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Artist: Giuseppe Verdi|
Artist: Leif Strand Chamber Choir Sorrow & Joy (Sorgen och Glädjen) is one of the gorgeous albums of Leif Strands Kammarkör. The album's primary genre is Classical, but contains a who’s who of the Swedish Jazz elite during this time period. |
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Artist: VA (Anthony Newman, Bernard Lagace, Gaston Arel, Raymond Daveluy) Audiophile Organ Great Classics is a double album with a treasure of organ masterpieces by Bach, Gigout, Liszt, Widor, Messiaen and Pachelbel. The compositions are played by master organists Anthony Newman, Gaston Arel, Raymond Daveluy and Bernard Lagacé. |
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tarting with “Das Rheingold” in 1958, followed by “Siegfried” (1962), “Götterdämmerung” (1964), and finally “Die Walküre” (1965), Decca spent a total of 8 years in the studio working to produce the complete collection of the musical drama “Der Ring des Nibelungen”. This grand undertaking was more than just the first full recording of this work. |
Artist: Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti|
Since the first composers started calling their works things like "nocturnes" or "serenades", there has been music designed specifically to evoke the dusk or the night. And then from the romantic period onward, the night began to become associated with worry, or even terror. |
Artist: Denes Varjon|
A once-celebrated contemporary of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and a precursor of Schubert in the domain of the lied, Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750–1817) is today almost unknown to the general public. Given the great success of his symphonies at the Concert Spirituel, he was probably the composer most frequently performed in Paris between 1777 and 1779 |
Artist: Els Biesemans & Meret Lüthi|
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Artist: Gary Cooper|
Artist: Julia Lezhneva, Giovanni Antonini The emphasis for this album is very much on youth and prodigious talent: at 25, Julia Lezhneva is ideally suited to the soprano arias of the young Handel, who arrived in Italy from Germany as a 21 year old at the beginning of the 18th century. |
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Artist: Freiburger Barockorchester The Freiburger Barockorchester was awarded the Echo Klassik 2012 as "Ensemble of the Year (Historical Instruments)". |
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Artist: Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra After the highly acclaimed recordings of Mahler Symphonies no. 1, 2, 4 and 6 Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra now recorded the Fifth Sympony with its famous Adagietto in F major for strings and harp - one of the most intimate pieces that Mahler ever wrote for the orchestra. |
