TRADITIONAL / PEROTINUS / de BORNELH / etc
Amor de Lonh - The Distant Love of the Troubadors Martin Best Consort [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "this is one of those discs which, because of its varied pattern, gentle songs and lively dances, you can play through in one go." MusicWeb May 2020 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Music for Royal Fireworks and Water Music Boston Baroque conducted by Martin Pearlman [ Telarc SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "Perhaps the most outstanding period-instrument ensemble in this country." - Stereo Review |
CHERUBINI
Requiem in C Minor (with Beethoven-Elegiac Song) Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] "Telarc are to be congratulated for reviving this historically and musically important requiem, as well as for their very good recording. The Requiem was commissioned for the memorial service for King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette. It was... |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass (new completion by Robert Levin) Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman [ Telarc Records / CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] This innovative completion by Robert Levin of the Mozart's Requiem |
HEINRICH BIBER
Biber: The Mystery Sonatas Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, Christina Day Martinson [ Linn / 2 CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] Heinrich Biber's astonishingly powerful and deeply emotional Mystery Sonatas represent a triumph of Baroque invention. Boston Baroque's Christina Day Martinson delivers a technical tour de force, as she navigates the virtuosic challenges presented by... |
Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman (director)
Lost Music of Early America [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] Telarc presents the first and only available CD recording of American Moravian music-the first true early American classical music, beautifully performed by America's oldest continuing period instruments ensemble, Boston Baroque. |
LUIGI CHERUBINI
Cherubini: Requiem in C Minor Boston Baroque / Martin Perlman [ Telarc Records / CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] "I have heard astoundingly few recordings of Cherbini¹s greater-of-two requiems performed with such delicacy and conviction." - Audiophile Audition |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Creation Amanda Forsythe, Keith Jameson, Kevin Deas / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "Pearlman adopts near-ideal tempi for every number, and his choir and period band - medium forces for a work the composer conducted with up to 200 - are excellent." (Sunday Times) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos Nos 19 20 21, 23 24, etc Alfred Brendel (piano) / Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2008 ] Rosette Recording - Penguin Stereo Guide |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051 (Complete) English Chamber Orchestra & Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Benjamin Britten and Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] Penguin Stereo Guide *** Three Stars |
GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Cello Sonata nos 1 & 2 Buruiana, Laura (cello) Tchiba, Martin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music was a prominent feature of Enescu's music from his earliest years. Though separated by almost four decades, the two Cello Sonatas were not published until 1935. The First is indebted in many respects to Brahms and to Enescu's French... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (complete ballet recorded in 2007) The Royal Ballet / Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Jose Martin / Boris Cruzin (cond) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Rojo rises to the fierce dramatic challenges of the last act with electrifying intensity. ...and Prokofiev's score is vigorously conducted by Boris Gruzin." Gramophone DVD of the Month Feb 2010 |
Carthy Martin
January Man Live In Belfast 1978 [ CD - released 19/Jan/2011 ] |
DVORAK
Rusalka (complete opera in English) Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Rosario La Spina (tenor) / Bruce Martin (baritone) / Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano) / Opera Australia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Opera in English / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Feb/2008 ] "Cheryl Barker's voice opens up excitingly on the top notes, but in the medium-high range her timbre has no especial qualities. She gives a committed performance" (MusicWeb March 2008) |
DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor (Complete Opera) Cheryl Studer, Placido Domingo / London Symphony Orchestra / Ion Martin [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 2/Sep/2001 ] The complete opera at a special price |
The Choir of Girton College, Cambridge / Directed by Martin Ennis with William Ings and Samuel Hudson (organ)
The Complete New English Hymnal (Vol 17) [ Priory / CD - released 20/Dec/2004 ] Recorded in the Chapel of Girton College, Cambridge on 17 /18 April 2004 |
PETER PHILIPS & RICHARD DERING
Philips & Dering: Motets The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; In Echo; Matthew Martin [ Linn Records / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] One of the UK's leading collegiate choirs, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and its Precentor Matthew Martin make their debut on Linn. This new recording offers a fresh insight into the lives and works of two expatriate English... |
PALESTRINA / BYRD / STAINER / BRITTEN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Carols by Candlelight The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Bill Ives (with Martin Ford, organ) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] "This choir is always a pleasure to hear, and in repertoire such as this you won't find more musically assured or more tonally concordant interpreters." (10/10 ClassicsToday Nov 2009) |
The Choir of The King's School, Canterbury, Directed by Howard Ionascu with Matthew Martin (organ)
The Complete New English Hymnal (Vol 16) (Includes 'Father Eternal Lord of Ages') [ Priory / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] Recorded in Sandwich Parish Church on 22&23 April 2003 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
From the Vaults of Westminster Cathedral Choir of Westminster Cathedral / Martin Baker (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Throughout, the choral singing under Martin Baker's direction glows resplendently, while still retaining its celebrated 'continental' edge." (Gramophone) |