More By Artist: Patrick O'Hearn
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Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Patrick Rimes (bagpipes)
Bryn Terfel - Sea Songs [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Bryn Terfel's first studio album in over five years featuring wildly romantic "Sea Songs". Shanties and songs about the sea and seafaring in a folky guise such as "Wellerman", "Bold Riley", "Drunken Sailor" or "Sloop John B", with guests such as... |
VIVALDI / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BACH / REINECKE / KUHLAU / etc
Flute Favourites Kazunori Seo, Petri Alanko, Béla Drahos, Patrick Gallois, Jean-Claude Gérard, Uwe Grodd, Wolfgang Schulz (flute) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2019 ] From its origins as one of the oldest musical instruments known to man to the sophisticated mechanics and elegant design today, the flute has been highly significant for every culture and historical period. |
SCARLATTI / CAVALLI / PAISIELLO / CALDARA / MARCELLO / HANDEL
Quella Fiamma - Arie Antiche Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto/musical direction), Shai Kribus (oboe), Patrick Langot (cello), Marie-Domitille Murez (harp) & Miguel Rincòn (theorbo) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2017 ] "One has to admire Parisotti's taste, as well as (not for the first time) Stutzmann's rich, win-dark voice, noble emotional articulation and, when required, flashing virtuosity. Some of these arias are simply ravishing in her hands" Gramophone |
Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse; Patrick Davin; Henri Demarquette
Boëllmann: Symphonie en fa majeur, Variations symphoniques & Quatre pièces brèves [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Léon Boëllmann's Suite gothique, with its suave Prière à Notre-Dame and its spirited Toccata, rapidly became a beloved war-horse of organists throughout the world and gained the composer great renown. The Suite's fame, however, caused other works by... |
JACOB WEINBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weinberg: Piano Concerto 2 / String Quartet Op. 55 / etc Jorge Federico Osorio (piano), Patrick Mason (baritone) / Bingham String Quartet, Barcelona Symphony, National Orchestra of Catalonia [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] This compact disc features world premiere recordings of three works by JACOB WEINBERG (1879-1956), who was born in the Ukraine to a cultured, assimilated family and studied first at the Moscow conservatory and then in Vienna. |
HIERONYMUS PRAETORIUS
Praetorius: Missa Tulerunt Dominum Meum Siglo de Oro, Patrick Allies (director) [ Delphian / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "..here is a choir in which all the elements are held in perfect equilibrium. Beautifully recorded, aristocratilcally executed - Siglo de Oro has struck gold!" CHORAL CHOICE - BBC Music Magazine |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 (complete ballet recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Roberto Bolle, Misty Copeland, Antonino Sutera, Mick Zeni, Marco Agostino / Patrick Fournillier (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2017 ] This classic choreography of Romeo and Juliet by Kenneth MacMillan, set to the immortal notes of Prokofiev, is legendary in La Scala´s repertoire. In this ballet the choreographer MacMillan deals with the matter paying great attention to human... |
CARL NIELSEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nielsen: An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands / Flute Concerto / Symphony No.1 Patrick Gallois (flute) Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung [ BIS / CD ] Recording data: 1987-05-18 (Overture): 1989-06-14/16 (Concerto; Symphony) at the Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera recorded in 2015) Dallas Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Roth Costanzo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick - already have". |
JOHN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Missa Solemnis / Te Deum David Griffiths (bass) Zan McKendree-Wright (alto) Patrick Power (tenor) Patricia Wright (sop) / TOWER Voices New Zealand / NZ Symphony / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine May 2004 - "This choir has a remarkable level of control, vocal development and musicality. The fact that they are all trained voices means that an effortless power is available to them, with a wide and dramatic... |
MAURICE DURUFLE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Durufle: The Complete Organ Music (with Vierne: Trois Improvisations) David M Patrick (Organ of Coventry Cathedral) [ ASV / CD - released 1/Feb/1997 ] "Stunning virtuosity - Gramophone "Patrick's playing is immaculate.." (Choir & Organ) |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shew (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2012) Globe Theatre / Tom Godwin, Tom Anderson, Patrick Driver, Sarah MacRae, Helen Weir, Samantha Spiro, Simon Paisley Day [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "A laugh-out-loud production" Time Out |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera recorded in May 1997) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Antonello Palombi, Patrick Denniston, Paolo Montarsolo, Roberto De Candia / John Eliot Gardiner [ Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Jul/2017 ] "Gardiner makes a surprising appearance conducting Puccini with a blend of analysis and passion, allowing a sense of delicacy to pervade where others might encourage bombast." (Opera Now) |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Pérez, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn / Orchestra and Chorus of The Dallas Opera, Patrick Summers [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2018 ] "[Heggie's] gift for creative partnerships is supreme...The conceit gets DiDonato singing watery pastiche Bellini, scaling coloratura flights, surviving a mad scene and crooning in velvet; all pleasing to hear" Times |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas Nos.180-184 Kurt Equiluz, Jan Patrick O'Farrell, Alexander Raymann, Paul Esswood / Collegium Vocale, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Das Alte Werk / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/1989 ] Original recording from 1984 One of the first recordings using historical instruments, with boys' choirs and boy soloists for most soprano and some alto parts. Adult soloists include the tenor Kurt Equiluz. Booklet contains translations |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko / Eduardo Valdes / Maria Zifchak / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Looking as graceful as a gazelle and singing as sweetly as a bell struck with a surprising outburst of coloratura, Anna Netrebko sang in I Puritani for the first time at the MET" (The New York Post) |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007) Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 28/Feb/2008 ] "Netrebko has perhaps the most appealing stage presence among contemporary sopranos. She is a natural stage animal who can sing as she moves around the stage and interacts with her colleagues. Her sheer physicality on stage is awesome." (MusicWeb) |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Music for Clarinet and Strings [Incls Porgy and Bess Suite & 3 Preludes] Michel Lethiec (clarinet) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] Frank Villard's sparkling arrangements for clarinet and strings give legendary numbers including "Summertime", "I got plenty o' nuttin'" or "It ain't necessarily so" a new voice, accentuate their jazz flavour or add new timbres to Gershwin's... |
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DELIBES / RAVEL / MILHAUD / OFFENBACH / GOUNOD / SAUGUET / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Natalie Dessay - Airs d'operas Francais [French Opera Arias] Natalie Dessay (soprano) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Patrick Fourniller [ EMI Classics / CD - released 12/Jan/1996 ] "Dessay revels in Olympia's amusing aria known as the 'Doll Song', delivered with assurance and freedom; Dessay's striking coloratura makes an impression" MusicWeb |
