rostropovich and Alexis Weissenberg among the... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Overture: 'Le Corsaire' / Royal Hunt and Storm & Trojan March ('Les Troyens') (recorded 1957-59) Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Rosette Recording (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide - 'If you want a genuinely French Symphonie fantastique, wonderfully performed and superbly recorded, go out and get this release before it's snapped up by your neighbour.' (Gramophone) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
Debussy / Ravel: Orchestral Works (Incls 'La Mer', 'Images', 'Bolero' & 'Daphnis et Chloe') Orchestre National de l ORTF, Orchestre de Paris, Jean Martinon, with Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Itzhak Perlman (violin) [ Erato / Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2018 ] "If you are satisfied with performances that are lucid, imaginative, thoughtful and unselfconscious then you will be very happy with Martinon." (MusicWeb on the Debussy) |
LIDARTI
Esther-Oratorio in Hebrew in three acts (1774) Orchestre National de Montpellier / Anne Lise Sollied / Laurent Naouri [ Accord / 2 CD - released 17/Apr/2006 ] World premiere recording an oratorio in Hebrew composed by Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Art of Charles Dutoit (with bonus DVD of music of Prokofiev) Orchestre symphonique de Montreal / Philharmonia Orchestra / Orchestre National de France / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Charles Dutoit [ Decca Budget Boxes / 7 CD/DVD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] This 6-CD orchestral spectacular features mainly recordings with the OSM but the Orchestra National de France is also included in Poulenc, while the Philharmonia is included with a popular tone-poem by Saint-Saëns (the earliest recording included... |
W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 2001) Paris National Opera / Piotr Beczala / Dorothea Roschmann / Desiree Rancatore / Ivan Fischer (cond) [ TDK / DVD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "A Paris National Opera production of The Magic Flute in German sounds like an unlikely prospect, yet the stage settings are beautifully rich and imaginative, as are the costumes. Dorothea Roeschmann as Pamina is outstanding" (Giv Cornfield) |
EDVARD GRIEG
Greig: Peer Gynt - Incidental music Peter Mattei, Camilla Tilling, Ellerhein Girls' Choir. Estonian National Male Choir. Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi (conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 4/Aug/2005 ] "Jarvi junior follows in father's footsteps with a worthwhile disc of Peer Gynt" (Gramophone) |
BUSONI
Piano Concerto / Fantasia Contrappuntistica Victoria Postnikova (piano) / National de France Orchestra & Choeurs de Radio France Chorus, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky [ Warner Apex / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] |