PAGANINI
24 Caprices for Violin Solo op. 1 (with Piano Accompaniment by Robert Schumann) Benjamin Schmid (violin) Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 10/Feb/2005 ] "... beautiful recording ... Smirnova is an ultra-sensitive accompanist, Schmid a fearless yet endearing violinist. Most highly recommended." (Soundscapes) |
J.S.BACH / SCHUMANN
Six Sonatas for Violin (with Schumann's piano accompaniment) Benjamin Schmid (violin) Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ MDG / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Believe it or not, this CD is the first recording ever of Bach's violin solo compositions as interpreted by Robert Schumann, performed here by critically-acclaimed violinist Benjamin Schmid |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K492 [The Marriage of Figaro] (highlights) Cesare Siepi, Hilde Gueden, Alfred Poell, Lisa Della Casa / Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kleiber [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] A legendary cast of Vienna State Opera stars and the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Erich Kleiber at the peak of his career were the essential ingredients in the making of this 1955 recording of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro that is... |
W. A. MOZART
Don Giovanni (Complete Opera recorded live in 1956) Cesare Siepi, Lisa Della Casa, Elisabeth Grummer / Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker, Dimitri Mitropoulos [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "What gives this set its overriding distinction is the singing. With every member of a superb cast in best voice, it is hard to think of a more consistently sung version." (Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Concertos For Oboe And Oboe D'Amore Christian Hommel (Oboe/Oboe D'Amore) / Lisa Stewart (Violin) / Cologne Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos Bach Complete Orchestral Works 1 / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "A delightfully different disc that is most entertaining." - Sunday Tribune (Dublin), March 19, 2000 |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 2 Lorna Anderson (soprano) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The first thing to say that the performances by sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne are consistently beautiful, alert to the implications of Debussy's word-setting, whether ecstatic or subdued...Martineau matches them in the subtlety,... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw (complete opera) City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox / Mark Padmore / Lisa Milne / Catrin Wyn Davies / Diana Montague / Nicholas Kirby Johnson / Caroline Wise [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Mar/2005 ] G :- "With its short intimate scenes and concentrated lines, the Screw is so cinematic that it's surprising there's only been one previous film. This has just won a Viennese TV award. It's one of the truest opera films to date." (BBC Music) |
Concerto De'cavalieri/Di Lisa
Scarlatti: Sacred Works [ Cpo / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] |
WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera) Gary Rideout / Richard Greager / John Brocheler / Lisa Gasteen / The State Opera of South Australia / Asher Fisch (Conductor) [ Melba Recordings SACD / 4 SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "The overall sense of the project is one of deserved community and company pride in an enterprise which can stand its ground with pretty much anything elsewhere. I welcome the issue" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
Lisa Gerrard
The Best of Lisa Gerrard [ 4AD Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] This is a superb collection that encompasses Lisa's nine solo albums and her groundbreaking work with Dead Can Dance. |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete opera recorded in 2002) Glyndebourne Opera / Anne Sofie von otter, Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri, Lisa Milne / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] SUPER SPECIAL PRICE - LIMITED OFFER "Violent, passionate, superbly played… Glyndebourne's Carmen is simply gripping." -THE SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE 220 Minutes An exhilarating new Carmen from Glyndebourne. Director David McVicar describes... |
Greta Bradman / David Hobson / Lisa McCune / Teddy Tahu Rhodes
From Broadway To La Scala [ CD - released 28/Aug/2015 ] The exuberance of musical theatre and the passion of grand opera, brought to glorious life by four of Australia's finest singers and the splendour of the symphony orchestra: From Broadway to La Scala is set to be the runaway musical hit of... |
POULENC
Complete Songs Vol. 3 John Mark Ainsley / Lorna Anderson / Sarah Fox / Jonathan Lemalu / Lisa Milne / Malcolm Martineau [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his most breathtaking moments, but the level of intensity is... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Arias and Duets (rec 1949) Jussi Bjorling (tenor) Anna-Lisa Bjorling (soprano) / San Francisco Opera Orchestra [ Naxos Historical In Concert / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] 'This hour is yours' the announcer tells us at the opening of this CD, a pleasing hour indeed, in the company of the finest tenor of his day and his wife Anna-Lisa, a Conservatory-trained lyric soprano. The programme consists of favourite arias from... |
J.S. BACH
Violin Concertos, BWV 1041-1043 and BWV 1052 Kolja Blacher (violin) / Christine Pichlmeier (violin) / Lisa Stewart (violin) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "What you will hear is a performance and recording that is not unlike 'The Stokowski Sound.' Deep, rich and firm bass line, smooth strings and lushness around. The soloists are as romantic..." |
Lisa Bassenge
A Little Loving [ Minor Music / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] Lisa Bassenge is a young singer with a personal vision to bring jazz singing into the new century, using new ways of expression. Her repertoire ranges from Duke Ellington to Madonna. |
Lisa Bassenge
Three [ Minor Music / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] This is the Lisa Bassenge Trio's third album, which was originally released in 2004. "…Less-is-more instrumentation to underpin Bassenge's smoky Badu-esque crooning."-BBC |
Lisa Batiashvili
Beethoven: Violin Concerto [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] |
Lisa Batiashvili
Sibelius/Lindberg:violin Concs [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Sep/2007 ] |
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Chamber Music Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Till Fellner, Amy Freston, Harrison Birtwistle [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2014 ] There are a dozen of Niedecker's poems here to which Birtwistle responds with great refinement...the three instrumentalists, quite closely recorded, are in a class any composer would die for. (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Contemporary) |