EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Coronation Ode, Op.44 / The Spirit of England, Op.80 Teresa Cahill (sop) Anne Collins (alto) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1992 ] "Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight." Penguin Guide |
SCHUBERT
Complete Schubert Edition: Schiller Settings Thomas Allen (baritone) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 16 / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 'Thomas Alen is in commanding form, singing with unforced beauty of tone and intelligent, unobtrusive attention to the words' (Classic CD) |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante / Gran Concerto in F sharp minor / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Jose-Luis Garcia (violin) Emma Johnson (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 1 / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "At the heart of most of the music by Bottesini which I have heard, there is an essential simplicity, a kind of directness of feeling, a sense of social conversation, which while it may not make for music of great profundity certainly led Bottesini... |
ANTON WEBERN
Webern: Vocal and Orchestral Works - 5 Pieces / 5 Sacred Songs / Variations / Bach-Musical Offering: Ricercar Tony Arnold / Claire Booth / David Wilson-Johnson / Simon Joly Chorale / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "Many of the performances are by the Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, a group of veteran New York new-music players who could just as well call themselves the Robert Craft All-Stars…their interpretations reflect Mr. Craft's half century of... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Songs: Volume 1 [2 CD set] Various artists including Andrew Tortise, Ben Johnson, Caryl Hughes, Philip Smith & Nicky Spence [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency to the Pushkin settings of The Poet's Echo" (Financial... |
Watanabe/Johnson
Various: Summer Song [ Profil / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] |
Wilko Johnson
The Best Of [ Cadiz / 2 LP - released 18/Apr/2014 ] Collected together for the first time on CD, these two volumes present the finest recordings of one of the most idiosyncratic and iconic guitarists in Rock history, Wilko Johnson, who was a founding member of seminal UK Rock/R&B act Dr Feelgood and... |
Wilko Johnson
I Keep It To Myself The Best Of [ Universal Music / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Continuing his association with the reactivated Chess imprint, the label that issued so many of the tunes that inspired him in his youth, I Keep It To Myself - The Best Of Wilko Johnson draws together 25 tracks recorded between 2008 and 2012 by the... |
Wilko Johnson
Blow Your Mind [ Universal Music / CD - released 15/Jun/2018 ] Wilko's first album of new material in 30 + years! Recorded at Rockfield Studios, where famously Wilko and the Feelgoods parted company back in '77. Guests on the album are Mick Talbot on keyboards and Steve Weston on harmonica, both of whom were... |
Wilson-Johnson/Norris
Somervell's Maud & Shropshire [ Helios / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] |