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HANDEL
Trio Sonatas Op.2. London Baroque / C. Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Aside from the technical and descriptive considerations, it is in letting oneself be carried away by the nobility and the elegance of the style, the refreshing rhythmic vitality and the sensuous charms of some of the slow movements, that one most... |
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C. P. E. BACH
Trio Sonatas London Baroque, Charles Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 10/May/2012 ] This title was released for the first time in 1994. |
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MOZART / DVORAK
Serenades London Baroque Ensemble [ Testament / CD - released 14/Jul/2000 ] Important London Baroque Ensemble recordings from the early 1950s ! |
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London Baroque Ensemble/Haas
Mozart:serenades/Dvorak:serena [ Testament / CD - released 21/Feb/2000 ] |
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LONDON BAROQUE
English Music of the 18th Century London Baroque (original instruments) [ Saydisc / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Here are stylish and spirited performances - recommended" The Gramophone |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Send In The Clowns London Brass [ Teldec Warner Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2010 ] |
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EDWARD GREGSON
Gregson: Music Of The Angels London Brass, Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "The recording is superb and the informative notes by Paul Hindmarsh are a further asset." MusicWeb |
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SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS
Chamber Works London Chamber Music Group [including Susan Milan, flute] [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] Five Impressions of a Holiday was Susan Milan's first encounter with the seductive, impressionistically inclined music of Eugene Goossens. Charmed by the work, she resolved to discover more: 'he was very much connected to the Les Six generation and... |
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BAX / BENJAMIN / BERKELEY / STEVENS / PANUFNIK
Works for String Orchestra London Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Bernard / The Boyd Neel Orchestra [ Lyrita Mono / CD - released 15/Jan/2016 ] 'Let us composers, too, remember what Boyd Neel has done for us. Not only has he asked for and used new music but - here's the difference - he has used it many times. If Boyd Neel and his orchestra like and believe in new music, they play it over and... |
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MAX BRUCH / DANIEL SHALIT / YEHEZKEL BRAUN / LEIB AILENBERG
Music from the Ghetto: Ailenberg, Braun, Bruch, Shalit London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor), Simca Heled (conductor / cello), Jack Liebeck (violin) [ Signum / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The central thread linking all the works featured in this recording is their assimilation of various elements of Jewish music, whether directly stemming from Chassidic folk traditions, or relating to material directly associated with religious... |
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STEPHEN HOUGH
Mirabilis: The Music of Stephen Hough London Choral Sinfonia, James Orford (organ), Michael Waldron (conductor) [ Orchid Classics / CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a worldwide career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. ""My father said that I had memorised seventy nursery rhymes by the age of two. This sounds... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 4, 5, 6 & 8 London Classical Players, Roger Norrington [ Virgin Veritas / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] Classic recordings of Norrington's Schubert now at budget price |
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BEETHOVEN / MOZART / BRAHMS / HANDEL / HAYDN / MENDELSSOHN / ROSSINI / etc
Roger Norrington - The Complete Erato Recordings London Classical Players, The Schutz Choir of London, Sir Roger Norrington, with Melvyn Tan (piano) & Daniel Hope (violin) [ Erato Veritas / 45 CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Innovator, erudite, entertaining and acclaimed conductor Sir Roger Norrington founded the Schütz Choir, became founding music director of Kent Opera and established the London Classical Players, the period-instrument orchestra. |
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MOZART / BEETHOVEN / SCHOENBERG / ZEMLINSKY / STRAUSS II
London Conchord Ensemble From Vienna London Conchord Ensemble [ Champs Hill / CD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] The London Conchord Ensemble returns to the Music Room at Champs Hill to present a double-disc of music from Vienna including works by Beethoven, Berg, Mozart, Schoenberg, Johann Strauss II and Zemlinsky. The ensemble says of the programming: ''When... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel at Vauxhall, Volume 1 Kirsty Hopkins (soprano) Eleanor Dennis (soprano) Greg Tassell (tenor) Charles MacDougall (tenor) Daniel Moult (organ) / London Early Opera, Bridget C [ Signum / CD - released 4/May/2016 ] "an attractive potpourri by Handel and others. These bright, lively accounts of music which we know was heard at Vauxhall include an aria from Acis and Galatea and a fine John Hebden concerto, and to close, the glorious duet As steals the morn from H |
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HANDEL
Handel at Vauxhall Volume 2 London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham (conductor) [ Signum Records / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] London Early Opera continue their programme themed around a typical evening's entertainment at the 17th & 18th century Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, with a second collection of works by George Frideric Handel and contemporary composers of the day (John... |
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IVES / BARBER / HARRIS / THOMSON / COWELL
From the Steeples and the Mountains The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble / Christopher Larkin (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 'The brass playing throughout is vividly expert and the recording is splendidly real' (Gramophone) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Chandos Te Deum HWV 281, Chandos Anthem No.8 HWV 253 London Handel Orchestra & Soloists, Adrian Butterfield [ Onyx / CD - released 23/Nov/2018 ] Before coming into contact with James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon, Handel was is dire straits in London. His pension of £200 a year for teaching the Royal princesses had stopped, so had the public taste for opera. London had plunged into a hedonistic,... |
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GEMINIANI
The Complete Sonatas Op 1 London Handel Players [ Somm / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] With this double CD we celebrate Francesco Geminiani's 250th anniversary (1687-1762). It's incomprehensible that a contemporary of Handel whose compositions are every bit as good as Handel's has been so neglected. There are comprehensive sleeve notes... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 64 The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] "The London Haydn Quartet's chronological survey of the composer's quartets is nearing its completion: the most civilised music, delivered with immaculate technique, urbane humanity and perfect period manners." Sunday Times |