Laura Bell Bundy
Achin' and Shakin' [ CD ] |
Laura Marling
Alas I Cannot Swim [ Astralwerks / CD - released 19/Aug/2008 ] Seventeen-year-old Laura has captured a primacy - never overstated - on a stunning debut which features 13 songs, showcasing Laura's fresh take on the folk idiom. |
HANDEL
Alcina (complete) Joyce DiDonato / Karina Gauvin / Laura Cherici / Maite Beaumont / Sonia Prina / Kobie van Rensburg / Vito Priante / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2009 ] "This Alcina is polished and passionate, the standard of da capo ornamentation unsurpassed. The acoustical environment of this recording is near-perfect." Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice (May 2009) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Anna Bolena (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Federico Benetti, Marta Torbidoni, Laura Polverelli, Dionisos Tsantinis / Belcanto Chorus, Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2015 ] This production of Anna Bolena faithfully meets the musical vision proposed by Fabio Biondi. The mise-en-scène, therefore, excludes any explicit reference to the plot's historical time, and the events have been set at the beginning of the 1800s, when |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Appalachian Spring / Clarinet Concerto / Quiet City Paula Engerer (cor anglais) / Scott Moore (trumpet) / Laura Ardan (clarinet) / Nashville Chamber Orchestra / Paul Gambill (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "Gambill conducts the Appalachian Spring as well as anyone ever has; he's particularly adept at sustaining the flow of the slower sections without letting the music sag, and he gets an astonishingly full sound from his ensemble. Sonics of ideal... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera recorded in 2007) Spoleto Festival / Ann Hallenberg / Laura Cherici / Carlo Lepore / Alan Curtis (cond) [ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jun/2008 ] G : - "...this is a very very good DVD of a great Handel opera. If you yourself need to expand your horizon and move into the baroque - or know someone who would like to do so - then you will be hard put to start with anything better." (MusicWeb... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: As You Like It (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) Globe / Brendan Hughes / Naomi Frederick / Laura Rogers / Philip Bird / Jamie Parker / Jack Laskey [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Naomi Frederick's superb Rosalind is a woman of wit and intelligence… Laskey's Orlando is equally bewitched, bothered and bewildered, and the playfulness between the two is a pleasure" The Guardian |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: As You Like It (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) BLU-RAY Globe Theatre / Brendan Hughes / Naomi Frederick / Laura Rogers / Philip Bird / Jamie Parker / Jack Laskey [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Naomi Frederick's superb Rosalind is a woman of wit and intelligence… Laskey's Orlando is equally bewitched, bothered and bewildered, and the playfulness between the two is a pleasure" The Guardian |
Laura Cantrall
At The BBC [ Spit & Polish / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] Over the past 15 years, Laura Cantrell has been a familiar presence on the U.K. country music scene. The Nashville-born, New York-based artist has developed a loyal audience through consistent touring, and numerous radio interviews and sessions for... |
BACH
Bach: Sonate a cembalo obligato e traversiere solo Laura Pontecorvo (transverse flute), Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord) [ Arcana / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] The year 1736 was very important in the life of Bach: he was conferred the title of Royal-Polish and Electoral-Saxon Court Composer. In that same year he composed the only two autographed sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord. Both sonatas came... |
RODRIGO RUIZ
Behold the Stars: Contemporary trios by Rodrigo Ruiz Kerenza Peacock (violin), Laura Van Der Heijden (cello), Huw Watkins (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] Signum's first disc with Rodrigo Ruiz highlights the Mexican composer's musical and literary passions, in performances by world-class soloists Kerenza Peacock, Huw Watkins and Laura van der Heijden. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Ruiz has attracted... |
Laura Jansen
Bells [ CD ] |
BERLIOZ
Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera) Bruce Ford / Laura Claycomb / Ralf Lukas / Franz Hawlata / MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig / Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 28/Jul/2007 ] "Laura Claycomb’s heroine was very finely sung, with bright, open tone and excellent diction: the character does not give a singer much to work with, but she did all she could to portray this capricious 17 year old: ‘Quand j’aurai votre âge’ may not... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera) Gregory Kunde, Laura Claycomb / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Jun/2008 ] 'Conductor and tenor are the joint heroes of this exhilarating release...Davis remains the supreme Berliozian of our day, brilliantly evoking the mercurial wit of the comic repartee...anyone who doesn't own this fabulous score should snap it... |
Laura Fygi
The Best is Yet To Come [ CD ] |
Laura Pausini
The Best of: E Ritorno Da Te [ Warner Music / CD - released 23/Oct/2001 ] American imported disc. |
Laura Pausini
The Best of (Le Mejor De): Volvere Junto A Ti [ CD - released 18/Nov/2012 ] |
Laura Fygi
Bewitched [ Verve Records / CD - released 9/Mar/1993 ] Featuring Toots Thielemans, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, and the London Symphony Orchestra |