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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell At Newport [ Rhino / Warner / CD - released 28/Jul/2023 ] Joni stunned the Newport Folk Festival audience last summer when she gave a surprise performance - her first in 20 years - delivering a heartfelt set filled with some of her greatest songs. Joni was joined on stage at the Newport Folk Festival by... |
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Joni Mitchell
Live At Carnegie Hall, 1969 (LP) [ Rhino / Warner / 3 LP - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Vinyl breakout from the Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2 collection exploring the period leading up to the release of Blue in 1971. This 3LP set features Mitchell's complete Carnegie Hall debut, recorded on 1st February 1969, a few months before the... |
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W.A. MOZART
Wind Concertos (flute, bassoon, clarinet) Alison Mitchell (flute) Ursula Leveaux (bassoon) Maximiliano Martin (clarinet) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Alexander Janiczek [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/May/2006 ] Formed in 1974 with a commitment to serve the Scottish community, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is one of Scotland's major cultural ambassadors, touring regularly in the Far East, Europe and the USA. |
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FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Rzewski: Late Piano Works Bobby Mitchell (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Frederic Rzewski was one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. The themes explored in his late piano works are typical of his entire body of work in their uncompromising and universal nature. The intensely contrapuntal Ruins... |
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LEHAR / OFFENBACH / STRAUSS / etc
Bruce Ford sings Viennese Operetta (operetta in English) Bruce Ford, tenor, Chorus Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 5/Nov/2002 ] world renowned tenor Bruce Ford performing arias from Viennese operettas |
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JAMES MACMILLAN
Alpha & Omega: Choral Music by James MacMillan Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener & James MacMillan, with Madeleine Mitchell (violin) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] After its 'undeniably beautiful' (The Financial Times) Linn debut and its 'excellently performed' (Fanfare) follow up, Cappella Nova releases a third volume of choral works by the leading contemporary composer, James MacMillan. Of the eight works... |
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CHRISTOPHER TYLER NICKEL
Nickel: Mass; Te Deum Catherine Redding (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Kari Turunen, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra, Clyde Mitchell (conductor) [ AVIE / CD - released 11/Apr/2025 ] Award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel adds to his impressive catalogue of large-scale liturgical works with a double-bill featuring his Mass and Te Deum, composed concurrently and completed in 2022 |
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Mikado (Complete 1950 Recording) Martyn Green, Margaret Mitchell, Leonard Osborn, Darrell Fancourt / The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isidore Godfrey [ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] The first release of the Historic 1950 D'Oyly Carte recordings |
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The George Mitchell Minstrels
Meet The Minstrels - The Two Original Albums [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] The George Mitchell Minstrels presented traditional American minstrel fare from the turn of the century and the heyday of both American and British vaudeville. There was also an element of country music as well as the use of British Music Hall... |
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Guy Mitchell
The Hits... And More - The Ultimate Collection [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Guy Mitchell was one of the most popular pre-rock & roll vocalists whom to many evokes the last period of America's innocence before the rock & roll revolution. |
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Guy Mitchell
The Roving Kind [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] |
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Joni Mitchell
Wild Things Run Fast [ Geffen / CD ] |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11 / Arias (with Handel-arias) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) with Ena Mitchell (soprano) William Herbert (tenor) William Pasons (bass) / Cantata Singers / Reginald Jacques [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] 'No summit of solemnity was inaccessible to her, and it was particularly music of spiritual meaning that seemed her most personal domain.' Thus wrote the distingushed conductor Bruno Walter about the contralto Kathleen Ferrier, whose highly... |
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FAURE
Sonatas for Cello and Piano Nos. 1 & 2 / Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello Kathryn Stott (piano) Christian Poltera (cello) Priya Mitchell (violin) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'Stott, always a devoted advocate of Fauré is a strong, sensitive and galvanising force at the piano throughout. The eloquent performances of the cello sonatas are complemented by the recording's crowning glory, a fervent account of the fabulous... |
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L. A. Mitchell
Debut [ Honesty Box Records / CD - released 14/Aug/2007 ] A sparkling collection of achingly, gorgeously seductive soul and jazz wrapped in a genuine soulful groove, ‘Debut’ from Lauren Anne Mitchell has a genuine, New Zealand groove. She's been described as “Alicia Keys from the Pacific”. |
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MARGARET BONDS
Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King Laquita Mitchell (soprano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] 20th-century African-American composer Margaret Bonds receives long overdue recognition with the world-premiere recording of her crowning achievement, The Ballad of the Brown King. With an expressly written libretto by Bonds' friend... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: 'Trout' Quintet & String Trios Leopold String Trio with Paul Lewis (piano) Graham Mitchell (double bass) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] 'one of the finest modern Trouts available. As with their Mozart, their Schubert benefits from scrupulous attention to detail, a keen sense of the music's drama and a deeply rewarding expressive response to this imperishable masterpiece … exquisitely... |
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GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: The Planets (LP) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Sir Adrain Boult [ Warner Classics / LP - released 19/Jun/2020 ] 'This magnificent performance of The Planets, recorded with an opulent realism, brings to a culmination Boult's supreme understanding of this work.' Gramophone |
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WILLIAM ALWYN
Chamber Music and Songs Madeleine Mitchell / Roger Chase / Andrew Ball / Jeremy Huw-Williams [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] "The performances on this CD are - as usual from Naxos - of a very high standard and the various performers sound as if they have been playing this music all of their lives" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
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RAWSTHORNE / HOROVITZ / WALLEN / HISCOCKS / KNEHANS / MUSGRAVE / etc
Madeleine Mitchell - Violin Conversations Madeleine Mitchell (violin), with Andrew Ball, Errollyn Wallen, Wendy Hiscocks, Nigel Clayton & others [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Violinist Madeleine Mitchell has inspired new works from a variety of composers, many of whom share connections of various kinds. 'Conversations' sit at the heart of an album in which four pianist composers join Mitchell to perform their works. |