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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin Concerto / Polonia / Crown of India: Interlude Tasmin Little (violin) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Little...finds an element of wit in the fast-moving figuration [of the finale], leading to a more tender treatment of the lyrical contrasting sections." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Dec 2010 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Carmelite Vespers 1707 Jill Feldman, Dame Emma Kirkby, Emily Van Evera, Margaret Cable / Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott [ Erato / 2 CD - released 20/May/2009 ] "We are used to hearing Dixit in the concert hall, so it's good to be reminded that it was written for the liturgy. Parrott includes it in his reconstruction of Handel's Carmelite Vespers of 1707" BBC Music Magazine, March 2009. |
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
The Carol Album - Seven Centuries of Christmas Music Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott [ Erato Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] "Every track on (this) disc proves surprising and every performance proves charming. Recorded in warmly atmospheric and very immediate digital sound, fans of recherché Christmas music will be delighted by this (recording)" AllMusic.com |
MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott [ Avie / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] Daniels is magnificent in the title role - technically brilliant...impassioned...and lyrically supple...As one may expect from Andrew Parrott, the instruments are very adroitly deployed and controlled |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: The Colón Ring - Der Ring des Nibelungen (abridged staging by Valentina Carrasco 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires / Jukka Rasilainen, Andrew Shore, Stefan Heibach, Linda Watson, Leonid Zakhozhaev / Roberto Paternostro (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "Unprissy, adventurous Wagnerians will want to hear and see, if only to argue."Gramophone |
JOHN RUTTER / MOZART / WESLEY / SCHUMANN / PARRY / BURGON / etc
Light of the World Tewkesbury Abbey School Choir / Benjamin Nicholas (director) with Andrew Swait (treble) [ Signum / CD - released 2/Mar/2006 ] Andrew Swait was only ten years old when this disc was made - his voice was the original inspiration for the disc - and it features his outstandingly colourful tone quality and musicianship. |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Euryanthe (complete opera) BLU-RAY Theater an der Wien / Jacqueline Wagner, Theresa Kronthaler, Norman Reinhardt, Andrew Foster-Williams / Constantin Trinks (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "Constantin Trinks directs a lovingly nurtured unfolding of Weber's fantastic score. He essays a perfect balance of classical restraint with outright Wagnerian urgency and the orchestra with its very talented French horn section rises magnificently." |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels / Laura Claycomb, Andrew Kennedy, William Shimell / Kazushi Ono (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Blu-Ray - 'Lepage has forged a reputation as one of the most visionary theatre directors of our age… The Rake's Progress is heading our way, and it promises to be a highlight of the 2007/8 season.' Sunday Times |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante / Gran Concerto in F sharp minor / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Jose-Luis Garcia (violin) Emma Johnson (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 1 / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "At the heart of most of the music by Bottesini which I have heard, there is an essential simplicity, a kind of directness of feeling, a sense of social conversation, which while it may not make for music of great profundity certainly led Bottesini... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Trio Fontenay, Jaap Schroder (violin), Wouter Moller (cello), Bob van Asperen (harpsichord), Andrew Manze (violin) [ Teldec Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 19/May/2008 ] "If the Fontenay seem more attuned to Haydn's inwardness and lyricism than to his animal spirits, there's much to savour in these affectionate, thoughtfully characterized readings, truthfully captured by Teldec's engineers." (Gramophone on the Trio... |
Truro Cathedral Choir / Andrew Nethsingha (Director) with Simon Morley (Organ)
20 Favourite Hymns (incls 'Jerusalem' & 'the day Thou gavest') [ Priory / CD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] Recorded in Truro Cathedral in 1996 |
MESSIEAN
Des Canyons aux Étoiles (recorded Nov 2013) Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "This performance of Messiaen's late, great 100-minute orchestral cycle - 12 pieces for an altering configuration - was recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in 2013, and makes a powerful, colourful, even apocalyptically witty effect, I find, on s |
ANONYMOUS
Piae Cantiones Utopia Chamber Choir, Andrew Lawrence-King [ Alia Vox / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] Andrew Lawrence-King conducts the leading Finnish early music vocal ensemble Utopia Chamber Choir in a performance of traditional carols from the "Piae Cantiones," a collection of medieval Latin songs compiled by Finnish priest Jacobus Finn in 1582... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 (with Glazunov - Violin Concerto in A minor) Vadim Gluzman (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] The great Russian tradition of violin playing, as exemplified by Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein, was largely founded by the distinguished violinist Leopold Auer, who taught at the St Petersburg Conservatory for fifty years. |
100 BEST WALTZES & POLKAS
100 Best Waltzes & Polkas Various artists including John Barbirolli, Willi Boskovsky, Andrew Davis, Louis Fremaux, Herbert von Karajan, Andre Previn, John Lanchbery, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 3/Oct/2011 ] This 6 CD set contains a collection of 100 waltzes and polkas performed by some of the world's leading orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wiener Johann Strauss-Orchester,... |
FORCES' SWEETHEART / HEART-THROBS OF WWII
Forces' Sweetheart & Heart-Throbs of World War II Judy Garland, Vera Lynn, Connee Boswell, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, The Andrew Sisters, Helen Ward, Peggy Lee, Mary Martin, etc [ Retrospective / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] The definitive album of wartime nostalgia: 20 forces' sweethearts and 21 of their heart-throb male counterparts sing 50 great songs, mostly on the theme of parted lovers. For all the soldiers, sailors and airmen parted from their loved ones during... |
ALLEGRI / GABRIELI / MONTEVERDI / PALESTRINA
The Renaissance of Italian Music: The National Gallery Collection Gerald Finley (bari), Timothy Beasley-Murray (treble), Charles Daniels (ten) / Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh, Taverner Consort, Choir, Andrew Parrot [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "[The Allegri] is one of the highlights, the 1970 recording by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge achieving an almost weightless sublimity, particularly in the Sanctus. The Taverner Consort of the 1980s offers similarly impressive interpretations... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Songs: Volume 1 [2 CD set] Various artists including Andrew Tortise, Ben Johnson, Caryl Hughes, Philip Smith & Nicky Spence [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency to the Pushkin settings of The Poet's Echo" (Financial... |
JOHN TAVENER
Richard Hickox conducts Sir John Tavener (Incls 'Theophany') Patricia Rozario, John Mark Ainsley & Andrew Murgatroyd / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 28/May/2012 ] "While there may be doubts over the music there can be no doubt as to the excellence and commitment of all three performances on this pair of discs. The recorded sound and booklet are up to the usual very high Chandos standards." (MusicWeb, Aug 2012) |
