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 |
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 |
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. |
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
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 ] |
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... |
Yoko Ono
Season Of Glass [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
Yoko Ono
Starpeace [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
Yoko Ono
A Story [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
Yoko Ono
Walking On Thin Ice (Best Of) [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] The follow-up to 'Onobox', 'Walking on Thin Ice' is a single disc compilation of 19 highlights culled from the 105-song retrospective. This album reveals Ono's many compelling musical sides. |
Yoko Ono
Warzone [ Chimera Music / CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Following twenty albums over 50 years, Yoko Ono's Warzone is strikingly different from any record she has made previously, but it is also strikingly different from any album that anyone is making… |
Yoko Ono Plastic Band
Between My Head and the Sky [ Chimera / CD - released 2/Nov/2009 ] A career-defining album, Yoko at 76 years young is at the top of her game and in the prime of her life, with a band including Cornelius, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda & Erik Friedlander. |
Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
Approximately Infinite Universe [ Rykodisc / 2 CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Approximately Infinite Universe [ Secretly Canadian / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2017 ] There's a fury at the core of Yoko Ono's 1973 rock opus Approximately Infinite Universe that was not apparent on previously recorded efforts. Ono has always been a master of turning pain and sadness into art, but here, there's a clenched-fist... |