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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Orchestral Suites Nos. 4 - 7 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Yves Ossonce [ Naxos / CD ] "...played here with an affectionate finesse worthy of a Beecham. With full, sparkling, yet warmly atmospheric recording, this is a first-class disc in every way." Penguin Guide (Key recording) |
BORIS TISHCHENKO
Piano Sonatas Nos. 7 and 8 Nicolas Stavy (piano) / Jean-Claude Gengembre (bells) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] Tishchenko was a prolific composer, with an output that covered many genres, including a great deal of orchestral music. Throughout his career, however, runs the thread of his eleven piano sonatas |
Norma Jean
Wrongdoers [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 21/Aug/2015 ] "Wrongdoers" is the seminal album from Christian metal core giants Norma Jean. |
SAINT-SAENS / MOUSSA / SAARIAHO
Saint-Saëns, Moussa & Saariaho: Orchestral Works Oliver Latry (organ) & Jean-Willy Kunz (organ) / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ Analekta / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Here is the recording of the inaugural concerts of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique at Maison symphonique de Montréal, which feature the great organists Oliver Latry and Jean-Willy Kunz alongside the OSM and Kent Nagano. For grandeur and majesty, few... |
REINECKE
Music For Clarinet Olivier Dartevelle (Clarinet) / Jean Schils (Piano) / Pierre Henri Xuereb (Viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Listening to Reinecke's compositions, one is immediately reminded of Schumann, with whom he was friendly, and of Brahms, who exercised a strong influence on him. |
HOWARD SHORE
Howard Shore - Anthology - The Paris Concerts Olivier Doise (oboe) Jean-Paul Gasparian (piano) Raphaëlle Moreau (violin) Lydia Kavina (theremin) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2025 ] Recorded live over one very special weekend in 2023, Howard Shore: Anthology - The Paris Concerts presents highlights from key scores by the multi-award-winning Canadian composer. |
GORDON GETTY
Getty: The Canterville Ghost Alexandra Hutton, Jean Broekhuizen, Timothy Oliver, etc / Oper Leipzig, Matthias Foremny [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "While my Usher House turns Poe upside down, the libretto for The Canterville Ghost follows Wilde's short story pretty closely." So says Gordon Getty about his second Gothic-themed one-act opera, based on the popular short story by Oscar Wilde. The... |
REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ciboulette (Complete Operetta recorded in 2013) Opéra Comique, Paris / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr, Eva Ganizate / Accentus Chamber Choir / Laurence Equilbey (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Even if Ciboulette, with its fresh and spruce title, depicts the dawning of sentiments between two young people - the urban aristocrat and the little farm girl - it was written by an experienced and scrupulous composer of almost 50 years of age. |
REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ciboulette (Complete Operetta recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Opéra Comique, Paris / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr, Eva Ganizate / Accentus Chamber Choir / Laurence Equilbey (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Even if Ciboulette, with its fresh and spruce title, depicts the dawning of sentiments between two young people - the urban aristocrat and the little farm girl - it was written by an experienced and scrupulous composer of almost 50 years of age. |
REYNALDO HAHN / ADOLPHE ADAM / JACQUES OFFENBACH
Opéra Comique Collection - Hahn: Ciboulette / Adam: Le Postillon de Lonjumeau / Offenbach: La Pericole (complete operettas) BLU-RAY Opéra Comique, Paris / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr, Michael Spyres, Florie Valiquette, Julien Behr, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, etc [ Naxos / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 22/Aug/2025 ] The three opéras-comiques in this set epitomise the glamour, vivacity and zest of the quintessentially French genre and are among their composers' most admired works. |
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No.5 in B flat, Op 100 / Symphony No.7 in C sharp minor, Op 131 Orchestre de Ia Sociata des Concerts du Conservatoire, Jean Martinon [ Testament / CD - released 27/May/2003 ] Martinon felt a distinct kinship to the music of Prokofiev |
Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes; Chœur des Frivolités Parisiennes; Clarisse Dalles; Alexandra Cravero; Jean-Baptiste Dumora; Jean-Baptiste Dumora
Messager: Coup de Roulis [ B Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] On the war cruiser Le Montesquieu, the unexpected arrival of a high commissioner accompanied by his daughter suddenly rocks the balance of the ship and the hearts of the sailors... |
REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ô mon bel inconnu Orchestre National Avignon-Provence; Samuel Jean [ Bru Zane / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] |
JULES MASSENET
Jules Massenet: Grisélidis Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Thomas Dolié, Vannina Santoni, Julien Dran, Adrien Fournaison, Thibault de Damas, Chœur [ Bru Zane / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Paris discovered Massenet's Grisélidis at the Opéra-Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music several times in the Baroque era. It gave Massenet the... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 and in A major Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège / Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] Prodigiously gifted, Camille Saint-Saëns entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, at the age of 13. There he discovered the symphonies of the great German and Austrian composers and soon began to try his own hand at the genre. The Symphony in A major... |
TABAKOV
Concerto for Two Pianos / Piano Concerto Patrick Gallois (flute) / Philippe Bernold (flute) / Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "Performances by top-rank soloists nicely supported by a very responsive composer-conducted orchestra … all very fine, and well recorded" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado / Trial By Jury Peter Pratt, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, Jean Hindmarsh, Kenneth Sandford, Julia Goss / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isadore Godfrey, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2015 ] I am pretty safe in saying that this recording is probably one of the best G & S recordings..ever! A cast to die for! Listen to Thomas Round's most beautiful rendering of "Wand'ring minstrel" and the horrific crazy laugh of Donald Adams as the Mikado |
LOUIS VIERNE / JEAN-PIERRE LEGUAY
Grandes Messes du XX siecle Philippe Lefebvre, Jean-Pierre Leguay (Grand Organ) / Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris / Nicole Corti [ Editions Hortus / CD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] "Yet another highly stylish and well presented release from the French label, Editions Hortus. As with everything produced by Hortus this is highly recommendable." (MusicWeb) |
Pierre Fouchenneret; Théo Fouchenneret; Jean Deroyer; Orchestre Régional De Normandie
Schumann Collection: Violin Works [ B Records / 2 CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Following the release of The Complete Chamber Music Works of Johannes Brahms which has received critical acclaim, Pierre and Théo Fouchenneret have laid the foundation stone of a Schumann Collection with this inaugural volume dedicated to the... |
GABRIEL URBAIN FAURE
Fauré: Orchestral Works Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Martin Johnson, Catriona Ryan RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Gabriel Fauré is best known for his Requiem and Pavane, but these are not typical of an output that focused largely on solo piano pieces, songs and chamber music, many of which were orchestrated by others. His Violin Concerto was never completed... |
