The Goons featuring Andrew Secombe, Jon Glover, Jeffrey Holland & others
Goon Again - The 40th Anniversary Cardboard Replica Show [ BBC Audio / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] Using scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, the Goon Show was recreated at the Playhouse Theatre in London for one night, with Andrew Secombe (Harry's son), Jon Glover (as Spike Milligan) and Jeffrey Holland (as Peter Sellers). |
CHARPENTIER / DEBUSSY / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / OFFENBACH / GLUCK / BIZET / VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri te Kanawa - French Opera Arias Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI / CD - released 20/Jun/1989 ] "As always, one marvels at the sheer allure of the voice" Gramophone |
ALBINONI / CORELLI / GALUPPI / STRADELLA / etc
The Art of the Baroque Trumpet Vol 5 Niklas Eklund & Jeffrey Segal, baroque trumpet / Maria Keohane / Wasa Baroque Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] "[Eklund's] virtuoso skills, consistently sweet tone, purity of intonation, and sense of ease rank him as the world's best." - Kilpatrick, American Record Guide July/August 2002 |
FIOCCO / LACOSTE / LALANDE / MONDONVILLE / RAMEAU
A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ] "Sampson is quite remarkable. She has the capacity to soften the vocal line with carefully controlled vibrato, but also deploys tone of crystalline clarity... (Gramophone Award WINNER 2015 - Recital) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Symphonies Nos 32, 35 'Haffner', & 39 English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/1985 ] ""There are absolutely no reservations about Jeffrey Tate's strongly characterised readings of (three) key late Mozart symphonies. The ECO emphasise elegance." (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Symphonies English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ Warner Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2006 ] "Tate performs with style and excellence, and always gives the music a sense of life and elegant freshness." (MusicWeb) |
Jeffrey Foucault
Horse Latitudes [ Signature Sounds / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] 10 tracks of beautifully spun stories over waning guitar, gently strummed acoustics and Foucault's gruff and well focused vocals. The album also features a stellar cast of musicians. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Mass in B minor Julianne Baird, Judith Nelson, Jeffrey Dooley, Jan Opalach / The Bach Ensemble (original instruments), Joshua Rifkin [ Nonesuch Ultima / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/1982 ] Composed in spurts of productivity over the last 20 years of Bach's life, the Mass in B Minor was not completed until just before the composer's death, making it one of his last great works. It is performed here on original period instruments by the... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47 (complete oratorio recorded in 1989) Lisa Saffer, Judith Nelson, Patricia Spence, Jeffrey Thomas, Michael George Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Jan/1997 ] Recorded at the Berkeley Festival, University of California at Berkeley, June 15 & 17, 1989 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Lucia Popp, Bernd Weikl, London Philharmonic, Klaus Tennstedt / Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 16/Jun/1987 ] Most of Mahler's vocal output was inspired by "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (The Boy's Magic Horn), an early 19th-Century anthology of folk poems from all over German-speaking Europe. The "Wunderhorn" had earlier inspired Weber, Mendelssohn and Schumann.... |
JALBERT / BACH / PART / VASKS
Jalbert, Bach, Pärt & Vasks: Music for violin and orchestra Margaret Batjer (violin), Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Kahane [ BIS SACD / CD - released 2/Aug/2019 ] Making their first appearance on BIS, Margaret Batjer and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) cross great distances in both time and space in this programme of concertante violin works. The disc opens with a Violin Concerto by the American... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch/Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Nigel Kennedy (violin) / English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate [ EMI / CD - released 20/Feb/1988 ] "Kennedy has shrewdly augmented the regular concerto coupling of Bruch and Mendelssohn with the rare Schubert work, and the result is a generous issue which on every front can be warmly recommended for exceptionally strong and positive performances" |
Jeffrey Lewis
A Turn in the Dream Songs [ Rough Trade Records / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] New York songwriter/cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis returns with a highly likable sixth album full of his characteristic wit, whimsy, sardonic self-deprecation, and transcendental musings. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cantos Desiertos: Works for flute & guitar Alexandra Hawley (flute) Jeffrey Mcfadden (Guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Aug/2003 ] |
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Birtwistle: Angel Fighter / etc Andrew Watts (Angel) & Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob) / BBC Singers & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton [ NMC / CD - released 20/May/2017 ] Gramophone Awards 2016 - Finalist - Contemporary |
LEONARDO BALADA
Caprichos Nos. 2, 3 & 4 Andrés Cárdenes (solo violin) / Jeffrey Turner (double bass) / Pittsburgh Sinfonietta / Lawrence Loh [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2011 ] "A contemporary Spanish voice that ably blends modernity and the past without compromise.... If proof were required that significant Spanish, post-Rodrigo compositional life exists, and that it is influenced by, though not obsessed with Spain's past,... |
CARSON COOMAN
Cooman: Nantucket Dreaming: Orchestral and Chamber Works Chris Gekker (flugelhorn & trumpet) / Roman Mesina (bassoon) / Jeffrey Grossman (piano) / Emmanuel Feldman (cello) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Oct/2010 ] Fanfare proclaimed that "Cooman has something to say, an engaging voice to do so, and real musical chops". |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 100 'Military' & 103 'Drum Roll' English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/1987 ] "...Tate chooses speeds that allow the wit and sparkle of Haydn's writing to come out naturally." (Gramophone) |
ORLANDE de LASSUS
Missa Vinum Bonum: 'Good Wine Mass' & service Ex Cathedra & His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts, Jeffrey Skidmore [ Alto / CD - released 18/Jun/2012 ] |
Ex Cathedra, Britten Sinfonia, Jeffrey Skidmore (condutor), Philippe Honoré (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor), Vayu Naidu (speaker)
The Traveller: Earth & Sky [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] THE TRAVELLER for choir, children's choir, orchestra, tenor, violin and speaker. The Traveller was the third in a series of four major works with words by Vikram Seth and music by Alec Roth, com- missioned jointly over four years by the Salisbury,... |