More By Artist: Drake
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Drake
Forever [ Blackstar / CD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] |
Drake
Honesty And Persistence [ Egypt Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Lieder Vol 1 Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) [ EMI Music / CD - released 11/May/2001 ] "Bostridge's growing band of devoted admirers are sure to be satisfied by this selection from Schubert's most popular songs." Gramophone |
MADELEINE DRING
Dring: Songs Kitty Whately (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Mar/2026 ] English mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately presents an album of songs by Madeleine Dring. Born in 1923 to a theatrical family, Dring was admitted to the Royal College of Music at the age of nine. She went on to study composition with Herbert Howells, also... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / CLARA SCHUMANN
Robert & Clara Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Sep/2024 ] Following the success of last year's release of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London turn their attention to Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. As in the case of the previous release in the series, this world première... |
GABRIEL FAURÉ
Fauré: La bonne chanson & other songs Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Fauré's songs represent his art at its most radiant, demonstrating the composer's exceptional gift for melody as well as his acute sensitivity to the subtleties of the greatest French poets of the day. In 'La bonne chanson', the result is a song... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other songs Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), with Timothy Ridout (viola) & the Piatti Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] 'a performance of On Wenlock Edge which, in its thrilling assurance, strength of imagination and rapt instinct, inclines me to rank it alongside the very finest I know.' Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2022 |
Partynextdoor & Drake
$Ome $Exy $Ongs 4 U [ Ovo Sound / CD - released 25/Apr/2025 ] $$$4U is PARTYNEXTDOOR'S second project in less than a year, following the critically acclaimed PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4), which debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and #2 on the R&B album chart. The album is now Certified Gold by the RIAA... |
Partynextdoor & Drake
$Ome $Exy $Ongs 4 U (LP) [ Ovo Sound / 2 LP - released 9/May/2025 ] |
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BEETHOVEN / STRAUSS / SCHUMANN / GLAZUNOV / DUKAS / POULENC / VINTER
The Romantic Horn Richard Watkins (horn), Julius Drake (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] ""This is grand, swaggering playing: two virtuosos out to bring the house down" Gramophone. |
CLAY WARNICK & MEL PAHL
Warnick/Pahl : The Adventures of Marco Polo Alfred Drake & Doretta Morrow / Original Televeision Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 17/May/1991 ] Evidently tailored to cash in on the success of Kismet, created two years before, The Adventures of Marco Polo again teamed Alfred Drake and Doretta Morrow, who had beguiled crowds on Broadway and the West End in the earlier musical. |
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COLE PORTER
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate [Original Broadway Cast in Stereo] Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison / Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Directed by John C. Wilson with choreography by Hanya Holm, the original cast included Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Charles Wood and Harry Clark. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: 21 Songs Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] One of the leading mezzos of our day in a Schubert recital which offers seventy minutes of pure pleasure. The twenty-one songs recorded here are among Schubert's finest, from Erlkönig (written in the composer's annus mirabilis of 1815) to Leise... |
SCHUBERT / R. STRAUSS / MUSSORGSKY / IRELAND / GURNEY / etc
Brindley Sherratt - Fear No More Brindley Sherratt (solo bass), Julius Drake (piano) [ Delphian / CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] ".This is a true partnership of two experienced musicians at the peak of their powers." BBC Music Five Stars |
SCHUBERT / WOLF / DUPARC / DEBUSSY / WARLOCK
Christopher Maltman: Recorded live at the Wigmore Hall (June 2007) Christopher Maltman (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) [ Wigmore Hall Live / CD - released 15/Aug/2008 ] "It's Maltman's superb breath control which gives shape and sensuous beauty to Debussy and Dupare. And, thanks to Drake's restraining pace, Warlock's Captain Stratton's Fancy' has real swagger." BBC Music |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Schubert: Schwanengesang; Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] An inspired coupling of two contrasting yet complementary sets of 'swansongs'. Despite the three decades separating Brahms' and Schubert's ages at the time of writing, both are among their composers' very final works, poignant reflections on the... |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Songs [incls 'Chants populaires' & 'Cinq melodies populaires grecques'] Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "Top-notch sound and informed, easily readable liner notes complete an irresistible, essential package for all vocal music fans. Bravo" (10 / 10 ClassicsToday) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Songs & Proverbs of William Blake Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "Finley as ever acquits himself as a fine singer, a conscientious artist and a thoroughly reliable musician....In all (including the Blake) Julius Drake is the superb pianist." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2011 - Solo Vocal) |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Songs Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) with the Aronowitz Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Solo Vocal -- "the Canadian baritone Gerald Finley is golden in tone, persuasive in phrasing, and unfailingly responsive to the sound and sense of the words..." BBC Music Five Stars |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] "Drake and Finley are hand in voice throughout the cycle, yet always understanding that either partner may sing their own song...A magnificent recording." BBC Music |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Canticles and Folksong Arrangements Ian Bostridge, David Daniels, Christopher Maltman, Julius Drake piano [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2002 ] "For sheer vocal character and interpretative intelligence on both their parts it is the equal of any of the others - yes, even that of Pears and Britten." - International Record Review |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Lieder Vol 2 Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) [ EMI / CD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] 'A second volume of Schubert songs performed with sensitivity and poise by one of today's favourite tenors. Well accompanied by Julius Drake.' Recording of the Month - Gramophone Magazine (August 2001) |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 24 / Dichterliebe, Op. 48 / 7 lieder Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Julius Drake (piano) [ EMI / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1801-1850) - "My choice is Ian Bostridge… his velveteen, youthful timbres and intense, subtle delivery suit Schumann's cycle to perfection." The Sunday Times, March 2001 |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Songs of Sibelius Katarina Karneus (mezzo) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2011 ] PICK OF THE MONTH (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE) BEST OF THE YEAR (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH) BEST OF THE YEAR (THE SUNDAY TIMES) |
Nick Drake
Pink Moon [ Island Records / CD - released 26/Jan/1995 ] 'Pink Moon' is a classic seventies album by Nick Drake - now re-issued and digitally re-mastered for CD, with extra liner notes and photos included. It's widely reported that by the time Nick Drake got around to recording his third and final album.. |
Drake
Take Care [ Universal / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] The second studio album by Canadian recording artist Drake. Produced by Noah "40" Shebib, 9th Wonder, and TMinus amongst others. |
Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left (LP) [ Island Records / LP - released 26/Aug/2013 ] Don't go looking for extensive chart statistics to map the career of Nick Drake, because there aren't any. That's to say that, however much we now rightly revere the quintessential sensitive singer-songwriter, his tragically short life was painfully... |
Nick Drake
Pink Moon (LP) [ Island USA / LP - released 1/Mar/2013 ] 'Pink Moon' is a classic seventies album by Nick Drake - now re-issued on LP. It's widely reported that by the time Nick Drake got around to recording his third and final album, PINK MOON, his already-precarious mental/emotional state had... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 5 Allan Clayton (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Solo Vocal |
IVOR GURNEY / DENIS BROWNE / EUGENE GOOSENS
The Dark Pastoral Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) & Simon Russell-Beale (actor) [ Altara / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] "Andrew Kennedy sings devotedly and with skill, Julius Drake's playing is always responsive, and together they often perform memorably: Goossens's Hardy settings are fine, and contrasted, examples." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] 'Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to intimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her' (BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Vocal WINNER) |
RAVEL / BERNSTEIN / MESSIAEN / WOLF / FAURE / DEBUSSY / PURCELL / etc
Anna Prohaska - Paradise Lost Anna Prohaska (soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Song |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147 / Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 (arr viola) Annette Bartholdy (viola), Julius Drake (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] "Annette Batholdy and Julius Drake are particularly inspired here, the anguish of the viola's intense cadenza passages finding ultimate release in the calm C major of the close." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
20th Century English Songs Bejun Mehta (countertenor) / Julius Drake (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] "Bejun Mehta certainly can't be faulted on his eclecticism in his whistle-stop tour of English song...Mehta's singing is so heart-stoppingly beautiful and musically perceptive that you wish he had recorded whole cycles rather than just representative... |
DEBUSSY / DUTILLEUX / SCHUBERT / BRITTEN / MOZART / BARTOK / etc
Belcea Quartet - The Complete Warner Classics Edition Belcea Quartet, with Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Leon Bosch (double bass) [ Warner Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 17/Mar/2023 ] One of today's most highly respected string quartets, the Belcea were established in 1994 at the Royal College of Music in London and studied with the Chilingirian, the Amadeus, and later the Alban Berg quartets. |
MAHLER
Urlicht Christianne Stotijn (Mezzo) Julius Drake (Piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 29/Nov/2006 ] This is the second release on ONYX from young Dutch mezzo and rising star, Christianne Stotijn. An outstanding collection of her core repertoire: the greatest Mahler songs. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Romances Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Mar/2009 ] "Stotijn's charisma and her beautifully recorded altoish depth of tone is enough to hold me spellbound." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010 - Vocal WINNER |
COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 3 Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2015 ] "With the versatile Julius Drake at the piano any singer can be assured that he/she has the best possible support and the rapport between Finley and Drake feels like twin-souls working together." Recording of the Month MusicWeb Aug 15 |
