ALEXANDER BORODIN / ROBERT WRIGHT & GEORGE FORREST
Borodin: Kismet Alfred Drake & Doretta Morrow / 1953 Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Sony Columbia Broadway Masterworks / CD - released 17/May/2000 ] Kismet is a musical adapted by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis from the 1911 play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, with lyrics and musical adaptation (as well as some original music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
SCHOECK
Christian Poltara plays Othmar Schoeck Christian Poltara (cello) Malma Symphony Orchestra / Tuomas Ollila / Julius Drake (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] His great talent has earned the young cellist Christian Poltéra place in no less than three schemes designed to raise the profiles of up-and-coming musicians, namely the BBC New Generation Artist scheme, the Borletti-Buitoni Award and the ECHO Rising... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
Jim Davidson With Charlie Drake
Sinderella Live [ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 5/May/2010 ] R16 :- |
Drake
The Gift Without A Curse [ RGS / CD - released 25/Apr/2014 ] Canada's biggest ever rapper drops this brand new release featuring the cream of the scene such as Rick Ross, Kendrick Lamar, 2Chainz, A$AP Rocky, Birdman and many more. |
Drake
Honestly, Nevermind [ Republic / CD - released 17/Mar/2023 ] Honestly, Nevermind is Drake's seventh studio album. The album's producers include longtime collaborators like Noah (40) Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, and Noel Cadastre, as well as Black Coffee, who has recently worked with David Guetta and... |
Drake
If You're Reading This It's Too Late [ Universal / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Drake's mixtape 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' was a surprise release in February 2015. It debuted No.1 at the US Billboard 200 and was previously only available in digital format only. |