More By Artist: Alan Haven
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HINDEMITH
Cardillac (complete opera recorded in 2005) Paris National Opera / Alan Held / Angela Denoke / Christopher Ventris / Kent Nagano (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 24/Jul/2007 ] G :- Cardillac is a master jeweller who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship. |
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Corigliano: Complete Solo Piano Music Philip Edward Fisher, Piano (piano) / Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] John Corigliano's music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by some of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. He is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, five GRAMMY Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Peter Grimes (Complete opera recorded by the BBC in 1994) Philip Langridge / Janice Cairns / Alan Opie / Ann Howard / Andrew Greenan / etc [ Kultur / RM Associates / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] G :- Tim Albery's startlingly original treatment of Britten's first operatic masterpiece, a rich and vivid tragedy, won unalloyed critical acclaim and it was hailed as a landmark in the opera's performance history. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Death in Venice (complete opera) Philip Langridge (tenor) Alan Opie (baritone) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) / BBC Singers / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox, conductor [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] "A vivid portrayal from Langridge and Hickox on top form does Britten proud" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (May 2005) |
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Rusalka Piotr Beczala, Emily Magee, Camilla Nylund, Alan Held, Birgit Remmert, Adam Plachetka, Eva Liebau, Daniel Schmutzhand, A [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 15/Jul/2011 ] |
LUIS TINOCO
Round Time / From the depth of distance / Search Songs / Cancoes do Sonhador Solitario Ana Quintans (soprano) Yeree Suh (soprano) Raquel Camarinha (soprano / Gulbenkian Orchestra, David Alan Miller [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Portuguese composer Luís Tinoco's works are "as engrossing as they are entertaining" (Musical Opinion), and these première recordings represent some of the most exciting new orchestral work to appear in recent years. Conductor David Alan Miller... |
RAWSTHORNE / PROKOFIEV / BRITTEN
Practical Cats / Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 Robert Donat & Richard Baker (speakers) / New Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Orchestra / Alan Rawsthorne & Raymond Leppard [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] Practical Cats is first time complete on CD. |
RUTLAND BOUGHTON
The Immortal Hour (complete opera recording) Roderick Kennedy (bass) David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Maldwyn Davies (tenor) Anne Dawson (soprano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Alan G Melville [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] 'This superb complete recording was a salutary shock: the opera is a kind of masterpiece, bleak, passionate and inspired ... Enthusiastically recommended' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide) |
CHARLES WUORINEN
6 Trios Ronald Borror (Trombone), Alan Feinberg (Piano), Daniel Druckman (Marimba), Daniel Druckman (Vibraphone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] The ways in which the composer approaches the four types of ensemble here illustrate his participation in that tradition of the ensemble genre that has been a lure for generations of Western composers. |
TURNAGE
Anna Nicole (complete opera recorded in 2011) Royal Opera House / Eva-Maria Westbroek, Alan Oke, Gerald Finley / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "...It's a tremendous show...shocking it isn't; stunning it is!" The Independent |
TURNAGE
Anna Nicole (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Eva-Maria Westbroek, Alan Oke, Gerald Finley / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The six camera operators get in close enough for us all to appreciate the visual brilliance of Richard Jones's direction and Miriam Buether's colourfully absurd sets. Better yet, the cameras offer extra chances for the Dutch soprano Eva-Maria... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony no 9 in D Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Alan Gilbert [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice November 2009 - Mahler collectors surely will want to hear this recording right away, but less specialized collectors also should give it serious consideration as a prime choice among available Ninths" (10/10... |
ANDERS HILLBORG
Eleven Gates / King Tide / Exquisite Corpse / Dreaming River Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Sakari Oramo / Alan Gilbert [Exquisite Corpse] / Esa-Pekka Salonen [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] As demonstrated by the four works on this disc, the music of Anders Hillborg couples complexity with directness, sensuality with humour, hypnotic meditation with pulsating rhythms, and all is combined with an original sense of form and unfaltering... |
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE
Flute Concerto / Symphony No. 2 / Rapture Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic / Alan Gilbert (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "Accessible, expressive American music in taut, well prepared performances. In the more rapid passages of the Flute Concerto… Sharon Bezaly's extrovert virtuosity will dazzle…" Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 |
BACRI / BERNSTEIN / DEAN / ROUSE
Flute concertos Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic / Alan Gilbert & other orchestras & conductors [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] This disc brings together four contemporary flute concertos composed between 1980 and 2007 and performed by the internationally acclaimed flautist, Sharon Bezaly. Each work has been recorded with a different orchestra and conductor and all four works... |
HANDEL
La Maga Abbandonata Simone Kermes / Maite Beaumont / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Hybrid SACD - released 2/May/2007 ] The two singers on this disc are outstanding. Simone Kermes, familiar to Handel lovers from Peter Neumann's impressive German recordings of Saul and Belshazzar, and who has recorded the title-role in Curtis's Deidamia, is a clean and focussed soprano... |
HANDEL
Rodelinda (first recording of complete opera) Simone Kermes / Marijana Mijanovic / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Archiv / 3 CD - released 25/Jul/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "I find it difficult to imagine anyone doing greater justice to the role than Simone Kermes, who proves capable of descending to the depths of deepest pathos at one moment, while... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: The Bear Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Alan Opie (baritone) & John Shirley-Quirk (bass) / Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Richard Hickox Legacy / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Sir William Walton wrote two operas, the second - The Bear - far more readily acclaimed than the first, and more often performed. Its premiere took place in Aldeburgh in June 1967 as part of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival, and followed the... |
HANDEL
Ezio, HWV29 (complete) Sonia Prina, Ann Hallenberg, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Karina Gauvin / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "Overall, this is an excellent and much-needed first complete recording, and confirms that Ezio is a fascinating serious drama." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, June 2009 |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera recorded in 2007) Spoleto Festival / Ann Hallenberg / Laura Cherici / Carlo Lepore / Alan Curtis (cond) [ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jun/2008 ] G : - "...this is a very very good DVD of a great Handel opera. If you yourself need to expand your horizon and move into the baroque - or know someone who would like to do so - then you will be hard put to start with anything better." (MusicWeb... |
