More By Artist: John D'Amato
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GEORGE ANTHEIL
Antheil: Symphonies Nos 3 & 6, etc BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The symphonic output of George Antheil, the self-proclaimed 'bad boy of music', is further investigated by the BBC Philharmonic and its Chief Guest Conductor, John Storgårds, in the second album of the series. |
SIBELIUS
Complete Symphonies (plus 'Three Late Fragments') BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "this is a fine and distinctive set from an orchestra playing consistently at somewhere near its best and conducted by a Sibelian of stature." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Orchestral) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 'The Year 1905' BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "There's much to commend John Storgårds' account of the Eleventh Symphony. He has a firm vision of the score and the splendid BBCPO executes this vision with incisive, committed playing." MusicWeb |
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AARON COPLAND
Copland: Symphonies, Vol. 3 [Includes Symphony No 3] BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] "Wilson's empathy with this music is infectious." The Sunday Times |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Ballets BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] "John Wilson shows an instinctive flair for Copland's syncopated and changing rhythms, and brings out all the music's broad humour and intimate poetry" (BBC Music Orchestral Choice - March 2016) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 and No. 3 'The First of May' - Two Scherzos BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Aug/2025 ] For this, the fifth instalment of his Shostakovich symphony cycle, John Storgårds turns to some of the earliest of the composer's orchestral output, works which Shostakovich largely wrote during his student years. The orchestral scherzo was a... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Dawn / Symphony No. 12 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] "The disc is a welcome offshoot from the ongoing work on Shostakovich's symphonies by John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, and displays the same high level of stylistic discernment and emotional commitment." Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2023 |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Orchestral Works Vol 3 - Symphonies BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jan/2018 ] The exploration by John Wilson of Copland's major orchestral output with the BBC Philharmonic has now reached Volume 3, with this invigorating programme recorded in surround-sound. It opens with An Outdoor Overture, a cheerful and breezy piece which... |
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ERIC COATES
Coates: Orchestral Works Vol.2 [Incls 'London Bridge - March' & 'The Enchanted Garden - ballet'] BBC Philharmonic (orchestra); John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Oct/2020 ] For the second volume of the music of Eric Coates, John Wilson has built his programme around three contrasting 'major' works. The Suite Summer Days was premiered in October 1919, shortly after Henry Wood had fired Coates from his position as lead... |
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ERIC COATES
Coates: Orchestral Works Vol.4 [Incls 'The Three Bears' & 'From Meadow to Mayfair'] BBC Philharmonic (orchestra); John Wilson, with Alex Jakeman (flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] John Wilson's fourth volume devoted to music by Eric Coates opens with Music Everywhere, a rousing march that was commissioned by Britain's first independent TV and radio service, Rediffusion, for use as its signature tune. The concert waltz... |
GILES SWAYNE
CRY for 28 amplified solo voices BBC Singers / John Poole (conductor) [ NMC / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "Giles Swayne caused a stir with this gigantic work... with the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to understand why... Excellent singing from the BBC Singers under John Poole." BBC Music Magazine 1994 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ Warner Original Jackets / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] "If this isn't great interpretation, I don't know what is," wrote Gramophone's reviewer in 1968, when this recording was first released, "I have no hesitation in saying that I think it the greatest performance I have yet heard on record." John... |
WAGNER/ LEONCAVALLO / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / BIZET / SULLIVAN / etc
Great British Tenors Ben Davies, John Coates, Gerwase Elwes, Walter Hyde, Frank Mullings, John McCormack, Joseph Hislop, Parry Jones, Hubert Eisdell, Tudor Davies, etc [ Heritage / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Commercial recording arrived at the ideal time to capture a golden age of British tenor singing. A range of distinctive qualities had developed in the 19th century - firm yet elegant tone, emphasis on text and on clarity of diction - that... |
JOHN IRELAND
The Songs (Incls 'songs of a Wayfarer', 'sea Fever' & 'three Thomas Hardy Songs') Benjamin Luxon (baritone) Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) John Mitchinson (tenor) Alan Rowlands (piano) [ Lyrita / 3 CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Although John Ireland wrote concerted chamber music, orchestral works and choral pieces he devoted much of his long creative career to piano music and songs, and it is in these works that the essential Ireland ismost comprehensively to be found -... |
PURCELL / DEBUSSY / RESPIGHI / TCHAIKOVSKY / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / SIBELIUS / etc
Sir John Barbirolli - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Nathan Milstein (violin) , Benny Goodman (clarinet), Robert Casadesus (piano), Nathan Milstein (violin) / New York Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli [ Sony Classical / RCA / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2007 ] The young John Barbirolli was hardly known in America when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra chose him to be Arturo Toscanini's successor starting in 1937. The 36-year-old Londoner's first season was a triumph with both players and... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, 1992) Berlin State Opera / Poul Elming, Waltraud Meier, John Tomlinson, Günter von Kannen / Daniel Barenboim [ Euroarts DVD / 3 DVD - released 15/Sep/2016 ] "a must for those who love this work...[Elming] is remarkable in the title role, his concentration and reactions on a par with Jon Vickers's and the voice in pristine shape" (International Record Review) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 [LP] Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir John Barbiroll [ Warner Classics LP / 2 LP - released 4/Apr/2019 ] A magnificent and best-selling version of Mahler's ultimate masterpiece by one of the greatest Mahlerians of the 20th Century. |
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
Bert & John [ Sanctuary Records / CD - released 24/Sep/2015 ] One of the long-standing collaborations of the British folk revival, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn's Bert and John sees the masterful Pentangle guitarists sparing together through their trademark steel-string guitar styles. Their respective solo... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Dona Nobis Pacem & Towards the Unknown Region Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Corydon Singers, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Jul/1993 ] |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Thaïs (complete opera recorded in 1976) Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Gedda, Ann Murray, Richard van Allan / John Alldis Choir & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2017 ] "There is a beat in some of Miss Sills' sustained notes, but she tosses off Thaïs' airier statements with convincing charm and conveys from the first the latent serious side of the character, which later gains dominance." (Opera News) |
