Wednesday, September 25, 2019

About 50 Albums - Another 50 Tomorrow

______ _______ asked me to do the ten recording album covers in ten days. I have a feeling FB is using it to track us, and I just don't understand the technology involved. So rather than that, I'll just do list as many of my favorite recordings as I can think of every day with links. Let these double as recommendations:

Osvaldo Golijov La Pasion Segun San Marcos: Schola Cantorum Caracas/Maria Guinand 

Gustav Mahler Symphony no. 3: New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein  or Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink (live) or Bavarian Radio Symphony/Rafael Kubelik (preferably live)

Joseph Haydn The Creation: Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh  or in German - Capella Augustina/VokalEnsemble Köln/Andras Spering

 Leos Janacek The Cunning Little Vixen: dir. Walter Felsenstein cond. Vaclav Neumann  or London Philharmonic/Simon Rattle/Lillian Watson or Bavarian Radio Symphony/Franz Welser-Möst/Martina/Jankova or Orchestre de Paris/Sir Charles Mackerras/

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage of Figaro: Metropolitan Opera/James Levine/Bryn Terfel/Cecilia Bartoli/Dawn Upshaw/Dwayne Croft dir. Jonathan Miller  (also, a very different audio recording: Berlin Radio Symphony/Ferenc Fricsay/Renato Capecchi/Irmgard Seefried/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Maria Stader)

 Johannes Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel: Van Cliburn 

 Modest Mussorgsky Boris Godunov: Bolshoi Opera/Nikolai Golovanov/Alexander Prigorov/Ivan Kozlovsky 

 Igor Stravinsky Les Noces: Pokrovsky Ensemble/Dmitri Porkrovsky  or Mariinsky Opera/Valery Gergiev

 Guillaume de Machaut Messe de Notre Dame/Ensemble Organum 

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme 

 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 "Pastoral" - Dresden State Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt








Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain

Bach: Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould or Igor Kipnis

Bartok String Quartets: Takacs Quartet

 The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis

 Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 1 Finale - Berlin Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwangler, for complete NDR Symphony/Wilhelm Furtwangler

Ralph Vaughan Williams: London Symphony - Cleveland Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin

 Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/George Szell/German Opera Berlin Orchestra

 United Sacred Harp Musical Association 1959

 Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 9 - Berlin Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein or Berlin Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado or Vienna Philharmonic/Bruno Walter

Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals of War and Love - Jordi Savall

 Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time - Tashi Ensemble 

Robert Schumann: Carnaval - Alfred Cortot

 Luciano Berio: Sinfonia - New York Philharmonic/Luciano Berio

 Leos Janacek: Glagolitic Mass - Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Sir Charles Mackerras

 Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang - Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quintet - Sviatoslav Richter/Borodin Quartet

 Alfred Schnittke: A Faust Cantata

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Sviatoslav Richter or Chicago Symphony/Sir Georg Solti (live)

 Tan Dun: The Map

Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaccone in D-minor - Yehudi Menuhin or Bronislaw Huberman

Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes - Royal Opera House Covent Garden/Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears

Leonard Bernstein: Candide - London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Leonard Bernstein/Jerry Hadley/June Anderson/Christa Ludwig/Adolph Green

Charles Ives: An American Journey - San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 - Arthur Rubinstein/Boston Symphony/Charles Munch or Wilhelm Backhaus/Vienna Philharmonic/Carl Schuricht 

Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast - Czech Philharmonic/Vaclav Talich or Czech Philharmonic/Rafael Kubelik

Hector Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust - Lamoureux Concert Orchestra/Elizabeth Brasseur Chorale/Igor Markevitch/Richard Verrau/Michel Roux/Consuelo Rubio

Georges Bizet: Carmen - l'Opera Comique/Andre Cluytens/Solange Michel/Raoul Jobin/Martha Angelici/Michel Dans

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Bolshoi Opera/Alexander Orlov/Andrey Ivanov/Yelena Krugilova/Ivan Kozlovsky

Antonin Dvorak: Symphony no. 9 'From the New World' - Czech Philharmonic/Frantisek Stupka

Franz Schubert: Winterreise - Hans Hotter/Michael Reichhausen

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg - Bavarian State Opera/Eugen Jochum/Hans Hotter/Gunther Treptow/Annelies Kupper/Benno Kusche

Josef Suk: A Summer's Tale - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Libor Pesek

Georges Enescu: Octet - Janine Jansen and Friends

Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka - Leningrad Philharmonic/Yuri Temirkanov or London Symphony/Valery Gergiev

Monteverdi - Madrigals Book VII: Concerto Italiano

Rued Langgaard: The Music of the Spheres - Danish National Radio Symphony/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Scott Joplin: The Sting Soundtrack

Robert Schumann: Faschinggschwank aus Wein - Sviatoslav Richter or Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony - London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir/Sir Adrian Boult/John Carol Case

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 4 - City of Birmingham Symphony/Andris Nelsons

Johannes Brahms - A German Requiem - Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Herbert Blomstedt

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov - Russian Easter Overture - USSR Symphony/Yevgeny Svetlanov

Franz Schubert - String Quartet in C -Isaac Stern/Alexander Schneider/Milton Katims/Paul Tortelier/Pablo Casals or Melos Quartet/Mstislav Rostropovich

Richard Strauss: Alpine Symphony - Dresden State Orchestra/Rudolf Kempe or National Youth Orchestra of the USA/Antonio Pappano or Bavarian Radio Symphony/Sir Georg Solti

Henry Cowell: Piano Works - Stefan Schleiermacher

Bruckner: Symphony no. 9 - Dresden State Orchestra/Eugen Jochum

50ish more tomorrow...









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