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. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 4 & 5 / Rondos / Adagio David Oistrakh (violin/conductor) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/1993 ] Original recordings from 1970 &1971 |
W. A. MOZART / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Mozart/Brahms: Violin Concertos Gioconda De Vito (violin) / Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] Violinist Gioconda De Vito was a key figure in the renaissance of Italian string playing after 1945. With her broad phrasing, ample tone and generous vibrato, she excelled in performances of Brahms's Violin Concerto using Joachim's cadenza, as in... |
Della Casa/Berlin Po/Erede
Della Casa Sings Strauss [ Testament / CD ] |
TCHAIKOVSKY / GRIEG
Piano Concertos Denis Kozhukhin (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vassily Sinaisky [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] "Listening to Kozhukhin, you're left with one thing: the music - incontestable, complete" Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2016 |
Derwinger/Berlin Philharmonic
Danzi:wind Quintets 1-3 [ Bis / CD ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Rondine (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Dinara Alieva (Magda de Civry), Charles Castronovo, Alexandra Hutton, Alvaro Zambrano, Stephen Bronk / Roberto Rizzi Brignoli ( [ Delos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 3/Sep/2016 ] "Villázon shows admirable restraint in a straightforward, stylish production that contains a good deal of charm…there's a rich darkness to [Alieva's] voice, especially in Doretta's Dream." (Blu-ray of the Month Gramophone July 2016) |
FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker: Der Schatzgräber (complete opera recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Elisabet Strid, Daniel Johansson, Michael Laurenz, Thomas Johannes Mayer / Marc Albrecht (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 8/Nov/2023 ] Franz Schreker's career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame with his operas, and the huge success of Der Schatzgräber ('The Treasure Hunter') in the 1920s was the high point of his career. In a complex and... |
FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker: Der Schatzgräber (complete opera recorded in 2022) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Elisabet Strid, Daniel Johansson, Michael Laurenz, Thomas Johannes Mayer / Marc Albrecht (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2023 ] Franz Schreker's career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame with his operas, and the huge success of Der Schatzgräber ('The Treasure Hunter') in the 1920s was the high point of his career. |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Jenufa (Complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Jennifer Larmore, Will Hartmann, Ladislav Elgr, Hanna Schwarz / Donald Runnicles (cond) [ ArtHaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "The action is lightly moved into the 20th century, to around the time of the opera's premiere...Both Larmore and Michaela Kaune's older-looking than usual Jenufa give full-voiced, fluent readings of their roles." Gramophone |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sara Jakubiak, Brian Jagde, Josef Wagner, Okka von der Damerau, Derek Welton / Christof Loy [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 7/Jun/2019 ] "Marc Albrecht and his orchestra are familiar, so their excellence is no surprise. But the three lead singers are relative unknowns-and their stupendous performances leave you wondering why." Fanfare |
RICCARDO ZANDONAI
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sara Jakubiak, Jonathan Telelman, Ivan Inverardi / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 18/Feb/2022 ] "The whole thing is, I think, a great achievement. Do watch it." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2022 |
RICCARDO ZANDONAI
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (complete opera recorded in 2021) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sara Jakubiak, Jonathan Telelman, Ivan Inverardi / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] "The whole thing is, I think, a great achievement. Do watch it." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2022 |
RUED LANGGAARD
Langgaard: Antikrist (complete opera recorded in 2023) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Irene Roberts, Valeriia Savinskaia / Stephan Zilias (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Rued Langgaard's remarkable opera Antikrist confronts the decline and fall of Western civilisation, critiquing modern lifestyles and ways of thinking, which resonates with our times more than ever before. Never performed in the composer's lifetime,... |
Deutsche So Berlin/Wand
Bruckner: Symphony No 5 [ Profil / CD - released 3/Jan/2012 ] |
Deutschen Oper Berlin/Jurowski
Respighi: Marie Victoire [ Cpo / 3 CD - released 3/Dec/2012 ] |
Deutsches So Berlin/Wand
Schubert/Bruckner: Symphony No [ Profil / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2010 ] |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Symphony No 9 Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Alun Francis [ CPO / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "The performance and recording are, of course,...top-flight" (amazon.com) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Le Royaume de Neptune, Musique symphonique et ballets d'Orphée aux Enfers Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Howard Griffiths [ CPO / CD - released 20/Feb/2020 ] "The CD is captivating from start to finish" MusicWeb |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No.3 'Wagner Symphony' Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] "A fascinating recording... Nagano captures the reverence and agitation of the symphony perfectly..." - The Independent (UK) |