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OLIVER DAVIS
Dance Kerenza Peacock (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Bateman [ Signum Classics / CD - released 16/Dec/2016 ] Oliver Davis writes: "Dance is the third in a series of albums, Flight and Seasons having been released in 2015. My musical association with dance began when Erico Montes (First Artist with the Royal Ballet) choreographed the ballet Within the Hours... |
OLIVER DAVIS
Davis: Liberty Kerenza Peacock (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Bateman [ Signum / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "Slick, lyrical and bubbly, Davis's concert music is a happy extension of his work for TV and film. Bacchus is a joyful pizzicato piece of mischief." BBC Music 4 out of 5 stars |
HENRY COTTER NIXON
Henry Cotter Nixon: Complete Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann [ Toccata / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] The English composer-conductor Henry Cotter Nixon (1842-1907) had entirely disappeared from music history until this series - presenting all his surviving orchestral music in its first-ever recordings - revealed him to have been one of the most... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas Nos.128 - 131 Kurt Equiluz, Paul Esswood, Alan Bergius, Max van Egmond / Collegium Vocale, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Das Alte Werk / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/1989 ] Original recording from 1983 One of the first recordings using historical instruments, with boys' choirs and boy soloists for most soprano and some alto parts. Adult soloists include the tenor Kurt Equiluz. |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lulu (complete opera recorded in 2012) La Monnaie, Brussels / Barbara Hannigan (Lulu), Natascha Petrinsky, Tom Randle, Dietrich Henschel / Paul Daniel (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "It's a comparatively rare occurrence to encounter a performance on the opera stage that has such a magnetic visual and physical impact as Barbara Hannigan's portrayal of Berg's tragic heroine." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Opera) |
MAURICE JARRE
Notre Dame de Paris (Complete Ballet, recorded live in March 2013) La Teatro alla Scala Ballet / Natalia Osipova, Roberto Bolle, Eris Nezha, Mick Zeni / Paul Connelly (cond) [ Opus Arte La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] With Roland Petit's cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre Dame de Paris has been a modern ballet hit ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit's deft condensation of Victor Hugo's epic and tragic novel is now... |
MAURICE JARRE
Notre Dame de Paris (Complete Ballet, recorded live in March 2013) BLU-RAY La Teatro alla Scala Ballet / Natalia Osipova, Roberto Bolle, Eris Nezha, Mick Zeni / Paul Connelly (cond) [ Opus Arte La Scala Collection Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] With Roland Petit's cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre Dame de Paris has been a modern ballet hit ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit's deft condensation of Victor Hugo's epic and tragic novel is now... |
VINCENCO BELLINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: I Capuleti E I Monteccchi (complete opera recorded in 1999 with libretto) Jennifer Larmore, Hei-Kyung Hong, Paul Groves, Robert Lloyd / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Donald Runnicles [ Teldec Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/1999 ] "Donald Runnicles offers a fresh and sympathetic reading of Bellini's 'Romeo and Juliet' opera with an outstanding cast…Though the competition is strong, the Teldec set scores both in its casting and in its fullness of sound." (Penguin Guide *** Key |
Larry Carlton & Paul Brown
Soul Searchin' [ Shanachie / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Between them they have won an incredible eight Grammys. Now these two jazz greats come together to create the guitar event of the year. Larry Carlton has been a guitar icon for close to five decades. Famous for his work as the lead guitarist of the... |
HONEGGER
Complete Violin Sonatas Laurence Kayaleh (violin) / Paul Stewart (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2011 ] Spanning nearly thirty years, these alternately passionate and sober, forceful and nostalgic works display Honegger's lyrical and virtuosic writing for his own instrument. Laurence Kayaleh plays a 1742 Guarnerius violin whose rich singing tone can... |
MEDTNER
Works for Violin and Piano Vol. 2 Laurence Kayaleh (violin) Paul Stewart (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Distinctly Russian, unabashedly Romantic and full-bodied, yet intellectually devised and highly disciplined, Medtner's compositions for violin and piano encompass music of rare beauty and power, gratifying for both performer and audience. Violin... |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDE
Handel: Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra HWV23 (complete opera) Lawrence Zazzo, Nuria Rial, Geraldine McGreevy, Tim Mead, David Wilson-Johnson & Curtis Streetman / Chamber Orchestra of Basel, Paul Goodwin [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] |
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Books 3 & 4 Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Early Music |
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsaria, Feria Quinta Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] With their bold harmonies, their counterpoint of unequalled refinement and their raw emotion, the Tenebrae Responsories are the sacred counterpart to Gesualdo's last two books of madrigals, published the same year (1611). Paul Agnew and Les Arts... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigali Volume 2: Mantova - Excerpts from Books IV, V and VI Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Les Arts Florissants Editions / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] "Agnew's selection is impeccably judged...if you don't know a single volume this should be enough to persuade you that you ought to have done, long ago." (Gramophone Disc of the Month Jan 2015) |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigali Volume 1 - 3: Cremona / Mantova / Venezia Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Les Arts Florissants Editions / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2017 ] "If a keen sense of the interpretative moment is the hallmark of ensemble performance at its best, then this new Monteverdi instalment from Les Arts Florissants deserves to be held up as such" Gramophone Award WINNER 2016 - Baroque Vocal on Cremona |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigali Volume 3: Venezia Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi Les Arts Florissants Editions / CD - released 15/Jun/2017 ] "The vivid atmosphere of Agnew's performance is palpable and, as so often in these discs, his text-driven subtlety wins over." Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Baroque Vocal |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2015) DVD + Blu-ray Theatre de Caen / Cyril Auvity, Hannah Morrison, Paul Agnew / Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi DVD + Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] "Cyril Auvity's tremulous and emphatic singing of the title-role has unstinting dramatic commitment: the shadowy silhouettes of the obbligato instrumentalists in 'Possente spirto' appear as if the underworld is conjured to do Orfeo's bidding)." |
J. S. BACH
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708) Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Feat. Benjamin Alard [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] "These are beautiful, text-centred performances, and while I find several movements too fast for my taste, they are always engaging. There are some extraordinarily good solos throughout, and I keenly anticipate the next volume." Gramophone |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us. By intercalating existing examples of his sacred music (such as the... |
