ADAM / MASSENET / BIZET / BONONCINI / GRAUN / WAGNER / LEHAR / etc
Opera Gala Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Irma Kolassi, Janine Micheau, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Richard Conrad, Lisa della Casa, Kirsten Flagstad, etc [ Decca Eloquence / 20 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2020 ] From Adam to Zandonai, from 1954 to 1996, 20 CDs made up of no less than 28 Decca opera recordings, most of them recorded as highlights albums, many long unavailable, newly remastered and all featuring the greatest singers of their age. |
Lisa
Alter Ego [ RCA / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] World-renowned rapper, singer, dancer, and style icon, LISA, releases her debut solo album. With "Alter Ego", LISA emulates five unique characters, showcasing her versatility and edge. The album will include previously released singles,... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / J. S. BACH / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Brahms, Bach, Schubert: Sonatas Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Milana Chernyavska (piano) [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 18/Feb/2018 ] "Among the young musicians I have listened to throughout my life, Lisa Batiashvili is one of the most spectacular … If there is a more accomplished violinist today I still have to hear her (or him)," wrote the great pianist Alfred Brendel in 2006,... |
VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLURAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
STEPHAN PROCK
Sojourn Lisa Harper-Brown, Mark Dorrell, Roberto Fabbriciani, Margaret Medlyn, Jian Liu, Martin Riseley, Diedre Irons [ Rattle / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Boston-based composer Stephan Prock offers a rich musical reflection of his time in Aotearoa with SOJOURN. Stephan is a film music scholar and freelance composer of contemporary music for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and film. Based in... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / SERGEI PROKOFIEV / KURT WEILL
Shostakovich: Preludes / Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives / etc Benjamin Schmid (violin) Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ Ondine / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] "What cannot be denied is the passionate engagement of the soloist, a big-toned player…[and] an accomplished jazz musician…this long-gestated project has a dangerous exuberance all its own" (Gramophone) |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
A. Scarlatti: Opera Overtures and Concertos Concerto de' Cavalieri, Marcello Di Lisa [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "…dispatched with swashbuckling swagger…" (Gramophone) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (opera recorded 1962/63) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Walter Berry, James King, Christa Ludwig, Lisa Otto / Artur Rother (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2011 ] For the four main roles, singers were chosen who already had international experience but were still fresh and vigorous. Christa Ludwig, James King and Walter Berry. |
HAMISH MacCUNN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: MacCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood / Excerpts from Jeanie Deans / The Lay of the Last Minstrel / etc Janice Watson (soprano) Lisa Milne (soprano) Jamie MacDougall (tenor) Peter Sidhom (bass) / BBC Scottish Orchestra & Chorus. Martyn Brabbins. [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/May/2005 ] 'Yet again Hyperion successfully rediscovers one of our neglected Victorian composers ... Admirers of Hyperion's earlier efforts need not hesitate to buy this' (Classic CD) |
Lisa
Alter Ego (LP) [ Rca / LP - released 28/Feb/2025 ] World-renowned rapper, singer, dancer, and style icon, LISA, releases her debut solo album. With "Alter Ego", LISA emulates five unique characters, showcasing her versatility and edge. The album will include previously released singles,... |
BEDRICH SMETANA / ANTONIN DVORAK
Waldbühne - Czech Night (Recorded live at Waldbühne, Berlin, 2016) BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Oct/2016 ] What kind of music could be better suited for the Berliner Philharmoniker's legendary annual Waldbühne concert than Czech music? |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms; Double Concerto / works by Tchaikovsky & Liszt Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 25/Jan/2020 ] "The real highlight of this well-produced DVD is the Tchaikovsky, which is a winner from start to finish." Gramophone |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Visions of Prokofiev Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] "These are technically immaculate, thoughtful performances, handsomely recorded" The Arts Desk |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / JEAN SIBELIUS
Tchaikovsky & Sibelius: Violin Concertos Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "Every familiar phrase somehow manages to sound both authoritative and newly discovered...a delight from start to finish." Gramophone Magazine Disc of the Month - January 2017 |
VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
J. S. BACH
Lisa Batiashvili: Bach Lisa Batiashvili (violin) with Emmanuel Pahud (flute) & François Leleux (oboe) / Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Radoslaw Szulc [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] "Batiashvili's violin is seductive and the spirit lively - a pleasing, middle-of-the-road selection." (Financial Times) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Vier letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs) / Scenes from 'Arabella' & 'Ariadne auf Naxos' Lisa della Casa, with Rudolf Schock & George London [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] Neewly reissued. |
Lisa Ekdahl & Peter Nordahl
Back On Earth [ RCA Victor Records / CD ] Talented Swedish songstress, Lisa Ekdahl offers enchanting, smooth jazz standards and rhythmic swing numbers on this elegant, sexy release from 1999. |
DEBUSSY / FAURE
Essence - Lisa Friend plays Fauré & Debussy Lisa Friend (flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] The flute takes a very special place in French music, particularly so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result (and in addition to a great deal of original repertoire for the instrument) there is a significant body of work... |