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ENESCU / PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Enescu, Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Cello Sonatas Buruiana, Laura (cello), Alexandra Silocea (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "This performance matches the youthful enthusiasm of the [Enescu], with Silocea presenting her elaborate part in the grand manner, yet never swamping the cello…Silocea and Buruiana are entirely persuasive." (Gramophone May 2015) |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Easter Oratorio Magnificat Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegean [ AVIE / CD - released 11/Apr/2025 ] San Francisco-based Cantata Collective continues its exploration of J.S. Bach's major choral masterworks with a third in the ongoing series, pairing the composer's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat. |
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CHRISTOPHER TYLER NICKEL
Nickel: Mass; Te Deum Catherine Redding (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Kari Turunen, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra, Clyde Mitchell (conductor) [ AVIE / CD - released 11/Apr/2025 ] Award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel adds to his impressive catalogue of large-scale liturgical works with a double-bill featuring his Mass and Te Deum, composed concurrently and completed in 2022 |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
The Young Schumann: Carnaval, Papillons, Intermezzi, Abegg Variations Charles Owen [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] The Young Schumann, the new release by British pianist Charles Owen, is a musical narrative of Robert Schumann's early career, featuring works written in the 1830s when the composer was in his 20s His first two published works, Abegg Variations... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms Late Piano Music Opp. 76, 79, 116-119 Charles Owen (piano) [ AVIE / 2 CD - released 16/Sep/2018 ] Steinway ambassador, Guildhall professor and co-founder of the London Piano Festival, Charles Owen turns to the late piano works by Johannes Brahms for his latest AVIE release. Within this collection of Capriccios, Rhapsodies and Intermezzi... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Two-Piano Suites, Six Morceaux Op. 11 Charles Owen (piano) / Katya Apekisheva (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 5/Jan/2018 ] Pianist Charles Owen and his regular duo partner Katya Apekisheva turn to Rachmaninov's diverse Suites for two pianos, and the composer's atmospheric Six Morceaux, for their first joint recording for AVIE. The co-founders of the London Piano... |
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BROWNE / CORNYSH / DAVY / LAMBE / WYLKYNSON
Choirs of Angels: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 2 Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington [ Avie / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Early Music |
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Edmund Turges, Hugo Kellyk, John Browne, John Fawkyner, John Hampton, Richard Davy, Robert Fayrfax, Robert Hacomplaynt, Robert Wylkynson, Walter Lambe
The Door to Paradise Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington [ AVIE / 5 CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] The Door to Paradise celebrates Stephen Darlington's 30+-year legacy as Director of the distinguished Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. This unprecedented contribution to the choral discography is the most comprehensive collection to date... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Treasures of Christ Church Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford / Stephen Darlington [ Avie Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] All of the composers on Treasures had an association with Christ Church (whose hallowed halls were famously seen in the Harry Potter films), stretching back to the tenure of John Taverner; through Tallis, Handel, Purcell, and Byrd; to present-day... |
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BROWNE / TURGES / FAWKYNER / HAMPTON / WYLKYNSON
Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol. 3 The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington [ Avie / CD - released 18/Apr/2015 ] "The superb Christ Church Cathedral choir here offer five more works from an unparalleled source of English sacred polyphony from the late 15th and early 16th centuries...sung with unfailing elegance." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Early Music) |
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Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford / Steven Grahl (director), Benjamin Sheen (organ)
A Lullaby Carol: Christmas at Christ Church [ AVIE / CD - released 29/Nov/2024 ] The resounding refrains of The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford reverberate throughout A Lullaby Carol: Christmas from Christ Church, a rich tapestry of traditional and contemporary works celebrating the choir's musical heritage, particularly... |
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ETON CHOIRBOOK
More Divine Than Human The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Stephen Darlington [ Avie / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The Eton Choirbook ranks among the most difficult music composed to be sung by children… The trebles here excel, both as soloists and, just as remarkably, when several sing together on the same line." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Early Music |
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POULENC / MESSIAEN / VILLETTE
Poulenc and his French Contemporaries The Choir of New College Oxford / Edward Higginbottom [ Avie Twentieth-Century Masters Vol 1 / CD - released 24/Jul/2006 ] "For now this is a disc which I’m very happy to recommend." (MusicWeb May 2006) |
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JOHN TAVERNER
Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas / Cantus Firmus / etc Christ Church Cathedral Choir / Stephen Darlington (director) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Sep/2007 ] "There are special reasons for welcoming performances from Christ Church Cathedral Choir … vigour and freshness." - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine October 2007 |
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Christoph Croisé, Giovanni Sollima, György Ligeti, Péter Pejtsik, Thomas Buritch, Zoltán Kodály
The Solo Album Christoph Croisé (cello) [ Avie / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Modernism. Multiculturism. Multi-tuning. Lockdown. These are among the elements that bind the works on The Solo Album by award winning cellist Christoph Croisé, who took the opportunity of 2020's coronavirus isolation to work intensively on a... |
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DIMITRI SCHOSTAKOVITCH/ RODION SCHEDRIN/ SERGEI PROKOFIEV/ SERGEI RACHMANINOV
The Russian Album Christoph Croisé (cello), Alexander Panfilov (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] In the spring of 2019, Christoph Croisé scored a break-through with his critically acclaimed recording of Haydn's Cello Concertos (AV 2402). With The Russian Album, he turns his attention to two towering 20th-century masterpieces, Sergei Rachmaninov' |
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JOSEF HAYDN / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Haydn Cello Concertos, Vivaldi Concerto for Violin and Cello Christoph Croisé (cello) Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Sherniyaz Mussakhan (violin / director) [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Winner of the Berliner International Music Competition, the Prix Jeune Soliste des Médias Francophones Publics, and the International Manhattan Music Competition, young cellist Christoph Croisé debuts on AVIE performing the two Cello Concertos by... |
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Joachim Raff
Joachim Raff: Complete Works for Cello & Piano Christoph Croisé (cello), Oxana Shevchenko (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 4/Feb/2022 ] The beautiful, lyrical music of prolific 19th-century Swiss composer Joachim Raff was widely performed during his lifetime but is relatively under-represented today. Who better than Christoph Croisé, Raff's modern day compatriot, to breathe new... |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Music Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Following their acclaimed collaboration in Percy Grainger's Folk Music (AV2372), soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn turn to the Lyric Music of Edvard Grieg, an apt sequel as the elder composer befriended Grainger - who idolised the... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos 24 & 25 / Fantasia in D minor Imogen Cooper (piano & director) / Northern Sinfonia [ Avie / CD - released 21/Apr/2008 ] "In K491, Imogen Cooper and the Northern Sinfonia do ample justice to the gravitas, intensity, drama, and poignancy of this great work." BBC Music |