More By Artist: M. Ward
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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 |
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... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL, arr. Paul Mills
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel's Young Messiah Matthew Ward, Cynthia Clawson, First Baptist Church, Norkolk, Virginia, Young Messiah Orchestra, with Barry McGuire (narrator) [ WLIW / CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] THE YOUNG MESSIAH gives Handel's choral masterpiece an exciting modern interpretation - predominantly gospel in tone, and also integrating soul. |
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) |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: Cello Concerto / Saxophone Concerto / Fantasy for Recorder and String Quartet / etc Raphael Wallfisch (cello) John Turner (recorder) / Northern Chamber Orchestra & Manchester Sinfonia, Richard Howarth & Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] "The disc is a hands-down winner in the Naxos catalogue and slips nicely into the same rank occupied by Penny's symphonies." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Sept 2011) |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Concertos Vol 3 No. 9-12 Raphael Wallfisch, cello / Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] "Completists will want all 12 of Boccherini's cello concertos and the bargain-priced Naxos series is the most obvious choice... this new offering would certainly be my recommendation for a single sampler." - MusicWeb March 2005 |
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 |
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Ward, Lucy
Single Flame [ CD - released 23/Aug/2013 ] |
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M. Ward
A Wasteland Companion [ LP - released 20/Apr/2012 ] |
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
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
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
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... |
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... |
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 / 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 |
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 |
Clara Ward & The World Famous Ward Singers
In Memory Of Willa Ward-Royster [ Gospel Friends / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] In 1953, an American magazine reported that …when Clara Ward's big voice delivers a gospel song, she transforms a quiet audience of 10.000 or more men and women into a pandemonium of screaming, shouting and crying. Apart from outdrawing contemporary... |
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Clifford T. Ward
Escalator [ CD ] |
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Clifford T. Ward
Mantle Pieces [ CD ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Albert Herring Peter Pears, Sylvia Fisher, Sheila Rex, John Noble, Catherine Wilson, Joseph Ward / English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Pears was not at his best, but in Britten's hands it is clear that, without losing any pathos, Albert Herring was first and foremost a superior piece of theatrical fun." (BBC Music) |
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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... |
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. |
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Isolation Ward
Point Final [ LTM / CD - released 7/Dec/2009 ] |
Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Falling in Love Again [ JWL Music / CD - released 21/Sep/2006 ] This is the highly regarded NZ actress / singer, Jennifer Ward-Lealand's studio recording of her touring cabaret show. As stage and screen legend Marlene Dietrich, Jennifer sings 23 wonderfully evocative songs... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Royal Opera Gala: Covent Garden Anniversary Album Joan Carlyle, Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey, Yvonne Minton, Amy Shuard, Peter Pears, David Ward, etc [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2009 ] "Lots of riches on these two well-filled discs." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
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... |
Lucy Ward
Adelphi has to Fly [ Navigator Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Lucy is talented young singer-songwriter from Derbyshire. "One of Brit folk's most vibrant and forthright new young talents"-MOJO. |
M. Ward
Hold Time [ Spunk! Records / CD - released 23/Feb/2009 ] On his seventh album, M. Ward cements his reputation as one of America's most unique talents. Mention his name to any folk or guitar aficionado and you'll be met with an avalanche of praise. |
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M Ward
Hold Time [ 4Ad / CD - released 16/Feb/2009 ] |
M Ward
More Rain [ Liberation / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] M. Ward returns with a stunning new album, More Rain, out on Bella Union.. Ward has released a string of acclaimed solo albums over the past several years, along with five LPs with Zooey Deschanel as She & Him and a 2009 collaborative album with My... |
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M Ward
Post War [ 4Ad / CD - released 11/Sep/2006 ] |
M. Ward
Post-War [ Spunk! Records / CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] “'Post-War' is not only Ward's best effort yet, it's one of the best records of the year.” - All Music Guide. “It all sounds familiar but strange, and beautiful enough to suck you in.” - Rolling Stone. |
M. Ward
Transistor Radio [ Spunk! Records / CD - released 29/Mar/2005 ] This Portland-based songwriter bridges the gaps between the roots of various American musical traditions: folk, country, blues and rock. |
M. Ward
A Wasteland Companion [ Universal Music International / CD - released 12/Apr/2012 ] Ward's honey-soaked vocals, deft finger-picking, innate sense of melody and beguiling lyrics have already cemented his reputation as one of America's true musical treasures... |
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 |
