Various Artists / Tan Dun (featuring Lang Lang, piano)
The Banquet (Original Soundtrack) [ Deutsche Grammophon / Universal Music / CD - released 3/Oct/2006 ] After his internationally bestselling soundtracks for 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' and 'Hero', Chinese / American composer Tan Dun was commissioned to compose this original score. 'The Banquet' soundtrack also features star pianist Lang Lang. |
MAHLER
Symphony No 3 (plus Bach/Mahler - Suite) Petra Lang (mezzo) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / Prague Philharmonic Choir / Netherlands Children's Choir / Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / 2 SACD - released 29/Jul/2004 ] "Riccardo Chailly's version of Mahler's Third is at once mystically expansive and luxuriously detailed. He expertly paces and parses the enormous finale, with an ear for the music's lumbering nobility, its trademark mixture of sadness and hope. The... |
LISZT
Wild and crazy [2 CD set] Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, Wilhelm Kempff, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] This is a revelatory compilation of Liszt's most daring and virtuosic piano music, a special celebration of his wild and crazy side from an array of great pianists - dazzling virtuosity, extreme harmonies and textures. |
BARTOK
The Miraculous Mandarin (arr two pianos) / Sonata for two pianos and percussion Akos Hernadi, Karoly Mocsari (pianos) with Franz Lang & Jochen Schoerer (percussion) [ Hanssler / CD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] Bartók's chamber music for multiple pianos. The composer's own arrangement of the searing, expressionist score for his ballet, "The Miraculous Mandarin" reveals the audacity of Bartók's creative vision with a clarity that is often lost in the popular... |
JOHN CAGE
Cage: Melodies & Harmonies Annelie Gahl & Klaus Lang [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] Cage is by no means a synonym for obligingness. All the more astonished we listen to the melodious and harmonious objects Annelie Gahl and Klaus Lang present on this album. Lang, the trained organist and internationally renowned composer, performs... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded at the Bayreuth Festival, August 2011 BLU-RAY Bayreuth Festival / Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, Petra Lang, Jukka Rasilainen / Andris Nelsons (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] Hans Neuenfels's striking new production of Wagner's fairytale opera gives this medieval story of doomed love and sorcery the Bayreuth treatment. As controversial as it is stimulating, this production was the talk of the 2011 Festival, and showcases... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Odyssey Ben Heppner, Michelle de Young, Petra Lang, Enkelejda Shkosa, Tabea Zimmermann / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / CD / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2002 ] This 16 disc box set brings together all of Davis' iconic Berlioz recordings made for LSO Live, from celebrated interpretations of popular orchestral works to landmark opera recordings, including the double Grammy Award-winning Les Troyens. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: The Troyens (Complete Opera) Ben Heppner, Michelle de Young, Petra Lang / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - 2002 (Best Opera recording) |
HUGO WOLF
The Complete Songs Volume 4 Mary Bevan / Quirijn de Lang / Sholto Kynoch [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] |
Case / Lang / Veirs
Case / Lang / Veirs [ Anti / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] CASE/LANG/VEIRS is a true collaboration between three phenomenal, self-driven artists: avantrock icon Neko Case, legendary musical nomad k.d. lang, and indie folk star Laura Veirs. The women wrote all 14 songs and shared lead vocals equally,... |
COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' (recorded at the Philharmonie Berlin 2005) Diana Damrau / Petra Lang / Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin Chorus / Eberhard Friedrich / Staatskapelle Berlin / Pierre Boulez [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 10/May/2007 ] G :- Recorded live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, 26-27 March 2005 |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' (recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Diana Damrau & Petra Lang / Staatskapelle Berlin & Staatsopernchor, Pierre Boulez [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2011 ] Born in 1925 in Montbrison, France, Pierre Boulez is one of the most distinguished composers and conductors in the world today. |
Don Lang
Introducing The Hand Jive [ Vocalion / 2 CD - released 21/Nov/2005 ] |
Don Lang & Johnny Keating
Twenty Top Twenty Twists & Six [ Vocalion / CD - released 20/Dec/2010 ] |
SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Rosemarie Lang, Manfred Jung, Wolf Appel, Ulrik Cold, Gert Westphal / Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] Gurrelieder is a gigantic, post‐Wagnerian cantata that, in retrospect, seems like the terminus ante quem for Romanticism in music, beyond which further elaboration or intensity was surely impossible, and led surely if not inevitably to the... |
Frank/Helsingborg So/Lang
Wagner:wesendonck-Lieder [ Bis / CD ] |
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto 1 & 2 / Variation on a Theme by Haydn / Solo Piano Pieces Horacio Gutierrez, Lang Lang (pianos) / Royal Philharmonic, Andre Previn [ Telarc Everybody's Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "The richly enjoyable performance benefits from an aural frame in which the piano and orchestra are especially well balanced, and the overall sound quality equalsthe finest yet achieved on this label." -Stereo |
Jeff Lang
Chimeradour [ Universal Music / CD - released 7/Jul/2011 ] Captures the blazing dynamism of the singer/songwriter/guitarist's live performance at full tilt with his virtuosic accompanists. |
Jeff Lang
Prepare Me Well: An Introduction to Jeff Lang [ Telarc Records / CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] Australian guitarist / singer / songwriter Jeff Lang has spent more than a decade building a discography and a career around his compelling combination of haunting lyrics, stunning guitar virtuosity and riveting vocals. |