classical music: Urban Malmberg

classical music: Urban Malmberg

classical music:

Urban Malmberg

Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise / van Dam, Upshaw, Nagano

Olivier Messiaen, Kent Nagano, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1999

Ravishing Music
This work is the culmination of a lifetime of musical experimentation and fervent religous devotion. It contains a remarkable amount of absolutely ravishing music. The soloists, chorus, and orchestral work in this recording are absolutely first rate. As an effort to ...

Dusapin - Faustus, The Last Night

Georg Nigl, Urban Malmberg

Naive, 2007

When Godot becomes Togod
Officially inspired by Marlowe's Dr Faustus, Dusapin retains the very last night Faustus experiences when he shifts from life to death, from the world to damnation. But Dusapin goes a lot farther than just this last night, this shift from living to damned. Dusapin ...

Grieg: Peer Gynt; Sigurd Jorsalfar (Complete Recording)

Carl-Gustaf Holmgren, Urban Malmberg, ...

Polygram Records, 1990

If you thought the familiar Suite version was awesome...
... think again! You're missing more than half of what Mr. Grieg has to offer of the story of the Norwegian Faust, Peer Gynt. Much of the music in this complete version is not to be ignored. Seriously folks, some of the musical scenes not present in the Suite version ...

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Camille Saint-Saens, Colin Davis, ...

Philips, 2007

Gurlitt: Soldaten
Manfred Gurlitt, Gerd Albrecht, ...

Orfeo, 2000

Grieg: Complete Music with Orchestra

Carl-Gustaf Holmgren, Håkan Hagegård, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

It's all here
Norwegian-born Edvard Grieg has created many works for the orchestra, and this 6-CD box set contains almost all of them. Neeme Jarvi handles the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the choirs very well. The sound is crystal clear and has the perfect digital sound for ...

Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia / Hagegard · Larmore · Giménez · Corbelli · Ramey · Frittoli · Lausanne OC ...

Gioachino Rossini, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, ...

Elektra / Wea, 1993

Rossini would be laughing!
A reviewer for American Record Guide said that this recording is unfunny (I believe "dreary" was the word he used). I haven't the slightest idea what he means. On the contrary, this performance of Rossini's comic masterpiece, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, is delightful, ...

Grieg: Peer Gynt

Edvard Grieg, Herbert Blomstedt, ...

Polygram Records, 1990

A must for Grieg fans
Because Grieg is one of my favorite composers, I was delighted to get the complete incidental music to Ibsen's play and not just the standard Suites 1 and 2. Blomstedt and the San Francisco Symphony do a fine job of conveying the many moods of Grieg's masterpiece. ...

Offenbach - The Tales of Hoffmann / Domingo, Gruberova, Eder, Bacquier, Diaz, Morris; Ozawa

Jacques Offenbach, Plácido Domingo, ...

Dg Imports, 1989

Enchanting "Tales"
"The Tales of Hoffmann" was the first opera I ever saw, and what a perfect one to start with. It has everything -- romance, humor, fantasy, tragedy. First chance I got, I ran to the record store to get a copy. This is the version I chose. Although I am not a ...

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (Highlights)
Jonathan Summers, Simon Estes, ...

Polygram Records, 1993

Pintscher: Music from Thomas Chatterton; Orchesterstücke

Urban Malmberg, Matthias Pintscher, ...

Kairos, 2000

Thrilling
I confess, I love Ligeti and Boulez and Webern. And I love this. Pintscher's music is the music of a possessed youth. His melodies (yes, melodies) are spare and expressive and his orchestrations change mood so rapidly as to give you whiplash. His Five Orchestra Pieces ...