DAMIEN SNEED / JEREMIAH EVANS / BRANDON SPENCER / MARGARET BONDS etc
Lawrence Brownlee - Rising Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Kevin J. Mi (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Grammy Awards 66th Awards (2024) Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album |
ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINKSY / ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau / Korngold: Violin Concerto Arabella Steinbacher (violin) / Gulbenkian Orchestra / Lawrence Foster / Netherlands Philharmonic / Marc Albrecht [ Alto / CD - released 24/Oct/2022 ] "As an example of luscious late-Romantic orchestral writing, Die Seejungfrau could scarcely be bettered: a fine performance of a gorgeous orchestral score" (MusicWeb) "Steinbacher's technique on the other hand is immaculate; how gracefully those... |
GIACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Messa di Gloria Eleonora Buratto, Teresa Iervolino, Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Spyres / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Expanding their notable Rossini discography, Sir Antonio Pappano and the Chorus and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia perform the composer's Messa di Gloria of 1820. |
Lawrence Arabia
Chant Darling (LP) [ Honorary Bedouin Records / LP - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Lawrence Arabia's Chant Darling is available on vinyl for the first time! Chant Darling was released worldwide in 2009/10 on Bella Union Records and features the popular song "Apple Pie Bed," which won the 2009 APRA Silver Scroll, New Zealand's... |
GIACOMO PUCCCINI
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West Melody Moore, Lester Lynch, Kevin Short, Lawrence Foster, Marius Vlad, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2021 ] Lawrence Foster conducts Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (1910), together with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Cluj-Napoca and a cast of seasoned Puccini singers, including Melody Moore (Minnie), Marius Vlad (Dick Johnson)... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Amici e Rivali Michael Spyres (tenor), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris, with Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano) [ Erato / CD - released 5/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Voice & Ensemble |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 10 - Sophie Rennert Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano), Lawrence Power (viola) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] 'Sophie Rennert's voice is magnificently burnished, full and deep … the songs with viola form the centrepiece of the disc, and one could hardly hope for a finer exponent of the obbligato part than Lawrence Power' (MusicWeb) |
The Lawrence Arms
Skeleton Coast [ Epitaph / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Skeleton Coast was recorded 30 miles east of El Paso, TX at Sonic Ranch Studios with long-time producer Matt Allison. The album contains the elements of the band's sound that fans have come to love for the past two decades but recontextualizes them... |
The Lawrence Arms
Skeleton Coast (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Skeleton Coast was recorded 30 miles east of El Paso, TX at Sonic Ranch Studios with long-time producer Matt Allison. The album contains the elements of the band's sound that fans have come to love for the past two decades but recontextualizes them... |
BRETT DEAN / SOFIA GUBAIDULINA / SERGEI RACHMANINOV / RICHARD WAGNER / etc
Voices of Angels - chamber works Andrej Power (violin) Lawrence Power (viola) Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) / Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] The Stockholm Syndrome Ensembleis -as the name implies -based in Stockholm, and consists of five of the city's leading musicians. Project-based and often inviting guest performers, the SSE is known for its imaginative programmes built around a... |
JAMES MacMILLAN
MacMillan: Symphony No 4 / Viola Concerto Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] MacMillan's viola concerto was written for Lawrence Power, who brings a unique authority to this, its first recording. The fourth symphony-a major addition to the repertoire-is a generous and appropriate coupling, both works incorporating and... |
ANONYMOUS
Piae Cantiones Utopia Chamber Choir, Andrew Lawrence-King [ Alia Vox / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] Andrew Lawrence-King conducts the leading Finnish early music vocal ensemble Utopia Chamber Choir in a performance of traditional carols from the "Piae Cantiones," a collection of medieval Latin songs compiled by Finnish priest Jacobus Finn in 1582... |
NICOLO PAGANINI
Paganini: Violin Concerto No 1 (with Saraste - Carmen Fantasy) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Lawrence Foster [ Warner Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2019 ] "There has been no better account of the D major Concerto" (Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide) |
BELA BARTOK / SANDOR VERESS
Veress: String Trio / Bartók: Piano Quintet Vilde Frang (violin), Barnabás Kelemen (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Alexander Lonquich (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] "But what makes this CD unmissable is the Veress Trio, a masterpiece and a performance to match. I've already pencilled it in as a contender for next year's Gramophone Awards." WINNER - Chamber Gramophone Awards 2020 |
HANDEL / VIVALDI / etc
Baroque Gender Stories Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano), Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor) Lautten Compagney, Wolfgang Katschner [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] |
Lawrence Arabia
Lawrence Arabia's Singles Club [ Honorary Bedouin Records / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] Lawrence Arabia's Singles Club offers any member a one-way ticket to Dreamsville. Launched as a Kickstarter to write, record and release a digital single every month in 2018, Lawrence Arabia's 2018 Singles Club saw more than 368 backers pledge NZ$... |
Lawrence Arabia
Lawrence Arabia's Singles Club (LP) [ Honorary Bedouin Records / LP - released 29/Mar/2019 ] Launched as a Kickstarter to write, record and release a digital single every month in 2018, Lawrence Arabia's 2018 Singles Club saw more than 368 backers pledge NZ$ 23,710 to help bring the project to life. Talented pals contributed to the project,... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tuur: Illuminatio / Whistles and Whispers from Uluru / Symphony No 8 Lawrence Power (viola), Genevieve Lacey (recorders) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Olari Elts [ Ondine / CD - released 16/Feb/2019 ] "Brought vividly to life under fellow Estonian, conductor Olari Elts all three works share a kinship in dynamic, flowing structures generated from often small motifs, lush with post-Romantic, post-serial chromaticism." BBC Music |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Violin Concerto / Miniatures Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Lawrence Foster, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne [ Pentatone / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] This album is violinist Arabella Steinbacher's tribute to the favourite composer of her family household. The music of Richard Strauss has played a crucial role throughout her life. As great Strauss lovers, her parents named her after the main... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Xerxes [Serse] (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Opera Frankfurt / Gaëlle Arquez, Elizabeth Sutphen, Lawrence Zazzo, Louise Alder / Constantinos Carydis (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 18/Sep/2018 ] Xerxes is one of Handel's latest and most frequently performed operas, famous for its marvelous opening aria 'Ombra mai fu'. At the centre of the confusing tragicomedy, very loosely based upon the life of Xerxes I of Persia, is a powerful and... |