Charlie Haden & Liberation Music Orchestra – The Montreal Tapes (1989) [Re-Up] This is number four in the series chronicling the week of concerts with different line-ups the Festival International de Jazz…
James Conlon, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti, Shirley Verrett, Cornell MacNeil – Puccini: Tosca (2010) Luciano Pavarotti will always be associated with the role of the painter Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca. His interpretations of the…
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia – Clementi: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2013) Muzio Clementi’s four surviving mature symphonies were never published in his lifetime and were rescued from neglect through painstaking reconstruction.…
Pavel Šporcl, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Kout – Strauss, Korngold: Violin Concertos (2009) Pavel Šporcl’s two most recent projects have manifested his remarkable stylistic flexibility. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the crossover CD Gipsy…
Thea King, London Symphony Orchestra, Alun Francis – Crusell: Clarinet Concertos (2005) Re-Up While they are popular with clarinetists and some fans of early Romantic music, the three clarinet concertos by Bernhard Henrik…
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3, 6 & 7 (2016) The Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, music director since 2003 of the Minnesota Orchestra, long ago proved himself a formidable interpreter…
Ken Wheeler & The John Dankworth Orchestra – Windmill Tilter (The Story Of Don Quixote) (Remastered 2020) (1969/2021) A deep dive into the one of most collectable jazz catalogues in the world, a selection of some of the…
The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra & Ingar Bergby – Norwegian Opera Overtures (2021) The Norwegian opera literature is a well concealed and all too little known gem in our national cultural heritage. There…
The League Unlimited Orchestra – Love And Dancing (1982) {1984 Virgin} Love And Dancing is a 1982 instrumental album by The Human League, credited to The League Unlimited Orchestra. This was…
Leif Segerstam, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra – Verdi: Messa da requiem (2021) Enregistré par la Radio autrichienne lors du Festival de musique sacrée de Herzogenburg en 1980, cette version de concert du…