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PHILIP GLASS
Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass (3 CD set) Adele Anthony (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This is Glass in full flight, with an aural illusion of the work speeding up yet retaining a constant pulse throughout the work's lively changes of texture and melodic figuration." --New Zealand Listener |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphony No.5, Op.47 The Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovitch [ BIS / CD - released 2/Feb/1987 ] Originally recording made at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, November 1986 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio Live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 2009) Ailish Tynan, Alice Coote, Allan Clayton & Matthew Rose / Choir of King's College, Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury [ Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "The first choral concert transmitted live to 85 cinemas, Stephen Cleobury's interpretation ticks all the boxes, with choir and orchestra impeccably balanced, and soloists glowing." The Independent, 24th April 2009 **** |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Griselda Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Scarlatti's Griselda, premiered in Rome in 1721, received a single performance at the Teatro Capranica, and was never taken into the repertoire elsewhere, both for financial reasons and because of the changing tastes of the time. The tragic story of... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera filmed on Aldeburgh beach in 2013) BLU-RAY Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster / Guildhall School of Music & Drama & Britten-Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford [ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
JOHN IRELAND
The Piano Music (3 CD set) Alan Rowlands (piano) [ Lyrita / 3 CD - released 10/May/2008 ] I first heard the name of John Ireland from my father, who knew some of his songs and had broadcast Twilight Night with the choral group he conducted in Swansea before the War. (Alan Rowlands) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets, Trout Quintet & String Quintet Alban Berg Quartet, Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Georg Hörtnagel (double bass) [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 17/Mar/2023 ] The Alban Berg Quartett approach Schubert with classical discipline while vividly conveying the mysterious fervent power that is so instantaneously unique in the composer's works. They capture the quintessentially Viennese spirit of Schubert, as... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Alban Berg Quartett [ Warner Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 24/Aug/2012 ] "The Alban Berg Quartet possess a wonderfully burnished tone, superbly blended ensemble and unanimity of attack as well as flawless intonation." (Gramophone) |
VALI
Flute Concerto / Deylaman / Folk Songs (Set No. 10) Alberto Almarza (flute) / Janna Baty (soprano) / Boston Modern Orchestra Project / Gil Rose, conductor [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / CD - released 2/Jun/2004 ] This CD will continue to find a place in my changer for months to come, and it probably will be counted among 2004's best new releases." -- Raymond Tuttle, classical.net |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Semiramide (complete opera) Albina Shagimuratova, Daniela Barcellona, Mirco Palazzi, Barry Banks, Gianluca Buratto / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Opera |
ERIK SATIE
The Best of Erik Satie (LP) Aldo Ciccolini, Anne Queffelec (piano) / Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse [ Erato / LP - released 13/Jun/2025 ] To celebrate the centenary of the composer's death, this compilation offers a journey through Erik Satie's unusual and distinctive piano works, by three of his greatest performers: Anne Queffélec, Bertrand Chamayou and Aldo Ciccolini. |
ERIC SATIE
Satie (LP) Aldo Ciccolini (piano) [ Erato / LP - released 13/May/2022 ] A special re-release for Record Store Day 2016, this LP of Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes and other piano pieces by Erik Satie salutes Aldo Ciccolini, the Italian-born pianist who launched the Satie 'boom' when this album first appeared in 1956. Whether... |
DARREN HENLEY
The Story Of Classical Music (Unabridged) Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2010 ] The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Story Of Classical Music Marin Alsop (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The Story of Classical Music is the sort of project that hardly ever gets reviewed and at which people are likely to turn up their noses." (Julian Lloyd Webber) |
VITTORIO RIETI
Rieti: Piano Concertos Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Orazio Sciortino Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Grazioli [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Dedicated to Francis Poulenc, Vittorio Rieti's First Piano Concerto formed part of his early success in Paris during the 1920s, the work's high spirits reflecting Rieti's recent marriage and the birth of his son Fabio. The Second Piano Concerto... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Piano Music Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) Alessandro Marangoni (piano), with Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano), Ars Cantica Choir & others [ Naxos / 13 CD Box Set - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Rossini drew a line under his hugely successful operatic career at the age of 37 and wrote little until his final years in Paris, where he became renowned for his musical salons. For these he wrote numerous short piano pieces. |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Complete Piano Sonatas Alessandro Santoro [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Written over a 46-year period, Claudio Santoro's six piano sonatas document the evolution of his creative and formal skills - together they present a survey of the composer's entire aesthetic development. Always radiating a forceful inner power and... |
ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Octopus Alexa Still (flute) / The Nevine String Quartet / Amici Ensemble [ Atoll Records / CD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] It is unusual to have one composers' works comprise an entire programme and probably even harder to pull it off while keeping the audience's attention. (Auckland Chamber Orchestra Concert) |
RACHMANINOV / BORODIN / SHOSTAKOVICH
Russian Cello Sonatas Alexander Chaushian (cello) / Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "The well-balanced, naturally spacious recording (CD and stereo SACD) is icing on the cake. An excellent disc. Strongly recommended." (10/10 ClassicsToday May 2011) |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, opera in seven scenes (1869 version) Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Maxim Paster, Mika Kares, Sergei Skorokhodov, Göteborg Opera Chorus [ BIS SACD / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] "This new account, based on live performances, is beautifully sung and played, and recorded in surround sound" MusicWeb |
