Karen Dalton
1966 [ Delmore / CD - released 23/Jan/2012 ] Recently unearthed rehearsal tape from 1966. Features Karen solo on banjo and guitar, plus 4 duets with Richard Tucker. Many never heard before covers... |
Karen Dalton
1966 (Clear Green Rocky Road LP) [ Delmore / LP - released 2/Dec/2021 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. Recently unearthed material, featuring Karen solo on banjo and guitar, plus 4 duets with Richard Tucker. Exclusive 8"x12" colour portrait, 4 panel heavy insert containing rare photos and 3500 word essay by Ben Edmonds,... |
ALMA MAHLER / GUSTAV MAHLER
Alma & Gustav Mahler Lieder Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 26/Jun/2014 ] "a bronze-tinted mezzo of Wagnerian amplitude...for the most part this Mahler-family recital...finds Cargill expressive at every level, while still proudly displaying the full glory of her voice." Gramophone Magazine, July 2014. |
Karen Mantler
And Her Cat Arnold (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
JOLIVET / COPLAND / HINDEMAITH / ARUTIUNIAN / WILTGEN
Apres la Nuit... Trumpet Concertos Philippe Schartz (trumpet) / Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König, with Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] The trumpet is the undisputed star of this disc, which combines rarities in the repertoire with some well-known trumpet concertos. The works are performed by Philippe Schartz, one of the most exciting trumpeters today. A winner of numerous prizes and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Bassoon Concertos Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) / BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos / CD - released 17/Nov/2010 ] "The instrument is precisely focused and the fineness of her playing shows her to be a musician of cultivated taste and sensibility...Geoghegan arrests attention immediately." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice November 2010 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill, John Mac Master, Gerald Finley / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Bernard Haitink [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "a magnificent Ninth, done with total commitment under Haitink's inspiring leadership…with splendid chorus and soloists in full cry, and orchestra in blazing form" (Sunday Times) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust Karen Cargill, Bryan Hymel, Christopher Purves, Gábor Bretz / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "Hymel's Faust is the most convincing soloist. But it's the vivid detail Rattle conjures up, the brilliant playing and the force and intensity of the choral singing that give greatest satisfaction." Sunday Times |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ Yann Beuron, Karen Cargill, William Dazeley, Matthew Rose & Peter Rose, LSO & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis [ Alto / 2 CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Disc of the Year: Financial Times & New York Times "Beuron, probably today's finest lyric tenor, gives the performance an essential idiomatic core in his narration ... [Tenebrae are] dramatically alert and glowing as stained glass, the angelic... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ete / La Mort de Cléopâtre / etc Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/May/2013 ] "One of the striking facets of Ticciati's conducting and the SCO's playing in Les nuits d'ete is the clarity and details that spring from the score" (Gramophone Disc of the Month June 2013) |
Stereotyp, Si Begg and Karen P
Broadcasting EP [ Sonar Kollektiv / 12in - released 26/May/2008 ] |
Karen Mantler
Business is Bad [ Watt / CD - released 31/Oct/2012 ] "Business is bad" confesses Karen Mantler, and many in the music world will sympathize. Almost 20 years have passed since Karen's last leader album on XtraWatt (Farewell). In the interim she has been a Virgin artist with her Pet Project disc,... |
CORELLI / VIVALDI/ LOCATELLI / PAGANINI
Carnival - a violin and guitar recital Karen Gomyo (violin), Ismo Eskelinen (guitar) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] For her début album, Karen Gomyo has joined forces with guitarist Ismo Eskelinen in a programme offering fireworks as well as graceful tenderness. A violin virtuoso as well as an expert guitar player, Niccolò Paganini wrote a number of works for the... |
Edward De Souza / Paul Jesson / Simon Harris / Karen Archer / Laura Paton
Classical Love Poetry [ NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS / 2 CD ] An Anthology of Greek and Latin Amorous Verse. |
Karen O
Crush Songs [ Cult / CD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O has announced her first solo album, Crush Songs, via Julian Casablancas' label Cult. Karen O says of Crush Songs, 'When I was 27 I crushed a lot. I wasn't sure I'd ever fall in love again. These songs were... |
Karen O
Crush Songs (Ltd Edition Blue Coloured LP w/36 Page Booklet) [ Cult / LP - released 5/Sep/2014 ] Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O has announced her first solo album, Crush Songs, via Julian Casablancas' label Cult. Karen O says of Crush Songs, "When I was 27 I crushed a lot. I wasn't sure I'd ever fall in love again. These songs were... |
BERNARD HERRMANN
DVOŘÁK'S PROPHECY - Film 5: Beyond Psycho - The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann William Sharp, PostClassical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez, Joseph Horowitz, Murray Horwitz, David Jones, Karen Karbiener [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] DVOŘÁK'S PROPHECY A New Narrative for American Classical Music A PostClassical Ensemble 'More than Music' film series. Written and produced by Joseph Horowitz Visual presentation by Peter Bogdanoff |
Lonely Drifter Karen
Fall Of Spring [ Crammed / CD - released 19/Apr/2010 ] |
ELGAR / RACHMANINOV / SCHRECK / SCHUMANN / SPOHR / etc
Fantasies for Bassoon Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) Philip Edward Fisher (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "There's a wonderfully natural quality to Geoghegan's phrasing and expression - especially in the Schumann - and she is partnered adeptly at all times by Philip Edward Fisher." (Classic FM) |
GROVLEZ / TANSMAN / KOECHLIN / FAURE / BOUTRY / GALLON / DUTILLEUX / BITSCH / JANCOURT / PIERNE / DEBUSSY
French Bassoon Works Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) Philip Fisher (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] For the popular young bassoonist Karen Geoghegan this is her third recording with Chandos and aptly demonstrates the capabilities of the bassoon in this unique collection of French music, ably accompanied by Philip Fisher. |