Bedrich Sm
Má Vlast RSO Wien, Lovro von Matacic [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony 3 & 6 / Fantasia in C for piano, chorus & orchestra Rudolf Serkin (piano) / Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Telarc Everybody's Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Everybody's Classics is Telarc's new reissue series offering consumers 2 CDs For 1 Great Price! This series is a great way for the classical connoisseur to update their collection with high quality and great sounding performances. |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers [Orpheus in the Underworld] (complete operetta recorded in 2019) Salzburg Festival / Kathryn Lewek, Joel Prieto, Anne Sofie von Otter, Martin Winkler / Enrique Mazzola (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] "A frantic and fabulous show" (New York Times) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers [Orpheus in the Underworld] (complete operetta recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Kathryn Lewek, Joel Prieto, Anne Sofie von Otter, Martin Winkler / Enrique Mazzola (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Operetta enthusiast Barrie Kosky has landed a gigantic success with Offenbach's subversive and hilarious reversion of the Orpheus myth at the Salzburg Festival. Kosky created a magically precise and witty staging with numerous extravagant costumes in... |
MOZART
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 3/Jul/2006 ] |
BEETHOVEN
The Best of Beethoven Seiji Ozawa / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Christoph von Dohnanyi & others [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/2005 ] Excerpts from Beethoven's best known works performed by several of the world's finest recording artists make this a superb compilation release. Critics have raved about this recording, calling the symphonic portions, "impressive throughout for its... |
BARTOK / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / SHOSTAKOVICH / MAHLER / R. STRAUSS / etc
Orchestral Music in the 20th Century Sir Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Felicity Palmer, Gidon Kremer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Willard White, etc [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jan/1999 ] "The series was one of the last intelligent contributions to classical music by British television and, even by 1996, one suspects that only a musician of Rattle's stature and determination could have got it made." Gramophone |
TCHAIKOVSKY / WAGNER / STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHOENBERG / etc
450 Years Staatskapelle Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin, Richard Strauss, Leo Blech, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Keilberth, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 3/Apr/2020 ] As the Staatskapelle Berlin celebrates its 450th anniversary, Deutsche Grammophon presents 15 discs of sound recordings of outstanding artistic merit from the venerable, world-class orchestra under its great conductors. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Staatsoper Stuttgart / Michaël König, Simone Schneider, Martin Gantner, Okka von der Damerau / Cornelius Meister [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2020 ] What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly ? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, lying at the core of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.... |
Verdi, Giu
Messa da Requiem Stella, Dominguez, Gedda, Modesti, Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien; Wiener Symphoniker, Herbert von [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2008 ] |
Steve Von Till
As The Crow Flies (LP) [ Neurot / LP - released 23/Oct/2015 ] Steve Von Till's first solo album, from 2000, on vinyl (180gram) for the first time! The sixth-ever release on the band's own Neurot Recordings, Steve Von Till's solo debut was the first in what has become a long and illustrious line of solo... |
Steve von Till
A Life Unto Itself [ Neurot / CD - released 5/Jun/2015 ] Steve Von Till has a softer side. The Neurosis guitarist/vocalist's usual god-like heaviness is being revisited in his latest release, his quieter but no less pensive singer-songwriter solo project. Fans know he has been doing this for years under... |
Steve von Till
A Life Unto Itself LP [ Neurot / LP - released 5/Jun/2015 ] Steve Von Till has a softer side. The Neurosis guitarist/vocalist's usual god-like heaviness is being revisited in his latest release, his quieter but no less pensive singer-songwriter solo project. Fans know he has been doing this for years under... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Rec 1954) Streich Rita (Soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Otto Ackermann (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] In 1942 Richard Strauss, then approaching his eightieth birthday, recalled that the original intention behind Ariadne auf Naxos was as a grateful offering to the theatre director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943). It was to form an epilogue to a comedy by... |
AZIO CORGHI
Divara-Wasser Und Blut(Complete Opera) Susanna Von Der Burg / Christopher Krieg / Hasnlutz Hildmann / Munster Symphony Orchestra / Will Humburg [ NAXOS 21ST CENTURY CLASSICS / 2 CD ] |
AZIO CORGHI
Divara - Wasser un Blut (complete opera) Susanna von der Burg / Hanslutz Hildmann / Michael Holm / Christopher Krieg / Robert Schwats [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
SCHUMANN / TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concertos Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Wislocki & Herbert von Karajan [ ALTO / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] (Schumann): "lacks no style" (Tchaikovsky): "The element of struggle for which this work is famous is all too clear: these two musical giants did not always agree" (Penguin Guide) |
BEETHOVEN
The Beethoven Collection [16 CD set] Svlatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Daniel Barenboim, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Salzburg Festival 2012: Ouverture Spirituelle Sylvia Schwartz (soprano), Elisabeth Von Magnus (mezzo-soprano), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor) & Florian Boesch (baritone) Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus [ EuroArts / DVD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] This is the first recording of the new concert series "Ouverture Spirituelle" from the Salzburger Festspiele 2012 focusing on religious themes and musical works. Two rarely heard pieces that Mozart wrote when he was twenty years old - the Litaniae... |