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- Age of the Diva
- Albinoni
- Almost Christmas
- Arias, Hampson, Harnoncourt
- Bach Keyboard Concertos
- Bach Viola
- Bach, Barenboim
- Bach, Cantatas
- Bach, Concertos
- Bach, JS, Keyboard Works
- Bach, Mass in B Minor
- Bach, Mutter
- Bach, trio-sonatas
- Baroque Christmas Album
- Baroque Trumpet
- Bartok, Concertos
- Bartoli
- Bartoli, Opera Proibita
- Bax, Baroque
- Beethoven Piano
- Beethoven String Quartets
- Beethoven and Brahms
- Beethoven, piano
- Bella Donna: Courtly Love
- Belle Epoque Melodies
- Berlioz, Les Troyens
- Binchois, Dufay
- Boccherini, Cello Concertos
- Boxed Baroque
- Boyce, Eight Symphonies
- British Light Classics
- British Piano Concertos
- Brubeck, The Gates of Justice
- Bruch, Violin Concerto
- Callas
- Canteloube, Chants d'Auvergne
- Carols
- Chanticleer, Sound in Spirit
- Charpentier
- Charpentier, Lebegue
- Christmas 04
- Christmas Vespers
- Contemporary and Medieval
- Copland
- Delius
- Der Rosenkavalier
- Dukachev - Beethoven, Prokofiev, Rachminov
- Elgar
- Elgar, Marches
- Elgar, The Enigma Variations
- Faure songs
- French Medieval Songs
- Fux
- Gounod, Faust
- Graham: Causon, Ravel, Debussy
- Great Ballets
- Grieg, Franck
- Handel Arias
- Handel, Deborah
- Handel, Messiah
- Handel, The Triumph ...
- Handel, Water Music DVD
- Hapsburg Music
- Haydn
- Haydn, Handel DVD's
- Herz Piano
- Jane Austen's Songbook
- Josefowicz Recital
- King's Singers
- La Fille Mal Gardee
- Lang Lang and Yo Yo Ma: Farewell Isabella and Chinese things
- Lauridsen
- Llibre Vermell
- Luci, Bartoli, and a dead diva
- Lully, Comedies-ballets, Phaeton
- Maerzmusik sampler
- Mahler Symphony No 7
- Mahler, Berg
- Mantovani
- Matsudaira
- Medieval French Songs
- Mendelssohn Sacred
- Mendelssohn, Dvorak
- Messa di Gloria
- Michael Haydn
- Miles Davis ... sorta
- Monterverdi, Orfeo
- Monteverdi Vespers
- Monteverdi, Poppea
- Monteverdi, The Sacred Music 3
- Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel
- Montiverdi Vespers
- Morricone
- Mozart Symphonies
- Mozart, Cosi fan tutte
- Mozart, Exsultate Jubilate
- Mozart, Mass in C Minor
- Mozart, symphonies 40, 41
- Mozart: Die Zauberflote
- Mozart: the string quartets
- Mozrt Requiem
- Mutter Mozart
- New English Hymnal
- New RSS system and Feeds
- Nikolay Roslavets
- Peerson, Latin Motets
- Penguins March
- Pergolesi, La Serva Padrona
- Philip Glass, Symphonies 2 and 3
- Poulenc concerto
- Proms
- Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
- Purcell Sonatas
- Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
- Rachmaninov, Piano
- Ramallah - Beethoven No. 5
- Rameau, Les Paladins
- Reger, Bach and Telemann Variations
- Renaissance Organ Music
- Romantic Cello Concertos
- Romantic Violin
- Russian Album -Anna Netrebko
- Rutter Mass
- Sanctuary, the heart has its reasons
- Scarlatti, The complete Keyboard Sonatas
- Schubert and Mozart piano
- Schubert Ð Death and the Maiden
- Shostakovich
- Shostakovich and Schnittke, Cello
- Shostakovich/Josefowicz
- Sibelius String Quartets
- Sixteen: Ikon
- South American Baroque
- Stainer, The Crucifiction
- Sting does Dowland
- Strauss tone poem
- Takemitsu
- Tallis
- Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 5, Verdi, Sibelius
- The Kirov celebrates Nijinsky
- Toshiro Mayazumi
- Vaughan Williams
- Verdi
- View from a dark tunnel
- Virginal -Susann van Soldt
- Vivaldi Cello
- Vivaldi, Motezuma
- Vivaldi, Sacred Music
- Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus
- Von Otter
- Wagner, Das Rheingold
- Wagner, Gotterdammerung DVD
- Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks
- Weir, Gillian
- Weiss / Lindberg Lute
- Whitacre, Cloudburst
- Williams, Bingham: Mass
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Haydn
Joseph Haydn, symphonies 68, 93 - 104
Royal Concertbouw Orchestra
Nikolas Harnoncourt
5 CD's, Warner Classics
Nikolas Harnoncourt became the heir to big draw conductors
like von Karajan but as the quote below shows with a quite
different attitude.
"For me," says Harnoncourt, "to play together and in equal pitch is
not a goal. For me, the rehearsal starts with the content of a piece -
what it means, how it can change the listener. I was an orchestral
musician for 17 years and what I missed was the question 'why?'. I
wanted to know why Bruno Walter asked me to play like this . . . In
those days, musicians were slaves, but my musicians are partners and
they have to know about the conception. This is my way of working." (1)
and ...
"They used to order a musician to play his part alone," he relates,
"and I have never seen anything less than terror when this happened. Two
players, friends of mine, suffered a complete nervous breakdown and were
dragged away to mental hospitals for electric-shock therapy. I know how
dangerous it is to work with musicians. I would never be the cause of
anything like that." (1)
And so we have 5 discs here of sympathetically played Haydn from
a very good orchestra - avery pleasant few hours, all in all.
(Baron K)
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Mutter Mozart
Mozart, The violin sonatas
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Lambert Orkis
4 CD's, Deutsche Grammophon
This "Deluxe Limited Edition" is the grand finale of
Anne-Sophie Mutter's Mozart Trilogy and comprises 4 CD's
of her playing wonderful violin along with Lambert Orkis
on piano. It was recorded in Munich in February of this
year (06) and so is a new statement rather than yet
another remastering from the vaults.
In addition to this year being the 250th anniversary
of Mozart's birth (as you no doubt already know) it is also
the 10th anniversary of Anne-Sophie Mutter's debut. She was
picked out by Von Karajan when she was 13 and has hardly
looked back since. Treated like royalty in Germany and the
USA, she does get some grumpiness in England because of
her high fee demands and some doubtfulness about her ability
to fill seats in that place.
There is no doubting her ability to fill seats in other
places and not much doubting of her ability either. Whether
the style is exactly to your taste is another question but
it is a style of today and it does have cool beauty. I
would think Mozart violin sonata fans would want this.
(Baron K)
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British Light Classics
The British Light Music Classic Series
The New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp
4 CD's, Hyperion
"77 tracks of golden nostalgia on 4 compact discs". The accent
here is actually mostly on themes such as The Archers, Dr. Findlay's
Casebook (Och, Dr. Cameron!), Desert Island Discs, and the like
rather than the usual pleasant Victoriana. It is pleasant too and
the object of bringing together a collection of tunes that might
make listeners hark back to a more pleasant Britain is readily
achieved.
British Light Classics
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth
2 CD's, Warner Classics
This is a very similar collection to the one above except, as
you can see, there are 2 CD's in the box instead of four. In this case
though, you get a free download from Warner's website of one more
similar track for your iPod or whatever.
Both of these collections are nicely performed so it will
boil down to whether you want more or less.
(Baron K)
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