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Geoffrey Hardcastle solo cornet; Center City Brass Quintet
Romantic Music For Brass (Mendelssohn; Ewald; Bahme) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'Sparkling runs, impeccable chording, sensitive nuancing between foreground and background, sweet phrasing, a faultless balance in an ideal acoustic - this is becoming dangerously enthusiastic... This is the real McCoy - naughty but very, very nice.'... |
Gorgon City
Sirens [ Virgin EMI / CD - released 3/Oct/2014 ] With a deft history of music making behind them individually as Foamo & RackNRuin, Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott joined forces as Gorgon City and things quickly began to snowball at a barely comprehensible rate. "Because we each had a bit of... |
PERCY WHITLOCK
The Complete Oragn Works Graham Barber plays the Organ of Hull City Hall [ Priory / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Percy Whitlock did not devise a 'new' music - he was no Dupré or Messiaen. However, what he achieved was a perfect fusion of late romantic, neo-classical and dance hall styles. |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 21 (K467) & 24 (K491) Howard Shelley (piano) / City London Sinfonia (conducted from the keyboard) [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "Shelley's disc seems to me to deserve the warmest recommendation for its natural-sounding recording, clarity of texture and combination of depth and high spirits." - International Record Review (April 2002) |
SIBELIUS / ELGAR
Violin Concertos (recorded 1984 & 1993) Ida Haendel (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ Testament / CD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] "..it is Haendel's thoroughly personal input of humanity, expressive power, and her dynamic fusion of immediacy and profound insight that puts this performance in a class of its own. It is simply mind-blowing." The Telegraph, 28th July 2009 ***** |
RESPIGHI
Trittico Botticelliano / Aretusa / Lauda per la Nativita del Signore / etc Janet Baker (mezzo) / City of London Sinfonia / Rchard Hickox [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Respighi studied orchestration with Rimsky Korsakov, another master of the orchestra, and his use of the orchestral palate was a huge influence on the young Italian. |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Complete Works for Clarinet Janet Hilton (clarinet) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi / Lindsay String Quartet / Keith Swallow (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] 'Janet Hilton's is a very fine performance. The slow movements are ruminative and beautifully played.' Fanfare |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Peter Grimes (complete opera) Janice Watson, Yvonne Barclay, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge / City of London Sinfonia; London Symphony Chorus (amateur) / Richard [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "Up to the highest tradition of Chandos sound: indeed, quite spectacular, vast in range, with well-managed perspectives and just enough hints of stage action to be convincing." - Alan Blyth (Gramophone) ) |
EDOUARD LALO
Symphonie Espagnole / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 20 / Fantaisie Norvegienne Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin) / Granada City Orchestra / Kees Bakels [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The three works gathered here all resulted from the friendship between the composer and the Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate. The melodious and charming violin concerto held a great significance for Lalo who regarded it as his first work truly... |
JOHN RUTTER
Mass for the Children and other sacred works by John Rutter Joanne Lunn (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Cantate Youth Choir, The Cambridge Singers / City of London Sinfonia directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] John Rutter's Mass of the Children, for adult and children's choir with orchestra, is premiered here with a recital of eight of his recent anthems. |
JOHN BARRY
Film Music Masterworks (Incls 'Born Free' & 'Somewhere In Time') City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra [ Silva Screen Records / CD - released 16/May/2006 ] This collection of film composer John Barry's finest moments includes music from 'Out Of Africa', 'Born Free', 'Lion In Winter', 'You Only Live Twice', 'Midnight Cowboy' and many more! |
BEETHOVEN
An introduction to Beethoven (Incls Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' & Symphony No. 5 in C minor) John Lill (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Walter Weller [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'You'll know the meaning of the term 'heart-rending beauty' when you listen to the slow movement of the Piano Concerto.' CD Review |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos 2 & 3 Jorge Luis Prats (piano) / Mexico City Philharmonic / Enrique Batiz [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Jun/2007 ] "virtuoso flamboyance guaranteed to set the pulse racing... enthusiastically recommended" (CD Review) |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.10 / Symphony in C Major for Piano, Cello and Violin Op. 56 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio / English Chamber Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Walter Weller [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
RENE CLAUSEN
Life and Breath: Choral Works by René Clausen Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Although he writes in all genres, René Clausen is today one of America's most popular choral composers...On this release, choral works by Clausen are performed by the Kansas City Chorale, another choir of great international renown" |
NATIVITAS
Nativitas: American Christmas Carols Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy (conductor) with James Higdon, organ [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "As beautiful a disc of precious Christmas music as you are likely to hear this or any year." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
SIBELIUS / SULLIVAN
ShakespeareAEs Tempest: Incidental music for The Tempest Kansas City Symphony / Michael Stern [ Reference / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] "This is a fine and thoughtfully put together project. I hope we will hear more from this orchestra and conductor in similarly inventive couplings...Their Sullivan is excellent." (MusicWeb July 2008) |
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Kraemer/Watkinson/City Of Lond
Vivaldi:concerti For Violins & [ Naxos / CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 & 2 Lars Vogt (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Red Line / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "This is a remarkable record, as fine a recorded account of these two concertos as we have had for many a long year." (Gramophone) |
WALTHEW / PANUFNIK / BANTOCK / BAX / HINDEMITH / SCHUMAN / etc
Voyage of a sea-god Laurence Perkins (bassoon) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Michael Hancock (piano) & others [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Beginning in 1900 with Richard Henry Walthew and ending in 1999 with David Bedford, the intrepid musical journey undertaken by Laurence Perkins and friends celebrates the extraordinary versatility of the twentieth-century bassoon. |
