Elgar & Carter - Cello Concertos

Edward ELGAR (1857-1934) 

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (1919)

Elliott CARTER (b.1908) 

Cello Concerto (2001) 

Max BRUCH (1838-1920) 

Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 (1880) 

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)

Staatskapelle Berlin

Daniel Barenboim

rec. live, 2-3, 5 April (Elgar), 15, 18 September 2012 (Carter, Bruch), Philharmonie, Berlin

Elgar - Symphony No.1 (Barenboim)

Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)

Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55

Berlin Staatskapelle

Daniel Barenboim

Recorded: 2015-09-21

Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin

Franz Liszt - The Concertos

Franz LISZT (1811-1880)

The Concertos

Piano Concerto No. 2 In A Major, S. 125

Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major, S. 124

Encores

Consolation No. 3 In D Flat Major, S. 172/3

Valse Oubliée No. 1 In F Sharp Major, S. 215

Daniel Barenboim

Staatskapelle Berlin

Pierre Boulez

Live Recording made at the Ruhr Piano Festival at the Essen Philharmonie 2011.

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.

Richard Strauss - Elektra / Barenboim

Richard Strauss 

Elektra, Op. 58

Gerd Wolf (Bass), 

Alessandra Marc (Soprano), 

Carola Nossek (Soprano), 

Johan Botha (Tenor), 

Magdalena Falewicz (Soprano), 

Endrik Wottrich (Tenor), 

Fritz Hübner (Bass), 

Magdaléna Hajóssyová (Soprano), 

Mette Ejsing (Alto), 

Borjana Mateewa (Mezzo Soprano), 

Katharina Kammerloher (Alto), 

Carola Höhn (Soprano),

Ulla Gustafsson (Soprano), 

Falk Struckmann (Baritone), 

Deborah Polaski (Soprano), 

Waltraud Meier (Mezzo Soprano) 

Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle Chorus 

Daniel Barenboim

Hans Pfitzner - Palestrina (A musical legend in three acts)

HANS PFITZNER (1869-1949) 

Palestrina - A musical legend in three acts (1917)       

Cast as below 

Chorus of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin

Staatskapelle Berlin

Otmar Suitner. 

Recorded live: Schauspielhaus, Berlin in June 1986 (Acts 1 and 3) and January 1988 (Act 2) 3

Cast: 

Peter Schreier (ten): Palestrina

Siegfried Lorenz (bar): Borromeo

Ekkehard Wlaschiha (bass): Master of Ceremonies

Fritz Hubner Hübner (bass): Christoph Madruscht

Hans-Joachim Ketelsen (bar): Morone

Peter-Jürgen Schmidt (ten): Novagerio

Carola Nossek (sop): Ighino

Rosemarie Lang (con): Silla

Uta Priew (con): Lukrezia

Hermann Christian Polster (bass): Pope Pius IV

Reiner Süss (bar): Cardinal of Lorraine

and others

Paul Dessau - Orchestral Works Vol.1

Paul DESSAU (1894-1979)

Orchestral Works

In Memoriam Bertolt Brecht (1957)*

Bach Variationen (1965)*

Orchestermusic No.2 (1967)**

Orchestermusic No.4 (1975)***

* Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Paul Dessau

**Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig

Herbert Kegel

***Staatskapelle Berlin

Gunther Herbig