More By Artist: Royal Sinfonia
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PHILIP LANE
Lane: Sleighbell Serenade / Diversions on a Theme of Paganini / Cotswold Dances Verity Butler (clarinet) / Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland [ Naxos British Light Music, Vol. 15 / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Philip Lane has long been a stalwart of British light music and this recording provides an excellent survey of his concert works. London Salute marked the 60th anniversary of the BBC, while the lyrical and frivolous Diversions on a Theme of Paganini... |
BARTÓK / CASKEN / BEETHOVEN
Bartók / Casken / Beethoven Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius, Royal Northern Sinfonia [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] This powerful New Series album represents "a résumé and a departure" for Thomas Zehetmair, a summing up of his work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In his years as Music Director of the British chamber orchestra, Zehetmair was noted both for... |
LORD BERNERS
Berners: Ballet Music - Les Sirènes / Cupid and Psyche Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland / RTÉ Sinfonietta, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Lord Berners excelled in the ballet medium where he enjoyed collaborations with leading choreographers and conductors with whom his natural flair for spectacle and design could be explored to the full. |
LORD BERNERS
Berners.: Triumph of Neptune / L'uomo dai baffi / Valses bourgeoises / Champagne Charlie "Polka" English Northern Philharmonia, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "...Indeed, his forces respond with hugely committed performances full of gusto and bouncy swagger that make Berners' works as accessible as possible to new listeners." Classical Music Daily |
RICHARD STRAUSS / AARON COPLAND
Strauss: Duet Concertino, Prelude To Capriccio / Copland: Clarinet Concerto, Appalachian Spring Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) Stepan Turnovsky (bassoon) / Academy of London, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Richard Stamp [ Signum / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] "Richard Stamp secures real zip in the faster music, secures real zip in the faster music, and there is some lovely tender playing from the Royal Northern Sinfonia principals in the more tender passages." BBC Music |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Handel Variations Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 2/May/2020 ] "if you want an excellent performance with vivid, well balanced sound, this one by Vogt will serve you very well." MusicWeb |
GREGORY ROSE
Rose: Orchestral Works Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) / Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Gregory Rose [ Toccata / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "the composer is conducting a responsive Royal Ballet Sinfonia in top-notch accounts, the sound is splendid, and the annotations are generous and informative" ClassicalSource. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Four Ballades Lars Vogt (piano) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Feb/2020 ] "A wealth of seldom-heard orchestral detail emerges, with exquisite wind-playing especially prominent. Nothing is extraneous; every gesture seems bent towards maximum expressivity." Gramophone Editors Choice Jan 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5 'Emperor' Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "Vogt's playing in the slow movement [of the Emperor] is suitably rapt, and the whole performance radiates that sense of well-being which the piece demands" BBC Music |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 2 + 4 Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "The rapport between the soloist and this highly accomplished band of musicians is everything it should be, and more. These are marvellous performances" Gramophone Editor's choice May 2018 |
AARON JAY KERNIS
Kernis: Dreamsongs Paul Neubauer (viola), Joshua Roman (cello), Royal Northern Sinfonia, Rebecca Miller (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, 1998 Pulitzer Prize, and 2011 Nemmers Award, Aaron Jay Kernis is one of America's most honoured composers. His music appears prominently on concert programs worldwide, and he has been... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Piano Concerto No 3 Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "Vogt and the Tetzlaff siblings approach the Allegro [of the Triple] with warmth and a bristling energy…The crucial opening [of the C minor Concerto] just misses utter serenity here, but a devilish Rondo is pure delight." BBC Music |
SCHUMANN / SAINT-SAENS / TCHAIKOVSKY
Saint-Saens, Schumann, Tchaikovsky Cello Concertos Antonio Meneses (cello), Claudio Cruz, Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Avie / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] In celebration of the 35th anniversary of winning First Prize and the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, as well as his 60th birthday in August 2017, Antonio Meneses adds to his distinguished discography with three... |
CARL NIELSEN / W. A. MOZART
Nielsen / Mozart: Flute Concertos Juliette Bausor (flute), Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Signum / CD - released 28/Oct/2016 ] "[the Nielsen] turns out to be a perfect foil to the Mozart's warm, elegant exuberance. This later work allows the orchestra to display their harder edge but also at times to draw out unexpectedly Mozartian parallels, with Bausor herself commanding t |
HANS GAL / W. A. MOZART
Gal / Mozart: Piano Concertos Sarah Beth Briggs (piano), Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Avie / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] "Briggs gives a wonderfully balanced reading of music that seems familiar - in its classical poise and charm - and strange…Kenneth Woods and the Royal Northern Sinfonia accompany superbly…with crystal-clear sound, this is [a] most enjoyable concerto |
PROKOFIEV
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (complete ballet recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Sergei Polunin, Will Kemp, Kilian Smith, Charlotte Edmonds / The Royal Ballet School & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2016 ] Choreography Matthew Hart Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev's musical fairy tale, has been delighting children since 1936. Nearly 60 years later, in 1995, the young choreographer Matthew Hart created a witty choreographed version for the Royal Ballet... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos. 52, 53 & 59 Royal Northern Sinfonia, Rebecca Miller (leader & conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] This new release follows Miller's acclaimed recording of the works of CPE Bach with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Rebecca Miller leads the Royal Northern Sinfonia in performances of three Haydn Symphonies. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (complete ballet recorded in 2010) Royal Opera House / Sergei Polunin, Will Kemp, Kilian Smith, Charlotte Edmonds / The Royal Ballet School & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2014 ] "...Matthew Hart's Peter and the Wolf is one of the most beguiling children's ballets around." The Telegraph |
W. A. MOZART / NIELSEN
Mozart / Nielsen: Clarinet Concertos Julian Bliss (clarinet) / Royal Northern Sinfonia, Mario Venzago [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "Bliss responds to the work's mercurial switches of mood with a wide range of colour and articulation, and meets its considerable technical challenges with seemingly offhand virtuosity." (BBC Music) |
MENDELSSOHN
Heimkehr aus der Fremde / Concerto in E for piano and orchestra (with Chopin - Piano Concerto No 1, orch. Balakirev) Victor Sangiorgio (piano) / Royal Northern Sinfonia, Martin Yates [ Dutton / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] Dutton Epoch's first recording with Royal Northern Sinfonia features pianist Victor Sangiorgio, brilliant in two romantic concertos of the mid-nineteenth century but given a modern twist: Martin Yates' realisation of the surviving fragments of... |
