RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez (with music by Rachmaninov & Chabrier) [Europa Konzert 2011 from Madrid] BLU-RAY Cañizares (guitar) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Flamenco star Cañizares brings nonchalant authority to the Concierto de Aranjuez in a concert fizzing with energy, from a playful Espana to the sweeps of Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2." (BBC Music) |
SCHUBERT
Sacred Music (Incls Stabat Mater in G minor & Magnificat in C major) Celina Lindsley (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Walton Gronroos (bass) / Rundfunkchor Berlin / Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchestra / Marcus Creed [ Capriccio SACD / SACD - released 29/Sep/2005 ] "The performances of all concerned invites considerable praise and when combined with the integrity of Schubert's music this becomes a very desirable release." (MusicWeb June 2005) |
DVORAK / MARTINU
Cello Concertos Christian Poltera (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] ChrisBorn in Zurich, cellist Christian Poltéra was a pupil of Nancy Chumachenco and Boris Pergamenschikov before studying with Heinrich Schiff in Salzburg and Vienna. Since replacing Yo-Yo Ma performing the Elgar concerto with the Tonhalle Orchestra... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Shostakovich & Martinů - Cello Concertos Christian Poltéra (cello), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Gilbert Varga [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD ] "The stellar performance of the Martinů concerto alone makes this disc commendable. Both works are warmly recorded." MusicWeb |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Beethoven / Sibelius: Violin Concertos Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati [ Ondine / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] If Beethoven's Concerto emerges as uncompromisingly provocative, Tetzlaff's Sibelius also errs on the side of danger…In many respects, a real knock-out." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Concerto |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
La Passione Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Pentatone / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to Pentatone together with soprano Christina Landshamer, presenting La Passione, a collection of dazzling concert arias on love, longing and loss by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn, paired with the latter's "La... |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas Christine Schäfer (soprano) / Berlin Barock Solisten, RIAS Kammerchor [ Sony Classical / CD - released 16/Sep/2014 ] "The present-day pitch favoured by the Berlin ensemble assists Christine Schäfer in conveying much of [Mein Herz schwimmt]...with a near-manic desperation...The Dorian Fugue and the six-part Ricercar are beautifully played." (Gramophone) |
PROKOFIEV
Eugene Onegin (incidental music) / Pique Dame (film music) Chulpan Chamatova (speaker) Jakob Kaf (speaker) Boris Statsenko (baritone) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michail Jurowski [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
Cold in Berlin
And Yet [ Candlelight / CD - released 31/Aug/2012 ] |
PERGOLESI / SCARLATTI / CLERAMBAULT / RAMEAU
Orfeo(s): French and Italian Cantatas Sunhae Im (soprano) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] "Im avoids triviality by investing her phrases with an appropriate urgency...The playing, mostly one-to-a-part, is exquisite; so is the singing." (Gramophone) |
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Halffter, Cristóbal / Orán, María / Preece, Simon
Halffter, Cristóbal - Siete Cantos de Espa?a [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS
Europakonzert 1994 from Berlin [Recorded live in 2000] BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] New release of the EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc series. The EUROPAKONZERT annually celebrates the founding of the Berlin Philharmonics on 1st May 1882. Recorded at the Staatstheater Meiningen, in the middle of Germany, 5 years after the German... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven For All: The Piano Concertos [3 CD set] Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor) / Staatskapelle Berlin [ Decca Music Group / 3 CD - released 16/Aug/2012 ] The third release in Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven For All project is the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos featuring Barenboim as soloist and conductor with the Staatskapelle Berlin. |
CHOPIN
Piano Concertos (recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Staatskapelle Berlin, Andre Nelsons [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] "One cannot help but admire his effortless command in the two Chopin piano concertos...captured in pin-sharp picture quality and excellent, well-balanced sound" (International Record Review) |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 13 / Beethoven: Symphony No 3 "Eroica" [Europa Konzert 1997 from Versailles] BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic] [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Dec/2014 ] The founding of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the first of May in 1882 is annually celebrated with a concert in aEuropean city of cultural significance. For this newly released EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc all recordings werelovingly restored and... |
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Saariaho: L'Amour de loin (complete opera) Daniel Belcher, Ekaterina Lekhina, Marie-Ange Todorovitch / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] "Saariaho has declared herself uninterested in the concept of courtly love and prefers to see her work as a more modern, wider meditation on love." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Opera |
Dash Berlin
#musicislife [ 405 Recordings / Armada / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
Dash Berlin
The New Daylight [ 405 Recordings / CD - released 12/Apr/2010 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dreamtime David Aaron Carpenter (viola) Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ Ondine / CD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] The autumnal mood transfers effectively to an all-string ensemble; the playing is both fluent and sensitively shaped...and Carpenter's blend of mellowness and deftness is colourfully applied to Robert Mann's occasionally Bartokian Dreamtime. |