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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Unknown Britten Sandrine Piau (soprano) Michael Collins (clarinet) Rolf Hind (piano) / Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair [ NMC / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Recording of the Month (Gramophone Awards Issue 2009) - "All the performances are superb. Sandrine Piau's stylish and imaginative interpretation of Les illuminations is one of the best soprano versions on disc, in fact." |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sarah Aristidou - Æther Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud, Christian Rivet / Orchester des Wandels, Thomas Guggeis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER |
LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS
The Last Night of the Proms: Land of Hope & Glory Sarah Walker (mezzo) Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) / London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Roger Norrington [ Australian SBS Decca Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "A great collection of British favourites that are just right for any time of the year, very well recorded and performed … and at a great price too! You won't be disappointed." (MusicWeb June 2008) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 10 (Deryck Cooke performing version) Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ Seattle Symphony Media / CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] "You may be surprised by Thomas Dausgaard's force and conviction as a Mahlerian. This exceptional issue from the Pacific Northwest ought to be a game-changer for all concerned" Gramophone Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2016 |
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Mozart, Wo
Le nozze di Figaro, Palestrina, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der Rosenkavalier, Fidelio, Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly, L'incoron Sena Jurinac, Ludwig, Schöffler, Thomas, Grist, Lackner, Raninger, Reining, Güden, London, Kunz, Lorenzi, Solze, Mödl, D [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2006 ] |
CONUS / ARENSKY / WEINBERG
Russian Violin Concertos Sergey Ostrovsky (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "This attractive release brings together three violin concertos by lesser-known Russian-based composers. They're in sparkling interpretations by yet another gifted Russian violinist and a fine conductor following in his late father Kurt's illustrious... |
TELEMANN / SAINT-SAENS / DOPPLER / VILLA-LOBOS / J. S. BACH
Sharon Bezaly - Synergy Sharon Bezaly (flute) /Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Urban Svensson, Thomas Dausgaard & Michael Collins, with Michala Petri (recorder) & Bram van Sambeek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] On Synergy, flautist Sharon Bezaly and her musician friends demonstrate that one plus one can be much greater than two. Featuring works that celebrate the coming together of like-minded musicians. |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana (LP) Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Thomas Allen (baritone), St Clement Danes Grammar School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Chorus, LSO [ Warner / 2 LP - released 24/Oct/2025 ] André Previn's landmark 1974 recording of Carmina burana with the London Symphony Orchestra remains one of the most electrifying accounts of Orff's exuberant cantata. From the momentous opening "O Fortuna" to the rapturous closing chorus, Previn... |
SCHUMANN
Complete Songs Vol. 3 - Liederalbum fur die Jugend, Op. 79 / Lieder und Gesange I, Op. 27 Sibylla Ruberns (soprano) / Stefanie Iranyi (mezzo) / Thomas Bauer (baritone) / Uta Hielscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A mostly charming set of some Schumann songs that need to be better known" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
IMOGEN HOLST
String Chamber Music Simon Hewitt Jones (violin), David Worswick (violin), Tom Hankey (viola), Oliver Coates (cello), Thomas Hewitt Jones (cello), Daniel Swain (piano) [ NMC Recordings / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] This award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst's chamber works (originally released on the Court Lane Music label) is an important addition to the NMC catalogue, and a wonderful tribute to a significant 20th-century British composer.... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town Kim Criswell, Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Voices, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Original Jacket Recordings / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] An enormous success at the time, with a Broadway run of 559 performances, Wonderful Town shows off the talents of Bernstein, Comden and Green, who wrote the songs against the clock in just four weeks. Whether it's jazz, cod-Irish, ragtime, ballad or... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet (1946-1952) René Soames, Lorely Dyer, Dennis Dowling, Frederick Sharp / Luton Choral Society; Royal Philharmonic Chorus, Royal Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / 2 CD - released 2/Aug/2004 ] "It is also good to hear such vintage singers of the period as Dennis Dowling and Frederick Sharp as the respective fathers of the hero and heroine, with an excellent line-up of soloists in the many incidental roles." Penguin Guide |
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Sir Thomas Beecham
The Founding Years - Beecham [ Lpo / CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] |
MOZART
Mass In C Minor Gillian Keith, Tove Dahlberg, Thomas Cooley, Nathan Berg / Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] In the autumn of 2010 CORO will release a brand new recording of Mozart's Mass in C minor featuring Harry Christophers in his role as Artistic Director and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society - America's oldest continuously performing orchestra... |
ANDRE-MODESTE GRETRY
Gretry: L'Épreuve Villageoise Sophie Junker, Talise Trevigne, Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Thomas Dolié / Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown [ Naxos Opera / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] L'épreuve villageoise (The Village Trial) - which, in its original form as Théodore et Paulin, was first performed before Marie Antoinette at Versailles - was one of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's most popular works. For a century after its 1784... |
ALFRED CELLIER
Cellier: The Mountebanks (operetta) / Suite Symphonique Soraya Mafi, Thomas Elwin, James Cleverton, John Savournin, Sharon Carty / BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "The Mountebanks is as much a Savoy operetta as any of Sullivan's…Nevertheless [Cellier] has his own distinctive voice, flowingly melodic, orchestral writing more elegant and modern-sounding , looking forward to Edwardian operetta." BBC |
TANEYEV
Oresteia (Orestaya) Overture and Interlude / Overture in D minor / Overture on a Russian Theme Stanislav Yankovsky (clarinet) / Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] "Committed playing and full-blooded sound and you have one of the year's most entertaining releases so far." (MusicWeb Aug 2009) |
WAGNER
Wesendonck-Lieder, Siegfried-Idyll & Overtures Svenska Kammarorkestern, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Stemme dominates with the Wesendonck-Lieder, which have all of her customary vocal richness but also an amplitude and approach that's appropriate to the larger scale and broader strokes of opera. |
ADES / KURTAG / FAURE / LISZT / JANACEK
Lieux Retrouves Stephen Isserlis (cello) Thomas Ades (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "This blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed recital takes memory in all its facets as its theme...the recording throughout gives the players all the space and atmosphere they need to characterise the varied moods and textures of an... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (complete opera recorded in 1981) Royal Opera / Stuart Burrows / Thomas Allen / Richard Van Allan / Kiri Te Kanawa / Agnes Baltsa / Colin Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte CD / 3 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "it offers abundant pleasures. Te Kanawa recorded an earlier Fiordiligi...and a later...: neither manifests the personality and velvety warmth of tone of show here, and her virtuosity in 'Come Scoglio' is staggering. Thomas Allen's Guglielmo, too, is... |
