Cesar FRANCK / Ernest CHAUSSON
Franck/Chausson: Symphonies Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] César Franck's only symphony came at a time when the French music world was seeking to rival the great Austro-German tradition. The 'darkness-to-light' narrative of the Symphony in D minor owes a debt to Beethoven and there is a unique power within... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (Alpine Symphony) Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski [ Pentatone / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester continue their PENTATONE journey through the heights of German late-Romantic repertoire with a recording of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie. The Alpine Symphony was inspired by the composer's... |
Sanderling/Rso Berlin
Pettersson: Symphony No.8 [ Cpo / CD ] |
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.... |
Schafer/Berlin So/Salemkour
Various: Arias [ Sony Classical / CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Der Freischütz Sharon Sweet, Ruth Ziesak, Peter Seiffert, Andreas Schmidt, Kurt Rydl, Roman Trekel / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Sony RCA Classical Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2017 ] This memorable version of Weber's Der Freischütz from 1994 returns to the catalogue. It offers some outstanding vocal contributions, opined BBC Music Magazine, "sung with a genuine feeling for melodic shape and verbal emphasis: Peter Seiffert's... |
WAGNER
Opera Arias Simon Estes (bass) / Staatskapelle Berlin / Heinz Fricke [ Newton Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] "As Amfortas Estes is once again at his very best, bringing out the anguish and pity in the music, both in his rich, intense tone and his well-considered diction - the cries of "Erbarmen" truly searing; again, this must rank with the best... |
Schulhoff,
Landschaften, Menschheit, Der Bürger als Edelmann Soffel, Rische; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gerd Albrecht [ ORFEO / CD - released 17/Oct/2003 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Four Last Songs and other Lieder Soile Isokoski (soprano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski, conductor [ Ondine 20th Anniversary / CD - released 10/Jun/2004 ] "Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. I suspect that the composer him∆self‚ with his love of the soprano voice‚ would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing." (Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2002) |
ANTON ARENSKY
Arnesky: Chamber Music Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] Anton Arensky belonged to the generation between Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, his early flair leading Tolstoy to state that, "among the new composers he is the best, he is simple and melodious". Lacking a Russian tradition for the genre, Arensky's... |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Clarinet Quintet / Clarinet Quartet / Clarinet Sonata / Three Easy Pieces Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "Naxos is to be thanked for this slightly unusual issue - the Quintet is such a rarity - and the performances are excellent. Everything about this issue is exemplary. I loved every minute and it shows us yet another side of this multi-faceted and... |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Serenade for String Trio / Sextet Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2003 ] Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: String Trio, Op. 31 / Piano Quartet, Op. 20 Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] With this album, Naxos and Spectrum Concerts wish to champion a composer who was universally respected and admired during his life, but whose work has for the most part languished unheard since his death over a century ago. |
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 |
Spectrum Concerts Berlin
Walden: Maquettes For Two Pian [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] |
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... |
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,... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos 4, 5, 9 & 10 Staatskapelle Berlin / Gunther Herbig [ Berlin Classics Eterna / CD - released 30/Mar/2008 ] |
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. |