More By Artist: The Pro-Teens
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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... |
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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... |
The Pro-Teens
I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Within Melbourne's burgeoning cinematic-soul scene, which includes breakout acts Surprise Chef and Karate Boogaloo, mysteriously sit The Pro-Teens. Helmed by prolific drummer and percussionist Hudson Whitlock, who also plays in both bands, this... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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. |
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... |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Palestrina: Best Masses James Griffett, Neil Jenkins, Ian Partridge, Gordon Jones, Christopher Keyte, Stephen Roberts / Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 16/Sep/2013 ] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular... |
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... |
PALESTRINA
Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet Book IV for 5-6 voices Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner [ ALTO / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] "The present, 4th setting was discovered only in the 19th Century, and is recorded here complete for the first time….serene but poignant simplicity which Bruno Turner captures admirably with spacious tempi .. the quality of the singing from a group... |
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... |
PALESTRINA
Missa Aeterna Christi Munera & Stabat Mater Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner & Mark Brown [ Alto / CD - released 10/Sep/2012 ] |
Pro Cantione Antiqua/Brown
Palestrina: Missa Brevis/Missa [ Alto / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] Lauda Sion is, in Pro Cantione Antiqua's sober and elegant account, hardly less beautiful than the Brevis…slightly plangent countertenor complements the minor inflexions of this major-mode work….but there is nothing tentative in the delivery. The... |
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... |
PALESTRINA
Choral Works (Incls Missa Papae Marcelli & Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet) Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown & Bruno Turner (directors) [ Brilliant Classics Choral Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "eloquence & power..whatever versions you have, this has special claims" (Penguin Guide 3*) |
PURCELL
Purcell in Court ...and Tavern ! Pro Cantione Antiqua / Collegeum Aureum / Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] "Careful listening will teach you much about the essence of early sixteenth century polyphony." |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Best of British Composers Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury / Pro Arte Orchestra, George Weldon / Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox / etc. [ EMI Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The very best of British music, featuring contributions from the finest British artists, including: Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, the late Richard Hickox and of course, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. |
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. |
LASSUS
Lamentations of Jeremiah Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "..performances under Bruno Turner are expressive & vital... recording... spacious & warm..." (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
