Daphne Walker
Haere Mai (Everything Is Kapai): The TANZA Recordings [ Frenzy / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Daphne Walkers original recordings on CD for the first time from the TANZA tapes. Some of these songs were re-recorded in later years, but these superior recordings are all you need. |
ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Violin Concerto / Symphony No 5 Ilya Gringolts (violin), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano) / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Eckehard Stier & Garry Walker [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "orchestral tone and clarity is smooth and clean" (MusicWeb) |
SIDNEY JONES
The Geisha (Complete operetta) Lillian Watson / Sarah Walker / Harry Nicoll / Richard Suart / Christopher Maltman / New London Light Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/Feb/2006 ] 'The recording that has given me the most joy during the year. A work I have waited fully 40 years to find on LP or CD' (Gramophone) |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Symphonies Nos. 8, 21 & 26 New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Walker [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] Each of the three symphonies on this recording represents a significant milestone in Havergal Brian's long musical journey, and each demonstrates the breadth of his symphonic approach. No. 8 was the first of Brian's symphonies to be performed and is... |
PAVEL CHESNOKOV
Chesnokov: Sacred Choral Music St John's Voices, Cambridge University Chamber Choir, Graham Walker [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] "To my knowledge, this is the first recording dedicated exclusively to Chesnokov's work by British singers, and it provides an excellent showcase for his work, in chronological order." Gramophone Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2023 |
Stan Walker
Let the Music Play [ Sony Music / CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] Featuring the singles "Loud", "Light It Up", "Galaxy", plus fantastic covers of Dave Dobbyn's "Welcome Home", Fleetwood Mac's "Songbird", and an appearance from Annabel Fay on the track "Invisible". |
HUW WATKINS
Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin) / Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner [ NMC / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] Watkins is one of today's leading composer-pianists and this album (his second for NMC Recordings) showcases his vibrant, lyrical and impeccably crafted orchestral writing. Both the Flute and Violin Concertos were composed for soloists with whom he... |
BOWEN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / L. BERKELEY / BAX / FERGUSON
Shadow Dances: British Works for Flute and Piano Adam Walker (flute) Huw Watkins (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] For his second album for Chandos, the flute virtuoso Adam Walker explores the music of British composers with pianist Huw Watkins. Vaughan Williams's Suite de ballet was commissioned by the French flute virtuoso Louis Fleury (who had given the... |
POULENCE / MESSIAEN / BARTOK etc
Vocalise: Adam Walker Adam Walker (flute) & James Baillieu (piano) [ Opus Arte / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] Principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra, Adam Walker presents a recital of alternately lyric and dynamic music for flute and piano. A lovelorn song from Die schöne Müllerin forms the basis of a set of variations by Schubert, and reflective... |
Daphne Walker
Golden Hits Of Daphne Walker [ Viking Seven Seas / CD ] Since the peak of her recording career in the 1950s and 1960s, Daphne Walker has been a favourite sound of the South Pacific for some forty years… |