VERDI
Il Trovatore (Complete Opera in English) Alan Opie (baritone) Clive Bayley (bass) Sharon Sweet (soprano) London Philharmonic orchestra [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2001 ] .A further addition to Chandos's Opera in English series |
SONGS OF ELVIS PRESLEY
All Shook Up - a new musical comedy Cheyenne Jackson, Jonathan Hadary & Sharon Wilkins / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony / BMG / CD - released 25/Aug/2005 ] All Shook Up is a 2004 American jukebox musical with music from the Elvis Presley songbook and with a book by Joe DiPietro. The musical premiered on Broadway in 2005. |
SALLY BEAMISH
Violin Concerto / Callisto / Symphony No. 1 Anthony Marwood (violin) / Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "...the First Symphony leaves the strongest impression here...It makes no mean impression in this performance, Martyn Brabbins drawing a committed response from the Royal Scottish National players, who are hardly less attentive in the concertos."... |
W. A. MOZART
Chamber music for strings - complete string duos, trios, quartets & quintets The Chilingirian Quartet, Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna, Orlando Quartet, Sharon Quartet, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2012 ] |
GLUCK
Iphigénie en Tauride [complete opera] Christine Goerke, Rodney Gilfry, Vinson Cole, Stephen Salters, Sharon Baker / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Telarc Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2012 ] |
CHARLES KOECHLIN
Songs: Le cortege d'Amphitrite Claudette Leblanc (soprano) Boaz Sharon (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "This really must be a find for those who wish to be captivated by some relatively unknown turn-of-the-century French songs" Hi-Fi News |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Siegfried Jerusalem, Sharon Sweet, Marjana Lipovšek, Philip Langridge / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Claudio Abbado [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] The reception at the first performance was overwhelming: the ovation lasted fifteen minutes; the composer's denigrators were silenced, and many members of the audience wept. |
W.A. MOZART
Greatest Hits Daniel Barenboim / Gianluigi Gelmetti / Hartmut Haenchen / Sharon Kam / Angelika Kirchschlager / Sir Neville Marriner / RenAC Pape / Gil Shaham / etc. [ EuroArts / DVD - released 12/Mar/2007 ] G :- All the very best of Mozart on one DVD. |
RAMALLAH CONCERT
The Ramallah Concert / Knowledge is the Beginning Daniel Barenboim / The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Mohamed Seleh / Kinan Azmeh / Mor Biron / Sharon Polyak) / Paul Smaczny [ Warner Music Vision / EuroArts DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] Revised Documentary & Live Recording. This DVD documents the orchestra's August 2005 concert in the Palestinian Territory in the city of Ramallah, and includes repertoire for which Barenboim is celebrated - Beethoven, Mozart and Elgar. |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn Portrait: Complete works [Symphonies, chamber, concertos, operas, songs, choral & instrumental] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Klara Wurtz, Gil Sharon, Frans Bruggen, Frank van de Laar, Jos van Immerseel, and many more [ Brilliant Classics / 41 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2009 ] This 40CD set includes all his major orchestral works, including the 5 symphonies, the evergreen violin concerto in E minor, the music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Elijah, the First Piano Trio, Octet, Songs without Words and a selection of his Lieder. |
W.A. MOZART
The Complete Violin Concertos Emmy Verhey (violin), Gil Sharon (violin), Yuri Gundelsmann (violin) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / etc [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Of course we can not ignore Mozart’s anniversary. So in addition to our best-selling 170 CD box with the complete works by this composer we celebrate his 250th birthday with a special series. |
BEETHOVEN
String Quintets, Opp. 29 and 104 / Fugue, Op. 137 Fine Arts Quartet / Gil Sharon (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] One of the best-kept secrets of chamber music, Beethoven's String Quintet in C major, Op. 29, was written between the well-known 'early' and 'middle' string quartets. This strangely neglected masterpiece of startling originality is coupled here with... |
BRUCKNER
String Quintet in F major / String Quartet in C Fine Arts Quartet with Gil Sharon, viola [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] Anton Bruckner's String Quintet in F major was composed at the suggestion of the famous Viennese violinist Joseph Hellmesberger. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Mozart [5 DVD set] Gil Shaham / Sharon Kam / Sandrine Piau / Dorothea Roschmann / Daniel Barenboim / and more [ EuroArts DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2011 ] MediciArts offers a DVD box full of the most sparkling of Mozart's compositions. Performed by instrumentalists, orchestras, conductors and singers, among the best interpreters of his works, this representative selection... |
ROMANTIC VIOLIN
Romantic Violin (violin pieces by Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bruch, etc) Gil Sharon, Bohuslav Matousek, Emmy Verhey, Ilya Grubert (violins) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Gil Sharon lives in the Netherlands, where he is concertmaster of the Limburg Symphony Orchestra. In 1971 he won first prize in the "Internatyional Emily Anderson Violin Competition" in London. As a result of this he was invited for solistic... |
JOSE SEREBRIER
José Serebrier - Composer & Conductor Sharon Bezaly, Alexandre Kantorow, Australian Chamber Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra José Serebrier, Richard Tognetti (conductors) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "Substantial concertos and stunning musicianship" MusicWeb Feb 2020 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos, Salzburg Divertimenti and Haffner Serenade Hungarian Chamber Orchestra, Kristóf Baráti / Amati Chamber Orchestra, Gil Sharon / Kammerorchestra 'C.P.E. Bach', Hartmut Haenchen [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "..Baráti is out of the top drawer. With intensity of sound, unbridled athleticism and searing leaps into the stratosphere which send a tingle down the spine" (Gramophone) |
TRADITIONAL
Folk Music of Ireland Ian Giles, Ian Page, Sharon Lindo, Matthew Spring, The Amber Quartet, Dr Faustus, Dragonsfire [ Heritage of Music / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] This album and its companion volumes present some of Britain's finest folk musicians performing a selection of songs and instrumental music from the British folk tradition. |
TRADITIONAL
Folk Music of Scotland Ian Giles, Ian Page, Sharon Lindo, Matthew Spring, The Amber Quartet, Dr Faustus, Dragonsfire [ Heritage of Music / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] This album and its companion volumes present some of Britain's finest folk musicians performing a selection of songs and instrumental music from the British folk tradition. |