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VIVALDI
Concertos for the Emperor RV 189, 202, 271, 277, 183, 286 The English Concert / Andrew Manze [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 10/Mar/2005 ] "Music fit for a king in performances that fully match Vivaldi's grand vision" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Oct 2004 - SACD Hybrid / DSD / stereo & multi-channel |
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BIBER
Missa Christi Resurgentis The English Concert, Andrew Manze [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] The interpretation of Andrew Manze and The English Concert 'succeeds in exalting the luxuriance of this voluptuous style' (Diapason). |
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VIVALDI
Concertos for the Emperor [plus free Harmonia Mundi catalogue] The English Concert; Andrew Manze [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "Music fit for a king in performances that fully match Vivaldi's grand vision" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Oct 2004 |
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C.P.E. BACH
Symphonies no.1-4 / Cello Concerto in A major The English Concert / Andrew Manze (with Alison McGillivray, cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] "No other performances surpass those of Andrew Manze and his orchestra, who simply have tremendous fun with Bach's uniquely personable creations, highlighting and enlivening every twist and turn... In the concerto, Alison McGillivray's confident,... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Death in Venice (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY English National Opera / John Graham-Hall, Andrew Shore, Tim Mead / Edward Gardner (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2014 ] "Graham-Hall is a real stage-animal, convincing us utterly of his descent into obsession...every colour, timbre and texture of this richly imaginative score comes blazing through under Gardner's baton". (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Opera) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah [New Concert Edition by Sir Andrew Davis] Erin Wall, Elizabeth DeShong, Andrew Staples, John Relyea / Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jan/2017 ] "A performance I will return to often and with great pleasure." MusicWeb International, 13th December 2016 |
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GAUBERT
Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 1 Jacques Zoon, Fenwick Smith (flutes) Malcolm Lowe (violin) John Ferrillo (oboe), Sally Pinkas (piano) Jayne West (soprano) Andrew Pearce (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
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Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano) / Andrew Ball (piano)
In Flanders' Fields [ Quartz Music / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] A celebration of the poets and composers of the Great War 1914-1918 |
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SIGISMOND THALBERG
Thalberg: Fantasies on Italian Operas / Les Soirées de Pausilippe, Op. 75 / Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 5 / Other Piano Works [6 Discs] Francesco Nicolosi (piano) / Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/May/2021 ] Some mystery surrounds the birth and parentage of the virtuoso pianist Sigismond Thalberg, popularly supposed to have been the illegitimate son of Count Moritz Dietrichstein and the Baroness von Wetzlar, born at Pâquis near Geneva in 1812. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 26 Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Andrew Manze & Scottish Chamber Orchestra [ Linn / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "Piemontesi's playing is mostly magnificent, with crystalline clarity, radiant tone and eloquent phrasing. In the fine and intriguing cadenzas, he shines with surety of purpose" BBC Music |
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W.A MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 27, Rondo K. 386 Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Linn Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] The 'dream team' of Piemontesi, Andrew Manze and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra present the graceful and sunny 'Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major' and the mellow and magnificent 'Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major', which was Mozart's last. |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Piano Concerto in F / Rhapsody in Blue / Second Rhapsody / "I Got Rhythm" Variations Freddy Kempf (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "This is one of the jazziest, liveliest, and most improvisatory Gershwin albums to arrive in a long time." (MusicWeb) |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Piano Sonata No. 2 Freddy Kempf (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "[In the G minor concerto] Kempf is less flamboyant than some, perhaps seeking to make musical sense of the argument. The second movement is as lithe and scintillating as one might wish." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2010 |
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SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Stanford: Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra Gemma Rosefield (cello) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Manze [ Hyperion Romantic Cello Concerto Vol 3 / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] "While there are rival recordings of the Concerto and Rhapsody, I can't imagine they're as sympathetically or as engagingly played as by the present musicians; whose hearts, I'm sure Stanford himself would agree, are in the right place." (AudAud.com) |
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HUGH WOOD
Wood: Symphony & Scenes From Comus Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) / Daniel Norman (tenor) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) [ NMC / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "One of the outstanding British symphonies of the last century." BBC Music Magazine 2002Gramophone Awards nomination 2002 |
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HOWELLS / SWAYNE / WATSON / WALTON / BERKELEY / PART / etc
Magnificat Vol. 2 Glen Dempsey (organ) Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha [ Signum / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] 'This project is shaping up to become the most significant recording project ever in the field of choir-and-organ English church music.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2021 |
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CHESNOKOV / HOWELLS / MOORE / DYSON / STANFORD / KELLY / etc
Magnificat Vol. 3 Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, George Herbert (organ), Andrew Nethsingha [ Signum / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] "I can't think of a greater or more apt epitaph to the music director's time at St Johns" Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2023 |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in August 2009) Globe / Andrew Vincent / Philip Cumbus / Michael O'Hagan / Atetomiwa Edun / Ellie Kendrick [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Dromgoole is blessed with a smashing pair of young lovers. Adetomiwa Edun's Romeo is fresh, cheeky, light on his feet and full of the ebullience of young love." Daily Telegraph |
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JANACEK
The Makropulos Case (complete opera recorded in 1995) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Anja Silja, Kim Begley, Victor Braun, Andrew Shore / Andrew Davis (cond) [ Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "The wide vibrato at Silja's top might worry some, but her genius as a singer-actress makes Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Gyndebourne Makropulos unforgettable. Riveting music; the production's half stark, half fussy." (BBC Music Magazine, May 2014) |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera) Gregory Kunde, Laura Claycomb, Darren Jeffery, Andrew Kennedy / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Jun/2008 ] 'Conductor and tenor are the joint heroes of this exhilarating release...Davis remains the supreme Berliozian of our day, brilliantly evoking the mercurial wit of the comic repartee...anyone who doesn't own this fabulous score should snap it... |