Since you are interested in Barber: Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Adagio for Strings, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Op 71 (complete ballet) [with Arensky: Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky] The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mark Ermler [ Conifer / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1989 ] "The orchestra respond idiomatically to Tchaikovsky dance music and with obvious familiarity and love. Ermler has a natural feeling for springing rhythms and moulding rubato persuasively." (Gramophone) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / DELIUS / ELGAR
English Fantasia (Includes 'The Lark Ascending' & 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring') Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury [ Sony Essential Masterworks / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] Dreamy music from the English countryside. |
TRADITIONAL
Hymns From Trinity: 21 Favourite Hymns with descants Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge / Richard Marlow [ Sony Essential Masterworks / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] 21 favourite hymns with single & double descants devised by Richard Marlow. Incs A great & might wonder; Lo! He comes with clouds descending; Now thank we all our God; To the name that brings salvation. |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / FERGUSSON / SCHUBERT
Isaac Stern & Dame Myra Hess (recorded live Edinburgh International Festival, August 1960) Isaac Stern (violin) & Dame Myra Hess (piano) [ Testament / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "Warmly expansive accounts of the Brahms A major and the Beethoven Op. 96 brings special distinction to this memorable recital recorded near the end of Hess's distinguished career." (BBC Music) |