大象传媒

Andrew McGregor introduces some of the best recordings.

Including:

Ste COLOMBE: Concert 脿 deux violes 茅gales (鈥淟e retrouv茅)* from disc Tombeau pour M de Colombe et autres portraits
(c/w STE COLOMBE: Pr茅lude (du manuscrit de Tournus); MARIN MARAIS: Tombeau pour Mr. De Ste Colombe; J.B FORQUERAY: La Laborde; La Rameau; La Leclair; DENIS GAUTIER: Tombeau de Gautier; J.B Forqueray: La Forqueray; J.P RAMEAU: La Rameau; VIEUX GAUTIER: Les Larmes de Boesset, Courrante; J.B FORQUERAY: La Couperin; J.P RAMEAU: La Forqueray; MARIN MARAIS: Tombeau pour Mr Lully; La Marianne)
Ensemble Spirale: Marianne Muller (viola da gamba/director)*, Emily Audouin (bass viola da gamba)*, Violaine Cochard (harpsichord), Claire Antonini (theorbo and lute), Charles Edouard Fantin (guitar and lute)
Zig Zag Territoires ZZT080302 (CD)

GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess (Live recording 鈥� Titiana Palast, Berlin, 21st September 1952)
Leontyne Price (Bess), William Warfield (Porgy), Cab Calloway (Sporting Life), John McCurry (Crown), Joseph James (Jake), Helen Colbert (Clara), Howard Roberts (Robbins), Helen Thigpen (Serena), Leslie Scott (Jim), Moses Lamar (Frazier), William Weasey (Undertaker), Walter Riemann (Detective), Helen Dowdy (Strawberry woman), Ray Yates (Crab man), Eva Jessye Choir, RIAS Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens (conductor)
Guild Historical GHCD231314 (2 CDs, Mid Price)

LEOPOLD GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Die Fledermaus from disc Strauss Transcriptions and other waltzes
(c/w Symphonic Metamorphosis on K眉nstlerleben after Johann Strauss II; from Walzermasken; from Triakontameron; Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wein, Weib und Gesang; The Last Waltz 鈥� Oscar Strauss, idealised version by Godowsky)
Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano)
Hyperion CDA67626 (CD)

SALIERI: De profundis clamavit from disc Musik der Wiener Hofkapelle (Music of the Viennese Court Chapel)
(c/w JOSEPH LEOPOLD VON EYBLER: Omnes de Saba venient; JOHANN VON HERBECK: Pueri concinite; ANTONIO SALIERI: Veni Sancte spiritus; MOZART: Sub tuum praesisium KV 198; MICHAEL HAYDN: Alleluja in die resurrectionis; JOHANN JOSEPH FUX: Laudate Pueri 鈥楽it nomen domini鈥�; JOSEPH LEOPOLD VON EYBLER: Terra tremuit; SCHUBERT: Totus in corde langueo Op. 46 D136; MOZART: Regina Coeli KV 276; SCHUBERT: Auguste iam celestium D488; MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus KV 618; BENEDIKT RANDHARTINGER: Cantate Domino)
Lenneke Ruiten (soprano), Johannes Martin Kr盲nzle (baritone), Daniel Behle (tenor), Christina Georg (mezzo-soprano), WDR Rundfunchor und orchester K枚ln; Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
Phoenix Edition 112 (CD)

MOZART: Symphony No. 35 in D major K. 385 鈥淗affner鈥�
(c/w Symphony No. 29 in A major K. 201; Symphony No. 33 in B flat major, K. 319; Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 鈥淧rague鈥�; Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 鈥淛upiter鈥�)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Archiv Produktion 477 7598 (2 CDs, Mid Price)

WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (from a live 大象传媒 Broadcast, 10th February 1968 at Sadler鈥檚 Wells Theatre)
Margaret Curphey (soprano), Ann Robson (mezzo-soprano), Alberto Remedios (tenor), Gregory Dempsey (tenor), Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Noel Mangin (bass), Derek Hammond Stroud (baritone), Stafford Dean (bass), Sadlers Wells Chorus & Opera Orchestra, Reginald Goodall (conductor)
Chandos CHAN3148 (4 CDs, Mid Price)

WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in September and October 1957)
Das Rheingold: Hans Hotter, Otakar Krauss, Erich Witt, Kurt B枚hme; Die Walk眉re: Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Sylvia Fisher, Ram贸n Vinay; Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Peter Klein, Birgit Nilsson; G枚tterd盲mmerung: Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Kurt B枚hme, Hermann Uhde
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
Mono Recording
Testament SBT131426 (13 CDs, Budget)

RAMEAU: Castor et Pollux (suite)
(c/w JEAN-F脡RY REBEL: Les 脡l茅mens)
L鈥橭rfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (conductor)
Phoenix Edition 110 (Hybrid SACD)

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