MEYERBEER
Robert Le Diable (complete opera recorded in 2012) Royal Opera House / Bryan Hymel, Patrizia Ciofi, John Relyea, Marina Poplavskaya / Daniel Oren (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] A grand opera that dominated the stages of Europe for most of the 19th century, Robert le diable is a masterpiece. Director Laurent Pelly breathes new life into Giacomo Meyerbeer's great spectacle and audaciously entertaining moral fable, in this... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Gloriana (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Royal Opera House / Susan Bullock, Toby Spence, Patricia Bardon, Mark Stone, Kate Royal / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] Central to the Royal Opera's centenary celebrations marking the birth of Benjamin Britten was Richard Jones's witty and insightful new production of the royal operatic pageant that Britten wrote to honour the Coronation, exploring the late life, love... |
ANTOINE MARIOTTE
Mariotte: Impressions Urbaines, Songs, Kakemonos Sabine Revault d'Allonnes (soprano) & Daniel Blumenthal (piano) [ Timpani / CD - released 29/Nov/2016 ] Antoine Mariotte: not only the composer of a Strauss-rivalling Salomé that was revived by the Montpellier Festival, but also of a piano cycle, Impressions urbaines, reputed to be on the outer edges of the playable and far indeed from the salon pieces... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (complete opera recorded May 2006) Sally Matthews, Christine Brewer, John MacMaster, Daniel Borowski, Juha Uusitalo / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Davis's version is crisp and dramatic...Abscheulicher brings out all [Brewer's] masterly qualities to the full, thanks to her big, firm, creamy voice, perfectly controlled." Penguin Guide |
W.A. MOZART
Don Giovanni (the complete opera recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2006) Salzburg Festival / Thomas Hampson / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Christine SchA¤fer / Robert Lloyd / Vienna Philharmonic / Daniel Harding (conductor) [ Decca Classics / Mozart 22 / 2 DVD - released 12/Dec/2006 ] G - "Fresh, transparent, dashing." -Die Presse, Vienna |
VARIOUS
1291 Samuel Blaser (trombone), Daniel Humair (drums), Heiri Känzig (double bass) [ Outnote Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Three generations of top Swiss jazz musicians from three different parts of the country, Daniel Humair, Samuel Blaser and Heiri Känzig, form a new trio that promises to stimulate the interest of both music lovers and curious listeners. |
FRANK MARTIN
Le Vin herbe (based on three chapters of the novel 'Tristan et Iseut' by Joseph Bedier) Sandrine Piau (sop) Steve Davislim (ten) Jutta Bohnert (sop) / RIAS Kammerchor / Scharoun Ensemble / Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "Often cited by those in the know as one of music's best-kept secrets, this is Tristan and Isolde as told by Frank Martin. As with the Wagner setting there are expressionist touches but also great directness of emotion. The score is full of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sarah Aristidou - Æther Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud, Christian Rivet / Orchester des Wandels, Thomas Guggeis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Solomon (complete oratorio) Sarah Connolly (alto) Susan Gritton (sop) Carolyn Sampson (sop) Mark Padmore (ten) / Akademie fAr Alte Musik Berlin / Daniel Reuss (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi HMHeritage / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] Handel was 63 years old when he composed Solomon, one of his final masterpieces. This monumental oratorio depicts the three highpoints of the biblical king's life: the building of the temple, the famous judgment, and the visit of the Queen of Sheba.... |
SCHUBERT
Lied Edition 35 - Rarities, Fragments, and Alternative Versions Sibylla Rubens / Detlef Roth / Daniel Grogurin / Uta Jungwirth / Reto Kuppel / Peter Riehm / Ulrich Eisenlohr [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] The Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition: The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition presents all Schubert's Lieder, over 700 songs, grouped according to the poets who inspired him. This final volume in Naxos's acclaimed edition includes a number of... |
IMOGEN HOLST
String Chamber Music Simon Hewitt Jones (violin), David Worswick (violin), Tom Hankey (viola), Oliver Coates (cello), Thomas Hewitt Jones (cello), Daniel Swain (piano) [ NMC Recordings / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] This award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst's chamber works (originally released on the Court Lane Music label) is an important addition to the NMC catalogue, and a wonderful tribute to a significant 20th-century British composer.... |
RESPIGHI
Sinfonia Drammatica Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Nazareth (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Dec/2005 ] "...very satisfying in every respect. " - David Hurwitz, Classicstoday.com |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (with Borodin: Polovtsian Dances) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Nazareth [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] "throughout, the performance is imaginatively detailed and very fresh." Gramophone |
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. |
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... |
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 |
LOUIS GLASS
Complete Symphonies Vol. 1 Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskin [ CPO / CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] After Carl Nielsen, Louis Glass surely has to be regarded as Denmark's greatest composer of the first half of the twentieth century. He began his career as a pianist, but when illness forced him to retire from active concertizing, he focused all his... |
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. |
SAMUEL BARBER
Eternal Barber (Incls 'Adagio for Strings') Stephen Prutsman, Daniel Pollack (pianos) / Ormond College Choir / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Samuel Barber is widely known for his famous Adagio for Strings, the slow movement of a string quartet he wrote in 1936. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1910, he was one of the first students at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where he... |
BRIAN ELIAS
Brian Elias: Electra Mourns Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais) / Psappha, Nicholas Kok / Britten Sinfonia, Clark Rundell [ NMC / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] The title work on this new album by Brian Elias sets text from 'Electra', a 5th Century BC play by the Greek dramatist Sophocles. It is sung in the original ancient Greek by mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley, accompanied by cor anglais and string... |