Since you are interested in Symphonies Nos 4 "Tragic" & 5, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust Christian Gerhaher, Christiane Iven, Alaistair Mills, Werner Gura / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ RCO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "…Harnoncourt…music, but he's in unusually fluent form here, with airy orchestral and choral textures… Christian Gerhaher is an intellectual, strong-toned Faust, relishing Goethe's robust language…" BBC Music Magazine, November 2009 **** |
TAKEMITSU
How slow the wind: Orchestra Music Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo conducted by Tadaaki Otaka [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "It is rare to find a disc as creatively programmed as this BIS release. Enhanced by lovely performances, played with great devotion to the memory of the recently-deceased Japanese master, the repertoire was chosen by conductor Tadaaki Otaka and... |
TURNAGE
Scherzoid / Evening Songs / When I Woke / Yet Another Set To Christian Lindberg (trombone) / London Philarmonic Orchestra / Jonathan Nott / Vladimir Jurowski / Marin Alsop [ LPO Live SACD / SACD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] Founder of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Beecham began building the Orchestra's long association with the music of Sibelius from the day it was born. Three quarters of a century later, the composer's compatriot and champion Paavo... |
BERIO / TURNAGE / XENAKIS
Dedicated to Christian Lindberg Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Peter Rundel [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] Starting with the disc The Virtuoso Trombone, recorded in 1983, Christian Lindberg has been the main protagonist of some 35 discs on the BIS label. |
NATHANIEL SHILKRET / FREDRIK Haâ€"GBERG / CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
Trombone Concertos Christian Lindberg (trombone/conductor) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Oct/2005 ] Nathaniel Shilkret's trombone concerto is something of a Holy Grail for trombone players. It has long been known that film and Broadway composer Nathaniel Shilkret composed a concerto for Tommy Dorsey at Leopold Stokowski's request, and that it was... |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem Christine Brewer. Ruxandra Donose. John Tessier. Eric Owens. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus. Donald Runnicles [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 15/Oct/2005 ] As the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth approaches, Telarc releases a recording of the Robert D. Levin edition of Mozart's Requiem,K.626, by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus. |
SAMUEL BARBER
Vanessa (complete opera) Christine Brewer, Susan Graham, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, William Burden, Neal Davies / BBC Singers / BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - Leonard Slatkin is one of the greatest champions of the works of Samuel Barber. He conducted an all-star concert performance of Vanessa at the Barbican last year - one of the few... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Sea Symphony (Symphony No 1) Christine Goerke (soprano) Brett Polegato (baritone) / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra / Robert Spano [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 1/Dec/2002 ] On Hybrid Surround Super Audio CD (SACD) format - PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 Christine Schafer (sop) Bernarda Fink (mezzo) Kurt Streit (tenor) Gerald Finley (baritone) / Vienna Concentus Musicus / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] "Subtle realism imbues Harnoncourt's deeply considered second recording" Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2004 |