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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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FRANZ LISZT
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca: Songs Dennis O'Neill (tenor) Adrian Farmer (piano) [ Nimbus / CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] The Petrarca Sonnets are known to all pianists from the Années de pèlerinage: Italie, - what is less known is that they started life as songs. Even allowing for Liszt’s undoubted originality, these songs are so extraordinary that one doubts they have... |
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VERDI
Songs Dennis O'Neill (tenor) / Ingrid Surgenor (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] It may seem odd that Italy’s greatest opera composer should have first come before the Milanese public with a set of salon pieces, but in fact the ‘liriche da camera’ which punctuate his long career would often serve as a forging ground for his... |
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BELLINI
Songs Dennis ONeill (tenor) / Ingrid Surgenor (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] There is nothing here of the German Lied. The poems are conventional; the accompaniments never exploit the possibilities of the keyboard in the manner of Schubert or Schumann. Sometimes they suggest an orchestral reduction, as though the composer had... |
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Keith Jarrett
Ritual Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM / CD - released 7/Feb/2014 ] Ritual is an album of contemporary classical music written by Keith Jarrett and performed by on solo piano by Dennis Russell Davies which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1977. |
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KEITH JARRETT
Ritual (LP) Dennis Russell Davies (piano) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Feb/1982 ] Ritual is an album of contemporary classical music written by Keith Jarrett and performed by on solo piano by Dennis Russell Davies which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1977. |
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ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Schnittke: Symphony NO 9 (with Raskatov - Nunc dimittis) Elena Vassilieva (mezzo-soprano) / Dresdner Philharmonie / The Hilliard Ensemble / Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Composed shortly before his death in 1998, Schnittke's ultimate symphony - actually his very last work - is a "Ninth" in a most unusual sense: Put down with a shaky left hand by an artist who had survived four strokes and was laterally debilitated,... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No 8 Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "(Symphony no. 8) is about continuous change...the chromaticism that has crept into Mr. Glass' music since 'Koyaanisqatsi' is now more extreme, and more fluid. Indeed, the great attraction of the work is the unpredictable orchestration." (New York... |
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SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / LEIMER / BRAHMS
Karajan and his Soloists I (1948-1958 Official Remastered Edition) Walter Gieseking, Hans Richter-Haaser (piano) Dennis Brain (horn) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic,Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue. For... |
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FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Les Nations; Pieces de Violes Jacobean Ensemble, with Neville Marriner (violin) / Desmond Dupré & Dennis Nesbitt (viola da gamba) Thurston Dart (harpsichord) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] 'Dupre plays sensitively, and is fluent and convincing in ornamentation. Dennis Nesbitt...plays his part firmly but nevertoo obtrusively...the harpsichord [is] here played with style and refinement by Thurston Dart.' Gramophone, July 1958 (Piècesde v |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigals of Love and Loss James Gilchrist (tenor) Katherine Watson (soprano) & Anna Dennis (soprano) Thomas Walker (tenor) / Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] 'These are not easy pieces, but the opening ballet swings along with panache, and there is some excellent tenor solo singing in the first section … the two sopranos in the duet Ohimè, dov'è il mio ben show poise and taste' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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PUCCINI
Tosca (Complete Opera in English) Jane Eaglen soprano, Dennis O'Neill tenor, Gregory Yurisich bar, Philharmonia Or [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2001 ] 'Jane Eaglen's Tosca is a high-voltage performance.'-BBC Music Magazine |
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ALAN HOVHANESS
Symphony No.22 'City Of Light' / Cello Concerto Janos Starker (Cello) / Seattle Symphony / Dennis Russell Davies / Alan Hovhaness [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "The veteran János Starker, impeccable and expressive as ever, takes the lead in a sympathetic performance, well recorded in the Seattle Symphony's own Benaroya Hall." - BBC Music Magazine |
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HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12 John Findon, Eleanor Dennis, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Robert Murray, Clive Bayley / English National Opera Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] With Havergal Brian's 'Agamemnon' and Symphonies Nos 6 & 12, Martyn Brabbins and his English National Opera forces pay tribute to one of the great mavericks of British music. All three works belong to Brian's immensely productive old age and display... |
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ALEXANDER KASTALSKY
Kastalsky: Requiem Joseph Charles Beutel (bass-bar), Anna Dennis (sop) Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon's Monastery [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Alexander Kastalsky was a student of Tchaikovsky and a mentor to Rachmaninov, becoming director of the Moscow Synodal School until the Bolshevik regime banned all sacred music. |
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THOMAS DE HARTMANN
Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered Joshua Bell, Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska, Matt Haimovitz Mdr-Rundfunkorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ Pentatone / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] This album brings the glowing, cinematic Violin and Cello Concertos of Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann, an important compositional voice in his own time, back into the limelight. Using an international all-star cast, the recording not only aims... |
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SAMUEL BARBER / BELA BARTOK
Barber / Bartok: Piano Concertos Keith Jarrett (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, New Japan Philharmonic, Kazuyoshi Akiyama & Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Jun/2015 ] For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber's Piano... |
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Keith Jarrett, piano, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies
Mozart - Piano Concertos 21, 23, 27 / Masonic Funeral Music / Symphony No 40 [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This 2-CD set features 5 of Mozart's later works, performed by Keith Jarrett with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Spuren Der Verirrten - The Lost Landestheater Linz, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] Spuren der Verirrten, translated here as The Lost, but in German Traces of the Lost, is a German-language opera by Philip Glass on a text adapted from a play by the experimental Austrian writer Peter Handke. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Spuren der verirrten [The Lost] (complete opera recorded in 2013) Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theatre / Martin Achrainer, Bram de Beul, Keren Robertson / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Orange Mountain Music DVD / DVD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] Spuren der Verirrten, translated here as The Lost, but in German Traces of the Lost, is a German-language opera by Philip Glass on a text adapted from a play by the experimental Austrian writer Peter Handke. Recorded here is the work's premiere... |