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HANDEL
Twenty Sonatas 'Opus 1' Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Beckett (recorder) Paul Goodmwin (oboe) Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2014 ] "This set gives authoritative readings, impeccable in style, dependable in text" (Gramophone) |
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J.S. BACH
Flute Sonatas (Complete) Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Brown (flute) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month)BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Theodora (complete oratorio) Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, John Chest / Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Erato / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Nov/2022 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2023 - Choral |
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GLUCK
Paride ed Elena (Complete Opera) Magdalena Kozena, Susan Gritton, Carolyn Sampson / Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / 2 CD - released 24/Jul/2005 ] "If anyone can, Kozena can - an impressive restoration of a forgotten opera" (Gramophone) |
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ROSSINI
The Cantatas Vol 1 Mariella Devia, Paul Austin Kelly, Francesco Piccoli, Michele Pertusi. Orchestra e coro Filarmonico Della Scala. Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Jan/2004 ] "Chailly gives lightly articulated and well-sprung accounts of both and draws excellent singing from his splendid team" (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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HANDEL
Harnoncourt conducts Handel (incls 'Messiah' [excerpts] & Organ Concerto, op.4 no.3} Lucia Popp, Paul Esswood, Roberta Alexander, Alice Harnoncourt, Herbert Tachezi / Concentus musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty - Harnoncourt & Handel |
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ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lulu (complete opera recorded in December 2016) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter / Lothar Koenigs [ Nonesuch Classics Blu-Ray+DVD / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] "conducting, singing, direction: they're all of a piece, working to domesticate Berg's feral beast, and making it the funniest, least absurd and most approachable Lulu on film" Gramophone |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mitridate, Rè Di Ponto (complete opera) Michael Spyres, Julie Fuchs, Sabine Devieilhe, Elsa Dreisig, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djia / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Erato / 3 CD Box Set - released 29/Oct/2021 ] "that this is probably the most successful recording of Mozart's opera we will ever see on disc; there is no doubt in my mind that it is the most exciting by a long stretch." MusicWeb Recommended Jan 2022 |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI / C.P.E. BACH
Vivaldi / Tartini / CPE Bach: Baroque Cello Concertos Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, with Layton James (harpsichord continuo) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] While J.S. Bach's Suites for solo cello are, by definition, closely identified with Mstislav Rostropovich as the supreme cellist of his time, the B flat concerto of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach represents a more unusual departure. It is programmed here... |
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LEIGHTON
Cathedral Music Neil Mackie (tenor) / St Paul's Cathedral Choir / John Scott (director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] 'Leighton at his most moving. St Paul's choir brings glowingly alive both the strength and the tenderness of this music. I can enthusiastically recommend this record' - Organists Review |
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PURCELL
Anthems and Services Vol 6 Nicholas Witcomb (solo treble) James Bowman (countertenor) Rogers Covey-Crump (high tenor) Paul Agnew (tenor) / Choir of New College, Oxford / King [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (pre 1700) - 'No fewer than five first recordings in this ... Fans of Purcell will find this disc, Iike the others in the series, indispensable' (Fanfare, USA) |
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MONTEVERDI
L'incoronazione Di Poppea (complete) Helen Donath, Elisabeth Söderström, Cathy Berberian, Kurt Equiluz, Paul Esswood & Philip Langridge, Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 3 CD - released 23/Feb/2009 ] |
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LINLEY
Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare The Parley of Instruments Choir & Orchestra / Paul Nicholson, director [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'This charming ode shows [Linley] sharing with Mozart something of that barely definable but unmistakable gift of melodic genius. The music is as beautiful as the text is absurd, full of shapely tunes that once heard linger hauntingly in the memory'... |
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Paul Agnew & Julius Drake
Gurney: Severn Meadows [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] |
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IVOR GURNEY
Severn Meadows: Songs Paul Agnew (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Aug/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - 'Another fine addition to the Hyperion treasure-house of vocal recordings' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
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Paul Anka
Dianacally Yours [ Bear Family / CD - released 18/Feb/2013 ] |
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SAMMONS
'the English Kreisler' Paul Barritt (Vio) / Catherine Edwards (Piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] From the composer known as the 'English Kreisler'! |
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JOHN IRELAND
Ireland - The Complete Music for violin and piano Paul Barritt (violin) Catherine Edwards (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 13/Jul/2004 ] 'Another extremely useful addition to the ever-expanding Ireland discography' - Gramophone |
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HERBERT HOWELLS
Music for Violin and Piano Paul Barritt (violin) / Catherine Edwards (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] Rosette Recording (Penguin Stereo Guide) |