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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem & other works BLU-RAY Chen Reiss (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Philippe Aïche (violin solo) / Choir of the Orchestre de Paris & Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2014 ] ""The expert choir's native French vowel sounds are a joy in themselves, [and] Eric Picard gives a mesmerising account of the haunting cello Elegie....Unmissable." (International Record Review) |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Capriccio espagnol London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch, with Erich Gruenberg, solo violin (Scheherazade) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] "This is, quite simply, one of the best-played and recorded accounts of Scheherazade ever made, right from the opening moment when the LSO brass uncompromisingly blast out Sultan Schahriar's ominously threatening theme" MusicWeb |
PHIL BROADHURST
Soliloquy Phil Broadhurst (solo piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Recorded in November 2019 on the grand piano in his home, the tone of Phil's final album is fittingly intimate, reflective and introspective, but without ever becoming heavy, dark or sentimental. |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI / JEAN-FERY REBEL
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni [The Four Seasons] / Rebel: Les Eléments Midori Seiler (solo violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] "..[Midori Seiler] and the Berliners have simply insisted on taking nothing for granted...the sheer flair of this new release dazzles as much as it delights." BBC Music |
JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR
Leclair: Violin Concertos Fabio Biondi (solo violin & direction) / Europa Galante [ Glossa / CD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "All in all, Leclair couldn't have been displayed in a more warmly faithful light." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, July 2017 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Serenades - 'Haffner' Kölner Akademie / Michael Alexander Willens, with Alexander Janiczek (violin solo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "Rhythms are nicely pointed, the phrasing elegant but never precious, and the ensemble sonority never turns crude in pursuit of "authenticity."...The engineering, as so often with BIS, is ideal." ClassicsToday |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
The Best Of Puccini Miriam Gauci (solo soprano), Alexander Rahbari (conductor), Thomas Harper (solo tenor), Michael Halasz (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/1997 ] From 'In quelle trine morbide' from Manon Lascaut, to 'Nessun Dorma' from Turandot this is an excellent selection of Puccini classics |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il Cembalo Transalpino Sophie Yates (solo harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 - 1816). A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Nocturnes (with Ravel: Sheherazade) Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier, with Linda DFinnie (mezzo) & Colin Fleming (solo flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/1990 ] 'What a glorious instrument the Ulster Orchestra is in Torteliers hands - eloquent principals in every section and supple consummate ensemble in this most subtle and flexible of repertoire…' American Record Guide |
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,... |
CARLO GRAZIANI
Six Sonatas For Violincello & Continuo Op.3 Armoniosa (Stefano Cerrato solo violincello, Marco Demaria violincello di continuo, Michel Barchi harpsichord) [ Rubicon Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Carlo Graziani, born in the Italian city of Asti c1710 was one of the earliest cello virtuosos. Well travelled, he played in London with the 7 year old Mozart in 1764 and left many sets of sonatas and several concertos for his instrument. He retired... |
JAMES MACMILLAN
MacMillan: Since it was the day of preparation … Brindley Sherratt (solo bass), Synergy Vocals, Hebrides Ensemble [ Delphian / CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] "The Hebrides Ensemble provide eloquent testimony to the sustained impact of MacMillan's writing." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2016 |
TAVENER
Tears of the Angels BT Scottish Ensemble with Clio Gould (solo violin) Patricia Rozario (soprano) [ Linn Records / CD - released 25/Oct/2001 ] "my record of the year." GRAMOPHONE |
FRANCESCO CANOVA DA MILANO
Lute Music-Fantasias Ricercars And Duets Christian Wilson (Solo Lute) / Shirley Rumsey (Lute Duettist) [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] "This record is especially valubale since it contains fabulous biographic notes by Christopher Wilson... Wilson is at his best. His playing is lively, and he brings out the polyphonic structure and shapes the form with great ease and flexibility. The... |
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Music Makers / The Spirit of England Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (solo tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Choral |
HANDEL
Organ Concertos, Op. 4 Nos. 1-6, HWV289-294 Ottavio Dantone (solo organ & conductor), Stefano Montanari (violin) & Marco Frezzato (cello) / Accademia Bizantina [ Decca L'Oiseau Lyre / CD - released 13/Apr/2009 ] "…Handel's organ concertos… benefit from strong gestures and an overall brightness of approach that reaches out to the listener. Ottavio Dantone and Accademia Bizantina achieved these with ease, first of all by using a six-stop chamber organ with more bit |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Ewa Marczyk (violin solo) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Jul/2011 ] On their CD release, these thrilling interpretations of Szymanowski's Symphony No. 1 earned 5 STARS from BBC Music Magazine, while Symphony No. 2 gained Gramophone Editor's Choice and 5 STARS for these "deliriously sensual scores" from ClassicFM. |
HENRY PURCELL
O Sing Unto The Lord: Sacred Music By Henry Purcell Frederick Teardo (organ) & John Scott (conductor/solo organ) Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Concert Royal [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] Fifth Avenue, New York and conductor John Scott release this compelling programme of choral works by Henry Purcell which also features the acclaimed New York period ensemble Concert Royal. Recorded on period instruments, this collection of sacred... |
NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin & Strings Gabriele Pieranunzi (solo violin), with Salvatore Lombardo, Loana Stratulat (violins), Luca Improta (viola) & chamber ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Paganini was the first great 'star' of instrumental music, the precursor of the rock stars of today, able to induce collective hysteria as well as to dictate fashion and to influence the behaviour of entire generations. He did this by transforming... |
MENDELSSOHN / EWALD / BOHME
Romantic Music For Brass Geoffrey Hardcastle (solo cornet) / Center City Brass Quintet [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in stereo & multi-channel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
Geoffrey Hardcastle solo cornet; Center City Brass Quintet
Romantic Music For Brass (Mendelssohn; Ewald; Bahme) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'Sparkling runs, impeccable chording, sensitive nuancing between foreground and background, sweet phrasing, a faultless balance in an ideal acoustic - this is becoming dangerously enthusiastic... This is the real McCoy - naughty but very, very nice.'... |
George Shearing (solo piano)
Reflections: The Best Of George Shearing [ Telarc Discover Jazz / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] Compiled just in time to celebrate his eighty-first birthday, Reflections: The Best of George Shearing stands on its own as an overview of the master’s career. |
PHILIP GLASS
Music from 'The Hours' Michael Riesman (solo piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Philip Glass' score for Stephen Daldry's film "The Hours" contains some of the most emotional, lyrical and haunting music Glass has produced. |
DEBBIE WISEMAN
Different Voices Hayley Westenra (solo voice) Stephen Fry (narrator) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Debbie Wiseman [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] '"How about composing a new Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra?" suggested Ian Maclay, the General Manager of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. I've always loved composing for full symphony orchestra, so this was a challenge that simply had to be... |
VIVALDI / BIGAGLIA / GASPERINI / ANONYMOUS
Anonimo Venexian Inês d'Avena (recorder) Claudio Ribeiro (harpsichord [solo]) [ Ramee / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "this is another compelling performance of repertoire of high quality. Ms d'Avena produces a beautiful tone, her playing is strongly gestural and based on a thorough knowledge of musical rhetorics." MusicWeb Recommended |
WOLF-FERRARI
Orchestral Works Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) John Bradbury (solo clarinet) Peter Dixon (solo cello) / BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2004 ] "The richly romantic themes in the overture from La dama boba are also particularly sumptuous and enormously enjoyable. The sound quality of this recording is consistently excellent, as we have come to expect from Chandos." (MusicWeb March 2009) |
ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Évocations etc Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Fisher (solo tenor), François le Roux (baritone), CBSO Chorus, BBC Philharmonic [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] Maestro Yan Pascal Tortelier celebrates his twenty-five-year recording career and seventy-album discography on Chandos with this album of three of Roussel's most remarkable compositions. It follows a highly praised Birmingham concert with the same... |
STEVE REICH
Kuniko Plays Reich: Electric Counterpoint, Six Marimbas and Vermont Counterpoint (arranged for tape and percussion solo) Kuniko (solo marimba and vibraphone) [ Linn / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "All these studio works involve vast amounts of pre-recording to refine their pleasing results, none more so than Six Marimbas Counterpoint which involves five pre-recorded tracks behind a solo line. It's a hypnotic and strangely calming experience."... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Violin Concertos Opp. 11 & 12 L'Arte dell'Arco, Federico Guglielmo (solo violin & concertmaster), Pier Luigi Fabretti (oboe) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] With this new release, L'Arte dell'Arco complete their survey of the concertos and sonatas Opp. 1-12 which spread the fame of Antonio Vivaldi across Europe thanks to their publication by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam. These final two sets were published... |
PHILIP GLASS
La Belle Et La Bête (The Beauty and the Beast) Michael Riesman (solo piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 10/Sep/2015 ] Following the recent successful albums of his transcriptions of music by Philip Glass, pianist Michael Riesman presents a new album of solo transcriptions and arrangements from Philip Glass's opera Beauty and the Beast. In Glass's music, the power of... |
VIVALDI
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Midori Seiler (solo violin), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Following the stage production in which the orchestra joined forces with a dancer. Encouraged by the outstanding success of these performances, the Akademie für Alte Musik was keen to rerecord the works in the studio... |
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Mungo's Hi-Fi (Featuring Eek-a-Mouse, Solo Banton & Ruben da Silva)
Hire and Removal Refix / Kung Fu Know How (12" Single) [ Scrub a Dub / 12in - released 4/May/2012 ] |
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MULTIPLICITIES
Multiplicities: recent music for solo flute Nancy Ruffer (solo flute) [ Metier / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] |
PURCELL
Anthems and Services Vol 6 Nicholas Witcomb (solo treble) James Bowman (countertenor) Rogers Covey-Crump (high tenor) Paul Agnew (tenor) / Choir of New College, Oxford / King [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (pre 1700) - 'No fewer than five first recordings in this ... Fans of Purcell will find this disc, Iike the others in the series, indispensable' (Fanfare, USA) |
JAMES DILLON
Book of Elements (I-V) Noriko Kawai (piano solo) [ NMC / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005 - Contemporary |
GLASS / BARBER / TOWER
The American Virtuoso Paul Barnes (solo piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 5/Jun/2008 ] The American Virtuoso presents a recital by American pianist Paul Barnes. Orange Mountain Music releases this new disc of virtuosic piano music by American composers including the world premiere recording of Barnes' transcription of Philip Glass'... |
DECODING SKIN
Decoding Skin (works by Paul Whitty, Xenakis, Finnissy & Feldman) Philip Howard (solo piano) [ Divine Art / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "A fine début, with the many repertoire challenges within eloquently and skilfully met... Philip Howard plays to his strengths on this auspicious recorded début… this striking... programme augurs well for Philip Howard's future"(Gramophone) |
A. VIVALDI / J. S. BACH
Vivaldi / Bach: Magnificat & Concerti Pierre Hantaï (clavecin solo) / Le Concert des Nations / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD + DVD / 2 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 15/Feb/2015 ] "with performers of this calibre…the performances were always going to be impressive. All fans of Savall will want the set." (Early Music Review) |
LEHAR
Tauber Sings Lehar Richard Tauber with Carlotta Vanconti (soprano), Vera Schwarz (soprano), Vera Schwarz (soprano solo) [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "Tauber is one of those singers who could sing almost anything and make it his own - even unforgettable." American Record Guide |
GERALD FINZI
Grand Fantasia & Toccata / Eclogue / Nocturne / etc. Rodney Friend (solo violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor, Peter Katin (piano) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley (co [ Lyrita / CD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] "Superb sound and Diana McVeagh's astute notes cap a mandatory purchase for lovers of the English muse, and of course for Finzi lovers in particular." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Oct 2007) |
