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Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra

10 reviews
Philippe Muller, Pierre Strauch, ...

Sony, 1993

A convert
I would like to speak in regards to what some reviewers are saying about the works of Schoenberg. I will admit that the first time I heard Schoenberg, I wrote him off as weird music that I would never like and was not worth listening to. In my defense, the first work I heard was "Pierrot Lunaire" which is a very hard work to understand. But I was assigned a paper of the Second Viennese School ...

Jacqueline du Pre - Favourite Cello Concertos ~ Boccherini, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Monn, Saint-Saens, Schumann

16 reviews
Edward Elgar, Luigi Boccherini, ...

EMI Classics, 1990

I THOUGHT I had heard these concertos,,,
UNTIL I was fortunate enough to have heard them performed by Jacqueline du Pre!!! ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!! Her superb playing, along with truly masterful interpretative skills, just "comes pouring out of the speakers!" Also, the orchestras were obviously truly inspired by these opportunities to perform and record with one of the greatest musicians of all time. The sound quality is excellent, ...

Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise / van Dam, Upshaw, Nagano

13 reviews
Olivier Messiaen, Kent Nagano, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1999

Ravishing Music
This work is the culmination of a lifetime of musical experimentation and fervent religous devotion. It contains a remarkable amount of absolutely ravishing music. The soloists, chorus, and orchestral work in this recording are absolutely first rate. As an effort to communicate the emotional experience of mysticism and religous fervor, this work will probably never be surpassed. It is ...

Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47

19 reviews
Sibelius, Schoenberg, ...

DG, 2008

Revelatory
The Schoenberg violin concerto is widely admired and widely studied, but it isn't much played, and it's never been much loved. This is partly because of the huge technical hurdles it presents fiddlers, but also because it isn't especially easy to bring off musically; in this regard it is unlike the piano concerto, say, which is far more accessible, and which offers up at least some of its ...

Miss Saigon (1995 Studio Cast)

76 reviews
Claude-Michel Schonberg, David Charles Abell, ...

Angel Records, 1995

Superb
This 1995 studio recording is fabulous. While I don't necessarily prefer it entirely over the original cast recording, there are elements to this recording that are over and above the original. Joanna Ampil, while delightful as Kim, lacks Lea Salonga's essence. There are moments I find her, how shall I say it - too much? - even when the score calls for drama. Perhaps it is the over enunciation ...

The Ligeti Project

1 review
Omar Ebrahim, David Geringas, ...

Warner Classics, 2008

Together For Less
The skinny: Some of us paid significant sums of money to get these CDs when they were individually wrapped. You can get them now for much less, and in one convenient package. What you won't get are the equally fine 7 CDs that Sony produced under a similar concept (Ligeti, one CD at a time) before they abandoned their work, nor will you get the opera Le Grand Macabre (still available here and ...

Renee and Bryn: Under the Stars

39 reviews
Renee Fleming, Bryn Terfel, ...

Decca, 2003

A Master Class in Singing
This CD is a must-have for any person interested in the singing art. Ms. Fleming and Mr. Terfel gives new light to these Musical Theatre classics. Their fine vocalism in the musical theatre genre coupled with the depth of musicality and dramatic phrasing in each of the selections is truly a breath of fresh air. This recording is indeed a Master Class!

Leos Janacek - From the House of Dead / MCO, ASC, Boulez, Chereau (Festival Aix-en-Provence 2007)

6 reviews
Olaf Bär, Peter Straka

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

A searing and memorable final production from Boulez and Chereau
Janacek's final opera, composed in 1927-28 and given its posthumous premiere two years later, is based on the Dostoyevsky novel written in 1861-62 in which the author renders his own prison experiences. The story as seen in the opera is not presented in a linear fashion, rather it is like a Robert Altman film such as Nashville or Short Cuts where an ensemble cast presents several intertwined ...

Schoenberg: The String Quartets

8 reviews
Arnold Schoenberg, Evelyn Lear, ...

Philips, 2000

A Revolutionary in Method, a Conservative in Tone
Although Schoenberg developed a revolutionary new method of organizing pitch, what is often overlooked is that serialism is just exactly that: a method of organizing pitch, and not a style per se. A variety of styles can be accomodated by this method. Folks who are a little gun-shy of serialism (or its aesthetic shadow) are sometimes caught up short when they actually listen to Schoenberg's ...

Les Miserables Complete Symphonic Recording

13 reviews
Claude-Michel Schoenberg, Martin Koch, ...

Red Ink, 2004

Les Mis - enough said
This is my favorite Broadway production. This is the best recording of Les Mis available.

Berg: Violin Concerto; Schoenberg: Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto

7 reviews
Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, ...

Umvd Labels, 2004

A Great Reissue at a Great Price!
. This is an excellent disc--a reissue from the '70s--and as a bonus, it's at a great price. The Berg Concerto is great, and almost too popular: it's available in several performances. The Schoenberg Piano Concerto is also available in serveral realizations (e.g., Uchida; Brendel; Gould). It's one of the unpopular Schoenberg's most "popular" works because, though 12-tone in form, the ...

The Ligeti Project I: Melodien / Chamber Concerto / Piano Concerto / Mysteries of the Macabre - Schönberg ...

11 reviews
Gyorgy Ligeti, ASKO Ensemble, ...

Teldec, 2001

A Brilliant Recording of Some of Ligeti's Finest Works
The music of György Ligeti is enjoying much performance success these days as works by the master are appearing more often on the season repertoires of the major orchestra. This superb recording, the first in the excellent survey series of Ligeti's music, opens the cycle with some of the most accessible and most beautiful of the composer's works. Beginning with the ethereal 'Melodien' the ...

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

14 reviews
Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert von Karajan, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1998

Schoenberg's Pelléas (Op. 5)
. Maeterlinck was and remains an unique and important poetic/literary/theatrical innovator in the categories of Symbolism and proto-Surrealism. One must appreciate just how avant-garde his work was at the Fin de Siécle. Even now his work retains its interest because of his abstraction of the human condition into a disoriented or dreamlike state. At its most basic, the interest of Pelléas et ...

Schoenberg: Piano Concerto

9 reviews
Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, ...

Philips, 2001

Among Uchida's Best
A little perspective: I am a 21-year old pianist who has made it his obligation in the past couple of years to thoroughly internalize Schoenberg's Op. 11 and 19, both of which are found on this CD. I am a stickler for following every little marking Schoenberg wrote, but I see a lot of room for creativity, too. My reference recordings have been those of Charles Rosen and Maurizio Pollini, both ...

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Arranged by Schoenberg)

2 reviews
Gustav Mahler, Philippe Herreweghe, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2006

Viennese Mileu: Mahler and Schönberg...
. Schönberg loved and respected Mahler as man and master musician. In order to give more currency to Mahler's magnum opus--The Song of the Earth, in 1920 Schönberg reduced the orchestration down to a manageable nonet for chamber performance: flute, clarinet, two violins, viola, cello, double-bass, piano, and harmonium. (He likewise had done a chamber-reduction for Mahler's early Lieder eines ...

Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 [Hybrid SACD with CD-ROM track of Mozart's Original Manuscript]

26 reviews
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christine Schafer, ...

RCA, 2004

A Requiem to Rely On
So, I've never done a classical review before, so I thought that I would begin with one of my favorite works. For those so inclined, I'm going to include a bit of history on the work itself. If you'd rather skip that, go on ahead. Most know that Mozart died while working on this, his final piece. Those who got that information from "Amadeus" will be shocked to find out that Salieri had quite ...

Arnold Schoenberg - Moses und Aron

5 reviews
Franz Grundheber, Thomas Moser

ArtHaus, 2007

One of the most importan operas finally in DVD
Arnold Schoenberg composed Moses und Aron when he was at the most high compositional maturity . He began a new compositional technique more than ten years before . And really I think that this opera is one of the principal works he composed and the most fascinating dodecaphonic music. Moses und Aron is in the top of the operas of the twentieth century, with Pelleas et Melisande by Debussy, ...

The Broadway I Love - Placido Domingo

3 reviews
Leonard Bernstein, Leslie / Newley, Anthony Bricusse, ...

Atlantic / Wea, 1991

Very pretty!
I found this one in my library system and checked it out because of "So In Love" -- and quickly fell in love with the rest of it! There are classically trained opera singers who cannot pull off singing Broadway, but Domingo is not one of them. Granted, the idea of hearing "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'" sung with an Italian accent seems a little strange, since everyone knows that a cowboy is ...

Ultimate Broadway II: The Very Best of Broadway Now

3 reviews
Various Artists

RCA Victor Broadway, 2003

Moderate Quality
I believe that the show selection for this CD was excellent. However the song selection and song order were not. Why pick "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime when you can have the amazing and fantastic "Prologue" from the same show. Also I believe that a mistake was made by slecting "I Don Quixote" from Man of La Mancha instead of the much more listenable "Impossible Dream." Also the overture from ...

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