Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left [ Island Records / CD - released 8/Oct/2012 ] Re-issued and digitally re-mastered for CD, with extra liner notes and photos included, this classic British folk album contains many of Drake's finest songs such as "Fruit Tree", "Cello Song", "Time Has Told Me", and "River Man". |
Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left (LP) [ Island Records / LP - released 26/Aug/2013 ] Don't go looking for extensive chart statistics to map the career of Nick Drake, because there aren't any. That's to say that, however much we now rightly revere the quintessential sensitive singer-songwriter, his tragically short life was painfully... |
Nick Drake
A Treasury (LP) [ Universal Music / LP - released 28/Nov/2014 ] The words and music on A Treasury further illustrate the great depth of Nick Drake's songwriting and catalogue of recordings. This single LP includes and inner sleeve and notes written by Peter Paphides specifically for this release. |
LEOS JANACEK
Janácek: The diary of one who disappeared & other works Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] "Not only does Spence's voice offer a rare mix of steely strength and velvety tenderness but his bright, vibrant timbre communicates a touching, wide-eyed sense of ardent longing, tinged with melancholy." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Solo Vocal |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Curlew River Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Harold Blackburn, Bryan Drake, English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten [ Decca Records / CD - released 2/Jan/1989 ] "Curlew River - A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is an English music drama, with music by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by William Plomer. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 5 Allan Clayton (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Solo Vocal |
IVOR GURNEY / DENIS BROWNE / EUGENE GOOSENS
The Dark Pastoral Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) & Simon Russell-Beale (actor) [ Altara / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] "Andrew Kennedy sings devotedly and with skill, Julius Drake's playing is always responsive, and together they often perform memorably: Goossens's Hardy settings are fine, and contrasted, examples." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] 'Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to intimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her' (BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Vocal WINNER) |
RAVEL / BERNSTEIN / MESSIAEN / WOLF / FAURE / DEBUSSY / PURCELL / etc
Anna Prohaska - Paradise Lost Anna Prohaska (soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Song |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147 / Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 (arr viola) Annette Bartholdy (viola), Julius Drake (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] "Annette Batholdy and Julius Drake are particularly inspired here, the anguish of the viola's intense cadenza passages finding ultimate release in the calm C major of the close." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
20th Century English Songs Bejun Mehta (countertenor) / Julius Drake (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] "Bejun Mehta certainly can't be faulted on his eclecticism in his whistle-stop tour of English song...Mehta's singing is so heart-stoppingly beautiful and musically perceptive that you wish he had recorded whole cycles rather than just representative... |
SCHOECK
Christian Poltara plays Othmar Schoeck Christian Poltara (cello) Malma Symphony Orchestra / Tuomas Ollila / Julius Drake (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] His great talent has earned the young cellist Christian Poltéra place in no less than three schemes designed to raise the profiles of up-and-coming musicians, namely the BBC New Generation Artist scheme, the Borletti-Buitoni Award and the ECHO Rising... |
MAHLER
Urlicht Christianne Stotijn (Mezzo) Julius Drake (Piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 29/Nov/2006 ] This is the second release on ONYX from young Dutch mezzo and rising star, Christianne Stotijn. An outstanding collection of her core repertoire: the greatest Mahler songs. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Romances Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Mar/2009 ] "Stotijn's charisma and her beautifully recorded altoish depth of tone is enough to hold me spellbound." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010 - Vocal WINNER |
COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |
Jim Davidson With Charlie Drake
Sinderella Live [ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 5/May/2010 ] R16 :- |
Drake
The Gift Without A Curse [ RGS / CD - released 25/Apr/2014 ] Canada's biggest ever rapper drops this brand new release featuring the cream of the scene such as Rick Ross, Kendrick Lamar, 2Chainz, A$AP Rocky, Birdman and many more. |
Drake
If You're Reading This It's Too Late [ Universal / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Drake's mixtape 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' was a surprise release in February 2015. It debuted No.1 at the US Billboard 200 and was previously only available in digital format only. |
Drake
If You're Reading This It's Too Late (Double Gatefold LP) [ Young Money / Cash Money / 2 LP - released 4/Nov/2016 ] Death is the only certainty for rap dynasties. One year it's "All About the Benjamins" and the next it's Lincolns and Washingtons. Cash Money Records has escaped the fate of the Roc-A-Fellas and Bad Boys thanks to the enduring genius of Bryan "Baby"... |
Drake
Scorpion (2CD) [ Universal / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] 'Scorpion,' the fifth studio album from Drake features the singles 'God's Plan', 'Nice For What' & I'm Upset!' The 25 track double album Includes features from Jay-Z, Ty Dolla $ign, Static Major and the KING OF POP, Michael Jackson! |