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RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in 1988) Metropolitan Opera / Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon / DVD - released 29/Aug/2002 ] "This performance represents an above-average night at the Metropolitan in the late 1980s: three of its most popular stars, a generally distinguished cast, the house's musical director conducting its great orchestra in one of the works he does best." |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 / Carnaval, Op. 9 (with Richard Strauss-Burleske in D minor, TrV 145) (Rec 1939-46) Claudio Arrau (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Desire Defauw (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 25/Nov/2007 ] This third Naxos volume of Claudio Arrau's recordings from the 1930s and 1940s includes two performances set down in an incredibly short period of time. Richard Strauss's Burleske was recorded at a morning session on 13th April 1946 at Orchestra Hall... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Salome (Complete opera recorded 1954) Plus additional earlier recordings Herbert Alsen / Walter Berry / Franz Bierbach / Christel Goltz / Julius Patzak. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Clemens Krauss, conductor [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] Salome was possibly the most important event in German opera since those of Wagner. Its creation marked a new development in operatic art with its concentrated power, its eerie and sinister harmonies and its extraordinarily exotic and colourful... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SIBELIUS / BRAHMS / WOLF / RACHMANINOV / GRIEG / TOSTI
Jussi Bjorling: Collection Vol. 5: Lieder and Songs (1939-1952) Jussi Bjorling, tenor, with Harry Ebert, piano / Frederick Schauwecker, piano [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] Ulrich Leyendecker was born in Wuppertal in 1946. From 1962 to 1965 he studied composition with Ingo Schmitt, then until 1970 with Rudolf Petzold at the Cologne Musikhochschule, where he also was a piano pupil of Günter Ludwig. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera) Maria Reining / Hilde Gueden / Sena Jurinac / Ludwig Weber / Alfred Poell / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Erich Kleiber [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
4 letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs) / Arabella (highlights) (Rec 1953/54) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Ackermann (Conductor) Lovro von Matacic (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] (Schwarzkopf) had all the requisite vocal qualities for a first-rate singer of the music of Richard Strauss: radiance, tenderness, vocal colour, always alive to the nuances of the text, and very observant of what the composer demanded. |
WILLIAMS / GOLDSMITH / STRAUSS
Star Wars and other Sci-Fi Classics Richard Hayman Orchestra / Richard Hayman (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] Since time immemorial mankind has sought the unattainable, and from the earliest days of cinema the onscreen depiction of space exploration and prophecy has provided an inexhaustible source of fascination and challenge to the moving picture industry. |