Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin
Archetype (LP) [ Warp / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] Archetype is an exorcism of South London's underground spirit. It's a sound-world which draws on its ancestral echoes as equally as it captures the pulse of a city on the edge of evolution. The twelve-track collaborative record is the product of two... |
Maxwell Davis
The BGP Sound Library Presents Batman And Other Themes [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
Maxwell
Black Summers' Night [ Sony / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] |
Maxwell
BLACKsummer's Night [ CD - released 6/Jul/2009 ] 'BLACKsummer's Night' is the sensuous opening installment of Maxwell's trilogy. It is his first album since 2001's 'Now' (his critically-acclaimed third studio album from 2001). |
ALEXANDER BORODIN / ROBERT WRIGHT & GEORGE FORREST
Borodin: Kismet [plus songs from 'Timbuktu'] Valerie Masterson & Donald Maxwell / 1990 Studio Cast [ TER / CD - released 17/May/1990 ] Kismet is a musical adapted by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis from the 1911 play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, with lyrics and musical adaptation (as well as some original music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest. The music was mostly... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Rape Of Lucretia Jean Rigby, Nigel Robson, Catherine Pierard, Donald Maxwell / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "Hickox allows his singers plenty of space with no loss of tension; they respond impressively, with Catherine Pierard exceptional as the Female Chorus." BBC Music Magazine, October 2014 **** |
Sir PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
A Celebration of Scotland [incls 'An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise'] George MacIlwham (Highland bagpipes) & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor/pianist) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Choir of St. Mary's School, Edinburg [ Unicorn-Kanchana / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Davies is a master story-teller in this vividly detailed tone painting…." (Gramophone) |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Cox and Box / Trial by Jury (Complete operettas) James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Donald Maxwell, Rebecca Evans / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] "If you are a G& If S fan, you won't be able to live without this disc; if you are not, this CD just might convert you." (William Dart NZ Herald 3rd Aug 2005) |
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Lewis Morrison (clarinet), Robert Cook (french horn) & Peter Franks (trumpet) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Strathclyde Concertos are among his most significant contributions to the concerto genre. Concerto No. 3 for Horn and Trumpet marks a turning point in the cycle of ten concertos by employing multiple soloists. |
PETER WIEGOLD
Earth & Stars Juliet Fraser (soprano) Martin Butler (piano) Melinda Maxwell (cor anglais) / Southbank Sinfonia, Peter Wiegold [ NMC / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Wiegold has long been a vital contemporary musical presence, and this disc is a fine showcase for his talent. Kalachakra, performed by his ensemble notes inégales, is a punchy and substantial, bitingly coloured movement founded on the arcana of... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op 71 Nos 1 - 3 Maxwell Quartet [ Linn / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] The Maxwell Quartet's recording debut stands out for its innovative approach: each of Haydn's Op. 71 quartets is paired with a tune, or set of traditional tunes, from the ensemble's homeland of Scotland. This prize-winning quartet believes... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) [complete opera recorded in 2007] Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli, Donald Maxwell, Dawn French, Orchestra & Choir of the Royal Opera House, Brun [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - DVD - "The Royal Opera's new staging of La Fille du régiment will probably go down in history as one of the company's great achievements ... Laurent Pelly's production casts Natalie Dessay and Juan... |
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Davies: The Lighthouse (Complete Opera) Neil Mackie (tenor), Christopher Keyte (baritone) & Ian Comboy (bass) Members of the BBC Philharmonic, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] "All three cast members excel, taking Maxwell Davies's liking for apssages of falsetto yowling in their stride; and the instrumental playing is incisively superb." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
NOEL COWARD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Coward: Bitter Sweet (complete operetta) Valerie Masterson, Martin Smith & Donald Maxwell / Sadler's Wells opera, Michael Reed [ Jay Productions / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Aug/1999 ] Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts, with book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The story, set in 19th-century and early 20th-century England and Austria-Hungary, centres on a young woman's elopement with her music teacher. |
Sir PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Davies: The Strathclyde Concertos Vol 1 Robin Miller (oboe) William Conway (cello) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Unicorn-Kanchana / CD - released 20/May/1989 ] Peter Maxwell Davies' own recordings of his own works. |
Valerie Masterson, Donald Maxwell, Richard van Allan, Judy Kaye / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kismet - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1990 |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Caroline Mathilde (concert suite) / Threnody on a Plainsong for Michael Vyner / etc BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Originally recorded in 1991 |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 1 BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "very good modern recordings and fine playing...Great fun; a reminder of the composer's relaxed, more genial side" MusicWeb |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3 BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded by arrangement with BBC North at Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, September 23-24, 1993. |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Ian Comboy, Christopher Keyte, Neil Mackie / BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] "Loosely based on a true story, the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote island in 1900, it is gripping from beginning to end." |