More By Artist: B J Thomas
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FRANK BRIDGE / SIR EDWARD ELGAR / JOHN IRELAND
Bridge, Elgar, Ireland: English Cello Works Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg, The Royal Danish Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård [ Naxos / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor is a cornerstone of the cello repertoire, a product of the composer's summer seclusion in the English countryside in 1919. A masterpiece of moods, it encompasses the world-weary and poignant but also the... |
CHARLES SILVER
Silver: La Belle au bois dormant Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, György Vashegyi, Guylaine Girard, Julien Dran, Kate Aldrich, Thomas Dolié [ Bru Zane / 2 CD - due 24/Apr/2026 ] Largely forgotten today, the composer Charles Silver was one of the most promising students of Jules Massenet, whose elegant style and effective dramatic gestures he fully mastered. His opera La Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty), based on... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Complete opera recorded in 1967) Alfred Deller, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley,Owen Brannigan, Josephine Veasey, Robert Tear / London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Jan/2002 ] "...Britten again proves himself an ideal interpreter of his own music." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Claire Rutter / Thomas Randel / Markus Eiche / Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] The pulsating rhythms, colourful orchestration and dynamic choruses, contrasted with moments of sensuous innocence, have taken Carmina Burana into the world of 'pop classics'. |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schutz: Christmas Story (with Praetorius: Motets) Emma Kirkby, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas / Taverner Consort, Choir and Players / Andrew Parrott [ EMI Reflexe / CD - released 1/Nov/1987 ] "If Schutz's Christmas Story is your quarry, then this performance by the Taverner Consort, Choir and Players must be considered very carefully..it is far and away the best version available on record" Gramophone |
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
Murder on the High C's Florence Foster Jenkins (soprano) with additional tracks by Alexander Kipnis; John Charles Thomas; Josephine Tumminia; Ezio Pinza; Jeanette MacDonald [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "Hilariously ignorant of all musical rules and delightfully incapable of hitting, never mind holding the note, she recorded just nine songs. Priceless." -- Andrew Clarke, The Independent |
VERDI / SAINT-SAENS / PUCCINI / GIORDANO / OFFENBACH / DVORAK / MOZART / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever! Roberto Alagna, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Mady Mesple, Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Nicolai Gedda, Victoria de los Angeles, Kiri te Kanawa [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2016 ] This CD set presents an extensive opera sampler of mostly arias, with some famous choruses as well, such as Va, Pensiero from Verdi's Nabucco. |
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan, Joao Lobo
A New Day [ ECM / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo - the trio's musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point -, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group's... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 212, 213 Ingeborg Danz, Thomas Quasthoff, Sibylla Rubens, Andreas Schmidt, Christine Schäfer / Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Gächinger Kantorei, Helmuth Rilling [ Hanssler / CD - released 11/Aug/1999 ] Contains full notes and translations |
ADÈLE HUGO
Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo Karine Deshayes (soloist), Sandrine Piau (soloist), Isabelle Druet (soloist), Anaïde Apelian, Laurianne Corneille, Axelle Fanyo (soloist), Thomas Saul [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] The composer Richard Dubugnon has orchestrated 14 of her songs, and his instrumentations lend an idiomatic, sometimes colourful, often mellow slant to some appealing melodies. - The Guardian |
