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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Be My Love: A Tribute to Mario Lanza Joseph Calleja (tenor) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Steven Mercurio [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 23/Aug/2012 ] "It's an unashamedly populist collection, Calleja rolling the Rs of "Granada" and "Arrivederci, Roma" with obvious relish in arrangements replete with castanets and trilling mandolins." (The Independent) |
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER / ALAN AYCKBOURN
Webber: By Jeeves Malcolm Sinclair & Steven Pacey / Original London Cast [ Really Useful Records / CD - released 7/Jun/1996 ] By Jeeves is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and book by Alan Ayckbourn. It is based on the series of novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that centre around the character of Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves. |
Rob Thorne, Karl Sölve Steven
Black Coast Vanishings [ Rattle Records / CD - released 7/Jun/2024 ] Music adapted from the television series "Black Coast Vanishings", composed and performed by Karl Sölve Steven and Rob Thorne. |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets - Music of the Angels Steven Isserlis (cello) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] "This is elegant playing, for sure, but it has an irresistible glint in its eye. Isserlis finds a near-ideal tension between lyricism and effervescence." Gramophone |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas (with works by Prokofiev) Steven Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "This is an excellent performance, one which I will be enjoying regularly in the years to come. The recorded sound is also excellent as are the booklet notes by Steven Isserlis, who sets the scene well in his essay." Recommended Recording MusicWeb |
HILDEGARD von BINGEN
Hildegard von Bingen - In Portrait - Ordo Virtutum Ansy Boothroyd / John Hancorm / Vox Animae, led by Evelyn Tubb / Mayfield Chamber Opera Chorus / Michael Fields / Piers Adams / Steven Devine [ Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jan/2004 ] G :- "The vocal artistry is at a very high level… neither Evelyn Tubb nor Ansy Boothroyd try to steal the show. …If I were forced to limit my library to only one recording of music by Hildegard von Bingen, this would be it." -Continuo, USA (Ordo... |
MAXIMILIAN STEINBERG
Steinberg: Passion Week (1923) The Clarion Choir, Steven Fox [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Best Choral Performance - Grammy Nomination 2017 |
TRADITIONAL
Transeamus (English Carols and Motets) David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump, Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Having recorded more than twenty albums for ECM since the mid-80s, The Hilliard Ensemble caps its discography before retirement (at the end of 2014) with a final release: 'Transeamus', a collection of polyphony - in two, three and four parts - from... |
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Flow My Tears-Lute Songs Dorothy Linell (lute), Steven Rickards (counter-tenor) [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 10/Nov/2012 ] Originally recorded at Fordham Town Hall, New York City, in March and October, 1995 |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Complete Viola Quintets Vol 1 Guarneri Quartet, with Ida Kavafian & Steven Tenenbom (violas) [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 1/Jun/1988 ] Recorded live at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
MANCINI / GERSHWIN
Music For Peter Gunn / Gershwin By Grofé Harmonie Ensemble New York, Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi with complete catalogue / 2 CD - released 8/Jan/2016 ] "a fascinating and hugely enjoyable disc." (BBC Music) |
TCHAIKOVSKY / ELLINGTON / STRAYHORN
The Nutcracker Suites Harmonie Ensemble New York, Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2013 ] Reviving the art of "swinging the classics", Steven Richman and the Harmonie Ensemble/New York present two different versions of the beloved Nutcracker Suite side by side on the same album for the first time: the Tchaikovsky original of 1892,... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
For the Love of Brahms Joshua Bell (violin) & Steven Isserlis (cello) Jeremy Denk (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields [ Sony Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "[Bell and Isserlis] are distinct musical personalities yet they work together extremely well in Brahms's interpretatively perilous Double Concerto - Bell's sweet-toned ardour is at once anchored and buoyed by Isserlis's gruffer, more ruminative styl |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: An American in Paris / Piano Concerto in F Lincoln Mayorga (piano) / Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] "No Gershwin fan should miss this disc." (Gramophone) |
Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul
Soulfire Live! [ Blu-ray - released 17/May/2019 ] The SOULFIRE LIVE! Blu-ray video edition will include Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul's complete Cavern Club concert alongside video performances of each song on the 3CD set, exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. In addition,... |
Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul
Summer Of Sorcery [ Universal / CD - released 10/May/2019 ] "My first five albums in the '80s were both very personal, and very political," explains Little Steven aka Steven Van Zandt. "I wanted the new material to be more fictionalized. The way records were when I grew up. Before it was an artform. The... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (recorded at Bregenz Festival, 2009) BLU-RAY Royal Ballet / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Peter Wright (choreographer) / Miyako Yoshida / Ricardo Cervera / Steven McRae [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Nov/2010 ] 'One of the very best seasonal treats for children and adults alike, the Royal Ballet's Nutcracker is a handsome, magical, thoroughly traditional rendering of ETA Hoffmann's immortal if deeply strange story.' Sunday Express |
JULIUS ISSERLIS
Isserlis: Piano Music Sam Haywood (piano) with Steven Isserlis (cello) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] "Haywood, fortunately, isn't tempted to make more of these pieces than is wise. He plays them with consummate sensitivity, and has been well recorded. Isserlis seems to have been a charmer and, musically-speaking, a miniaturist and his works reflect |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Études-tableaux Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Jul/2018 ] "It instils the works with a certain mystery, captured imaginatively and authoritatively by Steven Osborne. As Rachmaninov said, "a small piece can become as lasting a masterpiece as a large work". Osborne proves his point." Sunday Times |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British solo cello music Steven Isserlis [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] If Britten's Cello Suite No 3 is the undisputed masterpiece here, the other works are no less deserving of attention, Frank Merrick's 'Suite in the eighteenth-century style' being a particular delight. As ever, Steven Isserlis's booklet notes offer... |
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] BBC Music Award WINNER - Premier Award 2021 Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2020 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Prokofiev / Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Steven Isserlis (cello) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Concerto |
REBECCA DALE
Dale: Night Seasons Steven Isserlis (cello) Guy Johnston (cello) / Tenebrae, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nigel Short [ Signum / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Hailed by Classic FM as "one of today's most exciting young composers" Rebecca Dale is a London based composer, working most often with large orchestral and choral forces in the worlds of cinema and theatre. |
JOHN TAVENER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tavener: The Protecting Veil (complete) / The Last Sleep of the Virgin) Steven Isserlis (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rhozdestvensky / Chilingirian Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "The Isserlis/Rozhdestvensky pioneering version of Tavener's Protecting Veil hardly needs any recommendation from me." (Gramophone) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Teodor Currentzis conducts The Mahler Chamber Orchestra BLU-RAY Steven Isserlis (cello) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis [ Euroarts Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 15/Oct/2018 ] The Mahler Chamber Orchestra was Orchestra in Residence at the KlaraFestival 2013 which is known as a modern and international classical music festival far beyond Belgium's borders. The concerts of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra formed one of the... |
MENDELSSOHN / GRIEG / HOUGH
Mendelssohn / Grieg / Hough: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello) & Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Grieg's sole Cello Sonata has long been a favourite of performers and audiences, if not of musical theorists, and here receives an impassioned vote of confidence from Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough at the head of a programme which takes the... |
MENDELSSOHN / POPPER / FAURE / POULENC / SIBELIUS / BRYARS / BEACH / etc
Children's Cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] "With a household that pulsates to the glorious tones of the cello there's clearly much material for this volume…highlights here include a sumptuous rendition of Faure's Berceuse, and a deliciously piquant pereformance of Poulenc's Serenade" 5 Stars |
CESAR FRANCK / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Franck/Rachmaninov: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) / Rebecca Evans (soprano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] 'Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough give a serene and eloquent performance' (Gramophone) |
EDVARD GRIEG / FRANZ LISZT / ANTON RUBINSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steven Isserlis: Forgotten Romance Steven Isserlis (cello) with Stephen Hough (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 18/Oct/1995 ] The English cellist Steven Isserlis has been a leading light on the international musical scene for more than three decades. "Steven Isserlis amazes in music whose tantalising combination of exquisite poetry and scintillating bravura he was born to... |
JOSEPH HAYDN / C.P.E. BACH
Haydn & CPE Bach: Cello Concertos Steven Isserlis (cello), The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Isserlis's 1998 recording [of the Haydn] remains classy stuff, but this has superbly trumped it." Gramophone Disc of the Month Awards Issue 2017 |
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
A Night in the Tropics: Solo piano music Steven Mayer (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] Louis Moreau Gottschalk was the first important American composer to fuse European classical piano music with American cultural influences, including folk music, the music of slaves, and Latin American dances. Although still revered for his... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Bagatelles Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "Osborne has delved deep to extract so much from cameos that pack emotional enormity within small spaces." (Gramophone) |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 109, 110 & 111 Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Instrumental |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano music [2 CDs] Steven Osborne, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "[Gaspard] is technically immaculate...and gently seductive before turning on a more sinister pressure...Osborne spins his dancers towards a visceral and devastating oblivion." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Instrumental) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Études & Pour le piano Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] "Time and again there were details that tickled the ear with their freshness, revealing as if for the first time the anarchic brilliance of Debussy's vision." Gramophone Award Nomination 2024 - Piano |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Preludes Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Instrumental - 'Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure' (BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments musicaux Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] 'One is left wondering where, in the first quarter of the 21st century, one might turn for more idiomatic, more intelligent or more beautiful Rachmaninov-playing.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2022 |
SIR DONALD FRANCIS TOVEY
Piano Concerto in A major, Op 15 (with Mackenzie- Scottish Concerto) Steven Osborne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 19 / CD - released 30/Aug/2008 ] 'What a bonanza this Hyperion offering is! If you fancy piano concertos you'll find plenty in these two neglected specimens to challenge and enchant you' (Fanfare, USA) |
GABRIEL FAURE / FRANCIS POULENC / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
French Duets Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Piano |
Steven Wilson
The Future Bites [ Universal / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Steven Wilson's new album The Future Bites is an exploration of how the human brain has evolved in the Internet era. As well as being Wilson's phenomenal sixth album, The Future Bites is also an online portal to a world of high concept design custom... |
