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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor / etc Emmanuel Despax, piano [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jun/2024 ] Emmanuel Despax's eighth release for Signum Classics delves into the dramatic and visionary world of Franz Liszt, from the great Sonata in B minor to the celestail Benediction de Deur dans la solitude. |
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SAINT-SAENS / STEPHEN GOSS / FRANCK
Piano Concertos Emmanuel Despax (piano) / Orpheus Sinfonia, Thomas Carroll [ Signum / CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] Emmanuel Despax is a rising star on the UK and international piano scene, who has performed at the Wigmore and Cadogan Halls in London and with orchestras including the CBSO. His debut concerto recording, with the Orpheus Sinfonia under Thomas... |
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J.S BACH
Spira, Spera - Bach: Transcriptions Emmanuel Despax (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Emmanuel Despax returns to Signum with a disc of JS Bach transcriptions. The title quotes Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' ("Breathe, Hope"), brought to Despax's mind following the news of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, where he had... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15, 16 Waltzes Emmanuel Despax (piano), Miho Kawashima / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (cond) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Following the acclaimed Bach recording 'Spira, Spera' in early 2021, Emmanuel Despax releases a recording of his most treasured piano concerto alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton. The concerto is paired with the 16 Waltzes (Op.... |
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DALL'ABADO / PORPORA / MARCELLO / TARTINI / TELEMANN
Concertos by Dall'Abaco, Porpora, Marcello, Tartini & Telemann The English Concert, Harry Bicket [ Signum / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Founded in 1973 by Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert has been a leading light in the performance of Baroque and Classical music for for over 40 years. Under their present Artistic Director Harry Bicket and with distinguished guest artists they... |
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Ensemble Bash
Various: A Doll's House [ Signum Classics / CD - released 27/Aug/2012 ] |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / AARON COPLAND
Strauss: Duet Concertino, Prelude To Capriccio / Copland: Clarinet Concerto, Appalachian Spring Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) Stepan Turnovsky (bassoon) / Academy of London, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Richard Stamp [ Signum / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] "Richard Stamp secures real zip in the faster music, secures real zip in the faster music, and there is some lovely tender playing from the Royal Northern Sinfonia principals in the more tender passages." BBC Music |
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LANGLAIS / SEVERAC / MESSIAEN / VILLETTE
Langlais - Messe Solennelle: French Sacred Music for Choir and Organ Eton College Chapel Choir, Ralph Allwood [ Signum Classics / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] Eton College Chapel Choir perform an enchanting selection of 20th Century French Choral and Organ music. As well as music by composers who were at the heart of French musical life in Paris, such as Olivier Messiaen and Francis Poulenc, this disc... |
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Ex Cathedra, Britten Sinfonia, Jeffrey Skidmore (condutor), Philippe Honoré (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor), Vayu Naidu (speaker)
The Traveller: Earth & Sky [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] THE TRAVELLER for choir, children's choir, orchestra, tenor, violin and speaker. The Traveller was the third in a series of four major works with words by Vikram Seth and music by Alec Roth, com- missioned jointly over four years by the Salisbury,... |
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MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO & OTHERS
Yanomami; music for choir and guitar Fabio Zanon (guitar) / Coro Cervantes / Carlos fernandez Aransay (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Spain, Argentina and Brazil provide the background for some of the richest folklore in the world, the source of a wealth of music and tradition that has influenced countless composers. |
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WILL TODD
TODD: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Fflur Wyn, James Cleverton, Robert Burt, Victoria Simmonds / Opera Holland Park, Matthew Waldren [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The label "opera" gives the wrong impression. Although it is sung the whole way through, the score's idioms range from bluesy jazz and big band swing to West End musical." |
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Fox/Jackson/Pitts/Saxton
The Clerks: Don't Talk - Just [ Signum / CD - released 21/Sep/2009 ] |
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Fox/Philharmonia Orc/Mackerras
Mahler: Symphony 4 [ Signum / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Kingdom Francesca Chiejina (sop) Sarah Connolly (contralto) Benjamin Hulett (tenor) Ashley Riches (bass) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players [ Signum / 2 CD - released 16/May/2025 ] Elgar's unjustly neglected 'greatest choral masterpiece' (Jeremy Dibble) is given an outstanding new recording by conductor David Temple, Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, and soloists Francesca Chiejina, Dame Sarah Connolly,... |
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Frankfurt Po/Athinaos
Rheinberger:overture Op.18 [ Signum / CD ] |
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THOMAS LUPO
Lupo: Fantasia Fretwork [ Signum Classics / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] FANTASIA is Fretwork's eleventh release with Signum Classics, and explores the court music of tudor England through the works of Thomas Lupo. A very large quantity of Lupo's private and intimate viol consort music has survived, and we can marvel at... |
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JOHN JENKINS
Jenkins: Complete Four-Part Consort Music Fretwork [ Signum / 2 CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] "Four of the members play 17 fantasias, each with a particularity of mood. The rich woody timbre of their viols, well captured on disc, is highlighted in two solemn pavans." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
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MATTHEW LOCKE
Locke: The Flat Consort Fretwork [ Signum Records / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Matthew Locke was born 400 years ago in 1622, and while he is often ranked as one of England's finest composers, he is still unaccountably neglected: his music may not be as immediately appealing as his immediate successor, Henry Purcell, nor as... |
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ORLANDO GOUGH
Gough: The World Encompassed - Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe 1577-80 Fretwork, with Simon Callow (narrator) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "Gough's music is extraordinarily imaginative and evocative as he imagines the memories of local music from around the world" Early Music Review |
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GABRIELI / BENDINELLI / etc
A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Early Music |