MAHLER
Symphony No 3 (plus Bach/Mahler - Suite) Petra Lang (mezzo) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / Prague Philharmonic Choir / Netherlands Children's Choir / Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / 2 SACD - released 29/Jul/2004 ] "Riccardo Chailly's version of Mahler's Third is at once mystically expansive and luxuriously detailed. He expertly paces and parses the enormous finale, with an ear for the music's lumbering nobility, its trademark mixture of sadness and hope. The... |
NOTE BY NOTE
Note by Note - The Making of the Steinway Pierre-Laurent Aimard / Harry Connick Jr. / Helene Grimaud / Hank Jones / Lang Lang [ BBC / DVD - released 10/Sep/2008 ] G - A feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037 - from forest floor to concert hall. |
LEONCAVALLO
La Nuit de mai: Opera Arias and Songs Placido Domingo (tenor) / Lang Lang (piano) / Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Alberto Veronesi [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 29/Jul/2010 ] "Relatively old Domingo sings with the voice of the young poet and really does love it! This is an astonishing performance, even for him" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 |
RACHMANINOV
The Best of Rachmaninoff Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn / Robert Shaw Festival Singers / William Tritt (piano) / Lang Lang (piano) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] Rachmaninoff's music was characterized by memorable soaring melodies, rich orchestration and Romantic chromatic harmonies, which made it distinctively Russian. The Best of Rachmaninoff, an essential recording for Rachmaninoff fans, compiles Telarc's... |
SCHILLER
Opus Schiller with Lang Lang (piano) Helene Grimaud (piano) Albrecht Mayer (oboe) Anna Netrebko (soprano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Panorama / CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] Multi-award winning electronica artist Christopher van Deylen, aka "Schiller", has sold over 2 million albums worldwide and releases his first classical-inspired album "Opus" on Deutsche Grammophon's new Panorama label. With his new album "Opus",... |
Susanne Lang
Various: Petites Fleurs - Work [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 17/Jan/2011 ] |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto 2 & 3 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Piano Sonata No. 2 Sylvia McNair (soprano) Lang Lang (piano) Horacio Gutierrez (piano) / Pittsburgh Symphony, Lorin Maazel / Baltimore Symphony, David Zinman [ Telarc Everybody's Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "...he turns on the fireworks with a vengence..." - Stereo Review |
Tony Bennett & K.D. Lang
A Wonderful World [ Columbia Records / CD - released 26/Oct/1993 ] Tony, the King of Swing & K.D. Lang, the Queen of Torch, celebrate the life and works of musical legend, Louis Armstrong. |
WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Torsten Kerl, Kate Aldrich, Camilla Nylund / Sebastian Lang-Lessing (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "…spectacularly thanks to brilliant pseudo-historic footage in the style of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda films…The production is a knockout." The Sunday Times |
HOLST / PUCKETT / THURSTON / JOHN WILLIAMS / etc
Air Force Blue United States Air Force Band, United States Air Force Singing Sergeants, Larry H. Lang [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] With a tradition going back to its formation in 1941, The United States Air Force Band has long been the Air Force's premier musical organization, inspiring audiences in America and all over the world. Many of the works on this album demonstrate the... |
BERLIOZ / LISZT / MOZART / R. STRAUSS / etc
Summer Night Concert 2014 BLU-RAY Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, with Lang Lang (piano) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Jul/2014 ] |
LISZT
Wild and crazy [2 CD set] Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, Wilhelm Kempff, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] This is a revelatory compilation of Liszt's most daring and virtuosic piano music, a special celebration of his wild and crazy side from an array of great pianists - dazzling virtuosity, extreme harmonies and textures. |
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns [The Land Of Smiles] (complete operetta recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Piotr Beczala, Julia Kleiter, Rebeca Olvera, Spencer Lang / Fabio Luisi (conductor) [ Accentus Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2018 ] Always smile and always be cheerful, always satisfied, no matter what happens, smile in spite of your sorrows and a thousand aches and pains', sings Prince Sou-Chong, thus introducing the fundamentally melancholic tone of Das Land des Lächelns ('The... |