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MOSZKOWSKI: From Foreign Lands – Rediscovered Orchestral Works – SF Ballet Orch./ Martin West – Reference Recordings
A delightful set of rediscovered orchestral works of Moszkowski. MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI: From Foreign Lands – Rediscovered Orchestral Works [TrackList follows] – San Francisco Ballet Orch./ Martin West – Reference Recordings HDCD RR-138, 72:45 [Distr. by Naxos] ****: Although Moszkowski composed an opera, ballet, three orchestral suites, a symphony, songs, concertos, and chamber music, if this […]
MENDELSSOHN: Ruy Blas Overture; The Fair Melusine; Hebrides Overture; Die Erst Walpurgisnacht – soloists/ Zürcher Sing-Akademie / Musikkollegium Winterthur / Douglas Boyd – MDG
MENDELSSOHN: Ruy Blas Overture, Op. 95; The Fair Melusine, Op. 32; Hebrides Overture, Op. 26; Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Op. 60 – Birgit Remmer, alto / Jörg Dümüller, tenor / Reinhard Mayr, bass / Zürcher Sing-Akademie / Musikkollegium Winterthur / Douglas Boyd – Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm, multichannel SACD MDG90119496 (2+2+2), 64:26 [Distr. by eOne] ****: An interesting […]
Wilhelm Kempff plays LISZT = Annees de peleringage: Italie; Venezia e Napoli: Goldoleriera; Deaux Legendes – Wilhelm Kempff, piano – PentaTone
PentaTone restores Wilhelm Kempff’s traversal of the Second Year of Liszt’s “Pilgrimage” in powerful and poetically-hued definition.
Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, Vol. 1 = RAVEL: Ma Mere l’Oye; DUKAS: L’Apprenti sorcier; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumblebee; BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia; Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances and Chorus of the Peasants – Orch. des Concerts Pasdeloup/ Desire-Emile Ingelbrecht – Yves St.-Laurent
The acknowledged master of the Debussy idiom finds equal sympathy for Ravel, Dukas, and some basic Russian repertory, here in potent restorations.
SCHUBERT: Adrast (fragment); Szene aus Faust; Five Lieder; Ellens Zweiter Gesang; Erlkonig – Barbara Berens, sop./ Martin Nagy, tenor/ Steffen Lachenmann, bar./ Kammerchor Potsdam/ Brandenburger Sym./ Gernot Schulz – Ars Production
This release indicates “discoveries” and “arrangements”—not exactly true, but definitely some esoterica for devotees.
GOUNOD: Faust (complete opera), Blu-ray (2014)
The concept is good, but the visuals don’t make it easy to watch.
WOLF: Prometheus (Orchestral Lieder) = Spanisches Liederbuch; Morike-Lieder; Goethe-Lieder – Juliane Banse, sop./ Dietrich Henschel, bar./ Berlin German Sym. Orch./ Kent Nagano – Harmonia mundi
From 2005, this reissue is a stunner in every way.
WOLF: Spanisches Liederbuch; Italienisches Liederbuch = Birgid Steinberger, sop./ Wolfgang Holzmair, bar./ Michaela Selinger, mezzo-sop./ Russell Ryan, piano/ Georg Beckmann, piano – Bridge (3 CDs)
This collection is an important addition to the Wolf canon, and if you don’t know these works you should make an effort to acquire it.
“Wanderer’s Nachtlied” = SCHUBERT Edition Vol. 8 – Matthias Goerne, bar./ Helmut Deutsch & Eric Schneider, p. – Harmonia mundi
Could well be one of the finest such collections ever.
FARTEIN VALEN: String Quartets, No. 1, Op. 10; No. 2; Three Poems by Goethe – Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, sop./ Hansakvartetten – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
Not for everyone, but of intense interest for those who need more of the Second Viennese School tradition.
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7 – Park Avenue Ch. Sym./ David Bernard – Park Ave. Ch. Sym.
Beethoven’s First and Seventh Symphonies in pleasing performances by New York’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony.
Leonard Bernstein works = Kaddish Symphony, Chichester Psalms, Missa Brevis
London performers conducted by Leonard Slatkin
Elly Ameling singes Schubert & Schumann song cycles
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben; Schubert: Lieder for Gretchen, Ellen U Suleika