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PURCELL
Complete Secular Solo Songs Barbara Bonney / Susan Gritton / Charles Daniels / Roger Covey-Crump / James Bowman / Michael George / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 3 CD - released 23/Mar/2010 ] 'Those who need all of Purcell's songs at their fingertips should invest in Hyperion's three-disk survey of secular songs, with outstanding performances by Barbara Bonney, Rogers Covey-Crump and James Bowman' (The New York Times) |
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Barclay James Harvest
Berlin - A Concert for the People [ Universal Music / CD - released 16/Aug/1982 ] Official European Import |
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Barclay James Harvest
Everyone Is Everybody Else [ Polydor Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] Official European import. Digitally re-mastered and enhanced with five bonus tracks |
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Barclay James Harvest
Eyes Of The Universe [ Universal Music / CD - released 12/Jul/1984 ] Official European Import |
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Barclay James Harvest
Octoberon [ Polydor Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] Official European Import. Digitally re-mastered and enhanced with five bonus tracks |
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Barclay James Harvest
Time Honoured Ghosts [ Universal Music / CD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] Official European import. Digitally re-mastered and enhanced with bonus track |
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Barclay James Harvest
XII [ Polydor Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] Official European import. Digitally re-mastered and enhanced with five bonus tracks |
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BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Works For Violin & Piano Vol 2 James Ehnes (violin) & Andrew Armstrong (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] James Ehnes has previously explored Béla Bartók's concertos for violin and for viola, to great acclaim. This disc is the second in his equally successful survey of Bartók's chamber music for the violin. His accompanist, once more, is Andrew... |
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JONATHAN DOVE / GORDON JACOB / EDWARD MCGUIRE
Three British Accordion Concertos: Dove, Jacob, McGuire Owen Murray (accordion), BBC Concert Orchestra, James MacMillan (cond.) [ Toccata Next / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The development of an original classical repertoire for the accordion began with Mogens Ellegaard in his native Denmark and his student, the Scot Owen Murray, in the UK. In 1976 Ellegaard gave the first broadcast performance of Gordon Jacob's... |
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GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
Orchestral Works [Incls 'The Banks of Green Willow'] BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Kriss Russman, James Rutherford (baritone) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/May/2016 ] When George Butterworth joined the army in 1914, his most recent works included the song cycle Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' as well as the Rhapsody 'A Shropshire Lad', which he called 'an orchestral epilogue' to his settings of A. E. Housman's... |
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JAMES MacMILLAN
The Confession of Isobel Gowdie / Symphony No. 3 'silence' BBC Philharmonic / James MacMillan [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Feb/2005 ] To everyone's amazement, MacMillan's work was greeted with a warmth and intensity rarely experienced in Britain after the death of Benjamin Britten. The work's success brought a new realisation: that it was possible for a modern composer to address... |
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JAMES MacMILLAN
The Birds of Rhiannon; Magnificat; The Gallant Weaver; etc BBC Singers; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, James MacMillan [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] premiere recordings of James MacMillan's music for chorus and orchestra |
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R. STRAUSS / WAGNER
Waldbühne: A Romantic Opera Night (recorded live in 1999) Ben Heppner (tenor) / Berliner Philharmoniker / James Levine [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Conducted by the celebrated James Levine, the 1999 Waldbühne concert for the Berlin Philharmonic features music by Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner. The orchestra is joined by the accomplished Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, who is renowned for his... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Canticles I-V Ben Johnson (tenor) James Baillieu (piano), Christopher Ainslie (countertenor), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Martin Owen (horn) & Lucy Wakeford (harp) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] As part of the celebration Britten's Centenary in 2013, this new recording presents Britten's five Canticles, performed by tenor Ben Johnson with James Baillieu accompanying. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / GYORGY KURTAG
Lines of life: Schubert & Kurtág Benjamin Appl, György Kurtág, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, James Baillieu [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Benjamin Appl met Hungarian composer György Kurtág in 2019 and has worked with him ever since. 'He has shaped me both as a musician and as a human being, perhaps more than anyone else,' says Appl. |
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KORNGOLD / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / WOLF / DEBUSSY / EISLER / etc
For Dieter: Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD/Book - released 20/Jun/2025 ] "His dignified manner - stately tempos and a cool, antiseptic recording ambience - stands back from the repertoire...Whether or not Appl felt dutybound to give back to the master with this tribute, I hope he considers this mission accomplished" Gramo |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Forbidden Fruit Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] ".It's all delivered with wit, intelligence and sophistication, and the thematic joins don't feel forced despite the breadth of the material." Gramophone |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Franz Schubert's masterpiece, his song cycle Winterreise ('Winter Journey'), was written shortly before his death in 1828, at the age of only 31. On his winter journey, the singer wanders as a lost soul in harsh terrain, wracked by conflicting... |
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KENNETH LEIGHTON
Leighton: Sacred Choral Music Benjamin Durrant (treble) Gareth Jones (baritone) James Oxley (tenor) Christopher Robinson (choirmaster) with Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) [ Naxos English Choral Music / CD - released 24/Feb/2004 ] "A thrilling, soul-affirming experience" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (March 2004) |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (complete ballet) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, with James Ehnes (violin) [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "The Bergen Philharmonic proves an ideal instrument for one of Tchaikovsky's most magical scores. Neeme Jarvi's every demand is met with immaculate playing, recorded in a warm but not too resonant acoustic." (BBC Music) |