NIELSEN
Symphonies Vol. 3 - No. 4 "The Inextinguishable" & No. 5 Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michael Schonwandt [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] "The performances are outstanding ... 10/10" - Classics Today on 'Nielsen Orchestral Works Vol. 1' Naxos 8.570737 |
Danish Radio Big Band
Lamb: The Nightingale & The Ro [ Proprius / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 / Pohjola's Daughter / Karelia Suite / etc Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Thomas Jansen [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "I think the star performance is that of the Sixth Symphony - so elusive, so easy to ruin by over-interpreting. I was fascinated by what seemed like a hint of Russian flavouring in the string chants of the coda - well why not?" (Gramophone) |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Khrimian Hairig / Guitar Concerto / Symphony No. 60 David Leisner (guitar) / Lars Ranch (trumpet) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] Described by the composer's wife as his 'true masterpiece', Khrimian Hairig, with its trumpet solo, recalls the heroic Armenian priest of the title. Hovhaness' virtuoso and romantic Guitar Concerto was written for the Bolivian guitarist Juan Calderon. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
David Oistrakh Volume 1 (LP) David Oistrakh (violin) Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin [ Melodiya / LP - released 8/Oct/2014 ] "The world had one of the greatest violinists in the person of David Oistrakh", wrote the prominent conductor Eugene Ormandy. His other fellow musicians - violinists, pianists, composers and conductors - spoke about Oistrakh with as much admiration.... |
PHILIP GLASS
From the Philip Glass Archive Vol. 2: Orchestral Music The Relache Ensemble / Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] From the Philip Glass Archive - Vol. 2: Orchestral Music represents the second release in a series discs to be released on Orange Mountain Music from the vast archive of recordings made in the last 40 years of Philip Glass' incredible recording career. |
Paul Dukas
Ariane et Barbe-Bleue Deborah Polaski, J Henschel, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Vienna Radio Symph Orch, Bertrand de Billy [ Oehms / 2 CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] |
DUKAS
Ariane et Barbe-bleue (complete opera recorded in 2005) Deborah Polaski / Jane Henschel / Kwangchul Youn / Ruxandra Donose / Stella Grigorian / Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Bertrand de Billy [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/2011 ] 'Bertrand de Billy is a strong advocate for the work in this live recording from a concert performance in the Vienna Konzerthaus. The sound is vivid enough and chorus and orchestra are splendid' MusicWeb. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
The Best of Debussy (Incls Clair de Lune, Arabesque No 1 & The girl with the Flaxen Hair) Peter Nagy (piano) Klara Kormendi (piano) / Kodaly Quartet / Slovak Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Claude Debussy exercised widespread influence over later generations of composers, both in his native France and elsewhere. He was trained at the Paris Conservatoire, and decided there on a career as a composer rather than as a pianist, his original... |
Derwinger/Hanover Radio Phil
Atterberg: Piano Concerto [ Cpo / CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] |
VALEN / BERG / MESSIAEN / WEBERN
Refractions:Choral Music Det Norske Solistkor (The Norwegian Soloists' Choir) / Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] Music in the early 20th century did pass from one medium to another, from late Romanticism into an unknown future. Refractions allows the listener to sample this transition through the choral music of four very different composers. |
Deutsche Radio Phil Saarbrucke
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1/Cap [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] |
Deutsche Radio Phil Saarbrucke
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2/Sym [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] |
FABRICE BOLLON
Bollon: Your Voice Out of the Lamb / Four Lessons of Darkness / Dogmatic Pleasures Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Christoph Poppen, Nicholas Milton, Jader Bigamini [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Internationally acclaimed and award-winning conductor Fabrice Bollon has in recent years attracted attention as a composer with a keen ear for unique and unusual timbres. Your Voice Out of the Lamb is one of the most spectacular and virtuosic works... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 & 6 Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Pietari Inkinen [ SWR Classic / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] This is the first installment of the series dedicated to Sergei Prokofiev's Symphonies performed by the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under the baton of ist chief conductor Pietari Inkinen. |
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie/Po
Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5 [ Oehms Classics / 3 CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] |
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie/Po
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6: Pa [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 21/Mar/2011 ] |
Deutsche Radio Phil/Mercier
Gouvy: Symphonies Vol 3 [ Cpo / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] |
THEODORE GOUVY
Symphony No 4 / Symphonie brève / etc Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Jacques Mercier [ CPO / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "You can understand why Gouvy was such a hit in Leipzig while only gradually making any popular headway in Paris, but there is a good, firm talent at work here and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie are persuasive advocates of his merits." (Gramophone) |
Deutsche Radio Phil/Mercier
Gouvy: Symphony No.6 [ Cpo / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] |