SACD: Midnight at Notre-Dame: Organ Transcriptions Olivier Latry (DG) Violin Concerti: Sibelius/Prokofiev/Glazunov Heifetz (RCA) CD: Shadow Dances: Stravinsky Miniatures Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG) John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine/The Wound-Dresser/Berceuse...
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 Variations on "La ci darem" from Don Giovanni Waltz for piano Emanuel Ax/Charles Mackerras/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Sony) Mahler: Symphony No.7 Michael Gielen/Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra (Hannsler) Leopold Stokowski: Decca...
Mike, They're all CDs. Gielen's account of the 6th is one of the best new recordings of the work I've heard in a while. It's superbly paced (he's one of few to take the scherzo slow, revealing how grotesque and sarcastic it is). Climaxes shriek as they should; the general mood is grim...
Mahler: Symphony No.6 Michael Gielen Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette (a "dramatic symphony") (1839 and 1846 versions) John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; Monteverdi Choir Haydn: The Creation John Eliot Gardiner The...