Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Patrick Rimes (bagpipes)
Bryn Terfel - Sea Songs [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Bryn Terfel's first studio album in over five years featuring wildly romantic "Sea Songs". Shanties and songs about the sea and seafaring in a folky guise such as "Wellerman", "Bold Riley", "Drunken Sailor" or "Sloop John B", with guests such as... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra (complete opera recorded in 2021) Serena Farnocchia, Patrick Kabongo, Mert Süngü, Veronica Marini / Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Rossini's rarely performed Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra was his first opera for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. With the composer showcasing and indeed recycling some of his best music, it was an enormous success and allowed him to become... |
BENJAMIN BRUCH / MAX BRUCH
Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos Kerson Leong (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra; Patrick Hahn [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] "it is the coupling of the Britten Violin Concerto (gratifyingly becoming more and more core repertoire these days) which...sets this disc apart…I can't recall a better account of the piece than this." Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2023 |
Michael Patrick Kelly
B.O.A.T.S - Extended Edition [ Columbia / CD - released 16/Dec/2022 ] With this Extended Edition Michael Patrick Kelly releases a special version of the album B.O.A.T.S. Musically, B.O.A.T.S breaks through all genre boundaries, with epic ballads and cinematic dreaminess, at times full throttle and booming hard rock,... |
CHEN YI / N, CURRIER / S. CURRIER / GEORGE TSONTAKIS
Digital Mist: Works for Violin and Piano Patrick Yim (violin) Kiu Tung Poon (piano) Sebastian Currier (pre-recorded sound samples) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] This album offers a survey of American music composed for violin and piano from 1980 to 2010 through the lens of masterpieces by four American composers who have been distinguished by the highest honors of their profession. |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (complete opera) Tim Mead, Mary Bevan, Anna Dennis, Hilary Summers, Patrick Terry / Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / Chaccone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] "...Christian Curnyn's answering restraint reveals the stark solos, shimmering textures, ringing silences and stunning one-to-a-part counterpoint of music that fairly bursts with its composer's early genius." Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Nov 22 |
KONSTANTIN VASSILIEV
Vassiliev: El Faro Mágico / Wanderer in Time / Rose in the Snow / etc Yuri Liberzon (guitar), with Patrick O'Connell (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Konstantin Vassiliev's music synthesises several different styles including jazz, Russian folk music and contemporary Western traditions. This album contains music written over a 22-year period. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: L'Occasione fa il ladro (complete opera recorded in 2017) Rossini in Wildbad / Patrick Kabongo, Vera Talerko, Kenneth Tarver, Lorenzo Regazzo / Virtuosi Brunensis, Antonino Foglian [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Recorded at the Köngliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad, Germany, 13 and 22 July 2017 |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: L'Occasione fa il ladro (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Rossini in Wildbad / Patrick Kabongo, Vera Talerko, Kenneth Tarver, Lorenzo Regazzo / Virtuosi Brunensis, Antonino Foglian [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Recorded at the Köngliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad, Germany, 13 and 22 July 2017 |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse; Patrick Davin; Henri Demarquette
Boëllmann: Symphonie en fa majeur, Variations symphoniques & Quatre pièces brèves [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Léon Boëllmann's Suite gothique, with its suave Prière à Notre-Dame and its spirited Toccata, rapidly became a beloved war-horse of organists throughout the world and gained the composer great renown. The Suite's fame, however, caused other works by... |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera recorded in 2015) Dallas Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Roth Costanzo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick - already have". |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Olivier Cavé (piano), Kammerakademie Potsdam, Patrick Hahn [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] A subtle performer of the Baroque and Classical piano repertory, Olivier Cavé here offers us for the first time his interpretation of Beethoven's first two concertos, written between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. |
ROB KEELEY
Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music Sarah Desbruslais (flute) Michael Sluman, James Turnbull (oboes) Patrick Flanaghan (cor anglais) / Málaga Philharmonic & Liepāja Symphony Orchestra [ Toccata / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Rob Keeley - born in south Wales in 1960 but immersed in London musical life since boyhood - embraces a wide range of influences. Stravinsky's angular melodies and Tippett's buoyant rhythms can be heard in the spiky but bucolic Second Symphony. |
La Caccia, Patrick Denecker
Salve Antwerpiae [ Ricercar / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The city of Antwerp could well have shared the title of European capital of music with Venice during the 16thcentury. Whilst there was a great amount of sacred and secular music performed in the city, Antwerp's manufacturers of harpsichord and... |
DIDEM BASAR
Basar: Levantine Rhapsody Didem Başar, Patrick Graham, Noémy Braun [ Analekta / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] The dialogue I created between the kanun and Western classical instruments (flute, percussion, violin and cello) is enriched by Turkish makams (modes), rhythmic cycles and improvisation. |
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: Overtures Vol. 6 Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] Domenico Cimarosa's operas were remarkably successful, being staged and re-staged in opera houses all over Europe. Success in his home town of Naples led o court appointments and royal commissions, including his best-known work Il matrimonio segreto... |
MAURICE RAVEL / BENJAMIN ATTAHIR
Ravel: Valse & Rapsodie Espagnole / Attahir: Adh-Dhor Patrick Wibart / Orchestre National de Lille / Alexandre Boch [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Alexandre Bloch juxtaposes two French composers on this disc. First of all, Maurice Ravel, with the Rapsodie espagnole, his first major work for orchestra alone, written at the age of thirty-two, and La Valse, premiered thirteen years later and which... |
BIBER
Biber: Les sonates du Rosaire Patrick Bismuth; Ensemble La Tempesta [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |