Since you are interested in Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer / 3 Quartette Op. 64, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
LISZT / RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / BRAHMS / CHOPIN
Martha Argerich - Debut Album Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 1/Jan/2006 ] "This is a staggering first recording by any reckoning. Mercurial and marvellous." (Gramophone) |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 'Organ' / Le Deluge op.45 / Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila / Danse macabre Gaston Litaize (organ) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 6/Oct/2003 ] "I certainly do not know a rival version to match this in its warmth, its power and its sumptuous sound" (Gramophone) |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Gundula Janowitz, Gerhard Stolze, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Berlin Opera, Eugen Jochum [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Jochum's 1968 recording of Carmina Burana has never sounded better than it does in this reissue in DG's 'Originals' series. The recording has a wide dynamic range and when the music blazes it has real spedour and excitement." (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
DAVID & IGOR OISTRACH
Music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Benda, Wieniawski, Sarasate David and Igor Oistrach [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 16/Mar/2000 ] Originals - Classic DG recordings remastered |
BLOCH / BRUCH / LALO / SAINT-SAENS
Works for cello and orchestra Pierre Fournier (cello) / Orchestre Lamoureux, Berlin Philharmonic, Jean Martinon, Alfred Wallenstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 20/Jan/2009 ] "Fournier is impassioned and eloquent [in the Lalo]...expressive in the slow movement and rhythmic in the delightful Allegro presto dance section […] the Bruch is played with dignity and without undue emotionalism" Gramophone |
DEBUSSY
Lieder Gerard Souzay (baritone) Dalton Baldwin (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "This is one of the great Debussy song-recitlas of the age." (Penguin Guide) |
W.A. MOZART
Concert Arias Gundula Janowitz (soprano) / Vienna Symphony / Wilfred Boettcher [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 11/Sep/2007 ] "This selection of concert arias demands much flexibility and Mozart expert Gundula Janowitz at her very best rises to the challenge with glorious singing. Wilfried Boettcher directs the orchestra vividly while The excellent 1966 recording was... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 (with Grieg - Piano Concerto) Gaza Anda (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 16/Mar/2004 ] Géza Anda and Herbert von Karajan have recorded their first LP together, finding a perfectly unified approach to Brahms's Second Piano Concerto that explores its mood swings, its sweetness and bitterness, its lyricism and drama. |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass (Cecilien-Messe) Irmgard Seefried, Gerhard Stolze & Hermann Uhde / Czech Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Igor Markevitch [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 11/Oct/2007 ] "In his straight-faced way Markevitch makes the incongruity of Gounod's jolly and vulgar tunes all the more delectable, and soloists, chorus and orchestra are all first rate." Penguin Guide |
BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / SCHUMANN
Plays Beethoven, Chopin & Schumann Ivo Pogorelich, piano [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "The brilliance, the daring the lofty role-playing in the Schumann, and the many unignorable moments of a rapt and surprising introspection are a sufficient lure [...] Pogorelich's love of the energy and beauty of Beethoven's music is wise enough,... |
BERG
Lulu-Suite / Altenberg Lieder / 3 Pieces for Orchestra Margaret Price (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 5/May/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Abbado makes it clear above all how beautiful Berg's writing is, not just in the Lulu excerpts but in the early Op 4 Songs and the op 6 Orchestral Pieces." (Three stars Penguin... |
BRUCKNER
Sacred works: Incls 'Te Deum in C major, WAB 45' & 'Ave Maria, WAB 6' Maria Stader, Sieglinde Wagner, Ernst Haefliger, Peter Lagger / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Eugen Jochum [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: 24 Preludes / Piano Sonata No 2 Op 25 Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] "In this complete version of the Preludes, recorded twenty seven years ago, the tigress of the keyboard laid down one of her finest Chopin performances. A great Chopin disc" (MusicWeb, 2002) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Toccata / Partita No 2 / English Suite No 2 Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 18/Mar/2000 ] "Nothing I have heard from her on disc has ever impressed me more, either from the viewpoint of fine pianism or perceptive musicianship. Besides controlled fingerwork and vivid characterization, achieved through judicious contrasts of tempo and... |