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HANDEL
English Cantatas and Songs Brook Street Band [ Avie / 2 CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] In this day and age is there any more to be traced and discovered from Handel's "lost music"? The Brook Street Band, awarded a Gramophone Editor's Choice for their AVIE debut of Handel's "Oxford" Water Music (AV 0028), certainly think so. Their... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "[They] approach everything with a spring in their step, relishing the harmonic crunches and keeping everything vital and vivacious." The Guardian |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo The Brook Street Band [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] The Brook Street Band's passion for the music of George Frideric Handel shines through on this recording of the nine Violin Sonatas by - or attributed to - the Baroque composer. The ensemble's 10th release for AVIE compliments its critically... |
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HANDEL
Handel - Trio Sonatas Op. 5 (period instruments) The Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 24/Aug/2005 ] "As with everything they do there are no half measures. I find them intoxicating, sometimes quixotic, but always entertaining guides to the repertoire." (MusicWeb July 2005) |
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HANDEL
Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 The Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 18/Oct/2013 ] |
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Bunk Johnson Band, George Lewis New Orleans Band, Wilbur de Paris, Kid Ory Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong All Stars, etc
Very Best of: Dixieland New Orleans [ Alto / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "78 minutes of well-mastered vintage classic tracks chosen by experts - a great romp!" |
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MAURICE SAYLOR
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits / Music for Silent Films Cantate Chamber Singers / The Snark Pit-band / The Holton-Arms Lower School Chorus / Gisele Becker / Snark Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] The result is music of vibrancy, excitement, and even dangerous volatility. The three silent film scores are pacey, dapper and splendidly jazzy. |
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KARL JENKINS
This Land Of Ours Karl Jenkins with Cory Band and Cantorion [ EMI Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] The two most famous musical traditions in Wales - the brass band and the male voice choir - have been brought together for the first time by Britain's most popular living classical composer, and exclusive EMI artist, Karl Jenkins OBE. |
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Carla Bley Big Band
Appearing Nightly [ ECM / CD - released 25/Aug/2008 ] |
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RODRIGO / GADE / PIAZZOLLA / WEILL / SEREBRIER / GOULD / SATIE / STRAVINSKY
Tango in Blue Carole Farley (Sop) Molly Judson (cor anglais) Damian Martinez (cello) Daniel Espasa (piano) Enrique Tellera band / Barcelona Symphony / Serebrie [ BIS / CD - released 20/May/2006 ] José Serebrier and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra return with another disc on Latin themes. This time it is South America. |
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JOPLIN / GLADD / CAROSIO
Spaghetti Rag - Rag Music With Mandolins Center Boy's Rag Band / Raffaele Calace Plectrum Quintet / Italian Mando-Rag Club Citta di Brescia [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] This unique recording sets out to give a flavour of American ragtime through the medium of the mandolin. It is now believed that many of the original early twentieth-century rags were regularly performed by American-Italian mandolin orchestras whose... |
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NIGEL HESS
New London Pictures: Works for Symphonic Wind Orchestra by Nigel Hess The Central Band of the RAF, Nigel Hess [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Nigel Hess is a British composer, best known for his television, theatre, and film soundtracks, which include the theme tunes to Wycliffe, Dangerfield, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, and Ladies in Lavender starring Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. |
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JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 14 Central Band of the Royal Air Force / Keith Brion [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] The unprecedented popularity enjoyed by John Philip Sousa was garnered through constant national and international touring with a band that included some of the very best American instrumentalists. Volume 14 of this series includes brilliant show... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British Classics The Central Band of the Royal Air Force, Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Mar/2015 ] This new recording with The Central Band of the Royal Air Force, conducted by Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs, features some of the greatest British pieces in the repertoire. |
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The Chick Corea Elektric Band
To the Stars [ Concord Records / CD - released 17/May/2010 ] Corea returns with his genre-bending, all-star Elektric Band, featuring Frank Gambale, Eric Marienthal, John Patitucci, Dave Weckl and guest appearances by Steve Wilson, Pernell Saturnino and Gayle Moran Corea. |
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Christian McBride Big Band
The Good Feeling (180g Double LP) [ Mack Avenue / 2 LP - released 15/Oct/2012 ] 180g vinyl, double LP. Although he has done plenty of big band playing and arranging in his career, The Good Feeling is Christian McBride's first foray as a big band leader. The Grammy-winning title, described by All About Jazz as "superb," features... |
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Danish Radio Big Band
Lamb: The Nightingale & The Ro [ Proprius / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] |
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Darcy Perry Band
Phoenix [ CD - released 22/Nov/2008 ] Darcy Perry performs with passion, intensity and a ferocious band; Norway's finest blues piano player Simen Taylor and New Zealand harmonica master Craig Bracken stamp an authentic New Orleans meets Chicago feel. |
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Darcy Perry Blues Band
Heavy Rain [ Darcy Perry Blues Band / CD - released 5/Aug/2006 ] |