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Paul Van Dyk
The Best of Paul Van Dyk - Volume [ Liberation Records / 3 CD/DVD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] Dishing up an amazing package, Paul van Dyk shows us his best work so far as both a producer and a remixer. 'Volume' encompasses track selections from his massive 15-year catalogue, and includes classic cuts... |
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WECKMANN / BIBER / J.C. BACH / BRUHNS / SCHMELZER
De Profundis Clavami-German Sacred Cantatas Peter Kooij (bass) / L'Armonia Sonora / Mieneke van der Velden [ RAMEE / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] |
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JAN VAN DER ROOST
Sinfonia Hungarica & From Ancient Times Philharmonic Winds OSAKAN / Jan Van der Roost [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 3/Feb/2014 ] The music of Belgian-born Jan Van der Roost has been performed all over the world, gaining popular acclaim wherever it is heard. From Ancient Times pays tribute to the golden age of the Franco-Flemish School of the 15th and 16th centuries represented... |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Chamber Music Vol. 1 (Incls 'Sonata for Oboe and Piano') Philippe Bernold (flute) Olivier Doise (oboe) Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) etc [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] "As it stands, this initial installment, brightly and clearly recorded, is indispensable. Look for further volumes to be released throughout 2000, beginning in early spring." - Classics Today (10/10) |
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RAVEL / BARTOK / HUBAY
Rhapsody Rosanne Philippens (violin) & Yuri van Nieuwkerk (piano) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] "The cross-fertilisation certainly produces a pungent programme, played with terrific spirit...These two musicians work instinctively together, knowing just when to assert their pre-eminence and how to respond to one another's interpretative ideas." |
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CAMILLE SAINT SAENS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / MAURICE RAVEL
Famous Works for Piano Duo Piano Duo Van Veen: Jeroen van Veen (piano), Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The pianist, composer, producer and renaissance musician Jeroen van Veen has played many concerts with both his wife Sandra and his brother Maarten, and has recorded with both of them for Brilliant Classics. The present compilation brings together a... |
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KALEVI AHO
Aho: Oboe Concerto & Sonata Piet van Bockstal (oboe) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins / Yutaka Oya (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "There's a chamber-like intensity to this concerto - a heightened instrumental clarity if you will - and oboist Piet Van Bockstal is a gentle and evocative soloist throughout...Fine music and musicianship, faithfully caught; what BIS does best." (Mus |
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Pieter Van Dijk
Scheidemann: Organ Works Vol.1 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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J.S. BACH
Concertos for 2,3 and 4 harpsichords Pieter-Jan Belder, Menno van Delft, Siebe Henstra, Vincent van Laar (harpsichords) / Musica Amphion / Pieter-Jan Belder [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Sowing machines or musical instruments? Today, in the era of (copies of) period instruments harpsichords can not be mistaken for machines any more. Not even when four of them are playing simultaneously. |
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Jacques Of
Les Contes D´Hoffmann Plácido Domingo, Catherine Malfitano, Ann Murray, José van Dam, Rémy Corazza, Jocelyne Taillon, Gérard Friedmann, Peter [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 4/Sep/2009 ] |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 Quatuor Van Kuijk [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] The Quatuor Van Kuijk celebrates the tenth anniversary of its creation and its sixth recording for Alpha with a complete set of Mendelssohn's quartets, of which this is the first volume: it opens with the Quartet op.13, composed in 1827, when he was... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk [ Alpha / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] Despite its Dutch-sounding name, the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk in 2012 is French. But its short career is already international. The Quatuor Van Kuijk won First Prize in the 2015 Wigmore Hall Competition and First Prize and Audience Award... |
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DEBUSSY / RAVEL / CHAUSSON
String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk, Kate Lindsey, Aphonse Cemin [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Sep/2017 ] releaseseptember2017Quatuor Van KuijKKatelindsey*alphonse Cemin*- alpha 295 -The first disc of the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk, a programme of Mozart, was awarded a 'Choc de Classica' and 'Diapason Découverte'. Now they return to their roots... |
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Ralph Van Raat
Lindberg: Complete Piano Music [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] |
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Ralph Van Raat
Works By Adams/Rzewski/Tavener [ Naxos / 5 CD - released 7/Sep/2009 ] |
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Complete Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) with Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] The works on this disc span his entire career to date, and illustrate his many different styles of writing for the piano. Phrygian Gates and China Gates - "gate" here referring to a type of electronic switch - could be regarded as his first "minimal"... |
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HANS OTTE
Das Buch der Klänge, 12 pieces for piano Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "Ralph van Raat's sensitive and technically refined performance has been captured very nicely on this CD, and while Hans Otte's own recording may ultimately be preferable I can't imagine anyone having any complaints about this disc at budget price.... |
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CHARLES KOECHLIN
Les Heures Pesanes Op. 65 Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] A pupil of Massenet and Fauré, the prolific French composer and teacher Charles Koechlin expanded traditional harmonies and compositional techniques and was much admired by his contemporaries. Les heures persanes was inspired by Vers Ispahan, Pierre... |
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ARVO PART
Piano Works (Incls 'Für Alina') Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "This is a well-conceived crash-course in significant moments in the development of Pärt's music...With its visceral Romantic gestures convincingly realised by JoAnn Falletta, Lamentate, a reaction to Kapoor's work, is imbued with a sense of... |
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JOHN TAVENER
Piano Works (Incls 'Ypakoe' & 'Pratirupa') Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] John Tavener's piano works are less well known than his large orchestral, vocal and choral works, yet at times seem to mark his stylistic and spiritual development on a more personal level. |