More By Artist: O'leary Mark
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WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN TAVENER
Four Part Mass / 4 Motets / Alternatim Pieces Sacred Polyphony / Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner & Mark Brown, directors [ Regis Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "..sung with conviction and understanding.." - Organists Review |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Mass in C major, Op. 86 / O welche Lust! (Prisoners' Chorus) Sally Matthews (soprano) Sara Mingardo (mezzo) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Alastair Miles (bass) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Sir Colin Davis recently collected the Best Male Artist award at the Classical Brits for the second time. |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Clarinet Concerto, Aladdin Suite Samuel Coles (flute), Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Paavo Jarvi [ Signum / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] "a true virtuoso with a vibrant tone… What makes this recording outstanding, however, is his obvious rapport with the rest of the orchestra and conductor Paavo Jarvi and the clarity of the sound" MusicWeb International, May 2017 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten to America: Music for Radio & Theatre Samuel West (narrator) Mary Carewe, Jean Rigby (mezzos) / Halle, Sir Mark Elder / Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore, etc [ NMC / CD - released 14/Feb/2014 ] "Unexpected postscript to the composer's centenary shows his versatility and completes the picture of his formative years" (Financial Times) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Solomon (complete oratorio) Sarah Connolly (alto) Susan Gritton (sop) Carolyn Sampson (sop) Mark Padmore (ten) / Akademie fAr Alte Musik Berlin / Daniel Reuss (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi HMHeritage / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] Handel was 63 years old when he composed Solomon, one of his final masterpieces. This monumental oratorio depicts the three highpoints of the biblical king's life: the building of the temple, the famous judgment, and the visit of the Queen of Sheba.... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Fantasio (complete operetta) Sarah Connolly, Brenda Rae, Russell Braun, Neal Davies / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 2 CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] 'Opera' - Recording of the Month - December 2014 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Il Re Pastore (complete opera) Sarah Fox, Ailish Tynan, John Mark Ainsley, Anna Devin & Benjamin Hulett / Classical Opera, Ian Page [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2015 ] "Page's unobtrusive pacing of the pastoral mini-drama and sage weighting of orchestrally accompanied recitatives pull the listener along gently." (Gramophone Editors Choice Nov 2015) |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 'A Pastoral Symphony' / Orchestral Works Sarah Fox (soprano) / Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder [ Halle / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "the performance of the Pastoral Symphony evinces a glowing dedication, remarkable luminosity of texture, songful rapture and emotional clout that mark it out as a front-runner...A marvellous disc." Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Orchestral |
NICHOLAS MAW
One foot in Eden still, I stand Schola Cantorum of Oxford / Mark Shepherd [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] Nicholas Maw is a dominant force in contemporary British music and this new disc presents many first recordings and gives a broad overview of Maw’s choral achievements. |
J.S. BACH
St John Passion (Complete Oratorio) with Cantatas BWV22, 23, 127 & 159 Sibylla Rubens, Andreas Scholl, Mark Padmore / Collegium Vocale, Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Herreweghe Bach Edition / 3 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] 2003 Grammy Award Nomination: Best Choral Performance - "superbly conceived and excitingly performed production of Bach's 1725 score" - Classics Today |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Messa di Gloria and Credo in D major (with works by Johann Simon Mayr) Siri Karoline Thornhill, Marie-Sophie Pollak, Marie-Sande Papenmeyer, Mark Adler / Bavarian State Opera Chorus & Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] While the German tradition observes a strict distinction between sacred and secular styles, the 19th-century Italian Mass can feel more akin to attending an operatic performance. Donizetti's church music, consisting of at least a hundred items, has... |
NAYLOR / MAXWELL DAVIES / MacMILLAN / CHILCOTT / CORNYSH / STANFORD / etc
Good Night, Beloved The Sixteen. Harry Christophers, with Mark Dobell, George Pooley, Rob Macdonald, Jeremy Budd, and, Ben Davies [ Coro / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] "The disc's title track is a highlight: 'Good night, good night, beloved' by 19th-century Italian composer Ciro Pinsuti is a melodious part song which receives a gloriously unbuttoned reading here." BBC Music |
HENRY PURCELL
The Indian Queen (with Daniel Purcell - The Masque of Hymen) Julie Cooper, Kirsty Hopkins, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "Christophers leads a trim, affectionate performance of Purcell's last (unfinished) semi-opera. The musical forces are small and flexible, and though some previous recordings bring more star power to bear among the soloists," (Financial Times) |
MENDELSSOHN
Songs and Duets Vol 3 Sophie Daneman (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Stephan Loges (baritone) Eugene Asti (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] The Mendelssohn songs without words may indeed outshine the Lieder in our contemporary consciousness, but here we find domestic bliss in pure musical form. |
Mark Stewart
The Politics of Envy (Deluxe Edition) [ Future Noise Music / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2012 ] A seething arena of sonic mischief and deceivingly dislocated backdrops - featuring Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Daddy G, Primal Scream, Richard Hell, Keith Levene, Tessa Pollitt, Gina Birch, Youth, Adrian Sherwood and more! |
ROBERT WHITE / ROBERT PARSONS / ORLANDO GIBBONS / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / etc
Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey Stile Antico / Marcus Creed And Rias Kammerchor / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Mark Padmore / Fretwork / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Resonances / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Famous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. For centuries their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have often dedicated to them some of... |
BUTTERWORTH
The Complete Butterworth Songbook Mark Stone (baritone) & Stephen Barlow (piano) [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] The only complete recording of the songs of world war I casualty George Butterworth (1885-1916). |
DELIUS
The Complete Delius Songbook Volume 1 Mark Stone (baritone) & Stephen Barlow (piano) [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] "Stone has a remarkable voice, firm and finely focused, which he uses seductively over the widest dynamic and expressive range. His singing is ideally matched by the piano-playing of Stephen Barlow." (Gramophone) |
FREDERICK DELIUS
The Complete Delius Songbook Volume 2 Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano) [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] This is the concluding CD in this Delius series which is the first ever complete recording of Delius' songs for voice and piano. It includes 20 première recordings. |
WILLIAMS / BRITTEN / IRELAND / DOWLAND
English Love Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano) [ Stone / CD - released 7/Jan/2013 ] A collection of English love songs from 1597 through to the present day. |
