MARTIN CODAX / JAUFRE RUDEL / DOM DINIS / ANONYMOUS
Cantigas Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices / Andrew Lawrence-King [ Harmonia Mundi 1 + 1 / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2006 ] "This is a jewel, both for its music and in its performance. Paul Hillier interprets each composer with intense sympathy and remarkable command of the two languages - Galician-Portuguese and Old Occitan." - Gramophone |
ACCOLAY / BERIOT / RIEDING / SEITZ / VIOTTI
Concertos From My Childhood Itzhak Perlman (violin) / The Juilliard Orchestra, Lawrence Foster [ Warner Classics Perlman Complete Warner Recordings / CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] Perlman, always generous in sharing his wisdom with young musicians, here provides model performances of five delightful works that have furthered the development of generations of budding players. The orchestra is from New York's Juilliard School,... |
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Read by Jim Norton) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks... |
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Justine (Read by Nigel Anthony) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2009 ] "The classical music interludes that delineate sections of this beautifully produced and packaged set help transport the listener to back-streets of Alexandria. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award." --Audiofilemagazine |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Forza Del Destino (complete) Stella Roman, Frederic Jagel, Lawrence Tibbett, Ezio Pinza / Metriopolitan Opera, Bruno Walter [ Naxos Immortal Performances / 3 CD ] Radio Broadcast January 1943 |
WAGNER
The Ring - An Orchestral Adventure (arr. Henk de Vlieger) Royal Swedish Orchestra (Kungliga Hovkapellet) / Lawrence Renes [ BIS SACD / CD - released 16/Nov/2013 ] Henk de Vlieger's orchestral arrangement of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle boils down this monumental music drama in four parts to a symphonic poem with a duration of a fifteenth of the original score. |
FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker: Orchestral Music from the Operas Royal Swedish Orchestra, Lawrence Renes [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/May/2017 ] "Little-known repertoire, superbly played and recorded; go on, treat yourself." MusicWeb |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana (recorded 31 December 2004 at the Philharmonie Berlin) Sally Matthews (soprano) / Lawrence Brownlee (tenor) / Christian Gerhaher (baritone) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] Simon Rattle is a musical force of nature and the interaction between his unique, varied musical gifts and the great performing traditions of the Berliner Philharmoniker is one of the most exciting features of our present cultural life. |
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) |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1 & 3 St Lawrence String Quartet [ EMI Music / CD - released 10/May/2001 ] "This is an excellent performance, and the recording is good too, an unqualified success after the qualified success of the First Quartet. This is altogether a splendid disc, although the recording by the Borodin Quartet is better still." MusicWeb |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 & No 2 / Capriccio Brillant in B minor Op 22; Rondo Brillant in E flat major Op 29 ; etc (The Romantic Piano Concerto Stephen Hough (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony / Lawrence Foster [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 17 / CD - released 15/Apr/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - 'The soft, stylish arpeggios that open the first work on the disc announce immediately that something special is on the way. Hough is now clearly first recommendation in the concertos'... |
Steve Lawrence
Long Before I knew You [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] |
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
The Greatest Hots Volume 2 [ CD ] |
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
We Got Us - Eydie & Steve Sing the Golden Hits [ Jasmine / CD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] Steve & Eydie were singing Gershwin, Porter, and Tin Pan Alley in the 1950's while the rest of the world was listening to artists like Elvis, Johnny Ray. Steve & Eydie were keeping the popular American songbook alive along with Tony Bennett, Keely... |
Syd Lawrence
Plays The Music Of.. [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
Syd Lawrence
Sincerely, Syd Lawrence.. [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
Syd Lawrence & His Orchestra
My Favourite Things / This Is A Lovely Way to Spend An Evening [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 20/Dec/2010 ] Two original albums on one CD. |
SYD LAWRENCE
My favourite things / This was a lovely way to spend an evening The Syd Lawrence Orchestra [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] Original recordings now available on CD for the first time. Two original albums on one CD. |
The Syd Lawrence Orchestra
Singin' 'n' Swingin' & Great Hits of the 1930s [ Dutton / 2 CD - released 30/Apr/2012 ] |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: String Quartet No 14 & String Quintet No 3 "American" Takacs Quartet, Lawrence Power (viola) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "a Bohemian fertility of sound that makes us relish the Takacs' fluid ensemble, which would seem to include how much each of the musicians remains fascinated by his colleagues" AudAud Best of the year 2017 |