Brilliant Classics offer the first volume of an integral Joseph Haydn it will celebrate in 2009 the two hundredth anniversary of his death. Nothing less than 150 CD available at low cost, comprising symphonies (under the direction of Adam Fischer), concertos for piano, cello, Horn, trumpet... melodies (Elly Ameling), sonatas for keyboard, trios with piano, oratorios ("The seasons" and "The creation" led by Wolfgang Gönnenwein), operas ("La Vera Costanza", "La fedeltà premiata"). A set to discover (150 CD Brilliant Classics.) (Distribution bee music).
Essential CDs...
Decca Festival Puccini, born here are one hundred and fifty years. "puccini, the definitive Collection": ten discs in a luxury box, containing "Turandot" (Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé), "Manon Lescaut" (Mirella Freni), "tosca" (Freni still), and the two that are "La Bohème" and "madama butterfly" under the burning baton of Herbert von Karajan. A single tenor for these integrals: Luciano Pavarotti himself! (10 CD Decca). Sony, 20 CD, offers, on its side, "Puccini: The Complete Operas".
There are, indeed, including works of youth, "Le villi", and "Edgar". And overall satisfying interpretations, where leaders have names Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, this wonderful last colourist. Singers Ray, Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Carlo Bergonzi, Leontyne Price form a beautiful poster (20 CD Sony).
Still a superbly celebrated birthday, that of Georg Friedrich Handel, died following three hundred years. Harmonia Mundi brought together four recitals especially seductive Lorraine Hunt, Dorothea Röschmann, Andreas Scholl, Mark Padmore (4 CD HM) and especially three great achievements signed René Jacobs: "Rinaldo", "flavio", "Giulio cesare", and a CD of duets with the Concerto Vocale (10 CD) bonus. Like Richard Wagner to lead on Decca "the great operas from the bayreuth Festival" box. Catch live with the truth of the theatre. And what interpreters! Wolfgang Sawallisch ("Lohengrin", "Tannhäuser", "The Flying Dutchman"), Karl Böhm (for the "Ring", and "Tristan"), James Levine ("Parsifal"), Silvio Varviso ("the master-singers"), this is for the leaders. And for singers, Anja Silja, Franz Crass, Wolfgang Windgassen Birgit Nilsson, Theo Adam, Waltraud... The gotha of sacred hill (33 CD Decca).
No one has forgotten the Georges Cziffra pianist. After leaving his native Hungary, who had sentenced him to hard, he led a flamboyant career in France. In 40 compact, his huge recording legacy, from 1956 to 1986, was reissued by EMI. The Narcotics Liszt, both virtuosity is transcended, and Chopin spinning to the stratosphere, a unique sound and a freedom of exciting interpretation (40 CD EMI).
... and the DVD
The production of conventional DVD is always share beautiful opera. In addition to the indispensable "Tristan and Isolde" staged by Patrice Chéreau, who opened the season 2007-2008 La Scala of Milan, just Virgin edit, the event comes from the Opéra-Comique in Paris. It often praised the talent of conductor Vincent Dumestre and Director Benjamin Lazar, accomplices to a "Bourgeois gentleman" Anthology. The duo formed again, once again around Lully. "Cadmus and Hermione", despite some faults voice, is a moment of grace where delicate amber of the Enlightenment, the ritual refined gestures, the nobility of the Declamation, the energy of dance come together in harmony (Alpha) valuable.
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