VIVALDI / PIAZZOLLA / SHOR
The 12 Seasons David Aaron Carpenter (viola & direction) / Salomé Chamber Orchestra [ Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Jun/2016 ] There is no shortage of recordings of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, but this one really is different...it is played on the viola, not on the violin - by David Aaron Carpenter. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2001) Teatro Verdi di Busseto / Kate Aldrich / Adina Aaron / Scott Piper / Orchestra e Coro della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini / Massimiliano Stefanelli (con [ TDK / DVD - released 2/Aug/2006 ] G :- "Every gesture, every movement, every note seems to come from the very soul of [Adina Aaron's] being and her naturally shaped singing, care over dynamic contrasts and sheer beauty of tone bespeak an auspicious future. As it is she moved me as... |
Aaron Neville
Apache [ Tell It Records CD / CD - released 28/Oct/2016 ] Apache is the 2016 album from multiple Grammy award-winner Aaron Neville - member of the world-renowned Neville Brothers and one of the most recognizable voices in American music history. The album was recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn and produced... |
Aaron Parks (piano)
Arborescence [ ECM / CD - released 26/Aug/2013 ] "Arborescence" is the word for the way something grows, seeking and adaptive, like a tree - its roots and branches moving under and around things wherever they need to go toward water, toward the sun. Prize-winning young American pianist Aaron Parks... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Aaron Pilsan is only twenty-five years old, but he already has a busy career to his credit, with a solo album devoted to Beethoven and Schubert - very well received by the critics - and another of duo repertory with the cellist Kian Soltani. A... |
L V BEETHOVEN / FRANZ CLEMENT
Beethoven Explored-Volume 3: Violin Sonatas Op 30 (Nos 1-3) Peter Sheppard Skarved (violin), Aaron Shorr (piano) [ Metier / CD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] The third in the Metier series which presents Beethoven's Violin Sonatas in their musical and social context, alongside works by Beethoven's contemporaries and pupils. Here the op. 30 sonatas are joined by Franz Clement's Variations on Grétry's... |
Aaron Neville
Best of / the Christmas Collection [ Tell It Records / CD ] |
AARON COPLAND
Billy the Kid - Ballet Suite / Third Symphony London Symphony Orchestra / Aaron Copland [ Everest / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "The big attraction for audiophiles has long been the movement Gun Battle. The various tympani and bass drum put on quite a fire fight. The Third Symphony is full of that special American quality which Copland originated and has been copied by so... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Apocryphal Sonatas Baroque Emilio Moreno (violin) & Aarón Zapico (harpsichord) [ Glossa / CD - released 10/Mar/2018 ] "Moreno on his 1761 Gagliano is sunny of outlook and sweetly austere of playing style, articulation subtly detached, with vibrato switching between light and none. Zapico, meanwhile, is eloquent on a smoothly delicate and sonorous copy o a Spanish ha |
Aaron Neville
Bring it on Home... the Soul Classics [ Sony & BMG Entertainment / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] This album features 13 soul classics reinterpreted by New Orleans' "first son" and four-time Grammy award-winning artist, Aaron Neville - with special guests Chaka Khan, Chris Botti, Mavis Staples, David Sanborn and Art Neville. |
Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Matt Berninger, Carin Besser
Cyrano OST (LP) [ Decca / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Decca Records has released the full soundtrack album for the musical drama Cyrano. The album features the songs from the movie written by Bryce Dessner & Aaron Dessner (of The National), with lyrics by Matt Berninger & Carin Besser and performed... |
AARON JAY KERNIS / ASTOR PIAZZOLLA / ROBERTO SIERRA
Double Echo - New Guitar Concertos from the Americas David Tanenbaum (guitar) / New Century Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Derthick, Aaron Jay Kernis [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] This album of guitar concertos from the Americas features pieces composed for David Tanenbaum. Building on a tradition of prominent guitarists generating repertoire through new commissions, these works present the guitar in a variety of settings.... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dreamtime David Aaron Carpenter (viola) Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ Ondine / CD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] The autumnal mood transfers effectively to an all-string ensemble; the playing is both fluent and sensitively shaped...and Carpenter's blend of mellowness and deftness is colourfully applied to Robert Mann's occasionally Bartokian Dreamtime. |
Aaron Parks (piano), Ben Street (double bass), Billy Hart (drums)
Find the Way [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks - following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as "expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest" - the prize-winning pianist has convened a trio featuring bassist Ben Street and drummer... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Hamlet (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, 2018) Globe / Catrin Aaron, James Garnon, Colin Hurley, Michelle Terry / Federay Holmes, Elle While (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Encompassing political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, tragic depth and wild humour, Hamlet is a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of Shakespeare's genius. |
Aaron Neville
Hercules (The Minit And Sansu Sessions) [ Charley / 2 CD - released 12/Sep/2011 ] |
Damon Aaron
Highlands (Limited Edition Vinyl) [ Ubiquity Records / LP - released 24/Nov/2008 ] This is a limited edition record of the 'Highlands' album by Damon Aaron - on VINYL. You will need a good ol' record player to listen to it! |
Aaron Goldberg
Home [ CD ] |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (complete opera) Fernando Guimarães, Jennifer Rivera, Aaron Sheehan, Leah Wool, Owen McIntosh / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "The strength of this issue is in its strong, youthful cast. The Penelope of Jennifer Rivera almost shakes my allegiance to Jacobs's Bernarda Fink, with a limpid low mezzo of comparable beauty and expressive power, while Fernando Guimaraes's Ulysses |
Aaron Frazer
Into The Blue [ Dead Oceans / CD - due 28/Jun/2024 ] Following Frazer's lauded 2021 debut, Into the Blue is expansive-a daring blend of soul, psychedelia, spaghetti western, disco, gospel and hip-hop, representing the impressive range of Frazer's sonic talents. "It's the clearest portrait of who I am... |