RAMEAU
Pygmalion / Nelée et Myrthis Howard Crook, Agnès Mellon, Jerome Corréas & Sandrine Piau / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Musique D'abord / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] The famous story of Pygmalion, who fell in love with one of his own sculptures and brought it to life, inspired Jean-Philippe Rameau with a perfect subject since it gave him the ideal opportunity of applying the very principle of the acte de ballet:... |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Parade / Trois Gymnopedies / Orchestral Works) Nancy Symphony Orchestra, Jerome Kaltenbach [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The music is beguiling and bumptious by turns, its simplicity disguising revolutionary qualities. The Nancy orchestra plays this sad circus music as to the manner born, and the sound and presentation are solid. Another Naxos winner" (Gramophone... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Golden Age of The Romantic Piano Concerto [20 CD + CD Rom] Felicja Blumental, Michael Ponti, Jerome Rose, Marylène Dosse, Eugene List (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 21 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2010 ] For many of the works in this collection, these recordings were the world premiers. In the 1960s and 70s the Vox Candide and Turnabout labels did much to enrich the collector's knowledge and appreciation of the bywaters of the repertoire. |
SATIE
Very Best of Satie (The) Gabor Eckhardt (Piano) / Klara Kormendi (Piano) / Nancy Symphony Orchestra / Jerome Kaltenbach (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] A selection of Satie's most popular piano and orchestral pieces. |
SATIE / DVORAK / ELGAR / DEBUSSY / JOPLIN / etc
Gautier Capuçon: Emotions Gautier Capuçon (cello) Jerome Ducros (piano) / Orchestre de chamber de Paris, Adrien Perruchon [ Erato Classics / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] "My album Emotions has grown out of my wish to broaden my musical explorations with pieces that everyone knows and loves. For several years now my cello and I have wanted to share these melodies. I asked my longtime collaborator, the pianist and... |
Henry Jerome & His Orchestra
Brazen Brass - Four Complete Albums [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/May/2012 ] A bandleader, producer and writer, Henry Jerome's diverse musical interest helped make him an important figurehead in whatever genre he laid his hand to and his series of Brazen Brass LPs are certainly a highlight. |
RAMEAU
Rameau 1764-2014 [10 CD boxed set] Claron McFadden, Sandrine Piau, Isabelle Poulenard, Howard Crook, Jerome Correas / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 10 CD Box Set - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "These could be creaking performances after the passage of so much time but they're not are they, they're still vital and this set as a whole makes a very cost effective guide for anyone who's got a Rameau shaped hole on their record shelves" CDRevie |
DE FALLA / RODRIGO / GINASTERA / DUNNE
Guitar Recital Jerome Ducharme (Guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2006 ] Joaquín Rodrigo, blind from childhood, established himself as the leading composer in Spain in the second half of the century, a rôle in which he followed Manuel de Falla. Like the latter, he studied in Paris, spending the years of the Civil War there. |
CHIHARA / ROCHBERG / ROREM
Jerome Lowenthal: Piano Jerome Lowenthal (Piano) [ Bridge / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] Much admired piano virtuoso, Jerome Lowenthal, is heard in a new recording of works with which he has had a particularly close association. The works by Chihara and Rorem were each composed for Lowenthal, as was George Rochberg's Carnival... |
LUIGI ROSSI
Rossi: Soleils baroques (Baroque Suns) Les Paladins / Jérôme Corréas [ Ambronay Editions / CD - released 24/Apr/2008 ] Bright suns and dark suns from Italian Baroque. A Caravaggio-esque programme of light and shadow with masterworks from two of Rome's foremost cantata composers, Luigi Rossi and Marco Marazzoli. Enchanted pages for the first time on CD. |
LULLY / CHARPENTIER
Moliere A L'Opera Luanda Siquera (soprano), Jean-Francois Lombard (tenor), Jerome Billy (tenor), Virgile Ancely (Bass) / Les Paladins, Jerome Correas (Conductor) [ Glossa / CD - released 7/Oct/2016 ] With 'Molière à l'opéra' Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins bring their much-admired combination of Baroque stylishness and varied vocal techniques to comédies-ballets composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marc-Antoine Charpentier during the reign of... |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Le Prophete (Complete opera recorded in 1976) Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, James McCracken, Jerome Hines / Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Lewis [ Sony Classical Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The role calls for a Brünnhilde range with an Amneris-type voice: the vocal flexibility and dramatic punch needed are extraordinary. Miss Horne has them all, and she brings out the pathos of the part without sentimentalizing it." (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Romantic Piano Concertos Michael Ponti, Hans Kann, Martin Galling, Jerome Rose, Roland Keller and many more. [ Brilliant Classics / 40 CD Box Set - released 6/May/2016 ] This CD set contains a wealth of 19th century piano concertos written by composers who for some reason or other have been neglected by history, so called "minor masters" who may have lost the battle against the giants but wrote very attractive works. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 / Missa Solemnis NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, with Jerome Hines (bass), Robert Shaw Chorale [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Between 1949 and 1952, in his mid-80s, Arturo Toscanini conducted his hand-picked NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 9 Symphonies, with RCA Victors microphones (mostly in Carnegie Hall) capturing the legendary maestros final thoughts on the great works.... |
FAURE / DEBUSSY / HAHN / HONEGGER / etc
Green - Melodies françaises on Verlaine's poems Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor), Jerome Ducros (piano) & Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) Quatuor Ebène [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2015 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2016 - vocal |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Pierre Dumoussaud; Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Stanislas de Barbeyrac; Chiara Skerath; Alexandre Duhamel; Jérôme Varnier; Janina Baechle [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ] "Alpha's recording may not be filled with star names but it reveals so much more about the work than before. It is particularly worth acquiring for those who wish to really get inside the orchestral details of this opera." MusicWeb Recommended |
DEBUSSY / DVORAK / ELGAR / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / PROKOFIEV / etc
Capriccio: Virtuoso pieces for violin & piano Renaud Capucon (violin) Jerome Ducros (piano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 18/May/2008 ] "Not since the emergence of Vengerov and Repin has such an exciting young violinist come our way." International Record Review |
MICHEL RICHARD de LALANDE
Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy Sébastien Marq, Marie-Ange Petit, Gilles Rapin, Jérôme Hantaï La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne [ Harmonia Mundi Heritage / 4 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] With this first-ever complete recording of the legendary Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy in 1990, Hugo Reyne produced a set of discs as varied as it is comprehensive. Twenty-five years later - and 300 years after the death of Louis XIV! - it still... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LEMOYNE
Lemoyne: Phedre (complete opera production from 1786) Judith van Wanroij, Julien Behr, Tassis Christoyannis, Melody Louledjian, Jérôme Boutillier / Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 24/Apr/2020 ] "Lemoyne demonstrates impressive integrity as a musical dramatist…The central performances all stand up to scrutiny. Judith van Wanroij's Phèdre hones in on the text, its meaning carefully embedded in the composer's setting" BBC Music Five Stars |