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The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury / Directed by Benjamin Nicholas with Carleton Etherington (organ)
The Complete New English Hymnal (Vol 9) [ Priory / CD - released 21/Nov/2003 ] Recorded in Tewkesbury Abbey on 22nd and 23rd May 2001 |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra / Partita for Violin and Orchestra / Novelette Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 26/Jan/2024 ] "This compelling release from conductor Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra makes clear the evolutionary exuberance of Lutosławski's creative development." Five Stars BBC Music January 2024 Orchestral Choice |
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony no.5 / 2 Serenades / 2 Serious Melodies / Swanwhite Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] Conductor Nicholas Collon's second Sibelius album together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra focuses on works written by Sibelius during or just before World War I, and culminating in the Fifth Symphony. |
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PHILIP GLASS
The Passion of Ramakrishna [complete oratorio] Christopheren Numura, Janice Chandler Eteme, Kevin Deas, I Chin Feinblatt, Nicholas Preston / Pacific Chorale & Pacific Symphony, Carl St.Clair [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] Orange Mountain Music presents the world premiere recording of Philip Glass' The Passion of Ramakrishna. Originally commissioned by the Pacific Symphony and premiered in 2006, this large scale 45 minute oratorio is a passion play and a tribute to the... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw (complete opera) City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox / Mark Padmore / Lisa Milne / Catrin Wyn Davies / Diana Montague / Nicholas Kirby Johnson / Caroline Wise [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Mar/2005 ] G :- "With its short intimate scenes and concentrated lines, the Screw is so cinematic that it's surprising there's only been one previous film. This has just won a Viennese TV award. It's one of the truest opera films to date." (BBC Music) |
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AUGUSTA READ THOMAS
Thomas: Of Being is a Bird Claire Booth (soprano) Nathan Giem (violin) Nicola Melville (piano) / Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] "Irresistible forward drive, pausing only for moments of radiant beauty." (BBC Music Chamber Choice July 2016) |
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JOSEF MYSLIVECEK
Mysliveček: Complete Music for Keyboard Clare Hammond (piano), Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas McGegan [ BIS / CD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] Born in Prague in 1737, Josef Myslivečekspent most of his short life in Italy, where for a while he enjoyed success with his many operas, and became known as 'Il Boemo' ('The Bohemian'). It was also in Italy -in Bologna -that he first met Mozart, in... |
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SIMON HOLT
Simon Holt: a table of noises Colin Currie (percussion) & Chloë Hanslip (violin) / Hallé, Nicholas Collon [ NMC / CD - released 16/Mar/2017 ] This fourth, full-length album of music by multi award-winning composer Simon Holt on NMC showcases his highly narrative orchestral compositions. His violin concerto witness to a snow miracle - here performed by the prodigiously talented Chloë... |
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MALCOLM ARNOLD / YORK BOWEN / RUTH GIPPS / GILBERT VINTER
British Horn Concertos David Pyatt (horn) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] "For sheer listening pleasure this is one of the best discs to have come my way for a long time" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
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LENNOX BERKELEY
Piano Concerto in B flat / Concerto for Two Pianos David Wilde (piano) / New Philharmonia / Nicholas Braithwaite / Garth Beckett & Boyd McDonald (pianos) / London Philharmonic / Norman Del Mar [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The recording is superb. The performance seems to me to bring out the best of the music...although these pieces may not be for those of you unfamiliar as yet with Lennox Berkeley, for those of you looking to add these pieces to your library then do... |
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FABRICE BOLLON
Bollon: Your Voice Out of the Lamb / Four Lessons of Darkness / Dogmatic Pleasures Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Christoph Poppen, Nicholas Milton, Jader Bigamini [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Internationally acclaimed and award-winning conductor Fabrice Bollon has in recent years attracted attention as a composer with a keen ear for unique and unusual timbres. Your Voice Out of the Lamb is one of the most spectacular and virtuosic works... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio Mary Bevan (sop) Joanne Lunn (sop) Clare Wilkinson (mezzo) Nicholas Mulro (ten), etc / Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt [ Linn / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "Way-too-early seasonal content (sorry), but this latest release from the Dunedin Consort is too good to wait. It's surely one of the finest accounts now available of Bach's Christmas Oratorio." Guardian Five Stars |
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DOWLAND / HANDEL / TRADITIONAL
El Silencio Imposible Eratos Trio: Nicholas Spanos (countertenor), Florian Eggner (cello), Rafael Catalá (guitar) [ Gramola / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "El silencio imposible celebrates the silence, the peaceful nuances, the intimate. Nicholas Spanos, countertenor, Rafael Catalá, guitar, arrangements and composition, and Florian Eggner, violoncello present a live program. |
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J.S. BACH
The very best of Bach: Excerpts from orchestral, concertos, vocal and choral works Eteri Andjaparidze (piano) Bela Banfalvi (violin) Emilia Csanky (oboe) Lucy van Dael (violin) Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone) 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. |
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 / Pelléas Et Mélisande / King Christian Ii Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Conductor Nicholas Collon began as the new Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in September 2021. This all-Sibelius programme, carefully selected by the conductor, is his debut album together with his new orchestra. Collon offers... |
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LEFANU
Cancion de la Luna / String Quartet No. 2 / Clarinet Concertino Fiona Cross (clarinet) Nicholas Clapton (counter-tenor) / Goldberg Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "This music needs and has received an excellent recording. The venue furnishes one of the best acoustics I have heard for contemporary music for some considerable time. It should be used more often." -- Gary Higginson |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1 Gabriel Schwabe (cello), Nicholas Rimmer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Intent on developing the reputation he had won in Vienna, Beethoven undertook an extensive tour ending in Berlin, home to the cello-playing Frederick William II. There he unveiled his Sonatas for Piano and Cello, Op. 5 with one of the famed Duport... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano, Vol. 2 Gabriel Schwabe (cello), Nicholas Rimmer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] After establishing a new genre with his Sonatas for Piano and Cello, Op. 5, Beethoven returned to it a decade later, working on his Sonata in A major, Op. 69 in parallel with his Fifth and Sixth symphonies. With its unexpected shifts of harmony and... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas and Songs Gabriel Schwabe (cello), Nicholas Rimmer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Schwabe and Rimmer bring lots of drive and energy to the outer movements and they build up the tension in the Allegro appassionata to a powerful climax |