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BRUNELLI / MONTEVERDI / CASTELLO etc
Songs of Orpheus Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, Karim Sulayman [ Avie / CD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] I Love You To Hell And Back. Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman's neat encapsulation of the Orpheus myth infuses his solo recording debut, Songs of Orpheus. Orpheus, the greatest singer of all time, famously followed his deceased beloved Eurydice... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Dixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne & Zadok the Priest Jeannette Sorrell / Apollo's Fire [ Avie / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] Apollo's Fire under founder-director Jeannette Sorrell showcases its chorus in a selection of works by Handel, including Dixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, and Zadok the Priest. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (CD+DVD) Apollo's Fire, Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, JeannetteSorrell [ Avie / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] "The 18-strong Apollo's Fire ensemble...plays with great crispness and vigour, offering terse supporting musical pillars to the voices and emphasizing rhythmic vigour over a sense of line." International Record Review |
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TRADITIONAL
Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers [CD & DVD] Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor) & Meredith Hall (soprano) / Apollo's Fire [ Avie / 2 CD/DVD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] "This type of fusion is increasingly popular, and Apollo's Fire do it enthusiastically, if perhaps without the final degree of finessed musicality that other ensembles bring to this type of project" (BBC Music) |
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BELA BARTOK / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Bartók: String Quartet No. 1; Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 Ariel Quartet [ AVIE / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] The Ariel Quartet, distinguished by its virtuosic playing and impassioned interpretations, makes its debut recording pairing two giants of the string-quartet world, Béla Bartók and Johannes Brahms. Both composers stand as significant pillars of the.. |
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BELA BARTOK / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Bartók, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto N. 2 / Violin Concerto Augustin Hadelich, Miguel Harth-Bedoya / Norwegian Radio Orchestra [ Avie Records / CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] Augustin Hadelich's first major concerto recording paired the Violin Concertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès (AV 2276). Universally acclaimed, it was nominated for a Gramophone Award, was one of The New York Times' Top Classical Albums of the Year |
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PAGANINI / BARTOK / YSAYE / ZIMMERMANN
Flying Solo Augustin Hadelich (violin) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Augustin Hadelich… meets and surmounts all obstacles, yet it's not technical wizardry that most impresses but his musicianship. He makes the musical sense of each piece crystal clear, and his playing has an inner life." Gramophone |
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DEBUSSY / POULENC / PROKOFIEV / STRAVINSKY
Echoes of Paris Augustin Hadelich (violin) & Robert Kulek (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "These are exceptionally compelling performances, sharply defined in character, immaculately articulated, rich in interpretative acumen and blessed with extraordinary finesse." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine April 2011 |
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JEAN SIBELIUS / ADES
Sibelius / Ades: Violin Concertos Augustin Hadelich (violin) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Avie / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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BEETHOVEN / BENJAMIN / DOWNLAND / JOSQUIN
Resonance Benjamin Hochman [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] In his late piano sonatas, Beethoven created music of extraordinary originality, simultaneously looking far into the future and far into the past Pianist Benjamin Hochman pays homage to this Janus-faced aspect with the inclusion of two works from... |
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W.A MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 24 Benjamin Hochman (piano and conductor), English Chamber Orchestra [ AVIE / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Internationally acclaimed pianist Benjamin Hochman brings his new conductorial skills to this impeccable release of two Mozart concertos, the joyful and lithe No. 17 in G major, and the dark and explosive No. 24 in C minor. Directing from the... |
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MENDELSSOHN
The Piano Trios Benvenue Fortepiano Trio: Monica Huggett (violin), Tanya Tomkins (cello) & Eric Zivian (fortepiano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio, led my Monica Huggett, offer a rare periodinstrument recording of Mendelssohn's popular Piano Trios. The 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth in 2009 has raised the popularity of his music to new heights. This... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Six Sonatas for Cello trans. from the Recorder Sonatas by Carolyn Gibley Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] "Theo and Gibley play their transcriptions with impeccable style and with a warm rapport for the music. Slow movements come off especially well and, in one or two instances." (BBC Music) |
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HANDEL
English Cantatas and Songs Brook Street Band [ Avie / 2 CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] In this day and age is there any more to be traced and discovered from Handel's "lost music"? The Brook Street Band, awarded a Gramophone Editor's Choice for their AVIE debut of Handel's "Oxford" Water Music (AV 0028), certainly think so. Their... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "[They] approach everything with a spring in their step, relishing the harmonic crunches and keeping everything vital and vivacious." The Guardian |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo The Brook Street Band [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] The Brook Street Band's passion for the music of George Frideric Handel shines through on this recording of the nine Violin Sonatas by - or attributed to - the Baroque composer. The ensemble's 10th release for AVIE compliments its critically... |
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HANDEL
Handel - Trio Sonatas Op. 5 (period instruments) The Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 24/Aug/2005 ] "As with everything they do there are no half measures. I find them intoxicating, sometimes quixotic, but always entertaining guides to the repertoire." (MusicWeb July 2005) |
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HANDEL
Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 The Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 18/Oct/2013 ] |
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BRUCE WOLOSOFF
Rising Sun Variations Bruce Wolosoff [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Bruce Wolosoff is a formidable pianist, lauded for his integration of classical, jazz, blues, and contemporary influences in his compositions His new magnum opus, Rising Sun Variations, is an extended and innovative set of improvisations on the... |
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Bruce Wolosoff
Paradise Found - Music for Cello and Piano by Bruce Wolosoff Bruce Wolosoff (piano), Sara Sant'Ambrogio (cello) [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Apr/2022 ] The distinguished New York-based composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff synthesizes traditional tonal idioms with lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, blues, and rock music, creating a distinct musical language that speaks to the heart, but is unmistakably... |