JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe / Vert-Vert / Entre Nous John Brecknock, Yvonne Kenny, Roderick Kennedy, Marilyn Hill Smith, Toby Spence, Thora Einarsdottir, Jennifer Lamore / Alun Francis, David Parry (cond [ Opera Rara / 7 CD Box Set - released 17/Feb/2023 ] 'All but dedicated misanthropes will find this set entrancing. Highly recommended' Gramophone |
Dermot Kennedy
Sonder (LP) [ Interscope / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Irish superstar Dermot Kennedy's second studio album includes tracks 'Something To Someone', 'Better Days' and 'Dreamer'. 'Sonder', the encapsulating phrase for "the realisation that each random passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as... |
Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators
4 [ Sony Music Australia / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] It's been a decade since Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators released their debut album together, and since then have been on one of the more impressive and unrelenting tears in rock 'n' roll, issuing two more hard-hitting, highly... |
Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators
4 (LP) [ Sony Music Australia / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] It's been a decade since Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators released their debut album together, and since then have been on one of the more impressive and unrelenting tears in rock 'n' roll, issuing two more hard-hitting, highly... |
VIVALDI / BRUCH / ELGAR / BACH / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / ELLINGTON / GERSHWIN / etc
Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored Nigel Kennedy (violin) / English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate / Berliner Philharmoniker [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2021 ] This is not an autobiography, but a journey through Nigel Kennedy's sixty-four seasons played home and away. |
Sophia Kennedy
Monsters (Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl LP) [ City Slang / LP - released 28/May/2021 ] Sophia Kennedy's music sometimes sounds like a soundtrack to a world disintegrating, hanging on by a thread of memories. It combines the glamour and the morbid charm of tin pan alley show tunes from the 1960s or 70s, and yet it fully embraces the... |
Sophia Kennedy
Monsters (LP) [ City Slang / LP - released 14/May/2021 ] Sophia Kennedy's music sometimes sounds like a soundtrack to a world disintegrating, hanging on by a thread of memories. It combines the glamour and the morbid charm of tin pan alley show tunes from the 1960s or 70s, and yet it fully embraces the... |
Dermot Kennedy
Without Fear [ CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] |
Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators
Living The Dream [ Sony / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Kennedy Meets Gershwin Nigel Kennedy (violin) with Rolf Bussalb (guitar), Sonja Schebeck (violin), Tomasz Kupiec (double bass) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] Classical superstar Nigel Kennedy returns with a critically acclaimed programme of the music of George Gershwin, hailed by The Guardian as "rip-roaring and exquisitely tender", spirited and playful gypsy jazz arrangements inspired by his friendship... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin Concerto / Introduction and Allegro for strings (Rec 1983 & 1984) Nigel Kennedy (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] "Kennedy's first recording of the Elgar Concerto is aflame with a young man's passionate inspiration, though never lacking subtler nuance, while Handley simply breathed Elgar like no-one else." BBC Music |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / ELGAR / BLISS / FINZI / SIBELIUS / etc
Icon - Vernon Handley: Champion of British Music Vernon Handley (conductor) with Nigel Kennedy (violin), Piers Lane (piano) & Tasmin Little (violin) [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 12/Feb/2017 ] Vernon George Handley was born in Enfield, London, in 1930. He disliked his first names and preferred to use the nickname Tod, given to him as a baby because he toddled along with his toes turned inwards. |
Nigel Kennedy
Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons [ Sony / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] In 1989 Nigel Kennedy made his breakthrough recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In his sleeve notes to that famous release, Kennedy stressed that he had rejected the idea of playing Vivaldi's suite of violin concertos in either the "authentic"... |
KENNETH LEIGHTON
Leighton: Crucifixus & other choral works Andrew Kennedy (tenor) / The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] The choral music of Kenneth Leighton is beloved of cathedral and collegiate choirs across the land: immersion in the Anglican tradition dates back to the composer's earliest years as a boy chorister and combines with a unique adult musical language... |
BEN FOSKETT
Dinosaur Richard Uttley (piano) Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) Eric Lamb (flute) Jean-François Becquaert (soprano saxophone) Raphaële Kennedy (soprano), etc [ NMC / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "The early Five Night Pieces, for piano, played by Richard Uttley, have a lucid modernist assurance, but Foskett's 2009 Prom commission, the orchestral From Trumpet, is something else again: big, monolithic, broodingly textured, with a rich internal |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
For Mother [4 CD set] Kyung Wha Chung, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Nigel Kennedy, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, etc [ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2014 ] A special collection of the world's most beautiful classics. Unforgettable and relaxing melodies by Rachmaninov, Mozart, Beethoven, Satie, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Rodrigo and many more. The line-up of great artists includes Joshua Bell, Georg... |
Bap Kennedy
Let's Start Again [ Proper / 2 CD - released 31/Jan/2014 ] This Deluxe Edition comes with a bonus CD containing classic Bap recordings and he says of it, "this CD is bookended by my first solo recording 'Long Time a Comin' when another chapter began, with Steve Earle producing my album 'Domestic Blues'. The... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw Andrew Kennedy, Sally Matthews, Michael Clayton-Jolly, Lucy Hall, Catherine Wyn-Rogers & Katherine Broderick / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Farn [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 29/Dec/2013 ] Released in the Britten anniversary year, Richard Farnes, the Music Director of Opera North who led their critically acclaimed production of 'The Turn of the Screw' in 2010, conducts an all-English cast in Britten's most ingeniously crafted opera,... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Saint Nicolas / Hymn to St Cecilia / etc Andrew Kennedy (tenor) / Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ King's College / 2 CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] "This new recording on King's own label does it superb justice...The disc includes equally polished performances of two of Britten's most popular choral works, Hymn to St Cecilia and Rejoice in the Lamb." (Financial Times) |
MOZART
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K35 The Orchestra of Classical Opera, Ian Page, Allan Clayton (Christian), Andrew Kennedy (Spirit of Christianity) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] The first release in a new partnership between Classical Opera and Signum Records begins with Mozart's remarkable sacred singspiel, composed when he was just 11. |