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JANET JENNINGS / GABRIEL FAURÉ
Jennings / Faure: The Earth Child Natasha Te Rupe-Wilson (soprano), Somi Kim (piano) [ Atoll / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] "Janet Jennings is a fine writer for voices, and her setting of five Mansfield poems gets its world premiere here, accompanied by the same composer's previously recorded Sit Down With Me Awhile and Fauré's La chanson d'Ève." NZ Listener |
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Ercole Amante (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Netherlands Opera / Luca Pisaroni, Veronica Cangemi, Anna Maria Panzarella, Marlin Miller / Concerto Koln, Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The production, like the piece, is moving, funny and literally action-packed. Alden knows well when to fill or empty his stage....Bolton leads his large authentic-instrument forces with gusto...Hugely recommended." (Gramophone) |
GARETH FARR
Farr: Warriors from Pluto New Zealand Chamber Orchestra. Strike. Deborah Wai Kapohe, Marc Decio Taddei [ Trust / CD - released 7/Dec/2001 ] New recording featuring two startlingly dramatic works for chamber orchestra |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartet No.15 in G Major D887 New Zealand String Quartet [ Trust / CD - released 18/Nov/2013 ] New Zealand String Quartet: Schubert represents a milestone in the Quartet's career of over 25 years with a recording of Franz Schubert's masterpiece, String Quartet in G Major, D.887. As Schubert's final and most epic string quartet, it is essential... |
CHRISTOPHER BLAKE
Blake: Symphony - Voices The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 11/Jun/2019 ] A dramatic symphonic journey through T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", recorded live. |
AURORA AUSTRALIS
Aurora Australis: Asia Pacific Festival 2007 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, Strike Percussion Ensemble, STROMA, New Zealand Trio, etc [ Atoll / Lilburn Trust / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Overtures and Entr'actes from the French Operas New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2014 ] "The New Zealand Symphony…plays with spirit and has been well trained. Singaporean conductor Darrell Ang brings to these performances an obvious love for the music, infusing them with taut rhythms, crisp attacks, and bountiful energy." Fanfare |
GARY DAVERNE
Youth of Auckland New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Gary Daverne [ Viscount / CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] |
ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Symphony No. 6 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Hamish McKeich [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Symphony No. 6 is a meditation on love, death, and the afterlife. From the plaintive saxophone solo at the start to the mysterious flights of spirits in the third movement and the grieving of the finale, this symphony takes the listener on an... |
DOUGLAS LILBURN
Lilburn: A Song of Islands / Aotearoa Overture / Forest / etc New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Oct/2006 ] "A Kiwi legend is handsomely served by his homeland. James Judd and his New Zealand forces find an openness and an energy in the music that evokes all the majesty of that country's landscape." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2006) |
EVE DE CASTRO-ROBINSON
Releasing the Angel David Chickering (cello) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Young [ Atoll Records / CD - released 22/Jul/2011 ] Eve de Castro-Robinson crafts her material like a musical sculptor. Intensity, whimsy, poetry, theatricality and unpredictability are heard in her music, which ranges from these large scale orchestral canvasses to intimate solos, vocal and... |
DAVID FARQUHAR
Farquhar: Three Symphonies New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Kenneth Young [ Trust / CD - released 18/May/2004 ] "Trust Records have released what must be one of the most eagerly anticipated CDs of the year and deserve a collective medal for allowing us to have David Farquhar's three symphonies at our fingertips." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
TOSHIRO MAYUZUMI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mayuzumi: Bugaku / Mandala Symphony / Rumba Rhapsody New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor) [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2006 ] "Excellent performances from New Zealand and very fine recording throughout." (MusicWeb April 2006) |
PSATHAS / KELLY / NORRIS / AXTENS / FARR / GRENFELL
Spark The New Zealand Trio [ Trust / CD - released 15/Nov/2005 ] The brightest new stars in the firmament of New Zealand chamber music, The New Zealand Trio here make their debut recording with a programme of works they have made their own in concerts throughout New Zealand and overseas. |
MOZART / YUDANE / PART / CASTRO-ROBINSON / RAVEL
Flourishes NZTrio [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] The third album by one of NZ's most accomplished classical groups. Playing with the boundaries of contemporary chamber music, NZ Trio brings its much-heralded blend of contrasting works to its new album. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 / Klavierstücke (8), Op. 76 Nicholas Angelich (piano) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "Few pianists in my experience have sensed Brahms's emotional turbulence to such an acute degree...these works have rarely, if ever, received finer performances." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Sept 2010) |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Violin Concerto Nigel Kennedy (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ EMI / CD - released 1/Apr/1984 ] Rosette (Highest Award) - Penguin Stereo Guide |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Norma Burrowes, Louis Devos, John Shirley-Quirk / Brighton Festival Chorus, Southend Boy's Choir, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Antal Dorati [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 6/Dec/1999 ] Carmina Burana is one of those pieces that almost always goes well. In fact, you have to work at giving a bad performance. Dorati's reading is one that makes a good case for Orff's masterpiece, even if it doesn't aspire to the heights of Eugen... |
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen
Veni: Songs of Christmas II [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2023 ] December is a time of anticipation. We wait and we hope - veni, come! The songs on this album encompass many nuances and moods - from joy and jubilant celebration to deep melancholy and longing. They move between folk tunes, English carols and... |
LEONIE HOLMES
Holmes: Solstice New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei [ Atoll / CD - released 1/Jul/2014 ] Leonie Holmes has written works for orchestra, chamber, choral, vocal and solo instrument and receives commissions from ensembles and individuals throughout New Zealand. This compilation of her orchestral music spans 1997 to 2013. Notes on the... |
