GABRIELE ROBERTO / DMITRI CERVO / NICOLA TESCARI / MENACHEM ZUR
Alchemy: New Music for Trumpet and Orchestra Fabio Brum (trumpets, Cornets, Flugelhorn, Horn) / Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Seville, Noam Zur [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] Like alchemists of old, attempting to recombine the four elements, here Fábio Brum presents four distinct musical languages in a programme forged during lockdown. Gabriele Roberto's Tokyo Suite charts the astonishment of a traveller dazzled by the... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers (2LP, CD & Blu-ray Box Set) [ Reprise / Warner / Multi-Format Box Set - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers (Double Gatefold LP) [ Reprise / Warner / 2 LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka (complete opera in 2021) Teatro Real / Asmik Grigorian, Eric Cutler, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Katarina Dalayman, Karita Mattila / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 2/Nov/2021 ] 'Loy's concept works well and the stylish production values make this one of the most successful Rusalkas on film...Central to the success is Asmik Grigorian's outstanding, passionate Rusalka.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka (complete opera recorded in 2021) ) [Blu-ray] Teatro Real / Asmik Grigorian, Eric Cutler, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Katarina Dalayman, Karita Mattila / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 2/Nov/2021 ] 'Loy's concept works well and the stylish production values make this one of the most successful Rusalkas on film...Central to the success is Asmik Grigorian's outstanding, passionate Rusalka.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera |
SERGIO AZEVEDO
Azevedo: Hukvaldy Cycle Ensemble Darcos, Nuno Côrte-Real [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Taking its title from the village in which Leoš Janáček was born, this album of chamber works by the prize winning Portuguese composer Sérgio Azevedo reveals his deep affinity for the music and personality of the great Czech composer. |
JOAN BAPTISTA CABANILLES
Cabanilles: Keyboard Music, Volume One - Eleven Organ Pieces Timothy Roberts (Organ of the Church of Sant Jaume, Vila-real, Valencia) etc [ Toccata / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] Much of the music of Joan (or Juan) Cabanilles (1644-1712) is as virtuosic and colourfully Baroque as that of his northern contemporary, Dietrich Buxtehude, though it is also touched with a distinctively Spanish intensity. He is claimed as the most... |
JOAN BAPTISTA CABANILLES
Cabanilles: Keyboard Music, Volume Three - 21 works for organ and harpsichord Timothy Roberts (organ of the Church of Sant Jaume, Vila-real, Valencia) etc [ Toccata / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] "Timothy Roberts has studied this repertoire thoroughly, and is an excellent guide in this rather unknown territory. He has the assistance of three excellent instruments." MusicWeb |
JOAN BAPTISTA CABANILLES
Cabanilles: Keyboard Music, Volume Two - 24 works for organ and Harpsichord Timothy Roberts (Organ of the Church of Sant Jaume, Vila-real, Valencia) etc [ Toccata / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] Much of the music of Joan (or Juan) Cabanilles (1644-1712) is as virtuosic and colourfully Baroque as that of his northern contemporary, Dietrich Buxtehude, though it is also touched with a distinctively Spanish intensity. |
Giacomo PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera directed by Robert Wilson) Teatro Real / Iréne Theorin, Gregory Kunde, Yolanda Auyanet, Andrea Mastroni / Nicola Luisotti (cond) [ Bel Air DVD / DVD - released 22/May/2020 ] Giacomo Puccini wrote what was supposed to be his last opera at a time where, riddled with disease and old age as he was, he felt like his own turmoil was reflected in the outside world. |
Giacomo PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera directed by Robert Wilson) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Iréne Theorin, Gregory Kunde, Yolanda Auyanet, Andrea Mastroni / Nicola Luisotti (cond) [ Bel Air Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 22/May/2020 ] Giacomo Puccini wrote what was supposed to be his last opera at a time where, riddled with disease and old age as he was, he felt like his own turmoil was reflected in the outside world: itself staggering, unsteady, overwhelmed and smashed by the... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Idomeneo (complete opera) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Eric Cutler, David Portillo, Anett Fritsch, Eleonora Buratto / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 1/May/2020 ] "The sound on the Blu-ray disc is excellent and gives plenty of weight to Bolton's superlatively engaged conducting." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Idomeneo (complete opera) Teatro Real Madrid / Eric Cutler, David Portillo, Annett Fritsch, Eleonora Buratto / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/May/2020 ] "Mozart's third venture into the "opera seria" genre, demolished its traditional boundaries to open the way to lyric drama. Blending youthful earnestness with mature mastery, Mozart uses - while profoundly changing - the elements of a genre based on... |
Real Estate
The Main Thing [ Universal Music / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The new album dives even further into the musical dichotomies they're... |
Real Estate
The Main Thing (LP) [ Domino / 2 LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The new album dives even further into the musical dichotomies they're... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Lucio Silla (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Theatro Real / Kurt Streit (Silla), Patricia Petibon, Silvia Tro Santafé, Inga Kalna / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2018 ] "But the vocal laurels, and the principal reason for recommending this recording, belong to Patricia Petibon who tears into Giunia's arias as if her really depended on it." BBC MusicBBC Music Magazine October 2018 Opera Choice |
JOSE ARRIOLA
Arriola: Orchestral Music Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Maximino Zumalave, with Joaquín Soriano (piano) & David Alonso (horn) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] These are the first-ever recordings of music composed by José (Pepito) Arriola, whose works are virtually unknown. Born in Betanzos in the northern Spanish region of Galicia in 1895, Arriola was a celebrated child prodigy known at the time as a... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Paradox (Original Music From The Film) [ Reprise / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Neil Young recorded the music for the Paradox soundtrack on the MGM soundstage with three different groups: Promise of the Real, an orchestra, and another backing band comprised of Jim Keltner, Paul Bushnell and Joe Yankee. Paradox (the film) is... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Paradox (Original Music From The Film) (Double Gatefold LP) [ Reprise / Warner Music / 2 LP - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Neil Young recorded the music for the Paradox soundtrack on the MGM soundstage with three different groups: Promise of the Real, an orchestra, and another backing band comprised of Jim Keltner, Paul Bushnell and Joe Yankee. Paradox (the film) is... |