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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto 3 & Triple Concerto Martin Helmchen (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] German pianist Martin Helmchen continues his journey through Beethoven's piano concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Andrew Manze. In the Third Concerto, published in 1804, Beethoven seems to be moving away from the Mozartian model... |
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WIKLUND
Piano Concertos Martin Sturfält (piano)/ Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 57 / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] Volume 57 in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series turns up another 'discovery': the music of Swedish composer Adolf Wiklund. These little-known but lusciously tuneful works are characterized by big-boned, symphonic gestures reminiscent of... |
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TOM COULT
Tom Coult: Pieces That Disappear Martyn Brabbins, Daniel Pioro, Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay, Elena Schwarz [ NMC Recordings / CD - released 22/Nov/2024 ] On 22 November 2024, NMC Recordings releases Pieces that Disappear - the debut album from the composer Tom Coult performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra |
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TIPPETT
Songs (Incls Songs for Achilles & Songs for Ariel) Martyn Hill (tenor) Andrew Ball (piano) Craig Ogden (guitar) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2006 ] 'Issued to mark the composer's ninetieth birthday, a most touching and eloquent tribute' (Gramophone) |
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LILI BOULANGER
Clairieres dans le ciel / Hymne au soleil Martyn Hill (tenor) Andrew Ball (piano) / New London Chamber Choir / James Wood (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/May/2004 ] 'Truly one of the great French song cycles of the first quarter of this century' - Fanfare, USA |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (Complete opera) Massimiliano Pisapia (tenor) Federica Bragaglia (mezzo) Andrew Schroeder (baritone) / Bergamo Musica Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Marcello Rota [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "Complete opera sets where all the pieces fit together are rare indeed and while admiring both Sills and Gruberova enormously, I think that the cast as a whole on this new Naxos set makes it a better proposition" (MusicWeb Feb 2009) |
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PERCY GRAINGER
Grainger: Works For Large Chorus And Orchestra Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Performances throughout are pretty much exemplary, these combined Melbourne and Sydney forces straining every sinew under Sir Andrew Davis's lucid lead.'" Gramophone |
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CHARLES IVES
Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 [Symphonies 1 & 2] Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ CHANDOS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Mar/2015 ] An amateur genius of avant-garde composing, who experimented with groundbreaking techniques years ahead of their time, Ives started out with more conventional works - as shown by the two early symphonies recorded here. |
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CHARLES IVES
Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 [Central Park in the Dark, etc] Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ CHANDOS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2016 ] In this second volume, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis play some of the most characteristic pieces of Charles Ives, an insurance salesman by trade and one of the most precociously original of all American... |
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EUGENE GOOSSENS
Orchestral Works Volume 2 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "Chandos's rich sound is up to the usual high standards and outshines Goossens's own 1922 recording of Tam O'Shanter" Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 |
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MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concertos Marat Bisengaliev (violin), Benjamin Frith (piano) / Northern Sinfonia, Andrew Penny [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "the solo parts so nimbly and sympathetically shared here by Marat Bisengaliev and Naxos's own Mendelssohn devotee, Benjamin Frith. The Northern Sinfonia under Andrew Penny likewise play with all the freshness of a new discovery" (Gramophone) |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Hamlet / As You Like It Michael Sheen (voice) / RTE Concert Orchestra, Andrew Penny [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] Andrew Penny was born in Hull and entered the Royal Manchester College of Music in 1971. As a postgraduate he was the first holder of the Rothschild Scholarship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem] (1871 London version) (Sung in English) Michelle Areyzaga (soprano) Russell Hugh (baritone) Madeline Slettedahl (piano) Terry Craig (piano) / Bella Voce, Andrew Lewis [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "The recording, made in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston, IL, is superb, with an acoustic that combines marvelous definition, rich and beautiful reproduction of both voices and pianos" Fanfare |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Violin Concertos Nos. 5, 6 & 7 Misha Keylin (violin) / Razumovsky Sinfonia / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Fantasia appassionata / Ballade and Polonaise / Fantaisie-Caprice / Greeting to America Misha Keylin (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "The recorded sound (from 2008 except for the Ballade from 2002) sets the violin in a respectable balance with the orchestra. Recommended, accordingly, to all types of listeners." (Fanfare Nov 2010) |
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ZDENEK FIBICH
Fibich: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "[The Razumovsky SO]'s sound is superbly rounded, with exactly the right balance. Individually, the instrumentalists play with character and admirable security...Few orchestras worldwide would easily surpass the playing heard on this disc, and the cl |
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete Opera recorded in June 2009) Opéra Comique, Paris / Anna Caterina Antonacci, Andrew Richards, Nicolas Cavallier, Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2021 ] On 3 June 1975, the day after the 33rd performance of Carmen - indicating limited success as the receipts were meagre - he died from a heart attack, at the age of 36, like Mozart. |
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JERUSALEM
Jerusalem: La Ville des deux Paix (2 SACDs with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Andrew Lawrence-King / Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "A bewildering voyage in time and space is buoyed up by beautiful sound." Editor's Choice - Gramophone April 2009 |
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MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Arie e Lamenti / Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi Montserrat Figueras / Andrew Lawrence-King / Rolf Lislevand / Ton Koopman / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox Heritage Series SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] At this time, [Figueras] developed an innovative style of interpretation, characterised by great fidelity to historical sources, combined with an extraordinary creative and expressive power, that has exerted a decisive influence on the whole... |
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W.A. MOZART
Requiem in D minor Marie Arnet (soprano) Anna Stephany (mezzo) Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Darren Jeffrey (bass) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] 'Davis's approach to the Requiem...contained both tragic grandeur and high drama, with the Dies Irae pointing the way towards the theatrical vividness of some 19th-century settings, but nothing was remotely sentimental of self-pitying' The Guardian |