Since you are interested in Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 Emperor / Concerto in D major for Piano & Orchestra (Arranged by the composer from the Violin Concerto), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Savitri / 7 Part-Songs / Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda / etc Osian Ellis (harp) Janet Baker, Robert Tear & Thomas Helmsley / The Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "This classic performance will be difficult to better...Janet Baker gives a radiant and most moving interpretation of the title role" (Gramophone Magazine Re-issue of the Month - July 2011) |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 24-27 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "it would be a strange person indeed who did not submit to such warm-hearted, unmannered Mozart....Larrocha's pearly toned, lightly pedalled touch and the way she can taper a phrase ending to resemble musical speech (try the opening of K491) make... |
SAINT-SAENS / SIBELIUS / SARASATE / KHACHATURIAN / TCHAIKOVSKY
Virtuoso Violin Concertos Ruggiero Ricci (violin) with various orchestras and conductors [ SBS Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Ruggiero Ricci is in his element in these virtuoso concertos and showpieces. All the recordings were made in a five-year period from 1956 (Khachaturian) to 1961 (Tchaikovsky). |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mysteries of Byzantine Chant Ian Buga (priest) Gabriel Oprea, Marian Fartat, Nicolae Giolu, Aurel Frangulea (psalm singers) / Kontakion [ Philips Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] As a follow-up to the best selling Deutsche Grammophon disc of Gregorian Chant this reissue returns a sublime Philips recording of Byzantine Chant to the catalogue. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Piano Encores (incls Albeniz: Tango & Mendelssohn: Rondo capriccioso) Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "…the unfailing wizardry of Bolet. He is also splendidly recorded. It is difficult to see how an encore-fancier could greet this record with anything but the most delighted of, well encores." Gramophone |