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 ] |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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. |
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... |
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) |
Strauss/Berlin State Opera Orc
Beethoven:symphonies 5 & 7 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] |
MAX REGER
Reger: Violin Concerto in A / Two Romances Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 11 / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "it's one of [Reger's] most heart-warming works, allowing his intensely lyrical streak free rein...Aided by first-rate orchestral playing, [Zagrosek] finds transparency in Reger's original" BBC Music Five Stars |