More By Artist: Daniel O'Donnell
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (Complete ballet recorded in 1999) Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin / Nadja Saidakova, Vladimir Malakhov, Oliver Matz / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 27/Jun/2002 ] In 1999, exactly 107 years - to the day - after the first performance in St. Petersburg, Patrice Bart's choreography of Tchaikovsky's worldwide success The Nutcracker premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
MAYR: Mass in E flat major Dorota Szczepaska, Johanna Krödel, Markus Schäfer, Daniel Ochoa; Concerto de Bassus, Simon Mayr Chorus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Mayr's great Mass in E flat major is a late work, largely composed in 1843. It conforms to the prevailing Italian messa concertata tradition with its clear divisions into distinct vocal numbers, as opposed to the symphonic Mass which held sway north... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 44 - 49 [includes 'The Farewell'] English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutache Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 21/Aug/2020 ] "These performances are crisp and bright, and the attendant clarity is achieved with seeming ease… Highly recommended.' Fanfare, November 1981 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphonies No. 31 'Paris', 39 & 40 English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ EMI / CD - released 1/May/1990 ] "These are exceptionally lively performances: alertly phrased, and often with positively bouncing rhythm, executed at all times with very great skill." (Gramophone) |
JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Symphonies Nos 82-87 English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "He can excite, he can charm, but he can also move. And it's clear he can see the whole picture, which is perhaps his greatest strength of all" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Rape of Lucretia (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY English National Opera / Sarah Connolly, Christopher Maltman, Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2013 ] "The main cast delivers a superlative response from start to finish, headed by baritone Christopher Maltman's bull-like Tarquinius and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly's harrowingly intense Lucretia." BBC Music |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Symphony No. 1 / Partita English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel [ Naxos / CD ] "Irrespective of price, this is a version of the much-recorded symphony that competes with the finest ever, and outshines most" - Gramophone |
MENDELSSOHN / CYRILLUS KREEK
Psalms Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Daniel Reuss [ Ondine / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] "Reuss draws impassioned and mellifluous performances from his Grammy Award-winning choir of 24 voices. Its beautifully blended, creamy tone (especially in the altos) and clarion-like tenors are underpinned by warm basses." (Gramophone) |
MILHAUD / RODNEY BENNETT / ROSAURO / MIYOSHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Evelyn Glennie: Rebounds: Concertos for Percussion Evelyn Glennie (percussion) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Paul Daniel [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Jun/1992 ] "Percussion virtuosi are among the latest to join the ranks of concertizing soloists. Evelyn Glennie, soloist with leading orchestras in Great Britain, Australia, Japan and the United States, advances the art of percussion playing on her debut album. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2005) [with 147 minute Bonus] BLU-RAY Fiorenza Cedolins / Marcelo Alvarez / Ruggero Raimondi / Arena Di Verona / Daniel Oren [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] A superlative staging of Puccini's Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana brought to you from the world-famous Arena di Verona and complete with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands! |
MOZART / SCARLATTI / CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / etc
Fou Ts'ong - Complete Westminster Recordings Fou Ts'ong (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, etc [ Westminster Australian Eloquence / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The Westminster label legacy of a master Chopin interpreter, issued complete for the first time in an 'original covers' box of new remasterings. |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Anime Immortali | Mozart Arias Franco Fagioli (counter-tenor), Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard [ Pentatone / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Countertenor Franco Fagioli makes his Pentatone debut with Anime Immortali, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, exploring the music that Mozart composed for castratos. Ranging from opera to sacred music and culminating in Exsultate, jubilate,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSER
Trumpet Masque Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Apr/2008 ] "Jonathan Freeman-Attwood's playing is notable for the beauty and freedom of line of his lyrical phrasing, while the bravura is exhilarating. Daniel-Ben Pienaar's accompaniments are boldly supportive and well in the picture." (Gramophone) |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 'Organ' / Le Deluge op.45 / Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila / Danse macabre Gaston Litaize (organ) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 6/Oct/2003 ] "I certainly do not know a rival version to match this in its warmth, its power and its sumptuous sound" (Gramophone) |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Mozart [5 DVD set] Gil Shaham / Sharon Kam / Sandrine Piau / Dorothea Roschmann / Daniel Barenboim / and more [ EuroArts DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2011 ] MediciArts offers a DVD box full of the most sparkling of Mozart's compositions. Performed by instrumentalists, orchestras, conductors and singers, among the best interpreters of his works, this representative selection... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, May 2015) Globe / Jonathan Pryce, Rachel Pickup, Daniel Lapaine, Dominic Mafham, Phoebe Pryce [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] In some of his most highly-charged scenes, Shakespeare dramatises the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy; while in the character of Shylock he created one of the most memorable outsiders |
RICHARD WAGNER
The Wagner Project Matthias Goerne (baritone) / The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2017 ] Thanks to the combined talents of Matthias Goerne and Daniel Harding at the head of the excellent Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the music of Richard Wagner glows here with a special radiance. In the finest scenes for baritone or... |
ROGER MILLER
Miller: Big River - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Gordon Connell & Daniel Jenkins / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ MCA Records / CD - released 12/Jul/1985 ] Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with music and lyrics by Roger Miller, and a book by William Hauptman. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded 2018) Gun-Brit Barkmin, Daniel Brenna, Eric Halfvarson, Shenyang, Amanda Majeski, Peter Kálmán / Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2018 ] This is the third and penultimate release in the acclaimed cycle of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Hong Kong Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Of the star cast for Siegfried, Matthias Goerne has been singled out for particular... |
WILLIAM ALWYN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chamber Works Vol 1 Haffner Wind Ensemble of London, with Nicholas Daniel - oboe & Kate Hill - flute [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "The Haffner Wind Ensemble is very impressive indeed, both individually as personalities and as a team matching timbres expertly. Their playing is full of spontaneity and conveyed enjoyment" Gramophone |
