VARIOUS COMPOSERS
English Recorder Music John Turner (recorder) / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] |
W. A. MOZART / NIELSEN
Mozart / Nielsen: Clarinet Concertos Julian Bliss (clarinet) / Royal Northern Sinfonia, Mario Venzago [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "Bliss responds to the work's mercurial switches of mood with a wide range of colour and articulation, and meets its considerable technical challenges with seemingly offhand virtuosity." (BBC Music) |
CARL NIELSEN / W. A. MOZART
Nielsen / Mozart: Flute Concertos Juliette Bausor (flute), Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Signum / CD - released 28/Oct/2016 ] "[the Nielsen] turns out to be a perfect foil to the Mozart's warm, elegant exuberance. This later work allows the orchestra to display their harder edge but also at times to draw out unexpectedly Mozartian parallels, with Bausor herself commanding t |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Four Ballades Lars Vogt (piano) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Feb/2020 ] "A wealth of seldom-heard orchestral detail emerges, with exquisite wind-playing especially prominent. Nothing is extraneous; every gesture seems bent towards maximum expressivity." Gramophone Editors Choice Jan 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Piano Concerto No 3 Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "Vogt and the Tetzlaff siblings approach the Allegro [of the Triple] with warmth and a bristling energy…The crucial opening [of the C minor Concerto] just misses utter serenity here, but a devilish Rondo is pure delight." BBC Music |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / ELGAR / DELIUS / HOLST / BAX
O, to be in England: Music for a green and pleasant land New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / The English Northern Sinfonia [ Heritage of Music / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] A fine collection of moving and wistful orchestral works which celebrate the English landscape and its natural beauty. English composers have always excelled at pastoral music with a hint of nostalgia: from 'the lark ascending' to the strains of... |
AARON JAY KERNIS
Kernis: Dreamsongs Paul Neubauer (viola), Joshua Roman (cello), Royal Northern Sinfonia, Rebecca Miller (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, 1998 Pulitzer Prize, and 2011 Nemmers Award, Aaron Jay Kernis is one of America's most honoured composers. His music appears prominently on concert programs worldwide, and he has been... |
GREGORY ROSE
Rose: Orchestral Works Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) / Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Gregory Rose [ Toccata / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "the composer is conducting a responsive Royal Ballet Sinfonia in top-notch accounts, the sound is splendid, and the annotations are generous and informative" ClassicalSource. |
MATTHEW TAYLOR
Symphony no.1 'sinfonia Brevis' / Horn Concerto op.23 / Symphony no.3 op.33 Richard Watkins (horn) / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Matthew Taylor (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] Recorded in St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London 27-28 April 2006 |
JOHN IRELAND & OTHERS
Orchestral songs and miniatures Roderick Williams (baritone) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland, John Wilson, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Dutton Epoch's survey of tuneful short works by John Ireland (including the last two unrecorded songs orchestrated by Ireland himself and sung here by Roderick Williams) is filled out with a selection of encores by British composers and two... |
Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Barry Wordsworth
McCabe, John - Edward II (Ballet in 2 Acts) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2000 ] 'Stirringly dramatic, strikingly colourful... it is good to see McCabe's recent 60th birthday being marked by a number of fine new recordings. This could prove the most widely popular of them all.' (International Record Review) |
BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC PREMIERES
British Light Music Premieres Vol 1 (music by Geoffrey Wright. Peter Lawson, Philip Lane, John Fox, etc) Royal Ballet Sinfonia. City of Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gavin Sutherland, with Philip Lane (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 18/Mar/2005 ] Recorded at various locations from 1974-2004 |
BERKELEY / LAMBERT-SCARLATTI / LAMBERT-LISZT / LANCHBERY
Sir Frederick Ashton Ballets Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Barry Wordsworth [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 18/Mar/2005 ] Recorded at Watford Town Hall, Watford, 20-21 September 2004 |
RUTTER / CORDELL / MELACHRINO / DOUGLAS / etc
English String Miniatures Vol 1 Royal Ballet Sinfonia / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] "Winningly entertaining, and marvelous value for money."-Gramophone |
MARTELLI / FINZI / HOLST / BLEZARD / HURD / etc
English String Miniatures Vol 3 Royal Ballet Sinfonia / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] Continuing the series |
JAMES LANGLEY / CARLO MARTELLI / CLIFTON PARKER / ERNEST TOMLINSON / etc
British Light Music Premieres Vol 3 Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland and Paul Murphy [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] Recorded at Whitfield Street Studios and Angel Studios, London 2005 |
ANTHONY HEDGES / ALUN HODDINOTT / PHILIP LANE / DAVID MORGAN / etc
British Light Music Premieres Vol 6 Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland / BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] British Light Music Premieres |
IRELAND / PAUL LEWIS / THOMAS ROSEINGRAVE
English String Miniatures, Vol. 5 Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] A collection of small-scale English string music. |
HOLST / PURCELL / SAINSBURY / LEWIS
English String Miniatures, Vol. 6 Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2006 ] "A mixture of contemporary and classical. I question the mixing of styles. Modern recording of high calibre and readings that are alert and intuitive" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC PREMIERES
British Light Music Premieres Vol 4 (music by Peter Flinn, Carey Blyton, Ernest Tomlinson, Jim Cooke, etc) Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland, with Christopher Perry (hammered dulcimer) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] The forth instalment in Dutton Epoch's ongoing series focusing on British light music features sumptuous works by Phillip Lord, Peter Flinn and Ernest Tomlinson. |