More By Artist: A.A. Milne
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded live August 2002) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Anne Sofie von Otter, Laurent Naouri, Marcus Haddock, Lisa Milne / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Blu-Ray - - "(Von Otter's) Carmen has loads of overt sexuality - she languidly glides through the Habanera while sucking on a piece of fruit and then a cigar - and she shows plenty of temperament and fatalism tinged with fear later." (Los Angeles Times) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 2 Lorna Anderson (soprano) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The first thing to say that the performances by sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne are consistently beautiful, alert to the implications of Debussy's word-setting, whether ecstatic or subdued...Martineau matches them in the subtlety,... |
J.S. BACH
Bach - Piano Transcriptions vol. 5 Hamish Milne, piano [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] "Hamish Milne again and again reveals his pianistic talents, and his playing also reflects his love of this demanding yet rewarding repertoire" - MusicWeb June 2005. |
MEDTNER
Arabesques, Dithyrambs, Elegies & other short piano works Hamish Milne (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "As Milne's forthright, utterly secure performances make clear, much of this is strongly characterised music...Milne is a wonderfully persuasive advocate for this distinctive and generally underrated music" The Guardian, 14th March 2012 **** |
SERGEI LYAPUNOV
Lyapunov: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 4 / Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes, Op 28 / Piano Concerto No 2, Op 38 Hamish Milne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 30 / CD - released 18/Oct/2002 ] 'Yet another programme that makes incomprehensible the narrow choice of 19th-century piano concertos heard in our concert halls today' (BBC Music Magazine) |
JOSEPH HOLBROOKE / HAYDN WOOD
Holbrooke / Wood: Piano Concertos Hamish Milne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 23 / CD - released 7/Jul/2000 ] 'Superlative performances of two forgotten British gems... An altogether exemplary release.' (Gramophone) |
GOETZ / WIENIAWSKI
Goetz / Wieniawski: Piano Concertos Hamish Milne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Michal Dworzynski [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 52 / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] 'There is much about Goetz's concert that is adorable - the slow movement in particular - and it is well worth the average listener's attention.' (International Record Review) |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Cello Sonatas Jiri Barta (cello) Hamish Milne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "…Sonata No. 1 in D major is well-nigh irresistible, with memorable melodies and a heroic piano part sweeping all before it. In Jirí Bárta's hands it speaks to us across the centuries with a radiant ardour." (Gramophone) |
MOSCHELES / HUMMEL
Cello Sonatas Jiri Barta (cello) Hamish Milne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "With such strong, sympathetic playing and clear, carefully-balanced recordings this Hyperion disc is a must for adventurous cellists and listeners alike" (BBC Music) |
POULENC
Complete Songs Vol. 3 John Mark Ainsley / Lorna Anderson / Sarah Fox / Jonathan Lemalu / Lisa Milne / Malcolm Martineau [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his most breathtaking moments, but the level of intensity is... |
DVORAK
Requiem (recorded Feb 2009) Lisa Milne, Karen Cargill, Peter Auty, Peter Rose / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice - January 2010 |
ROGER QUILTER
O Mistress Mine / To Daisies / Julia's Hair / Go, Lovely Rose and other songs Lisa Milne (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) Duke Quartet [ Naxos The English Song Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - Roger Quilter was born in Hove in 1877 into comfortable family circumstances. His father was Sir Cuthbert Quilter, who in 1881 founded the National Telephone Company and was for... |
Lisa Milne, Roderick Williams with Iain Burnside (piano)
Moonstruck: Songs of FG Scott [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] "Here's an important discovery ailing from the Scottish Borders...a compelling collection that reveals FG Scott as poetic yet clear-eyed and, above all, songful." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine August 2007 |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version) Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Kennedy/ Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 11/May/2011 ] "[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner parts." (BBC Music) |
BACH / MENDELSSOHN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Cantata BWV63 'Christen, aetzet diesen Tag' / Von Himmel Hoch / The First Nowell Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Staples / Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The LPO and Choir provide serious nourishment while opening our ears to the sort of Christmas music that gets overlooked amid the tinsel...Jurowski makes an unlikely but worthy VW champion...All in all, this is a programme combining enterprise and... |
JAMES MacMILLAN
The Sacrifice (complete opera) Lisa Milne (sop) Leigh Melrose (bar), Christopher Purves (bass) Sarah Tynan (sop) Peter Hoare (ten) / Welsh National Opera, Anthony Negus [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] 'There is no mistaking James MacMillan has a popular hit on his hands, with the cries of bravo as the curtain fell on the world premiere of his new opera.' (Western Mail) |
TRADITIONAL
Land of Heart's Desire (Songs of the Hebrides from the collection by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Sioned Williams (harp) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] 'A treasure house of gems . . . This is as fine a solo debut album as I have encountered all year and deserves a cult following. It will come near the top of my Christmas list' - The Sunday Times |
TRADITIONAL
Land of Heart's Desire (Songs of the Hebrides from the collection by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Sioned Williams (harp) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] 'A treasure house of gems . . . This is as fine a solo debut album as I have encountered all year and deserves a cult following. It will come near the top of my Christmas list' - The Sunday Times |
Lisa Milne-soprano; Susan Bickley-mezzo soprano; Iain Burnside-piano
Voices Vol 2: Half Close Your Eyes-Songs by Debussy (plus Charpentier, Honegger, Delius, Vaughan Williams, etc) [ Black Box / CD - released 15/Oct/2003 ] "A brilliantly conceived, quite deliciously executed collection of settings of poems by Paul Verlaine." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Aug 2003) |
JOHN IRELAND
The Songs of John Ireland Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "Ireland was a songsmith to rival the finest this country has produced, and Hyperion's generous anthology will hopefully encourage others to explore this rewarding and rapt repertoire" (Hi-Fi News) |
