Since you are interested in A New Year's Concert (Incls 'The Beautiful Blue Danube' & 'Radetzky March'), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
RUSSIAN FAVOURITES
Russian Favourites (music by Borodin, Gliere, Glinka, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Kabalevsky, etc) Slovak Phil Orch, Slovak Radio SymphOrch, conductors: Bramall, Gunzenhauser, Halasz, Hayman, Jean [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] The second half of the nineteenth century brought with it a burgeoning of Russian culture, itself, whatever nationalist critics might have said, a result of that cross-fertilisation of ideas that has its origin in the reforms of Peter the Great. |
BINGE / COATES / CURZON / DUNCAN / ELGAR / FARNON / GERMAN / ETC
A British Festival (Incls 'Elizabethan Serenade' & 'In a Monastrey Garden') Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper, Andrew Penny [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "unforgettable tunes that everyone knows but few can put names to....this is a well-chosen selection taken from the Marco Polo and Naxos back catalogue." --Review by Jeremy Nicholas, ClassicFM |
MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 3 / A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra / Bramall (conductor), Seifried (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "A performance that gains in tautness as it progresses." - Guardian (UK) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Symphony No. 9 / Legends Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "The orchestra is the Slovak Philharmonic, who really have this music in their blood, conducted in lively and idiomatic fashion by Stephen Gunzenhauser who has a most engaging way with Dvorák's music." - The Guardian - Aug 1990 |