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MODES MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "A Mussorgsky melange full of surprises … David Nice enjoys [a] multi-faceted recital… vivid character… a picture-perfect presentation of both text and music… classy work all-round" ★★★★ Choral & Song Choice, BBC Music magazine Christmas 2021 |
JAMES LEE III
Voyages - Orchestral music by James Lee III ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] In Voyages, prolific American composer James Lee III takes the listener on a colourful journey through his endlessly creative orchestral music; painting biblical imagery in Beyond Rivers of Vision and celebrating the joyous Feast of Tabernacles... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schubert/Schumann: Cello Works Antonio Meneses (cello) Gerard Wyss (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 9/Mar/2007 ] "Virtuoso and sensitive players who put themselves at the music's service." Editor's Choice Recording of the Month March 2007 |
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete works for Cello and Piano Antonio Meneses (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "Anyone collecting other discs from the Avie label with Antonio Meneses will know what to expect from the recording. The detail and colour of both instruments is audible to the last drop of refinement, and as a result is a joy from beginning to end."... |
HANS GAL / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Gál, Shostakovich: Piano Trios Briggs Piano Trio [ Avie / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] Continuing AVIE's acclaimed and influential series of recordings of the music of Austrian émigré Hans Gál, this latest release brings together two of today's most eminent Gál interpreters, Sarah Beth Briggs and Kenneth Woods with violin virtuoso... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse Charles Owen (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] "Accomplished with thorough and refined pianistic skill and a wholehearted identification with Liszt's message, Owen's music-making is powerfully compelling." - Editor's Choice, Gramophone November 2021 |
FAURE
The Complete Barcarolles / Trois Romances sans paroles Charles Owen (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] Following a critically acclaimed recording of Fauré's Complete Nocturnes (AV2133), Charles Owen surveys the composer's Complete Barcarolles, uniquely coupled with Trois Romances sans paroles. |
JAMES MacMILLAN / JOHN JOUBERT / PETER WISHART / GABRIEL JACKSON / etc
MacMillan and his British Contemporaries The Choir of New College Oxford / Edward Higginbottom [ Avie Twentieth-Century Masters Vol 2 / CD - released 24/Jul/2006 ] "This is one of the finest choral discs to have come my way for some time. I rejoice to find clear evidence that so much high quality music is being written for liturgical use by composers of today" (MusicWeb July 2006) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cypresses For String Quartet / String Quartet No. 13 Op. 106 Cypress String Quartet [ Avie / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] "...the eponymous Cypress Quartet play these arrangements with exquisite shading and a fine sense of nuance." BBC Music |
BEETHOVEN
The Early String Quartets, Op. 18 Cypress String Quartet [ Avie Records / 2 CD - released 1/May/2016 ] The Cypress String Quartet completes their cycle of the genre's greatest oeuvre with a two-album set of Beethoven's six ground-breaking quartets, Op. 18, alongside a reissue of their previously self-released recording of the late quartets. For the... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas (8CD Box Set) Daniel-Ben Peinaar (piano) [ Avie / CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Autumn 2020 offered Daniel-Ben Pienaar an opportunity, not because the world was in lockdown but rather for the benefit it provided. A professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, Daniel-Ben was allowed overnight access to the RAM's Angela Burgess... |
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS / SALLY GREENAWAY / LAURA ZAERR / LIBBY LARSEN / etc
In Transit Emily Granger (harp) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] "Yes, it's beautiful, but it also showcases the instrument's versatility and depths of colour and timbre attainable." ★★★★ - BBC Music Magazine |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine [Vespers of 1610] Ian Honeyman, Gareth Morrell (tenors) / Apollo's Fire Braoque Orchestra, Jeannette Sorrell [ Avie / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Sorrell's is an eclectic Vespers in which there's never a dull moment. The instrumentation is the fullest, the playing the most high spirited I've ever heard." (MusicWeb Jan 2011). |
ADES / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / STEVENSON
Darknesse Visible Inon Barnatan (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "Barnatan's sustaining of the disrupted stillness in Ades's piece typifies his ability to hold the attention...And it's in Ronald Stevenson's Fantasy on Peter Grimes that this recital becomes revelatory...the magical string-plucking in its moonlight... |
JAKE HEGGIE
Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie Isabel Bayrakdarian / Zheng Gao / Susan Graham / Joyce diDonato / Frederica von Stade / Paul Groves / Keith Phares / etc. [ Avie Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] "...the composer's own fluent piano-playing, an expert string group and a good if sometimes over-glossy recording provide support for some world-class singers...who are clearly revelling in the opportunities that Heggie has offered them here." BBC... |
JON LORD
To Notice Such Things Jon Lord (piano) Cormac Henry (flute) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Familiar from Lord's previous concert-hall works is his fluent enjoyable reimagining of later-19th- and earlier-20th-century symphonic writing and the subject matter of friends pictured within...Performance and recording are both first-class."... |
SCARLATTI / CURRIER / DEBUSSY / SCHUMANN / LIEBERMANN
Joyce Yang: Collage Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] "This is an intriguingly programmed recital from a young South Korean pianist with strong hands and big ideas...Her playing offers impressive moments" BBC Music |
BARTOK / HINDEMITH / RACHMANINOV / SCHUMANN
Wild Dreams Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2014 ] "Yang gives us the 1931 version [of the Rachmaninov Sonata], and what a memorable account it has turned out to be, too. She ladles on the passion with commendable aplomb, while achieving some enviable finesse and individuality in the central movement |
KURT RHODE / OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time | Rohde: one wing Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Anna Presler (violin), Tanya Tomkins (cello) Jerome Simas (clarinet), Eric Zivian (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] "The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble take the Quartet's shifting instrumental and emotional perspectives in their stride. Pick of the soloists is clarinettist Jerome Simas, who shines in the unaccompanied 'Abîme des oiseaux'." Gramophone |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Still Falls The Rain Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano), Jennifer Montone (horn), Sivan Magen (harp) & Alan Cumming (narrator) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] "The tenor turns in a first-class performance, and pianist Myra Huang lends the songs personality throughout. More please!" (BBC Music) |
