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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
18th Century Portuguese Love Songs L'Avventura London, Zak Ozmo [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] "L'Avventura's performances tend towards the genteel, suggesting decorous courtly soirees rather than raunchy street theatre...These are, in short, charming accounts" (BBC Music) |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Complete Piano Concertos (2CD) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] "Pappano and the orchestra breathe together...If Andsnes's playing is arresting for the quantity of relevant detail that he conveys, so too is the orchestra's." Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Valentina Lisitsa (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Francis [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Francis and the London Symphony Orchestra provide consistently world-class, shapely orchestral frameworks and beautifully characterised first-desk solos throughout" (Gramophone) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Send In The Clowns London Brass [ Teldec Warner Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2010 ] |
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COPLAND / GRIEG / JANACEK / STRAUSS / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRITTEN / etc
Music for Brass and Percussion London Brass Virtuosi / David Honeyball [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2006 ] 'Highly recommended' (Fanfare, USA) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Latin Cello The London Cello Sound (24 virtuoso cellists) / Geoffrey Simon [ Cala / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 4, 5, 6 & 8 London Classical Players, Roger Norrington [ Virgin Veritas / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] Classic recordings of Norrington's Schubert now at budget price |
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BEETHOVEN / MOZART / BRAHMS / HANDEL / HAYDN / MENDELSSOHN / ROSSINI / etc
Roger Norrington - The Complete Erato Recordings London Classical Players, The Schutz Choir of London, Sir Roger Norrington, with Melvyn Tan (piano) & Daniel Hope (violin) [ Erato Veritas / 45 CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Innovator, erudite, entertaining and acclaimed conductor Sir Roger Norrington founded the Schütz Choir, became founding music director of Kent Opera and established the London Classical Players, the period-instrument orchestra. |
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London Fortepiano Trio
Mozart;Six Piano Trios [ Hyperion / 3 CD ] |
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London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble / Christopher Larkin
Antique Brasses [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Jun/2000 ] 'some exquisite lyrical playing, with extraordinary beautiful tone colours' (Early Music Review) |
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IVES / BARBER / HARRIS / THOMSON / COWELL
From the Steeples and the Mountains The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble / Christopher Larkin (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 'The brass playing throughout is vividly expert and the recording is splendidly real' (Gramophone) |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 64 The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] "The London Haydn Quartet's chronological survey of the composer's quartets is nearing its completion: the most civilised music, delivered with immaculate technique, urbane humanity and perfect period manners." Sunday Times |
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FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 76 The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] The summit of Haydn's quartet-writing, and of the classical string quartet medium itself. The 'Emperor', 'Fifths' and 'Sunrise' may be the best known of the six-as so often with those works by Haydn which have nicknames-but the others are every bit... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 33 Nos. 1-6 (complete) [2 CDs] The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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London / Meader / Pramuk / Ross
The Royal Bopsters Project [ Motema / CD - released 1/Aug/2015 ] The Royal Bopsters Project is a multi-generational vocal summit on which the talents of Amy London (soprano), Darmon Meader (tenor), Holli Ross (alto) and Dylan Pramuk (bass), unite to pay tribute to the art of setting lyrics to melodies originally... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sacred Treasures of Christmas The London Oratory Schola Cantorum / Charles Cole [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] A celebration of Christmas from the Nativity through to Candlemas, in music from across sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance polyphony at its finest. |
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GIOVANNI & ANDREA GABRIELI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI / GIACOMO FINETTI & OTHERS
Sacred treasures of Venice - Sacred motets from the Golden Age of Venetian polyphony The London Oratory Schola Cantorum, Charles Cole [ Hyperion / CD - released 9/Feb/2024 ] It's tempting to imagine that this is how the music might have sounded four centuries ago in the glorious surroundings of St Mark's. Certainly, any comparisons are unlikely to be to the disadvantage of these exceptional young singers. |
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PINK FLOYD
Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here Symphonic The London Orion Orchestra [ Decca / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] Alice Cooper and Rick Wakeman are among the performers on DECCA CLASSICS' new symphonic version of Pink Floyd's legendary album Wish You Were Here, released to mark its 40th anniversary. The London Orion Orchestra were joined by the guitarists Dave... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts [Requiem Mass] Robert Tear (tenor) / London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Warner Classics Original Masters / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] Berlioz's magnificent setting of the Requiem Mass, with its mighty orchestral and choral forces, is ideally suited to André Previn's acute senses for dramatic structure and colour. The terror and awe of the Day of Judgement, the thundering climaxes... |
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CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Barbara Hendricks, Michael Chance, Jeffrey Black / London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Franz Welser-Most [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] "There is no question the tingling energy which informs Franz Welser-Most's performance of Carmina burana, which reaches its climax in the ''Cours d'amour'' sequence where both the Boys' and Men's Chorus get carried away by the exhilaration of the... |