JOSEF HAYDN
Music For England [2 CD set] Judith Nelson (soprano) & Paul Elliott (tenor) / The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "handsomely produced, very well recorded" (Gramophone) |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe (complete opera) Karina Gauvin, Philippe Jaroussky, Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2015 ] "The performance is never forced but always emotive...An exemplary testament of superb musicianship from all participants...this is a landmark event in Steffani's much-deserved rehabilitation." (Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 Baroque Vocal |
MAHLER / BUSONI / ZEMLINSKY / WAGNER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg) & chamber arrangements Katie Bray (mezzo) / Royal Academy of Music Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] Historical performance pioneer Trevor Pinnock conducts the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble in revealing chamber arrangements from Mahler to Zemlinksy. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr.Schoenberg) is the third in the series... |
TAKEMITSU
In an Autumn Garden / Voyage for 3 Biwas / Autumn (Excerpts) / etc Kinshi Tsuruta, Biwa Katsuya Yokoyama, Shakuhachi Music Department, Imperial Hou [ DG 20/21 Series / CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] newly remastered for this reissue. |
THOMAS ADES
Adès: In Seven Days Kirill Gerstein (piano) Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra [ Myrios / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Contemporary |
PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas / Indian Queen (complete operas) Catherine Bott, Emma Kirkby, John Mark Ainsley, David Thomas / Chorus and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2012 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) - "Key to the whole opera is the casting of Dido herself - and no singer surpasses Catherine Bott's poignant acceptance of death in the famous 'Lament'" (GP 1001 Classical recordings) |
Langley Schools Music Project
Innocence and Despair [ Bar None / CD ] |
TOM CIPULLO
Cipullo: The Parting Laura Strickling (soprano), Catherine Cook (mezzo-soprano), Michael Mayes (baritone) / Music of Remembrance, Alastair Willis [ Naxos American Opera Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Heard here in its world premiere recording, The Parting is a daring opera by award-winning composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason that explores the life and art of Miklós Radnóti, one of the most important poetic witnesses to the Holocaust.. |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse Le Concert Spirituel (early music ensemble); Hervé Niquet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] In 1743, two years before Rameau's Platee, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people... |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
Various Artists / Music of Lully. Musica Antiqua Koln
Le Roi Danse [The King is Dancing] (Original Soundtrack) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 4/Oct/2002 ] A film by Gerard Corbiau |
J. S. BACH
Great Composers in Words and Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Leighton Pugh (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Johann Sebastian Bach today has a reputation as the Godfather of Western European music, as a fountainhead of classical music theory and the creator of some of the greatest works the world has ever produced. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Great Composers in Words and Music: Claude Debussy Lucy Scott (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Claude Debussy is regarded by many as the quintessential French composer, with music that invited both warm applause and frosty criticism in his day. |
LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108 Andras Molnar (tenor) Franz Liszt Academy of Music Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Andras Ligeti [ Naxos / CD ] "There's a lot right with this performance, not least being its outspoken acknowledgement of Faust's stormy character. Liszt's first-movement portrait receives zestful advocacy, less polished than some, perhaps, but fired by immense gusto. The... |
Liszt Piano Music
Vol.10 [ Naxos / CD ] |
SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS
Chamber Works London Chamber Music Group [including Susan Milan, flute] [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] Five Impressions of a Holiday was Susan Milan's first encounter with the seductive, impressionistically inclined music of Eugene Goossens. Charmed by the work, she resolved to discover more: 'he was very much connected to the Les Six generation and... |
London Music Works
Music From the Transformers Trilogy [ Silva Screen Records / CD - released 28/Nov/2011 ] |
J.S. BACH / HANDEL
Lorraine at Emmanuel: Celebrating the lives of Craig Smith and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Lorraine Hunt Lieberson / Orchestra of Emmanuel Music / Craig Smith [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "This is a superb disc that all admirers of this much-missed singer will want to have. And if you've not heard Lorraine Hunt Lieberson before, buy this disc and discover for yourself what all the fuss is about." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month July... |
FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Great Composers in Words and Music: Fryderyk Chopin Lucy Scott (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] Polish by birth, Fryderyk Chopin made his name in post-Revolutionary Paris and is often depicted as the archetypal Romantic artist - blessed with extraordinary talent but consumed by the flame of genius, tormented by intense and tempestuous... |
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
The Music of Volume 3 The Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble / Curtis Macomber (violin) / Aleck Karis (piano) / Eric Bartlett (cello) [ Bridge Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |