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Alison Krauss & Union Station
Lonely Runs Both Ways [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 26/Mar/2009 ] Her voice has never sounded more pristine or commanding; while on fiddle and viola she colours each song. A recording with aching beauty and depth - Recommended! |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station
New Favorite [ Rounder Records / CD - released 23/Mar/2009 ] Originally released in 2001, 'New Favorite' features some of the best crossover bluegrass band music around! |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station
Paper Airplane [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] A truly breathtaking collection of 11 exquisite songs, 'Paper Airplane' is Krauss' first release since her 2007 multi-Grammy winning, internationally acclaimed collaboration with Robert Plant, 'Raising Sand'. |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station
So Long So Wrong [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 26/Mar/2009 ] Originally released in 1997, 'So Long So Wrong' features bluegrass virtuosity with lovely, heartfelt singing from Alison Krauss & her Union Station band. |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station
Two Highways [ Rounder Records / CD - released 23/Mar/2009 ] Originally released in 1995, this classic bluegrass album from Alison Krauss & Union Station is re-issued at last! |
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Alison Moyet
The Turn [ Universal Music / CD - released 12/Nov/2007 ] The material on 'The Turn' includes three songs Moyet composed and performed for the stage play 'Smaller', in which she starred alongside Dawn French and June Watson. |
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Alison Moyet
Voice [ Sanctuary Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2005 ] A wonderful collection of songs by other composers - a radical diversion for Moyet who has chosen in this instance to concentrate on her instrument alone. |
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Alison O'donnell
Climb Sheer The Fields Of Peace [ Mega Dodo / CD - released 11/Aug/2017 ] |
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TELEMANN / HANDEL / BACH / BOCCHERINI / VIVALDI / etc
Baroque Festival Emmanuel Pahud, Beatrice Rana, Alison Balsom, Piotr Anderszewski, Nathalie Stutzmann, Philippe Jaroussky, etc [ Warner Classics / CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] Top-class journey into the Baroque including many highly reviewed recordings. |
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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
The Sound of Piazzolla Gidon Kremer, Julia Zenko, Haracio Ferrer, Alison Balsom, Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Pahud, Daniel Barenboim, Artemis Quartet, etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2017 ] "Violinist Gidon Kremer and a tight ensemble of colleagues show keen empathy for this symbolist allegory of an ambiguous, archetypal journey of the soul." --Thomas May on Maria de Buenos Aires |
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ROMANTIC RESIDUES
Romantic Residues AE Songs for tenor & harp James Gilchrist (tenor) Alison Nicholls (harp) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] '[Roth] These are attractive works … The resources of voice and instruments are imaginatively exploited. And the performances are excellent. On the Hyperion disc Roth shares with Britten, Ravel and others, the whole working together as an unusual and... |
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KARL JENKINS
Jenkins: Stella Natalis Kate Royal (soprano), Alison Balsom (trumpet) Alice Halstead (soprano) / Ethic Percussion Orchestra, Tenebrae Choir & Members of Adiemus, Karl Jenkins [ Universal Classics / CD - released 3/Dec/2019 ] "Karl Jenkins is a rarity among contemporary composers, balancing popularity with innovation." (The Independent) |
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Michael Feinstein, with Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley, Rosanne Cash, etc.
Michael Feinstein - Gershwin Country [ Elektra Records / CD - released 25/Oct/2022 ] 2022 release. Michael Feinstein reimagines the timeless Gershwin songbook through the contemporary lens of country music. Co-produced by Kyle Lehning, Gershwin Country pairs Feinstein with the biggest names in country, including Dolly Parton, Alison... |
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JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR
Leclair: Violin Sonatas: Book 1 - Nos. 1-4 Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin) / Alison McGillivray (viola da gamba) / Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] With his four books of Sonatas, Jean-Marie Leclair established himself as the founder of the French School of violin playing, whose elegance he enlivened with the lyricism of the Italian baroque master, Corelli. |
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JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR
Leclair: Violin Sonatas: Book 1 - Nos. 5-8 Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin) / Alison McGillivray (viola da gamba) / Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Adrian Butterfield, Alison McGillivray and Laurence Cummings bring a wealth of expertise to their elegant interpretations of Leclair's First Book of Violin Sonatas ... |
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JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR
Leclair: Violin Sonatas: Book 1 - Nos. 9-12 Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin) / Alison McGillivray (viola da gamba) / Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] "The performances of the other three sonatas on the first of the new CDs are of the same high quality. I played the whole disc without any criticisms but with great enjoyment" Brian Wilson (MusicWebInternational) review of the first two volumes in... |
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HAYDN / HUMMEL / TORELLI / NERUDA
Trumpet Concertos Alison Balsom (trumpet / director) / Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen [ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] "Trumpeter Alison Balsom's bold and brilliant playing engenders a fresh-eared listening of the warhorse Haydn and Hummel concertos." (10 sound 10 performance ClassicsToday) |
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ARBAN / BACH / LINDBERG / PAGANINI / PIAZZOLLA / MOZART / etc
Alison Balsom - Caprice Alison Balsom (trumpet) / Gotheburg Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ EMI / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] "The young British trumpeter Alison Balsom is a real star: resplendent and well-varied tone, crisp attack, absolute ease of production throughout the range." BBC Music |
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FINZI / BRITTEN / HOLST
Works for Choir and Orchestra Alison Barlow (sop) John Mark Ainsley (ten) David Hoult (bar) Stephen Varcoe (bar) / Britten Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "If any lover of the music of English twentieth century composers does not have this disc in their collection, they should take steps to rectify the omission immediately." (Recording of the Month musicWeb Aug 2013) |
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Alison Brown
The Song Of The Banjo [ Compass / CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] With THE SONG OF THE BANJO (Compass Records), her first album since 2009, GRAMMY-winning musician/composer/producer/entrepreneur Alison Brown plants another flag in her journey of musical exploration. Acclaimed as one of today's finest progressive... |