BACH / BRAHMS / DVORAK / LUTOSLAWSKI / MOZART / etc
Verbier Festival - The 25th Anniversary Concert (rec 2018) Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capuçon, Alexandra Conunova, Vilde Frang, Ilya Gringolts, Leonidas Kavakos, etc / Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 25/Jan/2020 ] The Verbier Festival is one of classical music's greatest events. In celebration of the festival's 25th anniversary, this unique concert brings together 36 classical stars in an unprecedented evening of ingenious programming and captivating... |
BRAHMS / SCHULHOFF / TCHAIKOVSKY / LISZT
Brahms: Double Concerto / Liszt: Liszt: Les Préludes BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Gautier Capuçon (cello), Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Feb/2021 ] Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, cellist Gautier Capuçon, Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden present a sophisticated concert programme of three great composers: Johannes Brahms, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky and Franz Liszt. |
CHAPLIN / BACH / LEGRAND / MORRICONE / PIAZZOLLA / etc
Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Georgia Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Nikoloz Rachveli [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] In her new project, City Lights, Lisa Batiashvili gathers all the places and memories that have been important in her life and career together with some of the world's most beautiful music. |
FRANCK / SZYMANOWSKI / CHAUSSON / DEBUSSY
Lisa Batiashvili - Secret Love Letters Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Giorgi Gigashvili (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] "Batiashvili favours an interpretative line that is easier to experience than to describe, not self-effacing so much as intimate, flexible, unhurried.." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2022) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem, Op. 48 / Messe basse / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Lisa Beckley (soprano) Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone) / Oxford Schola Cantorum / Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "The fresh, forward choral tone goes with an unmannered interpretation from Jeremy Summerly, with soloists comparably fresh toned" - Penguin Guide |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16 / Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 / Overtures Lisa Berthaud (viola) & Giovanni Radivo (violin) / Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "here [Harold] comes across as a winner...The Lyon orchestra luxuriates in Berlioz's instrumental colours, and the fillers include swaggering renditions of the Benvenuto Cellini and Roman Carnival overtures." (Financial Times) |
BERLIOZ
Harold en Italie / Reverie et Caprice / etc BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Lisa Berthaud (viola) & Giovanni Radivo (violin) / Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] Drawing on the adventures of Byron's Childe Harold and the composer's own Italian experiences as a Prix de Rome winner, Harold en Italie was intended for the great violinist Paganini who, having initially rejected the work, later repented, giving it... |
HANDEL
Twenty Sonatas 'Opus 1' Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Beckett (recorder) Paul Goodmwin (oboe) Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2014 ] "This set gives authoritative readings, impeccable in style, dependable in text" (Gramophone) |
J.S. BACH
Flute Sonatas (Complete) Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Brown (flute) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month)BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
W.A. MOZART
Flute Quartets Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) with Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin) Tom Dunn (viola) and Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) [ Avie / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "Delectable - if you want to forget the cares of the 21st century for an hour or so, this may be the answer." (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
ARTHUR FARWELL
Arthur Farwell: Piano Music, Volume 3 Lisa Cheryl Thomas (piano) [ Toccata / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] "Part of the 'Indianists' movement, Arthur Farwell tried to meld American Indian and Western music. There's a variety of styles, though the playing sometimes loses focus" BBC Music |
GORDON GETTY
The White Election - A Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano on Poems by Emily Dickinson Lisa Delan (soprano) / Fritz Steinegger (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] This is a song cycle for soprano and piano by a living American composer (born 1933) on poems by Emily Dickinson. It is assumed that Emily Dickinson may have improvised accompaniments for her poems, but no proof exists. Gordon Getty has tried to... |
COPLAND / GETTY / HEGGIE / TILSON THOMAS
A Certain Slant Of Light Lisa Delan (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] The exceptional nature and musicality of Emily Dickinson's poetry has attracted many composers. A Certain Slant of Light features musical settings of Dickinson poems by four outstanding American composers: Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and... |
GORDON GETTY
Joan and the Bells (with Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet: Suite No 2) Lisa Delan (soprano) Vladimir Chernov (baritone) / Eric Ericson Chamber Choir / Russian National Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2005 ] "A powerful work given a refreshingly unpretentious performance." Gramophone (September 2003) |
Mozart, Wo
Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Dantons Tod, Capriccio, Arabella, Lisa Della Casa, Anton Dermota, Werner Krenn, Otto Wiener, Jean Madeira, Wolfgang Windgassen, Murray Dickie, Anneliese R [ ORFEO / CD - released 30/Jan/2009 ] |
Franz Schu
Lieder Lisa Della Casa, Arpad Sándor [ ORFEO / CD - released 17/Jul/2009 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Four Last Songs / Capriccio: Final Scene / Arabella (excerpts) Lisa Della Casa (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic / Karl Bohm etc. [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Acclaimed as one of her generation's finest interpreters of Richard Strauss (the composer himself identified her as his ideal Arabella), the Swiss soprano Lisa della Casa was blessed with a seemingly effortless, shimmeringly beautiful voice as well... |
BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / STRAUSS / WOLF / SCHUMANN
Recital (recorded 1957 & 1962) Lisa Della Casa (soprano) with Karl Hudez & Sebastian Peschko (pianos) [ Testament / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Lisa Della Casa (soprano), Karl Hudez & Sebastian Peschko (piano accompaniments) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / W. A. MOZART
Lisa Della Casa sings Handel & Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Roberta Peters (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Heinrich Hollreiser, Josef Krips, Ka [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] Among the legendary opera singers of the post-war era was Lisa Della Casa, one of the few internationally known musical stars produced by the little country of Switzerland, and a member of the exceptional Mozart ensemble built up by the Vienna State... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Voyage Central Park Lisa Friend (flute), Craig Ogden (guitar) Aquarelle Guitar Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Sep/2019 ] Following her acclaimed recording of Mozart's Flute Quartets with the Brodsky Quartet and her more recent disc of Fauré and Debussy, the flautist Lisa Friend continues her journey to explore another sound-world in this programme of works for flute... |