LEONIN / PEROTIN
Sacred Music From Notre-Dame Cathedral Tonus Peregrinus / Anthony Pitts [ NAXOS / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] Léonin, who was considered the master of polyphonic composition in his time and who appears to have been responsible for the magnus liber in its original form, must have spent much of his career in the unfinished 'choir' or Eastern end of the Cathedral |
ANTHONY PITTS
Alpha and Omega Tonus Peregrinus / Anthony Pitts [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2008 ] There are few better examples of a composer's style developing concurrently with the emergence of a vocal group than in the a cappella vocal music of Antony Pitts. The Tonus Peregrinus octet exists to perform ancient and modern works interspersed... |
Tony (Anthony) Williams
Life Time [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 18/May/1999 ] Digitally remastered reissue. Abitious masterpiece debut from Miles' drummer |
The Trio Project featuring Hiromi / Anthony Jackson / Simon Phillips
Hiromi: Voice [ Telarc / CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] |
POE / JAMES / WILDE
Classic Chilling Tales Volume 2 Read by Anthony Donovan [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2000 ] The vengeful dead, premonition, ghosts, pacts with the devil and a strange madness - these |
POETRY CLASSICS
Poetry Classics [incls 'the Rime of the Ancient Marriner'] Richard Burton, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgug, etc (narrators) [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] Poetry Classics: Great Voices |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Operas [incls 'Peter Grimes', 'The Turn of the Screw' & 'Billy Budd'] Various Artists incls Pop Wagner, James Bowman, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Elisabeth Comeaux Nelson, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Felicity Lott [ Erato Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2019 ] Gramophone Awards 1988 Winner - Opera |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Facade / Orb and Sceptre / Music from Henry V (with Sir Laurence Olivier, narrator) Peter Pears and Edith Sitwell, narrators / English Opera Group Ensemble / Anthony Collins, conductor [ ALTO / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "[Anthony] Collins' recording of Façade is a Gramophone classic...[Edith] Sitwell had one of the richest and most characterful speaking voices, and here she recites her early poems to the masterful, witty music of the youthful [William] Walton with... |