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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Royal Opera Gala: Covent Garden Anniversary Album Joan Carlyle, Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey, Yvonne Minton, Amy Shuard, Peter Pears, David Ward, etc [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2009 ] "Lots of riches on these two well-filled discs." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Great Sacred Works (Incls Stabat Mater & Nisi Dominus) Jochen Kowalski (counter-tenor) Nico van der Meel (tenor) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Vittorio Negri [ ABC Eloquence / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] One could be forgiven for being surprised that sacred music does not account for a more substantial proportion of Vivaldi's life's work, especially in view of his having been ordained a priest. The music on this disc, however, presents the 'other'... |
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonatas D 959 & 784 Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Schubert and Jorge Bolet may seem rare bedfellows for a virtuoso who excelled in the music of Liszt and Rachmaninov and whose lineage extended, through his teacher David Saperton, to Leopold Godowsky (Saperton's teacher). But he finds in this music... |
PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6 LOrchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/May/2009 ] These 2CD sets represent all of Ansermet's Prokofiev recordings for Decca. Both, the Paris Conservatoire and the Suisse Romande versions of the 'Classical' Symphony are included. |
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Ballet at the Opera (from Eugene Onegin, Oprichnik, The Maid of Orleans, etc) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis [ SBS Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "An unhackneyed sample of the operatic-balletic Tchaikovsky culled from the well known and the neglected operas - brilliant performed and recorded." (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (complete ballet recorded in 1994) Royal Opera House / Viviana Durante, Zoltán Solymosi, Anthony Dowell, Benazir Hussein / Barry Wordsworth (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] G - 'Viviana Durante is outstanding as Aurora. Radiant and youthful, she dances with an ease and naturalness that is enchanting.' Evening Standard |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 / Piano Concerto No 3 Ruggiero Ricci (violin) Julius Katchen (piano) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] These CD sets represent all of Ansermet's Prokofiev recordings for Decca. Ruggiero Ricci and Julius Katchen are sterling soloists in the concertos. This is Katchen's first of two Decca recordings of the Prokofiev Third. |
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LALO
Symphonie Espagnole / Namouna [excerpts] / etc (with music by Chabrier) Ruggiero Ricci (violin) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] It used to be fashionable to include the music of Lalo in concert in the mid-20th century. At the start of the 21st century, however, his works has fallen completely into neglect, in France as much as elsewhere. This is a cruel injustice for music... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony / Mephisto Waltz / Battle of the Huns (with Magnard-Symphony No. 3) Werner Krenn (tenor) / Choeur Pro Arte de Lausanne / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Liszt's Eine Faust-Symphonie, based on the Faust legend, is an hour-long work for tenor, choir and orchestra, based on the Faust legend. The Suisse Romande Orchestra take to this complex score, one with which they could hardly have been familiar,... |
