Brahms - Symphony No.1; Tragic Overture

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

Tragic Overture, in D minor, Op. 81

New York Philharmonic

Kurt Masur

Paisiello - La Serva Padrona

Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816):

 La Serva Padrona 

Release Date: 09/01/2009  

Anne Victoria Banks,
Gian Lucca Ricci 

  

Milan Chamber Orchestra

Paolo Vaglieri

Othmar Schoeck - Complete String Quartets

OTHMAR SCHOECK (1886-1957) 

Complete String Quartets 

Minguet Quartet

British String Quartets - works by Tippett, Wood, R.O.Morris, Brown and Purcell

British String Quartets

The Lindasys

Christopher Brown: "Fanfare to Welcome Sir Michael Tippett", op. 79

Henry Purcell: Three Fantasias, Nos. 6 in F, 10 in e, and 11 in G

R.O. Morris: "Canzoni Ricertati" (1931)

Charles Wood: String Quartet in a (published posthumously in 1929)

Tippett: String Quartet No. 5

Manuel de Falla - Noche en los Jardines de España; Piano Concerto

Manuel de FALLA (1876-1946)

Noche en los Jardines de España

Piano Concerto

Joaquin TURINA (1882-1949)

La Oración del Torero

Rapsodia Sinfónica

Joaquín Soriano (Piano)

English Chamber Orchestra

Jose Serebrier

Ruggero Leoncavallo - La Boheme (1897)

Ruggero LEONCAVALLO (1857-1919)

La Bohème 

Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The opera received a successful premiere at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice on 6 May 1897.

Cast

Bruno Praticò 

Martha Senn 

Pietro Spagnoli

Jonathan Summers 

Giampaolo Grazioli 

Romano Emili

Mario Malagnini

Lucia Mazzaria

Cinzia de Mola

Silviano Pagliuca 

La Fenice Theater Orchestra

Jan Latham-Koenig

Ferruccio Busoni - Arlecchino

Ferruccio BUSONI (1866-1924)

Arlecchino, oder Die Fenster

Gerd Albrecht Conductor

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Robert Wörle (ten) Arlecchino; Leandro

Marcia Bellamy (mez) Colombina

René Pape (bar) Ser Matteo del Sarto

Siegfried Lorenz (ten) Abbate Cospicuo

Peter Lika (bass) Dottor Bombasto

Brahms - Symphony No.4; Schicksalied Op.54

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98

Schicksalied Op.54

For Chorus and Orchestra

Text by Fiedrich Hölderlin

Westminster Symphonic Choir

New York Philharmonic

Kurt Masur

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.9 / Barshai

Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911)

Symphony No.9 in D major

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra

Rudolf Barshai

Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Alban BERG (1885-1935)

Wozzeck

Walter Berry 

Isabel Strauss 

Paris National Opera 

Pierre Boulez 

Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins; Mahagonny Songspiel

Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)

Texts: Berthold Brecht

Die Sieben Todsünden

(The Seven Deadly Sins)

Mahagonny Songspiel*

Soloists

Kölner Rundfunkorchester

Lothar Zagrosek

König-Ensemble*

Jan Latham-König*

Giuseppe Sammartini - Concerti per organo Op. 9

Giuseppe  SAMMARTINI (1695-1750)

Concertos for the organ, op. 9

La Risonanza

Fabio Bonizzoni, organ & direction

David Plantier, violin

Olivia Centurioni, violin

Olaf Reimers, cello

Giorgio Sanvito, double bass

Ferruccio Busoni - Die Brautwahl (The Bridal Choice)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Die Brautwahl (The Bridal Choice) 1905-1912

Cast

Siegfried Vogel (bass) Voswinkel

Carola Höhn (sop) Albertine

Graham Clark (ten) Thusman

Vinson Cole (ten) Lehsen

Pär Lindskog (ten) Baron Bensch

Roman Trekel (bar) Leonhard

Günter von Kannen (bar) Manasse

Daniel Barenboim Conductor

Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus

Berlin Staatskapelle

Die Brautwahl (The Bridal Choice) is a "comic-fantastic" opera in three acts and an epilogue by Ferruccio Busoni. The German libretto, by Busoni himself, is based on a short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Busoni began work on this, his first completed opera, in 1905.

Die Brautwahl was first performed at the Stadttheater in Hamburg on 12 April 1912. It was not a success with audiences but its failure did not discourage the composer's ambition to write for the operatic stage.

Ferruccio Busoni - String Quartets Nos.1 and 2

Ferruccio BUSONI (1866-1924)

String Quartets

String Quartet No. 1

String Quartet No. 2

Pellegrini Quartett

Ferruccio Busoni - Orchestral Works

Ferruccio BUSONI (1866-1924)

Orchestral Woks: 

Nocturne Symphonique; 

Verzweiflung und Ergebung; 

Sarabande & Cortège; 

Divertimento für Flöte und Orchester

Concertino für Klarinette und Kleines Orchester

Tanz-Walzer für Orchester

Gerd Albrecht (Conductor), 

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra 

Nino Rota - Symphony No. 3, Concerto Festivo per Orchestra, Le Molière Imaginare

Nino ROTA (1911-1979)

Symphony No. 3, Concerto Festivo per Orchestra, Le Molière Imaginare

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra 

Ole Kristian Ruud 

 Hannu Koivula

Angelo Gilardino - 20 Studi Facili for Guitar

Angelo GILARDINO (b.1941)

20 Studi Facili for Guitar

Cristiano Porqueddu (Guitar)

Arnold Schoenberg - Gurre-Lieder /Herbert Kegel

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Gurre - Lieder 

Rosemarie Lang (Alto), 

Manfred Jung (Tenor), 

Wolfgang Appel (Tenor), 

Ulrik Cold (Bass), 

Gert Westphal (Spoken Vocals), 

Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Soprano) 

Conductor:  Herbert Kegel 

Leipzig Radio Chorus, 

 Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra,  

Prague Radio Men Chorus 

Berlin Radio Chorus 

Grieg - The Three Violin Sonatas

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)

The Three Violin Sonatas

Sonata in G minor No.2, Op.13

Sonata in C minor No.3, Op.45

Sonata in F major No.1, Op.8

Federico Guglielmo (Violin)

Jolanda Violante (Piano)

Mikko Heiniö - The Knight and the Dragon (Opera in Two Acts)

Mikko HEINIÖ (born 1948) 

The Knight and the Dragon (1999/2000) 

Curt Appelgren (bass-baritone), Prince Erik; Helena Juntunen (soprano), Marina; Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano), Göran Sköld; Rúni Brattaberg (bass), Sören Drake; Aki Alamikkotervo (tenor), Jester; Sari Nordqvist (contralto), Black Lady; Mia Huhta (soprano), White Lady;

Turku Opera Chorus; 

Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

Ulf Söderblom 

Recorded: Turku Concert Hall, November 2000 

Elgar - Great is the Lord

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Great is the Lord & other works

Westminster Abbey Choir,
Robert Quinney (organ), James O'Donnell (conductor)

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1; Concert Fantasy / Pletnev

Piotr TCHAIKOVSKY 

Piano Concerto Nos. 1;Concert Fantasy for piano & orchestra; 

Philharmonia Orchestra

Vladimir Fedoseyev 

Mikhail Pletnev (piano)