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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (BBC Third Programme Live Broadcast, 1948) (Abridged) Sir John Gielgud, Andrew Cruickshank, Hugh Griffith, Marian Spencer & cast [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 31/Jul/2006 ] This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments. Though he went on to record it for commercial release, nothing matched this... |
BERLIOZ
L'enfance du Christ (Complete opera) Yann Beuron / Karen Cargill / William Dazeley / Polydorus Tenebrae Choir / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] 'Sustaining a mood of angelic sweetness for nearly two hours is quite a challenge, but this wonderful performance brought it off. Everything seemed to be just right - the chorus, the choice of soloists, the delicate but pointed orchestral sound. Yann... |
STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky, Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky (rec June 2009) BLU-RAY Yefim Bronfman (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2014 ] The famous yearly Berliner Philharmoniker Open-Air concert at the Berlin Waldbühne attended by more than 20,000 people. The atmosphere is unique and unconventionally relaxed. People bring champagne, salmon and caviar, making the Waldbühne a giant... |
BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / RACHMANINOV / BRUCH / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Sir Simon Rattle: Berliner Philharmoniker BLU-RAY Yefim Bronfman (piano) Vadim Repin (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle. [ EuroArts Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Jul/2016 ] The first extensive Blu Ray collection of The Berliner Philharmoniker concerts demonstrate the orchestra´s excellence in numerous fields. All 4 concerts are conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, who has been shaping the face of the orchestra for many years. |
STRAVINSKY
Ballet music: Le Sacre / Petrushka / The Firebird / Pulcinella / Suites no. 1 and no. 2 Yvonne Kenny / Robert Tear / Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "Marriner's Pulcinella is a joy from first bar to last; how the players enjoy the quirkiness of Stravinsky's scoring" (Gramophone on Pulcinella) |
LALO / SAINT-SAENS
Cello Concertos Zara Nelsova (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult & Ernest Ansermet [ Testament / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] Recorded 1954-55, mono |
BARTOK
Piano Concertos: No. 1 & No 2; The Miraculous Mandarin Suite Zoltan Kocsis (piano) / Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Gyargy Lehel / Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Sir Neville Marriner [ Capriccio SACD / SACD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] "A generally enjoyable disc" (MusicWeb Aug 2005) |
Admiral Sir Cloudseley Shovell
Don't Heart it Fear it! [ Rise Above / CD - released 13/Jul/2012 ] |
REINGOLD GLIERE
Gliere: Symphony No.3 In B minor 'Il'ya Murometz' BBC Philharmonic, Sir Edward Downes [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] "If not the symphony's first outing on disc, it remains the best...Chandos's recordings still sound glorious and the orchestra's manifest engagement with the music shines through." Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 (with Elgar: Enigma Variations) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult [ ICA Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "this Brahms 1 is superbly paced: hard-driven yet flexible, virile yet richly expressive. The opening's 6/8 - relentless, tragic - has, rightly, the same pulse as the ensuing allegro (where Boult, unusually, observes the repeat). In Elgar, Boult... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben / Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI / CD - released 20/Mar/2006 ] "Rattle digs deep to deliver a reading of breathtaking power." Recording of the Month (Gramophone May 2006) |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walküre (LP) Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Régine Crespin, James King, Christa Ludwig, Gottlob Frick / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 5 Vinyl Box Set - released 4/Aug/2023 ] For these new editions, a decade since the last remastering, a completely new set of high-definition 24 bit/192kHz transfers of the original master tapes have been utilized. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (LP) Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, Gustav Neidlinger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Sony Classical / 6 Vinyl Box Set - released 4/Aug/2023 ] "The greatest recording of all time": Gramophone Magazine 1999 · BBC Music Magazine 2011 |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Op 35 / Capriccio Espagnol Op 34 London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 25/Jan/2003 ] "It also demands a performance which combines virtuosity with excitement, sensuous ardour with subtlety of feeling and above all is seemingly spontaneous. Mackerras meets all these requirements admirably in a reading of great power and romantic... |
JANACEK
The Makropulos Case (complete opera in English) Cheryl Barker (soprano) Neal Davies (bass-baritone) John Graham-Hall (tenor) / English National Opera / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "This electrifying performance has been captured in sound that is exceptionally clear and full-bodied, and it also has great immediacy. I very much welcome a recording in English." (International Record Review March 2007) |
TRADITIONAL
50 Favourite Christmas Carols Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger, Stephen Cleobury [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 3/Dec/2007 ] A collection of all the great carols performed by the world-famous King's college choir. |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (complete ballet) / Bolero City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Encore / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "Rattle's reading is most enjoyable; it is atmospheric - sample the gorgeous 'Daybreak' opening of Part III, for instance - and often voluptuous and intoxicating, especially in the case of the final Danse générale and the dynamic Dance guerrière. MW |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Yeomen of the Guard (complete operetta recorded in 1958) Denis Dowling, Richard Lewis, Elsie Morison, Alexander Young, Marjorie Thomas / Glyndebourne Festival, Sir MalcolmSargent [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/1987 ] "This is a very operatic Yeomen which certainly suits the work and gives the soloists an opportunity to shine. Sir Geraint Evans makes a better Jack Point than a Ko-Ko and 'When a wooer goes a-wooing' is very moving." Mel (Marbecks) |
Dolora Zajick, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles MacKerras
The Art of Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano (Incls arias by Verdi, Gluck & Saint-Saens) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 12/Aug/2000 ] This collection, amazingly enough, is Zajick's first solo recording! |
JANACEK
Jenufa (Complete opera in English) Elizabeth Vaughan; Nigel Robson; Dame Josephine Barstow / Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera. Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "There are few opera composers whose language seems totally to defy time and remain as startlingly new and potent 100 years on. Janá?ek is one of them and his Jen<=fa of 1904 is as powerful today as it must have been a century ago. In the hands of... |
