J. S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Matthäus Passion (Deluxe Edition) Rufus Müller, Richard Jackson, Nancy Argenta, Jonathan Peter Kenny, Jamie MacDougall, Stephen Varcoe / Paul Goodwin (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] The audio version of Jonathan Miller's ground-breaking production for TV of Bach's great sacred drama. |
Cliff Richard
Cliff With Strings - My Kinda Life (Limited LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Cliff Richard has marked his incredible 65th year in the music industry by compiling and curating an album of his biggest hits and favourite tracks reworked with the orchestral arrangements by Chris Walden. 'Cliff with Strings - My Kinda Life' is a... |
Cliff Richard
Cliff With Strings: My Kinda Life [ Rhino / Warner / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Cliff Richard has marked his incredible 65th year in the music industry by compiling and curating an album of his biggest hits and favourite tracks reworked with the orchestral arrangements by Chris Walden. 'Cliff with Strings - My Kinda Life' is a... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano) / Les Violons du Roy; Jonathan Cohen [ Analekta / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] "He shapes and phrases the music with a keen eye (or ear) on its dialogic potential, driving forwards energetically without bullying or indulging in display for its own sake." Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2023 |
Richard Hawley
Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley [ ADA / BMG / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] Richard Hawley is widely recognized as both one of the UK's greatest songwriters and one of its most respected. Alongside two Mercury Music Prize Nominations, a BRIT award nomination and 4 UK Top 10 Albums, the Sheffield native songwriter has... |
Richard Hawley
Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley (LP) [ ADA / BMG / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] Richard Hawley is widely recognized as both one of the UK's greatest songwriters and one of its most respected. Alongside two Mercury Music Prize Nominations, a BRIT award nomination and 4 UK Top 10 Albums, the Sheffield native songwriter has... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The First Songs Of Travel - The 1954 Recital Richard Standen (bass-baritone), Frederick Stone (piano) [ Albion Records / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] This pioneering 1954 Westminster LP recital by Richard Standen (bass-baritone), accompanied by Frederick Stone (piano), has been remastered for Albion Records by Ronald Grames in excellent sound and issued on ALBCD055. This was the first recording... |
Richard Boothby (viola da gamba), Asako Morikawa (viola da gamba)
Music To Hear…Alfonso Ferrabosco [ Signum / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Alfonso Ferrabosco, born in Greenwich to an Italian composer father of the same name, was the pre-eminent viol player of the early 17th century, and his lyra viol publication mostly for solo viol is the largest, most important & technically... |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Piano Concertinos / Fantaisie et Variations brillantes Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Carl Czerny found fame and fortune in 19th-century Vienna by writing fashionable and popular works as well as developing techniques for the newly emerging piano with his numerous études. Much of Czerny's concert music for piano was considered 'wild... |
Cliff Richard
Christmas With Cliff [ EWUK / Warner / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] 'Christmas With Cliff' features 13 Christmas classics and brand-new Christmas tracks from this British music legend synonymous for his love of Christmas. The only artist in the world to achieve top 5 albums in eight consecutive decades, 'Christmas... |
MOZART / BACH
Mozart's Real Musical Father Duo Pleyel: Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya [ Linn Records / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Following their superb Dussek album (5 stars in BBC Music Magazine), Duo Pleyel's Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya explore the seminal role a musical father figure can play in shaping another composer. From Mozart's first meeting with... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The New Collector's Edition Joan Rodgers, William Shimmell, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Richard Hickox, Helen Watts, Janet Baker, Robert Tear, etc [ Warner Classics / 30 CD Box Set - released 30/Sep/2022 ] This edition presents all the major orchestral, chamber, vocal and stage works, as well as many lesser pieces and rarities, in the finest interpretations. All your favourite Vaughan Williams is here, in over 34 hours of music on 30 CDs. |
Dolores Gibson meets RIchard Lewis & Friends
Hey Little Boy, Hey Little Girl - 1949-1962 [ Jasmine Records / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Unlike Roy Milton, Jimmy Liggins & Lloyd Glenn, Richard Lewis & Dolores Gibson were never the star attractions on the West Coast scene but judging by their personal appearances and recordings they must have had a following however short lived it was.... |
EDWARD GERMAN
German: Merrie England Suite / Nell Gwyn / Gipsy Suite / etc Hellgren Staykov / Richard Morrison / Heather Schipp / National Festival Chorus and Orchestra / David Russel Hulme [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] 'There is only one man to follow me who has genius, and that is Edward German.' Thus did Sir Arthur Sullivan, in the last years of his life, acknowledge the stature of the modest but highly talented composer German Edward Jones, born 17 February 1862 |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams:Complete Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos Classics / 6 Hybrid SACD - released 27/May/2022 ] 'Impeccable playing' The Times |
Cliff Richard
The Great 80 Tour [ Via Vision Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 7/Apr/2022 ] ilmed live from The Royal Albert Hall. Cliff celebrates his 80th Birthday (a year late) on this very special night. Sir Cliff Richard invites you to be part of the most spectacular party of the year, as he belatedly celebrates his 80th birthday.... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Orchestral Works, Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures, Dream of Gerontius Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) Richard Lewis (tenor) / Halle Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ EMI British Composers / 7 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Born in London of Italian-French parents, Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970) trained as a cellist and played in theatre and café orchestras before joining the Queen's Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood in 1916. |
OFFENBACH / MEYERBEER / MASSENET / CHARPENTIER / GOUNOD / etc
Joan Sutherland - Romantic French Arias Joan Sutherland (Soprano) / London Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor/piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] One of Dame Joan Sutherland's own favourite recordings, long unavailable on its own, reissued with additional material recorded at the Geneva sessions, with rarely seen photographs and a new booklet introduction. |
PICCINNI / DONIZETTI / VERDI / BELLINI / MOZART / HANDEL / etc
Joan Sutherland - The Age of Bel Canto (2CD) Joan Sutherland (Soprano) / London Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, with Marilyn Horne & Richard Conrad [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] A groundbreaking Decca album celebrating the glory of both bel canto and the voice of Sutherland in her prime, long unavailable on its own, reissued complete with a booklet introduction from Richard Bonynge. |
Richard Carpenter / The Carpenters
Richard Carpenter's Piano Songbook (LP) [ Decca / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Richard Carpenter is the iconic musician, producer, songwriter and arranger from the Carpenters, the astronomically successful group who have sold more than 90 million albums worldwide. Richard Carpenter's Piano Songbook reimagines the Carpenters... |