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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Symphonies.Nos 1-6 Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "Nicholas Ward and the Northern Chamber Orchestra match rivals at whatever price. Warmly recommended to everyone." Penguin Guide |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 2 Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Feb/1997 ] "The music is delightful, the recorded sound is vivid and full, the playing is wonderful. Enjoyable listening at a real budget price. The booklet is informative. Highly recommended." - L. Wilborn, Arkiv Music |
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Northern C.O/Ward
Mozart:symphonies 15-18 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Northern C.O/Ward
Mozart:symphonies Nos.11-14 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Northern C.O/Ward
Mozart:symphonies Nos.6-10 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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PHYLLIS TATE
The Lodger (opera in 2 ats) Owen Brannigan, Johanna Peters, Marion Studholme, Joseph Ward / BBC Northern Singers & Orchestra, Charles Groves [ Lyrita Mono / 2 CD - released 15/Nov/2015 ] The Lodger was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music and first performed there in July 1960. This revised score, adapted for the BBC, was the opera's first broadcast. |
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MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: Cello Concerto / Saxophone Concerto / Fantasy for Recorder and String Quartet / etc Raphael Wallfisch (cello) John Turner (recorder) / Northern Chamber Orchestra & Manchester Sinfonia, Richard Howarth & Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] "The disc is a hands-down winner in the Naxos catalogue and slips nicely into the same rank occupied by Penny's symphonies." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Sept 2011) |
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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Concertos Vol 3 No. 9-12 Raphael Wallfisch, cello / Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] "Completists will want all 12 of Boccherini's cello concertos and the bargain-priced Naxos series is the most obvious choice... this new offering would certainly be my recommendation for a single sampler." - MusicWeb March 2005 |
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DELERUE / LEGRAND / KOSMA / PETIT / YARED / ROUBAIX / etc
Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Les Siècles, Duncan Ward [ Erato / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Following his beloved and best-selling 2018 album of music from popular films, Renaud Capuçon returns to the magical world of cinema in Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II. The violinist has dedicated this sequel to 19 titles written by French film... |
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RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez (with works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco & Villa-Lobos) Norbert Kraft (guitar) / Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] "Norbert Kraft is not yet a household name but if his publicity ever matches his quality he certainly should attain that status" - Gramophone |
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PAUL BÜTTNER
Büttner: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchster Berlin, Christopher Ward (cond.) [ Cappricio / CD - released 3/Apr/2026 ] Paul Büttner was born in Dresden in 1870 and studied violin and oboe at the city's conservatory, from whence he gradually established himself as an outstanding musician. But he remained virtually unknown as a composer until 1915, when the celebrated... |
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J.S. BACH
Magnificat BWV243 / Cantata 'Ich habe genug' BWV82 Scola Cantorum of Oxford / Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "These are really marvellous recordings...the music is fluid and uplifting" - Manchester Evening News (U.K.) |
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LEOPOLD HOFMANN
Hofmann: Concertos Tim Hugh (cello) Lorraine McAslan (violin) / Northern Chamber Orchestra. Nicholas Ward, conductor [ Naxos 18th Century Concerto / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] Leopold Hofmann was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most gifted and influential composers of his generation. Although a church musician by profession, Hofmann was also an important and prolific composer of instrumental music . |
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FORCES' SWEETHEART / HEART-THROBS OF WWII
Forces' Sweetheart & Heart-Throbs of World War II Judy Garland, Vera Lynn, Connee Boswell, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, The Andrew Sisters, Helen Ward, Peggy Lee, Mary Martin, etc [ Retrospective / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] The definitive album of wartime nostalgia: 20 forces' sweethearts and 21 of their heart-throb male counterparts sing 50 great songs, mostly on the theme of parted lovers. For all the soldiers, sailors and airmen parted from their loved ones during... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Symphonies Capella Istropolitana & Northern Chamber Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth & Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / 11 CD Box Set - released 29/Apr/2013 ] One of the supreme musical geniuses and most loved composers of all time, Mozart wrote prolifically and excelled in every genre to which he turned his hand. His symphonies are among his greatest achievements, a consummate blend of dazzling invention... |
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Ward/Northern Co
Haydn:syms.22, 29, 60 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies, Volume 7 Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD ] "Throughout these works the wind players obviously relish their solos, the flutes chirp merrily...it is the intimate scale of these performances that is so attractive." - The Penguin Guide |
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JOHANN STAMITZ
Stamitz: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - 1, 2, 4 & 6 Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicolas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] "The performances are highly accomplished, taut and as tidy as we have come to expect from this ensemble. Ward's choice of tempos is unexceptionable...particularly pleasing to find that he paces the "slow" movements at a speed where they don't drag" |
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Clara Ward & The World Famous Ward Singers
In Memory Of Willa Ward-Royster [ Gospel Friends / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] In 1953, an American magazine reported that …when Clara Ward's big voice delivers a gospel song, she transforms a quiet audience of 10.000 or more men and women into a pandemonium of screaming, shouting and crying. Apart from outdrawing contemporary... |
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Clifford T. Ward
Escalator [ CD ] |