classical music: Egils Silins

classical music: Egils Silins

classical music:

Egils Silins

Anton Rubinstein: Der Dämon
Anton Rubinstein, Vladimir Fedoseyev, ...

Koch Schwann (Germ.), 1998

Egils Silins: Opera Airs
Vincenzo Bellini, Arrigo Boito, ...

Riga Recording, 1999

Saint-Saëns - Samson & Dalila / Cura, Borodina, Lafont, Lloyd, Silins, Sir Colin Davis

Camille Saint-Saëns, Sir Colin Davis, ...

Elektra / Wea, 1998

Glorious Samson
I prefer Cura's Samson to Domingo's Samson. I think that Cura's recorded Samson has a more beautiful voice than Domingo's. Sir Colin Davis shows himself the top exponent of Samson today. his conducting has improved tremendously over the previous set. And Borodina must ...

Bohuslav Martinu: Greek Passion

Adrian Clarke, Eric Garrett, ...

Koch Schwann (Germ.), 2000

A great opera
The Greek Passion was one of the last pieces that Martinu wrote and it is the only tragic opera that he wrote. Musicologists say that this opera makes more sense when compared with all other Martinu's operas but I think it makes a very good listening on its own, too. ...

Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Gioachino Rossini, Fabio Luisi, ...

Orfeo D'or, 2005

George Enescu: Oedipe

Davide Damiani, Egils Silins, ...

Naxos, 2006

Have no hesitation - a treasure!
Rarely has the adventuresome listener's investment been so handsomely repaid. Georges Enescu, contemporaneous with Igor Stravinsky, wrote "Oedipe" ("Oedipus") gradually over many years, and it finally premiered in 1936. I've not heard the EMI set of this opera from ...