MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein (Unabridged) Read by Daniel Philpott, Roger May & Jonathan Oliver [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Mary Shelley's poignant exploration of the true depths of human ambition has had a profound effect on readers since its conception in 1816. When scientist Victor Frankenstein forms a creature from the body parts of corpses, thus shattering the... |
BRAHMS / SIBELIUS
Violin Concertos [with Beethoven - Romance No 1 in G] Pinchas Zukerman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] "I think the performance is superb and Barenboim's evident enthusiasm for the music, allied to the splendid orchestral playing and a flawless recording, all add up to a desirable record." Lionel Markson, Records and Recording, October 1975 (Sibelius) |
Antonin Dv
Rusalka Piotr Beczala, Emily Magee, Camilla Nylund, Alan Held, Birgit Remmert, Adam Plachetka, Eva Liebau, Daniel Schmutzhand, A [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 15/Jul/2011 ] |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Daniel Barenboim - The Complete Berlioz Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Yvonne Minton, Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Itzhak Perlman / Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] 10-CDs presenting Daniel Barenboim's complete Berlioz Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon available together for the first time in one edition |
W. A. MOZART
Symphonies 35 & 36 / Horn Concerto / Piano Concerto No 22 (rec 2006) BLU-RAY Radek Baborak (horn) Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic] [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Apr/2014 ] For over 20 years, the Berliner Philharmoniker have celebrated their foundation on May 1st with the annual EUROPA KONZERT - the 2006 event took place at the Theatre of the Estates in Prague. |
DVORAK
Cello Concerto in A major, B10 Youth / Waldesruhe (Silent woods) for cello and orchestra, Op. 68 No. 5 / etc Ramon Jaffe (cello) / Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskin [ CPO / CD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] This extremely virtuosic concerto and other works are masterly performed by Ramon Jaffé, once described by Vladimir Ashkenazy as "a cellist of world class". |
TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN
Tchaikovsky / Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Ray Chen (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Sony Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "In his hands, the music is like a living thing; one senses that each performance will have its own individual character...All in all, a most impressive release." (Recording of the Month Gramophone June 2012) |
VIVALDI / RICHTER
Vivaldi Recomposed: The Four Seasons (Recomposed by Max Richter) Daniel Hope (violin) Max Richter (moog) Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 6/May/2014 ] "I anticipated hating this postmodern reworking of The Four Seasons by the film composer Max Richter. But it is so wittily done that I was gripped, if not quite enchanted." (The Times) |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Reformations-Oratorium 1755, TWV 13:18 Regula Mühlemann (sop) Daniel Johannsen (ten) Benjamin Appl (bari) Stephan MacLeod (bass) / Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Reinhard Goebel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Aug/2017 ] "I enjoyed the singing a lot (especially the soloists), and I loved the music and wondered at the still fertile and creative mind of its septuagenarian composer." Early Music Review |
SAINT-SAENS / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / MILHAUD / RAVEL
Le Boeuf sur le toit: French works for violin and orchestra Renaud Capucon (violin) / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Daniel Harding [ Virgin / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - February 2002 |
W.A. MOZART
Apollo et Hyacinthus (complete opera) Robert Morvai (tenor), Antonia Bouerva (soprano), Anna Haase (soprano), Daniel Lager (alto) / European Chamber Soloists / Nicol Matt [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] This is a very recent recording of one of Mozart’s early operas. For this work 11 year old (!) Mozart used a story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text by Father Widl is in Latin. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano Robin Michael (cello), Daniel Tong (fortepiano) [ Resonus / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Cello and piano duo Robin Michael and Daniel Tong return to Resonus with this dazzling collection of the complete works for cello and piano of Ludwig van Beethoven. |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 5: BWV178, BWV136, BWV45; BWV46, BWV101, BWV102 Robin Tyson, Brindley Sherratt, Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Elliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] John Eliot Gardiner's choral Pilgrimage exploring the magnificence and grandeur of all of Bach's cantatas continues with this 2CD release, combining cantatas for the eighth and tenth Sunday after Trinity, recorded live in August 2000. |
ROXANA PANUFNIK
Roxana Panufnik: Heartfelt Roderick Williams (baritone), Robin Ashwell, Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Hannah Dawson, Andy Marshall, Any Harman, Charles Owen (piano), Mary Bevan (sopra [ Signum / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] Since Westminster Mass (2000) established Roxanna Panufnik's firm place among today'sleading British composers, she has often been celebrated for her choral music. Her instrumental and chamber works, however, are equally striking, filled with... |
Rodgers/Maltman/Daniel
Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony [ Naxos / Hybrid SACD - released 2/May/2005 ] |
GLANZBERG
Holocaust Lieder & Suite Yiddish Roman Trekel (baritone) / Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Daniel Klajner [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
CHARLES WUORINEN
6 Trios Ronald Borror (Trombone), Alan Feinberg (Piano), Daniel Druckman (Marimba), Daniel Druckman (Vibraphone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] The ways in which the composer approaches the four types of ensemble here illustrate his participation in that tradition of the ensemble genre that has been a lure for generations of Western composers. |
W. A. MOZART
Mitridate, re di Ponto (recorded live Covent Garden in 1993) Royal Opera House / Bruce Ford, Jochen Kowalski, Ann Murray, Luba Orgonasova / Paul Daniel (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] |
MEYERBEER
Robert Le Diable (complete opera recorded in 2012) Royal Opera House / Bryan Hymel, Patrizia Ciofi, John Relyea, Marina Poplavskaya / Daniel Oren (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] A grand opera that dominated the stages of Europe for most of the 19th century, Robert le diable is a masterpiece. Director Laurent Pelly breathes new life into Giacomo Meyerbeer's great spectacle and audaciously entertaining moral fable, in this... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Gloriana (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Royal Opera House / Susan Bullock, Toby Spence, Patricia Bardon, Mark Stone, Kate Royal / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] Central to the Royal Opera's centenary celebrations marking the birth of Benjamin Britten was Richard Jones's witty and insightful new production of the royal operatic pageant that Britten wrote to honour the Coronation, exploring the late life, love... |