More By Artist: B.J. Thomas
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Frederica von Stade, Thomas Hampson, Tyne Daly, London Symphony Orchestra. Michael Tilson Thomas
Bernstein - On the Town [ DG Awards Collection / CD - released 8/May/2005 ] Gramophone Award Winner: Music Theatre 1994 |
HENRY PURCELL
O Sing Unto The Lord: Sacred Music By Henry Purcell Frederick Teardo (organ) & John Scott (conductor/solo organ) Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Concert Royal [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] Fifth Avenue, New York and conductor John Scott release this compelling programme of choral works by Henry Purcell which also features the acclaimed New York period ensemble Concert Royal. Recorded on period instruments, this collection of sacred... |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: The Saint of Bleecker Street / The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore Gabrielle Ruggiero / David Poleri / Gloria Lane / Maria Di Gerlando / Leon Lishner / Orchestra and Chorus / Thomas Schippers [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] Hailed as 'the best new opera since Gershwin's Porgy and Bess', Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street won the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Musical. Its underlying themes of immigrant life... |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Elias [Elijah], Op. 70 Genia Kuhmeier, Ann Hallenberg, Lothar Odinius, Michael Nagy / Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor-und-Solisten, Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/May/2017 ] "...all stodge and sanctimony are swept away. There is heft when it matters...But what's more compelling is the nimbleness, the swift-moving parts." The Guardian |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Songs Gerald Finley (baritone) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] Canadian baritone Gerald Finley is one of the leading singers and dramatic interpreters of his generation. This is his debut recording with Ondine, already having many award-winning performances on CD and DVD. |
BERLIOZ
Lelio, ou Le Retour a la vie / Helene / etc Sune Hjerrild, Gert Henning Jensen (tenors) Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone) Danish National Choir & Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Jun/2007 ] The Danish National Symphony Orchestra adds to its large discography on Chandos with this unique coupling Of all the major works of Hector Berlioz, the monodrama Lélio, part II of the Symphonie Fantastique is surprisingly one of the least known... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Claudio Abbado. William Steinberg, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 57 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ] The BSO's 1969-70 season was a landmark year for the orchestra with the arrival of distinguished conductor William Steinberg and the start of their recording legacy with DG. The label immediately reinforced its commitment to the BSO. |
DEBUSSY / RAVEL DUPARC / IBERT
Invitation Au Voyage Giorgos Kanaris (baritone), Thomas Wise (piano) [ Hänssler CLASSIC / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] This recording provides a colourful collection of French poems by Paul Verlaine, Charles d'Orleans, Paul Morand, Charles Baudelaire and many more set to music by the leading French composers of their time. |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Pamela Armstrong / Thomas Allen / Ragnar Ulfung / Hakan Hagegard / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 'Vladimir Jurowski gives the bottle a good shake before popping his first cork with the overture. The London Philharmonic are on their toes… The pace is racy, the articulation brilliant, the Viennesisms deftly in place, the waltz fruity... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs |
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CHARPENTIER
Louise (complete opera recorded in 1943) Grace Moore, Raoul Jobin, Ezio Pinza / Metropolitan Opera / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historic Great Opera Performances / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2010 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9 Gundula Janowitz / Christa Ludwig / Jess Thomas / Walter Berry / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 3 DVD - released 18/Jan/2006 ] These performances pay tribute to the legendary Herbert von Karajan, who recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies three times for Deutsche Grammophon. |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 d-Moll op. 125 Gundula Janowitz, Grace Bumbry, Jess Thomas, George London, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Orfeo / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] The well-known "classical" exception to the canon of ten Wagner works that can be performed on the Green Hill goes back to the master himself: it is of course Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The most famous recording of one of the rare Bayreuth... |
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Kuhn, Gustav / Gazheli, Thomas / Baba, Michael ao.
Wagner, Richard - Parsifal [ Col Legno / 3 CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Tatiana Troyanos (alto), Jess Thomas (tenor), Karl Ridderbusch (bass) / Vienna Philharmonic / Karl BAhm [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "one of the greatest recordings the piece has ever enjoyed... there is literally none better" - ClassicsToday.com |
Harold Kloser & Thomas Wander
2012 (Original Soundtrack) [ RCA Records / CD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] The Soundtrack to the disaster movie '2012' features a brand new single from American Idol favourite Adam Lambert ("Time For Miracles"), a new track from Filter ("Fades Like A Photograph") and more. |
JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies No. 70, 73 La Chasse75 Heidelberger Sinfoniker / Thomas Fey (conductor) [ Hanssler / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] "In short, these are brilliant, sympathetic interpretations, marvelously recorded. Don't miss this release!" (ClassicsToday 10/10) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies No. 94, 104, & Ouvertuere Acide e Galatea Heidelberger Sinfoniker / Thomas Fey (conductor) [ Hanssler / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] "This major enterprise benefits from a panoramic recording, at once transparent and coherent. If you like Haydn, don't miss this one. If you still don't know if you like Haydn, give it a try and be converted." (ClassicsToday 10/10) |
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / HENRYK WIENIAWSKI / JEAN SIBELIUS
Tchikovsky/Sibelius/Wieniawski: Violin.Concertos Jascha Heifetz (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Barbirolli, Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "Heifetz's first (mono) recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, made in 1937, as tremendous virtuosity and warmth. The sound is opaque by modern standards...this is a fine bargain." Penguin Guide |
