W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Wind Concertos Karl Leister (clarinet) Lothar Koch (oboe) Gunter Piesk (bassoon) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Studio / CD - released 20/Jan/1987 ] Recorded At - Französische Kirche, St. Moritz, Switzerland, August 1971 |
Katie Von Schleicher
Consummation (LP) [ Bada Bing! / LP - released 31/Jul/2020 ] Katie Von Schleicher doesn't hold back. Her music, drenched in layers of warmth and fuzz, mines depression, devotion, power, and anxiety without reserve. But if channeling weighty subject matter is a constant in Von Schleicher's music, so too is... |
de´ Cavali
Rappresentazione di anima e di Corpo Kerns, Sarroca, Ellenbeck, von Bömches, van Dam, Mozarteum-Orch., Maerzendorfer [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 2/Jun/1999 ] |
ARNOLD / BEETHOVEN / MORTHENSON / TANSMAN / BOUTRY / etc
The Virtuoso Bassoon Knut Sonstevold (bassoon) with Gunilla von Bahr (flute), Eva Nordwall (harpsichord), Lucia Negro (piano), Eva Knardahl (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/1992 ] Gunilla von Bahr (flute), Knut Sønstevold (bassoon), Eva Nordwall (harpsichord), Lucia Negro (piano), Eva Knardahl (piano) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos, K.413-15 [Nos 11 - 13] Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] In January 1783 Mozart advertised in the Vienna press "the publication of three new, recently completed piano concertos", which could even be played with quartet accompaniment - thus enabling him to reach a wider public. In similar vein, he told his... |
MENDELSSOHN
Double Concerto for violin & piano / Piano Concerto in A minor Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (violin & director) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "the double concerto of 1823 marks an advance on the earlier piano concerto (1822), the brilliant piano writing in both shows the fruitful influence of Weber and Hummel, and the playing of the soloists and the period-instrument Freiburg band is nice... |
Kvapil/Von Bahr/Hindart
Martinu:piano Sonata No.1 [ Bis / CD ] |
Lars von Trier (director)
The Kingdom - Series 2 (Director's Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 8/Mar/2007 ] At the Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen, everything is as it was-and nothing is. Consultant neurosurgeon Stig Helmer has returned from Haiti, and immediately runs into problems. He faces prosecution for his unsuccessful operation on poor little... |
SIBELIUS
The Essential Sibelius (15 CDs at a budget price) Leonidas Kavakos / Anne Sofie von Otter / Monica Groop / Jorma Hynninen / Helsinki University Choir / Lahti Symphony Orch / Gothenburg Symphony Orch [ BIS / 15 CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] "The Essential Sibelius...will provide hours of pleasure, discovery and rediscovery for not very much money. If this were your only Sibelius you would have his best music. Alongside this you will become acquainted with some pieces which although not... |
GISEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Messa da Requiem (recorded in 1962) Leontyne Price, Giulietta Simionato, Giuseppe Zampieri, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Testament / CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] "Price and an inflamed, contrapuntal vocal ensemble and full orchestra collaborate in ecstatic terms for the final Libera me whose triumphal, almost Baroque tenor may recall aspects of the old Venetian style." (Four Stars AudAud.com) |
Leontyne Price, Vienna Philharmonic Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
Songs For Christmas (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 6/Nov/2020 ] Leontyne Price's heavenly soprano lights up 13 Christmas favorites on this wonderful 1961 album recorded in Vienna, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. On this vinyl "Silent Night", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "O Tannenbaum", "Ave Maria", "O Holy... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera with libretto) Thomas Allen, Mirella Freni, Anne Sofie von Otter, Neil Shicoff / Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1988 ] "James Levine's 1984 recording is characterised by an appropriately full recorded sound and much gutsy playing from his orchestral forces." (MusicWeb) |
PIETRO LOCATELLI
Locatelli: Concerti grossi op.1 Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] "The one cause for regret is that these forces do not seem to have recorded the remaining concertos in this set. But this still a worthwhile means to explore the work of a composer and violinist whose fame, in his day, stretched around Europe more... |
Lovro Von Matacic
Balakirev/Tchaikovsky [ Testament / CD ] |
Marco Von Orelli 6
Close Ties On Hidden Lanes [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
VERDI
Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 1956) Maria Callas, Nicola Zaccaria, Giuseppe di Stefano / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2008 ] Before Maria Callas made this August 1956 recording of Il Trovatore, at La Scala, Milan, she had been singing it often since 1950 and with notable success. Her 1953 Covent Garden performances earned golden opinions. The Times critic considered the... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Enrico Campi / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Von Karajan (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 2 CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] When EMI [Columbia/Angel] recorded Callas as Madama Butterfly in August 1955, she had not yet sung it in the theatre, nor would she ever do so at La Scala, Milan, where it was made and her career based. |
Markus Burger & Jan Von Klewit
Inside - Outside [ Profil / CD ] |
50 BEST ROMANTIC CLASSICS
50 Best Romantic Classics: Includes Offenbach 'Barcarolle', Debussy 'Clair de lune' & Dvorak 'Song to the Moon' Martha Argerich, Julian Bream, Herbert von Karajan, Moura Lympany, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Carlo Bergonzi, etc [ EMI Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] All the greatest romantic classics performed by the world's greatest soloists, instrumentalists and orchestras. |
VERDI / JOHAN STRAUSS
Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991: 25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center [2 DVDs] The Metropolitan Opera with Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Cheryl Studer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Daniels, and many others [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/May/2010 ] G - Thrill to "hours and hours of glorious opera...A triumphant celebration of virtuosity (Toronto Globe and Mail) as New York's legendary opera company celebrates its first quarter century at Lincoln Center with "one of the most exquisitely refined... |