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... |
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehar: Friederike Helen Donath, Adolf Dallapozza / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Heinz Wallberg [ Warner Classics Cologne Collection / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2014 ] It's one of the best-known love stories in the history of German literature: the brief but intense affair between the young Goethe and the 17-year-old Friederike Brion, daughter of a Strasbourg parish priest. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem Mass K626 / Exsultate, jubilate, K165 [with Barbara Hendricks] Helen Donath, Christa Ludwig, Robert Tear, Robert Lloyd, Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "As one would expect. what Giulini's insight conveys is the rapt quality of such passages as the end of the Tuba mirum and the Benedictus." (Penguin Guide) |
W.A. MOZART
Great Choral Works: Missa in C minor, Coronation Mass, Requiem Mass Helen Donath, Heather Harper, Yvonne Minton, John Alldis Choir / BBC Symphony / Colin Davis [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] A specially priced double CD |
Händel, Ge
Weihnachtskonzert: Ausschnitte aus "Der Messias", Concerto Grosso op. 6,8, Ave verum corpus KV 618, Laudate Dominum KV Helen Donath, Regensburger Domspatzen; Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Kurt Eichhorn [ ORFEO / CD - released 1/Sep/1997 ] |
Helen Forrest
The Golden Years Of - I Had The Craziest Dream [ Jasmine / 4 CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] This box set compiled and produced by Geoff Milne is a huge collection from one of the most popular of female big band singers and includes both broadcast and studio material dating back to 1938. |
Helen Forrest
The Voice Of The Big Bands [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/May/1997 ] Arguably the most underrated singer of the 20th Century. Her impeccable phrasing and unparalleled range and breath control made it so easy to be heard over a 17 piece band.... |
Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw
Sweeter As The Years Go By [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Oct/1998 ] Give yourself a real treat and catch a fabulous band led by clarinettist Artie Shaw at the Blue Room of the Hotel Lincoln and hear the delectable Helen Forrest, "The Voice Of The Big Bands". It is to her this collection of songs is dedicated... |
Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw
Volume Two - Sweet And Simple [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Nov/1999 ] On 11th July, 1999, Helen Forrest died of heart failure - she was 82. Thus 'The Voice Of The Big Bands', which sustained many a grieving heart through the later Depression years and the Second World War, was stilled forever. |
Helen Grayco
Oop Shoop: The Rare Singles and More [ Jasmine / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Helen Grayco is best remembered today as the beautiful and sultry vocalist with the Spike Jones orchestra, headlining his various TV shows for more than a decade. During that time, she recorded a string of singles for the London, Mercury and RCA... |
VIVALDI
Music for Vespers Helen Groves, Nigel Short, Ruth Gleave, Paul Agnew / Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore, conductor [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART
Piano Concerto No 1 / Piano Concerto No 23 Helen Huang (piano) / New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur [ Warner Apex / CD - released 13/Oct/1995 ] "There is much to admire in Helen Huang's performance. Her sound is clear and full, with a tensile strength that never seems muscle-bound and her sense of form is admirable ö she has the makings of a lovely artist." (Washington Post) |
Helen Humes
Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do [ Essential Jazz Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] |
Helen Humes
Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do [ Original Jazz Classics / LP ] |
BRITTEN / DORATI / KRENEK
Works for Oboe Helen Jahren (oboe) Elisabeth Westenholz (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 21/Dec/2004 ] Helen Jahren is one of today's most prominent oboe soloists. |
RICHARD HEUBERGER
Heuberger: Der Opernball (The Opera Ball) (complete Operetta Film, 1970. Sung in German) Helen Mané, Harald Serafin, Maria Tiboldi, Maurice Besançon, Tatjana Iwanow / Symphony Orchestra Kurt Graunke, Munich, Willy Mattes [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Richard Heuberger (1850-1914) was born into a well-to-do middle-class family from Graz. He trained initially as an engineer, but after studying for a degree in music, he was appointed director of the Vienna Singakademie. Heuberger created many... |
Helen Medlyn and Penny Dodd
Darling Its Hell [ Medlyn / Dodd Music New Zealand / CD - released 31/Oct/2006 ] Those two "hell" cabaret divas - the divine Miss Medlyn and Miss Dodd - offer eleven delicious songs of love that lie in the warm, luxurious lap of jazz. |
Helen Merrill
Complete Recordings [ Phoenix Jazz / CD - released 30/May/2011 ] |
Helen Merrill / Clifford Brown
Helen Merril With Clifford Brown (Vinyl) [ Wax Time / LP - released 26/Sep/2011 ] Limited edition vinyl reissue. |
Helen O'Connell
A Long Last Look [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Helen O'Connell had a long career from singing in groups in the '40s to being a solo artist and star of TV shows in the '50s This is the first in depth look at Helen's singles from 1951 - 1957. |