JONATHAN WILLCOCKS
A Great and Glorious Victory and other choral music Allan Clayton (tenor) / Portsmouth Choral Union / English Cathedral Singers / Southern Pro Musica Conducted by Jonathan Willcocks [ Priory / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] Recorded on 4th and 8th January 2006 at the Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London |
TELEMANN
Cantatas & chamber music with recorder Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano) & Stefano Bagliano (recorder and concert master) / Collegium Pro Musica [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] Born in Magdeburg in 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann rejected a vocation in law, insisting that music was to be his focus. An organiser of concerts and a publisher of musical scores, he was a highly versatile entrepreneur as well as a throughouly... |
FELIX & FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 / etc. Budapest Festival Orchestra & Pro Musica (women's choir), Iván Fischer [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] "The playing throughout is of the highest quality" BBC Music |
Busch/Pro Arte Quartets
Play Schubert [ Dutton / CD ] |
LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: Sinfonietta / 4 Opera Preludes / Taras Bulba (recorded 1960-62) Charles Mackerras, Pro Arte Orchestra / Karel Ančerl, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "Charles Mackerras has shown himself one of the finest Janáček conductors. His readings convey a sense of burning belief in and love of Janáček's music; they are well prepared; yet it is as if the strangeness and beauty of the music were being... |
MONTEVERDI
Vespro della beata vergine (with Allegri - Miserere & Palestrina - Stabat Mater Collegium Aureum, Musica Fiata, Hannover Boys Choir & Pro Cantione Antiqua, Heinz Hennig, Mark Brown & Edgar Fleet [ Alto / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] Founded in 1968, Pro Cantione Antiqua has for over four decades been one of the most popular and acclaimed early music vocal ensembles. Their recording of Monteverdi's Vespers, first released on the Ars Musici label in the 1980s, returns to the... |
JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ
Quantz: Concertos & Trio Sonatas with Recorder Collegium Pro Musica, Stefano Bagliano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Johann Joachim Quantz (1697‐1773) was a composer, theorist, flutist and flute maker of great name and fame. Despite being of humble origin he quickly rose to great eminence, becoming a personal friend and court composer of Frederick The Great, living... |
TALLIS / LUDFORD / TAVERNER / SHEPPARD ETC
Tudor Music Afterlives Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward, Magnus Williamson, Toby Carr, Elisabeth Paul, Fiona Fraser [ Delphian / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] Following the freshness and vigour of their quincentenary portrait celebration of Robert Fayrfax, Ensemble Pro Victoria's second Delphian album brings a similar boldness of approach to a wider-ranging collection, charting some rarely explored... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Friedrich Wührer (piano), Stuttgart Pro Musica Orchestra, Walther Davisson [ Vox Classics / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] Viennese pianist Friedrich Wuhrer studied piano with Franz Schmidt and composition with Joseph Marx. Admired by Pfitzner and Reger, who dedicated works to him, Wuhrer had a strong interest in contemporary composers but on disc his major recordings... |
J. S. BACH
George Malcolm Plays Bach George Malcolm (harpsichord), with Pro Arte Orchestra, Boris Ord [ Heritage / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] George Malcolm performs the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, the Italian Concerto, Toccata in D major, 5th French Suite and the concertos for three and four harpsichords. He collaborates with Eileen Joyce, Thurston Dart, Denis Vaughan and the Pro Arte... |
PARRY / CLARKE / BYRD / ELGAR / WALTON / HANDEL
Rule Britannia: Stirring songs and patriotic music Harlow Chorus / The Elizabethan Consort / Martin Souter / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / London Pro Arte Orchestra [ Britannia / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] Music chosen for its thrill factor: from trumpets and drums to soaring choral voices, this programme has a 'Last Night of the Proms' feel. It features the great and the good of English music of the past including Handel, Holst, Elgar and Walton. |
FAURE / MOZART / BACH / VERDI / PERGOLESI / HANDEL / MAHLER
In Paradisum: Spiritual Classical Music Holland Boys Choir / Choir of King's College / Pro Cantione Antiqua and many more [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2011 ] The most moving, serene, peaceful and comforting choral classics: In Paradisum, includes a breathtaking selection of well-loved spiritual classical melodies. |
Valentini;
Weihnachliche Harfenmusik New York Harp Ensemble & Pro Arte Chamber Orchester, Aristid v. Würtzler [ ORFEO / CD - released 17/Aug/1984 ] |
Nosikova/Pro Corde/Jones
Liszt/Mendelssohn/Clementi:mal [ Profil / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] |
A LITTLE NONSENSE
A Little Nonsense Owen Brannigan (baritone) with the Pro Arte Orchestra / Charles Mackerras [ ABC / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] This delightful record presents us with a rich feast of the nonsensical in word and sound, which should satisfy the appetite of even the wisest among us, young or old. |
FAURE
Piano Quartet No 1 / Piano Trio The Pro Arte Piano Quartet [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] The Pro Arte Piano Quartet was made up of leading London-based instrumentalists, many of whom also played in the Melos Ensemble of London. Pianist Lamar Crowson was, and remains, one of the great chamber music pianists of all time (and a soloist in... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: 29 String Quartets Pro Arte Quartet [ Warner Classics / 7 CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] 'One has never heard them surpassed, and rarely equalled,' wrote The Times of Belgium's Pro Arte Quartet in 1925. |
Pro Arte Quartet
Haydn;String Quartets 1 [ Testament / 3 CD ] |
Pro Arte Quartet
Haydn:string Quartets 2 [ Testament / 4 CD ] |
The Pro Arte Singers. Paul Hillier - director
Byrd - The Three Masses [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] a remarkable testament to Byrd's immense compositional skill and tenacity |