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SCHUMANN / TANEYEV / DEBUSSY / GULDA / SCHNITTKE / MENDELSSOHN / etc
Lugano Festival of Chamber Music 2006 Martha Argerich (piano) and friends, Nicholas Angelich, Jorge Basso, Dora Schwarzberg, Renaud and Gautier Capucon [ EMI Music / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "4 stars(...) the performances have a fresh-minted quality. There's extreordinary piano playing from Gabriela Montero with cellist Gautier Capuçon in Mendelssohn's D major Cello Sonata, and a thoughtful account of Schumann's D minor Piano Trio from... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (Incls 'The Four Seasons') Monica Huggett (violin) / Raglan Baroque Players, Nicholas Kraemer [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1989 ] Original recording from 1988 & 1989 |
RACHMANINOV
Etudes-Tableaux Op.33 & 39 Nicholas Angelich (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] "Angelich is particularly impressive is and very much alive to the varied moods of these works. He never overstates and avoids heaviness. These sessions were excellently recorded back in 1994; shame that are not given the studio location." (MusicWeb |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Still Falls The Rain Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano), Jennifer Montone (horn), Sivan Magen (harp) & Alan Cumming (narrator) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] "The tenor turns in a first-class performance, and pianist Myra Huang lends the songs personality throughout. More please!" (BBC Music) |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos / Overture / Music for Strings, Trumpets & Percussion Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] "Bacewicz's music certainly thrives on its high metabolic rate, its impatience, even, for which this brilliantly executed new album makes no apology." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Concerto |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Jedermann / Earnest Melodies / etc Pia Pajala (soprano) Tuomas Katajala (tenor), Nicholas Soderland (bass) Mikaela Palmu (violin) / Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Rarely performed but recognized as a hidden masterpiece, Sibelius's score for Jedermann is unusual in that the music closely follows the words and action of this morality play, intensifying Everyman's hubris, penance, escape from the Devil's clutches... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria in D, RV 589 / Beatus Vir in C, RV 597 Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Jeremy Summerly / Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD ] "..The Paratum cor eius, too, brings a surge of choral feeling, and the chorus rises to the occasion for the splendid closing Gloria patri. Full translation are included." Penguin Guide |
GERALD FINZI
Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi Amy Dickson (saxophones), Thomas Gould (violin), Tom Poster (piano) & Nicolas Fleury (French horn) / Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Decca / CD - released 11/May/2016 ] To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of British composer Gerald Finzi's passing, Decca Classics and the Finzi Trust collaborate on a special album to bring some of Finzi's finest works to a whole new audience. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Intimate Chopin (LP) Andrei Gavrilov, Alexandre Tharaud, Samson Francois, Nicholas Angelich, Nikolai Lugansky, Ingrid Fliter [ Warner Classics / LP - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Not very forthcoming as a person, Chopin invents a new type of touch, able to render the immaterial, to encompass absolute limpidity, and the full gamut of modern pianism...the versions collected here are all performed by Warner's greatest artists. |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespers (1610) Carolyn Sampson / Rebecca Outram (sopranos) / Daniel Auchlincloss, Nicholas Mulroy (high tenor) etc. / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS TOP 10 CLASSICAL CDs of 2006 / TIME OUT NEW YORK BEST OF 2006 / FANFARE BEST OF 2006 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Solo Nicholas McCarthy (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Nicholas McCarthy, who at one point was told he would never have a career, is not your average artist. Born in 1989 without his right hand he only began to play the piano at the late age of 14 after seeing a friend play Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata... |
GIUSEPPE TARTINI
Tartini: Violin Concertos Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) / The Raglan Baroque Players. Nicholas Kraemer [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "In every way this disc is superior to any Tartini recording I've ever heard: the soloist is in breathtaking form … in the quiet repose somtimes offered by the slow movements she and her wonderful continuo team are as eloquent as can be." Early Music... |
MOZART / Max RICHTER / DOWLAND / ADES / BOWIE
Music of the Spheres Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist) Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] "Aurora is the most bracing breath of fresh air to invigorate the British classical music scene in the past ten years." (Richard Morrison, The Times) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Harpsichord Concertos ( 3 CD set) Kenneth Gilbert, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Nicholas Kraemer / The English Consort / Trevor Pinnock [ Archiv Trio / 3 CD - released 11/Oct/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "Trevor Pinnock plays with real panache, his scholarship tempered by excellent musicianship." The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, 1994 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Marie Oppert - Enchantée Marie Oppert (soprano) / Orchestre National De Lille, Nicholas Skilbeck, with Natalie Dessay & Melissa Errico [ Warner Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] In her debut album on Warner Classics, Enchantée, Marie Oppert embraces both the classics of Broadway repertoire and treasured songs of French origin, in order to represent her own musical upbringing and passion. The program explores the idea of this... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Martha Argerich: The Lugano Recordings 2002 - 2016 Martha Argerich (piano), with, Nicholas Angelich, Renaud and Gautier Capucon, Maria João Pires, Stephen Kovacevich, etc [ Warner Classics / 22 CD Box Set - released 18/Sep/2018 ] "Every June [Argerich] and a clutch of friends and protégés make music in a style that reflects her free spirit and total dedication. Even when Argerich is not playing, she seems to inspire the performance." Financial Times |
LISZT / ZEMLINSKY / RAVEL / RACHMANINOV / MUSSORGSKY / etc
Nicholas Angelich: Hommage Nicholas Angelich (piano), with Martha Argerich, Quatuor Ebène, and others [ Warner Classics / Erato / 7 CD Box Set - released 29/Sep/2023 ] A musician as loved as he was admired, the pianist Nicholas Angelich died in Paris in April 2022 at the age of 51. Angelich was a modest, thoughtful man who brought tremendous integrity, depth and insight to the most demanding repertoire. His... |
VIVALDI / ALBINONI / MARCELLO / BELLINI / CIMAROSA
Five Italian Oboe Concertos Nicholas Daniels (oboe & director) / Peterborough String Orchestra [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] 'Nicholas Daniel's playing, beautifully controlled and judiciously ornamented, makes it easy to listen again to a choice selection' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Nicholas Gunn
Afternoon In Sedona [ Real Music / CD ] |
Nicholas Hooper
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 16/Jul/2009 ] British composer, Nicholas Hooper returns for a second time, and he has taken John Williams' original themes and worked them into a brand new score full of excitement, wonder and magic. |
