Jon Hopkins
Piano Versions (Limited Blue LP) [ Domino / 12in - released 2/Jul/2021 ] |
Jon K / Pat Thomas
Asafo / Enye Woa (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 7/Dec/2018 ] Soundway presents the first in a new series of 12" releases, featuring hard-to-find and in-demand dancefloor tracks on loud DJ-friendly pressings. These two late 1980s Ghanaian highlife cuts are taken from the catalogue of Nakasi Records. Nakasi... |
PAUL SCHOENFELD / STEVEN STUCKY / JOHN HARBISON
Schoenfeld/Stucky/Harbison: Three American Violin Sonatas Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Jon Kimura Parker (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] The three sonatas on this recording were written at the behest of violinist Cho-Liang Lin, who worked closely with each composer at their premiere performance. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
Dave Brubeck (piano) with Jon Hendricks and Michael Brecker
Young Lions & Old Tigers [ Telarc Discover Jazz / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] Celebrating his 75th birthday, Dave Brubeck hosts three generations of modern jazzmen on his new release, Young Lions & Old Tigers. Three lush standards anchor a collage of nine Brubeck originals written especially for each honored soloist. |
Deborah Voigt - Johan Botha - Jon Villars, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sinopoli
Strauss, Richard - Der Friedenstag (Complete Opera) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Oct/2001 ] Richard Strauss´s underrated and underrecorded opera 'Friedenstag' |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Highlights] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Stewart, Josephine Veasey, Gundula Janowitz, Jon Vickers, Jess Thomas / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Dec/2013 ] Highlights from Herbert von Karajan's mighty 'Ring' cycle. The disc includes extended highlights from the four 'Ring' operas and allows us to sample Karajan's choice of different singers for the same character in different operas - Fischer-Dieskau's... |
Dino Saluzzi / Jon Christensen
Senderos [ CD ] |
The Goons featuring Andrew Secombe, Jon Glover, Jeffrey Holland & others
Goon Again - The 40th Anniversary Cardboard Replica Show [ BBC Audio / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] Using scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, the Goon Show was recreated at the Playhouse Theatre in London for one night, with Andrew Secombe (Harry's son), Jon Glover (as Spike Milligan) and Jeffrey Holland (as Peter Sellers). |
Jon Hassell
Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] This recording from the innovative & influential Jon Hassell is conceived as "a continuous piece, almost symphonic, with a cinematic construction" and drifting "clouds made out of many motifs". |
Jon Hopkins
Insides [ Domino Records / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes affecting, bold electronic music, using walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. |
Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |
MOZART / WAGNER / DONIZETTI / SPOHR
The Golden Age of Covent Garden Joan Sutherland (soprano) Jon Vickers (tenor) / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Rafael Kubelik / with Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Pearl / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers in roles they never recorded commercially, at the very peak of their powers in 1957 and 1958. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (complete opera recorded in 1993) John Cheek, Jon Garrison, Jeffrey Johnson, Shirley Love, Melvin Lowery, Jane West, Wendy White, Arthur Woodley / Robert Craft [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "That we have such a direct link to Stravinsky's living thoughts and intentions in Robert Craft and such a powerful performance makes this recording as much a 'must have' as the composer's own." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
CHOPIN
The Best of Chopin John O'Conor-piano) Jon Kimura Parker (piano) Malcolm Frager (piano) Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] The Best of Chopin is a great new addition to this highly successful classical series featuring such critically-acclaimed Telarc artists as harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, pianists John O'Conor and Jon Kimura Parker. |
Jon and Roy
Another Noon [ CD ] |
Jon and Vangelis
The Best of Jon and Vangelis [ Polydor Records / CD - released 10/Mar/1985 ] Available as an import from Europe, this 1984 compilation contains a great selection of the best songs Vangelis created in collaboration with Yes singer, Jon Anderson. |
Jon and Vangelis
The Friends of Mr Cairo [ Fontana / Polydor Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] Available from America as an import CD, this album features Yes vocalist, Jon Anderson with the keyboard master, Vangelis. This was their brilliant sophomore recording together. |
Jon and Vangelis
Private Collection [ Polydor Records / CD - released 1/Mar/1985 ] This album is available as an import from Europe and features more excellent music from Jon and Vangelis, including "Italian Song" and the 22-minute "Horizon". |
Jon and Vangelis
Short Stories [ Polydor Records / CD - released 1/Mar/1985 ] Available as an import from Europe, 'Short Stories' is an inspired album from two great talents - keyboard master, Vangelis, with singer, Jon Anderson (of Yes). |