Kozelek, Mark And The Desertshore
Mark Kozelek And The Desertshore [ CD - released 23/Aug/2013 ] |
WILLIAM LLOYD WEBBER
Piano music, chamber music & songs John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Ian Brown (piano) / Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Semiramide (complete opera) Albina Shagimuratova, Daniela Barcellona, Mirco Palazzi, Barry Banks, Gianluca Buratto / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Opera |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Il Paria (complete opera) Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, Misha Kiria, Marko Mimica / Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Jan/2021 ] "The music is splendid, well worth discovering...Shagimuratova is superb...Barbera is breathtakingly wonderful...Elder conducts with his customary zeal. Subtlety, too." Gramophone |
GRIEG
Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, Piano Concerto & 7 Lyric Pieces Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ronan O'Hora (piano), Mark Ermler & James Judd (conductors) [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "When it comes to generous emotional engagement you will look in vain in this price bracket. Ronan O'Hora is an extremely classy act and this version of the concerto need not look bashful in the company of the conventionally recognised reference... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Works for Trumpet Alison Balsom (trumpet) with Colm Carey (organ), Alina Ibragimova (violin), Alistair Ross (harpsichord & chamber organ) & Mark Caudle (viola de gamba) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] Gramophone described her Bach album as "splendid stuff" and the pieces "showcase Balsom's phenomenal technique and gleaming expressiveness" |
FINZI / BRITTEN / HOLST
Works for Choir and Orchestra Alison Barlow (sop) John Mark Ainsley (ten) David Hoult (bar) Stephen Varcoe (bar) / Britten Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "If any lover of the music of English twentieth century composers does not have this disc in their collection, they should take steps to rectify the omission immediately." (Recording of the Month musicWeb Aug 2013) |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Songs & Piano Music [2 CDs] Amanda Pitt (soprano) Mark Wilde (tenor) Peter Savidge (baritone) David Owen Norris (1844 Broadwood Square Piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "A veritable treasure-trove." (BBC Radio 3) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Complete Songs Volume 22: An 1815 Schubertiad (II) Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Catherine Denley (alto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (pi [ Hyperion Complete Schubert Edition / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Andreas Scholl, Barbara Schlick, Sandrine Piau, Mark Padmore, Nathan Berg / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] |
HANDEL
Saul (Complete oratorio) Andreas Scholl, Neal Davies, Susan Gritton, Nancy Argenta, Mark Padmore / Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor) [ DG Archiv / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2004 ] "This superbly recorded new version of Saul is the first to offer a serious challenge to John Elliot Gardiner's 1989 performance. With equally incisive, disciplined choral singing, the result is comparably over whelming. What finally trips me towards... |
FRANCIS POULENC
The Complete Songs Vol.4 Ann Murray, John Mark Ainsley, Magdalena Molendowska, Malcolm Martineau, etc. [ Signum / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] Composing over 150 works for piano and voice over a period of 44 years, the songs of Francis Poulenc remain consistently popular to concert audiences the world over. |
ERIC BIDDINGTON
Southern Melodies (Including the Sonatina for treble recorder and piano & Sonatina for tenor saxophone and piano) Anthony Ferner (flute) / Mark Hobson (tenor saxophone) / Joanne Drimatis (violin) / Gretchen Dunsmore (clarinet) / Cathy Irons, Elen Rapoport (pianos) [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 18/Jan/2006 ] Eric Biddington was born in Timaru in October 1953. He received his schooling in Timaru and Christchurch. On leaving school he started work as a labourer and combined this with study at the University of Canterbury. |
JOHN JOUBERT
Jane Eyre: An Opera In Two Acts April Fredrick, David Stout, English Symphony Orchestra, Gwion Thomas, Kenneth Woods, Mark Milhofer [ Somm / 2 CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] With this new release SOMM pays an affectionate tribute to John Joubert who is turns 90 in March 2017. It also adds a veritable gem to the operatic catalogue: the world première of his 2-Act Opera Jane Eyre recorded live during a concert performance... |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Die Donner-Ode, TWV 6:3 / Deus judicium tuum Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Mark Tucker (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Roberts (bass) / Collegium Musicum 90, Ri [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Oct/1993 ] Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Mark Tucker (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Roberts (bass) |
GRIEG
Peer Gynt Suites / Lyric Pieces Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Ermler / Håkon Austbø (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] The composer Edvard Grieg was at the forefront of a flourishing of creativity that took place in Scandinavian culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, alongside his contemporaries, Nielsen and Sibelius. His imagination was particularly... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Gadfly (complete score of the 1955 film) Bachchor Mainz, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Mark Fitz-Gerald [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2018 ] Set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy during a turbulent period of pre-Unification political unrest, The Gadfly drew from Shostakovich one of his most dazzling and popular film scores, heard hitherto on record only in a suite arranged and... |
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Vespro della Beata Vergine (1656) Barbara Borden / Emily van Evera / Rodrigo del Pozo / Gerd Turk / Mark Padmore / Harry van der Kamp / Concerto Palatino / Bruce Dickey [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] On this recording Glossa present the principle musical items which could have been heard at second Vespers on a feast of the Virgin Mary (in this case the Feast of the Assumption) either at St. Mark's or at one of a variety of other Venetian... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: New Babylon [complete score] Basel Sinfonietta, Mark Fitz-Gerald [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "[The New Babylon] was the last gasp of this anything-goes era, and boasted a blistering score by the 22-year-old Shostakovich. So blistering, in fact, that nobody could perform it, and it was "lost" for decades...it is sardonic, brittle and laden... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Favorite [complete opera recorded in 2016] BLU-RAY Bavarian State Opera / Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, Elina Garanca, Mika Kares / Karel Mark Chichon (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2017 ] The premiere of the French version of Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite at the Bayerische Staatsoper on 23 October 2016 was a memorable event and this is why: • star mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanca gave her acclaimed theatrical role debut as Léonor de... |