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Verdi's Otello from the LSO and Colin Davis
1st Nov 2010
Simon O’Neill is the jealousy-wracked general, Gerald Finley his nemesis, and Anne Schwanewilms his ill-fated wife in this edge-of-the-seat live recording, made at the Barbican last year and full of ‘savage and terrifying playing’ from the LSO.
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The Three Baroque Tenors
25th Oct 2010
Ian Bostridge explores music which was tailor-made for John Beard, Francesco Borosini and Annibale Po Fabri, including arias by Handel, Arne, Boyce, Caldara and Alessandro Scarlatti and accompanied by The English Concert.
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Dame Joan Sutherland
18th Oct 2010
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Bach's Violin Concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque
11th Oct 2010
Following her widely acclaimed recordings of the solo sonatas and sonatas for violin and harpsichord, the British violinist and her hand-picked ensemble bring clarity and imagination to the concertos.
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Gramophone Awards announced last Friday
4th Oct 2010
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Jonas Kaufmann: Verismo Arias
27th Sep 2010
The star tenor branches out from his usual French and German repertoire with an idiomatically Italianate recital of arias by Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, Cilea and Boito, accompanied by Antonio Pappano and his Roman orchestra.
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Wagner's Parsifal from the Mariinsky and Gergiev
20th Sep 2010
Taken from live performances in St Petersburg last June, Gergiev’s vividly theatrical reading of Wagner’s Bühnenweihfestspiel stars Gary Lehman as the titular ‘holy fool’, Violeta Urmana as Kundry, and René Pape as Gurnemanz.
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Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte from René Jacobs
13th Sep 2010
Following his excellent series of the Mozart/Da Ponte operas, Jacobs presents a vibrant new recording of the late mystical singspiel, with a uniformly excellent cast headed by the young German lyric tenor Daniel Behle as Tamino.
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Puccini's forgotten masterpiece - La Rondine
6th Sep 2010
Angela Gheorghiu sings the role of the eponymous swallow with Roberto Alagna as her naïve lover on a new DVD of Puccini’s unfairly neglected opera, filmed at the Metropolitan Opera last year with Marco Armiliato conducting.
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Santiago a cappella
30th Aug 2010
Sir John Eliot Gardiner takes us on a journey through medieval and Renaissance Spain as he and the Monteverdi Choir follow in the footsteps of the pilgrims who travelled to the shrine of Saint James the Great.
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Santiago a cappella
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
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Elīna Garanča goes Spanish
23rd Aug 2010
The Latvian mezzo sings the title-role in Bizet’s Carmen from the Metropolitan Opera on DVD, and explores gypsy music still further on her new recital Habanera, which includes music from zarzuela, operetta and musical theatre.
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Rued Langgaard - Music of the Spheres
16th Aug 2010
Composed during World War One when the Danish composer was just 26, this experimental and forward-looking work received its UK premiere only last week – Thomas Dausgaard does it proud in this new recording with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
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Gramophone Awards - The Finalists
9th Aug 2010
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50 Years of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg
2nd Aug 2010
The Austrian festival celebrates its half-century by re-issuing a25-CD boxed set featuring five complete operas, ten orchestral concerts and two recitals – including the first release of an Alfred Brendel recital from 2007.
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50 YEARS: Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg
Lisa della Casa (Marschallin), Sena Jurinac (Oktavian), Hilde Güden (Sophie), Otto Edelmann (Ochs), Erich Kunz (Faninal), Waldemar Kmentt (Idomeneo), Ernst Häfliger (Idamante), Pilar Lorengar (Ilia), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elettra), Renato Capecchi (Arbace), Eberhard Waechter (Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno), Georg Littasy (La Voce), Cheryl Studer, Jessye Norman, Placido Domingo, Kurt Moll, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Margaret Price, Judith Blegen, Gerti Zeumer, Trudeliese Schmidt, Agnes Baltsa, Kenneth Riegel, Hermann Prey, José Van Dam, Peter Mattei (Onegin), Anna Samuil (Tatyana), Joseph Kaiser (Lensky), Ekaterina Gubanova (Olga), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Gremin), Anna Netrebko (Violetta), Rolando Villazon (Alfredo), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont), Elzbieta Szmytka (Alyeya), Barry McCauley (Luka), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Goryanchikov), Harry Peeters (Commandant), Philip Langridge (Skuratoy), Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (piano), Alfred Brendel (piano) Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Phiharmoniker, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipziger Rundfunkchor, Schwedischer Rundfunkchor, Eric-Ericson-Kammerchor, Wiener Sängerknaben, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Herbert von Karajan, Ferenc Fricsay, Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado, Georg Solti, James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Karl Böhm, Daniel Barenboim, Carlo Rizzi
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Gustav Mahler
26th Jul 2010
Deutsche Grammophon and EMI commemorate the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth with lavish complete editions featuring performances from artists including Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Otto Klemperer and Simon Rattle.
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Sir Charles Mackerras
19th Jul 2010
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Janacek -The Operas
Elisabeth Söderström (Jenufa), Eva Randova (Kostelnicka), Petr Dvorsky (Steva), Vaclav Zitek (Sterek), Marie Mrazova (Starenka), Dalibor Jedlicka (Rychtar), Wieslaw Ochman (Laca), Lucia Popp (Karolka), Lucia Popp (Vixen), Eva Randová (Fox), Dalibor Jedliaka (Forester), Dalibor Jedlicka (Gorjancikov), Jaroslava Janská (Aljeja), Jiri Zahradnicek (Luka), Ivo Zidek (Skuratov), Elisabeth Söderström (Emilia Marty), Petr Dvorský (Albert Gregor), Vladimir Krejcik (Vítek), Anna Czaková (Kristina), Václav Zítek (Jaroslav Prus), Zdenek Svehla (Janek Prus), Dalibor Jedlicka (Dr Kolenatý), Jirí Joran (Strjník), Ivana Mixová (Poklízečka), Beno Blachut (Count Haukšendorf), Blanka Vitková (Komorná), Elisabeth Söderström (Katya), Petr Dvorsky (Boris), Nedezda Kniplová (Kabanicha), Vladimir Krejcik (Tichon), Libuse Márová (Varvara), Dalibor Jedlicka (Dikoj) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Beethoven - Paul Lewis and the BBC Proms
12th Jul 2010
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Ronald Brautigam's Beethoven
28th Jun 2010
The Dutch fortepianist completes his outstanding cycle of the complete sonatas on BIS, with revelatory accounts of Opp. 101 and 109-111.
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Handel's Berenice
14th Jun 2010
Alan Curtis presides over a highly persuasive account of Handel’s late opera with Il Complesso Barocco, starring Klara Ek in the title-role and Argentine countertenor Franco Fagioli as Demetrio.
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Alfredo Casella
31st May 2010
Gianandrea Noseda and Francesco La Vecchia offer sterling advocacy for the Italian composer’s first two symphonies, composed in the first decade of the twentieth century and full of ‘imaginative orchestration and dark sonorities’.
