GEORGE TSONTAKIS
Tsontakis: Anasa / True Colors / Unforgettable Eric Berlin, Luosha Fang, Eunice Kim, David Krakauer / Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 7/Aug/2017 ] "These recent concertos demonstrate Tsontakis's remarkable ability to absorb and transform sources as disparate as klezmer and popular song. Conductor Miller is one of the composer's most ardent champion" Gramophone |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / BERLIOZ / ROSSINI / SMETANA / DVORAK / etc
Erich Kleiber - The Complete Polydor 78s Erich Kleiber conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker & Staatskapelle Berlin [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Collected for the first time - Erich Kleiber's rare recordings with the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berliner Philharmoniker made for Polydor/Grammophon and newly remastered for this release. |
FRIEDRICH von FLOTOW
Martha (complete operetta recorded in 1944) Erna Berger, Else Tegetthoff, Eugen Fuchs / Chorus of the Deutschen Oper Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Johannes Schüler [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] Made in Berlin in 1944 while Germany was still in a state of 'total war', this recording remains one of the most acclaimed interpretations of the opera. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies 1 - 9 Eteri Gvazava (soprano) Anna Larsson (contralto) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 11 CD Box Set - released 21/Oct/2017 ] The 11 CD MAHLER box brings together Abbado's complete Berlin cycle for the first time. It is regarded as one of the crowning achievements of his final years. "In performance, he became a conduit between the forces assembled on stage and the... |
ARENSKY / BORTKIEWICZ / KABALEVSKY / RACHMANINOV / PROKOFIEV / etc
Russian Piano Concertos Evgeny Kissin, In-Ju Bang, Felicja Blumental, Ştefan Doniga, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony etc [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 23/Mar/2018 ] There is a special quality to Russian Piano Concertos: apart from their jawdropping virtuosity and orchestral brilliance they share that common Slavonicflavor, an undefinable mixture of melancholy and passion, whether smouldering or blazing. |
GRIEG / RAVEL / STRAVINSKY / RICHARD STRAUSS / etc
Dances & Dreams: Gala from Berlin 2011 Evgeny Kissin (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "Where Rattle and company radiate love, Kissin gives us duty. Still, nothing else casts a chill. Hearing the orchestra's splendours, observing the smiles and eye contact, you'd never believe the past stories of turbulence between musicians and conductor." |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem], Op. 45 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Grummer / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] On its first release, this 1955 recording was praised as 'a worthy performance of the work and a well recorded one' by Gramophone, which also commented that 'Elisabeth Grümmer sings her solo with beautiful tone and deep feeling' and 'Fischer-Dieskau... |
WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollande [The Flying Dutchman] Gottlob Frick, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Marianne Schech, Rudolf Schock / Staatskapelle Berlin & Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Franz Konwitsch [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] One of the greatest and most revolutionary composers of the nineteenth century, Richard Wagner transformed the realm of musical drama. Years before his towering successes of the Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, he... |
BLOCH / BRUCH / LALO / SAINT-SAENS
Works for cello and orchestra Pierre Fournier (cello) / Orchestre Lamoureux, Berlin Philharmonic, Jean Martinon, Alfred Wallenstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 20/Jan/2009 ] "Fournier is impassioned and eloquent [in the Lalo]...expressive in the slow movement and rhythmic in the delightful Allegro presto dance section […] the Bruch is played with dignity and without undue emotionalism" Gramophone |
LIGETI
1948 - 2001: A Ligeti Odyssey Fredrik Ullen (piano) Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ) / Schola Heidelberg / Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet / Nobuko Imai (viola) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] BIS present a chronological exploration of the music of György Ligeti. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Kreisler: Complete Concerto Recordings Vol.1 Fritz Kreisler (Violin) / Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Leo Blech [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 23/Jun/2001 ] The first of an important series |
Furtwangler/Berlin Po
Bruckner:symphony No.8 [ Testament / CD ] |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / BERLIOZ / BRAHMS / HAYDN / KODALY / etc
Ferenc Fricsay: Complete Recordings On DG - Vol.1 - Orchestral Works Gaza Anda (piano) Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2015 ] Deutsche Grammophon unites all of its Fricsay recordings into 2 volumes, of which this is the first. FERENC FRICSAY - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Vol. 1 presents Fricsay's orchestral output in its entirety. |
Gerard Rso Berlin/Schwarz
Genesis Suite [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] |
MAHLER
Symphony No.2 Resurrection / Kindertotenlieder (rec 1915-1931) Gertrud Bindernagel (soprano) / Emmi Leisner (contralto) / Berlin State Opera Orchestra / Oskar Fried / Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone) / Jascha Horenst [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] "Mahlerians, and fans of any of these artists will all find something to enjoy here." - www.classicstoday.com |
W. A. MOZART / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / etc
Géza Anda: Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings Geza Anda (piano) / Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / 17 CD Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] D. G. celebrates one of the greatest pianists of our time, Géza Anda - the "troubadour of the keyboard" (Furtwängler) - in a limited edition 17-CD set. Anda was for the most part of his sadly too-short career a Deutsche Grammophon artists. |
J. S. BACH / BEETHOVEN
Collection [5 CD set] Glenn Gould (piano) with Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von karajan [ Fabula Classica / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Recorded 1952 - 1957 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Four Last Songs / Death and Transfiguration / Metamorphoses Gundula Janowitz / Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Orginals / CD - released 12/Jan/2008 ] "Her performance is wistful and nostalgic, of course, but Janowitz also bewitches and enchants like no other as she interweaves her soprano line around Karajan's sublimely paced and immaculately played orchestral accompaniment." BBC Music |
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. |