BROTONS / DEL PUERTO / MORALES-CASO / CRUZ DE CASTRO / BALADA / LLORCA / VAZQUEZ
21st Century Spanish Guitar Volume 1 Adam Levin [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Aug/2013 ] "There are three more volumes to come. If they're as good as this, they'll form one of the most exciting guitar series of the century so far." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Aug 2013) |
ANTON ARENSKY
Arensky: Piano Music (Incls 6 Pieces, Op. 53 & 12 Etudes, Op. 74) Adam Neiman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Recommended for those, then, who particularly like Russian music, or who want to delve deeper into their understanding of the roots of 20th-century Russian music." Fanfare |
Wagner, Ri
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Adam, Ridderbusch, Feiersinger, Slembeck, Hemsley, Nienstedt, Treptow, Klaus, Johns, Feldhoff, Linke, Franzen, Kmentt, E [ ORFEO / 4 CD - released 25/Jul/2008 ] |
Adam Sandler
What's Your Name? [ Warner Bros / WEA / CD - released 16/Sep/1997 ] U.S. Import |
Krenek, Er
Karl V. Adam, Schwarz, Jurinac, Moser, Ciesinski, Hoffmann, Melchert, Schreier, Albrecht [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 27/Jul/2000 ] |
Farley Mowat
Never Cry Wolf Read by Adam Sims [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] More than half a century ago, the naturalist Farley Mowat accepted an assignment to investigate why wolves were killing Arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone - studying the wolf population and developing a... |
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Read by Adam Sims & Ian Porter [ Naxos Audio Boosk / 11 CD - released 5/Apr/2010 ] Information is everything in Hard-boiled Wonderland. A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of... |
HENRY JAMES
James: The Europeans (Unabridged) Adam Sims (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Jan/2018 ] After the collapse of her marriage to an illustrious German prince, Baroness Eugenia Münster arrives in America with her brother, in search of wealthy New England relatives. The duo have an immediate impact on their American cousins, the Wentworths.... |
WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM
Nightmare Alley (Unabridged) Adam Sims (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD Box Set - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Published in 1946, Nightmare Alley is a noir classic-at once a vivid insight into the sub-culture of the carny, and a bleak and gripping fable. |
SAINT-SAENS / WIDOR / DURUFLE / FRANCK / BARRERE
French Works For Flute Adam Walker (flute), James Baillieu (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] "Walker's clear, cool, bright tone, effortless technique and finely nuanced expressiveness will win you over whether or not you naturally gravitate towards solo flute." - Gramophone, May 2021 |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Le Loup / Sonatine / Sonate / Sarabande et Cortège Adam Walker (flute) Juliana Koch (oboe) Jonathan Davies (bassoon) / Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "Wilson seizes on the opportunities to bring out the vivid colours of Dutilleux's score, with the brass blazing superbly and every rhythm alive with meaning. No less striking is the music's lyricism, phrased by Wilson with great tenderness." BBC |
KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 Adam Walker (flute) / Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chando SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jul/2023 ] The Grammy-Award-winning Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) is without doubt one of American music's leading orchestral composers. His orchestral output has grown and developed to encompass a wide range of genres, from overtures and tone poems to suites and... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no 9 Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Annelies Burmeister, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam / Radio Chorus Leipzig / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] With this Finale, Beethoven left behind not only his symphonic legacy, but, without realizing it, also a gigantic problem: after this work, which allowed vocal music to intrude into the absolute world of instrumental music, how would any future... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.) - Music for Christmas Vol 1 Arleen Auger (soprano), Annelies Burmeister (alto), Peter Schreier (tenor), Theo Adam (bass) Ruth Holton (sop) Sytse Buwalda (alto) Marcel Beekman (te [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2018 ] Brilliant Classics have updated their popular Christmas-time collection of music by J.S. Bach for a new decade, adding a timeless recording of the Christmas Oratorio from Dresden, with such star-calibre soloists as Arleen Augér, Peter Schreier and... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Symphony No. 97 / Symphony No. 102 A"sterreichisch-Ungarische Haydn-Philharmonie / Adam Fischer [ MDG SACD / SACD - released 1/May/2008 ] "At their best, these performances combine rhythmic guile, pungency of detail and an impressive control of the music's long paragraphs. No 97, last and most flamboyant in Haydn's regal line of C major symphonies, is especially fine, whether in the... |
GIOVANNI Stefano CARBONELLI / ARCANGELO CORELLI / GIOVANNI MOSSI
Corelli's Band - Violin Sonatas Augusta McKay Lodge, Doug Balliett, Ezra Seltzer, Adam Cockerham, Elliot Figg [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] 18th-century Italian violinists trained in the tradition of Arcangelo Corelli, spreading his elegant, expressive and virtuosic style on their travels throughout Europe. Giovanni Mossi's sonatas retain Corelli's dramatic contrasts and structure, while... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Advent & Christmas Cantatas Peter Schreier, Edith Mathis, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Theo Adam, Anna Reynolds / Munchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2014 ] 14 Cantatas ranging from "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" to "Ich habe genug" - many of Bach's most popular works. 4-CD budget capbox of the late 1960s and early 1970s recordings - back in the catalogue |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Great Symphonies: The Sturm und Drang Era Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra / Adam Fischer (conductor) [ Nimbus / 2 CD - released 22/Dec/2002 ] "the orchestra sounds warmhearted and welcoming" |
HAYDN
Symphonies 70-81 Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra / Adam Fischer (conductor) [ Nimbus / 4 CD - released 1/Dec/2000 ] A specially priced 4 CD set |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Complete Symphonies (Rec 1988-98) Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra / Adam Fischer, with Rainer Kachl (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / 33 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] "I didn't think I would ever home my sights on a box of all Haydn's symphonies that truly satisfies. Ultimately, I just bow my head to Joseph Haydn's genius and thank the current performers for putting so much energy and perception into this... |