OFFENBACH
Tales of Hoffmann (complete opera) Monica Sinclair, Robert Helpmann, Margherita Grandi, Robert Rounseville, Owen Brannign, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Pearl / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] This recording was used for the film, famous for its balletic pairing of Monica Sinclair and Robert Helpmann. Cast and conductor provide a freshness and magic to the score perhaps unequalled since. |
CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
Graun: Christmas Oratorio Monika Mauch (soprano), Marion Eckstein (alto), Georg Poplutz (tenor) & Raimund Nolte (bass) / Baroque Ensemble L'arpa festante, Thomas Gropper [ Oehms / CD - released 21/Sep/2017 ] A work caught the attention of musicians during the late 1990s - a Christmas Oratorio by C.H. Graun. The only known copy of it was being housed in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. But it has so far been impossible to determine either the... |
Music by Thomas Newman
1917 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Feb/2020 ] This is the x19 song, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the highly anticipated British-American war film, composed by the six-time Grammy award-winning composer Thomas Newman. Newman has composed the music to Skyfall, Tolkien, Spectre, Finding... |
THOMAS ADES / COLON NANCARROW
In Seven Days / Studies Nos 6 & 7 (with bonus DVD) Nicolas Hodges (piano) / London Sinfonietta, Thomas Ades [ Signum CD/DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "Evocative without being merely descriptive, In Seven Days is a highly cohesive work that understatedly fulfils its intention. The piano-writing is expertly integrated into the ensemble, Nicolas Hodges amply exploiting the judicious range of timbral... |
RICHARD DUBUGNON
Dubugnon: Klavieriana and Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Noriko Ogawa, (piano) / Musikkollegium Winterthur, Thomas Zehetmair (cond) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A leading Swiss chamber orchestra champions works by a compatriot. |
MICHAEL TIPPETT
King Priam (complete opera) Norman Bailey, Heather Harper, Thomas Allen / London Sinfonietta, David Atherton [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] |
HANS GAL
Kindred Spirits: Symphony No. 1 Op. 30 (with Schubert - Symphony No. 6 in C D589) Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "Zehetmair finds a mellifluous way of shaping melody while keeping the momentum virile and the music buoyant...the entire performance exudes a genuine delight in Schubert's palette of orchestral colours" (Gramophone) |
HANS GAL
Symphony No. 2 (with Schubert's Symphony No. 9 "Great") Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair [ Avie Records / 2 CD - released 2/May/2011 ] "gloriously tuneful late-Romantic masterworks … music that compels attention." - Gramophone |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Orchestral Works Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra & Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling, with Ilya Kaler (violin) & Gnesin Academy Chorus [ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set - released 27/May/2022 ] Sergey Taneyev was a monumental figure of late 19th-century Russian music. He was a student of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, and became teacher to Rachmaninov and Scriabin. |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] A pupil of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, and a teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, Sergey Taneyev was a monumental figure in Russian music of the second half of the nineteenth century. Although highly independent as a mature artist, Taneyev was... |
TANEYEV
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 Novosibirsk Academy Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 11/May/2010 ] Known to Tchaikovsky as the 'Russian Bach' and to Rachmaninov as 'a master composer [and] a pinnacle of musical Moscow', Sergey Taneyev was one of the most highly regarded and influential musical figures of his time. |
OLA GJEILO
Ola Gjeilo: Voices - Piano - Strings Ola Gjeilo (piano) Thomas Gould (violin) Ciaran McCabe (violin) Jon Thorne (viola) Matthew Sharp (cello) / Voces 8 / Chamber Orchestra of London [ Decca / CD - released 15/May/2016 ] A rising composer's debut release on a major label, Gjeilo's album on Decca is an important release of heavenly, bewitching, eternal new choral music for our time. Ethereal yet tangible, this is music with wide appeal; music of purity and beauty;... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 KV 459 - Concerto for Flute & Harp KV 299 - Andante for Flute KV 315 - Horn Concerto No. 1 KV 412/514 ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehetmair, Aaron Pilsan, Nicolas Rames, Diren Duran, Elisabeth Plank [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] For the seventh volume in this collection devoted to Mozart by the younger generation of soloists, the award-winning Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan records the concerto K.459 with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester in Vienna. French horn player Nicolas... |
KALEVI AHO
Chamber Works [incls 'Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet'] Osmo Vänskä, clarinet, Sarah Kwak & Gina DiBello, violins, Thomas Turner, viola, Anthony Ross, cello, Susan Billmeyer, piano, Etc. [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] Renowned for his rich production in the field of orchestral music, Kalevi Aho is also a prolific composer for chamber forces. On this disc, three works spanning two decades have been combined. |
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
King & Queen (LP) [ LP ] |
TELEMANN / MOLTER / TORELLI / HAYDN / VIVALDI / L. MOZART / etc
Trumpet Concertos [special priced box set] Otto Sauter, Thomas Hammes, Franz Wagnermeyer, Reinhold Friedrich, Joachim Pliquett, etc (trumpets) [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 25/May/2018 ] "Many good things: music by composers generally badly served by other labels, the standard of musicianship high and sound quality generally excellent." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb April 2011 on the original release) |
COUPERIN
Pièces de violes avec la basse chiffrée Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Amélie Chemin (viola da gamba), Thomas Boysen (theorbo & Baroque guitar), Markus Hünninger (harpsichord) [ Glossa / CD - released 11/Mar/2013 ] "Pandolfo is a master of the style; in slow movements barely a note passes without some subtle bowing nuance or full blown ornament… recorded sound is excellent." (Five Stars) BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 Chamber Finalist |
GLUCK
Orphee et Eurydice (recorded at the Palais Garnier February 2008) Paris Opera Ballet / Maria Riccarda Wesseling / Julia Kleiter / Sunhae Im / Agnes Gillot / Yann Bridard / Thomas Hengelbrock (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Filmed in HD at the Palais Garnier February 2008 Orpheus and Eurydice is Pina Bausch's masterpiece and the ultimate symbol of the genius of this German choreographer, who died last June, five days after being diagnosed with cancer. Bausch was the... |
GLUCK
Orphee et Eurydice (recorded at the Palais Garnier February 2008) BLU-RAY Paris Opera Ballet / Maria Riccarda Wesseling / Julia Kleiter / Sunhae Im / Agnes Gillot / Yann Bridard / Thomas Hengelbrock (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Dec/2009 ] G - Filmed in HD at the Palais Garnier February 2008 Orpheus and Eurydice is Pina Bausch's masterpiece and the ultimate symbol of the genius of this German choreographer, who died in June 2009, five days after being diagnosed with cancer. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Paris Opera / Thomas Johannes Mayer, John Graham-Hall, Nicky Spence / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2017 ] Moses und Aron, Arnold Schönberg's masterpiece, at the Paris Opera in a glorious and poetic staging by Romeo Castellucci and conducted by Philippe Jordan, now available on DVD and Blu-ray! A profound, powerful and yet unfinished opera, Moses und Aron... |