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HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: L'Arbre des songes / Timbres, espace, mouvement / etc Martyn Hill (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone), Olivier Charlier (violin) / BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "In the Violin Concerto (1985) Tortelier again favours a symphonic approach, and very effective it is too, with a soloist who's authoritative without being overly selfassertive." Gramophone |
Cypress Hill
Black Sunday (Double LP) [ Columbia / Legacy Records / 2 LP - released 3/Dec/2009 ] Black Sunday made Cypress Hill's connection to rock & roll more explicit, with its heavy metal-like artwork and noisier, more dissonant samples (including, naturally, stoner icons Black Sabbath). It's a slightly darker affair than its groundbreaking... |
Lauryn Hill
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Double LP) [ Columbia / 2 LP - released 30/Jan/2014 ] Though the Fugees had been wildly successful, and Lauryn Hill had been widely recognized as a key to their popularity, few were prepared for her stunning debut. The social heart of the group and its most talented performer, she tailored The... |
ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Symphony No 7 / Four Songs for Tenor and Orchestra Martyn Hill (tenor) / Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "I found his interpretation of the Seventh fully acceptable...I found myself in his more leisurely company enjoying the scenery." MusicWeb |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
New England Choirworks Yale Schola Cantorum / David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] "The four unaccompanied movements [of the Williams] captivate from the moment the exhorting opening note merges to the Symphony's radiant conclusion." BBC Music |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Missa Sabrinensis & Michael Fanfare The Bach Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "If you don't know Howells' music, this splendid new recording of one of his most powerful works is likely to win new friends, who will want to investigate further the many very fine Hyperion recordings" MusicWeb |
Becky Hill
Believe Me Now? [ Polydor UK / CD - released 31/May/2024 ] 'Believe Me Now?' is Becky's most authentic, career defining body of work to date. An album which sees her digging even deeper into her life-long passion for underground dance music and club culture. Whether she's drawing on influences from the... |
Becky Hill
Believe Me Now? (LP) [ Polydor UK / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] 'Believe Me Now?' is Becky's most authentic, career defining body of work to date. An album which sees her digging even deeper into her life-long passion for underground dance music and club culture. Whether she's drawing on influences from the... |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Stabat Mater / Sine Nomine, Op. 37 / Te Deum Benjamin Hulett (tenor) Alison Hill (soprano) / The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "The Bach Choir has a palpable vibrancy in its range and layers of dynamics which are complemented by the extensive and highly sensitive palette of Howells's orchestra...and the incisive solo tenor role of Benjamin Hulett." Gramophone Editor's Choice |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Intimations of Immortality / For St Cecilia James Gilchrist (tenor) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / David Hill (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Aug/2006 ] "This new account boasts an eloquent soloist in James Gilchrist, fine orchestral playing, and choral singing which is accomplished if occasionally lacking in extremes of attack or intimacy." BBC Music |
PARRY / BAIRSTOW / ELGAR / STANFORD / HADLEY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jerusalem - British Choral Classics Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. David Hill [ Decca / CD - released 12/May/1991 ] "This is a sumptuous programme. David Hill's by no means meagre forces present it with a fine sense of style and occasion, vividly recorded too. There is not only the splendour of sheer amplitude but also a spring in the rhythm and beauty of tone" |
LISZT / MENDELSSOHN / HANDEL / SAINT-SAENS / BOURGEOIS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arundel Restored Daniel Moult (the Hill organ of Arundel Cathedral) [ Regent / CD - released 4/May/2013 ] Acclaimed organist Daniel Moult performs the first solo recording on the 1867/1873 William Hill organ since its restoration. Inspired by eclectic Victorian-era concert programming, Moult presents a cleverly designed program featuring works by... |
Faith Hill
Fireflies [ Warner Music / CD - released 2/Aug/2005 ] One of the worlds best and most distinctive voices returns - Faith Hill releases her long anticipated sixth studio recording, 'Fireflies', which features the single "Mississippi Girl". |
Faith Hill
There You'll Be: The Very Best of Faith Hill [ Warner Music / CD - released 25/Oct/2001 ] Classic songs from her previous albums, soundtracks, plus bonus tracks. |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Mass of Life / Prelude & Idyll Janice Watson (soprano) Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Alan Opie (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony, David Hill [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "a marvellous starting point for anyone new to Delius's unique but compelling art." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - July 2012 |
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 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Owen Wingrave (complete opera recorded in 2001) Kent Nagano / Gerald Finley / Peter Savidge / Hilton Marlton / Josephine Barstow / Anne Dawson / Elizabeth Gale / Charlotte Hellekant / Martyn Hill / [ Arthaus Musik / Kultur / DVD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] G - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2004: DVD |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore (complete operetta - original version) Marilyn Hill Smith, Gordon Sandison, Joan Davies, Alexandra Hann / Chorus and Orchestra of the New Sadler's Wells Opera / Simon Phipps [ Jay Productions / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] The New Sadler's Wells Opera was formed in the mid-eighties, filling the void (or so it was thought) that was left by the closure of the original D'Oyly Carte. It has even been suggested that the Powers that Be pushed the old Company gently into the... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Complete Schubert Edition: Schubert in 1815 (II) Martyn Hill (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 10 / CD - released 15/May/2005 ] 'This is a disc no Schubertian can possibly be without and a further jewel in this series's crown' (Gramophone) |
HOWARD FERGUSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ferguson: Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra / Amore langueo (with Finzi: Eclogue) Martyn Hill (tenor) Howard Shelley (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/1987 ] Belfast-born Ferguson's reputation as a composer rests on the nineteen published works that he wrote between 1928 and 1959. Rhythmic energy endows his music with its exciting sense of momentum, underpinned by his command of Baroque and Classical... |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Antheil: Fighting The Waves Martyn Hill (tenor) Jagdish Mistry (violin) Hermann Kretzschmar (piano) / Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 24/May/1996 ] "It's always faintly depressed me how some concert-goers feel compelled to listen to music stony-faced, while some works abound with musical jokes. Antheil's musical pickpocketing is a riot." Gramophone |
JOHN STAINER
Stainer: The Crucifixion Martyn Hill (tenor) / Michael George (bass) / Margaret Philips (organ) / BBC Singers / Leith Hill Festival Singers / Brian Kay [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] Recorded in: All Saints' Church, Tooting, London 13,14 January 1997 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The World Of The Spirit / King Arthur Suite / American Overture Martyn Hill (tenor), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone) / Britten Singers, BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "The recording is superbly wide in its range and offers a realistic quality." Gramophone |
GERLAD FINZI
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain (Songs by Gerald Finzi to words of Thomas Hardy) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "You can't go wrong with this recording of these immensely beautiful and brilliantly-crafted songs." (MusicWeb Oct 2010) |
FINZI / GURNEY / FARRAR / BROWNE / KELLY / BUTTERWORTH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: War's Embers: a legacy of songs by composers who perished or suffered in World War 1 Michael George (bass) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'If you enjoy English song, this set is a must ... The singers are Britain's best, and their excellence is matched by the accompaniments of Clifford Benson' (BBC Music Magazine) |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Howells: Missa Sabrinensis Neill Archer (tenor) Janice Watson (soprano) Della Jones (contralto) Martyn Hill (tenor) / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra., Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 27/Sep/2005 ] 'Gratitude, then, for an essential contribution towards the re-evaluation of an original visionary…' Gramophone 'Editor's Choice' on Missa Sabrinensis |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Candide Nickolas Grace & Marilyn Hill Smith / Scottish Opera [ TER Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2007 ] Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. The operetta was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman.. |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Choral Masterpieces Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ) Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. David Hill [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] Superbly recorded, "massive" performances (in the main) of music for choir and orchestra by Vaughan Williams and Walton. The thrilling music here - Old hundredth psalm, Coronation Te Deum and Orb and sceptre - contrast well with the more intimate... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
From Melba To Sutherland Various Artists incls Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland, Essie Ackland, Alfred Hill, Walter Kirby, Eileen Boyd, Harold Williams, Peter Dawson, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 4 CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] From Melba to Sutherland: Australian Singers on Record is the first-ever comprehensive survey of the recordings of Australia's greatest singers - in a unique new four-CD set from Decca, complete with biographies, rare photographs in a 68-page booklet |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stanford: Sacred Choral Music Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/1997 ] "Hill and the Winchester Choir are superb. The choral tone is luscious, the discipline outstanding, the recording captures the sumptuous acoustics of the cathedral without blurring the musical details" American Record Guide |
CHRISTOPHER TYE
Tye: Cathedral Music (Incls Mass 'Euge Bone') Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] 'As soon as the disc begins to play the singing creates a wonderful ambience to fit the music of this undervalued composer' (Cathedral Music) |
Andrew Hill
Dance With Death (Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] The brilliant pianist and composer Andrew Hill debuted on Blue Note in 1963 with a flurry of creativity and maintained a prolific recording output through the end of the decade that left several stunning sessions unreleased in the vaults. Recorded... |
Cypress Hill
Black Sunday [ Columbia Records / CD - released 15/Aug/1993 ] |
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill (LP) [ Columbia / LP - released 27/Oct/2017 ] |
Cypress Hill
Greatest Hits From The Bong [ Columbia / CD - released 27/Oct/2017 ] |
Cypress Hill
Insane In The Brain (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 16/Oct/2020 ] What has become one of the hip-hop's most iconic party anthems, and one of Cypress Hill's biggest hits, started out with them taking offence at Chubb Rock. He'd flipped some of their lyrics on his own 'Yabba Dabba Doo' song in 1992 and the group... |
Cypress Hill
IV (Double LP) [ Sony / 2 LP - released 4/Aug/2017 ] "Cypress Hill's most bangin' LP since their 1991 debut.… Cypress Hill still name-check firearms, threaten rivals and smoke more weed than a congregation of Rastas. But the obsessions are means to an end." Rolling Stone |
Cypress Hill, London Symphony Orchestra
Black Sunday Live At The Royal Albert Hall (CD / Blu-ray) [ Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Jul/2025 ] On July 10, 2024, Cypress Hill teamed up with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Troy Miller, to present a reimagining of their quadruple-platinum selling Black Sunday album in its entirety featuring unique orchestral arrangements inspired... |
Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill [ Sony Music / CD - released 21/Sep/1998 ] Originally released in 1999, this is one of the most universally embraced hip-hop albums of all time - a stunning debut! |
Lauryn Hill
MTV Unplugged No.2.0 (Double LP) [ Sony / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2016 ] Lauryn Hill is best known for being a member of The Fugees and for her critically acclaimed solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won numerous awards, broke several sales records and was listed by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest... |
