JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms/Schubert: Cello Sonatas Natalie Clein (cello) Charles Owen (piano) [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 18/Oct/2004 ] "..a particularly sensitive and beautifully shaped account of Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata. The work may not lie very easily on the cello, but Clein makes light work of its technical difficulties." Classical-music |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Greatest Hits (incls 'Tit Willow', 'With cat-Like Tread', 'Poor Wand'ring One' & 'I Have a Song to Sing, O!') Valerie Masterson, John Reed, Joyce Wright, Owen Brannigan / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Isidore Godfrey, Sir Malcom Sargent [ Decca / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert will be forever linked by their successes with their popular comic operas. They wrote many operettas including The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse Charles Owen (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] "Accomplished with thorough and refined pianistic skill and a wholehearted identification with Liszt's message, Owen's music-making is powerfully compelling." - Editor's Choice, Gramophone November 2021 |
Owen Gray, The Jiving Juniors, Derrick Morgan, Jimmy Cliff, Don Drummond Orchestra, The Hi-Tones, etc
Back Beat (Singles From The Island Vaults 1962) [ Not Now Music / 3 CD - released 1/May/2018 ] |
SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / GODARD / DOPPLER / BIZET / etc
Romance of the Flute & Harp Philippa Davies, flute / Thelma Owen, harp [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] .."Highly recommended for playing on a late summer evening" (PenguinGuide 3*) |
Valerie Masterson, Donald Maxwell, Richard van Allan, Judy Kaye / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kismet - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1990 |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Essential Gilbert & Sullivan Glyndebourne Opera with George Baker, Owen Brannigan, John Cameron, Richard Lewis, Monica Sinclair [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "A very well sung recording indeed....Exceptionally good singing....Loaded with atmosphere" |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age of Light Music: Musical Kaleidoscope Vol 2 Various Artists including Dolf van der Linden, Reg owen, George Melachrino, Jackie Brown, Sidney Torch, Wilfred Burns, Monty Kelly, etc [ Guild / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] Guild Music's first 'Musical Kaleidoscope' (GLCD 5139) could not accommodate all the special requests and 'leftovers' from previous collections, so this second volume had to follow. There are two special features this time, the first being a... |
QUILTER
Folk-Song Arrangements / Part-Songs for Women's Voices (Complete) Amanda Pitt (soprano) Joanne Thomas (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) David Owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 11 / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "A worthy addition to British song history. Quilter enhances traditional tunes with understated, self effacing arrangements" (MusicWeb June 2005) |
JOHN IRELAND / ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Ireland & Moeran: Choral Music The Carice Singers, George Parris, with David Owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Nov/2016 ] "A very fine disc of music that is richly rewarding for both listener and choir." MusicWeb |
JOHN ADAMS / JOHN CORIGLIANO
Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: The Red Violin: Chaconne Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin, with Charles Owen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "(Chloe's) debut with Naxos is a formidable addition to the label's encyclopaedic series of American classics...Throughout this major 20th-century concerto, the clarity of the Naxos recording is immaculate, making the balance between soloist and... |
ARTHUR SOMERVELL
Maud & A Shropshire Lad David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) David Owen Norris (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 25/Feb/2002 ] 'I cannot recommend this disc highly enough. To list the outstanding moments would take too long. Very highly recommended' (Classic CD) |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Pirates of Penzance (highlights) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Valerie Masterson; Owen Brannigan; John Reed / Royal Philharmonic Orch. / Isadore Godfrey [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Masses, Vol. 1 - Stabat Mater Ann Hoyt (soprano) Luthien Brackett (alto) Stephen Sands (tenor) / Trinity Choir, Rebel bel Baroque Orchestra, Owen Burdick [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Together with the Missa Cellensis, the Stabat Mater (1767) was one of the first sacred works that Haydn composed in his new position as Kapellmeister of the Esterházy court. The Virgin Mary's vast range of emotions during the Crucifixion are... |
JACK BODY / JOHN PSATHAS / ANTHONY RITCHIE / TRADITIONAL
Music from New Zealand for Two Guitars Jane Curry, Owen Moriarty (guitars) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] Guitar works by new Zealand composers continue to display a richness of imagination and sense of colour that makes them intensely attractive to listeners. In 1990 Jack Body wrote African Strings, which transcribed music of the Madagascan valiha tube... |
Kate Owen
Not A Proper Girl [ Spinstir Records / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] A singer with a poetic, restrained intensity, Kate Owen has been songwriting for twenty years and performing live for a decade, but until now has never recorded an album. Her sound ranges from stripped-back laments to 90's pop anthems. Her debut... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Complete Scottish Songs Mark Wilde (tenor) / Lucy Wakeford (harp), David owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2011 ] "The mood is mostly bleak, haunted and haunting: this is Britten at his most austerely romantic and melancholy." (Daily Telegraph) |
A LITTLE NONSENSE
A Little Nonsense Owen Brannigan (baritone) with the Pro Arte Orchestra / Charles Mackerras [ ABC / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] This delightful record presents us with a rich feast of the nonsensical in word and sound, which should satisfy the appetite of even the wisest among us, young or old. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Masses, Vol. 5 - Masses Nos. 4, 'Grosse Orgelmesse' and 10, 'Heiligmesse' Soloists / Trinity Choir / Rebel Baroque Orchestra / Owen Burdick [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "The playing [of REBEL Baroque Orchestra] is stylish, rhythmic and technically assured...and there is remarkable precision of ensemble." The Strad |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Masses Volume 2 - Cacilienmesse Trinity Choir / REBEL Baroque Orchestra / J. Owen Burdick [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "The REBEL Baroque Orchestra really plays well: trumpets and drums have the requisite panache and the strings offer excellent intonation and an appealingly sweet timbre that never turns scruffy or thin." (10/10 ClassicsToday May 2010) |