More By Artist: Patrick O'Hearn
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera recorded in May 1997) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Antonello Palombi, Patrick Denniston, Paolo Montarsolo, Roberto De Candia / John Eliot Gardiner [ Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Jul/2017 ] "Gardiner makes a surprising appearance conducting Puccini with a blend of analysis and passion, allowing a sense of delicacy to pervade where others might encourage bombast." (Opera Now) |
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OFFENBACH
Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The tales of Hoffmann] (Complete Opera recorded in 2008) Grand Theatre de Geneve / Marc Laho / Stella Doufexis / Nicolas Cavallier / Patricia Petitbon / Patrick Davin (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] M Nudity & sex scenes - Offenbach's masterpiece, based on three stories by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann, is both a three-act opera and a trilogy of taut, individual dramas, all rolled into one. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
The Very Best of Sibelius Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Sinfonia Finlandia / Patrick Gallois (Conductor) and many more [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] Jean Sibelius is considered the greatest Finnish composer and from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, defined Finnish music, becoming the nationalist voice of his country. |
JACK HEGGIE
Dead Man Walking (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Philip Cutlip, Frederica von Stade / Houston Grand Opera & Chorus, Patrick Summers [ Virgin Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "If the opera seemed good before, it's rather better now...DiDonato [comes to the vocal lines almost as heightened speech...[and] leaves no question that she'll get a confession out of the killer." (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
The very best of Mozart: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Jozsef Balogh (clarinet) Joanna Borowska (soprano) Michelle Breedt (soprano) Patrick Gallois (flute) Jeno Jando (piano) and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
C. P. E. BACH
The C. P. E. Bach Edition: Symphonies, Concertos, Sonatas & Chamber Music Julian Steckel, Michael Rische, Ana-Marija Markovina, Patrick Gallois, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart & more [ Hanssler Classic / 54 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2016 ] The composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has been rediscovered in recent years. Hardly any other label has done more for the composer's appreciation than Hanssler Classic. Now all, really all, of Hänsslers C.P.E Bach recordings are in a sensational box |
VIVALDI / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BACH / REINECKE / KUHLAU / etc
Flute Favourites Kazunori Seo, Petri Alanko, Béla Drahos, Patrick Gallois, Jean-Claude Gérard, Uwe Grodd, Wolfgang Schulz (flute) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2019 ] From its origins as one of the oldest musical instruments known to man to the sophisticated mechanics and elegant design today, the flute has been highly significant for every culture and historical period. |
BENJAMIN BRUCH / MAX BRUCH
Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos Kerson Leong (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra; Patrick Hahn [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] "it is the coupling of the Britten Violin Concerto (gratifyingly becoming more and more core repertoire these days) which...sets this disc apart…I can't recall a better account of the piece than this." Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2023 |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
La Caccia, Patrick Denecker
Salve Antwerpiae [ Ricercar / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The city of Antwerp could well have shared the title of European capital of music with Venice during the 16thcentury. Whilst there was a great amount of sacred and secular music performed in the city, Antwerp's manufacturers of harpsichord and... |
FRANCOIS DEVIENNE
Flute Concertos, Vol. 1 Patrick Gallois (flute) / Svenska Kammarorkestern [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] François Devienne was among the most important composers of wind music in the second half of the 18th century and one of the founding teachers at the newly established Paris Conservatoire in 1795. Devienne's First Flute Concerto was a great success... |
PATRICK HAWES
Hawes: Fair Albion - Visions of England Brno Chamber Orchestra, Patrick Hawes (piano), Raven Quartet, Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Julian Lloyd webber (cello) [ Signum / CD - released 26/Jul/2010 ] "Elin Manahan Thomas's lyric soprano voice provides the ideal vehicle for Hawes's neo-Baroque setting of George Herbert's The Call. Reflexionem for cello and harp is given a similarly uplifting treatment by Julian Lloyd Webber, solidly supported... |
KAGEL
Mauricio Kagel: Works for Flute Michael Faust (flute) & Paulo Álvares (piano) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä & Ensemble Contrasts/ Robert HP Platz & Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Arriving in Europe from Buenos Aires in 1957, Mauricio Kagel soon developed his own subversive and theatrical musical aesthetics. Performed here by the work's dedicatee, Das Konzert is his typically oblique response to writing a flute concerto,... |
PETERIS VASKS
Flute Concerto, etc Michael Faust (flute) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois / Sheila Arnold (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2013 ] Renowned for its luminosity and searing expressiveness, the music of Lithuanian composer Pēteris Vasks frequently explores the relationship between nature and humanity, not least in the Flute Concerto (written for Michael Faust), which is among the... |
ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphony No. 6 / Thumbelina Suite Mikhail Shestakov (violin) / Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra / Patrick Baton [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] The highly romantic music of Alla Pavlova, a Russian composer now resident in the USA, has been praised for its 'surreal serenity…woven with unflinching sadness, without concessions to short attention spans and all within the long émigré tradition of... |
KAI NIEMINEN
Palomar / Clarinet Concerto (Through Shadows I Can Hear Ancient Voices) / Vicoli in ombra Mikko Raasakka (clarinet) / Sinfonia Finlandia / Patrick Gallois (flute and conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "I feel like I am a painter in music, who having seen or experienced something attempts to give that something a shape in music." - Kai Nieminen |
W. A. MOZART
Flute Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Concerto for Flute & Harp Patrick Gallois (flute) Fabrice Pierre (harp) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Patrick Gallois (flute), Fabrice Pierre (harp) |
MARK TWAIN
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (unabridged) Narrated by Patrick Fraley [ BBC Radio Collection / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] One of the greatest treats in all world literature, offers both brilliant humour and tragedy as Huck and Jim explore moral dilemmas of slavery and freedom. Read by Patrick Fraley. |
MARK TWAIN
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Narrated by Patrick Fraley [ BBC Radio Collection / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] The sun shines on Tom Sawyer. The idealized childhood of this fictional hero, based on Mark Twain's own early life along the banks of the Mississippi, is filled with robust good humour and high-spiritied adventure. Read by Patrick Fraley. |
