HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2008 ] Originally Handel was Händel. But the German composer was welcomed in England with open arms. Thus he could leave out the Umlaut from his name. The great oratorio Messiah is Handel's best known work. This is a selection of highlights, of course the... |
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg [The Count Of luxemburg] (complete operetta recorded in 2012) Marco Vassalli, Mark Hamman, Daniel Wagner, Astrid Kessler, Maria-Christine Haase / Osnabruecker Symphonieorchester, Daniel Inbal [ CPO / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2019 ] Beguiling melodies and a thrilling romantic plot render this operetta among Lehár's finest work. The live performance was recorded in the theatre next to the CPO offices, and the stunning reviews of the production whet the appetite for the... |
EMILIO de CAVALIERI
Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo Marie-Claude Chappuis, Johannes Weisser, Gyula Orendt, Mark Milhofer / Staatsopernchor, Concerto vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2015 ] "Typically Jacobs make the orchestral realisation of the score sumptuous within its turn-of-the-17th-century constraints; no one could mistake this for anything but a grandly ceremonial piece." (Guardian) |
Mark Atkins
Dreamtime [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Mark Atkins, descendant of the Jamitji people, Widi tribe, counts among the greatest didgeridoo players. He presents the didgeridoo in its traditional style, but also together with modern instruments (guitars, keyboards, bass, drums and percussion).... |
FRANK BRIDGE
Piano Music Volume 3 Mark Bebbington [ Somm / CD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] Mark Bebbington's ongoing survey of the complete piano music of Frank Bridge for SOMM continues to attract worldwide interest to works of exceptional quality and creative adventure. The cycle's third volume, coinciding with the composer's 70th... |
REGINALD KING
Song of Paradise: Piano Music by Reginald King Mark Bebbington (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 8/Apr/2013 ] Mark Bebbington performs a disc of piano music on the SOMM label by the neglected lyricist and 'king' of light music, Reginald King. This will be the first commercial recording of these works. |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Piano Music Mark Bebbington (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "[Bebbington] has a rewarding slant on the eleven waltzes, composed between 1954 and 1955...There's no other performance [of the Carwithen] with which to compare Bebbington's but there's every sign that he is wholly in command of the idiom, and I'd s |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Piano Concerto & Concert champêtre Mark Bebbington (piano), Jan Latham-Koenig, John Roberts (oboe), Jonathan Davies (bassoon) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Resonus / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
MANU MARTIN
Martin: Lim Fantasy of Companionship Suite for Piano Flute and Strings Octet Mark Bebbington (piano) / Royal Philahrmonic Orchestra [ Signum / CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Following the full orchestral release back in 2021, Dr Susan Lim and Manu Martin bring you the Lim Fantasy of Companionship Chamber Suite. Society currently finds itself at an intersection of technology and humanity: as physical forms embedded with... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Music Of Vaughan William Mark Bebbington & Rebeca Omordia (pianos) [ Somm / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "The opening of the Tallis Fantasia takes my breath away in its version for string orchestra, and does so too in this rapt, quite swift account for two pianos...Bebbington is wonderfully light-fingered" Five Stars International Piano |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Pulcinella / Le baiser de la fee (The Fairy's Kiss) Mark Beesley (bass) / Robin Leggate (tenor) / Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 23/Mar/2006 ] "This CD attracts another unhesitating recommendation and collectors should add it to the Stravinsky/Craft section on their shelves. This is turning into an excellent set whose recordings have that modern technical advantage over those in the elderly... |
SCHOENBERG
Chamber Symphony No. 2 / Die gluckliche Hand / Wind Quintet Mark Beesley (bass) / Simon Joly Chorale / New York Woodwind Quintet / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 1/May/2008 ] The little-known Second Chamber Symphony ought to be the most popular of Schoenberg's later masterpieces. Neither "atonal" nor "twelve-tone", it contrasts a lush, melodious, dramatic first movement with a rapid and richly polyphonic second movement.... |
Mark Bolan
Calling All Destroyers [ Easy Action / 2 CD - released 6/Jul/2012 ] |
Mark Brown & Micky Slim / Various Artists
CR2 Presents Mark Brown & Micky Slim “ Live & Direct [ CR2 / 3 CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] |
Mark Cbso/Elder
Shostakovich: Hypothetically [ Signum / CD - released 11/Oct/2004 ] |
Mark Collie
Hardin County Line [ CD ] |
Mark de Clive-Lowe
Heritage [ Ropeadope / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] Heritage is the first installment of the new two-album series from pianist, composer and live remixer Mark de Clive-Lowe. For the half-Japanese half-New Zealander, these two albums (his 15th and 16th albums respectively) are by far his most personal... |
Mark De Clive Lowe
Live At The Blue Whale (LP) [ Mashibeats / LP - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Mark de Clive-Lowe delivers an outstanding 4 track EP recorded live at Los Angeles' Blue Whale jazz club. The EP finds MdCL revisiting the grand piano, putting his first instrument front and center with his technological world of keyboards and... |
Mark De Clive Lowe & Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra
Take the Space Trane [ Tru Thoughts / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] MdCL reworks some of his classic tracks in a big band style, alongside a handful of all-new compositions and a cover of the jazz standard, "Caravan." |
Mark De Clive-Lowe
Church (LP) [ Ropeadope / 2 LP ] When expat keyboard player/producer and remixer Mark De Clive-Lowe made a 36-hour visit to Auckland 10 days ago he was aware, after 10 years in London and five in LA where he lives with his wife, singer Nia Andrews, and two children, that he was seen... |