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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 102 & 104 "London" English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI / CD - released 11/Jun/1986 ] "Tate here shows ... how winning a relaxed approach to these masterpieces can be. It keeps making you think what a delightful old man Haydn must have been." (Gramophone) |
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CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Barbara Hendricks, Michael Chance, Jeffrey Black / London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Franz Welser-Most [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] "There is no question the tingling energy which informs Franz Welser-Most's performance of Carmina burana, which reaches its climax in the ''Cours d'amour'' sequence where both the Boys' and Men's Chorus get carried away by the exhilaration of the... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Romances Nos 1 & 2 Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Encore / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "Above all, it is the scale of this performance that I admire.." - Gramophone |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] '...a clear and well-balanced recording" CD Classics |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 100 'Military' & 103 'Drum Roll' English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/1987 ] "...Tate chooses speeds that allow the wit and sparkle of Haydn's writing to come out naturally." (Gramophone) |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Symphonies Nos 32, 35 'Haffner', & 39 English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/1985 ] ""There are absolutely no reservations about Jeffrey Tate's strongly characterised readings of (three) key late Mozart symphonies. The ECO emphasise elegance." (Gramophone) |
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ORLANDE de LASSUS
Missa Vinum Bonum: 'Good Wine Mass' & service Ex Cathedra & His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts, Jeffrey Skidmore [ Alto / CD - released 18/Jun/2012 ] |
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MICHEL-RICHARD DE LALANDE
Choral Music for Versailles (Grands Motets) Ex Cathedra & Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra, Jeffrey Skidmore [ Alto / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] |
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CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Barbara Hendricks (sop) Jeffrey Black (baritone) Michael Chance (countertenor) / London Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ EMIClassics / CD - released 10/Sep/1990 ] No other 20th century work delights music-lovers as much as Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". The opening number, "Oh Fortuna", is a huge classical hit in its own right. |
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VIVALDI
Music for Vespers Helen Groves, Nigel Short, Ruth Gleave, Paul Agnew / Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore, conductor [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore |
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CHARPENTIER / DEBUSSY / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / OFFENBACH / GLUCK / BIZET / VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri te Kanawa - French Opera Arias Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI / CD - released 20/Jun/1989 ] "As always, one marvels at the sheer allure of the voice" Gramophone |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Lucia Popp, Bernd Weikl, London Philharmonic, Klaus Tennstedt / Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 16/Jun/1987 ] Most of Mahler's vocal output was inspired by "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (The Boy's Magic Horn), an early 19th-Century anthology of folk poems from all over German-speaking Europe. The "Wunderhorn" had earlier inspired Weber, Mendelssohn and Schumann.... |
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W.A. MOZART
Requiem in D minor Marie Arnet (soprano) Anna Stephany (mezzo) Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Darren Jeffrey (bass) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] 'Davis's approach to the Requiem...contained both tragic grandeur and high drama, with the Dies Irae pointing the way towards the theatrical vividness of some 19th-century settings, but nothing was remotely sentimental of self-pitying' The Guardian |
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YORK BOWEN / IMOGEN HOLST / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Chamber Music with Viola Yue Yu (viola), Anthony Hewitt (piano), Jeffrey Armstrong (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] An accomplished horn and viola player, York Bowen is said to have preferred the tone of the viola to the violin. Inspired by the virtuosity and vibrato style of the distinguished violist, Lionel Tertis, Bowen wrote several works for him and became... |
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Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts
Manhattan [ Rough Trade / CD - released 30/Oct/2015 ] Manhattan is Jeffrey Lewis's seventh studio album for Rough Trade, and his first since 2011's A Turn In The Dream-Songs. His band is called "Los Bolts" and includes his regular players Heather Wagner (drums) and bassist Caitlin Gray (Hooray For The... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cantos Desiertos: Works for flute & guitar Alexandra Hawley (flute) Jeffrey Mcfadden (Guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Aug/2003 ] |
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LEONARDO BALADA
Caprichos Nos. 2, 3 & 4 Andrés Cárdenes (solo violin) / Jeffrey Turner (double bass) / Pittsburgh Sinfonietta / Lawrence Loh [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2011 ] "A contemporary Spanish voice that ably blends modernity and the past without compromise.... If proof were required that significant Spanish, post-Rodrigo compositional life exists, and that it is influenced by, though not obsessed with Spain's past,... |
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CARSON COOMAN
Cooman: Nantucket Dreaming: Orchestral and Chamber Works Chris Gekker (flugelhorn & trumpet) / Roman Mesina (bassoon) / Jeffrey Grossman (piano) / Emmanuel Feldman (cello) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Oct/2010 ] Fanfare proclaimed that "Cooman has something to say, an engaging voice to do so, and real musical chops". |
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JOSEPH CANTELOUBE
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jan/2018 ] "Te Kanawa's richly sensuous approach to these delightful songs is very seductive, especially when the accompaniments by Jeffrey Tate and the ECO are so warmly supportive and the sound so opulent." Gramophone |
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CUI
25 Preludes Op 64 Jeffrey Biegel, piano [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2003 ] "Jeffrey Biegel delivers sensitive renditions of these works, alive to Cui's shifting moods. He has plenty of technique, if the limited technical expertise required by these preludes offers any chance to judge, and is capable of delicacy, a wide... |