Since you are interested in Organ Works (Incls 'Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565'), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
HANDEL
Organ Concertos Vol 1 (Nos 1-4) Daniel Chorzempa (organ) Concerto Amsterdam / Jaap Schroder [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] All Pentatone SACDs are 5.1 stereo sound. Playable on all Compact Disc players |
HANDEL
Organ Concertos Vol 2 (Nos 5, 6, 8, 11, 13) Daniel Chorzempa (organ) Concerto Amsterdam / Jaap Schroder [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] All Penatone SACDs are 5.1 stereo sound. Playable on all Compact Disc players |
DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.9 in E minor Op.95 New World / Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam. Conducted by Yakov Kreizberg [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 6/Jul/2005 ] "Apart from the fact that this are first SA-CD registrations of these works, they can compete with the best recordings in the catalogue." ---Paul Janssen, Luister (December 2003) |
FAURE / DEBUSSY / RAVEL
Tour de France Musicale (Music of Faura, Debussy & Ravel) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam. Conducted by Yakov Kreizberg [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 6/Jul/2005 ] During the last decade Russian-born conductor Yakov Kreizberg has established a superb international reputation in the opera house and on the concert podium. Born in St Petersburg, Yakov Kreizberg studied conducting with Ilya Musin before emigrating... |
DVORAK
Symphony No. 8 / The Wild Dove / The Noon Witch Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam / Yakov Kreizberg (cond) [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Without the support and vote of confidence of Johannes Brahms, life would have turned out very differently for Antonín Dvorák. Originally, the young boy was in fact destined to succeed his father in the butcher's shop, but finally music won out. |
BRAHMS
Hans Vonk 1942-2004: The Final Sessions Incls Rhapsody for Alto, Male Chorus and Orchestra Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hans Vonk [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 22/Oct/2005 ] "The PentaTone Classics label pride themselves on their first class sound quality... An excellent achievement." (MusicWeb April 2006) |
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 in D, Op.73 / Tragic Overture Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra / Hans Vonk (conductor) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] "At last a Brahms symphony in SA-CD. This is a good steady reading and recording, well done by the PentaTone team. Can only jope the other three symphonies are to come in the future." (SA-CD.Net) |
JOSEPH SCHMITT
Early Symphonies and Chamber Music The New Dutch Academy Chamber Soloists and Chamber Orchestra / Simon Murphy [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] A fascinating new 18th century musical personality has emerged: Joseph Schmitt. |
IVANOV / NIKOLSKY / SOKOLOV / BORTNIANSKY / LIPAIEV / TCHESNOKOV
Russian Orthodox Church Music (rec 1975) Nicolai Gedda (tenor) / Choir Of The Orthodox Cathedral, Paris / Eugen Evetz [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] “The mixed choir of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Paris under Eugen Evetz achieve a radiantly beautiful and transparent sonic quality in such selections as "Invincible Lord of Hosts" (Ancient Hymn), "The Angel declared to Mary" (Kompaneysky),... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker (complete ballet) Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow / Alexander Vedernikov [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "I suspect this is the Nutcracker Ballet by which all others will be judged - past and future...Performed with such professionalism and sense of place which immediately shows, "this is it"." (SA-CD.Net) |
MAURO GIULIANI / JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Giuliani/Rodrigo: Guitar Concertos Pepe Romero (Guitar) Angel Romero (Guitar) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte-Carlo / with Catherine Miche [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "The sound quality is as good as I have come to expect from the Pentatone RQR releases, and is a slight improvement over the original Philips LP in terms of its transparency and spatiality...Highly recommended." --SA-CD.net |
SAINT-SAENS
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt / Eliahu Inbal [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] His early symphonic works were dismissed by French audiences as too scholarly. Nevertheless, both his Symphony in A (1850) and his Symphony in F, with the epithet Urbs Romana (1856) - which did not receive an opus number - are full of close motivic... |
HAYDN / BEETHOVEN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 88 & 99 / Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] "With its warmth, exuberance and pungency of detail, this is modern-instrument Haydn as its finest." Richard Wigmore, Daily Telegraph |
MAHLER
Symphony No.5 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 20/Jun/2007 ] In all its forms and facets, Gustav Mahler’s musical oeuvre is primarily symphonic. As a modern composer, he developed a gigantic orchestra to support the construction of his symphonic world, included trite stylistic devices and broke with hitherto... |