Since you are interested in Barber: Piano Concerto / Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance / etc, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: The School for Scandal Overture / Symphonies 1 & 2 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2001 ] "the two Symphonies are played by the Scottish orchestra with passionate commitment and deep lyrical feeling." Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Vanessa (complete opera) Ellen Chickering (soprano) / Andrea Matthews (soprano) / Marion Dry (contralto) / Ray Bauwens, tenor / Ukranian National Capella Dumka / Gil Rose [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "...the all-American cast of a recent Boston revival is vocally more than adequate and dramatically convincing, while the conductor of that revival draws full-blooded playing from the excellent Ukranian orchestra...this set is a valuable account of... |
BERNSTEIN / BARBER / WILLIAMS / GOLDSMITH / ARNOLD
Moviebrass: Westside Story Suite / Adagio / Space Brass / etc. Gomalan Brass Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] From West Side Story to The Simpsons, Barber's Adagio (featured in the soundtracks of Platoon and The Elephant Man) and music by John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, this recording captures all the excitement of some of the most popular movie and... |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Violin Concerto / Serenade for Strings / Souvenirs (Ballet Suite) James Buswell (violin) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Apr/2002 ] "This is a performance with a genuine heart, superbly played, with a marked care for detail, instrumental colour and melodic inflection, and with a deeply communicative warmth and affection." Daily Telegraph |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24 / Toccata Festiva, Op 24 Karina Gauvin (soprano) Thomas Trotter (organ) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2004 ] "A Knoxville performance to treasure as this essential Barber series reaches a new high point" Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month (June 2004) |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Complete Orchestral Works [6 CD set] Karina Gauvin (soparno), Thomas Trotter (organ), Stéphane Rancourt (oboe), John Gracie (trumpet) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The RSNO positively glows in this extremely welcome and romantically rewarding and alluringly-priced set. It hardly matters that this is in fact the only such collection." (MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia [The barber of Seville] (complete opera) Roberto Servile, Sonia Ganassi, Ramon Vargas / Hungarian Radio Chorus / Failoni Chamber orchestra / Will Humburg [ Naxos Opera Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Radio 3: Building a Library Budget Choice - December 2001 |
SAMUEL BARBER
Capricorn Concerto / A Hand of Bridge / Canzonetta / Intermezzo Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 5/Jan/2005 ] "This fine series ends with a rival to the Adagio, and the opera is a charmer" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine January 2005 |
SAMUEL BARBER
Cello Concerto / Medea (Orchestral Works Vol 2) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2001 ] Volume Two of Barber's orchestral music on Naxos |
PATRICK HAWES
Lazarus Requiem Thomas Walker (tenor), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) & Rachael Lloyd (mezzo-soprano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Patrick Hawkes [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] Patrick Hawes returns to disc on Signum with the premiere recording of his 'Lazarus Requiem', for Choir, Orchestra and Soloists. Blending the liturgical text of the Requiem Mass with the story of Lazarus from the New Testament, the composer blends a... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classical Meditation (Incls 'Agnus Dei' by Barber & 'The Lark Ascending' by Vaughan Williams) Various performers incls St. John's College Choir, Ormond College Choir, Elora Festival Singers, English Northern Philharmonia, Maggini Quartet [ NAXOS / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] The perfect antidote to these troubled times, this MEDITATION set from Naxos will help you calm down and unwind after a stressful day. |
BEST OF OPERA
Best Of Opera Vol. 1 (arias & excerpts from La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, etc) Various orchs/artists incl Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra / Slovak Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "There are ways in which this brand-new super-budget recording of Il barbiere di Siviglia puts to shame just about every other version of the opera there has yet been" - Gramophone review of the Barber of Seville |
ROSSINI
The best of Rossini (Incls the Thieving Magpie Overture & excerpts from The Barber of Seville) Zagreb Festival Orchestra / Rossini Ensemble / Failoni Chamber Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2007 ] English audiences will never forgive Rossini for starting his Thieving Magpie overture with that side-drum roll. We leap to our feet thinking its the start of the National Anthem! And it is this effervescent overture which opens this irresistible... |
BARBER
Barber conducts Barber - Symphony No. 2, Op. 19 / Cello Concerto, Op. 22 / Medea Orchestral Suite, Op. 23 Zara Nelsova (cello) / New Symphony Orchestra of London / Samuel Barber [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 2/Feb/2011 ] |