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Geoffrey Hardcastle solo cornet; Center City Brass Quintet
Romantic Music For Brass (Mendelssohn; Ewald; Bahme) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'Sparkling runs, impeccable chording, sensitive nuancing between foreground and background, sweet phrasing, a faultless balance in an ideal acoustic - this is becoming dangerously enthusiastic... This is the real McCoy - naughty but very, very nice.'... |
George Shearing (solo piano)
Reflections: The Best Of George Shearing [ Telarc Discover Jazz / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] Compiled just in time to celebrate his eighty-first birthday, Reflections: The Best of George Shearing stands on its own as an overview of the master’s career. |
PHILIP GLASS
Music from 'The Hours' Michael Riesman (solo piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Philip Glass' score for Stephen Daldry's film "The Hours" contains some of the most emotional, lyrical and haunting music Glass has produced. |
DEBBIE WISEMAN
Different Voices Hayley Westenra (solo voice) Stephen Fry (narrator) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Debbie Wiseman [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] '"How about composing a new Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra?" suggested Ian Maclay, the General Manager of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. I've always loved composing for full symphony orchestra, so this was a challenge that simply had to be... |
VIVALDI / BIGAGLIA / GASPERINI / ANONYMOUS
Anonimo Venexian Inês d'Avena (recorder) Claudio Ribeiro (harpsichord [solo]) [ Ramee / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "this is another compelling performance of repertoire of high quality. Ms d'Avena produces a beautiful tone, her playing is strongly gestural and based on a thorough knowledge of musical rhetorics." MusicWeb Recommended |
WOLF-FERRARI
Orchestral Works Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) John Bradbury (solo clarinet) Peter Dixon (solo cello) / BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2004 ] "The richly romantic themes in the overture from La dama boba are also particularly sumptuous and enormously enjoyable. The sound quality of this recording is consistently excellent, as we have come to expect from Chandos." (MusicWeb March 2009) |
ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Évocations etc Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Fisher (solo tenor), François le Roux (baritone), CBSO Chorus, BBC Philharmonic [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] Maestro Yan Pascal Tortelier celebrates his twenty-five-year recording career and seventy-album discography on Chandos with this album of three of Roussel's most remarkable compositions. It follows a highly praised Birmingham concert with the same... |
STEVE REICH
Kuniko Plays Reich: Electric Counterpoint, Six Marimbas and Vermont Counterpoint (arranged for tape and percussion solo) Kuniko (solo marimba and vibraphone) [ Linn / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "All these studio works involve vast amounts of pre-recording to refine their pleasing results, none more so than Six Marimbas Counterpoint which involves five pre-recorded tracks behind a solo line. It's a hypnotic and strangely calming experience."... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Violin Concertos Opp. 11 & 12 L'Arte dell'Arco, Federico Guglielmo (solo violin & concertmaster), Pier Luigi Fabretti (oboe) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] With this new release, L'Arte dell'Arco complete their survey of the concertos and sonatas Opp. 1-12 which spread the fame of Antonio Vivaldi across Europe thanks to their publication by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam. These final two sets were published... |
PHILIP GLASS
La Belle Et La Bête (The Beauty and the Beast) Michael Riesman (solo piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 10/Sep/2015 ] Following the recent successful albums of his transcriptions of music by Philip Glass, pianist Michael Riesman presents a new album of solo transcriptions and arrangements from Philip Glass's opera Beauty and the Beast. In Glass's music, the power of... |
VIVALDI
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Midori Seiler (solo violin), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Following the stage production in which the orchestra joined forces with a dancer. Encouraged by the outstanding success of these performances, the Akademie für Alte Musik was keen to rerecord the works in the studio... |
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Mungo's Hi-Fi (Featuring Eek-a-Mouse, Solo Banton & Ruben da Silva)
Hire and Removal Refix / Kung Fu Know How (12" Single) [ Scrub a Dub / 12in - released 4/May/2012 ] |
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MULTIPLICITIES
Multiplicities: recent music for solo flute Nancy Ruffer (solo flute) [ Metier / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] |
PURCELL
Anthems and Services Vol 6 Nicholas Witcomb (solo treble) James Bowman (countertenor) Rogers Covey-Crump (high tenor) Paul Agnew (tenor) / Choir of New College, Oxford / King [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (pre 1700) - 'No fewer than five first recordings in this ... Fans of Purcell will find this disc, Iike the others in the series, indispensable' (Fanfare, USA) |
JAMES DILLON
Book of Elements (I-V) Noriko Kawai (piano solo) [ NMC / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005 - Contemporary |
GLASS / BARBER / TOWER
The American Virtuoso Paul Barnes (solo piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 5/Jun/2008 ] The American Virtuoso presents a recital by American pianist Paul Barnes. Orange Mountain Music releases this new disc of virtuosic piano music by American composers including the world premiere recording of Barnes' transcription of Philip Glass'... |
DECODING SKIN
Decoding Skin (works by Paul Whitty, Xenakis, Finnissy & Feldman) Philip Howard (solo piano) [ Divine Art / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "A fine début, with the many repertoire challenges within eloquently and skilfully met... Philip Howard plays to his strengths on this auspicious recorded début… this striking... programme augurs well for Philip Howard's future"(Gramophone) |
A. VIVALDI / J. S. BACH
Vivaldi / Bach: Magnificat & Concerti Pierre Hantaï (clavecin solo) / Le Concert des Nations / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD + DVD / 2 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 15/Feb/2015 ] "with performers of this calibre…the performances were always going to be impressive. All fans of Savall will want the set." (Early Music Review) |
LEHAR
Tauber Sings Lehar Richard Tauber with Carlotta Vanconti (soprano), Vera Schwarz (soprano), Vera Schwarz (soprano solo) [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "Tauber is one of those singers who could sing almost anything and make it his own - even unforgettable." American Record Guide |
GERALD FINZI
Grand Fantasia & Toccata / Eclogue / Nocturne / etc. Rodney Friend (solo violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor, Peter Katin (piano) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley (co [ Lyrita / CD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] "Superb sound and Diana McVeagh's astute notes cap a mandatory purchase for lovers of the English muse, and of course for Finzi lovers in particular." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Oct 2007) |
