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MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song') Jennifer Pike (violin) Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "These are four first-rate works by a still neglected composer, marvellously played and recorded." (Editor's ChoiceGramophone Sept 2011) |
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HENRY COWELL / LOU HARRISON / EDGAR VARESE
American Mavericks Jeremy Denk (piano) Paul Jacobs (organ) / San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "Michael Tilson Thomas's time at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony has been marked by a courageous dedication to modernist American outsiders, and American Mavericks bears out the orchestra's experience with such outré material." (The Independent) |
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ROUSSEL
Complete Chamber Music Jet Reling (piano) Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin) Herre-Jan Stegenga (cello) Paul Verhey (flute) Henk Guittart (viola) Irene Maessen (soprano) etc [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jan/2007 ] "This attractively packaged set is a convenient assemblage of Roussel’s work in the field of chamber music, a sequence of works characterised by the acute, even astringent, intelligence that has gone into their writing and the distinctive beauty of... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony' Joan Rodgers (soprano) & Christopher Maltman (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Paul Daniels [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "The orchestral playing is refined, the choral singing robust and the ensemble tight." Daily Telegraph |
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J. S. BACH
Cantatas: The complete box-set [56 CD set] Joanne Lunn, Gillian Keith, Magdalena Kozena, Paul Agnew, Sara Mingardo, etc / Monteverdi Choir. English Baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 56 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2013 ] For the first time on one label the complete live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, in an elegant box reflecting the quality of the original series packaging. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 1: BWV7, 30, 167; BWV20, 39, 75 Joanne Lunn, Gillian Keith, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Paul Agnew. Monteverdi Choir. English Baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2005 ] Cantatas For the Feast of St John the Baptist and the First Sunday after Trinity. "The first steps on this Bach pilgrimage lift the heart for the journey to come." Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine (March 2005) WINNER BEST BAROQUE VOCAL... |
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J.S. BACH
St John Passion [complete oratorio recorded in 1996] John Mark Ainsley / Stephen Richardson / Catherine Bott / Michael Chance / Paul Agnew / Stephen Varcoe / Choir Of King'S College, Cambridge [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'There are fine contributions especially from Stephen Varcoe, and an exceptionally immediate and affecting 'Es ist vollbracht' from Michael Chance.' Gramophone |
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John Paul White
The Long Goodbye [ Arkam Records / CD - released 25/Jan/2013 ] |
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RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Orchestral Works, Volume 1 (Incls 'songs before Sleep') Jonathan Lemalu (baritone) / Paul Watkins (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Hickox (cond) [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Nov/2006 ] 'It's hard to imagine a more beguiling start to this series or a more appealing introduction to Richard Rodney Bennett than this CD…I can't imagine anyone not being enraptured by this CD.' Gramophone |
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J. S. BACH
Jörg Demus - The Bach Recordings on Westminster Jörg Demus (piano), with Paul Badura-Skoda (piano) [ Westminster Australian Eloquence / 11 CD Box Set - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Bach playing to refresh the spirits as well as satisfy the mind: the early recordings of consummate Viennese pianist, Jörg Demus, unfailingly lively as well as faithful. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Music For England [2 CD set] Judith Nelson (soprano) & Paul Elliott (tenor) / The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "handsomely produced, very well recorded" (Gramophone) |
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HANDEL
Messiah (highlights recorded in 1967) Judith Raskin, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul / Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra, Robert Shaw [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Dec/2011 ] Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw |
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SCHUTZ
St Matthew Passion, SWV 479 Julian Podger (Evangelist) / Jakob Bloch Jespersen (Jesus) / Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul Hillier [ Dacapo / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "What keeps the attention here is the way that all the solo singers - including those drawn from choir for the minor roles - inject just enough urgency and drama into their singing for us to feel the power of the unfolding story, but not so much as... |
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Kantner, Paul
Blows Against The Empire [ Music On CD / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] |
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GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER
Lute Works Paul O'Dette (lute) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This is superb music, melodious, […] wonderfully apt for the instrument. O'Dette, for my money the world's finest lutenist, does the music full justice, and the sound is first-rate. You'll want this one." - FANFARE |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 25: BWV86, BWV87, BWV97, BWV44, BWV150, BWV183 Katharine Fuge / Joanne Lunn / Robin Tyson / Paul Agnew / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Gardiner's analyses of the music are both personal and revealing, first to read, and then to hear in practice. This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc."(Choral & Song Choice of the Month BBC... |
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LIEBERMANN
Flute Concertos (with works by Poulenc and Nielsen) Katherine Bryan (flute) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Paul Daniel [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "Bryan revels in the [Liebermann's] mix of long-breathed lyricism and devil-may-care acrobatics...She's also a delectably poised exponent of Poulenc's ravishing Sonata (heard in Lennox Berkeley's perfectly judged orchestration)." (Gramophone) |
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Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden / Paul Motian
Hamburg '72 [ ECM / CD - released 21/Nov/2014 ] The legendary Keith Jarrett Trio, playing live at NDR Funkhaus, Hamburg. The trio with Haden and Motian - formed in 1966 - was Jarrett's first great band, his choice of players a masterstroke. With the bassist who had learned his craft in Ornette... |
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Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian
At The Deer Head Inn [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Apr/1994 ] At the Dear Head Inn is an intimate live recording that marked a kind of "homecoming" for Keith Jarrett. The pianist first led a trio at this small club in the Pocono mountains, near Jarrett's Pennsylvania hometown, when he was around 16 years old. ... |
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Paul Kelly
Under The Sun [ CD ] |