Brahms: The Symphonies, Haydn Variations & 8 Hungarian Dance

Overtures

Grand Duo Clarinet

Wagner: Opera Excerpts

Schubert, Wagner & Beethoven: Orchestral Works

The Great Live Concerts

Rosanna Carteri: A Discographic Career

Conductors Profiles: Réne Leibowitz

The Great Live Concerts (Live)

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann & Ravel: Piano Concertos

Baroque & Classical Works for Flute

Handel: Serse, HWV 40 (Recorded 1962)

Vivaldi: 12 Concerti

George Frideric Handel’s three-act oratorio Samson is considered one of his very best dramatic works. The arias from the work, “Let the bright Seraphim” and “Total eclipse” are often performed in concert separately from the rest of the work. Handel began the work immediately after finishing Messiah. The libretto is by Newburgh Hamilton, who based it on Milton’s Samson Agonistes, which in turn is based on the Biblical figure Samson from the Book of Judges. This album is a previously unreleased recording which was made on September 18, 1955, and features legendary vocalists like Ernst Haefliger, Maria Stader, Marga Hoffgen, Kim Borg, Heinz Rehfuss, and Maria Reith.

Among the many recordings of The Matthew Passion, two have always stood out for their historical importance and for their diffusion - one conducted by Otto Klemperer for EMI and the other one, conducted by Eugen Jochum for Phillips. Urania is now proposing that the second, recorded in Amsterdam in 1965 with an extraordinary voice cast. This release is complete in all parts and has a fabulous sound for all listeners. The Bach by Jochum is vast, but not romantic - on the contrary - he puts the Passion under a light of sweetness and sorrow, without the harshness and coldness, typical of the recent interpretations. Urania has also added Bruckner's Te Deum, recorded in Monaco of Bravaria in 1954 by the same Jochum.