MAURIZIO CAZZATI
Cazzati: Motets Ayako Ono (soprano), Christoph Rudolf · Christoph Riedo (violin), Marc Meisel (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Sinuously beautiful solo motets by a little-known contemporary of Cavalli, imaginatively programmed with instrumental interludes by their Italian contemporaries. A musical career seems to have been destined for Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678).... |
DVORAK / WALTON / SHOR / BARTOK
Motherland David Aaron Carpenter (viola) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski and David Parry [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2018 ] For his second Warner Classics album, David Aaron Carpenter - "a star violist" in the words of the Los Angeles Times - brings together concertos by DvoĆák, Bartók, Walton and a dance cycle by contemporary composer Alexey Shor. |
PHILIPPE BOESMANS
Julie (complete opera recorded in 2005) Festival d'Aix-en-Provence / Gary Magee / Malena Ernman / Kerstin Avemo / Kazushi Ono (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] G - "Bondy's purely naturalistic production is beautifully filmed with telling use of close-ups..." BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 ***** |
ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Hansel Und Gretel (complete opera recorded in 2008) Glyndebourne Opera / jennifer Holloway, Adriana Kucerova, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke / Kazushi Ono (cond) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 22/Apr/2012 ] "…the masterstroke which wins this show the memorable quality lacking in the indeterminate Royal Opera production… is the witch's supermarket house, brilliantly designed by Barbara de Limburg Stirum and brilliantly abetted by Wolfgang... |
RAVEL
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / l'Heure Espagnole (complete operas recorded in 2012) Glyndebourne Opera / Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Méchain, Paul Gay, Elliot Madore, François Piolino / Kazuki Ono (cond) [ FRA Musica DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Opera |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / l'Heure Espagnole (complete operas recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Méchain, Paul Gay, Elliot Madore, François Piolino / Kazuki Ono (cond) [ Fra Musica Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Opera |
VACCAJ
Vaccai: La sposa di Messina - world premiere recording Jessica Pratt, Filippo Adami, Armando Ariostini, Wakako Ono, Maurizio Lo Piccolo / Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] [Vaccaj's] dramatic sense is exceptional, and the opera has an implacable momentum that makes it compelling...the star is Jessica Pratt as Isabella, fearsomely impressive in a big role... |
John Lennon Yoko Ono
Imagine & Gimme Some Truth [ Eagle Rock / DVD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] The Imagine film is a cinematic collage of colour, sound, dream, and reality. Produced and directed in 1971 by John & Yoko, who - along with numerous guest stars including George Harrison, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Jack Palance, and... |
John Lennon / Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No. 1 Two Virgins [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] Turns out the very sound of falling in love is just as abstract, subjective and loopy as the concept itself. Yoko Ono and John Lennon are two of history's greatest lovers, and Two Virgins is the document of the pair falling in love in real time. The... |
John Lennon / Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No 2 Life With The Lions [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] Life with the Lions is the sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It's when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording... |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No. 2 - Life With The Lions [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Wedding Album [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Originally released in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Wedding Album was the couple's third experimental, album-length record, following Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968) and Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions (1969), and one of... |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Wedding Album [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Wedding Album (Box Set LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Originally released in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Wedding Album was the couple's third experimental, album-length record, following Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968) and Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions (1969), and one of... |
John Lennon / Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No 1: Two Virgins (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 11/Nov/2016 ] Turns out the very sound of falling in love is just as abstract, subjective and loopy as the concept itself. Yoko Ono and John Lennon are two of history's greatest lovers, and Two Virgins is the document of the pair falling in love in real time. The... |
John Lennon / Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No 2 Life With The Lions (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 11/Nov/2016 ] Life with the Lions is the sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It's when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels / Laura Claycomb, Andrew Kennedy, William Shimell / Kazushi Ono (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Blu-Ray - 'Lepage has forged a reputation as one of the most visionary theatre directors of our age… The Rake's Progress is heading our way, and it promises to be a highlight of the 2007/8 season.' Sunday Times |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (complete opera recorded in 2007) Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels / Andrew Kennedy / William Shimell / Laura Claycomb / Kazushi Ono (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 21/Mar/2008 ] G - Recorded live at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels on 26 and 28 April 2007. |
Yoko Ono
It’s Alright (I See Rainbows) [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
Yoko Ono
Plastic Ono Band [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] This reissue of Yoko Ono's seminal, but massively under-appreciated Plastic Ono Band has all the makings of a classic rock nostalgia trip: Ono, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman. All the pieces are here to... |