Thomas Leron
More Elevator Music [ Lewis Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] More Elevator Music is twelve tracks of jazz-edged hip-hop and reassuring curiosity reaching from the fuzziest depths of its backpack, with Iggy Pop, Malik Crumpler, Florian Pellissier, Kenny Ruby, Tibo Brandalise and Greg F providing assists. |
Whitmer Thomas
The Older I Get, The Funnier I Was (Limited LP) [ Hardly Art / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] The Older I Get, the Funnier I Was, which follows Thomas' brilliant 2020 HBO special The Golden One and his Can't Believe You're Happy Here EP released earlier this year, surveys a range of emotion, and offers a broad sonic palette, moving between... |
San Francisco So/Tilson Thomas
Mahler: Symphony No 9 [ Avie / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/May/2005 ] |
Sam Thomas
Blind Theatre [ Just Music / CD - released 5/Jul/2013 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.9 Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Thomas Quasthoff / Eric-Ericson-Kammerchor, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 11/Mar/2002 ] |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Oratorios: Messiah, Athalia, Esther and La Resurrezione [8 CD set] Academy of Ancient Music / Emma Kirkby / Joan Sutherland / Aled Jones / David Thomas et al [ Decca / 8 CD Box Set - released 7/Dec/2005 ] Now at budget price! Christopher Hogwood's pioneering period instrument recordings of 4 Handel oratorios. |
JOHANN JOSEPH FUX
Fux: Ave Regina Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] "It is good to see this release showcasing some of the material [Fux] provided for the Imperial Court Chapel...The music is well constructed...but don't expect it to change your life." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Bach To Jazz Caroline Adomeit (violin), Julian Riem (piano) & Thomas Hastreiter (percussion) [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 17/Sep/2012 ] |
CELEBRATION
Celebration: Christmas Fanfares and Carols Aled Jones (readings) / BBC Welsh Chorus / John Hugh Thomas (conductor) with Fanfare Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "A lovely collection of music and readings for Christmas. There are seven readings, which, within the context of the recording, is just about right for ultimately it is the music for which you will be buying this disk." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
COLIN MATTHEWS
Machines & Dreams (Incls 'Hidden Variables') Alexander Baillie / London Sinfonietta / Berlin Radio Symphony Orch. / John Carewe (cond.) / London Symphony Orch. / Michael Tilson Thomas (cond.) [ NMC / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This set offers a rounded portrait of a restlessly questing composer … big architectonic pieces in performances of impressive might under Carewe." The Sunday Times 2004 |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
West Side Story Alexandra Silber, Cheyenne Jackson, Jessica Vosk, Kevin Vortmann, Kelly Markgraf / San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / 2 CD/Book - released 2/Dec/2014 ] "Tilson Thomas's version scores heavily with its casting of the appealingly youthful-sounding Cheyenne Jackson as Tony and Alexandra Silber as Maria." (BBC Music) |
BRITTEN
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Complete Opera) Alfred Deller / Peter Pears / Thomas Hemsley / Owen Brannigan / Benjamin Britten [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2002 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder Alwyn Mellor, Anna Larsson, Thomas Allen, Stuart Skelton / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "A top class performance and magnificent recording of this vast piece." MusicWeb International, 20th January 2017 |
QUILTER
Folk-Song Arrangements / Part-Songs for Women's Voices (Complete) Amanda Pitt (soprano) Joanne Thomas (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) David Owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 11 / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "A worthy addition to British song history. Quilter enhances traditional tunes with understated, self effacing arrangements" (MusicWeb June 2005) |
American Bach Soloists/Thomas
Corelli: 6 Concerti Grossi [ Delos / CD ] |
Rachmanino
Lieder und Romanzen Ana Pusar, Thomas Hans [ ORFEO / CD - released 29/Mar/1994 ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Complete Lieder Volume 6 - Myrthen / 6 Gedichte und Requiem Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano) / Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) / Uta Hielscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] "Bauer has a meaty, sizable voice and brings real engagement to the text." (BBC Music Magazine) |
BRAHMS
Brahms: Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes Andrea Rost, Magdalena Kožená, Matthew Polenzani, Thomas Quasthoff / James Levine, Yefim Bronfman (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] "a remarkable performance of Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52 and Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer . . . Audio quality is excellent" Robert E. Benson, Classicalcdreview.com / 19. June 2016 |
SKEMPTON / FINNISSY / JACKSON / CRANE / SALTER
New Works for Clarinet Andrew Sparling (clarinet) Thalia Myers (piano) Alan Thomas (guitar) [ NMC / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This disc shows off the clarinet-playing and unusual musical tastes of a familiar figure on the contemporary scene ... The stylistic range is from the jazziness of Nick Hayes' Tongue-Dog to the modernism of Roger Redgate's +R and Michael Finnissy's... |
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehar: Wiener Frauen (Extracts) / Overtures Anke Hoffmann, Anneli Pfeffer, Peter Minich, Thomas Dewald / WDR Rundfunkorchester, Helmuth Forschauer [ CPO / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "The performance is excellent, with Helmuth Froschauer allowing the glorious melodies to unfold completely naturally. … Lehár's melodic inventiveness is here at its freshest. Two rare overtures complete an issue that no lover of Lehár's music should... |