VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Iona Abbey - Songs of Praise & Inspiration Glasgow Phoenix Choir, Marilyn J. Smith [ ITV / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] The world famous Glasgow Phoenix Choir provide these songs of praise and inspiration from the remote island of Iona, off the west coast of Mull, Scotland. Iona is credited with being the launch point of Christianity into Scotland. |
The Phoenix Foundation
Horsepower [ Capital Recordings / CD - released 11/Apr/2013 ] The debut long player from Wellington six-piece The Phoenix Foundation, 'Horse Power' is a sophisticated album with a well-developed sound, defying categorisation but with a unifying thread of gentle melancholy. It's a sort of eclectic blend... |
Diesel Phoenix
Here's Something We Prepared Earlier [ Diesel Phoenix Music New Zealand / CD - released 5/Nov/2009 ] The second album from Auckland 5-piece, Diesel Pheonix; a unique mixture aptly described as "anthem rock with pop vocal melodies." |
Phoenix
It's Never Been Like That / United [ 2 CD - released 28/Sep/2012 ] |
Phoenix
Ti Amo [ Universal Music CD / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Ti Amo (Italian for 'I love you') is decidedly apolitical record, though not being political is its own statement in 2017. Now, in slightly more positive times, everyone can enjoy Ti Amo's bright, summery sounds for what they are. The album sits... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Friend Ship [ The Phoenix Foundation / Universal Music NZ / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It's been five years since GUYD but that down time has been spent writing, recording, touring with the New... |
Phoenix Foundation
Give Up Your Dreams [ Universal / CD - released 7/Aug/2015 ] The Phoenix Foundation return with their new and sixth studio album Give Up Your Dreams. It's a shrewd and vibrant reminder that in The Phoenix Foundation's gloriously absurd world of Technicolour pop, it's the challenges you set yourself that reap... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Fandango (2 Disc) [ Local / 2 CD - released 2/May/2013 ] Fandango is an expansive, ambitious and gloriously rich 78 minute, 2-Disc album recorded over a 15-month period at four studios. From opener 'Black Mould' (perhaps the first motorik inspired song about a mouldy bathroom) to the 18 minute closing... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Happy Ending [ Flying Nun Records New Zealand / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] Following their acclaimed, gold-selling second album 'Pegasus', Wellington 6-piece indie rockers Phoenix Foundation are very pleased to present their third studio album 'Happy Ending'. |
The Phoenix Foundation
Pegasus [ Mushroom Records New Zealand / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] The sophomore album from this six-piece Wellington band, 'Pegasus' is already garnering high acclaim! "Nothing short of brilliant." - Pulp |
MARK GREY
Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio Scott Hendricks (baritone) / The Phoenix Symphony and Chorus / Michael Christie [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The Phoenix Symphony enjoys a long history of premièring new works that bridge gaps between Western art music and Native cultures. Hailed as 'a master', Mark Grey 'is a composer as well as a sound engineer, and what he is up to has far-reaching... |
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [ CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] 'WAP' is a career-defining album, filled with the band's signature melding of synthetics and organics, sharp, danceable rhythms, infectious choruses with a considerable dose of aural panache, and candy-coloured pop sensibilities. |
Phoenix
Bankrupt [ Liberation Music / CD - released 25/Apr/2013 ] |
JOSEF RHEINBERGER
Sacred Choral Works (Incls Mass, Op. 109) Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "This new recording was made by two professional American choirs, the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale, conducted by Charles Bruffy. The two groups come together annually to record double choir works. The resulting ensemble is... |
Phoenix
United [ CD - released 7/Feb/2014 ] |
ANONYMOUS
The Elfin Knight: Ballads & Dances from Renaissance England Joel Frederiksen (coloratura basso profondo) / Ensemble Phoenix Munich [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "the lion's share of the singing goes to Frederiksen, whose rich, clear bass seems capable of an almost infinite degree of tonal shading. His diction is impeccable, as is his taste" International Record Review |
CHERYL FRANCES-HOAD
Stolen Rhythm Rambert Orchestra, Phoenix Piano Trio, Ivana Gavric [ Champs Hill / CD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] RPS Award-winning British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad's fourth disc with Champs Hill Records, this is a compilation of chamber orchestral, chamber and solo piano works inspired by composers from the past. Cheryl Frances-Hoad explains the meaning... |
Phoenix
Bankrupt (Deluxe Edition) [ Liberation Music / CD - released 25/Apr/2013 ] |
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Spotless Rose - Hymns to the Virgin Mary Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] 'Where has this fabulous choir been all my life? No choral strength you can name eludes them…,' wrote American Record Guide on Shakespeare in Song, the first release by the Phoenix Chorale in 2004. |