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Europakonzert 2016 from Røros, Norway
Vilde Frang (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
[Frang] is predictably fine in the Mendelssohn, technically accomplished and emotionally engaged. And what a joy it must be to play this concerto with the Berliners, whose sensitivity to Mendelssohn’s... — More…
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Sally Matthews (soprano), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor) & Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin & Knabenchor des Staats- und Domchores Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
Superlative soloists add lustre to Orff's barbaric blockbuster in this Berlin New Year's Eve concert. Oddly coarse images: the musicians look as if they've been roasting under sun lamps. — More…
The classic archive™ Collector’s Edition - Strings
Isaac Stern (violin), Nathan Milstein (violin), Ivry Gitlis (violin), Henryk Szeryng (violin), Leonid Kogan (violin), Christian Ferras (violin), Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Pierre Fournier (cello), Paul Tortelier (cello)
Amadeus Quartet, Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio
Sir Simon Rattle: Berliner Philharmoniker
Yefim Bronfman (piano), Vadim Repin (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Murray Perahia: The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
Murray Perahia (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
The classic archive™ Collector’s Edition - Ensembles
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), David Oistrakh (violin), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Robert Casadesus (piano), Zino Francescatti (violin), Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
Amadeus Quartet, Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio
Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'
Recorded live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, April 2015, directed by Torben Schmidt Jacobsen
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink
Faust makes light of the technical difficulties of Beethoven's sometimes awkwardly-written Violin Concerto. The quiet warmth of her playing, particularly in such moments as the mysterious ending... — More…
Beethoven: Mass in C Major
Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (contralto), Maximilian, Martin Angerer (trumpet)
Symphonieorchester und des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Instrumental colours are bright, exact and assertive. Were there a slider for musical rather than picture contrast, it would be set at maximum…Beethoven insisted that they keynotes of his Mass... — More…