ROSSINI / BODDECKER / GUBAIDULINA / PIAZZOLLA / HAGEN / etc
Bassoon Kaleidoscope Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) with accompliment [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] The programme on this new recording spans nearly 400 years, and brilliantly showcases the many colours and moods that the bassoon is ideally suited to creating. |
Brian Wilson And Van Dyke Parks
Orange Crate Art [ ADA / Warner / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] In 1966, when Brian Wilson prepared the follow up to his masterpiece Pet Sounds, he employed the services of Mississippi born Van Dyke Parks as lyricist for The Beach Boys next album, SMiLE. As history would soon document, SMiLE became the most... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quintet / Quartettsatz Brodsky Quartet, with Laura van der Heijden (Cello) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, the Brodsky Quartet has performed more than 3000 concerts on the major concert stages of the world and has released more than seventy recordings. A natural curiosity and insatiable desire to explore... |
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE / JACQUES IBERT
Rouse / Ibert: Flute Concertos Katherine Bryan (flute) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen [ Linn / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2013 ] "Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo flute repertoire, is exquisitely eloquent." Gramophone |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna Cappella Amsterdam, Suzanne van Els (viola) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "In this performance [of Lux aeterna] by the astoundingly good Capella Amsterdam it sounds more meditative and less apocalyptic than it did [in Kubrick's 2001], but no less haunting." Daily Telegraph |
Cappella Figuralis. Conductor: Jos van Veldhoven
Love & Lament (Monteverdi-Della Ciaia-Carissimi) [ Channel Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/2002 ] The soloist ensemble Cappella Figuralis was founded in 1989 |
ANTHONI van NOORDT
Van Noordt: Works for organ Vol 2 Cees van der Poel (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "The playing is stylistically intelligent and seems exemplary. This disc, at budget price, surely merits the highest recommendation." - Organists' Review (Michael Overbury), February 2000 |
PROKOFIEV
The Love for Three Oranges (recorded live in 2005) Charles Workman / José Van Dam / Philippe Rouillon / Barry Banks / Béatrice Uria-Monzon / Opéra National de Paris / Sylvain Cambreling [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] Conducted by 20th century specialist Sylvain Cambreling and sung in the original French version by superb singer-actors, this production presents a stage performance set in perfect harmony with Prokofiev's inventive music. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Charlotte Margiono, Jard van Nes / Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden, Sinfoniechor Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden/ Bernard Haitink [ Hanssler Profil / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2008 ] "the strings have a warmly cosseting quality, the winds are mellifluous, the brass powerful but cleanly focused...The voices are well balanced and Haitink's willingness to let the music breathe while never allowing it to sag benefits Mahler's... |
RODOLPHE KREUTZER
Kreutzer: La Mort D'abel (2CD + Book) Katia Velletaz, Yumiko Tanimura, Jennifer Borghi, Sébastien Droy, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Pierre-Yves Pruvot / Les Agrémens, Guy Van Waas [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 22/Oct/2012 ] "the fine performance of Guy van Waas and Les Agrémens reveals music of imaginative colours and profuse sentimentality that sometimes sounds like a stepping-stone between Haydn's Creation and Berlioz's Damnation of Faust." (Gramophone) |
MARTIN / HONEGGER / SCHOECK
Cello Concertos Christian Poltera (cello) / Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen / Jac Van Steen [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] The Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra here performs works by Frank Martin, Arthur Honegger and Othmar Schoeck. |
DUTILLEUX
Toute un monde lointain... / Trois strophes sur le nom se Sacher (with Lutoslawski - Cello Concerto, etc) Christian Poltera (cello) / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen / Jac Van Steen [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] Christian Poltéra (cello) |
FRANK MARTIN
Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (1943) Christianne Stotijn (contralto) / Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur / Jac Van Steen [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] "A very powerful musical experience and this fine account b ythe Winterthur Orchestra and Jac van Steen serves it well." BBC Music Magazine, August 2007 + Five stars for sound. |
Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren
FRENCH MUSIC FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, Koechlin, Lekeu, Honneger, Castérède, Saint-Saëns; Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The first modern recording of a gripping 20th-century masterpiece for strings. The name of Jacques Castérède (1926-2014) may not be well known outside his native France, but the taut and compelling Symphony for strings which he wrote at the age of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
American Pioneers: Music for String Orchestra; Ciconia Consort, Dick Van Gasteren, direction [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Dick van Gasteren is the founder-conductor of the Ciconia Consort, a chamber orchestra based in The Hague since 2012. To mark 400 years since the Pilgrim Fathers left the Netherlands for America, he devised this programme of music from the first half... |
CARL RHEINECKE / FRIEDRICH SILCHER / MAX BRUCH / RICHARD WAGNER
Rheingold: Music by Reinecke, Wagner, Bruch & Silcher Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Under their founder-director Dick van Gasteren, the Dutch string orchestra turn to the rich history of Rhineland music from the high-point of its immortalisation in operatic culture as the bedrock of Wagner's Ring cycle. |
BERLIOZ / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / POULENC
Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc Claire Chevalier (piano), Claire Chevallier (piano) & Jos van Immerseel (piano), Katerina Chrobokova & Jos van Immerseel (harpsichord) Anima Eterna Br [ Alpha / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2015 ] Happy Birthday, Mister Jos! Jos Van Immerseel is celebrating his 70th birthday with three important releases that will punctuate the end of the year at Alpha: a symphonic programme (Janacek, Dvorak), a chamber music programme (Schubert) and a set... |
Clara Van Wel
Clara Van Wel [ Sony / CD - released 25/Oct/2013 ] Debut album from NZ's Got Talent winner, featuring the single 'Wait For Me' (co-written with Don McGlashan) and produced by Joel (Lorde) Little. |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Anima Erterna Claron McFadden, Bart van Caenegem, Amina Eterna Brugge, Jos Van Immerseel [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] George Gershwin composed his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924. In the same year, he launched his collaboration with his brother Ira, which produced countless songs. He never achieved his ambition of studying with Maurice Ravel, but was always enthralled by... |
KOZELUCH / DUSSEK / ROSLER / VORISEK / etc
Bohemian Songs (Rec 1996) Claron McFadden (soprano) Bart van Oort (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Bohemia at the end of the 18th century and the early 19th was teeming with highly skilled composers and musicians, centred around the city of Prague. Charles Burney described it as 'the conservatory of Europe'. He also found that rural areas were... |