MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Heure espagnole, Boléro Isabelle Druet, Julien Behr, Loïc Félix / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] "As in previous releases, the orchestral playing is exquisite, the strings silky, woodwinds perfumed, the trumpets (1930s Selmers) sweetly tangy, the trombones suggestively louche." Gramophone Editor's Choice Aug 2023 |
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (complete ballet recorded in 2019) Teatro alla Scala / Polina Seminova, Timofej Andrijashenko, Alessandro Grillo / Felix Korobov (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 13/Nov/2020 ] "A great production, a success thanks to a superlative and thrilling ballet company." (LUUK) |
MOZART / GLUCK / CHERUBINI / HAYDN / PERGOLESI
Teresa Berganza - Eighteenth-Century Portraits Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Félix Lavilla (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] 'This has always been one of Teresa Berganza's most attractive records.' Opera, September 1968 (Mozart arias) |
ROSSINI / SCARLATTI / TURINA / GRANADOS / FALLA / GUERRERO / etc
Brava Berganza! - Rossini: Arias / Canciones Espanolas: Spanish Songs & more Teresa Berganza (soprano) Félix Lavilla (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson, Benito Lauret, Gerardo Gombau [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] "I called her performance of [the Falla songs] incomparable, and it still remains so, with her completely idiomatic interpretation, vitality, exemplary enunciation, beautifully clean melismata, and wide range of colour" Gramophone |
Felix Ribel
Paper Doors [ CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] Paper Doors is collection of ten elegant and inspiring songs, kicking off with the energetic 'Shadows', and the gentler, melodic style of 'In Your Arms' with the magnetic Martha Wainwright. The album features a stunning cover image created by... |
Felix Ribel
Paper Doors [ LP - released 9/Sep/2016 ] Paper Doors is collection of ten elegant and inspiring songs, kicking off with the energetic 'Shadows', and the gentler, melodic style of 'In Your Arms' with the magnetic Martha Wainwright. The album features a stunning cover image created by... |
BARTOK / STRAVINSKY / SAINT-SAENS / TCHAIKOVSKY / KODALY / etc
Virtuoso Violin Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) & Albert Hirsh (piano) / Tibor Bisztriczky (violin) & Felix Schröder (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] A violinist who straddled the divide between the old ways and the new was the Viennese virtuoso Wolfgang Eduard Schneiderhan. He was born on 28 May 1915 and beginning violin lessons at five, he polished his technique under Sevcík and Winkler. From... |
J-Felix
101 Reasons [ Tru Thoughts / CD - released 28/Jul/2015 ] '101 Reasons' is the debut album on Tru Thoughts from singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist J-Felix. The heavy '80s funk lilt and dubby rhythmic driving force of his sound was first showcased with January's "101 Reasons" EP, supported by Don... |
JOSEPH MARX
Phantasie / 4 Lieder Simone Nold (soprano) Christoph Renz (flute) Felix Schwartz (viola) / Hyperion trio [ CPO / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] Impressionistic twentieth-century Romanticist Joseph Marx was once Austria's most distinguished composer; his fame and authority continued to be unbroken even in the 1950s. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Simple Symphony / Spring Symphony / Four Sea Interludes Jennifer Vyvyan; Norma Proctor; Peter Pears / Royal Opera House Orchestra, Benjamin Britten / I Musici, Felix Ayo [ Alto / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] (Spring Symph) "confirmed in my admiration by this, both technically and musically among the best things the gramophone has given us. The music is not difficult for any open-minded listener to enjoy" (Gramophone) |
Rodrigo Costa Felix
Fados de Amor [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
FRANZ BENDA
Violin Sonatas (ornamented versions from a Berlin manuscript) Leila Schayegh (violin) / Vaclav Luks (harpsichord/fortepiano) / Felix Knecht (cello) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] |
PETER SCHICKELE
Schickele: A Year in the Catskills Felix Wang (cello), Melissa Rose (piano) / Blair Woodwind Quintet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] A Year in the Catskills is a five-movement quintet - a seasonal retrospective suffused with clever baroque tints, elements of pastoral fantasy, and a jazzy finale to dissipate any feelings of melancholy. |
Dino Saluzzi, Anja Lechner & Felix Saluzzi
Navidad De Los Andes [ ECM / CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] Cellist Anja Lechner and clarinet and sax man Felix Saluzzi both appeared as soloists on Dino's orchestral recording "El Encuentro" in 2009, a shared pleasure in the work leading to the formation of the present trio, a group which draws on much... |
HEINZ HOLLIGER
Induuchlen Sylvia Nopper (soprano), Kai Wessel (countertenor), Felix Renggli (flutes, piccolo), Elmar Schmid (clarinets), Swiss Chmaber Soloists [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "[Puneiga includes] two of this composer's most exquisitely poised settings. Sylvia Nopper is no less enticing in the typically exacting vocal part, with Holliger drawing a precise and fastidious response from hs ensemble." (International Record Review) |
Various Artists / Mixed by Pete Tong & Felix Da Housecat
All Gone Ibiza 11 [ Defected / 2 CD - released 6/Jun/2011 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Susanne Bernhard (sop), Anke Vondung (mezzo), Pavol Breslik (tenor), Yorck Felix Speer (bass) Orchester und Kammerchor der Klangverwaltung Enoch zu Gu [ Farao Classics / CD - released 7/Apr/2010 ] "The work's contemplative concluding movements draw a more assured quality of music-making than the preceding three, with the Benedictus the performance's evident highlight" Gramophone |
Felix Da Housecat
He Was King [ Nettwerk / CD - released 24/Aug/2009 ] |
Julie Felix
First, Second & Third (Complete Decca LPs 1964-1966) [ RPM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] Julie Felix grew up in a musical household -- her father was a professional mariachi musician and her mother was an amateur singer who loved the music of Burl Ives. Her father taught her to play ukulele and then guitar. |
MAX REGER
Reger: Complete String Trios and Piano Quartets Volume 2 Felix Schwartz (viola) / Aperto Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] This is the second of two discs of the complete piano quartets and string trios of Max Reger. The Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 133, completed during the first month of World War I, is a deeply expressive and intense work, using the full range of... |