Since you are interested in Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Two Portraits, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
THE STRAUSS FAMILY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: New Year's Concert 1987 Kathleen Battle (soprano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 15/Feb/2007 ] "A splendid and indispensable issue for all admirers of Karajan and Johann Strauss.." Gramopohone |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 / 5 Melodien Martha Argerich (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "these performances are mercurial and provocative. Kremer and Argerich find expectedly dark resonances in the lyrical Second Sonata whilst projecting a radiant beauty in the Five Melodies." BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 ***** |
J.S. BACH
4 Orchestral Suites (Overtures) BWV 1066-1069 The English Concert / Trevor Pinnock [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "I don't think there is another performance of these works […] which does fuller justice to the music than this one." - Gramophone |
J.S. BACH
Easter Oratorio / Magnificat BWV 243 Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ Archiv Grand Prix / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] Using solo voices in the choruses, Paul McCreesh's approach to the Easter Oratorio and Magnificat is characteristically lithe and energetic. The Gabrieli Players are on top form, contributing pomp and brilliance, and "the five vocal soloists are all... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera) Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson / Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / 2 CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "The sound is consistently spacious and free to bring out the strongly dramatic and characterful qualities of Sinopoli's reading" - Gramophone |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 5 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 15/Feb/2007 ] "…Best of all is Bernstein himself, here at his exciting best, giving daemonic edge to the music where it is appropriate and building the symphony inexorably to its final triumph." Gramophone Top ten Mahler Symphony Recordings |
LISZT / SCARLATTI / SCHUMANN / SCRIABIN / SCHUBERT
The Studio Recordings (recorded New York 1985) Vladimir Horowitz (piano). [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 15/Feb/2007 ] “One of the high points of his recording activity” – Stereo Review |