SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor & Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Aaarhus Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Royal Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Alto / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] "(His) Symphony is a very likeable discovery. Both middle movements display a disarming melodic felicity and assurance, and admiring glances towards Dvořák, although Stanford (his teacher) was never happy with the finale. It was first played by RCM... |
CHARPENTIER
La couronne de fleurs / La descente d'Orphée aux enfers Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim, Amanda Forsythe, Douglas Williams, Jesse Blumberg, Dorothee Mields / Boston Early Music, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs [ CPO / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "Sheehan, who sings the role of Orpheus, [delivers] a finely nuanced interpretation...Amanda Forsythe is a charming Euridice and Roselie, Teresa Wakim a beautifully styled Flore, and Dorothee Mields a compelling Amaranthe and Proserpine." Gramophone |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD / ROSIE LANGABEER / JOHN PSATHAS / GARETH FARR
Silver Stone Wood Bone Al Fraser (ngā taonga pūoro), Bridget Douglas (western flutes) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 17/Dec/2021 ] New works for flute and taonga pūoro by New Zealand composers, Dame Gillian Whitehead, Rosie Langabeer, Briar Prastiti, John Psathas, Josiah Carr, and Gareth Farr. Bridget Douglas (Western flutes) Al Fraser (ngā taonga pūoro) |
SCHUMANN
Violin Concertos Anthony Marwood (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 13 / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Marwood's tone is notably characteristically focused with a notable sweetness which is matched by Wallin...Boyd and his Scottish players set ideal tempi in outer movements, enabling Marwood to negotiate fearlessly the fairly awkward and largely... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 1 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Mar/2012 ] "Douglas still allows his head to be led ultimately by his heart, which is what gives the disc its X-Factor." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Volume 6 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "This final stage of Douglas's Brahms survey offers an engaging, always surprising sequence of short (with one exception) and often fugitive pieces." (Sunday Times) |
BARRY DOUGLAS
Celtic Reflections Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Barry Douglas is best-known for his celebrated performances of great works central to the classical repertoire, not least through his acclaimed Brahms and Schubert series on Chandos. In his new disc Celtic Reflections we hear another side to his... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B Flat Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" / Andante Favori Barry Douglas (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Apr/1988 ] Originally recorded in December 1987 |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Sonata in B minor / etc (with works by Webern & Berg) Barry Douglas (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Apr/1992 ] Originally recorded in June 1991 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 6 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] This sixth volume in Barry Douglas's acclaimed Schubert series features two major works. The Sonata in A minor, D 845 was completed in 1825, just before Schubert started work on his 'great' Symphony in C major. As in so much of his later writing,... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Works Vol.5 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Oct/2020 ] For his fifth volume of Schubert's piano works, Barry Douglas turns to a contrasting pair of sonatas composed in the 1820s. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano Vol. 1 [Incls 'Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer''] Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Mar/2014 ] Having produced two highly regarded discs of solo works by Brahms, Barry Douglas, an exclusive Chandos artist, now embarks on the complete solo piano works by Franz Schubert. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano Vol. 2 [incls 'Impromptus, D899'] Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jan/2017 ] His Brahms series being now complete in six volumes and widely praised, Barry Douglas continues his exploration of Schubert's piano music. The romantic, personal outlook developed in the course of the Brahms survey is fully expressed in this new... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3 [Incls 'Piano Sonata, Op. post., D958'] Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "Overall, this is a very fine recording and is highly recommended." MusicWeb |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol.4 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] Barry Douglas's critically acclaimed series of Schubert's piano works reaches its fourth instalment. For this recording, Douglas has chosen to present three piano sonatas from the middle of Schubert's short life: No. 5 (D 537) and No. 11 (D 575),... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Plus One (with Rachmaninov: Six Moments musicaux) Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Tchaikovsky's Grande Sonate, or 'Grand Sonata' (Bolshaya Sonata), in G major was dedicated to Karl Klindworth, a pupil of Liszt, and first performed at a private hearing, on 21 October 1879, by Nikolay Rubinstein, founder of the Moscow Conservatory.... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky Plus One, Vol.3 (with Prokofiev: 10 pieces from 'Romeo & Juliet') Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] For the third volume of his musical tribute to Russia, Barry Douglas has selected a range of love songs and dances by Tchaikovsky that span much of his composing life. |
TCHAIKOVSKY / MUSSORGSKY
Tchaikovsky Plus One: Piano Works Volume 1 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] Two of the most popular romantic Russian piano works from the mid-1870s are heard on this new album from the celebrated Barry Douglas. Lyricism lies at the heart of the twelve movements of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons (1875 - 76), commissioned by the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Volume 5 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] "Douglas continues to create provocative playlists by liberating short pieces from opus-number groups and strategically programming them alongside larger-scale compositions…a mixed bag laced with genuine pearls" Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 2 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] "Douglas superbly draws out the contrasts within each piece, bringing out their individual character, but the two ends of the Brahms life spectrum...seem perhaps closer than is entirely comfortable." BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** |