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LEO BROUWER / JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Guitar Concertos Miguel Trápaga (guitar) / Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Óliver Díaz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] "[Trápaga] is highly attuned to the different sound worlds of the Brouwer and the Rodrigo and, together with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia under Óliver Díaz, creates another kind of musical conversation that is vibrant, exciting and revealing in eq |
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HEINRICH von HERZOGENBERG
Piano Quintet op. 17 in C major / String Quartet op. 63 in F minor Minguet Quartett with Oliver Triendl, piano [ CPO / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] This CD marks the first of three volumes of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's complete string quartets. The series will present interpretations by the Minguet Quartett and other chamber works by this long forgotten composer, whose works of this genre... |
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ELLIOTT CARTER
Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / ASKO Concerto Nicolas Hodges (piano) Fred Sherry (cello) / London Sinfonietta / BBC Symphony / Oliver Knussen [ Bridge Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] London Sinfonietta & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen |
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GALINA USTVOLSKAYA
Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 Oliver Barlow (treble), Arlo Murray (treble), Barbara Kozelj (contralto), Sergej Merkusjev (narrator), Joonas Ahonen (piano), London Philharmonic Orch [ BIS SACD / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] Galina Ustvolskaya was a profoundly original composer, unrivalled in the extremism of her style, who was largely ignored during her lifetime. Fiercely independent, Ustvolskaya created highly expressive, even violent music that sounds like the work of... |
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OLIVER DAVIS
Davis: Solace Oliver Davis (Piano and Vocals), Kerenza Peacock, Jonathan Hill (Violins), Katherine Jenkinson, Nicholas Holland (Cellos) [ Signum / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Recorded at the height of the international Covid lockdown, Oliver Davis's sixth album for Signum is a feat of both technological as well as artistic achievement. Following from draws together artists from across the globe for a selection of moving... |
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ALEXANDER GOEHR
Goehr: Marching to Carcassonne Oliver Knussen / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Peter Serkin (piano), London Sinfonietta [ NAXOS / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] Alexander Goehr is a central fi gure of the post-war Manchester School of composers with Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies. His work is recognized today for its assimilation of intellectual rigour with transparent expressiveness and richly haunting... |
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SAINT-SAENS / MOUSSA / SAARIAHO
Saint-Saëns, Moussa & Saariaho: Orchestral Works Oliver Latry (organ) & Jean-Willy Kunz (organ) / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ Analekta / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Here is the recording of the inaugural concerts of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique at Maison symphonique de Montréal, which feature the great organists Oliver Latry and Jean-Willy Kunz alongside the OSM and Kent Nagano. For grandeur and majesty, few... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
An Evening Hymn: Music For Solo Treble Oliver Lepage-Dean (Treble) / The Choir Of St John'S College Cambridge / Christopher Whitton (Organ) / Christopher Robinson (Director & Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "His [Oliver Lepage-Dean] voice is well recorded: firm and even, true in pitch, pure in quality. In two items he sings, as soloist, with the choir: Stanford's G Major Magnificat (the treble's violin concerto) and Mendelssohn's Geistliches Lied... |
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Oliver Mtukudzi
Nhava [ Heads Up / Telarc Records / CD - released 26/Apr/2005 ] |
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KJELL FLEM
Flem: Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto Oliver Triendl, Benedict Kloeckner, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin) [ Capriccio / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Born in Ålesund (Norway) in 1943, Kjell Flem studied with Einar Englund and Einojuhani Rautavaara, going on to distinguish himself as a much-celebrated composer of Scandinavian contemporary music. His compositions are generally non-radical and... |
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LEOKADIYA KASHPEROVA
Kashperova: Piano Concerto · Symphony Oliver Triendl (soloist) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Anna Skryleva [ Capriccio / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Leokadiya Kashperova was Igor Stravinsky's piano teacher, having herself been a student of Anton Rubinstein. To this day, however, her compositions remain in the shadow of the male Russian masters, a fate shared by many other women of this era.... |
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GEORGI CATOIRE
Catoire: Piano Concerto Op. 21 Oliver Triendl, Vogler Quartet, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Roland Kluttig [ Capriccio / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Although the originality of Georgi Catoire's musical language paved the way for Russian modernism, his output still followed the artistic ideals of Russia and not the new culture of the Soviet Republic. His highly expressive work is characterised by... |
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GORDON GETTY
Getty: The Canterville Ghost Alexandra Hutton, Jean Broekhuizen, Timothy Oliver, etc / Oper Leipzig, Matthias Foremny [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "While my Usher House turns Poe upside down, the libretto for The Canterville Ghost follows Wilde's short story pretty closely." So says Gordon Getty about his second Gothic-themed one-act opera, based on the popular short story by Oscar Wilde. The... |
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W.A. MOZART
Mozart in Turkey - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Paul Groves / Yelda Kodalli / DACsirACe Rancatore / Lynton Atkinson / Peter Rose / Oliver Tobias / Scottish Chamber orchestra / Charles Mackerras (con [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 22/Mar/2004 ] G :- More than just a performance film featuring Mozart's opera, Mozart in Turkey also studies the history of opera's fascination with Turkish culture and some illuminating biographical information about Mozart's life during the composition of... |
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MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein (Unabridged) Read by Daniel Philpott, Roger May & Jonathan Oliver [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Mary Shelley's poignant exploration of the true depths of human ambition has had a profound effect on readers since its conception in 1816. When scientist Victor Frankenstein forms a creature from the body parts of corpses, thus shattering the... |
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WOLF
Morike-Lieder Roman Trekel (baritone) / Oliver Pohl (piano) [ Oehms New Voices / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] "Still too little known outside Germany, Roman Trekel brings to his selection of 22 Mörike Lieder a voice of burnt umber, a scrupulous sense of style (including a true legato) and a probing imagination." Gramophone Magazine |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II (recorded live in 2013) Royal Shakespeare Company / David Tennant (Richard), Oliver Ford Davies (Duke of York), Michael Pennington, Nigel Lindsay [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100... |
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BORIS PAPANDOPULO
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Sinfonietta / Pintarichiana Oliver Triendl (piano) / Zagrebački solisti, Sreten Krstič [ CPO / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] Boris Papandopulo's is one of the most important Croatian composers of the twentieth century, his music always full of optimism, vibrancy, and captivating resilience to the oppression he suffered throughout the second World War. His Piano Concerto... |
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LUDWIG THUILLE
Piano Concerto / Symphony Oliver Triendl, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Alun Francis [ CPO / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] |
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KARL GOLDMARK
Goldmark: Piano Quintets Oliver Triendl (piano) / Quatuor Sine Nomine [ Cpo / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] Karl Goldmark is a composer whose former fame and glory have faded to a faint glimmer. The Quintet Op. 30 exhibits a flexible approach to modulation influenced by Schubert. The later Quintet Op. 54 also exemplifies his typical employment of harmony,... |