WALTON / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HOLST / DELIUS / ELGAR / etc
Great British Orchestral Classics (Incls 'Nimrod' from 'Enigma' Variations by Elgar, Tintagel by Bax & Summer Night on the River by Delius) Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox / Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Norman Del Mar / etc [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] Chandos is famous for its recordings of British music and this 2-CD set, available for the price of one full-price disc, is a compilation of some of its finest and most popular recordings. |
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) |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Orchestral Works (Incls 'St Paul's Suite') Andrew Watkinson (violin) & Nicholas Ward (violin) Duke Dobing (flute) & Christopher Hooker (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] This 1994 recording is one of the first Holst collections made by Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia. An orchestra he conducted for thirty seven years, until his death. Having brought neglected works by Holst to a more deserved fame in the early... |
CORELLI / BELLINI / CIMAROSA / FIORILLO / etc
Italian Oboe Concertos Vol 1 Anthony Camden (oboe) / Peter Lloyd (flute) / City of London Sinfonia / Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2001 ] More beautiful music for the oboe |
PLATTI / SALIERI / BESOZZI / ROSETTI
Italian Oboe Concertos Vol 2 Anthony Camden (oboe) Peter Lloyd (flute) / City of London Sinfonia / Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] More beautiful music for the oboe |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Stabat Mater Arthur Davies (tenor) Della Jones (contralto) Roderick Earle (bass) / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Richard Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] Rosette (Highest Rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
Avalanche City
We Are For The Wild Places (LP) [ LP - released 13/Nov/2015 ] Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Avalanche City is the musical moniker of Dave Baxter, whose debut single Love, Love, Love was propelled into radio mainstay back in 2011. While he spent two years travelling the world off the back of the breakout... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (Nos 1-9) Barbara Bonney, Birgit Remmert, Kurt Streit, Thomas Hampson / City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2010 ] A superbly played account by one of the world's great orchestras. ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine |
Bay City Rollers
Definitive Collection [ CD ] |
The Bay City Rollers
Rollermania - The Anthology [ Salvo / 4 CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] |
Bay City Rollers
Rollerworld: Live At Budokhan [ Acrobat / CD - released 28/Nov/2008 ] |
LORENZO PALOMO
Palomo - Cantos Del Alma / Sinfonía a Granada María Bayo (soprano), José Luis Estellés (clarinet), Vicente Coves (guitar) & Luis García Montero / City of Granada Orchestra, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] His Cantos del alma (Songs of the Soul) are settings of four poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez, "a composition in which voice, clarinet and orchestra ... establish a poetic dialogue, both intimate and idyllic". Palomo's Sinfonía a Granada (Granada... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 11 (Incls Les Nymphéas op. 54) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Casavant Organ, Brick Church, New York City [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Never before have Les Nympheas Op.54 been heard outside Dupré's native Meudon. Ben van Oosten presents this extraordinary composition on the Casavent organ in New York's Brick Church. This instrument was inaugurated by van Oosten in 2005 and is... |
Bratislava City Choir/Krechek
Handel:messiah Choruses [ Naxos / CD ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded live in 1952) Maria Callas, Piero Campolonghi, Giuseppe di Stefano / Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Umberto Mugnai [ Urania / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Callas only sang Gilda in Rigoletto twice on stage, in Mexico City in 1952, and this recording was taken from the first of those performances. She brought tonal substance and deep interpretative insight to a role that had sometimes been treated by... |
TE DEUM
Te Deum and other church music Cambridge Singers / City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 25/Jan/2001 ] 'this music has unfailing appeal' CD Review (USA) |
JOHN RUTTER / TRADITIONAL / BACH / etc
Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 28/Oct/2020 ] The Cambridge Singers in 1985 were at the top of their game, and the choir list includes at least two singers who are now internationally renowned as soloists. We hope you will enjoy this classic recording in its newly restored form. |
JOHN RUTTER
Be thou my vision The Cambridge Singers / The City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter, director [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] Sacred music by John Rutter. |
JOHN RUTTER
Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter The Cambridge Singers / The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / The City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "This is a jewel of a record" (Gramophone) |
JOHN RUTTER
The Sprig of Thyme: A cycle of folk song settings for mixed choir The Cambridge Singers with members of the City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] This is a lovely disc; one to head my list of Christmas presents for musical friends. (Gramophone) |