W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem (LP) Simone Kermes, Stephanie Houtzeel, Markus Brutscher / MusicAeterna / New Siberian Singers, Teodor Currentzis [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Mozart's Requiem is a supreme masterpiece of the history of music and a work inextricably bound up with the Mozartian legend. Now Alpha's recording of it under the direction of Teodor Currentzis is given a new lease of life in a vinyl reissue. A... |
WILLIAM BOLCOM
The Complete Cabaret Songs of William Bolcom Stephanie Acraman & Liam Wooding [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] The musical collaboration between composer William Bolcom and lyricist Arnold Weinstein began in the 1960s, but the witty, highly-successful four-volume cycle of cabaret songs they wrote between 1977 and 1996 is regarded as the pinnacle of their... |
JANET JENNINGS
Voices Of Women Stephanie Acraman, Mere Boynton, Catrin Johnsson, Jayne Tankersley, Felicity Tomkins [ Atoll / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] In creating Voices of Women, composer Janet Jennings has set to music words spoken and written by a range of iconic women. The project brought together a team of exceptional female musicians including one of NZ's few professional marimba players,... |
CAMPRA / DESTOUCHES / MARAIS / HEINICHEN / HANDEL / etc
Portraits de la folie Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) / Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "The enjoyment of a refined French enunciation is reason enough to buy this disc. D'Oustrac relishes her words, and squeezes gestures from them" BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice Sept 2020 |
ROBERT LOPEZ / JEFF MARX
Lopez: Avenue Q John Tartaglia & Stephanie D'Abruzzo / Original 1993 Broadway Cast [ RCA Victor / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty. It won Best Musical, Book, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards. The show's format is a parody of PBS's Sesame... |
ALFRED CELLIER
Cellier: Dorothy [Operetta] Majella Cullagh, Lucy Vallis, Stephanie Maitland, Matt Mears, John Ieuan Jones / Victorian Opera, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Alfred Cellier was a contemporary of Arthur Sullivan as a Chapel Royal chorister, and would later conduct several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. With its rural tale of disguise and romantic scheming, its jaunty tunes, lively characters and... |
MICHAEL WILLIAMS / ALAN RIACH
The Prodigal Child - A Chamber Opera Stephanie Acraman / Joanne Cole-Rosser / Paul Whelan / Ogen Plus [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] Michael Williams' chamber opera in three scenes to a libretto by Alan Riach explores three souls in crisis - the setting is New Zealand but the story is universal. |
Stephanie Finch
Cry Tomorrow [ Belle Sound / CD - released 2/Aug/2010 ] |
LISZT / WAGNER / BERLIOZ
Sirenes Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) Pascal Jourdan (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] "The French singer's gleaming bright mezzo brings soprano overtones to this music, and she is especially compelling in Berlioz's anguished "Ah! Sans amour, s'en aller sur la mer" in Sur les lagunes, and skittish and playful in Villanelle" SundayTimes |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / CHOPIN / SATIE / DEBUSSY / etc
My First Piano Album Various Artists including John Chen, Roger Woodward, Stephanie McCallum & Simon Tedeschi [ ABC Kids / CD - released 3/Jun/2016 ] Behind the piano's tidy array of black and white keys, there is a whole world of wonderful music. This album is the perfect introduction to the piano and its magic, bringing together familiar favourites and new discoveries. |