Since you are interested in Overtures and Ballet Music Volume 1, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ANTONIO SALIERI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Salieri Album Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Adam Fischer [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "A superb collection of arias from a composer known, if at all, as the villain of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine November 2003 |
SALIERI / RIGHINI / MOZART
Diana Damrau: Arie di bravura Diana Damrau (soprano) / Le Cercle De L'Harmonie / Jeremie Rhorer [ Warner Classics / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] "Diana Damrau's vivid stage presence proves she can make a dramatic impact on disc, too" Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - March 2008 |
PLATTI / SALIERI / BESOZZI / ROSETTI
Italian Oboe Concertos Vol 2 Anthony Camden (oboe) Peter Lloyd (flute) / City of London Sinfonia / Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] More beautiful music for the oboe |
MASSENET / AUBER / BALFE / DONIZETTI / MAILLART / BIZET / etc
Richard Bonynge - Undiscovered Recordings (Incls Massenet's Cigale Ballet) Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo) Renata Tebaldi (soprano) / English Chamber. National Philharmonic / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Richard Bonynge. [ ABC Classics / 4 CD - released 6/Nov/2004 ] If every conductor's dream is to record his favourite music, then surely Richard Bonynge's dream came true. His forty years of recordings have left a rich legacy, full of rare and interesting repertoire, his artistic credi stamped on every one of them. |
SALIERI
Symphonies, Overtures and Variations London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2001 ] '…this release is commended by committed, clean, and lively playing, not to mention crisp articulation and nicely sprung rhythms.' Fanfare |
ANTONIO SALIERI
Overtures and Ballet Music Volume 2 Mannheim Mozart Orchestra / Thomas Fey (conductor) [ Hanssler Classic / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "Salieri was no pushover. Neither is Fey who, as usual, couples individuality in interpretation to dynamic, sizzling conducting and whiplash precision of ensemble...[His] grasp of extremes is a fearless re-creation of Salieri's creative invention.... |
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No.5 in B flat major, Op.100 (with works by Rossini & Vivaldi) (Recorded 1955/57/74) Philharmonia Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra / Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti / Thomas Schippers [ Medici Masters / CD - released 26/Oct/2007 ] "Overall this is a fascinating memento of a talent cut short too soon. Impossible to say how Schippers' career would have developed, but there is sufficient evidence of real musicality and real individuality on this disc to make us regret what might... |