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Mahler: Symphony no 2 / Luisi, Oelze, Fujimura, et al

2 Super Audio CD / Querstand / 2013-05-14

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Performers: Fujimura, Mihoko; Oelze, Christiane [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Luisi, Fabio
Ensemble: Middle German Radio Choir Leipzig

This new CD in highly anticipated MDR Edition series presents the next part of a "series within a series" dedicated to the works by Gustav...continue...

Elgar & Delius: Cello Concertos; Songs of Farewell; Sea Pictures. / Jacquelin du Pre, cello; Janet Baker [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Sea Pictures, Op. 37; Frederick Delius: Songs of Farewell, for double chorus & orchestra, RT ii/9; A Song Before Sunrise; Concerto for Cello, RT vii/7
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; du Pre, Jacqueline
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir
Ensemble: ; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Penguin Guide
Jacqueline du PrT's unsurpassed recording of the [Elgar] Concerto hardly needs any further recommendation from us, spontaneous in its freely rhapsodic style but with...continue...

Hans Sommer: Sapphos Gesänge; Goethe-Lieder / Elisabeth Kulman, Bo Skovhus

1 Super Audio CD / Tudor / 2012-04-24

Works: Hans Sommer: Sapphos Gesänge, for voice & orchestra, Op. 6; Odysseus, for voice & orchestra, Op. 11/1; Goethe-Lieder, for voice & orchestra
Performers: Kulman, Elisabeth; Skovhus, Bo [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Weigle, Sebastian
Ensemble: ; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

The protagonists of this recording - Elisabeth Kulman, Bo Skovhus and Sebastian Weigle - have brilliantly rescued from oblivion a composer whose works have retained...continue...
Recording information: Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, Bamberg (2010-05-06&2010-05-08&2010-)....continue...

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Michelle De Young, mezzo soprano

2 Super Audio CD / San Francisco Symphony / 2011-12-13

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 3 in D minor; Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Performers: Barantschik, Alexander; DeYoung, Michelle; Fischthal, Glenn; Lawrence, Mark
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson
Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

One of the fi nest and most critically acclaimed releases in Michael Tilson Thomas' award-winning Mahler cycle with the San Francisco Symphony, the third is...continue...
Recording information: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco....continue...

Mahler: Symphony No. 3

2 Super Audio CD / Octavia Records / 2011-11-08

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 3 in D minor
Performers: DeYoung, Michelle; Sullivan, Peter; Vosburgh, George
Conductors: Honeck, Manfred

After successful releases of Mahler's Symphonies 1 & 4, this third volume is the culmination of the live recording series. Manfred Honeck, one of the...continue...
Recording information: Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh (06/11/2010-06/13/2010)....continue...

Mahler: Songs with Orchestra

1 Super Audio CD / San Francisco Symphony / 2010-09-14

Works: Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Rückert Lieder (5); Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Performers: Graham, Susan; Hampson, Thomas
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson

The San Francisco Symphony's Grammy-winning Mahler recording cycle, launched in 2001 on its own SFS Media label, comes to a close this season with this...continue...
Recording information: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco....continue...

Graun: Te Deum, Motets / Fritz Näf

1 Super Audio CD / CPO / 2006-09-26

Works: Carl Heinrich Graun: Te Deum, for 4 voices, chorus & orchestra; Herr, ich habe lieb die Stätte deines Hauses, motet for choir; Lasset und freuen und fröhlich sein, motet for choir; Machet d...
Performers: Acolas, Francine; Gärtner, Bernhard; Gindraux, Christophe; Heizmann, Philipp; Knutti, Jean; Magnus, Elisabeth von; Mauch, Monika; Mertens, Klaus; Orelly, Jürgen; Sidney, Catherine
Conductors: Naf, Fritz
Ensemble: L'Arpa Festante

True to the lyrical sensibility of his musical language, Graun counters the pompous character of other Te Deum settings and does without "loud" instruments, calling...continue...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Leinsdorf, Price, Tucker, Elias

2 Super Audio CD / RCA Records / 2006-09-05

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Performers: Bertona, Silvia [Soprano Vocal]; Cadoni, Fernanda; Carbonari, Virgilio; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; di Stasio, Anna; Elias, Rosalind [Mezzo-Soprano]; Kerns, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; La Porta, Art...
Conductors: Leinsdorf, Erich

This Grammy-winning recording documents the extraordinarily passionate interpretation of the title character by Leontyne Price, by turns delicately girlish and fiercely resolute. The first opera...continue...

Dame Janet Baker sings Mozart, Beethoven & Schubert

1 Super Audio CD / PentaTone Classics / 2006-04-18

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza de Tito; Abendempfindung, K 523; Das Veilchen, K 476; Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84; No, non turbarti! . . . Ma tu tremi, o mio tesoro, s...
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Leppard, Raymond
Conductors: Leppard, Raymond
Ensemble: English Chamber Choir; English Chamber Orchestra

Barber: Vanessa / Slatkin, Graham, Brewer, et al

2 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2004-11-23

Works: Samuel Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32
Performers: Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Brewer, Christine; Burden, William; Charlesworth, Stephen; Davies, Neal [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Graham, Susan; Wyn-Rogers, Catherine
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

"Christine Brewer...[gave] a performance of extraordinary emotional and vocal span. What a cast of formidable American singers this was. There was Susan Graham, with an...continue...

Bernstein: Kaddish, Chichester Psalms, Missa Brevis /Slatkin

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2004-03-23

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Symphony no 3 ("Kaddish"), for soprano, speakers, choruses & orchestra; Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis, for alto, chorus & percussion (or 7 violins & percussion)
Performers: Baker, Simon; Benjafield, Richard; Brannick, Chris; Carter, Roger; Castle, Andrew; Loosley, Clare; Murray, Ann; Richardson, Lindsay
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Oratory School Schola

"Here, all on a single generous disc, we get the best of Leonard Bernstein's choral works, beautifully performed by English forces under a renowned American...continue...