More By Artist: M Ward
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M Ward
Migration Stories [ Epitaph / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] A prolific writer, producer, and performer, M. Ward has established himself as one of modern American music's most unique and versatile voices. In just the last decade alone he's teamed up with Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Jim James to form the... |
M. Ward
Supernatural Thing [ Anti- / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The album's guest stars - First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Scott McMicken, Neko Case, Jim James and others - enliven the album with surprises. Eight of the album's ten songs are Ward originals, but there is also an unusual Bowie choice, "I Can't Give... |
M. Ward
Supernatural Thing (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The album's guest stars - First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Scott McMicken, Neko Case, Jim James and others - enliven the album with surprises. Eight of the album's ten songs are Ward originals, but there is also an unusual Bowie choice, "I Can't Give... |
M. Ward
Think Of Spring [ Anti- / CD - released 18/Dec/2020 ] M. Ward's Think of Spring is a collection of songs originally recorded by Billie Holiday. Ward achieved the intimate sound of this record by filtering the original songs and strings through a single acoustic guitar, using various alternate tunings... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Oboe Concertos Nos.1-3 / Air & Rondo / etc Anthony Camden (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/1996 ] "First-rate sound from All Saints, East Finchley." Penguin Guide |
EDWARD ELGAR / FRANK BRIDGE
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Bridge: Oration Gabriel Schwabe (cello) / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "..That plaintive quality is much in evidence in the Elgar, and I admire so much Schwabe's approach to this work, surely one of the most recorded concertos in the catalogue." MusicWeb Recommended Jan 2022 |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria in D, RV 589 / Beatus Vir in C, RV 597 Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Jeremy Summerly / Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD ] "..The Paratum cor eius, too, brings a surge of choral feeling, and the chorus rises to the occasion for the splendid closing Gloria patri. Full translation are included." Penguin Guide |
ROXANNA PANUFNIK
Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide Colla Voce Singers, London Mozart Players, Lee Ward [ Signum / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] "A rich offering on a theme of interfaith connectivity. The Japanese lullaby-inspired Zen Love Song and title work Love Abide are totally absorbing." BBC Music |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: :Symphonies.26 "Lamentatione", 35, 49 "La Passione" Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicolas Ward [ Naxos / CD ] Gramophone "no one wanting to investigate these works will regret spending a fiver on this disc" BBC Music Magazine "crisp spirited readings..... A winner" Classic CD "very committed performances" |
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M. Ward
A Wasteland Companion [ LP - released 20/Apr/2012 ] |
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Ward, Lucy
Single Flame [ CD - released 23/Aug/2013 ] |
M Ward
Migration Stories [ Epitaph / LP - released 24/Apr/2020 ] A prolific writer, producer, and performer, M. Ward has established himself as one of modern American music's most unique and versatile voices. In just the last decade alone he's teamed up with Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Jim James to form the... |
M. Ward
Think Of Spring (Limited Edition LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 11/Dec/2020 ] M. Ward's Think of Spring is a collection of songs originally recorded by Billie Holiday. Ward achieved the intimate sound of this record by filtering the original songs and strings through a single acoustic guitar, using various alternate tunings... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / XAVIER MONTSALVATGE / JENNY PEÑA CAMPO
Gershwin, Montsalvatge, Bernstein & Jenny Peña Campo Adriana Bignagni Lesca; Philzuid; Duncan Ward [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Musical fireworks flare and dazzle in this New Year's concert! This live recording of the 2024 New Year's concert is Philzuid's seventh album - and it's a very different New Year's concert with Latin rhythms and American dance in the foreground.... |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Orchestral Works (Incls 'St Paul's Suite') Andrew Watkinson (violin) & Nicholas Ward (violin) Duke Dobing (flute) & Christopher Hooker (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] This 1994 recording is one of the first Holst collections made by Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia. An orchestra he conducted for thirty seven years, until his death. Having brought neglected works by Holst to a more deserved fame in the early... |
CORELLI / BELLINI / CIMAROSA / FIORILLO / etc
Italian Oboe Concertos Vol 1 Anthony Camden (oboe) / Peter Lloyd (flute) / City of London Sinfonia, Nicolas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2001 ] More beautiful music for the oboe |
PLATTI / SALIERI / BESOZZI / ROSETTI
Italian Oboe Concertos Vol 2 Anthony Camden (oboe) Peter Lloyd (flute) / City of London Sinfonia / Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] More beautiful music for the oboe |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Golden Horizon Christoph Ess, Sonja Gornik, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Sep/2024 ] Richard Strauss is considered to be both the last 'Classical' composer and a champion of modernity. His wide-ranging output stands as a monument to one of the most successful and influential composers of the 20th century. |
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TALLIS / LUDFORD / TAVERNER / SHEPPARD ETC
Tudor Music Afterlives Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward, Magnus Williamson, Toby Carr, Elisabeth Paul, Fiona Fraser [ Delphian / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] Following the freshness and vigour of their quincentenary portrait celebration of Robert Fayrfax, Ensemble Pro Victoria's second Delphian album brings a similar boldness of approach to a wider-ranging collection, charting some rarely explored... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations Gabriel Schwabe, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] Tchaikovsky composed the Variations on a Rococo Theme for cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen who re-ordered the variations, infuriating the composer. The cello part for the virtuosic Pezzo capriccioso was also altered by its dedicatee, Anatoly Brandukov. In... |
HANS ROTT
Rott: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Christopher Ward [ Capriccio / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] The 1989 premiere of Hans Rott's Symphony No. 1 in E major (it was written more than 100 years earlier) introduced the international music world to a composer who had remained unknown, or known by name only, even among experts. His colleagues and... |
HANS ROTT
Rott: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol.1 Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Christopher Ward [ Capriccio / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] 'It simply cannot be gauged what music has lost with him' (Gustav Mahler) Hans Rott was a composer from Gustav Mahler's time who had been unknown or known only by name even to most pundits. Many people have expressed the opinion, perhaps justifiably,... |
ANDRE PARFENOV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Parfenov/Tchaikovsky: Aachener Walzer - Orchestral Works Ioana Cristina Goicea (violin) André Parfenov (piano) / Aachen Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Tchaikovsky stayed in Aachen for six weeks in 1887, during which time he orchestrated his Mozartiana. He also left behind 16 bars of music from his diary, and the Aachener Walzer is André Parfenov's completion of this otherwise unknown mini-waltz. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Soldier' s Tale / Dumbarton Oaks Jonathan Keeble (narrator) Benjamin Soames (narrator) David Timson (narrator) / Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - The Soldier's Tale is scored for an instrumental ensemble of seven players, violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone and percussion, the last including two... |
DARIUS MILHAUD / CHARLES KOECHLIN / EDWARD ELGAR
Milhaud: La création du monde - Koechlin: Vers la voûte étoilée / Ward: Fumes / Elgar: Enigma Variations philharmonie zuidnederland; Duncan Ward [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] This fourth album by philharmonie zuidnederland includes works by Darius Milhaud, Charles Koechlin, Duncan Ward and Edward Elgar. Principal conductor Duncan Ward takes you on a symphonic journey with Darius Milhaud's La Création du monde for small... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 Jonty Ward (treble), James Swash (alto), Guy Cutting (tenor), Jonathan Howard (baritone) / New College Choir Oxford, Edward Higginbottom [ Novum / CD - released 31/May/2011 ] "Edward Higginbottom has opted to ignore the plethora of more recent completions in favour of Süssmayr's "official" version, his faithfulness extending to drawing individual soloists from the choir, even using male voices for the higher parts. It's a |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Don Quixote [Don Juan] / La Lyra / Ouverture in D Minor Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] "This disc, delivered with great aplomb by Nicholas Ward and his Northern Chamber Orchestra, is a showcase of the composer's versatility and his gift for writing vivid and picturesque music. Each of the works in this program is delightful in its... |
LEOPOLD HOFMANN
Five Symphonies Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos 18th Century Symphony / CD - released 24/Feb/2011 ] Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward |
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MENDELSSOHN
String Symphonies, Vol. 3 Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2011 ] |
FRANZ IGNAZ BECK
Beck: Symphonies Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] "tidy, alert readings of these symphonies....At a fiver you wont seriously go wrong" - Gramophone |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 11 - 14 Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Dec/2005 ] "The Northern Chamber Orchestra's performances are persuasive in their warmth" - Classic CD |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 15 - 18 Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Dec/2005 ] "the performances of the Northern Chamber Orchestra under Nicholas Ward are consistently stylish and engaged. This is well worth anyone's fiver!" - Classic CD |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 19, 20 and 37 Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Dec/2005 ] "Ward and the Northern Chamber Orchestra give a robust performance of the outer movements of the E flat Symphony, phrase the graceful Andante with taste, and contrast the minuet's different characters effectively." - Gramophone - May 1996 |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 21-24 and 26 Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] "This is good Mozart - lithe, detailed, delicately poised, sparkling, nicely sprung and full of life... At Naxos's low prices, its value is unexcelled" - American Record Guide - May/June 1996 |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 6 - 10 Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Dec/2005 ] "These are indeed splendid performances and, with the vivid recordings... Naxos here offer an enthralling concert at a price you simply cannot refuse" - Gramophone |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Vol 10 (Nos. 30, 55 "Schoolmaster" & 63 "La Roxelane") Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "Alert and vivacious playing from all concerned; admirable pacing and first-class sound…" (Penguin Guide) |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Overtures / Suites: La Changeante / Les Nations anciens et modernes Northern Chamber Orchestra. Nicholas Ward (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2004 ] Telemann was among the most distinguished composers of his time, a rival to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach in reputation, and the certain preference of the Leipzig authorities for the position of Cantor at the St Thomas Choir School, where Bach was... |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos 1-5 Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] "warm, vigorous and rhythmically strong" - Classic CD |
STAMITZ / BECK / CANNABICH / GOSSEC / CPE BACH / JC BACH / HOFMANN / DITTERSDORF / VANHAL / KRAUS
The World of the 18th Century Symphony Northern Chamber Orchestra ; Nicholas Ward, conductor ; Failoni Orchestra ; Uwe Grodd, conductor [ Naxos 18th Century Symphony / CD - released 2/May/2003 ] …an interesting disc prelude to a series that one can only wish well. © 2000 MusicWeb International |
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Northern C.O/Ward
Haydn:symps.23, 24, 61 [ Naxos / CD ] |
