Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - November 2018
November heavyweights include anniversary collections from Riccardo Chailly and Café Zimmermann, Jaap van Zweden’s Ring Cycle with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelík’s Mahler cycle with the Bavarian Radio Symphony orchestra (now available on Blu-ray Audio for the first time), and some of Claudio Abbado’s final filmed performances.
Following the release of their Götterdämmerung earlier this month, the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s excellent Ring Cycle (recorded live in concerts between 2015 and 2018) will be available as a complete set from 30th November; the cast includes Matthias Goerne, Petra Lang, Stuart Skelton, Heidi Melton, Gun-Brit Barkmin and Simon O'Neill. You can read Katherine’s recent interview with Jaap van Zweden about the project here.
Available Formats: 14 CDs, MP3, FLAC
Released in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death next year, this 16-disc set brings together all of the recordings which Davis made with the London Symphony Orchestra, including the Grammy-winning account of Les Troyens from 2000 with Ben Heppner, Petra Lang and Michelle DeYoung, and his second recording of the Grande Messe des Morts with Barry Banks.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
The French ensemble celebrate their twentieth birthday with this 16-CD collection of music by members of the Bach family, Vivaldi, Marais, Lully, Michel Corrette, Pierre de la Garde, and Charles Avison, including the complete Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, and Der Frühling - an all-CPE Bach recital with tenor Rupert Charlesworth from 2016, which was described as ‘dynamic, precise and beguiling’ by Gramophone.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
An anthology of trumpet music ranging across four centuries, including concertos by Haydn, Hummel, Molter, Torelli, Jaan Rääts and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, sonatas by Purcell, Biber, Albinoni and Stradella, and works by Wolfgang Rihm, Takemitsu, Scelsi, Messiaen, Cage and Berio.
Available Formats: 10 CDs, MP3, FLAC
Claudio Abbado: The Last Years (DVD)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Orchestra Mozart, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado
This 6-disc set includes Abbado’s last known video recording, made at the 2013 Lucerne Festival just a few months before his death – the programme comprises Brahms’s Tragic Overture, the Song of the Wood Dove from Gurrelieder, and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony. The collection also includes Mozart concert arias with Christine Schäfer, the Mozart Requiem, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 9.
Available Format: 6 DVD Videos
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