JOHN WILLIAMS
Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Selected Film Themes Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Deutsche Grammophon is proud to present the world-premiere recording of John Williams's Violin Concerto no.2. The work was written for and recorded by the venerated composer's friend and frequent collaborator Anne-Sophie Mutter. |
CHOPIN / GRIEG / TCHAIKOVSKY / SCHUMANN / SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Rubinstein II Artur Rubinstein (piano) / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Symphony of the Air [ Philips / RCA / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2006 ] Few soloists have owned composers as definitively as Artur Rubinstein could claim |
Boston
Don't Look Back [ Sony / CD - released 1/Jan/1978 ] "Don't Look Back" is the second studio album by Boston, released in 1978. The title track is one of the band's biggest hits, reaching #4 in 1978 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold over 4 million copies in the first month of its release, and has... |
ANONYMOUS
A Medieval Christmas - Hodie Christus Natus Est Boston Camerata, Anne Azema [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Sep/2021 ] Drawing on a wide variety of sources, mingling liturgical Latin with French, English, Italian and Iberian vernaculars, these magnificent songs, hymns and processionals show the multitude of ways in which the birth of Christ was celebrated in medieval... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 / Passacaglia from 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] "Powerful and beautifully crafted, this recording - the first from the relationship between DG and the Boston Symphony under Nelsons - is a hugely impressive sign of just what this ensemble/maestro partnership may go on to achieve." Gramophone WINNER |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / JACQUES IBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Hi-Fi Spectacular Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch [ RCA Victor Living Stereo / CD - released 6/Dec/1993 ] "..the real value of this disc lies in the Debussy. This has to be one of the most sensitive of all La mers, fluent and fluid with a real francophile feel to the dancing rhythms - this is a real Frenchman's response to the sea" MusicWeb |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 12 & 13 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Andris Nelsons, with Matthias Goerne (bass-baritone) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] "The cycle has been a monumental achievement, and this final instalment is as shattering and insightful as earlier ones. It is hard to single out highlights," Sunday Times |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 5 'Emperor' Christoph Eschenbach (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa / London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] The seeds were planted in the early 1970s when Deutsche Grammophon realised what amazing results could be achieved by recording the multi-channel tapes, with either four or eight channels. Yet, due to a few restrictions, they never fully blossomed.... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Very Best of Gershwin Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Nina Simone, Boston Pops orchestra, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, etc [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/1998 ] This European imported 2CD set is a fabulous collection of 28 Gershwin greats including Oscar Peterson "Strike Up the Band"; Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong "Summertime"; Sarah Vaughan "The Man I Love"; Fred Astaire "Funny Face", Audrey Hepburn... |
ANDRE PREVIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Previn: Violin Concerto (with Bernstein-Serenade) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Nov/2003 ] 2005 Grammy Award Winner: Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rafael Kubelík: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik [ Deutsche Grammophon / 66 CD Box Set - released 22/Jun/2019 ] "This is a "desert island" set if ever there were one. Kubelik's Slavonic Dances always have rated among the best, and still dazzle by virtue of their fleetness and almost savage intensity." (ClassicsToday) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra / Quintet for Clarinet & String Quartet Benny Goodman (clarinet) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch / Budapest String Quartet [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1986 ] Original recordings from 1956 (concerto) and 1938 |
Boston
Don't Look Back [ Sony Music / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] Digitally re-mastered American imported CD. |
Boston
Greatest Hits [ Epic / CD - released 17/May/2004 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fiedler Encores [Includes 'Finlandia', 'Send in the Clowns' & Theme from 'Jaws'] Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2018 ] 'Collections of encores do not usually show such originality in compilation as this well-balanced programme … Fiedler invests Finlandia with an imposing sonority.' Gramophone, June 1978 |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Offenbach In America (with Ibert: Divertissement) Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, with Samuel Mayes (cello) [ RCA Living Stereo / CD - released 20/Jan/1993 ] The inimitable charm of Arthur Fiedler meets the panache of Offenbach and Ibert in this delightful collection of French orchestral favourites. A joyous tribute to some of the most tuneful music of all time. |
MOZART / BRAHMS / PISTON / SCHUBERT / MILHAUD / HINDEMITH / etc
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players - The complete RCA album collection 1964-68 Boston Symphony Chamber Players [ Sony / RCA Red Seal / 10 CD Box Set - released 26/Aug/2023 ] Sony Classical are pleased to present a stunning new 10 CD boxset - the complete RCA Victor Recordings of The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, presented for the first time on CD. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky Boston Symphony, London Symphony, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classical / 6 CD Box Set - released 21/May/2021 ] "Bernstein was an incomparably great Stravinsky interpreter, certainly a better conductor than the composer himself, and this set of his complete recordings for Sony has more than it's share of reference versions." ClassicsToday |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 'The Year 1905' Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] "Nelsons keeps a firm grip on the unfolding of the drama [in the 11th]. And here, as in the Fourth, his Boston Symphony Orchestra responds with supreme virtuosity from every section." BBC Music Orchestral Choice Oct 2018 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 / etc Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2019 ] Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and new Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, he is... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos 5, 8 & 9, etc Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "One of the joys of Nelsons' Fifth and Eighth is the depth of personality he finds in those works. As ever the BSO playing is immaculate and the recording is warm, weighty and refined." (MusicWeb) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1, 14, 15 & Chamber Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, with Kristine Opolais (soprano), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "No question that this latest release represents the Nelsons cycle at its best." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 202 |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Viola Concerto Daniel Benyamini (viola) / Boston Symphony / Orchestre de Paris [ SBS Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] 'the committed performance here by soloist and conductor shows the concerto in the best possible light; and the slow movement is really touching' Gramophone [Viola Concerto] |
GEORGE ROCHBERG
Rochberg: Black Sounds / Phaedra / Cantio Sacra Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose [ Naxos American Classics / CD ] George Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on 5th July, 1918. He studied composition at the Mannes School of Music in New York from 1939 to 1942 with Hans Weisse, George Szell and Leopold Mannes. During World War II Rochberg served as a Second... |
EDUARD LALO / JEAN SIBELIUS / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole / Sibelius: Concerto in D minor / Ravel: Tzigane Itzhak Perlman (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ RCA Papillon Collection / CD - released 20/Jun/1987 ] Perlman was introduced to the wider American public when he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show twice in 1958. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963 and won the Leventritt Competition in 1964. |
WAGNER / HAYDN / BERLIOZ / BRITTEN / R. STRAUSS
Jessye Norman - The Unreleased Masters Jessye Norman (soprano) / Gewandhauorchester, Kurt Masur, Berliner Philharmoniker, James Levine, Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa [ Decca / 3 CD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] Decca Classics presents Jessye Norman - The Unreleased Masters, showcasing never-before-heard recordings of one of the greatest classical singers of all time. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (complete incidental music) Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Judi Dench (speaker) / Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "The recording is first class and the balance is very well judged indeed." *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Totentanz Krystian Zimerman (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Jan/2002 ] Rosette (Highest Rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 op. 1 / Piano Concerto No. 2 op. 18 Krystian Zimerman (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Jan/2004 ] This is the pianist's first new CD since the Chopin concertos were released in 1999. |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Ma Vlast Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik [ Deutsche Grammophon Galleria / CD ] |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame [Queen Of Spades] - highlights Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Maureen Forrester, Sergei Leiferkus / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] Tanglewood Festival Chorus & Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / STRAUSS / GLUCK / BRAHMS / STRAVINSKY
Pierre Monteux - The Complete RCA Stereo Recordings Leonid Kogan (violin) / Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux [ Sony / 8 CD Box Set - released 27/Apr/2018 ] "All these performances have aged extremely well and remain benchmarks for both the conductor and the orchestras involved." (Classical Net) |
THOMAS ADES
Adès Conducts Adès Mark Stone (baritone), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "...for proof that Adès does what he does with mind-boggling brilliance, look no further." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Contemporary |
BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
Misha Dichter - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings Misha Dichter (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2024 ] It was inevitable, perhaps, that Dichter's debut release for the label would be given over to the Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto, the same work that catapulted the competition's first winner Van Cliburn to international stardom. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti Grossi 7-12 Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Telarc / CD - released 25/Feb/2008 ] |
ALBAN BERG / IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berg/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "excellent sound: the spacious but not over-resonant acoustic and admirable balance between soloist and orchestra remain exemplary and appealing" Gramophone |
ANTONIN DVOARK / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak/Walton: Cello Concertos Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch [ RCA Victor / CD - released 6/Dec/1993 ] Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Ekaterinoslav into a Jewish family. As a child, he was taught violin and piano by his father. After seeing and hearing the cello, he was determined to become a cellist and was given his first cello when he was seven. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat [The Soldier's Tale] / Octet for Wind Instruments (with Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No. 1) Sir John Gielgud (narrator), Tom Courtenay (The Soldier), Ron Moody (The Devil) / Boston Symphony Chamber Players [ Australian Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "These Boston players give immaculately polished accounts of all five [chamber] works … The recording is excellent - clear without dryness, warm without over-resonance" (Reissue of the Month Gramophone Feb 2011) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust, Op.34 Stuart Burrows (tenor) Edith Mathis (soprano) Donald McIntyre (bass) Thomas Paul (bass) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Galleria / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Aug/1988 ] "This is quite the most exciting Faust I have heard on record, putting even Solti at least a touch in the shade." MusicWeb |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Les Plaisirs de Versailles / Les Arts Florissants Teresa Wakins, Virginia Warnken, Jesse Blumberg / Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs [ CPO / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] 62ndGrammy Awards (2019) Nominee - Best Opera Recording International Classical Music Awards 2019 Nominee - Baroque Vocal |