HUMMEL / BEETHOVEN
Piano Pieces (the rare and the unusual) Georgina Zellan-Smith (piano) [ Zellan Records / CD - released 22/Mar/2006 ] Both were child prodigies, their Fathers’ their first teachers. Beethoven’s Father was hard, demanding, irresponsible, Hummel’s more balanced. Both played to Mozart, Hummel aged 7, Beethoven 16. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Songs of Ireland and Scotland Georgina Zellan-Smith (piano), Richard Bruce (baritone) [ Georgina Zellan-Smith / CD - released 13/May/2016 ] Georgina Zellan-Smith is one of New Zealand's most accomplished pianists with a long list of accolades, dating right back to her debut at London's Wigmore Hall, through to her recordings of Ravel and laterley her work with the Auckland... |
VIVALDI / ALBINONI / MOZART / MOLTER / CRUSELL / etc
Wind Concertos [special priced boxed set] Henk de Graaf (clarinet) Daniel Smith (Bassoon) Stefan Schilli (oboe) (trumpet) Herman Jeurissen (horn) Emma Johnson (clarinet) etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] A delightful collection of Wind concertos, featuring some rarer works amongst the well known. |
Hollie Smith
Humour and the Misfortune of Others [ Soundsmith Records New Zealand / CD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] Hollie's second album is a 12-song journey into the realms of soul, funk, blues, psychedelia and even country, all led by a young woman's voice that careens between delicate beauty to spine tingling power. |
Huey 'Piano' Smith
Would You Believe it! In Session in New Orleans 1951 - 1962 [ Jasmine Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Part of Jasmine's ongoing and popular "In Session" series this new set can also be seen as the companion to an earlier Jasmine release, Don't You Just Know It, The Very Best Of Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns 1956-62 (JASMCD 3059), this set... |
Huey Smith
It Do Me Good [ Charly / 2 CD - released 5/Oct/2012 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Eroica / Symphony No. 3 Ian Hart / Tim Pigott-Smith / Claire Skinner / Jack Davenport / Orchestre RACvolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 5/May/2005 ] G :- 'Ian Hart is brilliant as Beethoven, a volatile, magnetic figure of genius and uncouth charm…not to be missed.' -- Daily Mail |
LANQUETUIT / BOULNOIS / MULET / JONGEN / BOWEN / etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ, Volume 1 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Jane Parker-Smith is one of the world's leading concert organists, acclaimed by the critics and public alike for her musicianship, virtuosity and interpretative ability. Jane joins the Avie label with a unique programme linking European composers who... |
EDMUNDSON / KROMOLICKI / IRELAND / VIERNE/ WEITZ/ etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ, Volume 2 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is the kind of repertoire in which Jane Parker-Smith excels; big, gutsy, colourful, occasionally passionate, occasionally frothy, bristling with opportunities for virtuoso display but with a deeply hidden inner core of intellectual substance... |
COCHEREAU / LANDMANN / PARRY / BAIRSTOW / LISZT / etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ - Volume 3 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is an interesting programme, excellently performed and recorded and well presented, as were the earlier volumes. At 77:04, the CD is well filled, too." (MusicWeb April 2009) |
Jared Smith
Bare Bones [ CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] |
Jean-Luc Godard / Soundtrack (featuring Dino Saluzzi / David Darling / Patti Smith / Jean Schwartz / Werner Pirchner / Paul Hindemith / etc)
Nouvelle Vague [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This is the complete soundtrack - music, dialogue, sounds - of Jean-Luc Godard's Nouvelle Vague, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. |
FAURE
The Complete Songs-volume 4 Jennifer Smith / Felicity Lott / Geraldine McGreevy / Jean-Paul Fouchecort / Stephen Varoce / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] 'The sound is warm and initimate and Johnson's comprehensive notes are packed with information on each song and its cultural surround. In all this series has proved an impressive achievement, demonstrating that even the least known of Fauré's songs... |
FAURE
The Complete Songs Vol. 2 Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Felicity Lott and Stella Doufexis, sopranos / John Mark Ainsley and John-Paul Fouchecourt, tenors / Christopher Ma [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] "This disc has given me enormous pleasure and will continue to do so, I know. I recommend it urgently" (MusicWeb April 2005) |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach, CPE: Flute Concertos Jennifer Stinton (flute), Orchestra St John's Smith Square, John Lubbock [ Alto Records / CD - released 21/Feb/2017 ] "I thoroughly enjoyed this playing of some wonderfully inventive music.." (Gramophone) |
Jimmy Smith
Back At The Chicken Shack (Remastered) [ BLUE NOTE / CD - released 17/Sep/2007 ] .This disc, along with MIDNIGHT SPECIAL and HOME COOKIN', is one of the truly classic albums Smith recorded for Blue Note. Introducing Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax, whose warm, old-school playing blends perfectly with the oozing grooves of Smith's... |
Jimmy Smith
Back At The Chicken Shack (180g LP) [ Bluenote / LP - released 27/Jun/2014 ] Back At The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith on vinyl, part of the Blue Note 75th Anniversary Collection. Remastered from the original analog tape and issued on 180g heavyweight vinyl. LP includes an MP3 download code. |
Jimmy Smith
Bashin' (LP) [ Spiral Records / LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] |
Jimmy Smith
The Cat (180g LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Nov/2013 ] The Incredible Jimmy Smith, that's what it says so confidently on the cover of his 1964 Verve release The Cat, alongside a picture of a black cat, as superstitious a figure as you can get. The law demands that what is promised must be delivered and a... |
Jimmy Smith
The Complete Sermon Sessions Featuring Lee Morgan & Tina Brooks [ GROOVE HUT / 2 CD ] |