Since you are interested in Essential Mozart (Incls 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik', Piano Concertos 20, 21 & 23, Symphonies 38, 40 & 41, Clarinet Concerto & Horn Quintet), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Concert Arias Francine van der Heyden, Miranda van Kralingen, Annemarie Kremer, Marcel Reijans, Ezio Maria Tisi, and others / various orchestras [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Aug/2007 ] This set contains all concert arias on 6 CD's recorded by several singers including the famous Dutch soprano Miranda van Kralingen. |
BRAHMS
Lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano) Wolfgang Sawallisch(piano), Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Johannes Brahms wrote some 200 songs, many of them for a single voice and piano accompaniment. The piano parts are played several outstanding accompanists: Gerald Moore, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter. |
WEBER / MOZART / CRUSELL / SPOHR / KROMMER / KOZELUCH
The Romantic Clarinet (Concertos) Emma Johnson, Harmen de Boer (clarinets) / Various orchestras and conductors [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2005 ] Emma Johnson began to study the clarinet at the age of nine. In 1984 she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition televised throughout Europe and in 1991 was a winner of the Young Concert Artist Auditions in New York. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (Complete opera recorded in 1972) Gwyneth Jones / Dietrich Fischer Dieskau / Hamburg State Opera / Karl Bohm [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] This supposedly is the first commercial "live" recording of Salome but actually it is taken from rehearsals as well as the live performance November 4, 1970. |
LOCATELLI
Flute Sonatas (complete) (recorded 1995) Jed Wentz (flute) / Musica ad Rhenum [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2008 ] Pietro Locatelli is mainly known for his extremely difficult pieces for the violin. During his life time this Italian Baroque composer also had quite a reputation as a virtuoso performer, mainly of his own compositions. |
DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor (Complete opera) [Recorded 1953] Maria Callas / Giuseppe Di Stefano / Tito Gobbi / Raffaele Arie / Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Tullio Serafin [ EMI Classics / Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] 'Here is certainly some of the finest singing of our time, and there is one moment in the repeat of Spargi d'amaro when the voice is recorded with all the actuality of 3-dimensional sound. It is startling.' Gramophone 1954 |