GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Oratorios: Messiah, Athalia, Esther and La Resurrezione [8 CD set] Academy of Ancient Music / Emma Kirkby / Joan Sutherland / Aled Jones / David Thomas et al [ Decca / 8 CD Box Set - released 7/Dec/2005 ] Now at budget price! Christopher Hogwood's pioneering period instrument recordings of 4 Handel oratorios. |
HANDEL
Agrippina (complete opera) Alastair Miles / Della Jones / Derek Lee Ragin / Donna Brown / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Decca Classic Opera / 3 CD - released 13/May/2007 ] "John Eliot Gardiner has not recorded many Handel operas, nor directed many in the theatre. But of course he is a fine and very experienced conductor of Handel and he has a sure feeling for tempo and for the character of each movement. The orchestral... |
DARREN HENLEY
The Story Of Classical Music (Unabridged) Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2010 ] The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. |
Aled Jones
A Journey With Aled Jones [ Decca Records / CD - released 27/Apr/2005 ] Celebrated Welsh baritone Aled Jones releases a special album to take you on a journey through his amazing career, from boy soprano to honey-dewed baritone of the highest order. |
Aled Jones
Reason To Believe [ Ucj / CD ] One would never guess that Reason to Believe was an Aled Jones album, after all, wasn't he the choir boy with the angelic soprano voice singing the sorts of songs one would hear regularly on Songs of Praise or other religious television programs?... |
CELEBRATION
Celebration: Christmas Fanfares and Carols Aled Jones (readings) / BBC Welsh Chorus / John Hugh Thomas (conductor) with Fanfare Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "A lovely collection of music and readings for Christmas. There are seven readings, which, within the context of the recording, is just about right for ultimately it is the music for which you will be buying this disk." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Rawsthorne: Cello Concerto / Oboe Concerto / Symphonic Studies Alexander Baillie (cello) Stephane Hancourt, oboe, Royal Scottish, Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Dec/2000 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Concerto |
Allan Jones
There's A Song In The Air [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Oct/1998 ] There's a song in the air. What a wonderful title for a CD album of Allan Jones. "Donkey Serenade" opens with that line and is synonymous with Allan Jones. |
PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina in C minor Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano), Lawrence Zazzo (counter tenor) / Cambridge Soloists, Timothy Brown (organ/director) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2008 ] |
JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop) Peter Crawford (counter-ten), Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop), etc [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] "John Tavener is a master of sonic masonry, constructing vast cathedrals of both solemnity and exultation within the head and heart. Religious proclivity is not a prerequisite to uncovering the ecstasies in these scores, and the magnetism of each... |
JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop) Peter Crawford (counter-ten), Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop), etc [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Choral |
Anthony Hopkins, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Pryce, Aled Jones, Mary Hopkin, etc
Under Milk Wood: A play for voices by Dylan Thomas [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2016 ] A Play for voices by Dylan Thomas With original music by George Martin & Elton John Produced by George Martin |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Stabat Mater Arthur Davies (tenor) Della Jones (contralto) Roderick Earle (bass) / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Richard Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] Rosette (Highest Rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
STEFAN LEVIN
Written on Water - A Dance Film by Pontus Lindberg BLU-RAY Aurélie Dupont, Alexander Jones, Pontus Lidberg, Stina Ekblad, Leslie Caron [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Written on Water is a dance feature film about an artist whose happy and comfortable married life is upended when she unexpectedly falls in love with someone else. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Written on Water - A Dance Film by Pontus Lindberg [DVD] (Aurélie Dupont, Alexander Jones, Pontus Lidberg, Stina Ekblad, Leslie Caron, Magnus Svensso Aurélie Dupont, Alexander Jones, Stina Ekblad, Leslie Caron [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Written on Water is a dance feature film about an artist whose happy and comfortable married life is upended when she unexpectedly falls in love with someone else. Featuring Paris Opera Ballets Aurélie Dupont, Ballet Zurich principal dancer Alexander... |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No. 1 / In the Faery Hills / Garden of Fand Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] "In the two symphonic poems, more specifically inspired by Irish themes, Lloyd-Jones draws equally warm and sympathetic performances from the Scottish Orchestra, bringing inner clarity to the heaviest scoring. First-rate sound" Penguin Guide |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (the complete opera recorded in 1988) Bayerischen Staatsoper / Gwyneth Jones, Manfred Jungwirth, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp / Carlos Kleiber (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Aug/2004 ] "Kleiber's conducting is spacious, transparent and warm. Brigitte Fassbaender is ideal as Octavian, Gwyneth Jones a moving Marschallin, Lucia Popp a sweet-voiced if mature Sophie, and Manfred Jungwirth a dignified but funny Ochs." (BBC music) |
WAGNER/ LEONCAVALLO / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / BIZET / SULLIVAN / etc
Great British Tenors Ben Davies, John Coates, Gerwase Elwes, Walter Hyde, Frank Mullings, John McCormack, Joseph Hislop, Parry Jones, Hubert Eisdell, Tudor Davies, etc [ Heritage / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Commercial recording arrived at the ideal time to capture a golden age of British tenor singing. A range of distinctive qualities had developed in the 19th century - firm yet elegant tone, emphasis on text and on clarity of diction - that... |
Bill Evans With Philly Joe Jones
Green Dolphin Street (LP) [ Wax Time / LP ] |
Bill Jones
Panchpuran [ Compass Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2001 ] Belinda is English folk's new darling. Flaeless vocals |