Rundfunk So Berlin/Kleinert
Puccini: Il Tabarro [ Profil / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] |
Rundfunk So Berlin/Kuhn
Kienz: Don Quixote [ Cpo / 3 CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] |
Rundfunkchor Berlin/Berlin So/
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 [ Profil / 4 CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] |
Rundfunkchor Berlin/Strobel
Schnittke:music For The Movies [ Cpo / CD - released 3/Dec/2001 ] |
ERNST TOCH
Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Alun Francis [ CPO / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Francis' affection for and dedication to Toch's music is clearly evident in his stirring performances with the Berlin Radio Symphony, which plays with power and precision. CPO's spacious recording reproduces the music with impressive... |
WEIGL
Symphony No 5 'Apocalyptic Symphony' (1945) / Phantastisches Intermezzo Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Thomas Sanderling [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Aug 2002) |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Michael Volle Michael Volle, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Georg Fritzsch [ Orfeo / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] |
MAX REGER
Works for Orchestra (Incls Sinfonietta op. 9, Konzert fer Klavier und Orchester & Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragedie) (Rec 1974) Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin / Heinz Regner [ Berlin Classics / 7 CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Heartfelt music-making across these warm-hearted and sometimes languorous works. There’s even some impressionistic influence that may yet surprise you if you have been influenced by the usual Reger caricature. Of course he also runs true to... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Highlights from the ballet) Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Heinz Rogner [ Berlin Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] |
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.... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Voice & Ensemble |
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) |
FLORENT SCHMITT
Piano Quintet / A tour d’anches Solisten-Ensemble Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Compared by contemporaries to Ravel and Debussy, French composer Florent Schmitt is being rediscovered today. Following his death, one critic mourned that "French music has just lost a smile and a master". The whimsical and sparkling À tour d'anches... |