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GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: The Cloud Messenger / The Hymn of Jesus / Seven Part-songs / Ode to Death / etc Della Jones (mezzo-soprano) Patricia Rozario (soprano) Finzi Singers / London Symphony Chorus / Richard Hickox [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/1999 ] All the best of Holst's choral works on a beautiful double CD |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / GIORDANO / MASCAGNI / ROSSINI / etc
More Favourite Tenor Arias Dennis O'neill (tenor) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] This is the second recital disc from Dennis O'Neill, one of Britain's finest tenors.The first recital received great critical acclaim. |
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Schubert,
Symphonie No. 3 D-Dur, Symphonie No. 1, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Opern- und Konzertarien Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; London Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch [ ORFEO / CD - released 14/Jul/2003 ] |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete Oratorio) Helen Donath, Anna Reynolds, Stuart Burrows, Donald McIntyre, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Richter [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD ] Recorded: 1972-11-07 Recording Venue: Brent Town Hall, Wembley, London |
EDWARD MacDOWELL
MacDowell: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2 / New England Idyls Donna Amato (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Freeman, conductor [ Alto / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "[Piano Concerto No.2 is] fresh and tuneful, redolent of Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns. Donna Amato's scintillating performance is entirely winning, and she is equally persuasive in the a minor Concerto. This music needs polish and elegance as well as... |
BRAHMS
Brahms: Serenades 1 & 2 / Overtures, Haydn Variations Dresdner Philharmonie, Heinz Bongartz / London Symphony Orchestra, Rafaël Frühbeck de Burgos [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] "I was in a perfectly blissful mood. I have seldom written music with such delight." Thus Brahms, notorious curmudgeon, to his friend Joseph Joachim, while engaged in his standard practice of arranging larger works - in this case the Second Serenade... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Henry VIII and his Six Wives The Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow [ Testament / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] David Munrow (August 12, 1942 - May 15, 1976) was a musician and early music historian. He was the son of Albert Munrow, a Birmingham University lecturer and physical education instructor who even wrote a book on the subject, and was so highly... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Overtures & incidental music (with works by Haydn & Brahms) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Eduard Van Beinum [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] A newly remastered collection of Decca and Philips recordings made by the under-rated Dutch conductor in Austro-German classics including a little-known account of Beethoven's Prometheus Overture. The ballet music which Beethoven wrote to... |
MOZART / HAYDN
Complete Concerto Recordings (1933-1947) Edwin Fischer (piano) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, etc [ APR / 3 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "...you will hear a delectably light-fingered virtuosity...combined with a poetic commitment rare in today's chaotic musical marketplace...APR's transfers are admirable and all three discs are a mine of musical instruction and delight." (Gramophone) |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Ekaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) & Alexander Timchenko (tenor) / London Symphony Orchestra & chorus / Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2016 ] "there's a great sense of freedom in this music that Gergiev manages to create ... Gergiev's volatility really works in this Scriabin." CDReview |
HANDEL / SCARLATTI / PREDIERI / CALDARA / STRADELLA / FUX
The Art of the Baroque Trumpet Vol 3 Eklund, Niklas (trumpet) London Baroque, Charles Medlam with Susanne Ryden (soprano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Oct/2000 ] The third in the Baroque trumpet series from Naxos |
OLIVER KNUSSEN
Symphonies 2 & 3 / Coursing / Ophelia Dances / Trumpets Elaine Barry / Linda Hirst / Nash Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas / London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen [ NMC Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Two of Knussen's major works of the 1970s - Symphony No.2, a song cycle on texts of Georg Trakl and Sylvia Plath, and Symphony No. 3, a symphonic poem about Shakespeare's Ophelia - are coupled with Coursing, Ophelia Dances and other works. |
MAHLER
Symphony No 2 'Resurrection' / Symphony No. 10 in F sharp minor - Adagio Elena Mosuc (soprano) Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra & chorus / Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "This really is a very appealing performance, and even in a crowded field I can easily imagine it giving Mahlerians a good deal of pleasure." (ClassicsToday 9/9) |
BARTOK
Bluebeard's Castle Elena Zhidkova & Sir Willard White / London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] "…Gergiev and his superlative orchestral forces and vocal soloists, supported by magnificent sound quality, present the enigmatic piece with great power, leaving us, as adequate performances always do, feeling stunned and somewhat bewildered." (BBC) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell [ Warner Original Jacket recordings / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] "Fischer-Dieskau's scarifying projection of the two military horror stories to the exquisite control they jointly bring to Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen... one of the most sensitive and touching accounts of a Mahler song I have ever heard" Gramopho |
AIRAT ICHMOURATOV
Ichmouratov: Viola Concerto No.1 / Piano Concerto Elvira Misbakhova (viola) Jean-Philippe Sylvestre (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Peacock [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] The Volga-Tatar-born Canadian composer and conductor Airat Ichmouratov conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in this recording of two of his major works, in Chandos' third album devoted to the works of this outstanding composer. |
HANDEL
Handel in Italy - solo cantatas Emma Kirkby (soprano) / London Baroque [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] This exciting programme is presented by Emma Kirkby and London Baroque, household names in the sphere of 'early music' and beyond, and certainly no new-comers to the works of Handel. |
Emma Kirkby (soprano) / London Baroque / Charles Medlam
Christmas Music [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2000 ] "Kirkby revels in her vocal powers throughout this disc" International Record Review |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Sacred Cantatas Emma Kirkby (soprano) / London Baroque. Medlam [ BIS / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
CONSTANT LAMBERT
Pomona / Music for Orchestra / Romeo and Juliet / King Pest English Chamber Orchestra, Norman Del Mar / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Joly [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Constant Lambert was a man of outstandingly wide cultural range, a man as well-informed about painting and literature as about music. For this reason his contribution to the development of what is now the Royal Ballet proved invaluable.A triumvirate... |
