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ERNST TOCH
Toch: Piano Quintet / Violin Sonata No. 2 / Burlesken / 3 Impromptus Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] "The performers all do well. Daniel Blumenthal…is the driving engine of most of the works here. Highly recommended" Classical Net |
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Spectrum Concerts Berlin
Walden: Maquettes For Two Pian [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker (complete ballet recorded in 2014) Staatsballett Berlin / Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Michael Banzhaf / Robert Reimer (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] At long last, the State Ballet Berlin has The Nutcracker back in repertoire, one of the most popular ballets ever. Vasily Medvedev and Yuri Burlaka, two choreographers and connoisseurs of the tradition, have developed a version based on the original. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms The Symphonies Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] ""The blend of clarity, intimacy and power the engineers have been able to achieve here fits the lustre and glow of these Staatskapelle performances like a glove" Editor's Choice Gramophone |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Accentus Music DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers' works: In this series he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckner's mature symphonies. |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major BLU-RAY Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Accentus Music Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2016 ] In Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousness and profound solemnity, a music which speaks of grief and lamentation, but also of their transcendence. With its monumental architecture and... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Opera Overtures, Choruses and Duets Staatskapelle Berlin, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Staatsoperette Dresden, Berliner Staatsoper, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Jun/2019 ] The ultimate starter's kit for the aspiring opera lover: a generous selection of highlights from famous operas: Overtures, Duets and Choruses by Verdi, Wagner, Donizetti, Gounod, Bizet, Mozart, Smetana, Lortzing, Suppé, Strauss, Nicolai, Mascagni,... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos 4, 5, 9 & 10 Staatskapelle Berlin / Gunther Herbig [ Berlin Classics Eterna / CD - released 30/Mar/2008 ] |
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ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvořák: Complete Symphonies Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2019 ] In this complete edition of the Dvorák Symphonies, Otmar Suitner unites in an exemplary way the various characteristics of his conducting - formal awareness, idiomatic familiarity and an always onward-pressing, unsentimental temperament. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / WAGNER / STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHOENBERG / etc
450 Years Staatskapelle Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin, Richard Strauss, Leo Blech, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Keilberth, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 3/Apr/2020 ] As the Staatskapelle Berlin celebrates its 450th anniversary, Deutsche Grammophon presents 15 discs of sound recordings of outstanding artistic merit from the venerable, world-class orchestra under its great conductors. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Staatsoper Berlin / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska / Gustavo Dudamel (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Nothing is harder to put on stage than lightness. And humor is the sharpest weapon of the desperate. That is why it is an obligation, indeed a must, to enjoy this Figaro by Jürgen Flimm at the Staatsoper to the fullest." (ARD Radio) This production... |
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WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2014) Staatsoper Berlin / Peter Seiffert, Marina Prudenskaya, Ann Petersen, Peter Mattei, René Pape / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Dec/2015 ] A brand new production of 'Tannhäuser' from the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has brought to the stage this Romantic Wagner opera with a star cast of some of today's best Wagnerian sin |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (complete opera recorded in 2017, Sung in English with German dialogue) BLU-RAY Staatsoper unter den Linden / Anett Fritsch, Robin Johannsen, Benno Schachtner / Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, René Jacobs [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2020 ] The collaboration of the poet John Dryden and Henry Purcell marked a conspicuous leap forward for English opera. Their greatest project, King Arthur, is a five-act dramatick opera, the text of which had its origins in a patriotic musical play Dryden... |
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PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Complete Works For Flute Stathis Karapanos, Jörg Widmann, Konzerthaus Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra [ Ondine / CD - released 3/May/2024 ] This new recording of Paul Hindemith's complete works for flute, featuring Stathis Karapanos and an impressive array of supporting musicians, shows his versatility as a composer. He wrote a sonata for almost every instrument of the orchestra as well... |
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Stefan Engels plays the Seifert organ of St. Matthias, Berlin
Great European Organs Vol. 69 [ Priory / CD - released 21/Nov/2003 ] Recorded on 8th & 9th November 2001 |
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DANIEL SCHNYDER
Around the World - works for bass trombone Stefan Schulz (bass trombone) / Daniel Schnyder (soprano saxophone) / Tomoko Sawano (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Michael Sanderling [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The present disc gives a broad picture of Schnyder's creative range, from duos to orchestral works, and includes subZero, his celebrated concerto for bass trombone, but also adaptations of Bach and Vivaldi. |
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ALEXANDER MOSOLOV
Iron Foundry / Piano Concerto No. 1 / etc Steffen Schleiermacher (piano), Ringela Riemke (cello) & Natalia Pschenitschnikova (soprano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke [ Capriccio / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] Among his contemporary countrymen, the Russian Alexander Mosolov certainly underwent one of the most individual developments. Most of his compositions have remained unknown both in the Soviet Union and abroad, but a single piece has ensured that his... |
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BLOCH / BRIDGE / HOUGH
In The Shadow of War Steven Isserlis (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hugh Wolff / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression." (5 Stars BBC Music) |
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Strauss/Berlin State Opera Orc
Beethoven:symphonies 5 & 7 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] |
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HARTMANN
20TH CENTURY PORTRAITS TATJANA MASURENKO (VIOLA), FRANK-IMMO ZICHNER (PIANO), RUNDFUNK-SINFONIEORCHESTER BERLIN, MAREK JANOWSKI [ CAPRICCIO / SACD ] |