Noëmi Nadelmann, soprano. Andreas Schmidt, baritone. Adrian Baianu, piano.
Label: Arte Nova Classics. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 721260. Daedalus Item Code: 96387
"The best of them reveal a sensuous lyrical gift and a vein of febrile, fin de siècle chromaticism that derives from Wagner and Wolf," writes Gramophone of the songs of Franz Schreker ... (Read More)
Written while Schubert was taking a rest cure and acting as music teacher to the daughters of Count Esterházy at their country home in Hungary, these duets include Variations sur une theme ...(Read More)
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In musical soirees of the 18th and 19th centuries, multi-movement pieces were often broken up within the evening's entertainment. In this intimate period-instrument concert, the four movements of ... (Read More)
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Dame Margaret Price, soprano. Geoffrey Parsons, piano.
Label: Wigmore Hall Live. Format: CD.
Label Number: 0008. Daedalus Item Code: 17963
Gramophone called Welsh soprano Margaret Price "a unique singer: nobody could mistake that purity of tone or the way she has of moving from note to note, as though each is a separate gem in a ... (Read More)
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Pablo Casals, cello. Alfred Cortot, piano. Jacques Thibaud, violin. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sir Adrian Boult, conductor, & others.
Label: Capitol. Format: 4 CDs, boxed.
Label Number: 780032. Daedalus Item Code: 38623
Pablo Casals was the defining musician of his instrument in the 20th century. "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart," he once said, and that sentiment is abundantly ... (Read More)
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Newly remastered, this electrifying performance from 1958 captures the raw power and rhythmic intensity of The Rite of Spring in what many consider its finest recording. Stravinsky himself was ... (Read More)
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Truly idyllic, this music ranges across centuries and nations, bestowing peace and joy. Included are the Romance from Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik performed by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber; ... (Read More)
Johan van der Zalm, Gre Brouwenstijn, Annie Delorie & others. Koor en Orkest van de Nederlandsche Opera. Mario Cordone, conductor.
Label: Osteria. Format: 2 CDs.
Label Number: 1001. Daedalus Item Code: 27551
This live 1953 recording from Amsterdam features a Dutch cast and an Italian conductor. "An outlandish story set to some of Verdi's most glorious music" (NPR), the opera features gypsies, royals, ... (Read More)
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Ina Auez, Lore Fischer, Anton Dermota & others. Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam Concertgebouworkest. Carl Schuricht, conductor, & others.
Label: Arioso. Format: 2 CDs.
Label Number: 001. Daedalus Item Code: 27548
Recorded live, this Amsterdam Requiem from 1939 is the last time Carl Schuricht conducted Verdi's sacred masterwork. Coupled with his performance are excerpts from a 1945 Vienna rendition ... (Read More)
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Marion Verbruggen, recorder. Flanders Recorder Quartet.
Label: Harmonia Mundi France. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 3957153. Daedalus Item Code: 37025
Somewhere Vivaldi is smiling, every time someone spins this disc. His massively popular masterwork has been adapted for many ensembles—including Japanese koto—but this 1996 arrangement is one of the ... (Read More)
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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's principal flutist brings a peerless grace to both the transcriptions and the original works for flute in this program.