More By Artist: O'leary Mark
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Antonín Dvořák, Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Lehár, Franz Liszt etc
La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Mark Fewer (violin), Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola) [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian has travelled far and wide, as an international opera star and an Armenian who was born in Lebanon, immigrated to Canada, and is now settled in southern California. Her life is a journey that informs her new recording... |
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Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
Hawk (Vinyl) [ Vanguard Records / LP - released 24/Aug/2010 ] |
HANDEL / VIVALDI / PURCELL
Dido's Lament - Famous Baroque Arias John-Mark Ainsley / Gillian Fisher / Michael George / James Bowman / Robert King / King's Consort [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Essential Baroque arias with period instrument accompaniment |
STRAVINSKY
Octet / L’Histoire du Soldat Jan Opalach (narrator) / Eastman Wind Ensemble & Eastman Virtuosi, Mark Scatterday [ Avie / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Avie has recorded them in an intimate, dryish space at the Eastman School of Music in New York, recalling the atmosphere on the old Robert Craft Stravinsky discs, but the playing is more sharply focused than one recalls from that era." [The Sunday... |
BEETHOVEN
Mass in C major Janice Watson (soprano); Jean Rigby (mezzo); John Mark Ainsley (tenor); Gwynne Howell (bass) / Corydon Singers and Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "The performance of the Mass is as good as any modern instrument version I've heard and I'm delighted that it's been restored to the catalogue" (MusicWeb April 2007) |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Ruth Op. 50 (complete opera) Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano) Mark Tucker (tenor) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) Claire Rutter (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Joyful Company of Singers [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] Premiere recording of Sir Lennox Berkeley's opera Ruth. |
FAURE
The Complete Songs Vol. 2 Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Felicity Lott and Stella Doufexis, sopranos / John Mark Ainsley and John-Paul Fouchecourt, tenors / Christopher Ma [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] "This disc has given me enormous pleasure and will continue to do so, I know. I recommend it urgently" (MusicWeb April 2005) |
W. A. MOZART
Songs Joan Rodgers (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "This marvellous compilation offers no fewer than 25 Mozart songs which genuinely redress this grossly neglected part of his output. A disc which offers rich rewards" (The Independent) |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.14 Op.135 for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra Joan Rodgers (soprano) John Tomlinson (bass) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Mark Wigglesworth [ BIS / CD - released 10/Apr/2005 ] "Mark Wigglesworth delivers an exceptionally coherent interpretation supported by fine and idiomatic singing from both soloists...compelling...shattering." - Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music (Oct 2001) |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine, SV 206 [special edition with DVD] Ann Monoyios, Marinella Pennicchi, Michael Chance, Mark Tucker, Bryn Terfel, Alastair Miles / English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / Archiv CDs plus DVD / 3 CD/DVD - released 15/May/2020 ] "An atmospheric and distinctive performance beautifully accommodated to its deluxe setting … a gloriously public Vespers, and thoroughly Venetian for that." Gramophone |
MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo (Complete opera) John Mark Ainsley - Catherine Bott - Andrew King - Tessa Bonner - Julia Gooding. New London Consort. Philip Pickett [ Decca Critics' Choice / 3 CD - released 25/Jul/2005 ] 'A wonderfully vital account ... Pickett directs with great flair.' (Gramophone) |
GABRIEL FAURE
The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 4 John Mark Ainsley, Iestyn Davies, Lorna Anderson, John Chest / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] "Chest performs Fauré's final four-song cycle, L'horizon chimérique (1921), with the kind of elegance and cool passion this music demands: a fitting close to an excellent series." The Guardian |
BRITTEN
Billy Budd (complete opera recorded in 2010) John Mark Ainsley / Jacques Imbrailo / Phillip Ens / Glyndebourne Chorus / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Mark Elder [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "[Elder paces] the developing tragedy with airily lyrical detail and brooding, ominous power. John Mark Ainsley' s plangent, dark-toned tenor and intense diction show us a more neurotic Vere than usual, ridden with doubts and anxieties" (The Times) |
POULENC
Complete Songs Vol. 3 John Mark Ainsley / Lorna Anderson / Sarah Fox / Jonathan Lemalu / Lisa Milne / Malcolm Martineau [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his most breathtaking moments, but the level of intensity is... |
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J.S. BACH
St John Passion [complete oratorio recorded in 1996] John Mark Ainsley / Stephen Richardson / Catherine Bott / Michael Chance / Paul Agnew / Stephen Varcoe / Choir Of King'S College, Cambridge [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'There are fine contributions especially from Stephen Varcoe, and an exceptionally immediate and affecting 'Es ist vollbracht' from Michael Chance.' Gramophone |
GERALD FINZI
Dies Natalis / Intimations of Immortality John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Corydon Singers / Corydon Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] 'Rich, glowing performances in a class apart' (BBC Music Magazine) |
PERCY GRAINGER
Jungle Book & other choral works John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) / Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Generous timing, discoveries, Delian gauzy harmonies, tangy instrumentation, sentimentality, aureate vocal light, succinct and touching settings." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Jan 2011) |
CRESSONNOIS / DELIBES / LECOCQ / PESSARD / GODARD / ILLEMACHER / DUPARC / etc
L'invitation au voyage John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] 'Graham Johnson is quite literally changing the way we hear French mélodie. What a voyage to be invited to join!' (International Record Review) |
BEETHOVEN
Lieder und Gesange John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] "...well worth hearing, especially in committed, sensitive performances such as these. Excellent sound and booklet notes complete the attractions of this welcome disc." (MusicWeb June 2009) |
TIPPETT / BRITTEN / PURCELL / HUMFREY
Remember Your Lovers John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 2/Feb/2006 ] "A spendid book-end to close Tippett Year, imaginatively planned and beautifully performed by Ainsley and Burnside." Editor's Choice Gramophone January 2006 |
