More By Artist: Chicago
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ALAN HOVHANESS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain (with works by Prokofiev & Stravinsky) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA Living Stereo / CD - released 20/Jan/1995 ] "In a past review, I referred to Reiner's 'clarity, precision and flexible phrasing', and all are conspicuous on this disc, as is his perfect control of balance and colour." Classical-Music.com |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss (5 CDs) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, with Antonio Janiqro (cello) Bryon janis (piano) Inqu Borkh (soprano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] "These were the first stereo sessions the RCA engineers arranged with Fritz Reiner. The RCA recording team 'got it right' from the very beginning. Reiner achieves an admirable balance and whatever he does is convincing." Rosette (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition / A Night on Bare Mountain (with Britten - Young Person's guide to the Orchestra) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa (conductor) [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Though you clearly have a superlative orchestra showing off its virtuosity, the distinctive point of this reading is that Ozawa never forces the pace or underlines unnecessarily...an excellent version still competitive with the best... |
Chicago Underground Duo
Locus [ Northern Spy / CD ] Locus, the seventh album by the Chicago Underground Duo (Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor), follows on the heels of their acclaimed 2012 Northern Spy release Age of Energy. Bits of breakbeat and Afropop are heard within the jazz, ambient and electronica... |
MAX BRUCH / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / HENRI VIEUXTEMPS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto Cho-Liang Lin (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Sony Music / CD - released 15/Feb/1994 ] "Cho-Liang Lin is accompanied most sensitively by Slatkin and the Chicago orchestra, and this reading is totally compelling in its combination of passion and purity, strength and dark, hushed intensity. The recording is excellent." *** Penguin Guide |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: The 6 Symphonies / The Nutcracker Suite / Romeo and Juliet / The Tempest / etc Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] "Romeo & Juliet played by Chicago SO is one of the most exciting and powerfully moving accounts on record, and the sound is sumptuous and every part of the score is articulated and vividly captured." 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before... |
Climax Chicago Blues Band
Climax Chicago Blues Band (Remastered) [ Esoteric / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] |
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
Hoodoo Man Blues [ Delmark / LP - released 10/Dec/2002 ] |
RACHMANINOV / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / LISZT / KHACHATURIAN / etc
Lazar Berman: The Complete Sony Recordings Lazar Berman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony Classics Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2016 ] "These can be considered classic interpretations." (Gramophone March 2004) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem Leontyne Price, Dame Janet Baker, Veriano Luchetti, Jose van Dam / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 1/May/2011 ] "Solti's 1977 Chicago version, with an unusually sensitive and pure-toned quartet of soloists, and with superb choral singing and orchestral playing, has all the ingredients for success." (Penguin Guide) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat, op.83 (with Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appasionata") Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf (Recorded 1960 & 1988) [ Sony Classical Originals / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "This is a legendary, visionary statement about the music, to be heard on its own terms." - MusicWeb Sept 2004 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
New Impossibilities Yo-Yo Ma (cello) & The Silk Road Ensemble / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Miguel Harth-Bedoya [ Sony Music / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Yo-Yo Ma Brings Us New Impossibilities - A New Release Featuring Silk Road Project and Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
