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CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON
Ayres & Graces Dan Tidhar (chamber organ / harpsichord) & James Akers (theorbo / baroque guitar) / Chelys Consort of Viols [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jun/2015 ] "Performed by the four viol players of Chelys and their keyboard and guitar playing colleagues, they sound wonderfully supple, propulsive and alive." (The Guardian) |
HUGO WOLF
The Complete Songs Volume 1 Sophie Daneman / Anna Grevelius / James Gilchrist / Stephan Loges [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] The first disc in the first complete recording of the songs of Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival. This first disc features settings of Mörike. |
HEINZ HOLLIGER
Beiseit / Alb-Chehr David James : countertenor / Elmar Schmid : kclar,Teodoro Anzellotti : accordian [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Dec/2000 ] Recorded March 1994 |
GAVIN BRYARS
Vita Nova David James (countertenor) / String Trio / The Hilliard Ensemble / Bryars [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded September 1993 |
VICAR OF DIBLEY
The Vicar of Dibley - Volume 2 - Autumn, Spring, Winter, Summer Dawn French with Guy Waldhorn, James Fleet, Emma Chambers & cast [ BBC Audio / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] These four episodes have been specially adapted to bring the gentle humour of Dibley and its residents to audio. |
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WALTER BRAUNFELS
Die Vogel [The Birds] (complete opera recorded in 2009) Désirée Rancatore / Brandon Jovanovich / James Johnson / Martin Gantner / Los Angeles Opera Orchestra & Chorus / James Conlon [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Walter Braunfel's Die Vögel is that very rare thing - a neglected work which really is worth reviving...The staging is colourful, with plenty of well-coordinated movement, and James Conlon conducts his Los Angeles forces persuasively, as well as... |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Strathclyde Concertos 7 & 8 / A spell for green corn: The MacDonald dances Duncan McTier (double-bass), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon), James Clark (violin) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "The demise of Collins Classics - on which label many of the composer's recordings were originally issued - removed from the catalogue a great many valuable discs. It is to the great credit of Naxos they have over the years so assiduously re-released |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas: Recreation for the Soul Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor, James Gilchrist / Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] "The four voices are fairly matched with each other, less so with their instrumental colleagues, and Harvey leads unfailingly elegant interpretations. At each turn, however, they yield to the textual and expressive detail of The Bach Players." Gramop |
HAROLD MELTZER
Meltzer: Brion / Sindbad / Exiles Elizabeth Farnum (soprano) / Gregory Hesselink (cello) / John Shirley-Quirk (narrator) / Cygnus Ensemble / The Peabody Trio / Sequitur / James Baker [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "[Brion] is a haunting, quirky and continually inventive chamber work for a small ensemble including guitar and mandolin. It receives an elegant, colorful performance on a splendid recording of four fascinating chamber and vocal works by Mr.... |
HANDEL
Messiah (complete oratorio) Elizabeth Watts / Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Mark Le Brocq / James Oldfield / Huddersfield Choral Society / Northern Sinfonia / Jane Glover [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2011 ] "The Huddersfield Choral Society surely knows this music inside out. You can sense the sheer discipline that has gone into its preparation...Pick of the bunch...is the soprano Elizabeth Watts" (International Record Review) |
HANDEL
Joshua (Complete oratorio) Emma Kirkby / James Bowman / John Mark Ainsley / The Choir of New College, Oxford / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 13/Apr/2006 ] 'With first-rate casts and careful attention to Handel's original texts, King has blown the dust off some magnificent music' (BBC Record Review) |
CAMILE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No.1 - Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan. with Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "[A] luscious and lyrical account of the concerto, with rich orchestral detail" Irish Times |
Etta James
At Last - The Best of Etta James (25 Tracks) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 22/Mar/2012 ] Features 25 soul/jazz/blues classics, including the enduring hits "At Last", "Tell Mama", "I'd Rather Go Blind", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man". |
Etta James
Five Classic Albums (Miss Etta James / At Last! / Second Time Around / Etta James / Sings For Lovers) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] As a 14 year old Etta James' singing talents were noticed while singing in a doo wop group. At this point she ran into Johnny Otis who took her under his wing, changed her name from Jamesetta Hawkins to Etta James and the name of the group to The... |
Etta James
Sings For Lovers [ Hallmark / CD - released 26/Aug/2013 ] The fourth album of Etta's career, Sings For Lovers was produced by label heads Phil and Leonard Chess and released on the Argo imprint in 1962. Only one track was issued as a single, Fools Rush In, which barely made #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. The... |
Etta James
Tough Woman - The Early Recordings 1955 - 1960 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Etta James is no shrinking violet and this is the first CD release for this iconic artist that covers her earliest recordings with her classic Chess recordings. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R): Eine Alpensinfonie [Alpine Symphony] (with Mahler - Adagio from Symphony 10) European Union Youth Orchestra, James Judd [ Alto Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2017 ] "Special praise is due to the twenty horns who play flawlessly and of which a band is atmospherically positioned for the "offstage" hunting passage." Recording of the Month MusicWeb June 2017. |
WILL TODD
TODD: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Fflur Wyn, James Cleverton, Robert Burt, Victoria Simmonds / Opera Holland Park, Matthew Waldren [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The label "opera" gives the wrong impression. Although it is sung the whole way through, the score's idioms range from bluesy jazz and big band swing to West End musical." |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Pulcinella [complete] / Danses Concertantes Fiona James (soprano) / Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Henry Herford (baritone) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Stefen Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Even if the performance were less than excellent this newcomer would be welcome. But it is very good indeed... Fiona James, Ian Bostridge and Henry Herford are outstandingly good... What can I say? Another "another Naxos winner"!!" - Classic CD 5... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Ernani (complete opera recorded in 2022) Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowaljow, Maria José Siri / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Victor Hugo's 1830 stage drama Hernani won overwhelming admiration, and over a decade later Verdi's attention was drawn to it as an operatic vehicle that would give him opportunities for full dramatic unity. |
