Since you are interested in Opera at Eszterhaza, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Complete Music for Solo Keyboard (15 discs for the price of 3) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / 15 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "There is no other collection of the complete Haydn keyboard music that comes anywhere close to this one. Ronald Brautigam plays all of this music, even the early divertimento-sonatas, as if it truly matters, with excitement and real panache." 10/10... |
MICHAEL HAYDN / GEORG CHRISTOPH WAGENSEIL / JOHANN GEORG ALBRECHTSBERGER / LEOPOLD MOZART
Classical Trombone Concertos Christian Lindberg (alto trombone) / Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, artistic director and leader [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] "Anyone who has ever played a trombone will be delighted at these recordings. Any lover of rarely recorded works will doubtlessly enjoy this album..It cannot be more highly recommended." (MusicWeb) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Piano Music Vol 2 (Including: Preludes, Book 1; Children's Corner ) Noriko Ogawa (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] "a most elegant, scrupulously sensitive interpreter" Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2003) |
W.A. MOZART
Concertos for Two and Three Pianos Ronald Brautigam and Alexei Lubimov (fortepianos) / Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss (direction and fortepiano) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "In short, this CD is a delight from begin to end. It will make you want to see and hear the two pieces performed live because only then can one fully enjoy the virtuosic playfulness and beauty of the musical interchange between the two pianos in the... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Complete Keyboard Music, Vol.9: Early Divertimento Sonatas (3 CDs for the price of 2) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / 3 CD - released 23/Jun/2003 ] Almost all of these sonatas were composed while Haydn was still in his teens or early twenties |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn, J - Solo Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 4 Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano [ BIS / CD - released 6/Jun/2000 ] Critically aclaimed performaces of some great piano music! |
JOSEF HAYDN
Keyboard Sonatas Vol 2 (Nos 53-58) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "Ronald Brautigam is a superb pianist. He plays Haydn with a virtuosity boardering on the electrical but without overtaxing the music or investing it with more weight than it can bear. His slow movements are simply glorious" (American Record Guide) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 10 (Airs, Variations and Dances) Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano (with Ingo Petry, fortepiano) [ BIS / 3 CD - released 18/Mar/2004 ] This is the tenth and next-to-last volume of Ronald Brautigam's pioneering fortepiano survey of Haydn's solo piano music. Right from the start this Haydn series has generated huge enthusiasm on the part of reviewers |
JOSEF HAYDN
Philemon and Baucis (a marionette opera) Christoph Genz (tenor) Maren Engelhardt (mezzo-soprano) Jan Petryka (tenor) Alexandra Reinprecht (soprano) / Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "Although necessarily for Haydn specialists, the music here really is special. This vividly recorded release gives the fullest picture of this genuinely moving work." 9 / 9 ClassicsToday Nov 2009) |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Violin Works (Incls Suite in the Old Style) Ulf Wallin (violin) Tero Latvala (violin) Meri Englund (violin) Tapiola Sinfonietta / Ralf Gothani (piano / conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] "To those who know the BIS/Schnittke edition, this issue is self-recommending. Ulf Wallin is a superb violinist, something which is essential in these works. You can never have too much Schnittke, and with such excellent performances and recordings... |