Since you are interested in Auf Flugeln des Gesangs, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
MENDELSSOHN
The Mendelssohn Experience (Includes 'Hear My Prayer', Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 & A Midsummer Night's Dream) Barbara Bonney, Beaux Arts Trio, Maxim Vengerov, Cyprien Katsaris, Eder Quartet, English Chamber Orchestra, etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Far from the troubled, coarse libertine that has become an archetype of the Romantic composer, Felix Mendelssohn was something of an anomaly among his contemporaries. |
SCHUBERT
Sonata D 959 A major / Dances Christian Zacharias (Piano) [ MDG SACD / SACD - released 18/Mar/2007 ] Christian Zacharias "Artist of the Year 2007". Congratulations! |
MENDELSSOHN
Complete Concertos [4 hours on 1 SACD] Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ronald Brautigam, Roland Pöntinen & Love Derwinger (piano) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] Ultra Extended Playing Time. These products can only be played on a machine with SACD capability. They cannot be played on a conventional CD player. These concertos span Mendelssohn's complete oeuvre, from 1822 to 1844. |
CONLON NANCARROW
Complete Studies for Player Piano-Volume 1 (Studies 1-12) Jurgen Hocker (Bosendorfer Grand Piano with Ampico Player Piano Mechanism) [ MDG / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] At last! all new recordings of perhaps the strangest, funniest, scariest, most precisely imagined and conceived music of the 20th Century - Conlon Nancarrow's 50 or so "Studies" for player piano. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Works (Incls 'the Seasons' complete) Lev Vinocour (piano) [ MDG SACD / SACD - released 29/Aug/2006 ] On his MDG debut the Russian pianist Lev Vinocour presents his fellow Russian Tchaikovsky in a multifacetedness that will come as a surprise even to those who know this composer well. First performances of original works, arrangements in the form of... |
SCHUMANN
Chamber Music Vol. 2 - Works for Violoncello and Piano Martin Ostertag (cello) / Kalle Randalu (piano) [ MDG Records / CD - released 18/May/2011 ] The violoncello played a much larger role in Robert Schumann's life than is generally known. As a pianist, he loved the big stringed instrument because it helped him to relax his right hand, which for a time was greatly strained by too much piano... |
W.A. MOZART
Complete Piano Music Vol. 3 Siegbert Rampe (harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano) [ MDG / CD - released 19/Mar/2006 ] Siegbert Rampe continues his challenging project involving the recording of Mozart's complete keyboard works. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Piano Works Vol. 5 Stefan Irmer (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] Just one more fling at the end of a full life - such was the goal of the sensuous musical man Gioacchino Rossini. The fact that even preludes of historical gusto are found among "the sins of his old age" owes to his remarkable flexibility, and on... |
SCHOENBERG & OTHERS
Arnold Schanberg: The Viennese School / Teachers & Followers Steffen Schleiermacher (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] Arnold Schönberg's teaching had clear effects on all those who came to hear his words of wisdom in Vienna. Although not all of his pupils later held a professorship "in atonal harmony and composition" (as Józef Koffler did), the spirit of their great... |
Steffen Schleiermacher, piano
Cage, John - Complete Piano Music Vol. 1: The prepared piano 1940-1952 [ MDG / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] "he knows the nuts and bolts and all the fine nuances." |
JOHN CAGE
Complete Piano Music Vol. 2 Steffen Schleiermacher (piano) [ MDG / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/May/2003 ] "he knows the nuts and bolts and all the fine nuances." |