ALKAN
Piano Works Stanley Hoogland & Alan Weiss (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Adventurous piano Music of the composer in whose presence even Franz Liszt was afraid to play. Piano music ranging from the miniaturist to the gigantic. |
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) |
HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR
The 'Lost' Episodes Tony Hancock with Ray Galton & Alan Simpson [ BBC Audio / CD - released 6/Aug/2009 ] This title presents two rediscovered episodes of the classic radio series, plus a duo of bonus programmes from the BBC archive: "The Blackboard Jungle" and "The New Secretary" (original version), "In Conversation With...Galton and Simpson" and "Six... |
LERNER & LOWE / KURT WEILL
Paint Your Wagon (Original Broadway Cast 1951) / Love Life (1955) Milt Hinton, Milt; Alan Jay Lerner, Clyde Lombardi, Robert Penn, 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. That's why My Fair Lady (based on Shaw's Pygmalion), Camelot... |
VIVALDI
Motezuma (complete opera) Vito Priante / Marijana Mijanovic / Roberta Invernizzi / Maite Beaumont / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD - released 12/Apr/2006 ] "The recording engineers are to be congratulated for providing an excellent sound quality and the comprehensive annotation is out of the top-drawer. Vivaldi lovers will not want to be without this beautifully performed and recorded opera." (MusicWeb... |
BLOCH / HARRISON / PROKOFIEV / SHARAV
Traditions & Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Wu Man (pipa) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Silk Road Ensemble / Miguel Harth-Bedoya & Alan Gilbert [ CSO Resound / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "How far the Silk Road project has really succeeded - with anything like consistency - in uniting disparate musical traditions is a matter for debate. What is surely undeniable is that all their recordings have, at the very least, been stimulating,... |