Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler
Neck & Neck [ Columbia / CD ] Originally released in 1990, two generations of leading and groundbreaking guitarists combined their efforts to create this legendary album. American Country music legend Chet Atkins and British singer-songwriter, guitarist and Dire Straits front man... |
Mark Hollis
Mark Hollis [ Polydor / CD - released 26/Feb/1998 ] |
Mark Knopfler
The Ragpicker's Dream [ Universal Music / CD - released 6/Oct/2002 ] 'The Ragpicker's Dream' is Mark Knopfler's third solo album since the Dire Straits days. It is a delightful, distinctive continuation of what Knopfler calls his lifelong musical journey. It is a record of subtle pleasures and gentle reminders of... |
Mark Knopfler
Screenplaying - The Best of Mark Knopfler [ Vertigo Records / CD - released 25/Nov/1993 ] Compilation of soundtrack compositions from four of the films that Mark Knopfler has scored. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem / Ave Verum Corpus / Masonic Funeral Music Nancy Argenta, Catherine Robbin, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / The Schutz Choir of London, London Classical Players, Roger Norrington [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] "Norrington's soloists are very good, so too the recorded sound, and this version of the Mozart Requiem can be enthusiastically welcomed, both as an edition and as a performance." MusicWeb |
TCHAIKOVSKY / KHACHATURIAN / PROKOFIEV / ADAM / STRAVINSKY / DELIBES
The Most Beautiful Ballets [incls 'Swan Lake' & 'Romeo & Juliet'] The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mark Ermler & Barry Wordsworth [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "..the players have responded with both refinement and red-blooded commitment not just to the conductor but to the free, warm acoustic of All Saints' Church, Tooting." (Gramophone on Swan Lake) |
Mark Morton
Ether [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The new EP from Lamb of God's Mark Morton. Ether features appearances by Halestorm's Lzzy Hale, former Killswitch Engage/current Light the Torch singer Howard Jones, Moon Tooth's John Carbone and Sons of Texas' Mark Morales. |
Mark Ronson
Version [ Sony & BMG Entertainment UK / CD - released 27/Apr/2007 ] Ronson's culture-clashing solo album that finds 12 classic tracks recreated into visionary floor-fillers with an array of singers including ODB, Amy Winehouse, Robbie Williams and Lily Allen. |
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... |
HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2008 ] Originally Handel was Händel. But the German composer was welcomed in England with open arms. Thus he could leave out the Umlaut from his name. The great oratorio Messiah is Handel's best known work. This is a selection of highlights, of course the... |
Mark Knopfler
Sailing to Philadelphia / Ragpicker's Dream (2 for 1) [ Universal Music / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2010 ] Two excellent albums by Mark Knopfler - at a fantastic price!! |
LASSUS
Lassus - Music For Holy Week Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner / Mark Brown [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] "..glorious Aurora Lucis Rutilat.. Mark Brown's fine performance in the Requiem.." (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN TAVENER
Four Part Mass / 4 Motets / Alternatim Pieces Sacred Polyphony / Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner & Mark Brown, directors [ Regis Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "..sung with conviction and understanding.." - Organists Review |
TRADITIONAL
Folksongs Alfred Deller (countertenor), Mark Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "a beautifully plaintive, soft-grained recital" (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... |
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Humperdinck: Moorish Rhapsody / Sleeping Beauty / etc Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Fischer-Dieskau [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Humperdinck wrote his Moorish Rhapsody in 1898 and it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in that year. "The Elegy at Sunset" (Elegie bei Sonnenuntergang), set at Tarifa, is gently evocative, something of a Moorish atmosphere created by the use... |
Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
Private Investigations - The Best Of [ Mercury / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] |
HANDEL / VIVALDI / PURCELL
Dido's Lament - Famous Baroque Arias John-Mark Ainsley / Gillian Fisher / Michael George / James Bowman / Robert King / King's Consort [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Essential Baroque arias with period instrument accompaniment |
DOMINIC MULDOWNEY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Muldowney: Piano Concerto / Saxophone Concerto John Harle (saxophone) Peter Donohoe (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder, London Sinfonietta, Diego Masson [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Dec/1997 ] Not currently available |