Jon Nakamatsu
10Th Van Cliburn Competition [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Acme [ Shove / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
Jon Langford
All the Fame of Lofty Deeds [ Bloodshot / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |
BERNSTEIN / GERSHWIN / NOVACEK / D'RIVERA
American Music For Clarinet and Piano Jon Manasse (clarinet) / Jon Nakamatsu (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Sep/2010 ] Acclaimed duo partners Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu turn their attention to American composers in this jazz-inflected programme of music for clarinet and piano. |
Jon and Roy
Another Noon [ CD ] |
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... |
LEONARDO BALADA
Balada: La Muerte de Colon (Death of Columbus) - complete opera Jon Garrison / Judith Jenkins / Katherine Mueller / David Okerlund / Carnegie Mellon Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra / Robert Page [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Leonardo Balada's The Death of Columbus has been critically acclaimed as 'uncommonly impressive and winning'...The Death of Columbus is an intensely moving opera, filled with lyrical melodies and imaginative orchestration" |
BEETHOVEN / WEBER / BRAHMS
Beethoven & Brahms: Trios Jon Manasse (clarinet) & Jon Nakamatsu (piano) with Clive Greensmith (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jul/2017 ] With this disc, Jon Manasse, who joins forces once again with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and ex Tokyo String Quartet cellist Clive Greensmith, completes his survey of Brahms's chamber works. The clarinet takes centre stage in this programme of chamber... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Complete Opera recorded in 1970) Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kéléman, Helen Donath / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "Helga Dernesch as Leonare gives a glorious, thrilling peformance. The orchestral playing is superb." (Penguin Guide) |
SAMUEL BARBER
The Best of Barber (includes the Adagio-both string & choral versions) Sylvia McNair (soprano) Jon Kimura Parker (piano) / Leonard Slatkin / Robert Shaw Festival Singers / Robert Shaw and others. [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] Delving into its vast classical catalog, Telarc has compiled a disc full of Samuel Barber's most memorable works. The Best of Barber is an exquisite collection featuring Sylvia McNair singing "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," Leonard Slatkin and the Saint... |
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 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. |
BARTOK / R. STRAUSS / PUCCINI / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings [1953-1976] Birgit Nilsson, with, Regina Resnik, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jon Vickers, Helen Donath, Walter Berry, etc [ Sony Classics / 31 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2018 ] "Many of these live recordings have been remastered, mostly very adequately, from radio broadcasts, and include samples at least of all her major roles...The casts for some of these performances are the stuff of legend now." The Guardian |
Jon Balke
Book of Velocities [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2007 ] This Norwegian pianist's first-ever solo disc is a remarkable 'book' of 19 short pieces, grouped into four chapters and an epilogue, of music composed and improvised, exploring a whole vocabulary of ideas, techniques, rhythms, textures and sound-colours. |
SCHUMANN
Carnaval / Papillions / Sonat No.2 Jon Nakamatsu [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] Jon Nakamatsu is ideally suited to Schumann: he has the staggering technique expected from a Van Cliburn winner but also poetry and delicacy are uppermost in his playing. His nine recordings for Harmonia Mundi USA range from Chopin and Brahms, via... |
NIELSEN
Chamber Music Vol 2: The Violin Sonatas and works for Solo Violin Tue Lautrop (violin) Jon Gjesme (violin) & Jens Elvekjar (piano) [ Dacapo / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Carl Nielsen's works for violin, both with and without violin accompaniment, have never achieved the same dizzy heights of popularity as his Wind Quintet, but they do give us a very wide-ranging picture of the composer. The Sonata No. 1 was... |
MICHAEL TIPPETT
A Child of Our Time Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, Jon Garrison & John Cheek / City of Birmingham Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Michael Tippett [ Naxos / CD ] "..the composer's own lovingly crafted reading has a special place in the discography of this still-modern masterpiece." Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 |
Nakamatsu,Jon
Chopin:fantasy On Polish Airs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
Jon Batiste
Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Villiage Vanguard (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 29/Nov/2019 ] This title was recorded live at the historic Village Vanguard in NYC in the Fall of 2018 during Jon Batiste's residency at the legendary space. It is the follow up to "Anatomy of Angels', which is part 1 of this 2 part series. The music on this... |