PONCHIELLI / MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO / PUCCINI / etc
Jonas Kaufmann - An Italian Night - Live from the Waldbuhne Berlin (recorded in 2018) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) with Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Jochen Rieder [ Sony / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] A magical evening dedicated to beautiful Italian music with the world's greatest tenor. Captured live for release on CD. Featuring Anita Rachvelishvili. This is the key release this year from "The world's greatest tenor" (The Telegraph). This summer... |
DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / RICHARD STRAUSS / BERNSTEIN / SHOSTAKOVICH
New Year's Eve Concert 2017 Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] With her flexible, slender but dark-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle's side during the New Year's Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss's lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The programme also includes works... |
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 ] |
ALBINONI / PACHELBEL / CORELLI / MANFREDINI / VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Albinoni: Adagio In Gm / Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue / etc Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1980 ] A nice introduction to Baroque music |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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 |
FLOTOW / KORNGOLD / LORTZING / WAGNER / etc
Helden Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) / Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Peter Schneider [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] "his Siegmund, naive and ecstatic rather than virile and forceful, is striking. Vogt's vocal ease and cleanness of line is appealing in Weber and Wagner, and he proves an accomplished, elegant Mozartian." (Guardian) |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / MOZART
Otto Klemperer conducts Bach, Mozart & Beethoven Orchestre Philharmonique de Berlin, Otto Klemperer [ Testament / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] |
SCHUBERT
Schubert Jubilee set Klara Wartz (piano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Matthias Goerne (baritone) / Berlin Philharmonic Octet / Brandis Quartet / The Hanover Band [ Brilliant Classics Masterworks / 10 CD - released 20/Jan/2007 ] A selection from Schubert’s music has to contain some songs. This set includes ‘Die schöne Müllerin’ sung by Peter Schreier. The unavoidable but still beautiful Trout Quintet is there, just as the Octet and some symphonies (3, 5, 8, 9). To balance... |