GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Concerto in F / Rhapsody in Blue / 'I Got Rhythm' Variations / Second Rhapsody Jeffrey Siegel (piano) / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor) [ Vox Classics / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] The Elite Recordings for Vox by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings |
Ex Cathedra, Britten Sinfonia, Jeffrey Skidmore (condutor), Philippe Honoré (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor), Vayu Naidu (speaker)
The Traveller: Earth & Sky [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] THE TRAVELLER for choir, children's choir, orchestra, tenor, violin and speaker. The Traveller was the third in a series of four major works with words by Vikram Seth and music by Alec Roth, com- missioned jointly over four years by the Salisbury,... |
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... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Concertos (LP) Hilary Hahn (violin) / Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Deutsche Grammophon presents the first vinyl release of Hilary Hahn's first recording on Deutsche Grammophon of Bach Violin Concertos. |
VIVALDI / BRUCH / ELGAR / BACH / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / ELLINGTON / GERSHWIN / etc
Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored Nigel Kennedy (violin) / English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate / Berliner Philharmoniker [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2021 ] This is not an autobiography, but a journey through Nigel Kennedy's sixty-four seasons played home and away. |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J. S.: Cello Suites, Vol. 2 - Nos 4 - 6 (arr. guitar) Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] J.S. Bach's Cello Suites are believed to have been written in the Saxon town of Cöthen between 1717 and 1723. They stand near the apex of Bach's compositions for a single instrument and contain some of his most beautiful and vivid writing. Jeffrey... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Cello Suites, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1-3, BWV 1007-1009 (arr. J. McFadden for guitar) Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] The six Cello Suites represent J.S. Bach's genius at its most distilled, with the composer confronting the enigma of writing counterpoint for a monophonic instrument at its core. Jeffrey McFadden's arrangement for guitar enhances the music, adding a... |
JALBERT / BACH / PART / VASKS
Jalbert, Bach, Pärt & Vasks: Music for violin and orchestra Margaret Batjer (violin), Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Kahane [ BIS SACD / CD - released 2/Aug/2019 ] Making their first appearance on BIS, Margaret Batjer and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) cross great distances in both time and space in this programme of concertante violin works. The disc opens with a Violin Concerto by the American... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso (complete opera recorded in 1989) BLU-RAY San Francisco Opera / Marilyn Horne, Susan Patterson, Jeffrey Gall, William Matteuzzi / Randall Behr (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Feb/2019 ] Pier Luigi Pizzi's 1979 production of Orlando furioso in Verona marked the beginning of contemporary international interest in Antonio Vivaldi's operas. Ten years later the same director once more produced this work at the San Francisco Opera. |
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... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music Louis Lortie (piano), Sarah Jeffrey (oboe), Teng Li (viola), Toronto Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] With this celebratory release completing his fourteen-year tenure as Music Director of the TSO, Peter Oundjian conducts an exquisite Vaughan Williams programme, supported by an all-Canadian cast of star soloists. |
Jeffrey Foucault
Blood Brothers [ Blueblade Records / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] BLOOD BROTHERS, the much-anticipated follow-up to Jeffrey Foucault's critically acclaimed 2015 album Salt As Wolves ("Immaculately tailored… Close to perfection" - New York Times; "Pure Songwriter, simple and powerful" - Morning Edition, NPR) is a... |
DAVID LANG / TED HEARNE / HANNAH LASH
Lang/Hearne/Lash: Statements Yale Choral Artists and Philharmonia, Jeffrey Douma [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] "Yale Choral Artists has rapidly established itself as one of the most innovative professional choirs in the world, and its recordings of works by three Yale composers showcase the breadth of contemporary American choral music." Opera News |
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Birtwistle: Angel Fighter / etc Andrew Watts (Angel) & Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob) / BBC Singers & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton [ NMC / CD - released 20/May/2017 ] Gramophone Awards 2016 - Finalist - Contemporary |
TRADITIONAL
Sephardic Journey Karim Sulayman, Nell Snaidas, Jeffrey Strauss, Amanda Powell, Brian Kay / Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] Cast out of Jerusalem, cast out of Spain. The Spanish Jews in their travels absorbed the colorful musical accents of Italy, Turkey and North Africa, including exotic percussion. Apollo's Fire's musical journey interweaves Sephardic folk song with the... |
ALEC ROTH
A Time to Dance / Hatfield Service / Men and Angels Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jan/2016 ] Alec Roth's new oratorio is a celebration of times and seasons, and a joy to hear. Also included are new settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis and of John Donne's Antiphon 'Praised be the God of love'. |
ELLINGTON / EMERSON / GERSHWIN / SEDAKA
Manhattan Intermezzo Jeffrey Biegel (piano) / Brown University Orchestra, Paul Phillips [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] This programme brings together four works for piano and orchestra by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and progressive rock |
Jeffrey Foucault
Salt As Wolves [ CD - released 1/Dec/2015 ] Prolific singer-songwriter ​Jeffrey Foucault embraces the darker, more somber aspects of Americana and folk on his tenth album, Salt As Wolves. Haunting tracks like "Blues For Jessie Mae" and "Paradise" feature the sort of sparse, elegiac... |
NUNES GARCIA / LOBO de MESQUITA / L. A. PINTO / etc
Brazilian Adventures Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2015 ] This wonderful new recording casts a dazzling light on composers whose names are as obscure as their music is revelatory. Mozart from an unfettered South America? |
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... |