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W.A. MOZART
Don Giovanni (complete opera) Alexandrina Pendatchanska (sop) Olga Pasichnyk (sop) Johannes Weisser (bar) Lorenzo Regazzo (bass) / Freiburger Barockorchester / Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 12/Oct/2007 ] "Jacob's period Don is among the liveliest and most enjoyable on offer" (Recording of the Month Gramophone Awards Issue 2007) |
FINZI / BRITTEN / HOLST
Works for Choir and Orchestra Alison Barlow (sop) John Mark Ainsley (ten) David Hoult (bar) Stephen Varcoe (bar) / Britten Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "If any lover of the music of English twentieth century composers does not have this disc in their collection, they should take steps to rectify the omission immediately." (Recording of the Month musicWeb Aug 2013) |
ELGAR
The Apostles (complete oratorio) Anna Leese (sop) Louise Poole (mezzo) Andrew Staples (ten) Colin Campbell (bar) / Canterbury Choral Society / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Quartz / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] Elgar embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. |
MENDELSSOHN
Die erste Walpurgisnacht / etc Annelies Burmeister (contralto), Eberhard Buchner (tenor) & Siegfried Lorentz (bar) / Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] "Mendelssohn's Druidic cantata is a relative rarity, but makes a fresh, vital impression in this Leipzig performance under seasoned Mendelssohnian Kurt Masur. Three overtures add ballast, and are also excellent." (BBC Music January 2016) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (complete oratorio) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Nancy Argenta, Anne Sofie von Otter, Olaf Bar / The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Archiv Collectors Edition / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Gardiner's celebrated Christmas Oratorio, first released in 1987, offered at mid-price for the first time. With soloists including Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Evangelist), Nancy Argenta and Anne Sofie von Otter. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
The very best of Puccini: Excerpts from operatic and orchestral works Armando Ariostini (baritone) Lando Bartolini (tenor) Felipe Bou (bass) Silvano Carroli (bar) Giovanna Casolla (sop) Masako Deguci (sop) & many more [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
Bar Italia
Tracey Denim [ Matador / CD - released 19/May/2023 ] 'Tracey Denim' was recorded and produced by bar italia with mixing from Marta Salogni. It features the single "Nurse!" which was released in March to acclaim, and described as "a hypnotic post-punk ballad" (The Guardian) and "narcotically arresting"... |
Bar Italia
The Twits [ Matador / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] 'The Twits' was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia's economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally... |
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Bar-Kays
Too Hot To Sleep / Flying High On Your Love [ Superbird / CD - released 27/Apr/2010 ] |
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The Bar-kays
Gotta Groove/Black Rock [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation] Christina Landshamer (sop), Maximilian Schmitt (ten) Rudolf Rosen (bar) / Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ PHI / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] "[the music] bursts from the speakers with the same combination of vigour, technical accomplishment and, above all, unforced pleasure in Haydn's cornucopian invention that should make even the most dedicated Creation admirer listen with fresh ears." |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Der glorreiche Augenblick / Choral Fantasia Claire Rutter (soprano) Matilde Wallevik (mezzo-soprano) Peter Hoare (tenor) & Stephen Gadd (bar) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2012 ] "With first-rate recorded sound, the disc is strongly recommended." (BBC Music) |
LORD BERNERS
Berners: Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement (Sung in English) Cynthia Buchan (mezzo), John Winifred (ten), Ian Caddy, Thomas Lawlor (bass-baritone), Anthony Smith (bar) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; RTÉ Sinf [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] "..very satisfying: everyone sings and plays with obvious enjoyment. Again, Berners' temperament was obviously attuned to its times and his music partakes of the then prevailing mood of light-headedness and nonchalance." British Music Society |
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MAHLER
Kindertotenlieder (with orchestral works by Mozart & Richard Strauss) [recorded live in 1962] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Boehm [ Testament / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2015 ] "Born in Graz in Austria in 1894, Karl Böhm began his professional career at the Munich Opera working alongside Bruno Walter and Richard Strauss. It was here that he acquired his Mozart style: cogent, balanced, and subtly various. Strauss, in... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Kullervo, Op.7 Eeva-Lilsa Saarinen (mezzo-sop) Jorma Hynninen (bar) Ida Haendel (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund [ EMI Classics Matrix / CD - released 10/Feb/1994 ] "The 1971 performance is still a considerable one, and the analogue recording has plenty of atmosphere." (Gramophone) |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: The Dancing Master, Op. 34 Eleanor Dennis (sop) Catherine Carby (mezzo) Fiona Kimm (contr) Ed Lyon (ten) Mark Wilde (ten), Graeme Broadbent (bass-bar), BBC Concert Orchestra [ Resonus / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "Arnold's inventive, eclectic score is vividly brought to life...this is no dismissible pastiche, but a seriously worthwhile addition to the repertoire." BBC Music Award WINNER 2021 - Opera |
W. A. MOZART / VERDI / LEHAR / J. STRAUSS II / RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Opera arias Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), with Karl Schmitt-Walter (bar) / Philharmonia Orchestra. Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Recordings from 1950, Le Nozze di Figaro, to, 1959, Capriccio. |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Light & Gold Grace Davidson (sop) Stephen Kennedy (bar), Christopher Glynn (piano), Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, King's Singers, Pavao Quartet, Eric Whitacre [ Decca Universal / CD - released 26/Oct/2010 ] "Their collective intonation is stunning, and they sing with conviction and enjoyment...Simply glorious!" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine Dec 2010 |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: The Complete Songs vol.3 Felicity Lott (sop) Jennifer Smith (sop) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (ten) Christopher Maltmann (bar) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] 'recording and presentation are the stuff of dreams. Hyperion has done Fauré proud' - Gramophone |
