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... |
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... |
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. |
BOULEZ / DEBUSSY / MESSIAEN / RAVEL
Rare French Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and recently discovered works by composers who had an influence on Pierre Boulez, as well as the premiere recording of Boulez's Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo. |
TAN DUN
Tan Dun: Eight Memories in watercolor / C-A-G-E-(In Memory of John Cage) / Film Music Sonata / etc Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] |
GAVIN BRYARS
Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal) / After Handel’s Vesper / Ramble on Cortona Ralph van Raat (piano) / Cappella Amsterdam / Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Otto Tausk [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "It's in the nature of Bryars's solo piano music that it flows along in gently timeless way...it also severally challenges a performer's ability to keep the listener's attention suitably gripped. In After Handel's Vesper's and Ramble on Cortona,... |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Ralph van Raat & Håkon Austbø play Messiaen & Debussy Ralph van Raat (piano I) & Håkon Austbø (piano II) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Their approach, characterised by fierce dynamic contrasts, jagged phrasing and explosive fortissimos, suits Messiaen's highly coloured extremes of rapture and religious awe..." |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: David & Jonathas Reinoud Van Mechelen; Caroline Arnaud; Gaétan Jarry; Marguerite Louise [ Château de Versailles Spectacles CD+DVD+BLU-RAY / 2 CD/DVD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] This is a baroque dream: a performance of the sacred drama David and Jonathas, a masterpiece by Charpentier and one of the miracles of French opera, in the Royal Chapel of Versailles! In 1688, the Louis-le-Grand Jesuit school performed this vibrant... |
NICOLAS CLERAMBAULT
Clérambault: Cantates Françoises Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] After a Bach album, the tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble A Nocte Temporis present a programme of French music devoted to Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749), a precociously gifted composer who published four volumes comprising a total of... |
ORLANDO di LASSO
Renaissance of the Spirit Werthen / I Fiamminghi & Currende, Erick van Nevel [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] I Fiamminghi reflects on it's musical heritage in an evocative & beautiful concept recording that juxtaposes contemporary orchestral arrangements of the music of Flemish masters of the 15th & 16th centuries with exceptional a cappella choral singing... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande (Complete Opera recorded in 1978) Richard Stilwell, Frederica von Stade, Josa van Dam. Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2017 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "a very characteristically Karajan performance, deeply committed and full of beautiful things. The casting is excellent." (Gramophone) |
BEN FOSKETT
Dinosaur Richard Uttley (piano) Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) Eric Lamb (flute) Jean-François Becquaert (soprano saxophone) Raphaële Kennedy (soprano), etc [ NMC / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "The early Five Night Pieces, for piano, played by Richard Uttley, have a lucid modernist assurance, but Foskett's 2009 Prom commission, the orchestral From Trumpet, is something else again: big, monolithic, broodingly textured, with a rich internal |
Ricky Van Shelton
16 Biggest Hits [ Sony Music / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] American imported "best of" collection. |
Ricky Van Shelton
Blue Christmas [ CD ] |
Ricky Van Shelton
Don't Overlook Salvation [ CD - released 9/Sep/2008 ] |
Ricky Van Shelton
Fried Green Tomatoes [ CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] First album in three years from one of the biggest Country Music stars of the past decade |
Ricky Van Shelton
Greatest Hits Plus [ CD ] |
Ricky Van Shelton
Loving Proof / Wild Eyed Dream (Two Original Albums on One CD) [ T-Bird Americana / CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] |
Ricky Van Shelton
Sings Christmas [ CD ] |
SCHUBERT
The Song Collection [6 CD set] Robert Holl (bass-baritone) Ellen van Lier (soprano) David Lutz, Konrad Richter, Naum Grubert (piano [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2015 ] Robert Holl is one of the foremost bass baritones of today. He has collaborated with the greatest conductors like Bernard Haitink, Eugen Jochum, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Claudio Abbado, and is equally active in opera as in Lieder. Particularly his... |