Recordings, Last Week

Herbert Von Karajan / Karajan - The Second Life, a film by Eric Schulz / [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Deutsche Grammophon / 2013-05-14

A brand new 80-munite documentary/film, on DVD for the first time.

A must-have product for anyone with more than a passing interest in one of

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Gustavo Dudamel - The European Concert: works by Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven / Gautier Capucon, Berliner PO [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Deutsche Grammophon / 2013-05-14

Works: Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a "St. Anthony"; Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Cello no 1 in C major, H 7b no 1; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 5 in C minor...
Performers: Capucon, Gautier

Every year the Berliner Philharmoniker invite artist for the orchestra's traditional birthday concert on May 1st.

In 2012, the guests were Gustavo Dudamel, conducting, and

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Songs of Logan Skelton: The Islander, Into Deep Waters; Jennifer Goltz, soprano; Stephen Lusmann, baritone;Logan Skelton, piano

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2013-05-14

Lullaby & Nocturne; Neruda, Stravinsky, Lyapunov, Kreisler, et al.; David Hays, violin; Peter Collins, piano

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2013-05-14

This recording brings together some of the finest works in the genre of lullabies and nocturnes written for violin and piano. The works share the...continue...

Songs of Logan Skelton: Dickinson Songs: An Intimate Nature, Unknown Peninsula; Jennifer Goltz, soprano; Logan Skelton, piano

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2013-05-14

Songs of Logan Skelton: The Mad Potter, A Kind of Weather; Stephen Lausmann, baritone; Logan Skelton, piano

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2013-05-14

Logan Skelton is a much sought after pianist, teacher and composer whose work has received international critical acclaim. As a composer he has a special...continue...

Jacob Druckman: Lamia

1 CD / BMOP/Sound / 2013-05-14

BMOP/sound presents five works of the American master Jacob Druckman in a disc that exhibits the award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project and conductor Gil Rose...continue...

Vincent Persichetti: Harmonium; Sherry Overholt, soprano; Joshua Pierce, piano

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2013-05-14

Harmonium, a song cycle for soprano and piano on poems by Wallace Stevens was written in 1951. He selected 20 of the 85 poems in...continue...

Max Reger: The Forgotten Romantic: Silhouettes, Io. 53; Ten Small Lecture Pieces, Op. 44; Six Imtermezzi, Op. 45; Leaves and Flowers; Six Piano Pieces; Martha Thomas, piano

2 CD / ACA Digital / 2013-05-14

The piano pieces heard on this 2-cd set represent the great variety in Max Reger's writing that has made it difficult to assess his contribution...continue...

Amy Williams: Crossings - Richer Textures, BrigidÆs Flame, Falling, Astoria, et al.; JACK Quartet; Jeffrey Jacobs; Amy Williams

1 CD / Albany Records / 2013-05-14

Conductors:
Ensemble: Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo

The compositions of Amy Williams have been presented at renowned contemporary music venues in the United States, Australia and Europe. Her works have been performed...continue...

Bottesini's Greatest Hits - Bottesini: Fantasy on Themes from La Sonambula, Reverie, Tarantella, et al.; Paganini: Variation on One String; Mark Morton, double bass

2 CD / Albany Records / 2013-05-14

This unique recording features Mark Morton performing the double bass and piano parts of popular works by Bottesini and Paganini on the first disc, while...continue...

Elliott Carter Edition, Vol. 9 - Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred, Voyage, Warble for Lilac Time, et al.; Various performers

1 CD / Bridge / 2013-05-14

This retrospective disc presents music composed by the late Elliott Carter over a period of more than 70 years. Unquestionably, the major work presented here...continue...

David Patterson: Loon's Tail Flashing - Chamber Music / A. Hern Baumgartner and Charles Peltz

1 CD / Albany Records / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Patterson, David
Ensemble: New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble

Composer David Patterson is on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Award and the Chancellor's...continue...

The Art of David Tudor (1963-1992); Tudor, Cage, Wolff; David Tudor, John Cage

7 CD / New World / 2013-05-14

The sprawling electronic music career of David Tudor (1926 - 1996) may be impossible to adequately represent with any set of recordings. The reasons for...continue...

Steven R. Gerber: (Mostly) Solo Piano Music - Three Little Duets, Two Intermezzi, Piano Sonata, et al.; Steven Gerber, piano; Gregory Fulkerson, violin; Jennifer Rinehart, piano

1 CD / Albany Records / 2013-05-14

Born in 1948, composer/pianist Steven R. Gerber studied at Haverford College and Princeton. His music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles across the United...continue...

Fred Lerdahl, Vol. 4 - Spirals, Three Diatonic Studies, Imbrication, Wake, Fantasy Etudes; Mirka Vitala, piano; Bethany Beardslee, soprano

1 CD / Bridge / 2013-05-14

Volume 4 of Bridge's Fred Lerdahl series offers music composed over a span of four decades. Three recent pieces, Spirals, Three Diatonic Studies, and Imbrications,...continue...

Findlay in Blue - Gershwin, Gottschalk, Gould; Findlay Cockrell, piano

1 CD / Albany Records / 2013-05-14

Pianist Findlay Cockrell has had a long and distinguished career in upstate New York as a soloist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. He served on...continue...

Music For Your Star Sign: Gemini by Grieg, Schumann, Wagner, Nicolai and Offenbach

1 CD / AAO Music / 2013-05-14

An Immortal Legacy - Choral works by Tallis, Morley, Gibbons, Byrd, MacMillan, Tippett, Britten, Chilcott / The Sixteen

1 CD / Coro / 2013-05-14

Works: Thomas Tallis: Psalm Tunes (9) for Mister Parker; Absterge Domine; In manus tuas; I call and cry to thee; Loquebantur variis linguis; Thomas Morley: Aprill is in my mistris face, madrigal for 4 voice...
Performers: Evans, Robert; Lane, Carys; MacKenzie, Neil; Partridge, Ian [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Christophers, Harry
Ensemble: ; The Sixteen

Breathe: New Notes for Flute from Ireland & New Zealand / William Dowdall, flute; Richard Nunns, taonga puoro

1 CD / Atoll / 2013-05-14

Liszt: Christus, the original version for piano / Nicholas Horvath, piano

1 CD / Hortus / 2013-05-14

Alexander Dargomyzhsky: Rusalka / Ivan Kozlovsky, Veronica Borisenko, et al. Evgeny Svetlanov

2 CD / Melodiya / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Svetlanov, Evgeny
Ensemble: Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR; Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird, complete ballet / Moscow SO, Kitaenko

1 CD / Melodiya / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Kitaenko, Dmitri
Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Russian Avant-Garde Music - works by Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / Melodiya / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

Mussorgsky: The Marriage; The Nursery / Gennady Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / Melodiya / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

In Rhythm - works for clarinet & piano by Gershwin, Templeton, Copland, Reich, Bernstein / Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Martin Klett, piano

1 CD / CAvi Music / 2013-05-14

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor / Renata Scotto, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini, et al. / La Scala, Milan; Nino Sanzogno

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Sanzogno, Nino
Ensemble: La Scala Chorus; La Scala Orchestra Milan

Handel: Cantatas, Vol. 1 / Roberta Mameli, soprano; Stefan Plewniak & Enrique Gomez, violins; Marta Semkiw, cello

1 CD / Ayros / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Vitale, Marco
Ensemble: Contrasto Armonico

C.P.E. Bach: Wurttemberg Sonatas 1, 2 & 3 / David Murray, piano

1 CD / Summit Records / 2013-05-14

Alessandro Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol. 4 / Francesco Tasini: harpsichord

1 CD / Tactus / 2013-05-14

Wolf-Ferrari: Serenade for Strings; Violin Concerto, Op. 26 / Laura Marzadori, violin

1 CD / Tactus / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Zuccarini, Marco
Ensemble: Orchestra Città di Ferrara

Francesco Canova da Milano: Il Divino - Lute Music; Paul O'Dette, lute

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-05-14

Francesco da Milano (dubbed "Il Divino") was celebrated as the preeminent composer of lute music in Renaissance Italy. He was widely published in his lifetime...continue...

Neapolitan Flute Concertos, Vol. 2; Carlo Ipata, flute; Auser Musici

1 CD / Hyperion / 2013-05-14

Conductors:
Ensemble: Auser Musici

Hyperion presents a second volume of flute concertos from eighteenth-century Naples featuring flutist Carlo Ipata and the period band Auser Musici. Their first album of...continue...

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan

1 CD / Philharmonia Baroque / 2013-05-14

Conductors: McGegan, Nicholas
Ensemble: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

On this release from the orchestra's own label, Music Director Nicholas McGegan and his period instrument Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra perform Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies...continue...

Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 17 K 453, No. 27 K595; Angela Hewitt, piano; Orchestra da Camera di Mantova; Hannu Lintu

1 CD / Hyperion / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Lintu, Hannu
Ensemble: Orchestra da Camera di Mantova

On this second release in the series, virtuoso pianist Angela Hewitt turns to two of Mozart's greatest and most popular concertos. Together with her frequent...continue...

Eugen d'Albert: Solo Piano Music; Piers Lane, piano

1 CD / Hyperion / 2013-05-14

The oblivion which has overtaken Eugen d'Albert in the second half of the twentieth century would have surprised anyone who saw his prodigious rise to...continue...

York Bowen: The Complete Works for Violin and Piano; Chloe Hanslip, violin; Danny Driver, piano

2 CD / Hyperion / 2013-05-14

Young virtuoso Chloë Hanslip and York Bowen specialist Danny Driver join forces to present Bowen's complete works for violin and piano. Many of these works...continue...

Philip Glass: Cello Concerto No. 2 "Naqoyqatsi": Life as War; Matt Haimovitz, cello; Cincinnati SO, Dennis Russell Davies

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Davies, Dennis Russell
Ensemble: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

In 2001, Philip Glass composed the music for the film Naqoyqatsi: Life as War. It was the last film in a trilogy by director Godfrey...continue...

Griffes: Piano Music / Garrick Ohlsson, piano

1 CD / Hyperion / 2013-05-14

The piano works of American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes represent a remarkable musical achievement. Griffes was active as a composer for little more than twelve...continue...

The Panufnik Legacies; London Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth

1 CD / LSO Live (London SO) / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Roth, François-Xavier
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

LSO Live's The Panufnik Legacies offers a collection of new works by ten emerging young composers. These pieces were commissioned as part of the LSO...continue...

Palestrina: Missa Ave Maria, Missa Beata Virgine; James O'Donnell; Westminster Cathedral Choir

1 CD / Hyperion / 2013-05-14

Conductors: O'Donnell, James
Ensemble: Westminster Cathedral Choir

This mid-priced reissue features James O'Donnell and the Westminster Cathedral Choir at the peak of their powers, performing key works of the Italian Renaissance. These...continue...

Weber: Der Freischütz; Christine Brewer, soprano; Sally Matthews, soprano; Simon OÆNeill, tenor

2 Super Audio CD / LSO Live (London SO) / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Sir Colin Davis
Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and chorus and a stellar cast of soloists in a concert performance of Weber's eerily fantastical opera,...continue...

Andres Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers / Roberto Moronn Pérez: guitar

1 CD / Reference Recordings / 2013-05-14

Bach: Partita BWV 826; Brahms: Piano Pieces (8), Op. 76; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 / Eldar Djangirov, piano

1 CD / Motema Music / 2013-05-14

Handel: Dixit Dominus; Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus; Concerto No. 4 / Choir of The QueenÆs College, Oxford

1 CD / Avie Records / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Rees, Owen
Ensemble: Brook Street Band; Choir of The QueenÆs College, Oxford

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / MDR SO, Fabio Luisi

1 CD / Querstand / 2013-05-14

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor
Conductors: Luisi, Fabio
Ensemble: MDR Symphony Orchestra

Recording information: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig (04/08/1997-04/13/1997)....continue...

Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Recorder / Ensemble Luxurians; Margaret Hunter, soprano

1 CD / Querstand / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Rotaru, Alina
Ensemble: Ensemble Luxurians

The Historical Trombone: Renaissance Trombone - Works by Ortiz, Monteverdi et al. / Ercole Nisini: Renaissance trombone

1 CD / Querstand / 2013-05-14

Wolfgang Rihm: Symphony "Near Far"; Hans Begemann, baritone; Luzerner Sinfonieorchester; James Graffigan

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Graffigan, James
Ensemble: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

This release presents the world première recording of Wolfgang Rihm's latest orchestral work, the symphony Nähe fern (Near Far), commissioned by and composed in close...continue...

The Chants of the Holy Spirit - Gregorian chants; Gloriae Dei Cantores Women's Schola

1 CD / Gloriae Dei Cantores / 2013-05-14

Conductors:
Ensemble: Gloriae Dei Cantores Women's Schola

The feast of Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Twelve apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in the Bible....continue...