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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Julie Moffat, Peter Klaveness & others. Berliner Singakademie. Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Achim Zimmermann, conductor.
Label: Arte Nova Classics. Format: 2 cutout CDs.
Label Number: 532490. Daedalus Item Code: 96308
Medea is one of the most fascinating yet contradictory characters of Greek mythology. The daughter of Hecate and niece of Circe, she was originally a famous magician who took lives and then spread ... (Read More)
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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Helmut Wittek, soprano. Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam. Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
Label: Deutsche Grammophon. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 423607. Daedalus Item Code: 18045
Mahler's most accessible symphony opens with a first movement that recreates an Old World Bohemian landscape, "a ray of light upon the meadow" in the composer's words. The entire symphony is built ... (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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Speaking of a particularly challenging piece he was about to play on her birthday, a WQXR announcer once mused, "Martha Augerich eats music like this for breakfast." These 2002–2010 performances were ... (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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Frauke May, mezzo-soprano. Bernhard Renzikowski, piano.
Label: Arte Nova Classics. Format: 2 cutout CDs.
Label Number: 927610. Daedalus Item Code: 96370
The most famous song by Max Reger (1873–1916) is "Maria Wiegenlied," yet this contemporary of Mahler, Strauss, and Wolf, wrote almost 300 lieder, six of which are recorded here for the first ... (Read More)
The spirit of the 19th century unfolds in these selections of solo vocal and piano music, sacred choral works, and chamber music, focusing on such masterpieces of the repertoire as Beethoven's ... (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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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)
