Jason Howard, Helen Hobson, David Shannon, Emma Kershaw, Dave Willetts, Zoe Tyler, etc
100 Great Musicals [6 CD set] [ Silva Screen / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Featuring tunes from Show Boat, Anything Goes, Porgy And Bess, Oklahoma, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Fiddler On The Roof, Cabaret, Hair, Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express and more! |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Alice Helen Medlyn (mezzo-soprano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei [ Atoll / CD - released 24/Oct/2013 ] Alice was written for Helen Medlyn and the Auckland Philharmonia while Gillian Whitehead was composer‐in‐residence. The first performance was given by Helen Medlyn and the Auckland Philharmonia, conducted by Miguel Harth‐Bedoya, on 17 July 2003... |
J. S. BACH
9 Cantatas [18, 59, 89, 90, 106, 118, 152, 161, 182] Sheila Armstrong, Rotraud Hansman, Helen Watts, Kurt Equiluz & Max van Egmond / Concerto Amsterdam, Monteverdi Chor Hamburg, Jürgen Jürgens [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 6/Oct/2008 ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion [highlights] Elly Ameling, Julia Hamari, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Fritz Wunderlich, Walter Berry, Tom Krause / Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Munchinger [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] 'Many will be glad to hear Peter Pears's superb performance of the Evangelist' Gramophone, March 1965 |
J. S. BACH
Missa (1733) Emiko Iiyama, Helen Watts, Kurt Equiluz, Rotraud Hansmann, Max van Egmond / Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus H [ Warner Das Alte Werk / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "admirable performance and excellent recording … all Bach-lovers must know Harnoncourt's style by now; the buoyant flow of the opening Kyrie, for example, the springy rhythms and lightness of touch." (Gramophone) |
PURCELL / MONTERVERDI / STROZZI / ECCLES / PARK / etc
Battle Cry: She Speaks Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano) Toby Carr (theorbo) [ Resonus / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] "Charlston plumbs the texts with cut-glass diction and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours and timbres...She's adeptly... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Complete Opera recorded in 1970) Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kéléman, Helen Donath / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "Helga Dernesch as Leonare gives a glorious, thrilling peformance. The orchestral playing is superb." (Penguin Guide) |
BEETHOVEN
Mass, Op. 86 in C major / Elegischer Gesang, Op. 118; etc Rebecca Evans (soprano) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) / Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] "Beethoven's radical rethink of the liturgy engenders a joyous reading from Hickox." - Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine) January 2004 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Feb/2018 ] "All performers are in superb form and recorded with pristine clarity and balance. This is a must-listen - a different Beethoven comes forth with sublime beauty and insights beyond the symphony." (Nicholas Butler) |
LUDWIG van BEEHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (alto), llan Clayton (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] " Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have given us an historically informed recording of the Beethoven Ninth that conveys the drama, humanity, and transformative release of this incomparable work." Fanfare |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Bells Op 35 / The Rock Op 7 Ivan Choupenitch (tenor) / Helen Field (soprano) / Oleg Melnikov (bass) / RTE Philharmonic Choir. Choupenitch, Alexander Anissimov [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2002 ] "Budget or no, these are Bells you ought to hear." |
BARTOK / R. STRAUSS / PUCCINI / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings [1953-1976] Birgit Nilsson, with, Regina Resnik, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jon Vickers, Helen Donath, Walter Berry, etc [ Sony Classics / 31 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2018 ] "Many of these live recordings have been remastered, mostly very adequately, from radio broadcasts, and include samples at least of all her major roles...The casts for some of these performances are the stuff of legend now." The Guardian |
GOOSSENS / DRING / RODNEY BENNETT / McGUIRE / SAMUEL / MUSGRAVE / ARNOLD
British Music for Flute, Oboe & Piano Nancy Ruffer (flute) John Anderson (oboe) Helen Crayford (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2007 ] "The performances are well-turned and responsive to the programme's varying demands." BBC Music |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HOWELLS / WALTON / BOWEN
British Music for Viola and Orchestra Helen Callus (viola) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] "Helen Callus plays with sumptuous tone matched by flawless intonation" Gramophone |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Little Sweep, Op. 45 / Cantata Academica, Op. 62 Jennifer Vyvyan, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, George Malcolm / English Opera Group, Benjamin Britte [ Heritage / CD - released 23/Jan/2012 ] Two of Britten's rarities, his children's opera The Little Sweep and the Cantata Academica, have been unavailable for several years. The definitive recordings made with the English Opera Group and the London Symphony Orchestra are now available on... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The World Of The Spirit / King Arthur Suite / American Overture Martyn Hill (tenor), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone) / Britten Singers, BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "The recording is superbly wide in its range and offers a realistic quality." Gramophone |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas BWV51, BWV202. BWV10, BWV80, BWV140, etc Suzanne Danco, Helen Watts, Werner Krenn, Tom Krause / Wiener Akademie Chor / Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Muchinger [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "excellently transparent and well-detailed Decca digital recording and a fine team of soloists ... the chorus' vigorous contribution is given striking body and presence" - [BWV 80 and 140] Gramophone. |
J.S. BACH
Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Complete) Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Elly Ameling, Tom Krause / Karl Manchinger, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/2001 ] Double Decca - 2 CDs at a special price |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Complete Mass Edition Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Janice Watson, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Padmore / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Richard Hickox's plaudit-winning Haydn Mass Edition is now available as a complete boxed set. A full price collection but now available at a special price. |
GORDON JACOB
Complete Music for Viola and Orchestra Helen Callus (viola) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Bell [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] Dutton Epoch is delighted to present this ear-opening, pioneering traversal of Gordon Jacob's complete music for viola and orchestra - all world premiere recordings - that covers over fifty years of the composer's life. Here we have the two numbered... |