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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Coffee & Classical Idil Biret (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano), Maria Lambros (viola), Soyeon Kate Lee (piano), Alon Goldstein (piano), Rachel Calin (double bass), Benjamin F [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] Enjoy this full-flavoured selection of music whilst sipping on a coffee from your favourite cup. Let our blended brew of aural aromas bring you down to earth from the days highs, and experience how our choice of works gives grounds for escape from... |
ERIKS ESENVALDS
Ešenvalds: Translations Kate Ledington, Maeve Stier, Celine Clark, Juan Castaneda, Jonathan Roberts, etc / Portland State Chamber Choir, Ethan Sperry [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] "All the solo vocal contributions are magnificent...A stunning, timely triumph, therefore, full of ravishing, transformative and deeply touching music." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2020 |
MONTEVERDI / SCARLATTI / HANDEL / MONARI
Kate Lindsey: Tiranno Kate Lindsey (soprano) / Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2021 ] "This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the subtle and inflected playing of the Arcangelo group" BBC |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Gloriana (complete opera recorded in June 2013) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Susan Bullock, Toby Spence, Patricia Bardon, Mark Stone, Kate Royal / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2013 ] "At its moments of greatest drama and pathos this 2013 production is undeniably effective." (MusicWeb) |
WILLIAM ALWYN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chamber Works Vol 1 Haffner Wind Ensemble of London, with Nicholas Daniel - oboe & Kate Hill - flute [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "The Haffner Wind Ensemble is very impressive indeed, both individually as personalities and as a team matching timbres expertly. Their playing is full of spontaneity and conveyed enjoyment" Gramophone |
HAYDN / HANDEL / SCARLATTI
L'Arianna Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano) / Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] "what really make the project spark...The playing of Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen is typically high-quality, and often heartbreakingly attendant to the drama." Gramophone Awards 2020 - Short List - Recital |
DEBUSSY / DELIBES / CANTELOUBE / ORFF / R. STRAUSS / RODRIGO / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Royal Kate Royal (soprano) / The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Edward Gardner [ EMI Classical / CD - released 3/Sep/2007 ] Kate Royal was born in London and attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset. Her teachers as a youth included Jon Andrew.[citation needed] She later studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then the National Opera Studio. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Royal: Midsummer Night Kate Royal (soprano) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, Orchestra of English National Opera [ EMI Classics / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] "…Kate Royal's lustrous soprano has invited comparisons with that of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and so it does in this imaginative programme, conducted by fellow wunderkind Edward Gardner." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Royal - A Lesson in Love Kate Royal (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/2011 ] "Kate Royal's beautifully sung new album, with finely characterised piano-playing from Malcolm Martineau, ranges imaginatively across a spectrum of composers who have captured the first pangs, the heartaches and the dashed hopes." Gramophone... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Songs of Robert Schumann Vol 10 (Incls Liederkreis Op 39) Kate Royal, with Felicity Lott, Lydia Teuscher (sopranos) Ann Murray, Daniela Lehner (mezzos) Stephan Loges (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD Box Set - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "...So it is good now to hear how Royal shapes up in miniatures by Schumann, again with Johnson. You can hear why the master accompanist is a fan." - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Jan 2008 |
Kate Smith
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Smith - The Songbird of the South - Original recordings 1927 - 1947 [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "A 19-year-old girl, weighing in the immediate neighborhood of 200 pounds, is one of the discoveries of the season for those whose interests run to syncopators and singers of what in the varieties and nightclubs are known as 'hot' songs. Kate Smith... |
Kate Tempest
The Book of Traps and Lessons [ Republic Records / CD ] A handful of words often tell you everything you need to know. When asked, who is Kate Tempest? "Kate Tempest is the words," she responds. For a woman whose public life remains rooted in poetic magnetism, five words serve as an apropos summation.... |
Kate Tempest
Let Them Eat Chaos [ Fiction CD / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Kate Tempest started out when she was 16, and over ten years later she is a published playwright, novelist, poet and respected recording artist. Her work includes 'Balance,' her first album with band Sound of Rum; 'Everything Speaks In Its Own Way'... |
BELLINI / DELIBES / ROSSINI / GOUNOD / DONIZETTI
A Journey: Pretty Yende Pretty Yende (soprano) / Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Marco Armiliato, with Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "On this basis of this disc, I can imagine Pretty Yende will soon be in demand all over the world." BBC Music Opera Choice Dec 2016 |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems Roderick Williams (baritone) with Julia Smith, Elizabeth Limb, Rachel Limb & Kate Jurka (soprano) / Martin Ford (organ) / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backh [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Featuring Vaughan Williams' masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Favorite (Complete opera recorded in 2014) Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse / Kate Aldrich, Yijie Shi, Ludovic Tézier / Antonello Allemandi (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2015 ] One of the composer's most beguiling scores, La Favorite is Donizetti's La favorita in its original French form - a tale of love and war that represents a glorious mix of Italian bel canto and 19th century grand opera. Today's scholarly interest... |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Einstein on the Beach (recorded in 2012-13) BLU-RAY Theâtre du Châtelet / Helga Davis, Kate Moran, Antoine Silverman / The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "This is close to a definitive version of the opera as you're likely to get." Gramophone |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Glory Of Gershwin Various Artists incls Odetta Adams, Kate Bush, Chris de Burg, Cher, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Sting, etc [ Mercury / CD - released 2/Jun/1994 ] Given the fact that George Gershwin was one of the greatest composers of the last hundred years, it seems that it would be easy to assemble a tribute album to him. Glory of Gershwin proves that this isn't the case, simply by offering poor... |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (compete opera recorded in 2016) Vienna State Opera / Benjamin Bernheim, Kathryn Lewek, Kate Lindsey, Christian van Horna / Marc Minkowski (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Aug/2025 ] The final revival of this well-loved production by John Schlesinger provided the perfect vehicle for Vittorio Grigòlo as Hoffmann to display his wonderful voice and masterful acting, surrounded by an exemplary supporting cast, including Sonya... |
Kate Ceberano
My Life Is A Symphony [ ABC Music / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Kate Ceberano's 30th album, My Life Is A Symphony, is a breathtaking celebration of her song writing, featuring her most iconic songs, Brave and Pash, and personal favourites from across her four-decade recording career, reimagined with Kate at a new... |
Kate NV
Room for the Moon (LP) [ Rvng Intl. LP / LP - released 12/Jun/2020 ] On Room for the Moon, Kate NV follows the muse of music from one chamber of illusion to the next, harmonizing lunar lullabies with a starry compositional choreography. Conjured from unlived memories of '70s and '80s Russian and Japanese pop music... |
Kate Owen
Not A Proper Girl [ Spinstir Records / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] A singer with a poetic, restrained intensity, Kate Owen has been songwriting for twenty years and performing live for a decade, but until now has never recorded an album. Her sound ranges from stripped-back laments to 90's pop anthems. Her debut... |
Kate Rusby
Hourglass [ Pure Records / CD - released 18/Aug/1998 ] Her debut album, with many guests |
Kate Rusby
Make The Light [ Pure Records / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] |
Kate Rusby
Underneath the Stars [ Pure Records / CD - released 1/Jul/2003 ] A mixture of traditional and new songs from U'K.'s #1 traditionalist artist |
Rusby, Kate
20 [ Pure Records / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2013 ] Marking twenty years of making music, Kate Rusby revisits her illustrious past on the appropriately titled 20, a beautiful collection of nineteen newly recorded versions of her favourite songs. 'Sun Grazers' - a self-penned, soulful duet with Paul... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano), Martin Oro (countertenor) Jörg Dürmüller (tenor) / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is a landmark in baroque music. It is Handel's first oratorio, product of his astonishing flowering in Italy in his early twenties, suffused with the youthful vigour and virtuosity of his early works . The... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Complete opera recorded in 2021) (Blu-ray) Wiener Staatsoper / Kyle Ketelsen, Ain Anger, Hanna-Elisabeth Muller, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Kate Lindsey, Philippe Sly / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Mar/2026 ] "Kosky and Jordan met congenially in the direction of the singers." - ORF |
VARIOUS
Madame D'Amours-Music for Renaissance Flute Consort The Attaignant Consort / Kate Clark (director) [ Ramee / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The elegant, keyless, cylindrical flute of the sixteenth century had a reedy, penetrating sound, closer to the cornetto than to any other wind instrument of the day. It had an impressive range of two and a half octaves and an evenness of tone quality... |
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, with Kate Royal (soprano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] Two much-loved orchestral favourites representing the summit of Elgar's maturity are coupled with three of the lesser-known wartime works, here receiving their rst recordings with the original French texts. Kate Royal is the soprano soloist in 'Une... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47 (Complete oratorio) Camilla Tilling, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Sonia Prina & Luca Pisaroni / Le Concert d'Astrae / Emmanuelle Haim [ Virgin Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "Toby Spence is elegant in St John the Evangelist's music, and Kate Royal find sumptuous beauty and emotional depth in the part of Mary Magdalene." Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 |
ROBIN HOLLOWAY
Holloway: The Lover's Well Clare Lloyd-Griffiths (soprano), Kate Symonds-Joy (mezzo-soprano), James Robinson (tenor) [ Delphian / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Released on the day of his 75th birthday, six stellar performers associated with Gonville & Caius College Cambridge join together to showcase British composer Robin Holloway, in a celebration of the lyrical and dramatic qualities of his abundant... |
Kate Manning (narrator)
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors [ BBC Audio / 4 CD Box Set - released 19/Apr/2010 ] Jo glanced at the Doctor. 'Things must be pretty serious then'. 'They are, Jo. Very serious indeed. The whole of the Universe is in danger'. This is the most amazing Who adventure yet, in which Doctors One, Two and Three cross Time and Space and come... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia (complete opera recorded October 2015) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Christine Rice, Allan Clayton, Kate Royal, Duncan Rock, Louise Alder / Leo Hussain (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Sep/2016 ] "Its beautifully acted and sung. Rice wrings your heart throughout and her self-lacerating final scenes have a harrowing immediacy" Gramophone |
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Danielle de Niese, Kate Lindsey, Agnes Zwierko, Nina Minasyan / John Wilson (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Jun/2020 ] With its combination of enchanting love story and broad, burlesque comedy, Cendrillon is one of the great operatic fairy tales - a Cinderella that looks back to Charles Perrault's original story in all its richness and ambiguity. Massenet's sensuous... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Tara Erraught, Kate Royal, Lars Woldt, Michael Kraus / Robin Ticciati (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Strauss's musically ravishing comic masterpiece is given a visual updating in director Richard Jones's stylish and 'gently subversive' Glyndebourne staging, one which offers 'a dreamlike distortion not just of Vienna's 18th-century past, but also of... |
CHARLES SILVER
Silver: La Belle au bois dormant Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, György Vashegyi, Guylaine Girard, Julien Dran, Kate Aldrich, Thomas Dolié [ Bru Zane / 2 CD - released 24/Apr/2026 ] Largely forgotten today, the composer Charles Silver was one of the most promising students of Jules Massenet, whose elegant style and effective dramatic gestures he fully mastered. His opera La Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty), based on... |
SAM RUD-JONES
Rudd-Jones: Three Sonatas Huw Watkins, Darragh Morgan, Kate Romano, Ed Lyon, Sam Rudd-Jones [ Prima Facie / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] 'Three Sonatas' is a debut collection of chamber music recordings from the exciting young composer Sam Rudd-Jones The majority of works on the album are in dialogue with older music, in particular classical forms (Three Sonatas, Variations) and... |
