JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: A German Requiem (Ein Deutsches Requiem) [rec 1964] Gundula Janowitz, Eberhard Wachter / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] "Beautifully refined performance" (Penguin Guide) |
CARL ORFF
Carl Orff Edition Gundula Janowitz, Gerhard Stolze, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Berlin Opera, Eugen Jochum [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / 11 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2020 ] To celebrate the 125th birthday of one of Germany's most famous composers (July 10th 2020), Deutsche Grammophon presents The Carl Orff Edition 11-CD Original Jackets Collection - Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings of Carl Orff |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 [Complete 1963 recordings remastered at 24 bit Blu-ray audio] Gundula Janowitz, Hilde Rassel Majdan, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Berry / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray audio / Blu-Ray Audio - released 12/Sep/2017 ] Blu-ray Audio comprises ALL 9 SYMPHONIES plus the rehearsal of the Ninth Symphony |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 Gundula Janowitz (sop) Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Walter Berry (bass) / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon CD + Blu-ray audio / CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Newly remastered by Emil Berliner Studios and presented on Blu-ray Audio in 24bit/192kHz + 1 CD produced from the new remastering |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) - highlights Gundula Janowitz, Werner Hollweg, Walter Berry / Chor der Deutschen. Opera Berlin. Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Studio / CD - released 1/Dec/1987 ] Original recording made in 1973 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Also Sprach Zarathustra / Don Juan / etc Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Gustavo Dudamel [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] A truly breathtaking new recording from, quite simply, the most exciting and gifted young conductor of our times - A rite of passage and true legacy project: Dudamel's debut recording with the legendary Berlin Philharmonic. |
BELA BARTOK
Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (complete) Géza Anda (piano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay (conductor) [ ALTO / CD - released 7/Apr/2014 ] "Every Bartók collection worth its salt should have this on its shelves. It's one of the gems of the 1960s DGG catalogue. Geza Anda and Ferenc Fricsay were both born in Budapest and they make a formidable partnership. They were leading exponents of t |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 (with Grieg - Piano Concerto) Gaza Anda (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 16/Mar/2004 ] Géza Anda and Herbert von Karajan have recorded their first LP together, finding a perfectly unified approach to Brahms's Second Piano Concerto that explores its mood swings, its sweetness and bitterness, its lyricism and drama. |
BARTOK
Piano Concertos 1 - 3 Gaza Anda, piano, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Ferenc Fricsay [ DG The Originals / CD - released 23/Jul/2004 ] "Anda seems ideally cast as soloist and Fricsay is an ideal Bartokian" - Penguin Guide |
REFLECTION
Reflection: Music for peace and tranquility (Elgar, Barber, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Satie, Mozart, etc) Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) Emil Gilels (piano) Barbara Bonney (sop) Goran Sollscher (guitar) / Choir of New College, Oxford / Berlin Philharmonic [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Ritter Blaubart (complete operetta recorded on film in 1973) Hans Nocker, Anny Schlemm, Werner Enders, Ruth Schob-Lipka / Berlin Opera [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2012 ] |
RICHARD WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) Hans Sotin Cheryl Studer Placido Domingo Uta Priew / Chor und orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Giuseppe Sinopoli [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2009 ] |
HANDEL
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / Dixit Dominus Helene Guilmette (sop) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Malcolm E.Bennet (ten) Andreas Wolf (bass) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "The choral work is excellent, stylistically apropos, and executed with requisite flair and energy. With these two pieces such an interesting coupling...the clear and spacious sound is only an added incentive." ***** Five stars AudAud.com (Oct 2009) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Complete Opera recorded in 1970) Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kéléman, Helen Donath / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "Helga Dernesch as Leonare gives a glorious, thrilling peformance. The orchestral playing is superb." (Penguin Guide) |
W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (recorded 1937 & 1938) Helge Roswaenge, Tiana Lemnitz, Gerhard Husch, Erna Berger / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historic Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] "These singers, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, come through with unprecedented clarity in this new transfer by the gifted sound engineer Mark Obert-Thorn. The new reissue looks likely to replace them in the hearts of Mozart fans, offering a... |
SCHOENBERG
Die Jakobsleiter Friede auf Erden Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann, Stephan Ragamer, Michael Volle / Rundfunkchor Berlin / Deutsches SO / Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 21/Mar/2004 ] "Kent Nagano's superb reading, full of humanity, is a clear first choice, going off into deepest space in the stunning closing passage - truly, music from another world." The Independent - |
SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / LEIMER / BRAHMS
Karajan and his Soloists I (1948-1958 Official Remastered Edition) Walter Gieseking, Hans Richter-Haaser (piano) Dennis Brain (horn) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic,Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue. For... |
Ullmann, V
Slawische Rhapsodie für Orchester und obligates Saxophon op. 23, Der zerbrochene Krug op.36 Hermann, Barainsky, Künzli, Breedt, Morloc, Dewald, Prein, Gottschick, Kelly; Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Gerd [ ORFEO / CD - released 1/Apr/1996 ] |
SCHUBERT
Alfonso und Estrella (complete opera) Hermann Prey, Edith Mathis, Theo Adam, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Staatskapelle Berlin / Otmar Suitner [ Berlin Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Peter Schreier (Alfonso) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Froila) Theo Adam (Adolfo) Edith Mathis (Estrella) |
Hoelscher/Berlin Radio So/Froh
Spohr: Complete Violin Concert [ Cpo / 8 CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] |