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RAVEL
Works Transcribed for Ten-Stringed Guitar and Alto Guitar Anders Miolin (ten-stringed & alto guitars) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/1998 ] Anders Miolin (ten-stringed & alto guitars) |
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JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop) Peter Crawford (counter-ten), Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop), etc [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] "John Tavener is a master of sonic masonry, constructing vast cathedrals of both solemnity and exultation within the head and heart. Religious proclivity is not a prerequisite to uncovering the ecstasies in these scores, and the magnetism of each... |
JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop) Peter Crawford (counter-ten), Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop), etc [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Choral |
ELGAR
The Apostles (complete oratorio) Anna Leese (sop) Louise Poole (mezzo) Andrew Staples (ten) Colin Campbell (bar) / Canterbury Choral Society / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Quartz / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] Elgar embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. |
J.S. BACH
Weihnachtskantaten (Christmas Cantatas) Arleen Auger (soprano) Ortrun Wenkel (contralto) Peter Schreier (ten) Siegfried Lorenz (bass) / Thomanerchor Leipzig Neues / Bachisches Collegium [ Berlin Classics Basics / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] "This disc enters a very crowded and competitive field. However, unless you're allergic to Bach played on modern instruments these well-turned performances under one of Bach's successors at St. Thomas's, Leipzig are well worth considering, especially... |
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J. S. BACH
Secular Cantatas Vol VI: Trauerode [BWV198 & BWV1083] Carolyn Sampson, Joanne Lunn (sopranos), Robin Blaze (counter-ten), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan directed by Masaa [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] Although Bach's sacred cantatas span a huge expressive range and display a striking stylistic diversity, they were all composed for performance during a church service. In the case of the secular cantatas, on the other hand, their respective purpose... |
MONTEVERDI
The Sacred Music Vol. 2 Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram (sops) Rogers Covey-Crump (high tenor) Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist (ten) Peter Harvey (bass) / King's Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/May/2004 ] This second volume of Hyperion's project to record all of Monteverdi's sacred music focuses on works to be found in the 1650 publication Messa a quattro voci e salmi and includes a glorious Mass-setting, Litany of Loreto and the five-part Exultent caeli. |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 2: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV 29 & 6 others Carolyn Sampson (sop) Charles Brett (alto) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Kooy (b) / La Chapelle Royale / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi Herreweghe Bach Edition / 3 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The soloists are outstanding, with Carolyn Sampson and Mark Padmore in especially communicative form… Outstanding work; Herreweghe's occasional oratorios are beginning to achieve some kind of critical mass, a very fine series of Bach recordings... |
SCHUMANN
Schumann - Der Rose Pilgerfahrt Christiane Oelze, sop. Birgit Remmert, alt. Werner Gara, ten. RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Aug/2005 ] Considered by W. Siegmund-Schultze as 'formally the most perfect of Schumann's choral compositions', The Pilgrimage of the Rose was composed in 1851, a few months after the composer had received a manuscript from the poet Moritz Horn with a subject... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (recorded in 2012) Christina Landshamer (sop) Stefan Kahle (alto) Wolfram Lattke (tenor), Martin Lattke (ten) Klaus Mertens Gotthold Schwarz (bass) / Gewandhausorchester [ Naxos DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] "This is a performance which has Bach liturgically wired into its DNA...Biller's direction exudes profound integrity and commitment, the chorales in particular shaped by a deeply-felt inevitability..this is a moving testament to a choir celebrating" |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Christina Landshamer (sop) Anke Vondung (mezzo) Kenneth Tarver (ten) & Andreas Wolf (bass-bar) / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Concerto Köln, Peter [ BR Klassik / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jun/2017 ] For Bach, the Mass in B minor marked the culmination and also the end point of his life's work as a composer. This "great Catholic Mass," the only mass he composed, and in which he set to music the complete Ordinary of the Latin Mass, was his last... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation] Christina Landshamer (sop), Maximilian Schmitt (ten) Rudolf Rosen (bar) / Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ PHI / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] "[the music] bursts from the speakers with the same combination of vigour, technical accomplishment and, above all, unforced pleasure in Haydn's cornucopian invention that should make even the most dedicated Creation admirer listen with fresh ears." |
LORD BERNERS
Berners: Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement (Sung in English) Cynthia Buchan (mezzo), John Winifred (ten), Ian Caddy, Thomas Lawlor (bass-baritone), Anthony Smith (bar) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; RTÉ Sinf [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] "..very satisfying: everyone sings and plays with obvious enjoyment. Again, Berners' temperament was obviously attuned to its times and his music partakes of the then prevailing mood of light-headedness and nonchalance." British Music Society |
VERDI
Messa da Requiem Daniela Nedialkova (sop) Ivanka Ninova (mezzo) Roumen Doikov (ten) Emil Ponorsk (bass) / Choir & Orchestra of the Sofia Opera, Ivan Marinov [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'I have paid a lot of money to hear this work over the years, often with 'name' conductors and soloists. Not many have given me as much pleasure as this performance.' Musicweb International review |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas 8, 125. 138 Deborah York (sop) Ingeborg Danz (alto) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Kooy (bass) / Collegium Vocale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The theme of death and dying was one of the favourite themes of Bach and his contemporaries in their cantatas - that "musical theology" which was held in such high esteem in deeply Lutheran Northern Germany. Composed between 1723 and 1725, the three... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio Mary Bevan (sop) Joanne Lunn (sop) Clare Wilkinson (mezzo) Nicholas Mulro (ten), etc / Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt [ Linn / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "Way-too-early seasonal content (sorry), but this latest release from the Dunedin Consort is too good to wait. It's surely one of the finest accounts now available of Bach's Christmas Oratorio." Guardian Five Stars |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (recorded Nov 2018) Erin Wall (soprano) Annika Schlicht (mezzo) Attilio Glaser (ten) René Pape (bass) / World Orchestra for Peace & Würth Philharmoniker, Donald Runnicles [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2019 ] In 2018, marking the exact 100th anniversary of the Armistice ending World War 1, the all-star World Orchestra for Peace gave two UNESCO designated performances of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Symbolically one in each of the UK and Germany - for the BBC... |
REYNALDO HAHN
Songs Felicity Lott (sop) Susan Bickley (mezzo sop) Ian Bostridge (ten) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) / Graham Johnson (piano) / London Schubert Chorale [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/May/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - 'This gorgeous set ... Irresistable' - The Sunday Times |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius,Op. 38 [with Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens; I was glad] Felicity Palmer (sop) Arthur Davies (ten) Gwynne Howell (bass) / London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos 241 Hickox Legacy / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] 'It's one of the best digital versions, and sonorous renderings of Parry's Blest Pair of Sirens and I was glad complete a recommendable mid-price package.' Gramophone |
