Sena Jurinac, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Rolando Panerai & others. Philharmonia Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan, conductor, & others.
Label: Urania. Format: 2 CDs.
Label Number: 22266. Daedalus Item Code: 27165
Sung in Italian, this mid-1950s live recording of Humperdinck's enrapturing children's opera features Sena Jurinac as Hansel and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Gretel (a part she recapitulated in the ... (Read More)
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Many of the greatest works for the French horn feature the instrument in a characteristically lyrical role. This collection celebrates its singing tone through compositions for horn and piano from ... (Read More)
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As a collection of popular and classical music sung by one of the most lyrical tenors ever to set foot on stage, this CD would be hard to surpass. Catalan native José Carreras always seemed to us the ... (Read More)
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Joshua Pierce, piano. Slovak State Chamber Orchestra Zilina. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bratislava. Kirk Trevor, conductor.
Label: Kleos Classics. Format: CD.
Label Number: 5137. Daedalus Item Code: 27487
Folk music, jazz, and tango disport in Darius Milhaud's popular Le carnaval d'Aix, a "fantasy for piano and orchestra" of 1926. Benjamin Britten's Young Apollo for piano and string ... (Read More)
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Regina Klepper, soprano. Wilhelm Klepper, violin. Bruno Klepper, cello. Ernst Groschel, piano.
Label: Cavalli Records. Format: CD.
Label Number: 235. Daedalus Item Code: 27154
Former concertmaster of the Bamberg Symphony, Wilhelm Klepper presented his expressive and virtuoso Notices for violin solo for the first time on this disc. His Trio for Piano, Violin, and ... (Read More)
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Anna-Maria Bogner, soprano. Irmela Nolte, flute. Barbara King, violin. Moritz Eggert, piano. Sebastian Hess, cello, & others.
Label: Cavalli Records. Format: CD.
Label Number: 234. Daedalus Item Code: 27153
German composer Markus Schmitt (b. 1965) likens the tonal landscape of his Echoi for violoncello and piano to "a high mountain chain with glittering fields of snow and jagged rock formations." ... (Read More)
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Matt Tropman, euphonium. Gail Novak, piano. Chris Rose, percussion. Eric Sabo, bass.
Label: Summit. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 316. Daedalus Item Code: 27684
As the name of his conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument implies, Matt Tropman's performance of this Shakespeare-inspired music is indeed euphonious. Along with the trilling and touching ... (Read More)
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Michael Maniaci, male soprano. Boston Baroque. Martin Pearlman, conductor.
Label: Telarc. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 31827. Daedalus Item Code: 37016
In the unique instrument of Michael Maniaci—with its combination of power, purity, and stratospheric high notes—we come as close as possible to experiencing what it was like to listen to the famed ... (Read More)
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This 1949 broadcast from Geneva was the first of 11 Così recordings by Karl Böhm. As Fiordiligi is Suzanne Danco; her sister Dorabella is Giulietta Simionato; Ferrando is Libero de Luca; his ... (Read More)
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Ellen Hargis, soprano. Paul O'Dette, lute, archlute & theorbo.
Label: Noyse Productions. Format: CD.
Label Number: 01. Daedalus Item Code: 18323
English composers like Nicolas Lanier, John Wilson, and Henry Lawes modeled their poetic and refined songs on those of Italian precusors such as Monteverdi.
"There is a melodic beauty and voluptuous melancholy in them that will touch listeners who adore the concertos," observes the New Jersey Star-Ledger of Rachmaninov's songs. "Oja's dynamism ... (Read More)
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Ensemble Phoenix Munich. Joel Frederiksen, conductor.
Label: Harmonia Mundi. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 902085. Daedalus Item Code: 37104
Arranged chronologically (The Battle for Freedom, The Father of American Choral Music [William Billings], Shape Notes and Singing Schools, Shaker Spirituals, Music from the Civil War, Revival ... (Read More)
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