Saint-Saëns - Le carnaval des animaux - My 2 reference recordings

Camile Saint-Saëns

Le carnaval des animaux

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Victoria Postnikova, Jean-François Heisser, Pierre Amoyal, Ami Flammer, Jeanne Marie Conquer, Jean Dupouy, Alain Meunier, Gabin Lauridon, Guy Dangain, Philippe Pierlot, Didier Benetti (1992)

Antonio Pappano (conductor and piano)

Martha Argerich
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (2016)

Rameau/Klemperer - Gavotte et six doubles - Klemperer

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin
Suite in A minor, RCT 5 - Gavotte et six doubles (orch. Klemperer).

Otto Klemperer

Wiener Philharmoniker (1968.06.02)

New Philharmonia Orchestra (1968.10.07).

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9 - Košler

Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70

Zdeněk Košler

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (1981).

Beethoven - Coriolan - My favorite recordings

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ouvertüre 'Coriolan', Op. 62

Wilhelm Fürtwangler
Berliner Philharmoniker (1943)

Wilhelm Fürtwangler
Wiener Philharmoniker (1951)

Otto Klemperer
Philharmonia Orchestra (1957)

Karl Böhm
Wiener Philharmoniker (1958)

Otto Klemperer
Wiener Symphoniker (1963)

Herbert von Karajan
Berliner Philharmoniker (1966)

Otto Klemperer
Wiener Philharmoniker (1968)

Karl Böhm
Wiener Philharmoniker (1971)

Leonard Bernstein
Wiener Philharmoniker (1981)

Janáček - Sinfonietta - 6 conductors, 6 recordings

Leoš Janáček

Sinfonietta

Otto Klemperer
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (1956)

Karel Ančerl
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (1961)

Rafael Kubelík
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (1970)

Charles Mackerras
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (2002)

Antoni Wit
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (2009)

Simon Rattle
London Symphony Orchestra (2018)

Berlioz - Romeo and Juliette (orchestral highlights) - Giulini

Hector Berlioz

Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17 (orchestral highlights)

Introduction. Combats - Tumulte - Intervention du Prince

Roméo seul, tristesse, concert et bal, grande fête chez Capulet

Scène d'amour

Scherzo - La reine Mab ou la fée des songes

Roméo au tombeau des Capulets

Carlo Maria Giulini

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1969).

Liszt - Wagner transcriptions - Barenboim

Franz Liszt

Aus Lohengrin, S. 446

Ballade aus 'Der Fliegenden Holländer', S. 441

Isoldens Liebestod aus 'Tristan und Isolde', S. 447

Phantasiestück über Motive aus 'Rienzi', 'Santo spitiro cavaliere', S. 439

Spinnerlied aus 'Der Fliegenden Holländer', S. 440

Stücke aus Tannhäuser und Lohengrin, S. 445

Daniel Barenboim (1982)

Liszt - Piano Concertos - Davis, Arrau

Franz Liszt

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S.125

Trois études de concert, S. 144*

Colin Davis

Claudio Arrau

London Symphony Orchestra (1979, 1976*) 

Kachaturian - Gayane, Spartacus (highlights) - Kachaturian

Aram Khachaturian

Excerpts from Gayane and Spartacus

Aram Khachaturian 

London Symphony Orchestra (1977).

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar' - Kondrashin

Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, 'Babi Yar', Op. 113

Kirill Kondrashin

Vitaly Gromadsky 

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

State Academic Choir

Yurlov Russian Choir

Premiere recording (live, 20.12.1962).

Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem - 6 Reference recordings

Benjamin Britten

Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20

Benjamin Britten

New Philharmonia Orchestra (1964)

John Barbirolli

BBC Symphony Orchestra (1967)

John Barbirolli

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1969)

André Previn

London Symphony Orchestra (1973)

Simon Rattle

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1984)

Richard Hickox

London Symphony Orchestra (1991)

Y para quienes leen español, no olviden revisar la siguiente entrada:

http://flvargasmachuca.blogspot.com/2021/06/sinfonia-de-requiem-de-britten.html