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STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Follies (complete musical comedy recorded in 2015) Opera Toulon / Graham Bickley, Liz Robertson, Charlotte Page, Marilyn Hill Smith, Julia Sutton / David Charles Abell (cond) [ BelAir Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "The choice of the soloists is of irreproachable quality. The Follies' production in Toulouse is shining with a thousand fires." MUSICALAVENUE.FR |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
The Tigers (complete opera recorded 1983) Teresa Cahill, Marilyn Hill-Smith, Alan Opie & Kenneth Woollam / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend [ Testament / 3 CD - released 11/Mar/2015 ] "this 1983 BBC studio recording, issued on CD for the first time, reveals a stunningly inventive, eclectic score, performed here with gusto by a A-team cast of 1980s ENO regulars under Lionel Friend. Irresistible." (The Times) |
JOHANN GEORG PISENDEL
Pisendel: Violin Sonatas Thomasz Aleksander Plusa (violin) with Robert Smith (cello), Earl Christy (lute/theorbo), Ere Lievonen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] Johann Pisendel was the German violinist of his age; one whose total mastery of the instrument, and its expressive possibilities as filtered through both the Italian and German styles prevalent in the high Baroque era, made a fundamental impression... |
HESKETH PEARSON
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Life (Abridged) Tim Pigott-Smith (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] Conan Doyle (1859-1930) will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes, but he was a prolific writer-of short stories, of science fiction and historical fiction-including The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. In his comprehensive... |
LOUIS WAYNE BALLARD
Ballard: The Four Moons / Devil's Promenade / etc Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Louis Wayne Ballard - also known as "Honganozhe", which means "Stands with Eagles" in the Quapaw language - was the first indigenous North American composer of art music, and his extensive knowledge of the music, dance and mythology of this culture... |
Tommy Smith & Kerry Barron
The Sound of Love [ Linn / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] Saxophone virtuoso Tommy Smith reveals himself to be a consummate ballad player on this laid back selection of classics by two of the most justly celebrated composers in jazz history: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. The eleven classics... |
CHARPENTIER
Noels and Christmas Motets Vol 2 Tracy Smith Bessett, soprano / Brian Duyn, tenor / Christine Stelmacovich, alto / Curtis Streetman, bass / Aradia Ensemble / Kevin Mallon, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2003 ] "Singing,playing and recording are of high quality and so is the documentation." *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
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VIVALDI
Sacred Music (Vol. 2) [incls Laudate pueri Dominum, RV 600] Tracy Smith Bessette (Soprano) / Marion Newman (Contralto) / Aradia Ensemble / Kevin Mallon (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] "The period-instrument Aradia Ensemble under the expert direction of Kevin Mallon are building an excellent reputation for themselves in the early music field and I have been fortunate to have heard several of their recordings. Mallon’s Toronto-based... |
BIZET
Carmen Jones (Original Broadway Cast Recording 1943) / Carmen Jones (1954 Film Soundtrack) (excerpts) Muriel Smith, Luther Saxon, Glenn Bryant, Marilyn Horne, Pearl Bailey & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "the performances are gripping. Mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith sizzles as Carmen, the doomed parachute-factory seductress ("Dat's Love" / Habanera), tenor Luther Saxon as Don José/Joe is sublime singing "Dis Flower" (Flower Song)" |
Various Artists incls Johnny Smith, Jack Wilkins, Django Reinhardt, Baden Powell, Les Paul, etc
Jazz Guitar Giants [ Membran / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Feb/2011 ] |
LERNER & LOWE / KURT WEILL
Paint Your Wagon (Original Broadway Cast 1951) / Love Life (1955) Kaye Ballard, Allen Hanlon, Clyde Lombardi, Robert Penn, Billy Taylor, Dave Thomas, Olgar San Juan, Rufus Smith, & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] There's a fairly simple rule for evaluating the lasting merit of the shows written by Alan Jay Lerner: the stronger the original source material, the more durable the final product. |
BRAHMS / SHULMAN / PAGANINI / STRAVINSKY / KHACHATURIAN / etc
Jascha Heifetz: Encores, Vol. 1 (1946-1956) Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Emanuel Bay, Brooks Smith (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 30/Apr/2012 ] Heifetz's series of arrangements and transcriptions for violin and piano reveal just how tasteful and refined a musician he was. Crafted with precision, and played with passion, they are alive with his stylistic awareness. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Songs: Volume 1 [2 CD set] Various artists including Andrew Tortise, Ben Johnson, Caryl Hughes, Philip Smith & Nicky Spence [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency to the Pushkin settings of The Poet's Echo" (Financial... |
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ESSENTIAL WEDDING
Essential Wedding [Includes 'Trumpet Voluntary' & 'Sheep may safely graze'] Various Artists including Jane Parker-Smith, Maurice André, Alfie Boe, Wayne Marshall, Noel Rawsthorne, etc [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2012 ] This programme covers favourite pieces of liturgical music suitable for all types of religious wedding services, as well as secular works for non-religious occasions, including civil ceremonies. |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his "hero, friend and teacher", trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith's Golden Quartet, but the... |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life [ ECM / CD - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
ROBERT PARSONS
First Great Service / Responds for the Dead Voces Cantabiles / Barnaby Smith [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2008 ] This recording aims to provide Robert Parsons, who died tragically in his forties, with a memorial service he never received and aid his return to a place alongside the greatest English Renaissance composers. Movements from the First Great Service,... |
MOZART
Piano Sonatas Warren Mailley-Smith [ Sleeveless / CD - released 14/Feb/2011 ] This sparkling recording has immediate appeal in its beauty of tone and well-rounded musicianship. British pianist Warren Mailley-Smith reveals an alternative side of his pianistic armoury in highly-refined renditions of three of Mozart's... |
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN / KAIJA SAARIAHO
Salonen / Saariaho: Works for Solo Cello Wilhelmina Smith (cello) [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] This solo album by cellist Wilhelmina Smith features works for solo cello by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Kaija Saariaho. Both composers belong to a generation of modernist Finnish composers whose work has gained broad acceptance in musical culture... |
Per Nørgård / Poul Ruders
Works For Cello Wilhelmina Smith (cello) [ Ondine / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Cellist Wilhelmina Smith's second album on Ondine continues exploring contemporary Nordic repertoire for solo cello. In her new album Smith has focus on Danish contemporary composers, Per Nørgård (b. 1932) and Poul Ruders (b. 1949). Both Nørgård and... |
