MANU MARTIN
Martin: Lim Fantasy of Companionship Suite for Piano Flute and Strings Octet Mark Bebbington (piano) / Royal Philahrmonic Orchestra [ Signum / CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Following the full orchestral release back in 2021, Dr Susan Lim and Manu Martin bring you the Lim Fantasy of Companionship Chamber Suite. Society currently finds itself at an intersection of technology and humanity: as physical forms embedded with... |
Mark Knopfler
One Deep River [ EMI UK / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Mark Knopfler releases his tenth solo studio album on his own British Grove label via EMI. One Deep River features 12 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs, and his warm Geordie vocal tone, his poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic... |
Mark Knopfler
One Deep River (Double Deluxe CD) [ EMI UK / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Mark Knopfler releases his tenth solo studio album on his own British Grove label via EMI. One Deep River features 12 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs, and his warm Geordie vocal tone, his poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic... |
Mark Knopfler
One Deep River (Double LP) [ EMI UK / 2 LP - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Mark Knopfler releases his tenth solo studio album on his own British Grove label via EMI. One Deep River features 12 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs, and his warm Geordie vocal tone, his poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic... |
Mark Knopfler
One Deep River (Indie Vinyl Double LP) [ EMI UK / 2 LP - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Mark Knopfler releases his tenth solo studio album on his own British Grove label via EMI. One Deep River features 12 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs, and his warm Geordie vocal tone, his poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic... |
Mark Knopfler
One Deep River (Limited Edition LP & CD Box Set) [ EMI UK / Multi-Format Box Set - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Mark Knopfler releases his tenth solo studio album on his own British Grove label via EMI. One Deep River features 12 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs, and his warm Geordie vocal tone, his poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic... |
FELIX & FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn, (Felix & Fanny): Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A 22 / Gartenlieder, Op.3 / Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60, MWV D 3 Julia Doyle (soprano) Mark Le Brocq (tenor) Ashley Riches (baritone) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "There's a wonderful breadth to the sound caught in St Jude-on-the-Hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb by the Chandos team. This new recording is surely the new benchmark." Gramophone |
Ex Cathedra, Britten Sinfonia, Jeffrey Skidmore (condutor), Philippe Honoré (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor), Vayu Naidu (speaker)
The Traveller: Earth & Sky [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] THE TRAVELLER for choir, children's choir, orchestra, tenor, violin and speaker. The Traveller was the third in a series of four major works with words by Vikram Seth and music by Alec Roth, com- missioned jointly over four years by the Salisbury,... |
Mark De Clive Lowe, Shigeto, Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio [ Soul Bank / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and two decade-long bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe (MdCL), links up with influential drummer/producer/DJ, Shigeto and Brooklyn-based, Haitian-rooted, flautist/songwriter and Verve Records... |
Mark De Clive Lowe / Shigeto / Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio (LP) [ Soul Bank / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and acknowledged bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe links up with jazz vocalist/flautist Melanie Charles and Detroit drummer/producer & DJ, Shigeto on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Schubert: Schwanengesang / Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte Mark Padmore (tenor), Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] With a lifetime of experience with this music, Uchida and Padmore are the perfect duo to interpret this magnificent repertoire. |
SYLVESTER LEVAY / MICHAEL KUNZE
Levay: Elisabeth (complete musical recorded at the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, July 2022) Maya Hakvoort, Abla Alaoui, Mark Seibert, David Jakobs, Daniela Ziegler / Orchester der Vereinigten Bühnen Wien, Michael Römer [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] For a lot of tour groups from the Far East, this can even be their main motive for visiting Austria. This is just one example of the success that the musical by dream team Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay has enjoyed since its 1992 premiere. |
SYLVESTER LEVAY / MICHAEL KUNZE
Levay: Elisabeth (complete musical recorded at the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, July 2022) [Blu-ray] Maya Hakvoort, Abla Alaoui, Mark Seibert, David Jakobs, Daniela Ziegler / Orchester der Vereinigten Bühnen Wien, Michael Römer [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 27/Jan/2023 ] Schönbrunn Palace is one of Austria's top tourist destinations, representing the highlight for countless visitors to Vienna. And in the past 30 years, people amongst the expectant throngs of visitors from at home and abroad have often been heard... |
Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel
The Globeflower Masters Vol.2 (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Glenn Fallows and Mark Treffel released their first album, 'The Globeflower Master Vol. 1', on Mr Bongo in September 2021. With its lush, warm, and timeless productions paying homage to classic 60s and 70s soundtrack composers, it was very well... |
Mark Feldman
What Exit [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] |
Mark Knopfler
The Studio Albums 2009 - 2018 (6 CD Box Set) [ UMC / 6 CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The Studio Albums 2009-2018 box set features Mark's latest four studio releases, plus a collection of studio B-sides, bonus tracks, and two previously unreleased songs, Back In The Day and Precious Voice From Heaven. The audio for the collection... |
Mark Knopfler
The Studio Albums 2009 - 2018 (9 LP Box Set) [ UMC / 9 LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The Studio Albums 2009-2018 box set features Mark's latest four studio releases, plus a collection of studio B-sides, bonus tracks, and two previously unreleased songs, Back In The Day and Precious Voice From Heaven. The audio for the collection... |
Mark Turner, Jason Palmer, Joe Martin, Jonathan Pinson
Return From The Stars (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
PONCHIELLI / GIORDANO / VERDI / FLOTOW / BIZET / PUCCINI / etc
Johathan Tetelman - Arias Jonathan Tetelman (tenor), Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Karel Mark Chichon [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Aug/2022 ] Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman has already earned a reputation in the opera world as a dedicated, distinctive and versatile artist. Having signed an exclusive agreement with DG, he has now recorded his debut DG album, Arias. |
Mark de Clive-Lowe
Freedom [ Soul Bank / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Electronic jazz pioneer, pianist, producer, re-mixer Mark de Clive-Lowe has an envious reputation as a cross genre creative artist who blends acoustic, electronic and world music exploring themes of belonging and identity. Equal parts jazz, house... |