Schumann: Genoveva
Kurt Masur
Opera - Released May 1, 2015 | Brilliant Classics
György Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente
Anna Prohaska
Classical - Released August 19, 2022 | harmonia mundi
Bach Motets
Solomon's Knot
Classical - Released June 16, 2023 | Prospero Classical
Jensen: Eroticon - Reubke: Scherzo - Schumann: Kreisleriana
Severin von Eckardstein
Classical - Released March 10, 2023 | ARTALINNA
J.S. Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 5
Masaaki Suzuki
Classical - Released March 1, 2024 | BIS
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70 (Live) [Orfeo d'Or]
Bayreuther Festspielorchester
Opera - Released January 1, 1964 | Orfeo
Reinhard Keiser : Markuspassion
Joël Suhubiette
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released March 23, 2015 | Mirare
Lux aeterna: Visions of Bach
Beatrice Berrut
Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Aparté
Quatuor Zaïde: Amadeus
Quatuor Zaïde
Chamber Music - Released April 12, 2019 | NoMadMusic
Robert Schumann: Fantasies
Burkard Schliessmann
Classical - Released March 15, 2024 | Divine Art
Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 (Wiener Staatsoper Live)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Opera - Released December 19, 2000 | Orfeo
Telemann: Reformations-Oratorium 1755
Reinhard Goebel
Sacred Oratorios - Released June 21, 2017 | Sony Music Classical Local
Schubert/Schumann Songs
Elly Ameling
Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | deutsche harmonia mundi
Schubert / Schumann: Songs
Elly Ameling
Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | deutsche harmonia mundi
Buxtehude: Jungste Gericht (Das)
Manfred Cordes
Classical - Released January 1, 2007 | CPO
Caveat emptor -- with the purchase of this disc, he or she is getting neither a work called Das jüngste Gericht nor even necessarily music by the Danish/German Baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude. North German group Weser-Renaissance has made a name for itself with sensitive performances that are nevertheless essentially investigational in nature. Here they take up parts of a lengthy work that, like Bach's Christmas Oratorio, is somewhere between a cantata cycle and an oratorio, and was apparently meant to be performed on successive evenings. No title for the work is known. It is surmised to be by Buxtehude, based on its presence in a collection of manuscripts in Stockholm (a city with which the composer was closely associated) and also on alleged stylistic evidence. The latter point seems weaker; the harmonic palette of the music is restricted compared with that of many other sacred vocal works by Buxtehude. It touches on the theme of the Last Judgment but is not the flood-and-guts scenario that might suggest -- it's sort of a morality play, aimed, the notes tell us, at Buxtehude's well-heeled merchant audiences in North Germany and intended as a warning to them to curb their stylin' ways. (It is not known who wrote the libretto; it may have been Buxtehude himself.) The women, as usual, are singled out: "Because the daughters of Zion are proud and go strolling with stretched necks and painted faces," runs one aria (track 4), "come stepping in and strutting, and wear exquisite shoes on their feet, the Lord will shave the heads of the daughters of Zion and take away their jewels." The music consists of choruses, some of them chorales, with a discourse like that of a Greek chorus, with individual parts for the Seven Deadly Sins, Jesus, divine voices, and good and bad souls; the characterization is light but recognizable, and the individual parts combine into attractive duos and trios. The soloists of Weser-Renaissance are just right for the small dimensions and serious tone of the music, but the one-to-a-part choruses of Weser-Renaissance don't work well here -- chorale-based music loses its congregational resonances with this approach, and the preponderance of trios in the music loses its impact when the trio is just a slightly smaller quartet. Even if the music is less effective than that heard on other recent Buxtehude vocal recordings (check out the version of Membra Jesu nostri by the Sixteen, or by the German group Cantus Cölln), this disc, no matter what the music was called or who wrote it, offers an intriguing historical document. Casual listeners won't need this, but serious German Baroque collectors will find something new (or old) and different here.© TiVo
Cantates (Intégrale, volume 5)
Gerlinde Saemann
Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Accent
Bach: Lutherkantaten, Vol. 1 (BWV 62, 36, 91)
Christoph Spering
Classical - Released October 28, 2016 | deutsche harmonia mundi
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Bach: Cantatas BWV 6-99-147
Collegium Vocale Gent
Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | Phi
Schumann & Brahms
Benjamin Grosvenor
Classical - Released March 17, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Robert Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet
Trio Wanderer
Chamber Music - Released April 30, 2021 | harmonia mundi