Daniel O'Donnell
The Irish Album [ Big Jo-Ke / 2 CD - released 24/May/2010 ] 40 classics songs from the Irish homeland, sung by the one and only Daniel O'Donnell. |
Daniel O'Donnell
Live From Nashville, Part 2 [ Big Jo-Ke / 2 DVD/CD - released 13/Feb/2012 ] Filmed at The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, the one-time home of the Grand Ole Opry, this DVD is the second part to Daniel's 3 hour sell-out show and which features his special guests, long-term singing partner Mary Duff and Country legend, Charley... |
Daniel O'Donnell
Moon Over Ireland [ Sony Music Entertainment / CD - released 28/Mar/2011 ] This brand new Daniel album features 16 tracks of best loved Irish songs including "When You Were Sweet Sixteen", "Tipperary Girl", "Maggie" and "My Wild Irish Rose". |
Daniel O'Donnell
Songs of Inspiration [ RITZ RECORDS / CD ] |
Daniel O'Donnell
Ultimate DVD Collection [ Rosette Records / 4 DVD - released 2/Mar/2012 ] This superb 4 DVD special edition boxset features 4 of Daniel's live concerts: An Evening With, The Classic Concert, Follow Your Dream and Showtime. Featuring over 6 hours of concert footage. (Previously available as single and double DVD's ) |
LUCIANO BERIO
Luciano Berio - Transformation Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Sophia Burgos (soprano), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 13/Dec/2019 ] "It all provides a revealing sidelight on one of the outstanding composers of the second half of the 20th century." Guardian |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Concertos for Two Lire Organizzate Daniel Rothert, Philipp Spatling (recorders) Benoit Fromanger, Ingo Nelken (flutes) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] "Just about all of Haydn's music is unfailingly tuneful; this is mature music from the mid 1780s, roughly contemporaneous with the Paris symphonies..An attractive recording, then, which one could hardly dislike." (MusicWeb Jan 2009) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas (8CD Box Set) Daniel-Ben Peinaar (piano) [ Avie / CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Autumn 2020 offered Daniel-Ben Pienaar an opportunity, not because the world was in lockdown but rather for the benefit it provided. A professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, Daniel-Ben was allowed overnight access to the RAM's Angela Burgess... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (Complete ballet recorded in 1999) Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin / Nadja Saidakova, Vladimir Malakhov, Oliver Matz / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 27/Jun/2002 ] In 1999, exactly 107 years - to the day - after the first performance in St. Petersburg, Patrice Bart's choreography of Tchaikovsky's worldwide success The Nutcracker premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
MAYR: Mass in E flat major Dorota Szczepaska, Johanna Krödel, Markus Schäfer, Daniel Ochoa; Concerto de Bassus, Simon Mayr Chorus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Mayr's great Mass in E flat major is a late work, largely composed in 1843. It conforms to the prevailing Italian messa concertata tradition with its clear divisions into distinct vocal numbers, as opposed to the symphonic Mass which held sway north... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 44 - 49 [includes 'The Farewell'] English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutache Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 21/Aug/2020 ] "These performances are crisp and bright, and the attendant clarity is achieved with seeming ease… Highly recommended.' Fanfare, November 1981 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphonies No. 31 'Paris', 39 & 40 English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ EMI / CD - released 1/May/1990 ] "These are exceptionally lively performances: alertly phrased, and often with positively bouncing rhythm, executed at all times with very great skill." (Gramophone) |
JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Symphonies Nos 82-87 English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "He can excite, he can charm, but he can also move. And it's clear he can see the whole picture, which is perhaps his greatest strength of all" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Rape of Lucretia (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY English National Opera / Sarah Connolly, Christopher Maltman, Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2013 ] "The main cast delivers a superlative response from start to finish, headed by baritone Christopher Maltman's bull-like Tarquinius and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly's harrowingly intense Lucretia." BBC Music |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Symphony No. 1 / Partita English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel [ Naxos / CD ] "Irrespective of price, this is a version of the much-recorded symphony that competes with the finest ever, and outshines most" - Gramophone |
MENDELSSOHN / CYRILLUS KREEK
Psalms Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Daniel Reuss [ Ondine / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] "Reuss draws impassioned and mellifluous performances from his Grammy Award-winning choir of 24 voices. Its beautifully blended, creamy tone (especially in the altos) and clarion-like tenors are underpinned by warm basses." (Gramophone) |
MILHAUD / RODNEY BENNETT / ROSAURO / MIYOSHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Evelyn Glennie: Rebounds: Concertos for Percussion Evelyn Glennie (percussion) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Paul Daniel [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Jun/1992 ] "Percussion virtuosi are among the latest to join the ranks of concertizing soloists. Evelyn Glennie, soloist with leading orchestras in Great Britain, Australia, Japan and the United States, advances the art of percussion playing on her debut album. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2005) [with 147 minute Bonus] BLU-RAY Fiorenza Cedolins / Marcelo Alvarez / Ruggero Raimondi / Arena Di Verona / Daniel Oren [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] A superlative staging of Puccini's Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana brought to you from the world-famous Arena di Verona and complete with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands! |
MOZART / SCARLATTI / CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / etc
Fou Ts'ong - Complete Westminster Recordings Fou Ts'ong (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, etc [ Westminster Australian Eloquence / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The Westminster label legacy of a master Chopin interpreter, issued complete for the first time in an 'original covers' box of new remasterings. |
VARIOUS COMPOSER
Trumpet Masque Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Apr/2008 ] "Jonathan Freeman-Attwood's playing is notable for the beauty and freedom of line of his lyrical phrasing, while the bravura is exhilarating. Daniel-Ben Pienaar's accompaniments are boldly supportive and well in the picture." (Gramophone) |