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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Last Night of the Proms 2000 Hilary Hahn (violin) Jane Eaglen (soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 11/Apr/2002 ] G :- "The Last Night of the Proms" is one of the most famous musical events in the world, watched and listened to by millions. It celebrates British tradition and encapsulates the unique spirit of the BBC Proms, by featuring leading international... |
PATRICK HADLEY
Fen and Flood - A Cantata (with works by Vaughan Williams) Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano) & Leigh Melrose (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & The Joyful Company of Singers, Paul Dan [ Albion / Launch Music / CD - released 31/May/2011 ] "Here's something to fascinate any lover of British music...Jane Irwin is radiant in the solos and the Joyful Company of Singers is an excellent, well-balanced choir..Daniel has often demonstrated great warmth and understanding in his performances of |
COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |
DUKAS
Ariane et Barbe-bleue (complete opera recorded in 2005) Deborah Polaski / Jane Henschel / Kwangchul Youn / Ruxandra Donose / Stella Grigorian / Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Bertrand de Billy [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/2011 ] 'Bertrand de Billy is a strong advocate for the work in this live recording from a concert performance in the Vienna Konzerthaus. The sound is vivid enough and chorus and orchestra are splendid' MusicWeb. |
PUCCINI / ROSSINI / SAINT-SAENS / LEONCAVALLO / DONIZETTI / FLOTOW / MASCAGNI/ etc
Great Arias & Ensembles from your favourite opera (sung in English) Della Jones / Dennis O'Neill / Jane Eaglen / Cynthia Haymon / Susan Parry / Alan Opie / Diana Montague / Philharmonia Orchestra / David Parry [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "Here is a 74-minute sampler from Chandos' excellent Opera in English series. Tenor Dennis O'Neill features prominently in many excerpts and he's a known quantity...This is a nice collection, unique in its own way, and recommended."(ClassicsToday) |
BACH / DE FOSSA / PAGANINI / KIMBER
Archi d'amore Zelanda Donald Maurice (viola), Jane Curry (guitar), Emma Goodbehere (cello) [ Atoll / CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] Arci d'Amore Zelanda is a trio of highly accomplished New Zealand performers who bring together the romantic combination of viola d'amore, guitar and cello in an ancient and modern programme. |
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg (complete operetta recorded 1972, sung in German) Eberhard Wächter, Lilian Sukis, Erich Kunz, Jane Tilden, Peter Fröhlich / Graunke Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Graunke [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] "The Count of Luxembourg", composed in 1909, is a worthy equal to Léhar's other operettas in terms of imaginative content, visual ideas and instrumental colouring. After the sensational success of the "Merry Widow" (1905), the composer quickly wrote... |
HANDEL
Messiah (complete oratorio) Elizabeth Watts / Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Mark Le Brocq / James Oldfield / Huddersfield Choral Society / Northern Sinfonia / Jane Glover [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2011 ] "The Huddersfield Choral Society surely knows this music inside out. You can sense the sheer discipline that has gone into its preparation...Pick of the bunch...is the soprano Elizabeth Watts" (International Record Review) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Songs of Beasts. Fantastic Creatures in Medieval Songs Ensemble Dragma / Jane Achtman, Marc Lewon, Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett [ Ramée / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Medieval interest in animals and mythical creatures was not limited to the visual arts and literature. At the same time that bestiaries - manuscripts depicting animals and mythical creatures - were being compiled, composers were producing innumerable... |
W. A. MOZART
Felicity Lott sings Mozart Arias (Incls 'Exsultate, jubilate, K165') Felicity Lott (soprano) / London Mozart Players, Jane Glover [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Exsultate, jubilate, fine as recorded sound, crisp in the playing, deliciously clear and clean in the singing, sets off with all the promise of a bright spring morning." (Gramophone) |
PURCELL / LEONARD COHEN / NICK DRAKE
If Grief Could Wait Giovanna Pessi (baroque harp) / Susanna Wallumrød (voice) / Jane Achtman (viola da gamba) / Marco Ambrosini (nyckelharpa) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] Unique, intimate album initiated by Swiss baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi and featuring the pure, non-classical voice of Norwegian singer Susanna Wallumrød. Best known for her work in pop and indie-rock contexts (including the duo Susanna and the... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus, RV 595 Gloria, RV 588 Jane Archibald, soprano / Nils Brown, tenor / Anita Krause, mezzo-soprano, Aradia Chorus and Aradia Ensemble with Kevin Mallon, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] Rather enterprisingly, as the centre-piece of this disc the group features the lesser known of Vivaldi's settings of the Gloria. This is combined with the second of his Dixit Dominus settings and the solo motet, 'Nulla in mundo pax sincera' |
ANTIONIO VIVALDI
The very best of Vivaldi: Excerpts from concertos, vocal and choral works Jane Archibald (soprano) / Tamas Benkocs (bassoon) / Nils Brown (tenor) / Bela Drahos (flute) / Niklas Eklund (trumpet) and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] "He is an old man who composes furiously and prodigiously. I have heard him compose a concerto with all its pasrts more quickly than a copyist could copy it" (Charles de Brosses on Vivaldi) |
TRADITIONAL arr. WILLIAM BYRD
The Oriental Miscellany - Airs of Hindustan Jane Chapman (harpsichord) & Yu-Wei (flute) [ Signum / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Harpsichordist Jane Chapman explores 'The Oriental Miscellany', William Hamilton Bird's 1789 collection and arrangement of Hindustani airs for harpsichord. Bird's collection, which was the first ever publication of Indian music notated for Western... |
JACK BODY / JOHN PSATHAS / ANTHONY RITCHIE / TRADITIONAL
Music from New Zealand for Two Guitars Jane Curry, Owen Moriarty (guitars) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] Guitar works by new Zealand composers continue to display a richness of imagination and sense of colour that makes them intensely attractive to listeners. In 1990 Jack Body wrote African Strings, which transcribed music of the Madagascan valiha tube... |
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 |
Jane Froman
My Heart Speaks [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Feb/1998 ] Had it not been for the 20th Century-Fox film "With A Song In My Heart", most people outside North America would have never heard of Jane Froman. In the hugely successful 1952 biopic starring Susan Hayward, it was Froman's voice that was heard on the... |
W.A. MOZART
The Last Symphonies 39, 40, 41 / Bassoon Concerto in B flat K191 Jane Gower (bassoon) / Anima Eterna [ Zig Zag Territories / 2 CD - released 29/Aug/2006 ] "These performances of Mozart’s last 3 symphonies represnt just about the best we can expect from the school of "historically informed performance", which is to say that they are extremely fine indeed" David Hurwitz Classics Today USA November 2004 |
MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Schoenberg/Rhien) Jane Irwin (mezzo) / Peter Wedd (tenor) / Manchester Camerata / Douglas Boyd [ Avie Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] Manchester Camerata, conducted by Douglas Boyd and joined by mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin and tenor Peter Wedd, give a vivid and memorable performance of Schoenberg's chamber transcription of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. |
SCHOENBERG
Pierrot Lunaire (with Webern-Concerto, Op.24) Jane Manning (Sprechstimme) / Nash Ensemble / Simon Rattle [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jun/1991 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Jane Manning has very much made the work her own, and her partnership with Simon Rattle may be regarded as definitive." (1001 recordings on Pierrot Lunaire) |
