GERSHWIN / BARBER / BEACH / COLERIGDE-TAYLOR / COPLAND
Isata Kanneh-Mason - Summertime Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 6/Sep/2021 ] "'Summertime' indeed, from a profound and greatly gifted artist who radiates warmth, joy and much-needed musical sunshine." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2021 |
SAMUEL BARBER / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Muse Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 17/Dec/2021 ] Classical music's star duo have performed together all over the world, they present an impassioned programme of Barber & Rachmaninov. This disc includes each composer's Cello Sonata and a selection of beautiful songs transcribed for cello. |
Dave Mason
Long Lost Friend: The Best Of Dave Mason [ CD ] |
FEDERIGO FIORILLO
Violin Concerto / Sinfonia Concertanti Laura Bortolotto (violin) / Accademia d'Archi Arrigoni, Domenico Mason [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2015 ] Though born in Brunswick, Federigo Fiorillo (1755-c.1823) was of Neopolitan descent, as the most casual appreciation of these fine and rare concertante works will confirm. Indeed his work owes as much to the style of Albinoni, who died five years... |
KENNETH ALFORD
The Music Of Kenneth Alford (Incls 'Colonel Bogey') Band Of H.M. Royal Marines / Captain J.R Mason [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jun/1992 ] The composer of 'Colonel Bogey', 'Dunedin' & 'Eagle Squadron' |
JACOB WEINBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weinberg: Piano Concerto 2 / String Quartet Op. 55 / etc Jorge Federico Osorio (piano), Patrick Mason (baritone) / Bingham String Quartet, Barcelona Symphony, National Orchestra of Catalonia [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] This compact disc features world premiere recordings of three works by JACOB WEINBERG (1879-1956), who was born in the Ukraine to a cultured, assimilated family and studied first at the Moscow conservatory and then in Vienna. |
Robert Donat, Alec Guinness, Laurie Lee & James Mason
Poetry Album [ Alto / CD - released 11/Sep/2015 ] 'Great voices always enhance our understanding and enjoyment of classic poetry' |
FLORENCE PRICE
Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement / Symphony No. 1 Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano), Chineke! Orchestra, Leslie Suganandarajah, Roderick Cox [ Decca / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] "[Kanneh-Mason's] playing is vigorous and authoritative. Price could have no more persuasive an advocate...Chineke! Orchestra's woodwind, especially, shine in these lively performances" The Guardian |
W. A. MOZART
Eugene Ormandy conducts Mozart Wind Concertos John de Lancie (ob) Bernard Garfield (bassoon) William Kincaid (fl) Anthony Gigliotti (clar) Mason Jones (horn) / Philadelphia Orch., Eugene Ormandy [ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/May/2017 ] Rarely thought of as a Mozart conductor, Eugene Ormandy made delightful recordings of all the wind and brass concertos with his "Fabulous Philadelphians" between 1957 and 1962. Known best for its sumptuous strings, the Philadelphia Orchestra has also... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Song Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) [ Decca / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Stretching from Bach to Bacharach, 'Song' sees Sheku present an extraordinary kaleidoscope of music, joined by some of the musicians he loves working with, collaborating with both family and friends while showcasing his skills as both arranger and... |
Steve Mason
Boys Outside [ Domino / CD - released 31/May/2010 ] With the hauntingly elegant, 'Boys Outside', Scotsman Steve Mason reminds us a little of his earlier work on the Beta Band's 'The Three EPs'. |
Dave Mason
Mariposa De Oro / Old Crest On A New Wave [ Beat Goes On / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] |
Steve Mason
Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time [ CD - released 15/Mar/2013 ] An album saturated with politics. With a title referring to the Buddhist term for an easily distracted brain, the album features 20 songs... |
Willy Mason
Carry On [ CD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quintet) Capricorn with Sarah Leonard (soprano) / Timothy Mason (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Oct/2006 ] 'Capricorn's blazing performance of the Serenade is what really makes this disc a standout among recent Schnittke releases' (Fanfare) |
Capricorn/Leonard,Sarah/Mason
Schnittke:chamber Music [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] |
JOHN PSATHAS
Diálogos Chris Mason-Battley Group [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] Interpretations of the music of John Psathas. "Diálogos is a revelation. I don't know what the language is that properly describes what the guys are doing, but they're somehow creating new works. This isn't 'arranging' or 'adapting' - I feel it's... |
The Chris Mason-Battley Group with Richard Nunns
Two Tides [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] This album brings together two distinct musical sensibilities and explores their similarities and differences through improvisation: Maori instrumentation and European jazz forge new paths within the evolving musical landscape of New Zealand. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete Opera recorded in 1971) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with John Reed, Pauline Wales, Thomas Lawlor, Christine Palmer, Ralph Mason / James Walker (cond) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2018 ] "There is a real sense of staging and movement which is all to the good. The dialogue is well handled and is very much a plus factor.' Fanfare, November/December 1983 |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto / etc Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Decca / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns with Elgar, a brand new album of works anchored around Elgar's Cello Concerto - arguably the best-known work in the classical canon written for solo cello. |