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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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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."... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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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). |
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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... |
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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... |
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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."... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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ALBINONI / CALDARA / CORRELLI / TARTINI / TORELLI / VIVALDI
The Italian Job: Baroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States Rachel Chaplin and Gail Hennessy (oboes) Peter Whelan (bassoon), La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin / director) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "the whole underpinned by a scholarly attittude to programming and performance style which is yet worn with a light grace." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 - Baroque Insrumental |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Highlights Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Avie / CD - released 26/Nov/2007 ] "Vasily Petrenko demonstrates his qualities in choice selections from Tchaikovsky's masterful ballet scores, characterising every moment while his orchestra brings their colours to vibrant life." (BBC Music) |
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TAVERNER / CORNYSH / ANONYMOUS / HENRY VIII
Western Wind: Music by John Taverner & Court Music for Henry VIII Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "Parrott is perhaps more persuasive in conveying its pacing...the sound recording successively juggles a wide range of distributions, from harpsichord to choir, with no apparent discontinuity." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2016 - Early Music) |
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San Francisco So/Tilson Thomas
Mahler: Symphony No 9 [ Avie / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/May/2005 ] |
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Aasgaard/Rlpo/Schwarz
From Jewish Life [ Avie / CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Adrian Chandler (director/violin) / La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] "an intensely dramatic account that will add spice to what has for many listeners perhaps come to resemble a dreary domestic relationship." (Gramophone Magazine award nomination 2016 - Baroque Instrumental) |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Music for the Chapel of the Pieta Adrian Chandler (Director/violin); Mhairi Lawson (soprano) / La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 17/Jun/2005 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH - MusicWeb March 2005 "In performances as wonderful as these, you can't help loving it!" |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: x2: Double Concertos for Horns, Oboes, Violin & Cello, Oboe & Bassoon Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] Vivaldi x2 TITLE: Vivaldi x2 COMPOSER: Vivaldi ARTISTS: Adrian Chandler, violin / director La Serenissima Rachel Chaplin, Mark Baigent - oboes Peter Whelan - bassoon Anneke Scott, Jocelyn Lightfoot - horns Vladimir Waltham,... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: A Tale of Two Seasons - Concertos & Arias Adrian Chandler (violin, director) & Sally Bruce-Payne (mezzo-soprano) / La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 30/Jul/2013 ] Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima, with virtuoso soloist mezzo-soprano Sally Bruce-Payne, continue their enlightening exploration of the music of Vivaldi focusing on two contrasting eras of the composer's Venetian operatic career. |
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LOUIS-GABRIEL GUILLEMAIN
Guillemain: Brillance Indéniable The Virtuoso Violin in the Court of Louis XV - Sonatas and Symphonies by Louis-Gabriel Guillemain Alana Youssefian (baroque violin) [ AVIE / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] Award-winning baroque violinist Alana Youssefian and her ensemble Le Bien-Aimé debut on AVIE showcasing music of the brilliant but little-known French violinist and composer Louis-Gabriel Guillemain. His precociousness noted at an early age... |
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Alexandra Silocea
Various: Sound Waves [ Avie / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] |
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SERGE PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 - 5 Alexandra Silocea (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2011 ] "This debut recording serves as a journey through my own musical path. The aim of recording Prokofiev's first five piano sonatas together was to show all the facets of Prokofiev's musical personality, from Op. 1 to Op. 138, which is the revised... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / LEO JANACEK / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Strauss (R.)/Janacek/Respighi: Violin Sonatas Frank Almond (violin) William Wolfram (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Nov/2006 ] "unassailable technical mastery and absolute temperamental harmonisation. Some sort of standard is offered by Perlman and Ashkenazy; Almond and Wolfram are not out of place in such company." (BBC Music) |
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Almond/Wolfram
Various: A Violin's Life [ Avie / CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Songs & Piano Music [2 CDs] Amanda Pitt (soprano) Mark Wilde (tenor) Peter Savidge (baritone) David Owen Norris (1844 Broadwood Square Piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "A veritable treasure-trove." (BBC Radio 3) |
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LUCIANO BERIO
Berio: Complete Piano Music (including Sequenza IV and the Piano Sonata) Andrea Lucchesini (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 24/May/2007 ] "Andrea Lucchesini's account of Berio's Piano Sonata … conjures up some dusky, mesmerising effects and calls for a virtuosity which Lucchesini provided. He wove rich textures around the repeated note which binds the whole piece together so... |
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BEETHOVEN / BARTOK / BRAHMS
Perspectives 2 Andreas Haefliger (piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 31/Jul/2008 ] "It is interesting to track Haefliger's career. On the present evidence this is a career that is moving from strength to strength. By providing essentially a recital experience on CD, the strength of comparisons with other pianists' recordings of... |
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Andreas Haefliger
Perspectives 3 [ Avie / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / JANACEK
Perspectives 4 Andreas Haefliger (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Andreas Haefliger's concept of replicating his recital programmes on record has been a critical and commercial success. The fourth instalment in the Perspectives series juxtaposes Beethoven with works that are inspired and influenced by that... |
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BACH / WEISS / FALCKENHAGEN
The Baroque Lute Andrew Maginley (lute) [ Avie / CD - released 6/Oct/2007 ] Andrew Maginley was born in New York City. He began playing electric guitar as a teenager while studying illustration at the High School of Art & Design. |