Alan Jackson, Statler Brothers, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Mac Davis & more
Ultimate Country [ Sony Music / 4 CD Box Set - released 3/Aug/2009 ] This four disc set can legitimately call itself the Ultimate Country Album. With country stars like Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Statler Brothers, Charlie Daniels, John Denver, Ricky Skaggs, George Jones & Tammy Wynette, etc |
BRAHMS / FAURE / SAINT-SAENS / SCHUMANN / DEBUSSY / etc
Songs to the Moon Allan Clayton, Mary Bevan, Myrthen Ensemble [ Signum / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] Described by The Telegraph as "the creme de la creme of young British-based musical talent", and praised in BBC Music Magazine for their "irresistible combination of arresting programing and vocal flair assembled around pianist Joseph Middleton", the... |
FAURE / DURUFLE
Requiem Ann Murray & Mary Seers (sopranos) Thomas Allen & Michael George (baritones) / Corydon Singers & English Chamber Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] 'Superb' (Fanfare, USA) |
Anthony Hopkins, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Pryce, Aled Jones, Mary Hopkin, etc
Under Milk Wood: A play for voices by Dylan Thomas [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2016 ] A Play for voices by Dylan Thomas With original music by George Martin & Elton John Produced by George Martin |
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Macbeth / The Tempest / Marmion Overture Mary Bevan (soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Simon Callow (speaker) / BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 25/Feb/2018 ] "The BBC Concert Orchestra play with warmth and style, the BBC Singers go at it with spirit and Mary Bevan makes an enchanting Ariel. John Andrews does an excellent job of integrating the orchestra with Simon Callow's spoken chunks of Shakespeare" |
MAHLER
Symphony No 2 in C minor Resurrection / Symphony No 10 Adagio Barbara Bonney (soprano) Mary Phillips (mezzo) / Atlanta Symphony Orch. Yoel Levi [ Telarc Records / 2 CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] Featuring internationally acclaimed soprano Barbara Bonney and mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips |
CONSTANT LAMBERT / LORD BERNERS
The Film Music of (Incls 'Anna Karenina' & 'Nicholas Nickelby') BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba (with Mary Carewe, soprano) [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic deliver for these few Constant Lambert and Lord Berners scores one of the best albums in the Chandos Film Music series." (MusicWeb June 2008) |
Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
Angels And Saints At Ephesus [ CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] Angels and Saints at Ephesus consists of pieces in English as well as Latin, in several different styles that provide an attractive progression from monophony to harmony to slightly richer shades and back again. |
EDWARD MacDOWELL / MRS. H.H. A. BEACH / GEORGE GERSHWIN / SAMUEL BARBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Piano Concerto Volume 6 Eugene List, Mary-Louise Boehm, Abbott Ruskin (piano) / Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Vox Box / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] This series presents some of the concertos written by performing virtuoso/composers of the Romantic tradition of piano playing. |
HUGO WOLF
The Complete Songs Volume 4 Mary Bevan / Quirijn de Lang / Sholto Kynoch [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] |
HANDEL
Song for St Cecilia's Day Mary Bevan (soprano) & Ed Lyon (tenor) / Ludus Baroque, Richard Neville-Towle [ Delphian / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] Following the widespread critical acclaim of their debut recording, 'Alexander's Feast', Ludus Baroque brings their celebrated verve to Handel's 'Song for St Cecilia's Day'. Coupled with his miniature cantata for tenor, 'Look down Harmonius Saint',... |
Bill Fay & Mary Lattimore
Love Is The Tune (7") [ Dead Oceans / 7in - released 6/May/2022 ] 'My friend Max introduced me to Bill Fay's records when we worked in a record store together in Philly over a decade ago. His songs have kept me company on many long drives and have soundtracked lots of beautiful, quiet, kind of searching moments in... |
PATRICK HADLEY
Fen and Flood - A Cantata (with works by Vaughan Williams) Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano) & Leigh Melrose (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & The Joyful Company of Singers, Paul Dan [ Albion / Launch Music / CD - released 31/May/2011 ] "Here's something to fascinate any lover of British music...Jane Irwin is radiant in the solos and the Joyful Company of Singers is an excellent, well-balanced choir..Daniel has often demonstrated great warmth and understanding in his performances of |
MITCH LEIGH
Leigh: Man of La Mancha Brian Stokes Mitchell & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio / New 2002 Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] "The 2002 Revival Cast has a powerhouse performance by Brian Stokes Mitchell, who's glorious baritone has never sounded better. The supporting cast is very good, with Ernie Sabella outstanding as Sancho" Musicals101 |
BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Motets Choir Of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh [ Delphian / CD - released 28/Mar/2011 ] |
WILLIAM MUNDY
Mundy: Sacred Choral Music Choir of St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson (Director) [ Delphian / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] Already celebrated in surveys of John Taverner and John Sheppard, the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh now showcase the often overlooked music of William Mundy, which was at the heart of the Marian Catholic revival and then, just a few years... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Choral Works Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Ruby Hughes, Nicholas Mulroy, Scottish Chamber Orchestra Soloists, Duncan Ferguson [ Delphian / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] "…to round off their satisfying programme, Ferguson and his Edinburgh choir give an exemplary account of Tres sacrae cantiones…highly recommended." Choir & Organ |
CHESNOKOV
Chesnokov: Liturgy of St.John Chrysostom Op.42 Choir of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Arkadi Leontiev (tenor) / Nikolai Georgievsky (cond) [ Alto / CD ] "Chesnokov represents a late flowering of Russian Orthodox traditions in the years before the Revolution … composers sought to renew the style by returning it to its roots in Medieval Slavic chant. Chesnokov excelled in this style, and in his many... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRAHMS / McIVOR / MOZART / BRITTEN / LALLOUTTE / etc
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings The Choir of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, Mark Shepherd [ Guild / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] A choir founded in 1123 at the England parish church St. Mary in the town of Warwick. |
COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |