BR Klassik > Modern Period

Great Singers Live, from the Munich Radio Orchestra's historic Sunday concerts. Grummer, Prey, Popp, M. Price, Ghiaurov, Freni

6 CD / BR Klassik / 2013-01-29

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Turandot; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; La Jolie Fille de Perth, opera in 4 acts; Jules Massenet: Manon; Giuseppe V...
Performers: Altmann, Hans; Freni, Mirella; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Grummer, Elisabeth; Kmentt, Waldemar; Popp, Lucia; Prey, Hermann [Baritone Vocals]; Price, Margaret [Soprano Vocals]; Sawallisch, Wolfgang [Conductor...
Conductors: Eichhorn, Kurt; Ghiaurov, Vladimir; Prêtre, Georges; Antonini, Alfredo; Stein, Horst; Schmidt-Boelcke, Werner; Zanotelli, Hans; Wallberg, Heinz; Gardelli, Lamberto; Quadri, Argeo; Fricke, Heinz;...

The "Great Singers Live" series regularly presents recordings of The Munich Radio Orchestra's historic Sunday concerts. Previously five singer portraits have been released, featuring Mirella...continue...

Great Singers: Hermann Prey sings Mozart, Rossini, Lortzing, Verdi et al.

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2012-04-24

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Figaro; Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K 584; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Albert Lortzing: Der Wildsc...
Performers: Prey, Hermann [Baritone Vocals]; Sawallisch, Wolfgang [Conductor/Piano]
Conductors: Quadri, Argeo; Wallberg, Heinz; Fricke, Heinz; Eichhorn, Kurt; Abbado, Roberto
Ensemble: ; Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra

Hermann Prey's performance of Papageno was historic, and turned him into the most popular opera singer in Germany. This CD includes a collection of previously...continue...

Music For Tango Ensemble: Works by Pugliese, Canaro, Blazer, Piazzolla, et al.

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2011-11-15

Works: Horacio Salgán: A fuego lento; Astor Piazzolla: Río Sena, tango; Escualo; Anselmo Aieta: Corralera, milonga; Alban Bailly: Procrastinations (5), for tango ensemble; Aníbal Troilo: Mari...
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Ensemble: Oscuro Quintet

Philadelphia's first tango music ensemble, the Oscuro Quintet, evokes the passion and grace of tango from dance floors to concert halls with a mind toward...continue...
Recording information: Buckeye Recording Studio, Philadelphia, PA (09/2010)....continue...

Great Singers Live: Lucia Popp / Arias by Stolz, Lehar, Weber, Lortzing, Mozart et al.

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2011-10-25

Works: Robert Stolz: Der Favorit; Venus in Seide; Franz Lehár: Paganini; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz; Albert Lortzing: Undine; George Frederick Handel: Julius Cäsar; Wolfgang Amadeus...
Performers: Popp, Lucia
Conductors: Schmidt-Bolcke, Werner; Zanotelli, Hans; Eichhorn, Kurt; Wallberg, Heinz; Gardelli, Lamberto

Lucia Popp is one of the best-documented and most versatile singers of her generation. Because of her linguistic and stylistic flexibility she was able to...continue...
Recording information: Kongress Saal, Deutches Museum, Munich, Germany....continue...

Tuesday Afternoon / Tony R Clef, Guitar

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2011-09-27

Works: Henry Purcell: If ever I more riches did desire; Leslie Bricusse: Pure Imagination, song (for the musical "Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory"); Richard Rodgers: Out of My Dreams, song (from "Oklahoma...
Performers: Clef, Tony R.

Winner of the Paul McCartney "Maybe I'm Amazed" cover contest, guitarist Tony Clef now presents TUESDAY AFTERNOON, an album of his arrangements and transcriptions of...continue...
Recording information: Scissorhand SoundLab, Sanford, ME (08/23/2010-08/25/2010)....continue...

Mariss Jansons conducts Lutoslawski, Szymanowski & Tchaikovsky

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2011-06-28

Works: Witold Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra; Karol Szymanowski: Symphony no 3, Op. 27 "Song of the Night"; Alexander Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4, for orchestra, choir & solo viola, Op. 78
Performers: Bartminski, Rafal; Guez, Nimrod; Rohn, Andreas
Conductors: Jansons, Mariss
Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Three works that are very close to his heart were brought together by Mariss Jansons for this new CD release. Karol Szymanowski's Third Symphony depicts...continue...
Recording information: Philharmonie im Gasteig, München....continue...

Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2 / Jochum

2 CD / BR Klassik / 2010-11-16

Works: Wilhelm Furtwängler: Symphony no 2 in E minor
Conductors: Jochum, Eugen

Wilhelm Furtwängler himself would have gladly have exchanged his fame as a conductor for international recognition as a composer. Nevertheless, performances of his works have...continue...
Recording information: München, Herkulessaal der Residenz (12/09/1954-12/10/1954)....continue...

Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu; Le sacre du printemps / Maazel

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2010-09-28

Works: Igor Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), concert suite for orchestra no 2; Le sacre du printemps
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Gliere: Harp Concerto; Korngold / Emmanuel Ceysson, harp

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2010-07-27

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K 622; Reinhold Glière: Harp Concerto in E flat major, Op. 74; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35
Performers: Ceysson, Emmanuel; Manz, Sebastian; Park, Hyeyoon
Conductors: Meister, Cornelius; Renes, Lawrence

Bernstein: Trouble In Tahiti

1 CD / BR Klassik / 2009-09-29

Works: Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story; Trouble in Tahiti, opera in 1 act; Spoken Word: Elgin Heuerding in Gespräch mit Ulf Schirmer
Performers: Collett, Ronan; Dwyer, Adrian [Tenor Vocal]; Grimson, Martene
Conductors: Schirmer, Ulf

The Munchner Rundfunkorchester is continually expanding its expansive repertoire of classic-romantic orchestral music as well as the key works of the classical modern era to...continue...
Recording information: München, Prinzregententheater (10/12/2008)....continue...

Hartmann: Des Simplicius Simplicissimus

2 CD / BR Klassik / 2009-09-29

Works: Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Simplicius Simplicissimus, opera; Spoken Word: Bernard Neuhoff speaks with Wilfried Hiller and Ulf Schirmer with sound recordings of Karl Amadeus H
Conductors: Schirmer, Ulf

The absolute highlight of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's centenary year was the concert performance of his opera Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend in Munich's Prinzregententheater. It was...continue...
Recording information: Prinzregententheater, München (12/11/2005)....continue...

Martin, Kodaly, Poulenc: Mass for Two Four-part Choruses

1 Super Audio CD / BR Klassik / 2009-09-29

Works: Frank Martin: Mass for Double Chorus; Zoltán Kodály: Missa Brevis for soloists, chorus & organ; Francis Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge Noire, for women's chorus & organ (or string...
Performers: Fleckenstein, Barbara; Goda, Masako; Hanft, Max; Knab, Michaela; Meyer, Andrew Lepri; Rollenmüller, Werner

Frank Martin was on the program of Peter Dijkstra's inaugural concert in October of 2005, when he - an authentic shooting star on the choral...continue...