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HERBERT SUMSION / JOHN RUTTER / WILLIAM WALTON / HUBERT PARRY / etc
The English Anthem (Vol 7) (Incls 'they that go down to the sea in ships' & 'Hymn to St Peter') Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London / John Scott (conductor) with Huw Williams (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Aug/2006 ] 'All of the music is of the very highest quality. This disc will offer lasting pleasure and satisfaction to cathedral music enthusiasts and newcomers alike' (BBC Music Magazine) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols / Saint Nicolas The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge / Holst Singers / City of London Sinfonia, Stephen Layton (cond) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Choral |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Guitarra Espanola (five CD set) Narciso Yepes (guitar) with London Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta SinfAnica R.T.V. EspaAola, Philharmonia Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon Collector's Edition / 5 CD Box Set - released 12/Sep/2008 ] The Spanish noted guitarist and lutenist, Narciso Yepes, was born into a family of humble origin in Marchena, 7 km from Lorca, southern Spain.lection of Spanish music...ever! |
ROBERT SIMPSON
Symphony 11 / Variations on a theme by Nielsen City of London Sinfonia Matthew Taylor, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Aug/2004 ] "This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion's best. Performances and production are simply magnificent, so that this splendid disc is warmly and unreservedly recommended." Recording of the Month MusicWeb (Sept 2004) |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 25/Oct/2018 ] "French soprano Catherine Dubosc sings with Gallic nobility and passion, but the affecting sincerity of her interpretation raises her above ethnicity to sublimity." AllMusic.com |
SULLIVAN
The Prodigal Son (Complete Oratorio) / Boer War Te Deum Claire Rutter (soprano) Catherine Denley (mezzo) Mark Wilde (tenor) Garry Magee (baritone) / London Chorus / New London Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] "Hyperion's team make an excellent case for 'serious' Sullivan." (Gramophone Jan 2004) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Nov/2001 ] "This was one of Abbado's biggest recording projects with the orchestra of which he was music director, and remains a richly rewarding legacy." (Gramophone) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 / Piano Concerto No. 2 Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell / Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch [ Decca Heritage Masters / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
MINKUS / PAULLI / HELSTED / GADE
Minkus and friends: Don Quixote, Paquita, La Bayadere, Napoli London Festival Ballet Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Elizabethan Trust Melbourne Orchestra, John Lanchbery [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] Ludwig Minkus composed some of the most important full-length ballet scores during the golden age of classical ballet in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. His works often involved exotic settings like Spain and India. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (with works by Franck & Litolff) Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell [ Decca Legends / CD - released 9/Aug/2010 ] Another great Brahms performance: Curzon's beautifully judged fantasy matched by a smiling, sympathetic Szell - James Jolly, Gramophone 1000th issue |
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KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian (incls Violin Concerto & Spartacus [excerpts]) David Oistrakh (violin) Mindru Katz (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / etc [ EMI 20th Century Classics / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "Another valuable EMI reissue is a 2-disk set of works of Aram Khachaturian many with the composer on the podium. The major work is the violin concerto played by David Oistrakh who collaborated with the composer in writing the work. One might... |
GORECKI
Symphony No 4 "Tansman Episodes" Op 85 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko [ Nonesuch / CD - released 10/Feb/2016 ] "Under Andrey Boreyko's sober control the LPO negotiates these contrasts with aplomb." (BBC Music) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete Oratorio) Helen Donath, Anna Reynolds, Stuart Burrows, Donald McIntyre, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Richter [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD ] Recorded: 1972-11-07 Recording Venue: Brent Town Hall, Wembley, London |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell [ Warner Original Jacket recordings / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] "Fischer-Dieskau's scarifying projection of the two military horror stories to the exquisite control they jointly bring to Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen... one of the most sensitive and touching accounts of a Mahler song I have ever heard" Gramopho |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (recorded 1950) Erich Kunz, Irmgard Seefried, George London, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac / Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2016 ] 'Karajan's first recording of Figaro offers one of the most distinguished casts ever assembled….' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, 2004) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Le Willis (complete original production) Ermonela Jaho, Arsen Soghomonyan, Brian Mulligan / Opera Rara Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / CD - released 25/Sep/2019 ] "The chorus and orchestra are both impressive, while conductor Mark Elder delivers a lively and loving account of the score" BBC Music Award Finalist 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 5 Evgeny Kissin (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "The technically brilliant Russian is often criticised for his dourly clinical playing, but his Barbican Beethoven series…displayed a playful, warmer performer, more ready to unbutton, as in the finale of the First, or in the friskiness of the Fifth"... |
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 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: War Requiem (plus Rehearsal sequences bonus) (Rec 1963) Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Peter Pears (tenor) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / London Symphony & chorus, Benjamin Britten, with Simon Preston [ Decca Originals / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] 1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die (1951 - present). "This superb recording, definitive in so many ways, speaks to us as powerfully today as it ever did" (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Sept 2006) |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 (with Liszt: Liszt: Piano Works) George Li (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Dec/2019 ] George Li gained international attention in 2015 when he won the silver medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Now he has recorded one of Tchaikovsky's greatest and best-loved works, the Piano Concerto No 1 with the London... |
