More By Artist: Boston
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RODNEY LISTER
Lister: Of Mere Being - Choral Works The Choir of the Church of the Advent, Boston ChengCheng Ma (piano), Mark Dwyer [ Metier / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Rodney Lister's choral compositions represent a remarkable synthesis of literary sensitivity, harmonic sophistication, and an abiding commitment to vocal expressivity. |
JAMES MACMILLAN
Clemency David Kravitz, Michelle Trainor, Christine Abraham / Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra / David Angus [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Clemency is the third operatic collaboration between the composer James MacMillan and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts to date - a chamber opera which explores a central but enigmatic episode in the Old Testament |
MASSENET
Manon (complete opera) (with works by Berlioz & Debussy) Victoria de los Angeles, Henri Legay, Michel Dens / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, Carol Smith, Charles Munch [ Testament / 3 CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "Recorded in mono in 1955, the set fell at a unique point in the opera's history on disc. Previous recordings from the 78rpm era had captured the special Opéra-Comique spirit for posterity, but they hold limited sonic appeal to present-day... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (with Sibelius-Symphony No 2) Eleanor Roosevelt (narrator) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Koussevitzky / NBC Symphony Orchestra / Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] This disc restores to the catalogue, after an absence of more than 50 years,Koussevitzky's second recording of Peter and the Wolf, with Eleanor Roosevelt as narrator.Taped during his last recording sessions on 29th November, 1950, Koussevitzky's... |
DAVID LANG
Lang: Pierced / Heroin / Cheating / Wed / etc Real Quiet with Theo Blockmann (vocals) & Evan Ziporyn (bass clarinet) / Boston Modern Orchestra / Gil Rose [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Mr. Rose and his team filled the music with rich, decisive ensemble colors and magnificent solos. These musicians were rapturous - superb instrumentalists at work and play." The New York Times |
CARL REINECKE
Octet / Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave) / Sextet Fenwick Smith (flute) Hugh Hinton (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, members [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music purely for wind ensembles was largely overlooked by Romantic composers and as a result Carl Reinecke's genial Sextet and Octet for wind loom rather large in a sparse landscape. |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (complete opera) Fernando Guimarães, Jennifer Rivera, Aaron Sheehan, Leah Wool, Owen McIntosh / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "The strength of this issue is in its strong, youthful cast. The Penelope of Jennifer Rivera almost shakes my allegiance to Jacobs's Bernarda Fink, with a limpid low mezzo of comparable beauty and expressive power, while Fernando Guimaraes's Ulysses |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Claudio Abbado. William Steinberg, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 57 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ] The BSO's 1969-70 season was a landmark year for the orchestra with the arrival of distinguished conductor William Steinberg and the start of their recording legacy with DG. The label immediately reinforced its commitment to the BSO. |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / LOUIS GRUENBERG
Prokofiev/Gruenberg: Violin Concertos Jascha Heifetz (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Historial Great Violinists / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Another legendary Prokofiev recording is the 1937...Needless to say, Heifetz's delivery of the solo part is mesmerically brilliant in the finale, but the violinist also captures to perfection the lyrical nostalgia of theslow movement." BBC Music |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven/Brahms: Violin Concertos Jascha Heifetz (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Koussevitzky / NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 23/Jun/2001 ] "This is a miraculous release, the Beethoven especially so: a performance of rare beauty of a work of transfigured loveliness in a recording that has itself undergone a kind of transfiguration. This is a real thoroughbred of a release" Gramophone |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe (complete opera) Karina Gauvin, Philippe Jaroussky, Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2015 ] "The performance is never forced but always emotive...An exemplary testament of superb musicianship from all participants...this is a landmark event in Steffani's much-deserved rehabilitation." (Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 Baroque Vocal |
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Mussorgsky:pictures At An Exhi [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] |
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FRANZ LISZT
The Liszt Recordings [2 CD set] Krystian Zimerman (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] "Coinciding with the death of his mother and the birth of his daughter, these recordings were intensely personal for Zimerman. The Concertos are scintillating, the Sonata Olympian." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Totentanz Krystian Zimerman (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Jan/2002 ] Rosette (Highest Rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Ma Vlast Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik [ Deutsche Grammophon Galleria / CD ] |
LUKAS FOSS
Griffelkin (Opera in Three Acts Libretto by Alastair Reid) Marion Dry (contralto) ; Kendra Colton (soprano) Elizabeth Keusch (soprano) Yeghishe Manucharyan (tenor) / Members of Boston Children's Opera and gues [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 26/May/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
THOMAS ADES
Adès Conducts Adès Mark Stone (baritone), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "...for proof that Adès does what he does with mind-boggling brilliance, look no further." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Contemporary |
JOSEF HAYDN
Lord Nelson Mass / Symphony No 102 in B flat Mary Wilson, Abigail Fischer, Keith Jameson, Kevin Deas / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2013 ] "this new account opens with impact, even if the florid upper strings occasionally have to struggle against the implacable tirades of chorus, trumpets and drums. And the quartet of soloists led by agile soprano Mary Williams proves a well integrated |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto / Encores (recorded 1949-53) Nathan Milstein (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 31/Aug/2007 ] "The three violin and piano works with Artur Balsam are played with Milstein's usual finesse and bravura, and the disc concludes with two tracks in which Milstein duets with the Italian bass Ezio Pinza in Calm as the night and None but the lonely... |
