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"10 Reference
Recordings" of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps to
commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the work's premiere, a reissue
of Leonard
Bernstein's 1958 recording with the New York Philharmonic, and a new
recording with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic (SONY /
EMI)
SACD
issues of music of Percy Grainger for chorus and orchestra performed
by Melbourne choruses and orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis,
Mahler's Das lied von der erde conducted by Marc Albrecht,
and Guy Braunstein performing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy and
Violin Concerto No. 1 (PENTATONE / CHANDOS / TUDOR)
SACD
issues of Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with soloists, chorus and the Suisse
Romande Orchestra directed
by Marek Janowski, Elgar's Symphony No. 2 with Sakari Oramo and the Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic, and a Wagner collection featuring the Wesendonck-Lieder sung
by Nina Stemme with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Thomas
Dausgaard (BIS / PENTATONE)
SACD issues of
Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Archduke Trio featuring the Storioni
Trio, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 conducted by Fabio Luisi, and a collection
of music by Vagn Holmboe (Concerto for Orchestra, concertos for viola
and violin). (CHALLENGE / MDR / DACAPO)
Organist David Craighead,
narrator Eugene Haun and percussionist Gordon Stout perform William
Albright's The King of Instruments and music of Persichetti, Adler
and Cooper (CRYSTAL)
A
welcome disk of ballet music and two symphonic poems by Russian
composer Andrei Petrov, Jorge Federico Osorio is soloist in the
piano concerto of Carlos Cháves and other works by Mexican
composers, and Fabio Luisi conducts soloists and the MDR Orchestra
in Mahler's Symphony No. 5, Das Lied von der Erde and Songs
of a Wayfarer (QUEERSTAND / CECILLE / NOTHERN FLOWERS)
Two
tributes to the 100th Anniversary of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps—a
boxed set of 20 disks
containing 38 performances, and a smaller 4-disk containing 6. Most of
these are famous recordings of the past led by famous conductors of the
past and present, here offered at budget price (DECCA)
Schubert
Epilog - music of Berio, Reimann, Henze, Zender and Schwertsik based
on or inspired
by music of Franz Schubert with Jonathan Nott conducting singers and
the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (TUDOR)
DVD
videos of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo from La Scala, Verdi's La forza
del destino with Zubin Mehta conducting, and Universe
of Sound, a video treatment
of Holst's The Planets, with the Philharmonia Orchestra
conducterd by Essa-Pekka Salonen (SIGNUM VISION / OPUS ARTE / ARTHAUS
MUSIK)
Music
of Hailstork: Symphony No. 1, Three Spirituals, An American Port
of Call,and other works performed by baritone Kevin Deas, the Virginia
Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Jo Ann Falletta (NAXOS)
Historic reissues: Maria
Callas in 1953 recordings of Cavalleria Rusticana and La traviata, Bruno
Walter conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 9,
and Arthur Rubinstein's near-definitive recordings of Chopin's piano concertos
(PRISTINE AUDIO)
SACDs
of Osmo Vänska conducting the Minnesota Orchestra in Symphonies
1 and 4 of Sibelius, music of Brahms featuring the clarinet with
Laura Ruiz Ferreres, and Ole Kristian Ruud leading the Staff Band
of the Norwegian Armed Forces in music of Berlioz, Saint-Saëns,
Milhaud and others (BIS / AUDITE / 2L)
Sir John Barbirolli
conducts the Hallé Orchestra in Elgar's Symphony No. 2 and Enigma
Variations (PRISTINE CLASSICAL)
SACDs of unusual concertos
by Muthspiel, Resch and Eröd, Mozart music for the oboe played by Alexei
Ogrintchouk, and music of Bach in organ transcrtiptions played by Martin
Schmeding (PREISER / BIX / ARS)
DVD videos
of thirteen Mozart piano concertos played by various artists, Verdi's
Il trovatore from the Parma Verdi Festival conducted by Yuri Temirkanov,
and the Igor Moiseyev Ballet live in Paris (EUROARTS / UNITEL CLASSICS
/ BEL AIR)
Eugene
Ormandy conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in Dello Joio's Variations,
Chaconne, and Finale; also music of Vincent: Symphony in D and Symphonic
Poem after Descartes (PRISTINE AUDIO)
SACDs
of Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil performed by the Latvian National
Radio Choir directed
by Sigvards Klava, the fifth volume of orchestra music of Lutoslawski
played by the BBC Symphony conducted by Edward Gardner, and music
of Kurt Atterberg played by the Gothenburg Symphony led by Neeme Järvi
(ONDINE/ CHANDOS)
An intriguing new recording
of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Le sacre du printemps played by the
Toulouse Orchestra led by Tugan Sokhiev, and reissues of Orff's Tritico conducted by Ferdinand Leitner, and Tchaikovsky's symphonies directed
by Gennady Rozhdestvensky (NAÏVE / MEMBRANE / MELODIYA)
SACDs
of sonatas for transverse flute and harpsichord by Boismortier played
by Ivan Bushuev and Olga Martytnova, pianist Sergey Koudriakov in
music of Prokofiev and Hindemiuth, and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6
and orchestral suites with Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic
(CARO MITIS / BIS)
"Fire and Time"
- music of Tarlow, Yip, Brings, Osterfield, Block and Quilling with
soloistsa and orchestras conducted by Robert Stankovsky, Robert Ian
Winston and Gil Rose (NAVONA)
Four
superb new releases: Concertos for orchestra by Ivan Karabits
with his son conducting the
Bournemouth Symphony, Mahler's symphonies 1 and 8 in live performances
with Hartmut Haenchen conducting the Netherlands Philharmonic, two
symphonies by Villa-Lobos with the São Paulo Symphony directed by Isaac
Karabtchevsky, and a collection of British clarinet sonatas played
by Michaeo Collins (NAXOS / ICA / CHANDOS)
SACDs of Bruckner's
Symphony No. 3 with Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic,
music for clarinet and strings by Brahms and Schumann performed by
members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and a collection of Latin
music from Tudor England performed by Magnificat directed by Philip
Cave (CHALLENGE CLASSICS / LINN)
Major
historic recordings: Leopold Stokowski in a 1962 Philadelphia Orchestra
concert featuring music of Wagner, Beethoven, Ravel and Straviinsky;
two Brahms symphoniues with Arturo Toscanini and the Philharmonia
Orchestra recorded in London in 1952, a group of recordings by Willem
Mengelberg and the New York Philharmonic, and E. Power Biggs playing
music of Soler and Bach (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Fazil Say's exciting Istanbul
Symphony and concerto for ney and orchestra in live recordings, flutist
Sharon Bezaly playing music of Serebrier, Izarra, Vine and Ginastera,
the McCormick Percussion Ensemble playing music of Santos, Mobley, Gillingham
and Noon, and a fairy tale cantata and other music by Per Norgard (NAÏVE
/ BIS / RAVELLO / DACAPO)
DVD
videos of small-scale presentations of Verdi's Luisa Miller,
La Battaglia di Legnano, and Il
Corsaro from opera houses in Parma and Trieste (C MAJOR)
Historic recordings of Felix
Weingartner conducting two Brahms symphonies: No. 3 with the London Philharmonic,
and Symphony No. 4 with the London Symphony (PRISTINE AUDIO)
A major deluxe
issue of the historic Decca recording of Wagner's complete Ring with
superb singers and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Sir
Georg Solti, a huge multi-disk set with a Blu Ray audio disk, documentaries
and
special features (DECCA)
Rachmaninoff
concertos played by Valentina Lisitsa with the
London Symphony conducted by Michael Francis, a valuble set of recordings
by Sir Georg Solti, four Bruckner symphonies conducted by Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, orchestral music of Ludvig Irgens Jensen, and music of
British composer John Pickard (DECCA / BIS / WARNER CLASSICS / CPO)
DVD
videos of a concert of Rachmaninoff and Mahler played by the Berlin
Philharmonic
conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in Singapore, a documentary
"Maestro Or Mephisto" about the life of Sir Georg Solti, and two films
by Christopher Nupen on the life of Andrés Segovia (EUROARTS / UNITEL
CLASSICS / CHRISTOPHER NUPEN)
Beethoven's
late quartets and Grosse Fuge performed by the Hollywood String Quartet
(PRISTINE AUDIO)
SACD
issues of Berlioz overtures with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, Weingartner's Symphony No. 7 with soloists,
chorus and the Basel Orchestra directed by Marko Letonja, and Neemi
Järvi leading the Suisse Romande Orchestra in music of Raff: Four
Shakespeare Preludes and Symphony No. 2 (CHANDOS / CPO)
SACDs
of Mozart's piano concertos 19 and 23 played by Ronald Brautigan
with Die Kölner Akaademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens,
music for cello and orchestra played by Steven Isserlis (Bloch: Schelomo/Bridge: Oration/Hough: The
Loneliest Wilderness), and a program featuring Mussorgsky's Pictures
at an Exhibition performed by Die Pianisten (BIS / ARC)
SACDs
of music for the oboe by Aho played by Piet Van Bockstal, Saint-Saëns's
oratorio Le
Dëluge with
soloists, chorus and orchestra conducted by Alexander Burda, and choral
music of Valen, Messiaen, Webern and Berg performed by the Norwegian
Soloists' Choir directed by Grete Pedersen (BIS / ARS)
SACD issues of organ music
of Sweelinck played by Joseph Kelemen, organ music by several composers
of the North German Baroque played by Friedrich Flamme, and organ music
of Kalevi Aho played by Jan Lehtola (CPO / BIS)
Three
superb operatic DVDs: Tosca from the Royal Opera House with
Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; "The Enchanted
Island" from the Met featuring Joyce DiDonato, Danielle
de Nirese, David Daniels, Lucia Pisaroni, Lisette Oropesa and Plácido
Domingo, and the Met's Le Comte Ory with Juan Diego Flórez,
Joyce DiDonato and Diane Damrau (VIRGIN CLASSICS / EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of arias by Agostino Steffani sung by Cecilia Bartoli with
I Barocchisti,
Verdi's Joan of Arc in a production from the Parma Verdi Festival,
and the 1981 world premiere Wolfgang Rihm's Oedipus from the Berlin
Deutsche Opera (DECCA / C MAJOR / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
Historic
reissues: Leopold Stokowski's 1962 Philadelphia Orchestra concert of
Webern, Sibelius, Debussy and Mussorgsky, and the Maestro's 1961 Edinburgh
Festival performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder; Arturo Toscanini's
live Royal Festival Hall 1952 Brahms concert with the Philharmonia
Orchestra, and Bruno Walter's early Columbia stereo recordings of Mahler's
Symphonies 1 and 9 (PRISTINE AUDIO / GUILD)
Music
of Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Rhapsody on Moldavia Themes and Symphony
No. 6 performed by the Glinka
Choral College Boys' Choir and the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Vladimir Lande (NAXOS)
SACDs
of Mozart sonatas played by pianist Noriko Ogawa, orchestral music
of Ravel with
Leonard Slatkin and Orchestre National de Lyon, and the first installment
of a new Ring cycle, Die Walküre, with a stellar
cast and Mariinsky forces directed by Valery Gergiev (BIS / MARIINSKY
/ NAXOS)
SACDs of Sir
Colin Davis conducting the London Symphony in Nielsen's Symphonies
2 and 3, three Bach cantatas with the Bach Collegium directed by Masaaki
Suzuki, and a program of chamber works by Howokawa performed by Quatour
Diotirna (LSO LIVE / BIS / NEOS)
DVD
videos of three lesser-known Verdi operas: I Masnadieri from
the San Carlo Opera, Attila from Teatro Regio di Parma,
and Alzira in a concert performance conducted by Gustav
Kuhn (C MAJOR)
DVD
videos of Beethoven's symphonies with the SWR Orchestra conducted
by Michael Gielen, Japanese
pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii's appearance at the White Nights Festival with
Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, and Daniel Barenboim with
the Berlin Staatskapelle performing Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 (EUROARTS
/ ACCENTUS)
SACD
issues of overtures and marches by Von Suppé with Neemi Järvi and
the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra, two symphonies by Seppo Pohjola with Sakari Oramo conducting
the Finnish Radio Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 and Rococo
Variations performed by the Gürzenich Köln Orchestra conducted by Dmitrij
Kitajenko with cellist Leonard Elschgenbroich (CHANDOS / ALBA / OEHMS)
SACD
issues of two organ symphonies of Louis Vierne played by Hans-Eberhard
Ros, music of
the 17th century for two organs played by David Blunder and Johannes
Strobl, and music of Szymanowski with Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony
(Concert Overture, Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 4 (with pianist Louis
Lortie) (AUDITE / CHANDOS)
All
five Beethoven piano concertos featuring Solomon with the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges and André Cluytens;
Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand in a concert performance by Paul
Wittgenstein conducted by Bruno Walter and Britten's Diversions played
by Julius Katchen with the composer conducting (PRISTINE AUDIO /
MEMBRAN)
Ravi Shankar's Symphony
performed by Anoushka Shankar, sitar, with David Murphy conducting
the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO)
Teatro La Scala presents
two deluxe albums, a 1964 live performance of Puccini's Turandot with
Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli and Galina Vishnevskaya, and a tribute
to Maria Callas including many of her best known recordings (LA SCALA
MEMORIES)
The
seventh Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performances
from 2000-2010, with famous conductors including Riccardo Chailly,
Mariss Jansons, Sir Colin Davis, Herbert Bloomstedt, Kurt Masur,
Zubin Mehta and many others. Repertory focuses on contemporary music,
but many standard classics are there as well, all presented in state-of-the-art
sonics. (RCOA LIVE)
Mahler's complete
symphonies plus Totenfeier and Das Lied von der Erde in
live performances from a recent Mahler festival in Amsterdam
with ther Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding,
Bernard Haitink,
Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Eliahu Inbal, Fabio Luisi,
Iván
Fischer and Daniele Gatti. Unfortunately manifold production problems
plague this 11-disk set. (RCO LIVE) 
Historic Mozart
performances conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler: Die Zauberflöte from
the 1951 Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
and Symphon No. 39 with the Berlin Philharmonic (PRISTINE
AUDIO)
DVD videos of Wagner's
Ring: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in the
Metropolitan Opera production conceived by Robert Lepage, with superb
singers and conductors James Levine and Fabio Luisi (DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
Major orchestral
releases: music of Delius with the BBC Wales Orchestra conducred by
Andrew Davis, two major works of Keith Leighton (Symphony No. 1/Piano
Concerto No 3) with Martyn Brabbins conducting; clarinet concertos
of Stanford, Finzi and Arnold played by Michael Collins, film music
by Arthur Benjamin and Leighton Lucas with Rumon Gamba on the podium,
and three major works of Tan Dun with the composer conducting the Hong
Kong Philharmonic (CHANDOS / NAXOS)
Reissues of Sir Thomas
Beecham's famous recordings of Mozart's Requiem and Schubert's Symphony
No. 5, all with the Royal Philharmonic (PRISTINE AUDIO)
DVD
videos of Britten's War Requiem, with Andris Nelsons, soloists,
chorus and the City of Birmingham Orchestra, comnmemoratring the
50th Anniversary of the premiere, Verdi's Nabucco with Leo
Nucci from Teatro Regio Di Parms, and a Berlin production of Korngold's Die
Tote Stadt with Karen Armstrong and James King, Heinrich Hollreiser
on the podium (C MAJOR / ARTHAUS MUSIC)
DVD videos of Tchaikovsk's
Iolanta and Stravinsky's Perséphone in productions from Teatro Real,
Rossini's Sigismondo in a production from Bologna conducted by Michele
Mariotti, and the documentary The Reichsorchester, a film by Enrique
Sánchez Lansch (ARTHAUS MUSIK / TEATRI REAL)
Howard Hanson conducts
the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra in his own Symphony No. 5 and The
Cherubic Hymn, Morton Gould's Latin-American Symphonette, and Barber's The
School for Scandal Overture, Adagio for Strings and Essay
for Orchestra No. 1 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Superb
remasterings of historic recordings: Arturo Toscanini conducting
Sibelius with the NBC Symphony,
early Detroit recordings with Paul Paray on the podium, Antal Dorati
conducting the Minneapolis Symphony in Tchaikovsky, Albeniz and De Falla,
and Charles Munch with the Boston Symphony in Symphony No. 8 of Vaughan
Williams, and Ravel's Piano Concerto and D'Indy's Symphony on a French
Mountain Air with Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Three more of Maria Callas's
finest early recordings, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and I
Puritani recorded for EMI in 1953, and a live 1955 performance of Bellini's Norma from LaScala, all sounding better than ever (PRISTINE AUDIO)
The Pacifica Quartet
plays Quartets Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Shostakovich, and Prokofiev's
Quartet No. 2 (CEDILLE)
Collectors
will rejoice with Decca's "BIG-BOX" series of recordings, huge sets
(some contain 55 disks!) devoted to Mozart, Ravel, Debussy, Massenet,
Delius, Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, Kathleen Ferrier, Clifford
Curzon, Wilhelm Kempff, Baroque Music, and compilations of recordings
issued
on Mercury
Living Presence and Philips labels, all at super-budget prices. (DECCA)
SACD issues of Bach violin
concertos played by Vesko Eschkenazy with the Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra,
Bach harpsichord concertos played by Matthew Halls, and Corelli's
Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 performed by the Avison Ensemble (PENTATONE /
LINN)
SACDs of Strauss's Elektra from
the Netherlands Opera conducted by Marc Albrercht, Elgar's
The Starlight Express directed by Sir Andrew Davis, and
three Mendelssohn string quartets performed by the Mandelring Quartet
(CHALLENGE
CLASSICS
/ CHANDOS / AUDITE)
SACD issues of
Lutoslawski's Mala Suite, Cello Concerto (with Paul Watkins), and Symphony
No. 2 with the BBC Symphony conducted by Edward Gardner, a collection
of Mozart works for violin and orchestra played by Julia Fischer with
the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra directed by Yakov Kreizberg, and
the duo-piano team of Mona and Rica Bard plays music of Milhaud, Ravel,
Bizet and Poulenc (CHANDOS / PENTATONE / AUDITE)
DVD
videos of a Vienna State Opera production of Arabella with
Emily Magee and Thomasz Konieczny conducted by Franz Welser-Möst,
the 2012 Schönbrunner Summer Concert with Gustavo Dudamel and
the Vienna Philharmonic, and Verdi's Il trovate from the
Met with Sondra Radvenovsky, Dolora Zajick and Dmitri Hvorostovsky
with Marco Armiliato conducting (DGG / EPC)
SACD
issues of Tchaikovsky's complete Sleeping Beauty Ballet with the
Bergen Philharmonic conducted
by Neemi Järvi, the same composer's first three symphonies in live performances
with the London Symphony directed by Valery Gergiev, and disk varied
works by Moritz Eggers (CHANDOS / LSO LIVE / AUDITE)
SACD
issues of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 conductged by Markus Stenz, a program
of music by Elgar,
Vaughan Williams and Britten with the Oregon Symphony directerd by
Carlos Kalmar, and music of Rachmaninoff with the Bergen Philharmonic
conducted
by Andrew Litton (OEHMS / PENTATONE / BIS)
SACD
issues of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde with Nina Stemme from
Berlin with Marek Janowski conducting, Mikhail Pletnev conducting
the Russian National
Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3, and Valery Gergiev with
the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (PENTATONE
/ MARIINSKY)
Wilhelm Backhaus
plays Beethoven's Piano Concertos 2 and 3 with the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Karl Böhm and Clemens Krauss (PRISTINE CLASSICAL)
Wilhelm Backhaus
plays Beethoven's Piano Concertos 4 and 5 with the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Clemens Krauss (PRISTINE CLASSICAL)
Wilhelm Backhaus plays
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas 14 - 32 (PRISTINE CLASSICAL)
Debussy's Preludes
orchestrated by Peter Breiner played by the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra conducted by Jun Märkl, Symphonies 6 and 7 of Villa-Lobos
withg Isaac Karabtchevsky and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, James
Cohn's symphonies 3, 4 and 8 with KJiurk Trever and the Slovak Radio
Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony Winds conducted by Jerry Junkin
in music of Tichelli and a Christmas celebration (NAXOS / MSR / REFERENCE
RECORDINGS)
DVD videos
of Teatro Regio Di Parma productions of Verdi's I Lombardi, I Due
Foscari and Oberto, and a Royal Opera House production of Verdi's
Macbeth with Simon Keenlyside and Antonio Pappano conducting (C MAJOR
/ OPUS ARTE)
SACD issues of music
of Cowell, Harrison and Varèse with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San
Francisco Symphny Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth leads the Netherlands
Radio Philharmonic in Symphony No. 11 of Shostakovich, and Herbert Bloomstedt
conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No.
7 (SFO / BIS / QUERSTAND)
SACDs of piano
music of Liszt, Ravel and Saint-Saëns played byYevgeny Sudbin, a program
of music for viola and piano played by Maxim Rysandov and Ashley Wass,
and Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 with the Malaysian Philharmonic directed
by Claus Peter Flor (BIS)
DVD
videos of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with massive forces conducted
by Gustavo Dudamel, and two concerts by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
conducted by Andris Nelsons featuring music of Wagner, Strauss, Shostakovich,
Beethoven (Piano Concerto No. 5 with Yefim Bronfman) and Rimsky-Korsakov
(DGG / C MAJOR )
DVD videos
of Bach's St. Matthew Passion performed in Leipzig with the Thomanerchor
Leipzig directed by Christoph Biller, a documentary about the St. Thomas
Boys Choir, and an ill-fated production of Samson and Delilah from
Badisches Staatstheater featuring José Cura (ACCENTUS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
SACD issues of Suk's
A Summer's Tale and Prague with Jiri Belohlavek and the BBC Philharmonbic,
Alan Gilbert conducting the New York Philharmonic in Nielsen's Symphonies
2 and 3, and Jaap van Zweden leads the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
in Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 (CHANDOS / DA CAPO / CHALLENGE )
Chopin
played by Khatia Buniatishvili and Lang Lang, French music played
by Stephen
Hough, and Benno Moisiewitsch plays Rachmaninoff's Concertos 1 and
2 and Paganini Rhapsody (SONY / HYPERION / PRISTINE AUDIO)
A
program of baroque arias sung by mezzo Joyce Di Donato, "Romantique"
with mezzo Elina Garanca, soprano Soile Isokoski sings Strauss's
Three Hymns and excerpts from Ariadne
auf Naxos and Der Rosenkavalier, and a 1939 broadcast of Act II
of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde with Kirsten Flagstad (SONY CLASSICAL
/ DGG / ONDINE
/ MUSIC & ARTS)
Historic reissues of concertos
of Sibelius and Brahms played by Ginette Neveu, a Russian program conducted
by Anatole Fistoulari, orchestral recordings conducted by Leo Blech,
and Glazunov's Raymonda ballet conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov (SONY CLASSICAL
/ GUILD / MUSIC & ARTS)
The
historic recording of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher with
soloists, chorus and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted bu Eugene
Ormandy (PRISTINE CLASSICAL)
Welcome reissues of
historic recordings of music of Bach, Vaughan Williams and Walton with
the Roger Wagner Chorale (PRISTINE AUDIO)
SACD issues of Respighi's Fountains
of Rome, Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals with John Neschling
conducting the São Paulo Orchestra, Arabella Steinbacher playing Prokofiev's
violin concertos with the Russian National Orchestra directed by Vasily
Petrenko, and a collection of Encores played by the Kroumata Percussion
Ensemble (BIS / PENTATONE)
SACD issues of
Symphonie fantastique and Cléopatre of Berlioz
with the Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Nézet-Séguin, ballet suites
from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet with Andrew Litton
and the Bergen Philharmonic, and music orchestral music of Kaipainenk,
Korpijaaku and Meriläinen played by the Tampere Philharmonic directed
by Hannu
Lintu
(BIS / ALBA)
SACD releases of
Finnish music by Sallinen (Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Chamber
Orchestra), Tiensuu (Alma II & III,Mind,
Mood), Puumala (Chainsprings,
Seeds of Time), and Hakim (Paskeblomst, organ concertos) (ALBA)
SACD issues of two major
works by Gubaidulina: "The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair," and Sieben
Worte, with soloists and the Gothenburg Symphony directed by Mario Venzago,
symphonic music of Ole Olsen with the Arctic Philharmonic conducted by
Rune Halvorsen, and Neemi Järvi conducting the Gothenburg Symphony in
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 and Francesca da Rimini (BIS)
SACD
issues of Liszt's Totentanz and Piano Concertos 1 and 2
played by Arnaldo Cohen with John Neschling and the São Paulo
Orchestra, Strauss's Ein
Heldenleben and Four Last Songs with Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
soprano Dorothea Röschmann
and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and Aho's Symphony No. 12 with orchestras
and soloists conducted by John Storgards (BIS)
SACD
issues of Finnish music: two symphonies of Aarre Merikanto played
by the Turku Philharmonic conducted by Petri Sakari, choral music
of Kuula with the Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis and Turki Philharmonic
conducted by Sakari, and four string quartets by Seppo Pohjola played
by the Kamus Quartet (ALBA)
SACD issues of
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Daniil Trifonov and the Mariinsky
Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, Iván Fischer conducting
the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 1, and Vladimir
Ashkenazy conducting Holland's Radio Philharmonic in music of Respighi: Belfagor Overture, Belkis
Queen of Sheba, and Church Windows (MARIINSKY
/ CHANNEL CLASSICS / EXTON) 
SACD issues of early
Mozart symphonies performed by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields
directed by Sir Neville Marriner, The Creation by Haydn with soloists
and Boston Baroque directed by Martin Pearlman, and pianist Michael Korstick's
final disk in his set of Beethoven piano sonatas (PENTATONE / LINN /
OEHMS)
SACD issues of two organ
symphonies of Widor performed by Christian Schmitt, organ music of Heironymus
Praetorious played by Friedhelm Flamme, and organ
music of Buxtehude, Bach Sallinen, Hämmeenniemi,
and Kaipainen played by Kari Vuola (ALBA / CPO )
SACD
issues of Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 with Marek Janowski and the Suisse
Romande
Orchestra, Mahler's Symphony No. 1 with the Gürzenich Orchestra conducted
by Markus Stenz, and the same orchestra playing Tchaikovsky's Symphony
No. 1 with Dmitri Kitajenko on the podium (PENTATONE / OEHMS)
Sir Thomas Beecham's
historic recordings of twelve Haydn symphonies with the Royal Philharmonic
(PRISTINE AUDIO)
Gerard
Schwarz conducts the Seattle Symphony in music of Howard Hanson: Symphony
No
4 "Requiem," Symphony No. 5 "Sinfonia sacra," Elegy
in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky, and Dies Natalis (NAXOS)
DVD
videos of a program of Baroque flute concertos played by Emmanuel
Pahud, Puccini's La Fanciulla
del West with Deborah Voight from the Metropolitan Opera, and Gounod's
Romeo and Juliet from the Verona Festival (C MAJOR / DGG / BEL AIR CLASSICS)
DVD videos of Leonard
Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven's Quartet,
Op 135, and Haydn's Mass in Time of War; Herbert Bloomstedt conducting
Bach's Mass in B minor and a memorial concert in 1999 in Leipzig, and
Sergiu Celibidache conducting the Munich Philharmonic in Bruckner's Symphony
No. 4 (C MAJOR / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
Superb reissues
of the famous 1953 Maria Callas recording of Tosca, a song recital
by Kirsten Flagstad, Leopold Stokowski conducting music for strings,
and piano roll recordings by great composers/pianists of the past (PRISTINE
CLASSICAL / GUILD / DAL SEGNO)
Antoni
Wit leads soloists and the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
in music of Penderecki: Three Pieces in Olden Style, Serenade, Sinfonietts
Nos. 1 and 2, Intermezzo for 24 Strings and Capriccio for Oboe and
String Orchestra (NAXOS)
SACD
issues of highlights from the Australian Opera production of Wagner's Ring with
Asher Fisch conducting, clarinetist Paul Dean and pianist Stephen
Emmerson playing music of Brahms and Schumann, and Philippe Herreweghe
and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic playing Schubert's Symphonies 6
and 7 (MELBA / PENTATONE)
DVDs
of Strauss's
Ariadne auf Naxos with Emily Magee from the Zürich
Opera with Christoph von Dohnányi conducting, and two versions
of Otello, one from Berlin
conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the other a 1962 Berlin performance
featuring Renata Tebaldi with Giuseppe Patané conducting (TDK
/ ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVDs
of a recital by pianist Valentina Lisitsa in Royal Albert Hall, young
Japanese pianist
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Carnegie Hall, and a 40th anniversary concert by The
12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic (DECCA / EUROARTS)
SACD issues of
Prokofiev's five piano concertos played by Alexander Gavrylyuk with
the Sydney Symphony conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, and soprano Anu
Komsi in a program of music of Britten, Henze, Schöenberg, Castiglioni
and Szymanowski (EXTON / ALBA)
Vivaldi's opera
Teuzzone performed bny soloists, chorus and orchestra directed by Jordi
Savall (NAÏVE)
Surround
sound recordings of Debussy orchestral works with the Royal Scottish
National Orchestra
conducted by Stephane Denève, the Seitakuoro Chamber Choir performing
choral music of Lapland, and Sigiswald Kuijken conducts Bach's St.
John Passion (CHANDOS / ALBA / CHALLENGE CLASSICS)
SACD issues of Britten's
War Requiem with soloists, chorus and orchestra directed by Jap van Zweden,
choral music of Shostakovich including The Song of the Forests with
various Russian performers, and Dvorák's Quartets 9 and 13 with
the Zemlinsky Quartet (CHALLENGE CLASSICS / PRAGA)
DVD videos
of Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten from last year's Salzburg Festival,
the opening night of the 2011 Salzburg Festival with Pierre Boulez
conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in music of Berg and Mahler, and
Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame in a performance from Barcelona with an outstanding
cast (OPUS ARTE / C MAJOR)
Historic reissues:
Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony recordings of Brahms symphonies, Paul
Paray and the Detroit Symphony in music of Franck, Ibert, Ravel and
Chabrier, and Willem Mengelberg's two recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic:
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto with Conrad Hansen
(PRISTINE AUDIO)
Music of Elizabeth
Maconchy: The Land, Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, Music
for Woodwind and Brass, and Symphony for Double String Orchestra, with
pianist Clelia Iruzun and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Odalline de la Martinez (LORELT)
DVD videos
of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 and Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3 played
by Martha Argerich early in her career, Puccini's Il Trittico from
the Royal Opera House conducted by Antonio Pappano, and Verdi's Falstaff from Stuttgart with Daniele Gatti on the podium (IDEALE / OPOUS ARTE
/ C MAJOR)
Major
historic reissues in remarkable new transfers: Wilhelm Furtwängler
conducting
Brahms orchestral works with the Vienna Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestras, with concertos by Brahms and Schumann (PRISTINE AUDIO)
DVD videos
of two performances of Wagner's Lohengrin, one from the Vienna State
Opera featuring Plácido Domingo with Claudio Abbado conducting, the
other from Bayreuth with Klaus Florian Vogt as the Knight, and Donizetti's
Lucrezia Borgia with Edita Gruberova in the title role from Munich
(ARTHAUS MUSIK / OPUS ARTE / EUROARTS)
Historic
reissues: Guido Cantelli conducts the New York Philharmonic in music
of Cherubini, Strauss and Busoni; Mischa Elman plays music of Vivaldi,
Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Paganini, Paul Paray conducts the Detroit
Symphony in musis of Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel, Efrem Zimbalist plays
violin concertos of Brahms and Sibelius, and Arturo Toscanini conducts
Beethoven's Fidelio (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Symphonies 2
and 3 by Ross Harris with Marko Letohnja and the Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra (NAXOS)
Johannes Moser with
the Köln Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen plays Shostakovich's
Cello Concerto No. 1 and Britten's Cello Symphony (HÄNSSLER)
Chamber music of
Martinu including the Harpsichord Concerto with Klaus Simon conducting,
Beethoven's Symphonies 5 and 7 with Jaap van Zweden and the Dallas
Symphony, reissues of older recordings of orchestral,
choral and chamber music of Stravinsky, orchestral
works of Schwarz-Schilling including a violin concerto played by Kirill
Troussov, and choral music of Villa-Lobos
with the Corydon Singers (NAXOS / DALLAS SO / PRAGA / HYPERION)
SACD issues of
music of Prokofiev (Love for Three Oranges, Lt. Kiji, The Ugly
Duckling)
with the Sydney Symphony conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sibelius's
Symphonies 1 and 3, and Rakastava, with the Roya Stockholm Philharmonic
directed by Ashkenazy, and Strauss's Elektra with the London Symphony
conducted by Valery Gergiev (EXTON / LSO LIVE)
Wilhelm Backhaus plays Beethoven's
Piano Sonatas 1 - 13 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
DVD videos of Rautavaara's
opera Aleksis Kivi with the Finnish National Opera, Falla's La
Vide Breve in a performance from Valencia conducted by Lorin Maazel, and Sergiu
Celibidache's 1992 concert with the Berlin Philharmonic of Bruckner's
Symphony No. 7. (ONDINE / C MAJOR / EUROARTS)
SACD
issues of Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Beethoven's Symphony No.
7 and Leonore Overture No. 3, Jonathanh Nott and the Bamberg
Symphony playing Mahler's Symphony No. 7, and song cycles of Hans
Sommer performed by Elisabeth Kulman and Bo Skovhus with Sebastian
Weigghle and the Bamberg Symphony (SAN FRANCISCO SO / TUDOR)
SACD releases
of orchestral works of Saint-Saëns played by the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra conducted by Neemi Järvi, Britten's Serenade and Nocturne,
plus Finzi's Die Natalis, with tenor Mark Padmore and Jacqueline Shave
conducting, and Paul Hillier directing Ars Nova Copenhagen in music
of Ockeghem and Sorensen (CHANDOS / HARMONIA MUNDI / DA CAPO)
DVD videos of Claudio
Abbado conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony
No. 5, the Old City String Quartet with guests playing music of Mozart
recorded in 3D, and New Year's Concert 2012 from Teatro La Fenice conducted
by Diego Matheuz (ACCENTUS / AIX RECORDS / ARTHAUYS MUSIK)
Premiere recording
of the Prologue to Shostakovich's Orango and his Symphony
No. 4 with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Peter
Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11,
Jaap van Zweden
and the Dallas Symphony in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, and Gustavo
Dudamel and the Simón Bolivar Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No.
3 (TSO LIVE / DALLAS SYMPHONY / DGG)
Thomas
Zehetmair leads the Northern Sinfonia in Schubert's Symphony No.
9 and Gál's
Symphony No. 2 (AVIE)
DVD
videos of Strauss's Elektra from the Vienna State Opera
with Iréne Theorin conducted by Daniele Gatti, the 2012 New
Year's Concert from Vienna conducted by Mariss Jansons, and Renée
Fleming with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Christian Thielemann
in Strauss lieder plus his An Alpine Symphony (ARTHAUS
MUSIK / SONY CLASSICAL / OPUS ARTE)
DVD
videos of Mariss Jansons conducting the Berlin Philharmonic with
violinist Vadim Repin in an outdoor concert, Michael Tilson Thomas
and the San Francisco Symphony celebrate their
centennial with music of Copland, Mendelssohn, Britten and Adams, and
Thomas Dausgaard leads the Danish National Orchestra in symphonies of
Brahms, Dvorák, Sibelius and Nielsen (SONY / SFO LIFE / C MAJOR)
Historic reissues: piano
music of Liszt played by Sviatoslav Richter, an NBC Symphony Orchestra
concert conducted by Guido Cantelli, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting music
of Arnell, Delius and Berners, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting the Berlioz
Requiem, and cello and violin concertos of Shostakovich played by Mstislav
Rostropovich and David Oistrakhy (WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES / PRISTINE
AUDIO / ICA CLASSICS / REGIS)
Five multiple-disc sets
from a new series of quality budget reissues, devoted to Arthur Rubinstein,
Charles Munch, Günter Wand, and Jascha Heifetz, all remastered and sounding
better than ever. (RCA RED SEAL)
An update on our
feature about all recordings, audio and video, of Strauss's Elektra.
An update
on our feature of all recordings, audio and video, of Strauss's Salome.
Historic
reissues: Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic
in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, acoustic recordings of Bruno Walter,
Piero Coppola conducting Schumann, Wagner and Strauss, and a 4-disk
set of early acoustic and live performances by cellist Emanuel Feuermann
(REGIS / PRISTINE CLASSICAL / MUSIC & ARTS)
Mariss Jansons
conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in the 2012 New Year's Concert, Nikolaus
Harnoncourt leads Concentus Musicus Wien in Waltz Revolution, Riccardo
Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra play music of Ravel (with
pianist Stefano Bollani), Stravinsky, Weill and De Sabata, and the
first recording of Korngold's Die Stumme Serenade (SONY CLASSICAL /
DECCA / CPO)
Violinist
Jacques Thibaud and pianist Alfred Cortot play sonatas of Franck
and Fauré
(PRISTINE AUDIO)
Magdalena Kozena sings
Dvorák, Ravel and Mahler with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic,
reissue of some early recordings by Joan Sutherland, Anita Cerquetti
and Martha Mödl, and a reissue of the Dresden Die Frau ohne
Schatten conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli (DGG / REGIS / PREISER / PROFIL)
Shostakovich's
complete film score for New Babylon with the Basel Sinfonietta directed
by Mark Fitz-Gerald (NAXOS)
Riccardo Chailly
conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Beethoven's symphonies,
Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony in the six symphonies of
Martinu, David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra begin a new
Schubert series with the Unfinished , two piano concertos
of Erik Chisholm played by Danny Driver, and ballet music of Delibes
with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra (DECCA / ONYX / RCA RED SEAL
/ HYPERION / REFERENCE)
DVD videos of a
1977 Tokyo concert by Franco Corelli, a 1999 Tokyo Recital by Alfredo
Kraus, and a Paris Opera production of Gounod's Mireille (DYNAMIC /
FRA MUSICA)
DVD videos of Bizet's
Carmen from the Vienna State Opera with Carlos Kleiber conducting, Lakmé from the Australian Opera, and Raymonda in a performance by the La Scala
Ballet (ARTHAUS MUSIC / OPERA AUSTRALIA)
DVD videos of a documentary
about the life of conductor Mariss Jansons including Mahler's Resurrection Symphony,
a Fauré concert featuring the Requiem recorded in France with Paavo Järvi
conducting, and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in a Netherlands
Opera production conducted by Mariss Jansons (RCOA LIVE / EUROARTS / OPUS
ARTE)
Music of Eric Moe (Superhero/Eight
Point Turn/Kick & Ride) played by Robert Schulz (drum set) with
the Boston Modern Orchestra Project conducted by Gil Rose (BMOP SOUND)
Nigel
Kennedy's The Four Elements with Kennedy and the Orchestra of Life
(SONY)
Artur
Schnabel's historic recordings of Beethoven's Bagatelles (PRISTINE
AUDIO)
Three
important reissues of Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman Rochester
Orchestra in music of Piston, Cowell, Loeffler, Carter, Riegger,
MacDowell, Griffes, Harris and Barber (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Important
historic reissues: Carl Schuricht conducts Lothar, Franck, Zandonai,
Reznicek and Strauss, Sir Hamilton Harty conducts Smetana, Liszt,
Brahms and Dvorák, Mstislav Rostropovich plays Dvorák
and Miaskovsky, Clifford Curzon plays Beethoven's Piano Concertos
4 and 5, and a collection of live performances conducted by Leopold
Stokowski (PRISTINE AUDIO / GUILD)
Artur
Schnabel's historic recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations and
several other short works (PRISTINE AUDIO)
SACD
issues of music by Schmidt, Kmopopel, Lohse and Norgard played by
accordionist Bjarke Mogensen, works for recorder and orchestra by
Harvey, Arnold and Jacob played by Michaela Petri, piano music of
Rachmaninoff played by Nareh Arghamanyan, and Valery Gergiev conducting
the London Symphonty in Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances and
Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements (DA CAPO / OUR
RECORDINGS / PENTATONE / LSO LIVE)
A
varied collection of piano music by American composers played by
Rudolph Ganz and Jeanne Behrend (PRISTINE AUDIO)
DVD
Blu Ray issues of Janácek's Glagolitic Mass and Sinfonietta with
the Warsaw Philharmonic conducted by Antoni Wit, Verdi's ballet music
with the Bournemouth Symphony directed by José Serebrier,
and Gershwin's Piano Concerto, Rhapsody No. 2 and I
Got Rhythm Variations with pianist Orion Weiss and the Buffalo
Philharmonic conducted by JoAnn Falletta (NAXOS)
"The
Genesis Suite" - music of Shilkret, Tansman, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco,
Toch, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg, played by the Janssens Orchestra,
and Piston's Symphony No.2. with the Boston Symphony conducted by
G. Wallace Woodworth (PRISTINE CLASSICAL)
DVD
videos of Wagner's Tannhäuser featuring Peter Seiffert
from Gran Teatre del Liceu, Puccini's Madama Butterfly from
the Puccini Festival, and a reissue of Traces yo Nowhere,
a documentary about conductor Carlos Kleiber (ARTHAUS MUSIK / C MAJOR
/ DYNAMIC)
DVD
videos of Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or conducted by Kent
Negano, a Waldbüren concert with Riccardo Chailly conducting
the Berlin Philharmonic in music of Shostakovich, Rota and Respighi,
and Klaus Tennstedt with the Boston Symphony performing Bruckner's
Symphony No. 7 (ARTHAUS MUSIK / EUROARTS / ICA CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio from Liceu
with Diana Damrau, Rossini's La Gazza Ladra from the Rossini
Festival, and Mayr's Medea in Corinto with Nadja Michael
from the Bavarian Opera (C MAJOR / DYNAMIC / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
Music
of Ernesto Cordero: Caribbean Concertos for Guitar and Violin played
by Pepe Romero, guitar, and Guillermo Figueros, violin, with I Solisti
di Zagreb (NAXOS)
Music
of Michael Daugherty: Fire and Blood, Flamiugo and Ladder
to the Moon featuringh violinist Alexandre Da Costa with the
Montreal Symphony conducted by Pedro Halffter (WARNER CLASSICS)
SACD
recordings of choral music of Ola Gjeilo performed by the Phoenix
Chorale directed by Charles Bruffy, Simone Young conducts the Hamburg
Philharmonic in Symphont No. 2 and Tragic Overture of Brahms,
and Valery Gergiev and Mariinsky forces perform Massenet's Don
Quichotte (CHANDOS / OEHMS / MARIINSKY)
SACD
issues of choral music of Alan Hovhaness performed by Gloria Dei
Cantores, choral music of Alfred Schnittke sung by SWR Vokkalensemble
Stuttgart, and rarely-heard music of Wagner including his early Symphony
in C, with Neemi Järvi and the Scottish National Orchestra (GLORIAE
DEI CANTORES / HÄNNSLER / CHANDOS)
Mozart's
Prussian quartets performed by the Emerson String Quartety (SONY)
Havergal
Brian's Gothic Symphony in a live performance from the BBC
Proms with soloists, choruses and orchestras directed by Martyn Brabbins
(HYPERION)
Volume
10 of Beethoven's piano sonatas played by Artur Schnabel, Sonatas
Nos. 31 and 32, and Variations and Fugue in E flat, Op. 35 "Eroica" (PRISTINE
CLASSICAL)
SACD
issues of Ivan Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra
in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Firebird Suite,
Lutoslawski's Symphonic Variations, Symphony No. 4, Piano
Concerto and Variations on a theme of Paganini performed
by pianist Louis Lortie with the BBC Symphony directed by Edward
Gardner, and a collection of orchestral works of Nielsen with the
Danish National Orchestra (CHANNEL CLASSICS / CHANDOS / DA CAPO)
Major
operatic issues: Wagner's Tristan and Isolde featuring Kirsten
Flagstad with Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting, a Met performance
of Puccini's Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli
with Leopold Stokowski conducting, Herbert von Karajan conducting
Johann Strauss's Die Federmaus, and a Met broadcast of Donizetti's L'elisir
d'amore with Bidu Sayao (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Robert
Aldridge's opera Elmer Gantry in a production by the Florentine
Opera Company (NAXOS)
DVD
Blu Ray Audio releases of all of Schubert's overtures with Christian
Benda leading the Prague Sinfonia, and the Requiem by Lancino's in
the world premiere performance recorded in France (NAXOS)
Volume
7 of Artur Schabel playing Beethoven sonatas, Nos. 21, 22, 23 and
24 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Volume
8 of Artur Schnabel playing Beethoven sonatas, Nos. 25, 26, 27 and
28 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
SACD
issues of Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw playing Shostakovich's
Symphony No. 15, Denis Matsuev playing piano concertos of Shostakovich
and Shchedrin, and orchestral music of Wolf-Ferrari (RCO LIVE / MARIINSKY
/ CPO)
SACD
issues of music of Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten with the
Sydney Symphony directed by Mark Wiggelsworth, duos for violin and
viola played by Rachel Podger and Jane Rogers, and music of Ives,
Adams, Brtten and Vaughan Williams with the Oregon Symphony directd
by Carlos Kalmar (MELBA / CHANNEL CLASSICS / PENTATONE)
SACD
issues of Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra playing
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 and Marche slave, the Berlin
Philharmonic String Quintet playing music of Dvorák, and Holst's The
Planets in an arrangement for organ played by Hansjorg Albrecht
(PENTATONE / OEHMS)
SACD
issues of music of Messiaen, Dalbavie, Zuidam and Dukas-Van Keulen
played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, organ music of Peteris
Vasks played by Thomas Pyrhönen, and Nielsen's symphonies 1
and 6 with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony (RCO LIVE / ALBA
/ LSO LIVE)
Four
more reissues from the Met: Cavalleria Rusticana with Richard
Tucker and Eileen Farrell, Pagliacci with Franco Corelli, L'Elisir
d'Amore with Carlo Bergonzi and Roberta Peters, Ernani with
Leontyne Price and Bergonsi, and Luisa Miller with Montserrat
Caballé (SONY CLASSICAL)
DVD
videos of a flamenco Carmen, Salome from Berlin
with Angela Denoke, and La forza del destino from the Vienna
State Opera with Nina Stemme and Salvatore Licitra, Zubin Mehta conducting
(TEATRO REAL / ARTHAUS MUSIK / C MAJOR)
DVD
videos of Rudolph Buchbinder as soloist/conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic
in Beethoven's piano concertos, Chopin's two piano concertos with
Garrick Ohlsson and Antoni Wit conducting, and Stravinsky's The
Rake's Progress in a Glyndebourne production directed by Vladimir
Jurowski (C MAJOR / IDEALE AUDIENCE / OPUS ARTE)
Concertos
of Vivaldi including The Four Seasons performed by Elizabeth
Blumenstock with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
(PBNO)
Penderecki's
viola concerto and cello concerto No. 2 played by Grigori Zhislin
and Tatjana Vassiljeva with Antoniu Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic
(NAXOS)
Historic
reissues: Clifford Curzon plays concertos of Brahms and Grieg, Friedrich
Schorr in excerpts from Wagner's Die Meistersinger, Sir Edward Elgar
acoustic recordings of his own Enigma Variations and Symphony
No. 2, sonatas of Elgar and Rubbra played by Albert Sammons, and
Guido Cantelli conducting Tchaikovsky (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Stephen
Hough plays concertos of Liszt and Grieg, Lang Lang plays Liszt,
two piano concertos and a Fantaisie by Widor played by Markus Becker,
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Shostakovich's
Symphonies 6 and 12, and Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish
Orchestra in Walton's symphonies (SONY / HYPERION / NAXOS / CHANDOS)
Violin
sonatas of Charles Ives played by Hilary Hahn and Valentina Lisitska
(DGG)
DVD
videos of Janacek's Jenufa from Teatro Real with Amanda
Roocroft and Deborah Polaski, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of
the Invisibler City of Kitezh from Teatro Lirico di Cagliari,
and the San Francisco Ballet performing Neumeier's ballet The
Little Mermaid (OPUS ARTE / NAXOS / C MAJOR)
DVD
videos of Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in
Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (with
Cañizares), a modern version of Delibes' Coppélia from
the Paris Opera, and a disk featuring bass Carlo Colombara (euroarts
/ OPUS ARTE / NAXOS)
Music
of Alan Hovhaness: Armenian Rhapsodies 1-3, Song of the Sea for
Piano and Strings, Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Strings, and
Symphony No. 1 "Exile." with John McDonald, piano, and
Kenneth Radnmiofsky, saxophone, and the Boston Modern Orchestra/Gil
Rose (BMOP)
DVD
videos of Mozart's Don Giovanni conducted by Ferenc Fricsay
recorded in 1961 at the opening of Deutsche Oper Berlin; two operettas
of Offenbach (Orpheus in the Underworld/La Belle Hélène)
conducted by Marc Minkowski, and Yusupov's Viola Tango Rock Concerto played
by Anibal Dos Santos with the Bogata Philharmonic directed by Riccardo
Jaramillo (ARTHAUS MUSIK / NAVONA)
DVD
videos of Donizetti's Anna Bolena from the Vienna State
Opera with Anna Netrebko, Massenet's Werther from the Paris
Opera with Jonas Kaufmann, and a collection of Johann Strauss works
played by The Philharmonics (DGG / DECCA / ACCENTUS)
The
Lincoln Trio plays Auerbach's Trio, Garrop's Seven, Higdon's
Piano Trio, Schwendinger's C'e la Luna Questa Sera?, Thomas's Moon
Jig, and Tower's Trio Cavany (ÇEDILLE)
DVD
videos of Andrea Chénier from the Bregenz Festival,
and two programs from the BBC Proms: André Previn conducting
the London Symphony in music of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Bernstein,
and Kurt Sanderrling leading the BBC Philharmonic in Schumann and
Mahler (C MAJOR / ICA CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Turandot with Maria Guleghina and Salvatore Licitra
from Verona, Christian Thielemann conducting Wagner's A Faust
Overture and Liszt's A Faust Symphony, and Franz Welser-Möst
conducting the Cleveland Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 (BEL
AIR / C MAJOR / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of Turnage's opera Anna Nicole from the Royal Opera
House, a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Yutaka Sado
featuring music of Takemitsu and Shostakovich, and a Vienna State
Opera production of Kurt Weill's Mahagonny (OPUS ARTE /
ARTHAUS MUSIK / EUROARTS)
DVD
videos of Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae from the Berlin
Opera, Bizet's Carmen in 3D from the Royal Opera House,
and the same opera from Gran Teatre de Liceu with Roberto Alagna
(ARTHAUS MUSIK / OPUS ARTE / C MAJOR)
Artur
Schnabel's historic recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas 17, 18,
19 and 20 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
DVD
videos of a new performancer of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Alan
Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, and Blu Ray reissues of the
same work conducted by Pierre Boulez with the Berlin State Orchestra,
and Claudio Abbado with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra (ACCENTUS
/ EUROARTS)
Artur
Schnabel's historic recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas 14, 15,
and 16 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
DVD
videos of Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky's
Symphonies 4, 5 and 6; the Mariinsky Ballet production of Jewels,
and Menotti's opera Goya starring Plácido Domingo
filmed in Vienna (MARIINSKY / ARTHAUS MUSIC)
SACD
issues of Wagner's Die Meistersinger from Berlin conducted
by Marek Janowski, Sa Chen plays concertos of Rachmaninoff and Grieg,
and Bernard Haitink leads the London Symphony in Bruckner's Symphony
No. 4 (PENTATONE / LSO LIVE)
Music
of Sofia Gubaidulina for bayan and orchestra, a collection of concerted
works by Malcolm Arnold including the premiere recording of his cello
concerto, a disk of music for piano and orchestra by Azerbaijani
composers, and Garrick Ohlsson playing Rachmanionoff's Piano Concerto
No. 3 (NAXOS / ASO)
Superb
reissues of Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's Sonatas Nos.
7, 8, 9 and 10 (PRISTINE AUDIO )Artur
Schnabel plays Beethoven's Sonatas 11, 12, and 13 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Artur
Schnabel plays Beethovens piano sonatas 1 through 6 (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Historiue
reissues: Hans Pfitzner conducts a group of overtures, Clemens Krauss
conduc mm mk ts music of Richard Strauss, Beethoven's Symphony No.
5 directed by Arthur Nikisch and Symphony No. 3 conducted by Oskar
Fried, and a Met broadcast of Gounod's Faust featuring Jussi Björling
and Elisabeth Söderstrom (PRISTINE AUDIO)
DVD
videos of Mahler's Symphonies 2 and 8 with soloists, choruses and
the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly, Valery
Gergiev conducting Mahler's Sytnphonies 4 and 5 with the World Orchestra
for Peace, and a concert by the same orchestra at the Abu Dhabi Festival
(ACCENTUS / C MAJOR)
SACD
issues of the Berlioz Requiem conducted by Roger Norrington, keyboard
music of C. P. E. Bach played by Dejan Lazic, and Mendelssohn's Symphony
No. 2 with soloists, chorus and orchestra directed by Andrés
Orozco-Estrada (HÄNSSLER / PREISER / CHANNEL CLASSICS)
SACD
releases of Wagner's Flying Dutchman with Marek Janowski
conducting, and Valery Gergiev conductging the London Symphony in
Mahler's Symphony No. 9, and the Mariinsky Theatre in Donizettiu's Lucia
di Lammermoor starring Natalie Dessay (PENTATONE / LSO LIVE
/ MARIINSKY)
SACD
recordings of a concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass,
ballet music of Saint-Saëns with Orchestra Victoria conducted
by Guillaume Tourniaire, and D'Indy's Symphony On a French Mountain
Air (with pianist Martin Helmchen), Saint-Saëns' Symphony
No. 2 and Chausson's Soir de fete, with Marek Janowski and
the Suisse Romande Orchestra (CSO LIVE / ALBA / PENTATONE)
SACD
issues of a concert performance of Wagner's Parsifal with
Jaap van Zweden conducting, two overtures by Wagner and music from Die
Meistersinger with Neemi Järvi and the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra, and Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra
playing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 and Capriccio Italien (CHALLENGE
CLASSICS / CHANDOS / PENTATONE)
String
Quartets 4-6 by Elliott Miles McKinley performed by the Martinu Quartet
(NAVONA)
Music
of Havergal Brian: In Memoriam, Festal Dance, Symphony No.
17 and Symphony No. 32 with Adrian Leaper and the RTE National Symphony
Orchestra (NAXOS)
Volume
VI in the Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra series
featuring live performances recorded 1990-2000 with many famous conductors
and soloists ( RCOA
Music
by Tan Dun for The Banquet, Hero, and Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon, performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang and Itzhak Perlman
(SONY)
Four
memorable Met broadcasts: Verdi's Il trovatore with Leontyne
Price and Franco Corelli, Rigoletto with Robert Merrill,
Richard Tucker and Roberta Peters, Un ballo in maschera with
Zinka Milanov, Jan Peerce and Marian Anderson, and Don Carlo with
Franco Corelli (SONY CLASSICAL)
Music
of Havergal Brian: Symphonies 10 and 30, English Suite No. 3 and
Concerto for Orchestra with Martyn Brabbins and the Royal Scottish
National Orchestra (DUTTON)
DVD
videos of Verdi's Otello with Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto
and Cornell MacNeill and an abridged version of Mozart's Magic
Flute, both from the Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine,
and Verdi's Don Carlo with Rolando Villazón from
the Royal Opera with Antonio Pappano conducting (SONY / EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Metropolitan Opera productions conducted by James Levine: Cavalleria
Rusticana, Pagliacci and Simon Boccanegra, all with
Plácido Domingo. and Lulu with Julia Migenes; also Simon
Boccanegra from the Royal Opera with Domingo (SONY / EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Rossini's Armida from the Met with Renée
Flemiung, Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore from the Glyndebourne
Opera, and a documentary about conductor Marek Janowski (DECCA /
OPUS ARTE / HARMONIA MUNDI)
Budget
reissues of music of Ravel and Prokofiev conducted by Riccardo Muti,
music of Korngold including the Violin Concerto and Symphony in F
Sharp, orchestral works of Honegger, and a tribute to Arturo Toscanini
conducting Bach, Vivaldi and Rossini as well as excerpts from rehearsals
(EMI CLASSICS / GUILD)
Piano
music of Nikolai Tcherepnin played by David Witten (Toccata Classic)
Symphony
No. 1 by Theofanidis, and Lieberson's Neruda Songs ( mezzo Kelley
O'Connor), with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO Media)
DVD
videos of Met productions of Aida and Turandot, and
a Danish production of Wagner's Tannhäuser (DECCA).
DVD
videos of Valery Gergiev conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the
2011 Schönbrunn Concert, a video/digital production of Schumann's Manfred from
Düsseldorf conducted by Andrey Bareyko, and a concert of Beethoven,
Mozart, Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky with the West-Eastern Orchestra
conducted by Daniel Barenboim (DGG / ARTHAUS MUSIK / C MAJOR)
"The
Pulitzer Project" - music of Schuman, Copland and Sowerby with
the Grand Park Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar (CEDILLE
)
SACD
issues of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with Mariss Jansons and the Concertgebouw,
two organ symphonies of Widor played by Jan Lehtola, and music for
harp and orchestra by Boieldieu, Villa Lobos and Rodrigo played by
Catherine Michel (RCO LIVE / ALBA / PENTATONE)Historic
reissues: Eugene Ormandy's first recording of Lemminkäinen Suite
of Sibelius, Wagner's Flying Dutchman from Bayreuth in 1955
with Astrid Varnay and Hermann Uhde with Joseph Keilberth conducting,
a large collection of music of Sir Arthur Bliss, and a 12 CD set of
live recordings with Evgeny Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic
(PRISTINE AUDIO / EMI CLASSICS / ERATO)
Historic
reissues: the 1941 recording of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande conducted
by Roger Desormiere, Albert Coates conducting Russian music, and Howard
Hanson conducting music of Carter, Riegger, MacDowell, Piston, Cowell,
and Loeffler (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Piano
music of John Corigliano played by Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal
(CEDILLE)
DVD
videos of Volumes 3 and 4 in the series Great Stars of Russian
Ballet, and Riemann's Medea in a Vienna State Opera production
(VAI VIDEO ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL / ARTHAUYS MUSIK)
Music
of Stravinsky for violin and piano played by Ray Chen with pianist
Timothy Young (MELBA)
Music
of Samuel Jones: Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra and Symphony No. 3
performed by Christopher Olka, with the Seattle Symphony conducted
by Gerard Schwarz (NAXOS)
DVD
videos of Martha Argerich at the Verbier Festival playing Beethoven
and Shostakovich, and a concert with the Lucerne Orchestra featuring
the world premiere of Shchedrin';s Double Concerto for Piano and Cello
with cellist Mischa Maisky with other music of Dvorák, Franck
and Shostakovich, and an ill-fated production from Bavaria of Poulenc's Dialogue
of the Carmelites (IDEALE AUDIENCE / ACCENTUS MUSIC / BELAIR CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Valery Gergiev conducting two operas of Berlioz: Benvenuto
Cellini from the Salzburg Festival, and Les Troyens from
Valencia; Verdi's La traviata from the Royal Opera House with
Renée Fleming (NAXOS / C MAJOR / OPUS ARTE)
DVD
videos of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera with Plácido
Domingo and Sir Georg Solti conducting, Halévy's Clari with
Cecilia Bartoli and Adam Fischer on the podium, and Tchaikovsky's Pique
Dame in a Paris Opera production conducted by Gennady Rozhdestensky
(ARTHAUS MUSIK / DECCA)
Rudolph
Simonsen's Symphonies 1 and 2 and Overture in G minor with the South
Jutland Orchestra conducted by Israel Yinon (cpo)
Historic
acoustic recordings of Albert Coates conducting the London Symphony
in music of Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and Glinka
(PRISTINE AUDIO)
Simon
Trypceski plays Rachmaninoff's Concertos 1 and 4 and the Paganini
Rhapsody with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic,
Khatia Buniatishvili plays piano music of Liszt, Murray Perahia plays
Bach keyboard concertos, and historic performances by Alexander Brauilowsky,
Shura Cherkassky and Rudolf Serkin (AVIE / SONY CLASSICAL / GUILD)
Music
of Joseph Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, Morning's
Embrace, and Chasing Light, performed by percussionist
Christopher Lamb with the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo
Guerrero (NAXOS)
George
Antheil's opera The Brothers in a production in a Bochum production
conducted by Steven Sloane (cpo)
Historic
reissues: early Reiner recordings of Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Liebermann,
Jascha Horenstein's Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Howard Hanson conducting
music of Loeffler, Thompson and two of his own works, and most of Bernard
Haitink's Ravel recording with the Concertgebouw Orchestra (PRISTINE
AUDIO / NEWTON CLASSICS)
Music
of Morton Gould: Fanfare for Freedom, Saint Lawrence Suite, Jericho
Rhapsody, Derivattions for Clarinet and Band, and West Point
Symphony performed by the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble directed
by Scott Weiss (NAXOS)
A
program of Schubert lieder performed by baritone Matthias
Goerne with pianist Alexander Schmalcz (HARMONIA MUNDI)
Daniel
Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Furtwängler's
Symphony No. 2 (TELDEC)
The
world premiere of the opera Kepler by Philip Glass with Dennis
Russell Davies conducting (OMM)
A
two-CD reissue set of music of Schreker, Schmidt and Busoni with various
orchestras and ensembles conducted by Fabio Luisi, Hans Bauer, Daniell
Revenaugh and Franz Welser-Möst (EMI CLASSICS
Reissues
of recordings by sopranos Rita Streich, Giannina Arangi Lombardi, and
Margaret Sheridan; tenor Richard Crooks, and contralto Stephanie Blythe
(NEWTON CLASSICS / PREISER / EMI CLASSICS)
SACD
issues of Kurt Masur conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in
orchestral music of Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade with
the Russian National Orchestra directed by Carlo Ponti, and a guitar
recital by Petri Kumela (PENTATONE / ALBA)
SACD
releases of symphonies of Szymanowski with the Warsaw Philharmonic
conducted by Antoni Wit, and Vivaldi's The Seasons featuring
Cho-Liang Lin (both on Blu-Ray Audio), and SACD issues of Schubert's
Symphony No. 9 with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra,
and Haydn's The Seasons with Sir Colin Davis and the London
Symphony (NAXOS / CHANNEL CLASSICS / LSO LIVE)
Christian
Thielemann in DVD videos of Beethoven's Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 and
9 with the Vienna Philharmonic, Beethoven's Missa Somemis performed
at a commemorative concert in Dresden, and the German Requiem of
Brahms performed in Munich (C MAJOR)
Music
of Havergal Brian: Symphony No. ll, Symphony No. 15, concert overtures For
Valour and Comedy Overture, and Dr. Merryheart with
the RTE Orchestra conducted by Tony Rowe and Adrian Leaper (NAXOS)
DVD
videos of Verdi's La Forza del Destino from LaScala with
Montserrat Caballé and José Carreras, and two disks
featuring historic performances by "Great Stars of Russian Ballet" (VIDEO
ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL)
DVD
videos of Puccini's Tosca from Zurich with Emily Magee and
Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra
playing Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, and the 2010 Nobel Prize Concert
with violinist Joshua Bell, Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Orchestra
in music of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius (DECCA / ARTHAUS MUSIK
/ ACCENTUS)
"Keeping
Score: Mahler, Origins and Legacy," with Michael Tilson Thomas
and the San Francisco Symphony including Mahler's Symphony No. 1 (SAN
FRANCISCO SYMPHONY)
Walton's Facade with
Dame Edith Sitwell and Peter Pears, early orchestral works of Walton
with Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic, Julian Sitkovetsky
playing violin concertos of Sibelius and Paganini, Stravinsky's 1967
recording of Perséphone, and a collection of Stravinsky
orchestral works conducted by Charles Dutoit (PRISTINE AUDIO / NEWTON
CLASSICS)
Mahler's
Symphony No. 10 in Carpenter's edition performed by the Singapore Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui, coupled with Qigang's Five Elements (AVIE)
G
Historic
reissues: Arturo Toscanini's first and last concerts with the NBC Symphony,
RAIS recordings conducted by Sergiu Celibidache, and Wagner's Die
Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdammerung in Wilhelm
Furtwängler's 1953 La Scala performances (GUILD / AUDITE / PRISTINE
AUDIO
SACD
issues of Mikhail Pletnev conducting the Russian National Orchestra
in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and Romeo and Juliet Fantasy
Overture, Beethoven overtures with Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra, and music of Van Der Aa, Kettiong, Keuris, Gubaydulina and
Nas performed by the Royal Concergebouw conducted by Ed Spanjaard and
David Robertson (PENTATONE / RCO LIVE)
DVD
Blu Ray boxed set of Mahler's symphonies 1 through 7, with the Lucerne
Festival Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado (EUROARTS)
Verismo
arias sung by tenor Jonas Kaufmann, "A Lesson in Love" with
soprano Kate Royal, soprano Anna Netrebko sings Pergolesi, and historic
reissues from sopranos Gré Brouwenstijn and Elisabeth Schumann
(DECCA / EMI CLASSICS / DGG / NEWTON CLASSICS)
SACD
issues of Andrew Davis conducting music of Holst (The Planets,
Beni Mora, Japanbese Suite), The Planets presented by
the Houston Symphony and conductor Hans Graf as "An HD Odyssey," and
Eben's Organ ConcertoNo. 1 played by Gunther Rost (CHANDOS / HOUSTON
SYMPHONY / OEHMS)
Music
of Franz Schmidt: Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven and
Piano Concerto in E flat played by Markus Becker with Eiji Oue conducting
the NDR Radio Philharmonic (cpo)
Five
operas from Met Archives: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette,
Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Beethoven's Fidelio,
and two by Wagner: Die Walküre and Die Meistersinger;
operatic arias sung by soprano Anneliese Kupper (SONY CLASSICAL / [PREISER)
A
Vienna concert by Arcadi Volodos, a Chopin recital by Yundi, Garrick
Ohlsson playing Liszt, Marc-André Hamelin playing his own works,
and historic recordings by Grigory Ginzburg (SONY CLASSICAL / HYPERION
/ BRIDGE / EMI CLASSICS / APR)
Paavo
Järvi conducts the Cincinnati Symphony in Streetscape and DeeopWoods by
Coleman, Higdon's Fanfare Ritmico, Slalom by Pann, Halcyon
Sun by Holland , and Network by Puts (CINCINNATIU CSOM)
The
Ohio Light Opera Company directed by Stevedn Byess performes Sousa's El
Capitan (ALBANY TROY)
Lorraine
Hunt Lieberson sings Berlioz' Les Nuits d'été and
a group of arias by Handel with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra (PBP 01)
Marin
Alsop conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in music of Michael
Daughherty: Route 66, Ghost Ranch, Sunset Strip, and Time
Machine (NAXOS)
Arturo
Toscanini's 1945 NYP Gala Concert, Sir Adrian Boult's Nixa/Westminster
recordings of Britten and Elgar, Marguerite Long plays Ravel, Milhaud
and Debussy, scenes from Walton's Troilus and Cressida, and
Furtwängler's 1953 La Scala Das Rheingold (GUILD / FIRST
HAND / PRISTINE AUDIO)
Robert
Spano leads the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in Higdon's The
Singing Rooms, Singleton's Praisemaker, and Scriabin's Poem
of Ecstasy (TELARC)
Historic
reissues: Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw playing Beethoven's
Symphonies 6 and 7, Jascha Heifetz plays Mendelssohn's concerto with
Toscanini, Beecham and Munch; Leopold Stokowski conducts Bartók,
Gould and Schoenberg, Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Haydn and Mozart,
and Aram Khachaturian conducts his own music (PRISTINE AUDIO / EMI
CLASSICS)
William
Berz conducts the Rutgers Wind Ensemble in music of Mackey (Strange
Humors), Daughterty (Raise the Roof, Brooklyn Bridge),
and Syler (The Hound of Heaven) (NAXOS)
Blue
Ray Audio issues of Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
performing Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand), and Chopin's
complete works for piano and orchestra with pianist Eldar Nebolsin
(NAXOS)
SACD
issues of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 with Marek Janowski and the Suisse
Romande Orchestra, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 with the Gürzenich
Orchestra directed by Dmitrij Katienko, and sonatas of Brahms played
by violinist Arabella Steinbacher and pianist Robert Kulek (PENTATONE
/ OEHMS)
SACD
issues of Andrew Litton conducting Appalachia and The
Song of the High Hills by Delius, Schumann's complete Manfred conductded
by Bruno Weil, and music from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and
two overtures with Neemi Järvi and the Royal Scottish Orchestra
(CHANDOS / PREISER)
Musto's
opera Bastianello and Bolcom's opera Lucrezia, performed
by vocalists with pianists Barrett and Blier (BRIDGE)
SACD
releases of Sir Colin Davis conducting the London Symphony in performances
of Walton (Belshazzar's Feast/Symphony No. 1) and Nielsen (Symphonies
4 and 5), and a collection of music for brass performed by the Bay
Brass (LSO LIVE / HYPERION)
24
Preludes in Jazz Style and other piano music of Nikolai Kapustin played
by the composer (BOHEME)
Music
for violin and percussion by Daugherty, Harrison, Walsh and Puts performed
by Mark Rush, violin; Jerry Kirkbride, clarinet, Gary Cook, percussion,
and the Arizona Percussion Ensemble (ALBANY TROY)
Strauss's Enoch
Arden performed by speaker David Ripley with pianist Chad R.
Bowles (JRI)
Three
symphonies by Leif Segerstam played by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra,
Lisa Batiashvili plays music of Shostakovich, Kancheli, Pärt and
Rachmaninoff, horn virtuoso Zbigniuew Zuk plays music of Jevtic, Arnold,
Turner, Ristori, Plog anbd Koetsier, ballet music of Easdale played
by the BBC Wales Orchestra conducted by Rumon Gamba, and orchestral
music of August Enna with Michael Hofstetter conducting (ONDINE / DGG
/ ZUK / CHANDOS / CPO) 
Music
of Peter Lieberson: Red Garuda (with Peter Serkin and the
New York Philharmonic conducted by James Conlon; Rilke Songs with
soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Bagatelles, and the Piano Quintet
with Serkin and the Orion String Quartet (BRIDGE)
DVD
videos of Metropolitan Opera productions of Salome with Karita
Mattila, Doctor Atomic with Gerald Finlay, and Madama
Butterfly with Patricia Racette (SONY CLASSICAL)
DVD
videos of Ioan Holender's Farewell Concert from the Vienna State Opera,
Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen in a 1965 German
video with Václav Neumann conducting, and a Hallmark Hall
of Fame 1958 film of Kiss Me, Kate (DGG / ARTHAUS MUSIK
/ VAI VIDEO INTERNATIONAL)
DVD
videos of Mahler's Symphonies 5 and 9 with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
conducted by Claudio Abbado, and the Berlin Philharmonic's 1997 New
Year's Eve Concert with Anne Sophie Von Otter, Roberto Alagna, Bryn
Terfel, pianist Mikhail Pletnev and violinist Gil Shaham, with Claudio
Abbado conducting (ACCENTUS / EUROARTS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of two symphonies of Szymanowski with Antoni Wit conducting
the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with tenor Rafal Bartminski and pianist
Jan Krzystof Broja, an organ recital with Simon Johnson playing the
Grand Organ of St. Paul's Cathedral of London, and Spectral Strands,
music for viola and electronics featuring Garth Knox and Brian O'Reilly
(ICA CLASSICS / PRIORY / WERGO)
Music
of Daugherty, Maslanka and Rouse performed by the Frost Wind Ensemble
at the University of Miami directed by Gary Green (NAXOS)
SACD
issues of music of Ives and Copland with Michael Tilson Thomas and
the San Francisco Symphony, piano music of Shostakovich and Shchedrin
played by Joachim Kwetzinsky, and Simone Young conducting the Hamburg
Philharmonic in Symphony No. 1 by Brahms (OEHMNS / 2L / SAN FRANCISCO
SYMPHONY)
SACD
issues of Verdi's Otello with soloists and the London Symphony
conducted by Sir Colin Davis, Beethoven's piano concertos 4 and 5 with
Yevgeny Sudbin, Osmo Vânska and the Minnesota Orchestra, and
orchestral music of Bartók, Kodály and Ligeti played
by the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster (LSO LIVE
/ BIS / PENTATONE)
Seven
more welcome reissues in the Classic Film Scores Series, featuring
music of Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa, Franz Waxman,
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and David Raksin, plus Classic
Film Scores for Bette Davis featuring the National Philharmonic
conducted by Charles Gerhardt (RCA)
Music
of Donald Reid Womack: Walk Across the Surface of the Sun,
and other works for small ensemble (ALBANY TROY) 
Historic
reissues: Willem Mengelberg's 1940 Beethoven Ninth, Wilhelm Furtwängler's
last performance of the same work, Sir Thomas Beecham conducts A
Mass of Life by Delius, and Eugene Ormandy conducts the Philadelphia
orchestra in Iberia by Albeniz (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Music
of Kerry Turner: Karankawa, Introduction and Main Event, Tuba
Concerto, and Concerto for Low Horn and Chamber Orchestra with soloists
and Sinfoniua Iuyventus directed by Dariusz Wisniewski (ALBANY TROY)
Deems
Taylor's opera Peter Ibbetson in a production conducted by
Gerard Schwarz (NAXOS)
Historic
vocal reissues: contraltos Jeanne Gerville-Réache and Madame
Charles Cahier; tenors Kurt Baum, Gianni Poggi and Albert da Costa,
and baritone Cesare Siepi (PREISER)
Important
historic reissues: Leopold Stokowski's return to the Philadelphia Orchestra
in 1960, Otto Klemperer's 1950 Holland Festival performance of Mahler's
Symphony No. 2 with the Concertgebour, Wilhelm Furtwängler's 1944
performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, and Julius Katchen playing
Dohnányi and Rachmaninoff with Sir Adrian Boult conducting (PRISTINE
AUDIO)
Ravel's L'enfant
et les sortilèges and Shéhérazade performed
by soloists, choruses and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alastair
Willis (NAXOS)
DVD
videos of the 2009 Nobel Concert featuring pianist Martha Argerich
and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic conducted by Yuri Temirkanov,
Lorin Maazel conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in his arrangement
of music from Wagner's Ring, and Menotti's Der Konsul in
a German TV production (EUROARTS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of Beethoven's symphonies 4, 5 and 6 with Christian Thielemann
and the Vienna Philharmonic, Vacláv Neumann conducting Dvorák's
Symphgony No. 9 and Janácek's Missa Glagolitica, and
Mariss Jansons conducting Bavarian forces in Schöenberg's Gurrelieder (C
MAJOR / ARTHAUS MUSIK / BR KLASSIK)
DVD
videos of a documentaries about soprano Montserrat Caballé,
and tenors of the 78rpm era; and the Bolshoi Ballet production of The
Flames of Paris (EUROARTS / MEDICI ARTS / BEL AIR CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Strauss's Elektra from the Bavarian Opera with soprano
Linda Watson and Christian Thielemann conducting , and documentaries: Sophia
- Biography of a Violin Concerto and A Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya (OPUS
ARTE / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of three operas by Rimsky-Kotsakov: The Tsar's Bride, The
Golden Cockerel, and Mozart and Salieri; Dargomyzhsky's The
Stone Guest, and Borodin's Prince Igor, all in performances
taped in Russia (VAI VIDEO INTERNATIONAL)
Music
of James MacMillan: Seven Last Words From the Cross, Christus
Vincit, and "Nemo te condemnavit..here in hiding" performed
by the Dmitri Ensemble led by Graham Ross (NAXOS)
Baritone
Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber perform lieder of
Gustav Mahler (RCA)
Hilary
Hahn plays violin concertos of Higdon and Tchaikovsky with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic directed by Vasily Petrenko, Hamish Milne plays
piano concertos by Goetz and Wieniawski, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin
Philharmonic play Tchaikovsky's complete Nutcracker Ballet,
Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra play an all-Warner
program, and premiere recordings of music by Oskar Fried with the Berlin
Radio Orchestra directed by Mathias Foremmy (DGG / HYPERION / EMI /
CAPRICCIO)
Natalie
Dessay sings scenes from Richard Strauss operas, countertenor Bejun
Mehta sings Handel, countertenor Philippe Jaroussky sings Caldara,
concert performances by baritone Pavel Lisitsin, and historie recordings
by tenor Josef Traxel (VIRGIN CLASSICS / HARMONIA MUNDI / PREISER)
Orchestral
music of Charles Ives with the Malmo Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by James Sinclair (NAXOS)
Klaus
Tennstedt in a live Berlin Philharmonic concert of Mussorgsky, Prokofiev
(with Horacio Guttierez) and Dvorak; Sir Thomas Beecham in a BBC production
of The Trojans, Reger's Hiller and Mozart variations with
Karl Böhm and Paul Van Kempen conducting, the 1928 recording of
Verdi's Aida, and a reissue of the 1952 Boris Godunov with
Boris Christoff (TESTAMENT / PRISTINE AUDIO / GUILD / SOMM / BRILLIANT
CLASSICS)
Marin
Alsop conducts the Bournemouth Symphony in Symphonies 5 and 6 of Roy
Harris (NAXOS)
DVD videos of Renée
Fleming with the Berlin Philharmonic at Waldbühne, Puccini's Tosca from
the Met with Karita Mattila, and a coupling of Ullman's The Broken
Jug and Zemlinskyh's The Dwarf presented by the Los Angeles
Opera directed by James Conlon (EUROARTS / VIRGIN CLASSIFS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann from the Paris Opera,
Sallinen's The Red Line from the Finnish National Opera, and
Wagner's Rienzi from Berlin Deutsche Oper (ARTHAS MUSIK /
ONDINE)
DVD
videos of Szymanowski's King Roger from the Bregenz Festival,
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 with Yuri Temirkanov and the Verbier
Festival Orchestra, and a Royal Philharmonic Orchestra documentary, "Batons,
Bows and Bruises." (C MAJOR / IDEALE AUDIENCE / RPO)
DVD
videos of Claudio Abbado conducting the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra
in Prokofiev, Berg, and Tchaikovsky; the Lucerna Festival Orchestra
in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with Magdalena Kozená, and Mahler's
Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Yuja Wang
(EUROARTS / ACCENTUS)
DVD
videos of Julia Fischer playing Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No.
3 and Grieg's Piano Concerto with Matthias Pintscher conductiung, a
recital by soprano Karita Mattila, and a Salzburg concert with the
Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez with pianist Daniel
Barenboim (DECCA / ONDINE / C MAJOR)
DVD
videos of Chopin's piano concertos played by Nikolai Demidenko and
Evgeny Kissin, Tchaikovsky's opera-ballet Cherevichki, and
Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci from
the Zurich Opera (ACCENTUS / OPUS ARTE / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of Orff's Carmina Burana with Sir Simon Rattle and
the Berlin Philharmonic, Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky
in St. Petersburg, and Gounod's Faust from the Royal Opera
House with Roberto Alagna and Bryn Terfel (EUROARTS / EMI CLASSICS
/ DECCA
DVD
videos of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos with Deborah Voight
and Natalie Dessay from the Met, Verdi's Rigoletto from the
Dresden Opera with Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Flórez, and a
historic video of Shostakovich's The Nose conducted by Gennady
Rozhdestvensky (VIRGIN CLASSICS / VAI VIDEO)
DVD
videos of historic Hamburg Opera productions of Mozart's The Magic
Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio, and a film on the life
of Chopin that includes some historic performances (ARTHAUS MUSIK /
IDEALE)
The
Chicago Chamber Musicians play music of Brahms: Trio for Piano, Violin
and Horn, Op. 40, and the Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115 (SUMMIT)
Leif
Ove Andsnes plays Rachmaninoff's Concertos 3 and 4, Alice Sara Ott
plays concertos of Tchaikovsky and Liszt, Lang Lang's recital in Vienna,
and two concerts by pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk (EMI CLASSICS / DGG
/ SONY CLASSICAL / VAI)
SACD
issues of music of Ravel with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony,
Shostokovich's Symphonies 2 and 11 with the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted
by Gergiev, and Beethoven's Symphonies 4 and 6 with the Budapest Festival
Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer (LSO LIVE / MARIINSKY /
CHANNEL CLASSICS)
SACD
issues of music of Berlioz, Ravel and Debussy with Gary Bertini conducting,
Verdi's Requiem in a live performance by the Chicago Symphony Chorus
and Orchestra directed by Riccardo Muti, and Bruckner's Symphony No.
4 with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänska (CAPRICCIO
/ CSO LIVE / BIS)
SACD
issues of Korngold's Symphony, Op. 40 with the Strasbourg Philharmonic
conducted by Mark Albrecht, and two performances of Bruckner's Symphony
No. 8, one with the Dresden State Orchestra conducted by Christian
Thielemann, the other with the Suisse Romande Orchestra directed by
Marek Janowski (PENTATONE / PROFIL)
SACD
issues of Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony playing Dvorák's
Symphony No. 9, concerted works of Mendelssohn played by Martin Helmchen
with Philippe Herreweghe conducting, and the German Requiem of Brahms
in a Berlin performance with Marek Janowski on the podium (PENTATONE)
SACD
issues of a group of Chinese recorder concertos featuring Michala Petri,
chamber music of Dohnányi played by the Kocian Quartet, and
a collection of songs relating to death sung by mezzo-soprano Marianne
Kielland (2L / DA CAPO / PRAGA)
SACD
releases of Mahler lieder with soloists and the San Francisco Symphony
directed by Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with
soprano Christiane Oelze and baritone Michael Volle, with Markus Stenz
conducting, and orchestral music of Knudage Riisager with Thomas Dausgaard
conducting (SFO / OEHMS / DA CAPO)
SACD
issues of major works by Langgaard with Thomas Dausgaard conducting,
music of Haydn arranged for oboe, and music of Henze and Berg with
the Essener Philharmonic directed by Stefan Soltesz (DA CAPO / CARO
MITIS / CYBELLE)
John
Harbison's Full Moon in March, Mirabai Songs and Exequien
for Calvin Simmons performed by soloists with the Boston Modern
Orchestra project directed by Gil Rose
(BMOP SOUND).
David
Maslanka's Procession of the Academics and A Carl Sandburg
Reader, and Kimberly Archer's Symphony No. 3, with soloists and
the Illinois State University Wind Symphony directed by Stephen Steele
(ALBANY TROY).
Six
reissues from Charles Gerhardt's RCA Classic Film Score series
in remasterings from original analog stereo tapes (SONY)
Major
historic releases: Stokowski's two 1958 concerts with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, early recordings by Fritz Reiner, and Robert Casadesus playing
Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Dimitri Mitropoulos
conducting, and Beethoven's concertos 1 and 4 with Van Beinum on the
podium (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Baritone
Simon Keenlyside with pianist Malcolm Martineau performing Schumann's Dichterliebe and Lieder of
Brahms (SONY)
SACD
releases of Bartók's two violin concertos played by Arabella
Steinbacher with Marek Janowski conducting, reissues of music of Bach
and Vivaldi with distinguished soloists and I Musici, and music of
Portuguese composers with soloists from the Berlin German Opera and
the Eosander Quartet (PENTATONE / NCA)
SACD
releases of a collection of Finnish folk music performed by the Estonian
Philharmonic Chamber Choir directed by Paul Hillier, music of Dukas,
Ravel and Koechlin with Marc Albrecht and the Strausbourg Philharmonic,
and Marek Janowski with the Pittsburgh Symphony in music of Berlioz
(HARMONIA MUNDI / PENTATONE)
SACD
releases of Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Strauss's Till
Eulenspiegel, a suite from Der Rosenkavalier, and Four
Last Songs (with soprano Anja Hartero), Neemi Järvi conducting
the Hague Residency Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 7, and the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra in Wagner including excerpts from Parsifal,
Lohengrin and Tannhäuser (BR KLASSIK / CHANDOS).
SACD
releases of five Mozart symphonies with James Levine and the Boston
Symphony, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and Violin Concertos 3 and
4 performed by Scott and Lara St. John with Eric Jacobsen conducting,
and organ music of Bach, Böhm and Buxtehude played by organist
Martin Neu (BSO CLASSICS / ANCALAGON / AUDITE)
Music
of Thomas Adès: Trevot, Violin Concerto "Concentric
Paths," 3 Studies from Couperin, Overture, Waltz and Finale from Powder
Her Face performed by violinist Anthony Marwood, the Berlin Philharmonic,
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and conductors Thomas Adès, Simon
Rattle and Paul Daniel (EMI CLASSICS)
The
Metropolitan Brass Quartet plays music of Gervaise, Gabrielli, Adolphe,
Hovhaness, Simon and Starer (MSR CLASSICS) 
DVD
videos of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West with Daniela Dessi
and Fabio Armillato, Puccini's Edgar with José Cura,
Amarilli Nizza and Juylia Gertseva, and a documentary about Valery
Gergiev (ARTHAUS MUSIK / BEL AIR CLASSICS)
A
budget price package of Carlos Kleiber's videos including two New Year's
Concerts, two performances of Der Rosenkavalier, Johann Strauss's Die
Fledermaus, and music of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms (DGG)
Organist
Cameron Carpenter in concert (CD and DVD), Alica Sara Ott plays Liszt,
Nicolai Lugansky plays Chopin, and Mozart's Concertos 24, 25, 26 and
27 played by Alicia De Larrocha and Vassily Primakov (TELARC / DGG
/ DECCA / BRIDGE)
Alonda
da la Parra conducts the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas in
a program of Mexican music; music of David Matthews: Symphonies 1,
3 and 5 conducted by Martyn Brabbins, and seven shorter works directed
by George Vass, and two recordings of Alfredo Casella's Symphony No.
2, one conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, the other by Francesco La Vecchia
(SONY CLASSICAL / DUTTON LABORATORIES / CHANDOS / NAXOS)
Gerard
Schwarz conducts the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in music of Bright
Sheng: Red Silk Dances, Tibetan Swing, The Phoenix,
and H'un (Lacerations): In memoriam 1966-1976 (NAXOS)
Siegfried
Wagner's opera Der Schmied von Marienburg, with soloists,
chorus and orchestra conduycted by Frank Strobel (MARCO POLO)
The
Tempest, an opera by Thomas Adès in a production from
the Royal Opera House featuring Simon Keenlyside, conducted by the
composer (EMI)![Historic reissues: Eugene Ormandy's first recording of Lemminkäinen Suite of Sibelius, Wagner's Flying Dutchman from Bayreuth in 1955 with Astrid Varnay and Hermann Uhde with Joseph Keilberth conducting, a large collection of music of Sir Arthur Bliss, and a 12 CD set of live recordings with Evgeny Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic (PRISTINE AUDIO / EMI CLASSICS / ERATO)](jkrw1!.jpg"){kind=link}