WEIGL
Symphony No.6 / Old Vienna Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Alun Francis / Thomas Sanderling [ BIS / CD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] "Committed playing for music of gravitas and craftsmanship" (Gramophone April 2006) |
LOUIS SPOHR
Overtures Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christain Frohlich [ CPO / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christain Frohlich |
FRANZ LEHAR
Overtures and Waltzes Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michail Jurowski [ CPO / CD - released 30/Nov/2004 ] "You will have gathered that I have enjoyed this disc very much, and that I can recommend it without qualification." -MusicWeb Nov 2003 |
Berlin Rso/Andreescu
Vladigerov: Bulgarian Rhapsody [ Cpo / CD - released 30/Apr/2007 ] |
Berlin Rso/Jurowski
Lehar: Fata Morgana: Suites... [ Cpo / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] |
ERNST TOCH
Toch: Tanz-Suite / Cello Concerto Berlin Spectrum Concerts, Thomas Carroll [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "These works are very much redolent of their time and place, and if the period or the idiom interests you, then so will these very polished and well recorded performances." -Classics Today |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker (Complete ballet recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Berlin State Ballet / Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Michael Banzha, Arshak Ghalumyan / Robert Reimer (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] In combination with the brilliance of modern dance, this production - a loving reconstruction designed as a great ballet féerie - reveals its nostalgic charm and the promise of Christmas: it's as if Tchaikovsky had composed the falling of snowflakes |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 (Kleiber / Pfitzner) (1928-1929) Berlin State Opera Orchestra / Hans Pfitzner / Erich Kleiber [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 13/Jan/2002 ] Erich Kleiber's Berlin State Opera Orchestra set of the Second Symphony was one of the first to enjoy the benefits of electrical recording techniques and, during the LP era, was even passed off as the work of Wilhelm Furtwängler - not surprisingly,... |
Berlin State Opera Orch/Muck
Wagner: Overtures & Preludes [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Jul/2002 ] |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, 1992) Berlin State Opera / Poul Elming, Waltraud Meier, John Tomlinson, Günter von Kannen / Daniel Barenboim [ Euroarts DVD / 3 DVD - released 15/Sep/2016 ] "a must for those who love this work...[Elming] is remarkable in the title role, his concentration and reactions on a par with Jon Vickers's and the voice in pristine shape" (International Record Review) |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Berlin State Opera / Wolfgang Koch, Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe, Matthias Hölle / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Sep/2016 ] The Wagner's mystic masterpiece "Parsifal" at Staatsoper Berlin staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. |
KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN
Symphony 5 / Symphony 6 / Symphony 8 (rec 1979) Berlin Symphony Orchestra / Genther Herbig / Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra / Herbert Kegel [ Berlin Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Hartmann's Bergian music is dour but glowingly lit with strong elements of impressionism." (MusicWeb July 1999) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Symphonies, Ein deutsches Requiem & Concertos Berlin & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Wilhelm Furtwangler, with Yehudi Menuhin, Edwin Fisher, Willi Boskovsky, etc [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] Wilhelm Furtwängler saw "a wild, fantastic and even demonic universe" in the symphonies of Brahms. "Music is not something that is invented and constructed," he wrote, "but something that grows, emerging … directly from the hands of nature." With... |
SCHUMANN
The 4 Symphonies / Overtures Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / 2 CD - released 18/Jan/2010 ] "Kubelik's Schumann is dramatic, weighty and loving" (BBC Music) |
RICHARD STRAUSS / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / LISZT / NONO
Claudio Abbado Edition Vol. 2 Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Claudio Abbado [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] As the endlessly sad news of Claudio Abbado's passing broke on Monday 20th January 2014, heartfelt tributes quickly poured in from around the world: "a great musician and a generous man" (Sir Simon Rattle); "will always be part of the exalted group... |
W. A. MOZART
Barenboim plays Mozart Piano Concertos [Nos 20 - 27] (rec 1986-1989) Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor) [ EuroArts DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] "these are impeccably presented and beautifully rendered performances" (Five Stars BBC Music) |
W. A. MOZART
Barenboim plays Mozart Piano Concertos [Nos 20 - 27] (rec 1986-1989) BLU-RAY Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor) [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2014 ] "With more than four hours of music, and with some wonderful performances of Mozart's last 8 piano concertos, this is a real bargain." (Musicweb) |
W. A. MOZART
Barenboim plays & conducts Mozart (rec 2006) Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor) with Radek Baborak (horn) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to a selection of symphonies and concertos. |
W. A. MOZART / RICHARD STRAUSS
Karajan conducts Mozart & Strauss (Recorded at the Salzburg Festival, August 1970) Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Testament / CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] Recorded at the Salzburg Festival, August 1970 |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 7 Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Michael Gielen [ Testament / CD - released 15/Mar/2015 ] "In this fabulously executed account, all lead inexorably toward the apocalyptic nightmare world of the Rondo-Finale, Mahler's most avant-garde music: never more "contemporary" in its sound than Gielen makes it here." (Sunday Times) |