EVE DE CASTRO-ROBINSON
Releasing the Angel David Chickering (cello) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Young [ Atoll Records / CD - released 22/Jul/2011 ] Eve de Castro-Robinson crafts her material like a musical sculptor. Intensity, whimsy, poetry, theatricality and unpredictability are heard in her music, which ranges from these large scale orchestral canvasses to intimate solos, vocal and... |
DAVID FARQUHAR
Farquhar: Three Symphonies New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Kenneth Young [ Trust / CD - released 18/May/2004 ] "Trust Records have released what must be one of the most eagerly anticipated CDs of the year and deserve a collective medal for allowing us to have David Farquhar's three symphonies at our fingertips." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
LILBURN / FARR / RITCHIE / PSATHAS / FARQUHAR
Island Song - a collection of beautiful NZ music from the Trust Records catalogue New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / NZ Trio / NZSO Chamber Orchestra / Kenneth Young / Marc Taddei [ Trust Records / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] A collection of beautiful NZ classical music from the Trust Records catalogue. This mid-price album features classical pieces written by five celebrated New Zealanders: Gareth Farr, John Psathas, Douglas Lilburn, David Farquhar and John Ritchie.... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Passing: fresh orchestral sounds from 9 Australasian composers The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Atoll / CD - released 16/Apr/2010 ] "An impressive collection of orchestral music from both sides of the Tasman defines state of the art." * * * * * (Five Stars) William Dart NZ Herald |
Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Lurene Tuttle, Charles Laughton, Gregory Peck, Loretta Young (narrators)
Stories for Christmas [includes 'The Small One' & 'The Happy Prince'] [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "For the Christmas stocking, Ronald Colman as Scrooge and Charles Laughton as Mr. Pickwick … would be perfect." Gramophone, January 2006 (A Christmas Carol, Mr. Pickwick's Christmas) |
JACK BODY
Poems of Love and War Robert Easting (narrator) David Greco (bar) Somara Ouk, Budi Putra (vocals) Martin Riseley (violin) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2014 ] "works of immense skill and real communication that in these fabulous performances will give him a worldwide audience. Even the splendid Meditations on Michelangelo for violin and strings really catches the ear. Don't pass on thjis." (John Button) |
CHRISTOPHER BLAKE
Angel at Ahipara Strings of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] Works for string orchestra based on four images from A Journey (1994) by Robin Morrison, a photographic presentation of Northland, New Zealand. |
KENNETH YOUNG
Shadows and Light Vesa-Matti Leppanen (violin) / The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Atoll / CD - released 16/Nov/2015 ] Contemporary works for orchestra that are modern but approachable. These dramatic performances are conducted by the composer himself. The program includes the hauntingly beautiful "Remembering" with violin soloist Vesa-Matti Leppänen. |
JACK BODY
Songs of Death and Desire Xiao Ma (male soprano), Mere Boynton (mezzo), Anna Pierard (mezzo) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 12/May/2015 ] Dramatic and passionate songs in three languages; includes symphonic arrangements of six arias from Bizet's Carmen, and settings in Spanish and Maori of texts by women about love and life. |
HANS PFITZNER
Pfitzner: Palestrina (complete opera) Christopher Ventris / Peter Rose / Michael Volle / Falk Struckmann / Christiana Karg / Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Simone Young [ Euroarts DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Jun/2010 ] "Simone Young directs a flowing and nicely paced account. Christopher Ventris is sensitive, achieving exhausted nobility as the composer, and Falk Struckmann provides a rounded portrayal of the subtle Borromeo." (Gramophone) |
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Deja Vu (Remastered LP) [ Atlantic / LP - released 26/Aug/2022 ] |
Danny Kaye, with Gordon Jenkins & Victor Young & their orchestras
Danny Kaye: Hans Christian Andersen / Tubby The Tuba [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Oct/2020 ] Now, for the first time on a Universal Music label, the original tapes have been retrieved from the archive and newly remastered for release on Eloquence. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Yeomen of the Guard (complete operetta recorded in 1958) Denis Dowling, Richard Lewis, Elsie Morison, Alexander Young, Marjorie Thomas / Glyndebourne Festival, Sir MalcolmSargent [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/1987 ] "This is a very operatic Yeomen which certainly suits the work and gives the soloists an opportunity to shine. Sir Geraint Evans makes a better Jack Point than a Ko-Ko and 'When a wooer goes a-wooing' is very moving." Mel (Marbecks) |
W. A. MOZART
Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne - Mozart Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Audrey Mildmay, Heddle Nash, John Brownlee, Ina Souez, Sena Jurinac, Alexander Young, Richard Lewis / Fritz Busch (cond) [ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 8/Jul/2017 ] Fritz Busch (1890-1951) was one the greatest German conductors of the first half of the twentieth century, noted for his illuminating performances and his ethical principles. |
Future & Young Thug
Super Slimey (LP) [ Epic / LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] Available for the first time on vinyl, Super Slimey is a collaborative commercial mixtape by Future and Young Thug. It was released on October 20, 2017, by 300 Entertainment, Atlantic Records, Epic Records, Freebandz, and YSL Records. Features the... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Acis and Galatea (complete opera) Jeremy Budd, Grace Davidson, Stuart Young, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2019 ] "As is not uncommon in Acis, honours here are stolen by the splendidly virile but not entirely unsympathetic Polyphemus of Stuart Young, while the pure cantabile lines of Grace Davidsons's sweetly vulnerable Galatea also give much pleasure." Opera |
JEROME KERN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Kaye Ballard, David Allen, Rod McKuen, Cy Young, Bobby Short, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1990 ] Back in 1955 and 1957, Bagley, who was in his early 20's, dazzled critics with two brilliant Shoestring Revues produced Off-Broadway. Reviewers were mesmerized by the young man's uncanny ability to discover bright new talent. |
Lester Young
Four Classic Albums (Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio / The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio / Pres & Sweets / Pres & Teddy) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Lester Young, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL, arr. Paul Mills
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel's Young Messiah Matthew Ward, Cynthia Clawson, First Baptist Church, Norkolk, Virginia, Young Messiah Orchestra, with Barry McGuire (narrator) [ WLIW / CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] THE YOUNG MESSIAH gives Handel's choral masterpiece an exciting modern interpretation - predominantly gospel in tone, and also integrating soul. |
HENRY PURCELL / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Songs and Interludes / Handel: Arias from Xerxes Maureen Forrester (contralto) Alexander Young (tenor) Martin Isepp (harpsichord) / Vienna Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman [ MCA Millennium Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/1996 ] Recording: June 1966 - Mozartsaal, Vienna |