BEETHOVEN / DEMUS / J. S. BACH / DVORAK / SCHUMANN
Chamber Music with Jörg Demus Jörg Demus (piano), Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) [ Gramola SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] The work of pianist Jörg Demus was one of the most important musical exports of Austria after the end of the Second World War. In addition to many other musical partners Demus also entertained a very fruitful collaboration with the established... |
SCHUBERT
Piano Trio in E flat / Noctturno Jarg Ewald Dahler : fortepiano / Hansheinz Schneeberger : violin / Thomas Demenga : violoncello [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded July 1995 |
THOMAS BLOCH
Missa Cantate Jörg Waschinski (male soprano) / Thomas Bloch (glass harmonica, crystal bells, waterphone, bells, ondes martenot) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Mar/2011 ] Rare-instrument specialist Thomas Bloch is equally at home performing on the soundtrack to Milos Forman's Amadeus, with rock group Radiohead, or at La Scala, Milan or the Salzburg Festival. He has given more than 3000 concerts and made more than 100... |
HANDEL
Messiah (highlights recorded in 1967) Judith Raskin, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul / Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra, Robert Shaw [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Dec/2011 ] Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah Julia Doyle, Justin Doyle, Thomas Hobbs, Roderick Williams, Tim Mead , RIAS Kammerchor Berlin [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and its chief conductor Justin Doyle present Handel's Messiah, together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and an all-British quartet of outstanding soloists, consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead... |
KURT WEILL
The Seven Deadly Sins / The Threepenny Opera (Suite) Julia Migenes, Robert Tear, Stuart Kale, Alan Opie / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Sony Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "Julia Migenes manages to bring out the bitterness and irony of the text, whilst combining it with an appropriately seductive, even erotic soprano sound. In support Michael Tilson Thomas weaves a dazzling sound, bringing out fully the symphonic and... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Jupiter Jupiter, Thomas Dunford [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] In founding the Jupiter ensemble, the lutenist Thomas Dunford wanted to 'rediscover the spirit of chamber music in the Baroque repertory. Jupiter operates in a kind of fraternity, as if we had always known each other . . . Vivaldi's highly contrasted... |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24 / Toccata Festiva, Op 24 Karina Gauvin (soprano) Thomas Trotter (organ) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2004 ] "A Knoxville performance to treasure as this essential Barber series reaches a new high point" Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month (June 2004) |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Complete Orchestral Works [6 CD set] Karina Gauvin (soparno), Thomas Trotter (organ), Stéphane Rancourt (oboe), John Gracie (trumpet) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The RSNO positively glows in this extremely welcome and romantically rewarding and alluringly-priced set. It hardly matters that this is in fact the only such collection." (MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
BEETHOVEN
Introducing Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Documentary and full performance) Karita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (contralto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass) / Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "An exceptionally good introduction to the Choral Symphony, succinctly providing insight into the music and a sense of how it confounded the expectations of Beethoven's contemporaries." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
BEETHOVEN / TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI / MAHLER / BACH / etc
Claudio Abbado - A life dedicated to music [8 DVD set] Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Barbara Bonney, Andrea Rost, Alfred Brendel / Various orchestras, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / 8 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2016 ] This DVD Box will be released in honour of Claudio Abbado's 80th anniversary on June 26th. It contains an extensive collection of concert recordings and the documentary Hearing the Silence, capturing the outstanding work and repertoire of this... |
LOUIS KARCHIN
Romulus (complete opera) Katrina Thurman / Steven Ebel / Thomas Meglioranza / Wilbur Pauley / The Washington Square Ensemble / Louis Karchin [ Naxos American Opera Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] The Washington Square Ensemble, praised for its 'polished, lively performance' (The New York Times) is joined by a cast of first-class singers conducted by the composer. |
King Chris Thomas
Me My Guitar&The [ CD ] |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera with libretto) Kiri te Kanawa, Marie McLaughlin, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Thomas Hampson / Vienna Philharmonic,James Levine [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1990 ] "Te Kanawa is in fine voice, a little looser and more mature-sounding than in her two previous assumptions of Fiordiligi but her soprano is bigger and her characterisation more assertive than before, making more of the text." MusicWeb |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Complete Opera in English) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Thomas Hampson (baritone) Neil Rosenshein (tenor) / Welsh National Opera [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2001 ] .A further addition to Chandos's Opera in English series |
THOMAS ADES
Adès: In Seven Days Kirill Gerstein (piano) Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra [ Myrios / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Contemporary |
PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (Rec 1952) [with Brunnhilde’s Immolation from Gotterdammerung rec 1948] Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, Thomas Hemsley / The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra / Geraint Jones [ Nimbus Prima Voce / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate. It comprises three acts and lasts about an hour. It is based on a story from the fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid, of the legendary Queen of... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 1952) Kirsten Flagstad / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Thomas Hemsley / Arda Mandikian / Mermaid Singers / Mermaid Orchestra / Geraint Jones [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] When the recording first appeared in January 1953 The Gramophone commented: "At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido". |
Trio RGB / Musil, Thomas ao.
Lang, Klaus - missa beati pauperes spiritu [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
DVORAK
Requiem / Symphony No. 8 Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) & Thomas Quasthoff (bass) / Royal Concertgebouw, Mariss Jansons [ RCO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "...it's a real performance [of the Symphony] and a worthy makeweight for a magnificent reading of the Requiem, which is a real feather in Jansons's cap" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 |