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... |
Wagner, Ri
Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Mathilde Wesendonk, Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel zum 1. Aufzug, Isoldes Liebestod; Götter Julia Varady, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [ ORFEO / CD - released 4/May/1998 ] |
Meyerbeer,
Gli Amori di Teolinda Julia Varady, Jörg Fadle, RIAS Kammerchor; RSO Berlin, Gerd Albrecht [ ORFEO / CD - released 8/Jun/1984 ] |
Puccini, G
Berühmte Opernarien Julia Varady; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marcello Viotti [ ORFEO / CD - released 29/Jun/1994 ] |
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Prometheus / Orchestral Songs Juliane Banse (soprano) & Dietrich Henschel (baritone) / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jul/2014 ] "Wolf's own orchestrations, in these splendid performances, are startling. They transform his songs into quasi-Wagnerian music dramas." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
Kammerensemble Oper Berlin
Neukomm: Quintet/Septet/Octet [ Cpo / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
J.S. BACH
Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1-3 / Orchestral Suite No 4 Kammerorchester Berlin / Helmut Koch [ Berlin Classics Basics / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] |
DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade For Strings Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/May/2013 ] |
Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic
Smetana, Liszt & Sibelius [ Deutsche Grammophon Masters / CD ] |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Ballet Suites [Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Nutcracker] Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ] The Nutcracker suite has emerged spic and span and vividly coloured and only in the "Waltz of the Flowers" is the ear drawn to a certain glossiness in the violins. Of course the orchestral playing is quite splendid (Gramophone) |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Invitation To Dance / Overtures Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] A classic Karajan recording available again. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Michel Schwalbe (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ] Recorded: 1972 |
BRAHMS
Piano Concertos / 16 Waltzes / etc [2 CD set] Karin Lechner (piano) / Berlin Symphony, Eduardo Marturet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] A special priced edition of the popular piano works of Brahms in magnetic performances from Brilliant Classics. |
SCHOENBERG / WEBERN / BERG
Second Viennese School (5 CD set incls 'Gurrelieder') Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Philip Langridge / Berlin Philharmonic Simon Rattle [ EMI Classics Budget Box Sets / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2011 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2002 - Choral (for Gurrelieder) |
W.A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem / Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K339 / etc Karita Mattila / Sara Mingardo / Bryn Terfel / Berlin Philharmonic / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Jun/2000 ] "I would happily recommend this disc to anyone wanting a modern version of the Requiem" (Gramophone) |
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) |
RAVEL
Bolero / Pavane pour une Infante defunte / Rapsodie espagnole / Daphnis et ChloAC: suite (with works by Debussy & Saint-Saens) Karlheinz Zoeller (flute) Pierre Cochereau (organ) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan [ DG Karajan Collection / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2003 ] "This is the most entertaining modern recording of what is usually counted a forbidding work." (Gramophone on Symphony No 13) |
Kempe/Berlin Philharmonic
Brahms:symphonies 1 - 4 [ Testament / 3 CD ] |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvořák: Cello Concerto / Silent Woods / etc Kian Soltani (cello), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Cellists of the Staatskapelle Berlin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 21/Aug/2020 ] "There's a sense of real partnership with the orchestra, a lovely chamber-like dialogue, the rounded woodwind and brass timbres of the Berliners providing an ideal foil for his brightly-lit line" BBC Music Concerto Choice October 2020 |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin [complete opera] Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, Susanne Resmark / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Opera |