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SMETANA / RAVEL / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / STRAVINSKY / etc
Discover Symphonic Music Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, etc [ Berlin Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] This Discover album is full of melodies that everyone is aware of subconsciously and everyone is sure to know. Melodies that are fundamental, that have influenced every hookline in rock. ... |
FLORENT SCHMITT
Piano Quintet / A tour d’anches Solisten-Ensemble Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Compared by contemporaries to Ravel and Debussy, French composer Florent Schmitt is being rediscovered today. Following his death, one critic mourned that "French music has just lost a smile and a master". The whimsical and sparkling À tour d'anches... |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Septem verba a Christo (in cruce moriente prolata) Sophie Karthäuser, Christophe Dumaux, Julien Behr, Konstantin Wolff / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] "this hybrid cycle of seven early-18th-century cantatas based on the Seven Last Words is deeply impressive...The mood ranges wide, from fiery, coloratura-laden anger to a touching lyricism." Sunday Times |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Dialogue Cantatas for soprano & bass Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Michael Volle (bass), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] "The Akademie orchestra and the RIAS Kammerchor round off a fine well-balanced recording. Highly recommended." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker (complete ballet recorded in 2014) Staatsballett Berlin / Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Michael Banzhaf / Robert Reimer (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] At long last, the State Ballet Berlin has The Nutcracker back in repertoire, one of the most popular ballets ever. Vasily Medvedev and Yuri Burlaka, two choreographers and connoisseurs of the tradition, have developed a version based on the original. |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Accentus Music DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] BBC Music Magazine August 2014 - Orchestral Choice |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Symphonies [2 CDs + Blu Ray Audio] Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon 2 CDs + Blu-ray audio / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Dec/2022 ] "Barenboim masterfully clarifies textures (violins are on his right and left), proving that Schumann's orchestration is wonderfully effective when tended to with care." TheClassicReview |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Staatsoper Berlin / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska / Gustavo Dudamel (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Nothing is harder to put on stage than lightness. And humor is the sharpest weapon of the desperate. That is why it is an obligation, indeed a must, to enjoy this Figaro by Jürgen Flimm at the Staatsoper to the fullest." (ARD Radio) This production... |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Sylvia Greenberg, James Bowman, Stephen Roberts / RSO Berlin und Chor, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1984 ] "...in recognition of the stunning range and brilliance of the Decca recording as presented on CD with bass drum at the very start shatteringly real-sounding in its specific focus." Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Falstaff (complete opera with libretto) Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Daniil Shtoda, Enrico Facini, Dorothea Roschmann / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] Recording: Berlin, Philarmonie, Grosser Saal, 4/2001. The booklet includes the libretto and texts by Andrew Porter and Claudio Abbado |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (Complete Opera) Tomasz Konieczny, Stephen Gould, Christian Elsner, Violeta Urmana / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2013 ] This is the ninth release in PentaTone's successful Wagner Edition and the third release of the cycle: "Der Ring des Nibelungen. |
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MAX REGER
Reger Collection [11 CD set] Amadeus Webersinke (piano) Manfred Scherzer (violin) Annelies Burmeister (alto) / Radio Chorus Berlin, Dietrich Knothe / RSO Leipzig / Dresden Philhar [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2015 ] "splendid music in excellent, sympathetic performances." MusicWeb International, 1st July 2013 |
BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN / BRUSTAD / GRIEG
Europakonzert 2016 from Røros, Norway - Beethoven: Symph. No 3 / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto BLU-RAY Vilde Frang (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2017 ] "[Frang] is predictably fine in the Mendelssohn, technically accomplished and emotionally engaged. And what a joy it must be to play this concerto with the Berliners, whose sensitivity to Mendelssohn's instrumental imaginings is second to none." |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin Concerto Vilde Frang (violin) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati, with Thomas Hoppe (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 6/Sep/2024 ] "Her understanding of Elgar's kaleidoscopic writing is instinctive at all levels...Every lover of Elgar's masterpiece should try to hear this magnificent addition to the library." Gramophone Magazine Awards Issue 2024 Recording of the Month |
BROSCHI / GALUPPI / GIACOMELI / HASSE / PORPORA
Arias for Farinelli Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "While Vivica Genaux has all the virtupsity needed to negotiate the intricately embellished lines in these songs, she knows, too, how to use ornamentation for expressive effect. Strongly recommended." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music... |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / FAURE / MOZART / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Kempff III Wilhelm Kempff (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic, Ferdinand Leitner [ Decca / Philips / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Few pianists on record convey quite the impression of actually composing the music while they perform it that sets Wilhelm Kempff's artistry apart. This quality may owe something to his gift as an improviser (Kempff had also received early training... |
NADIA BOULANGER / GABRIEL FAURE / REYNALDO HAHNI
William Youn - Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn William Youn (piano) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Valentin Uryupin [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] "Youn's playing throughout is accomplished and stylish, with a full-value orchestral contribution to match." BBC Music |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4) [recorded in 1992] Yefim Bronfman (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Kurt Sanderling [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "The DVD camera lets us watch his mercurial hands in astonishment as well as pleasure...This is among the most revealing accounts available" (Gramophone) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / W. A. MOZART
Brahms / Mozart: Violin Concertos Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] Two great milestones in the discography of Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of the finest of German violin virtuosi. Graceful elegance marks his Mozart interpretation, while his Brahms is all virtuoso fire and dreamy, romantic rapture. |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.9 Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Thomas Quasthoff / Eric-Ericson-Kammerchor, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 11/Mar/2002 ] |
