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add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PELLEGRINI / PICCININI / PURCELL From the Ground Up: Chaconnes Samuel West, Baba Israel (narrator) O/MODƏRNT, Hugo Ticciati [ Signum / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Originating as a sexy dance in South America, the 'chacona' crossed the Atlantic and established itself in Spain as an irresistible temptation. In 1615, it was banned from Spanish theatres for being 'lascivious, dishonest, offensive to pious ears',...
add to cart $32.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BENJAMIN BRITTEN Britten to America: Music for Radio & Theatre Samuel West (narrator) Mary Carewe, Jean Rigby (mezzos) / Halle, Sir Mark Elder / Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore, etc [ NMC / CD - released 14/Feb/2014 ] "Unexpected postscript to the composer's centenary shows his versatility and completes the picture of his formative years" (Financial Times)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MARGARET BROUWER Brouwer: Reactions - Rhapsodic Sonata / Declaration / The Lake / I Cry - Summer 2020 Sarah Beaty (mezzo), Brian Skoog (tenor), Shuai Wang (piano), Marie Sato (narrator/violin), Eliesha Nelson (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Margaret Brouwer's music has for decades been admired for "inhabiting its own peculiarly bewitching harmonic world" (The New York Times). These recently composed pieces reflect her musical representations of particular events: Rhapsodic Sonata charts...
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOHANNES BRAHMS Life and Works - Johannes Brahms Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with Jasper Britton as Brahms [ Naxos Educational / CD Box Set - released 4/Nov/2002 ] Accompanied by a richly detailed booklet, this 4 CD-set is a sympathetic, absorbing account of a fascinating composer.
add to cart $37.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BENJAMIN BRITTEN Britten on Film Simon Russell Beale (narrator) & Mary Carewe (soprano) / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus / Martyn Brabbins [ NMC / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] 'This generous 79-minute collection consists of the film music without the film, so if you've once seen some of the better known ones such as Night Mail or Coal Face your visual memory fills the gap. An excellent feature is the provision of Auden's...
add to cart $26.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WILLIAM WALTON Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario / Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence / etc Sir John Gielgud (narrator) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] Among the sumptuous and deeply romantic music on this disc is the substantial selection from Walton's score for Richard III; colourful and richly detailed music, the suite is conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and makes a fitting tribute to William...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WALTON Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario / Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence Sir John Gielgud (narrator) / Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields / Neville Marriner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] 'The Chandos series of William Walton Film Music is simply and obviously certain to be a great classic of recording art. It serves all the higher purposes of truly distinguished record-making: not only are all aspects of performance and recording...
add to cart $26.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WALTON Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario / As you Like it: A Poem for Orchestra Sir John Gielgud (narrator) Catherine Bott (soprano) / Academy St Martins / Neville Marriner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Marriner and the Academy draw out all the romantic warmth of both scores, and the sound is richly atmospheric to match, with a sharper focus and a keener sense of presence than on some recordings from this source. The Hamlet music may not match...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BARTOK Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11 Sir John Tomlinson, Michelle DeYoung & Juliet Stevenson (narrator) / Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Voices, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] An unforgettable live-concert recording, selected from the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa- ekka Salonen's season of works by Béla Bartók - 'Infernal Dance'.
add to cart $32.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks SPIKE MILLIGAN Spike Milligan: Vivat Milligna! - A Twenty-One Goon Salute Denis Norden (narrator) with readings by Jon Glover & Sally Grace [ BBC Radio Collection / CD - released 19/Jun/2003 ] Researched and written by Russell Davies, and presented by Denis Norden, this one hour documentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Christmas Eve 2002.
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks IVOR GURNEY A Walk With Ivor Gurney Tenebrae, Aurora Orchestra, Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) Simon Callow (narrator), Nigel Short (conductor) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] "This imaginatively conceived and superbly executed programme is a wonderful way to honour one of the most tragic figures in twentieth-century British music. Tenebrae have done the memory of Ivor Gurney proud" Recording of the Month MusicWeb Oct 2018
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks TERRANCE DICKS Doctor Who: Terror Of The Autons Geoffrey Beevers (narrator) [ BBC Audio / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Aug/2010 ] Geoffrey Beevers reads this exciting novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure. Unabridged. Running time: 3 hours 50 minutes
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PAUL FETLER Violin Concerto No. 2 / Capriccio / 3 Poems by Walt Whitman Thomas H. Blaske (narrator) Aaron Berofsky (violin) / Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra / Arie Lipsky, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "The performers seem to be enjoying themselves immensely, and it's all quite agreeable, as is Naxos's sound." Classical Candor, December 2009
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks IGOR STRAVINSKY Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat [The Soldier's Tale] Tianwa Yang (violin), Fred Child (narrator), Jared McGuire (the soldier), Jeff Biehl (the devil) Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, JoAnn Fallett [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] Stravinsky conceived the idea of a small-scale theatrical work towards the end of the First World War. Collaborating with Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz and painter and designer René-Victor Auberjonois, he wrote Histoire du Soldat (The...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks Tim Marlow (narrator) Tim Marlow at The Courtauld [ Seventh Art / DVD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] In this three-part series Tim Marlow presents a unique insight into The Courtauld Gallery, one of the finest small museums in the world. Its collection stretches from the early Renaissance into the 20th century and is particularly famous for its...
add to cart $29.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks HESKETH PEARSON Arthur Conan Doyle, A Life (Abridged) Tim Pigott-Smith (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] Conan Doyle (1859-1930) will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes, but he was a prolific writer-of short stories, of science fiction and historical fiction-including The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. In his comprehensive...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks TOBIAS PICKER Picker: Opera Without Words / The Encantadas Tobias Picker (narrator) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Giancarlo Guerrero [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Tobias Picker, hailed as "a genuine creator" by The New Yorker, has written extensively for the stage and for symphonic forces, and these two approaches are represented in this album. The Encantadas (an older name for the Galápagos Islands) derives...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks KAIJA SAARIAHO Passion De Simone Dominique Blanc (narrator), Dawn Upshaw (soprano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Ondine SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Upshaw's always seems the perfect voice and sensibility for Saariaho's music; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's colleague from their student days, is an intensely engaged and sympathetic director of his forces and of the score." Five Stars BBC Music
add to cart $29.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JULES VERNE Verne: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Abridged) John Carlisle (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2000 ] The year is 1866. The maritime world is gripped by fear after reported sightings of a huge and terrible sea monster. Monsieur Aronnax, a distinguished Professor of Natural History, pronounces the creature to be a giant narwhal and is invited to join...
add to cart $37.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks THOMAS HARDY Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (Abridged) Neville Jason (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Aug/2000 ] In a remote corner of early Victorian England, where traditional practices remain untouched by time, Bathsheba Everdene stands out as a beacon of feminine independence and self-reliance. However, when confronted with three suitors, among them the...