GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio) Scholars Baroque, David van Asch [ Naxos / 2 CD Box Set ] Handel's Messiah, first performed 250 years ago, is undoubtedly one of the great musical masterpieces of all time. Composed in only 24 days, it is the work of a genius which holds an extraordinary place both among the composer's works and in the... |
BRAHMS / REGER
Clarinet Quintets Sharon Kam (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen, Ulrike-Anima Mathé, Volker Jacobsen & Gustav Rivinius [ Berlin Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2015 ] Sharon Kam recorded Mozart's Quintet in 2011 as a pendant to his Concerto with her colleagues Isabelle van Keulen, Ulrike]Anima Mathe, Volker Jacobsen and Gustav Rivinius ("a brilliantly successful disc of this very desirable coupling, very well... |
Sharon Van Etten
Because I Was In Love (LP) [ Language Of Stone / LP - released 26/May/2009 ] SVE's debut album. |
Sharon Van Etten
Epic [ Ba Da Bing / CD - released 11/Oct/2010 ] |
Sharon Van Etten
epic Ten (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ba Da Bing / 2 LP - released 11/Jun/2021 ] "epic represents a crossroads for me as an artist. Going from intern to artist at Ba Da Bing, from solo folk singer to playing with a band for the first time and beginning to play shows on tour where people showed up. I am in awe of the artists who... |
Sharon Van Etten
I Don't Want To Let You Down EP 12" [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 19/Aug/2013 ] |
Sharon Van Etten
Silent Night / Blue Christmas 7" [ Jagjaguwar / 7in - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Van Etten's rendition of "Silent Night" is broody and minimalistic, emphasizing her muscular voice over droning synth. It was recorded in 2018 for the "The Letter," a short film by Eric Paschal Johnson that received a Vimeo Staff Pick Award. In... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRIEDRICH KAUHLAU
Beethoven/Kuhlau: Kühl, nicht lau Shuann Chai, Tami Krausz, Mattijs van de Woerd, Marc Pantus, João Moreira [ Ramee / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen Simon O'Neill, Matthias Goerne, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / 14 CD Box Set - released 9/Aug/2018 ] Wagner's visionary Der Ring des Nibelungen was first performed as a cycle of four operas in 1876. One of the most sustained and remarkable achievements in all music, the tetralogy is performed by an all-star cast, conducted by the new music director... |
J.S. BACH
St Matthew Passion (Complete) (Includes 192 page booklet) Soloists / Netherlands Bach Society / Jos van Veldhoven [ Channel Classics SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] "What makes this performance of the St Matthew Passion not just revolutionary but an absolute must-have for lovers of this music - regardless of whether they like it fat or thin - is the sheer quality of the performance." (International Record Review) |
JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos [5 CD set] Stefan Berkieta (bar) Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop) Ralph van Raat (piano) / Clare College Choir, Cambridge / St. John's College Choir [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Strongly recommended - but you may need to persevere. It's well removed from the cosy Christmas of renaissance art or of chestnuts roasting by the fire, though there's a place for those, too." (MusicWeb on the Clare College Recording) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Solo Concertos Stefan Vladar (piano) Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Julian Steckel (cello) / Wiener KammerOrchester, Stefan Vladar [ Capriccio / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "If you fancy a set of the Beethoven piano concertos that's suitable for listening to at a single sitting, then look no further. An exceptional set." Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2017 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (complete opera recorded in 1981) Royal Opera / Stuart Burrows / Thomas Allen / Richard Van Allan / Kiri Te Kanawa / Agnes Baltsa / Colin Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte CD / 3 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "it offers abundant pleasures. Te Kanawa recorded an earlier Fiordiligi...and a later...: neither manifests the personality and velvety warmth of tone of show here, and her virtuosity in 'Come Scoglio' is staggering. Thomas Allen's Guglielmo, too, is... |
Suzuki/Akatsu/Van Wassenaer Or
Leo: Six Cello Concertos [ Bis / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] |
JEAN-FREY REBEL / FRANCOIS FRANCOEUR
Pirame & Thisbe (complete opera) Thomas Dolie, Judith Van Wanroij, Jeffrey Thompson, Katia Velletaz / Choeur de l'AcadACmie Baroque, Stradivaria / Daniel Cuiller [ Mirare / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2008 ] "The Baroque violinist Daniel Cuiller, making his operatic debut in this recording, brings to life a delightful forgotten Rococo work, full of beguiling instrumental music, compelling monologues… and duets." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
W. A. MOZART
Horn Concerto KV447 / Horn Quintet KV407 / A Musical Joke KV522 / Duets for Horns (excerpts) Teunis van der Zwart (natural horn) / Orchestra of the 18th Century / Frans Bruggen (conductor) [ Glossa / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] Of the various wind instruments, it was the natural horn which proved to be the one most favoured by Mozart in his solo instrumental music. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollände [The Flying Dutchman] (highlights) José van Dam, Kurt Moll, Dunja Vejzović, Peter Hofmann / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Studio / CD - released 23/Mar/1988 ] Highlights from the classic EMI recording |
SCHUBERT
Winterreise Thomas Bauer (baritone) / Jos van Immerseel (piano) [ Zig Zag / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "This is a performance tingling with nervous energy, with Bauer's baritone a strong and heroic persona throughout its considerable range.. Bauer's quick vibrato, and the taut tension in every rhythmic phrase and figure is matched by the clarity and... |
SCHUBERT
Winterreise D911 Thomas Bauer (baritone) / Jos van Immerseel (pianoforte) [ Zig-Zag Territories / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] "Bauer is a thoughtful, personable singer who uses his words expressively. At forte his baritone has an incisive bite: say, in the horrified final climax of "Die Krähe"...He affectingly realises the bleak weariness of "Rast", and addresses the... |
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE
Tournemire: Complete Organ Music- Oeuvres d'Orgue Tjeerd van der Ploeg (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Charles Tournemire was born in Bordeaux in 1870. A child prodigy he became organist-accompagnateur at age 11 at the St. Pierre in Bordeaux. At the Paris Conservatory he had lessons from De Bériot and César Franck, after whose death he continued with... |