SACDs
HOLST: The Planets, Op. 32. STRAUSS: Also sprach
Zarathustra, Op. 30
New England Conservatory Chorus. Boston Symphny Orchestra/ William Steinberg,
cond.
DGG 00289 479 8669 (one CD, one Blu Ray disk) TT: 76 min. (REVIEW)
RHEINBERGER: Concerto in F for Organ, String Orchestra and Three
Horns, Op.137. Concerto in G minor for Organ, String Orchestra, Two
Trumpets, Two Horns, and Timpani, Op. 177.
E. Power Biggs, organ. Columbia Symphony. Maurice Peress, cond.
DUTTON EPOCH SACD CDLX 7334 TT: 56:00 (REVIEW)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 8 in E flat. "Symphony of a Thousand"
Soloists. Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Choiristers of the Madelene
Choir School. Utah Symphony Orchestra / Thierry Fischer, cond.
REFERENE RECORDINGS SACD FR 725 (2 disks) TT: 22:07 + 57:34 (REVIEW)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92. Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93.
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra-Sopot/Wojciech Rajski, cond.
TACET SACD S 149 TT: 63:01(REVIEW)
BENNETT: Celebration. Concerto for Marimba and Chamber Orchestra. Symphony
No. 3. Summer Music for Flute and Piano. Sinfonietta.
Colin Curre, marimba. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / John Wilson, cond.
CHANDOS SACD CHSA 5202 TT: 62:24 (REVIEW)
CITIZEN KANE - Classic Film Scores of Bernard Hermann
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano Joaquin Achucarro, piano. National Philharmonic
Orchestra / Charles Gerhardt, cond.
DUTTON EPOCH SAD CDLK4620 (REVIEW)
SUNSET BOULEVARD - Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman
National Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Gerhardt, cond.,.
DUTTON EPOCH SACD CDLK4616 (REVIEW)
STRAVINSKY: Petrushka. Jeu de Cartes.
Marinsky Orchestra / Vaeruy Gergoev. cpmnd.
MARINSKY SACD MAR 0594 TT: 57:51 (REVIEW)
STRAUSS: Am Alpine Symphony
Frankfurt RadioOrchestra / Andrés Orozco-Estrada, cond.
PENTATONE SACD 4186 628 TT: 55:32 (REVIEW)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43. Symphony No. 10 in E
minor, Op. 95.
Russian National Orchestra/ Mikhai Pletnev, cond.
PENTATONE SACD 586 647 TT: 74:47 / 57:45 (REVIEW)
TIOMKIN: Music for the films: Lost Horuzon, The Guns of Navarone,
The Big Sky, The Fourposter, Friendly Persuasion, Search for Paradise, and The
Thing from Another World.
Ambrosian Singers / National Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Gerhardt,
cond.
EPOCH SACD CDLK 4608 TT: 57:00 (REVIEW)
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra. The Miraculous Mandarinm Op 19.
Schola Cantorum. New York Philharmonic / Pierre Boulez, cond.
DUYTTON EPOCH SACD CDLX7360 TT: 68:32 (REVIEW)
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 1 (1947). Jeux
Vénitiens (1961).
Symphony No. 4 (1992).
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, cond.
ONDINE SACD ODE 1320 TT: 57:21 (REViEW) ###########################################################################################################
MULTI-CHANNEL DVDs
The
DVD format is capable of nulti-channel audio as well as video.
The purpose of
this list of recommendations is to
list performances
that are visually outstanding, and offer effective 5.1 audio
as well. Naturally the multi--channel effect is most impressive
with large-scale
works; hence Mahler, Richard Strauss and Wagner are
included. All
of these will impress on your visual/audio components. The two
Mahler Symphonies from Leipzig are emgiomeeromg marvels, Mahler 3
is a much older recoring but captures the fabulous accounstics of
Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. The Mahler Symphony of a Thousand conducted
by Gustavo Dudamel is the only recording that actually uses a thousand
performers - and theyhave been reorded very well. More quality NMahler
with Symphonies 4 and 5 with the World Orchesra for Peace. The Brerlin
Concert featuring three major singers at their best, is an
amazing
example
of quality
audio
possible
in a grandiose outdoor venue. The Abbado Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra
gives us the opportunity to hear Tchaikovsky's great Pathétique symphony
performd by a HUGE orchestra. The BBC Proms Concert displays British
audio at its best. The Dresden Strauss program contains a definitive
pperformance of Four last Songs and An Alpine Symphony that
is grand indeed. The Bolshoi Ballet Spartacus fiulmed in
Paris offers spectacular
rich orhestral sound. Die Walküre from Valencia is
a brilliantnew concept of Wagners masterpiece with a strong cast
and amazing projected
images. The three other operas in Wagner;s Ring also are avilable.
Enjoy!
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7 in E minor "Song of
the Night"
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly, cond.
ACCENTUS DVD 10309 TT: 75:15 (REVIEW)
" THE BERLIN CONCERT"
Music from Nabucco, Otello, La traviata, L'Arlesiana, Cavalleria rusticana,
Gianni Schicchi, La Bohème, Le Mage, Carmen, Les Pecheurs de perles,
Semiramide, Giuditta, West Side Story, Das Land des Lächens; music
of Grever, De Curtis, Rendine and Sorozabál
Plácido Domingo and Rolando Villazón, tenors; Anna Netrebko,
soprano; Berlin Opera Orch/Marco Armilato, cond.
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DVD VIDEO 004400734302 TT: 110 min.(REVIEW)
PROKOFIEV: Scythian Suite, Op. 20. BERG: Suite from Lulu. MOZART:
Ach, ich für's from The Magic Flute. TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony
No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique."
Anna Prohaska, soprano; Simón Bolivar Youth Orch/Claudio Abbado,
cond.
ACCENTUS DVD VIDEO ACC 20101 TT: 111:48 (REVIEW)
BBC PROMS CONCERT
BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire Overture. CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No.
2 in F minor, Op. 21. ROUSSEL: Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42. RAVEL:
Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
Nelson Freire, piano; BBC Symphony Orch/Lionel Bringuier, cond.
BEL AIR CLASSICS DVD TT: BAC 479 TT: 95 min.(REVIEW)
RIHM: Ernster Gesang. STRAUSS: Last Songs: Vier lezte lieder. Malvern.
An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64.
Anje Harteros, soprano; Dresden State Orch/Christian Thielemann, cond.
C MAJOR DVD TT: 1103 min. (REVIEW)
KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus
Carlos Acosta (Spartacus); Alexander Volchkov (Crassus); Nina Kaptsova
(Phrygia); (Maria Allash (Aegina); soloists and Corps de Ballet of The
Bolshoi Theatre; Orchestre Colonne/Paval Kinichev, cond.
DECCA DVD BLU-RAY VIDEO 0743304 TT: 133 min.(REVIEW)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 8 in E flat "Symphony
of a Thousand."
Sp;posts. MDR Radio Chorus;
Oper Leipzig & GewandhausChors; Thomanerchor Leipzig; GewandhausKinderchor;
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly, cond.
ACCENTUS DVD VIDEO TT: 92:19 (REVIEW)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 8 in E flat "Symphony of a Thousand."
Soloists, Coro Sinfónico
Juvenil Simón
Bolivar de Venezuela; Niños Cantores de Venezuela; Schola Cantorum
de Venezuela; Schola Juvenil de Venezuela; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orch/Simón
Bolivar Symphony Orch/Gustavo Dudamel, cond.
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DVD VIDEO TT: 90 min. + 18 min. bonus (REVIEW)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 in G (with soprano Camilla
Tilling). Symphony No.5 in C# minor.
World Orchestra for Peace/Valery Gergiev, cond.
C MAJOR DVD VIDEO 702608 TT: 133 min. + 21 min. bonus (REVIEW)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Carolyn Watkins, mezzo-soprano. NOS Women's Choir. Holland Boys Choir.
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink, cond.
ARTHAUS MUSIK DVD TT: 103 min. (REVIEW)
WEBERN: Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6. BERG: Three fragments
from Wozzeck. LIGETI: Mysteries
of the Macabre. STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring.
Barbara Hannigan, soprano. London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle,
cond.
LSO DVD (2 disks, DVD / Blu Ray audio) TT: 85 min.(REVIEW)
WAGNER: Die Walküre
Peter Seiffert (Siegmund); Petra Maria Schnitzer (Sieglinde); Matti Salminen
(Hunding); Juha Uusitalo (Wotan); Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde);
Anna Larsson (Fricka) ;Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana/Zubin Mehta,
cond.
C MAJOR (UNITEL CLASSICA) DVD VIDEO 700804 TT: 245 min. + 27 min. bonus (REVIEW)
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