TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI
String Quartets Amsterdam Sinfonietta /Candida Thompson (leader) [ Channel Classics / SACD ] Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice - June 2004 |
VIVALDI / DANZI / JACOB / DOWNEY / BAX / etc
The Art of the Bassoon Robert Thompson (bassoon) with the London Mozart Players, the Coull Quartet & the English Chamber Orchestra [ Heritage / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "This set of CDs has a musical importance which goes far beyond any detailed specialist appeal, and one cannot imagine a finer set of discs to demonstrate the unique qualities of this extraordinarily expressive instrument" (Musical Opinion) |
JOHN GAY
The Beggar's Opera (complete) Bob Hoskins, Sarah Walker, Charles Daniels, Adrian Thompson / The Broadside Band / Jeremy Barlow [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - 'I have never heard, and can't imagine, better performances ... A delightful performance of this timeless opera' (American Record Guide) |
Bob Thompson
The Sound Of Speed [ Sundazed / LP - released 1/Mar/2010 ] |
Butch Thompson & Pat Donohue
Vicksburg Blues [ Red House / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] |
PIAZZOLLA / GOLIJOV / GINASTERA
The Argentinian Album Candida Thompson (artistic director, violin) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2014 ] "they have mastered the slides and snaps that are required to bring something of the flavour of the original to [the Four Seasons], but they never quite manage to capture its essential earthiness. It is the Ginastera Concerto, the composer's own expa |
Chris Thompson
Live [ Retro World / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' Majella Cullagh, Mary Nelson, Adrian Thompson / NSO of Ireland / RTe Phil Choir / Reinhard Seifrie [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2001 ] "This new budget-priced disc might introduce many listeners to a marvelous piece of music; it is a very good performance." American Record Guide |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4 Curt Thompson (violin) Rodney Waters (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2004 ] "Ives's four extraordinary Violin Sonatas were written between 1902 and 1906, and are quite a find. Their erratically stimulating originality is in no doubt, but they are also among his most immediately appealing works." Penguin Guide |
Daniel/Fielding/Thompson
Dubugnon: Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2002 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Landmarks - 40 Years of Chandos Dmitri Shostakovich Jr. (piano), James Thompson (trumpet), Stephen Hough (piano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael George (bass) [ Chandos / CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Released to celebrate Chandos' 40th Anniversary, this is a handsomely packaged 40-disc set. Each of the four decades is represented, and each recording has been hand-picked by Managing Director Ralph Couzens. |
Eddie Thompson
Piano Moods [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
BRITTEN
Les Illuminations, Op. 18 / Quatre Chansons franASaises / Serenade,Op. 31 Felicity Lott (soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Michael Thompson (horn) / Scottish National Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2004 ] 'These are profoundly sympathetic performances, with Lott at her best in the 14-year-old composer's precocious settings of Hugo and Verlaine. Bryden Thomson and the RSNO support attentively, and the recordings are truthful and atmostpheric in the... |
French Frith Kaiser Thompson
Invisible Means [ CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Solo Songs (Complete) Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) / Adrian Thompson (tenor) / Roderick Williams (baritone) / John Talbot (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] "The songs comprise an impressive body, light-hued but intense, tinged with a distinctly Celtic melancholy...they're all well worth hearing." BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 ***** |
SCHUMANN
Complete Schumann Edition: Vol 6 Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) Stella Doufexis (alto) Adrian Thompson (tenor) [ Hyperion Schumann Edition Vol 6 / CD - released 26/Feb/2002 ] - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (April 2002) |
HANDEL
Messiah (complete oratorio) Gillian Keith, Daniel Taylor, Tom Randle, Sumner Thompson / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society release a new recording of Handel's ever-popular Messiah, recorded live in the superb acoustic of Boston's Symphony Hall. |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Works [18 CD set] Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano / conductor), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Valentina Lisitsa (piano), etc [ Decca / 18 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Drawn principally from Decca's distinguished catalogue, the set also features no fewer than 64 newly-recorded tracks - over 200 mins of music, newly recorded by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Valentina Lisitsa especially for this set. |
Hank Thompson
In The Mood For Hank [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Hank Thompson, a man destined to be one of Country music's greatest performers, was signed in late 1947 by the up-and-coming CAPITOL label, following a recommendation by Tex Ritter... |
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
Headin' Down the Wrong Highway - The Early Albums [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Hank Thompson was one of the greatest honky-tonk singers in country history and perhaps the most popular Western swing musician of the '50s and '60s... |