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City and Colour
If I Should Go Before You [ Dine Alone Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] If I Should Go Before You, the new album from world-renowned singer, songwriter and performer City and Colour (aka Dallas Green). Recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Blackbird Studios, If I Should Go Before You was produced by Green with additional... |
City and Colour
If I Should Go Before You (Double LP) [ Dine Alone Records / 2 LP - released 9/Oct/2015 ] If I Should Go Before You, the new album from world-renowned singer, songwriter and performer City and Colour (aka Dallas Green). Recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Blackbird Studios, If I Should Go Before You was produced by Green with additional... |
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird; Petrushka (Complete ballets) / Symphony in Three Movements / Scherzo a la Russe / Four Studies City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Rattle gives a reading which brings out powerfully the sturdy jollity of the ballet, contrasting it with the poignancy of the puppet's own feelings." *** Three Stars Penguin... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
ROBERT SIMPSON
Symphony 11 / Variations on a theme by Nielsen City of London Sinfonia Matthew Taylor, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Aug/2004 ] "This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion's best. Performances and production are simply magnificent, so that this splendid disc is warmly and unreservedly recommended." Recording of the Month MusicWeb (Sept 2004) |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 25/Oct/2018 ] "French soprano Catherine Dubosc sings with Gallic nobility and passion, but the affecting sincerity of her interpretation raises her above ethnicity to sublimity." AllMusic.com |
ANONYMOUS / THOMAS JORDAN & OTHERS
The English Stage Jig: Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant The City Waites / Lucie Skeaping (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] "These performers are well-renowned for championing the popular music of earlier centuries… the singing and instrumental performances are as genially accomplished as ever with The Waites." BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 **** |
HOW THE WORLD WAGS
How the world wags: Social Music for the 17th Century Englishman The City Waites (with Pethick Edwards, reader) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] 'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian) |
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City Waites/Grant/Wootton/Thom
How The World Wags [ Helios / CD ] |
NICCOLO PAGANINI / ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Paganini / Wolf-Ferrari: Violin Concertos Francesca Dego (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "Dego and her maestro husband, Rustioni, are highly idiomatic interpreters; she is alert to the Paganini's bel canto lyricism and wittily demonic in its devilish pyrotechnics. Rustioni encourages a lush, rhapsodic account of the Wolf-Ferrari." Sunday |
SIBELIUS / SULLIVAN
ShakespeareAEs Tempest: Incidental music for The Tempest Kansas City Symphony / Michael Stern [ Reference / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] "This is a fine and thoughtfully put together project. I hope we will hear more from this orchestra and conductor in similarly inventive couplings...Their Sullivan is excellent." (MusicWeb July 2008) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 & 2 Lars Vogt (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Red Line / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "This is a remarkable record, as fine a recorded account of these two concertos as we have had for many a long year." (Gramophone) |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major Op 39 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mark Elder (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 22 / CD - released 4/Feb/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
SIBELIUS
Symphonies 1-7 / Night Ride and Sunrise / Scene with Cranes / The Oceanides City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jan/2015 ] The legendary partnership of Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra bears fruit in this definitive collection of the complete symphonies of Jean Sibelius. Rattle's powerful interpretations of these seminal works - the core of... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos / Piano Works / Symphonies / Orchestral Works Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Alexander Kniazev (cello) / City of Birmingham Symphony, Sakari Oramo / London Symphony, Andre Previn [ Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "…a glorious example of Russian romantic virtuosity" Gramophone |
BERLIOZ / IBERT / MASSENET / POULENC / WALTON / OFFENBACH / etc
Louis Fremaux: The complete C.B.S.O. recordings Norma Burrows, Jill Gomez, David Hughes, John Ogdon, Cristina Ortiz, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux [ Warner Classics Icon / 12 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2017 ] This 12-CD set assembles, for the first time, all the recordings that the French conductor Louis Frémaux made (for EMI) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra during his tenure as its Principal Conductor (1969-1978). These recordings helped... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The Sound of Leonard Bernstein Wayne Marshall (piano) London Sinfonietta, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony / Simon Rattle, André Previn, Paavo Järvi, Andrew Litton [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 30/Mar/2018 ] "The recordings are good or very good throughout - all digital in provenance...I don't think many purchasers would regret buying this CD." (MusicWeb) |
JOHN FOULDS
Dynamic Triptych / April Evening / 2 Short Indian Works Peter Donohoe (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo [ Warner Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2006 ] "Brilliant music Stokowski would have loved and Oramo does proud" (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine June 2006) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky (Incls 'Le Sacra du Printemps', 'Petrushka' & 'L'Oiseau de feu') Peter Donohoe (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] "As ever with Rattle, it's the immense trust he places in the composer's handiwork, the care he exercises in matters of balance and dynamic shading, harmonic context and so on, that pays the dividends." (Gramophone on The Firebird) |
JOHN RUTTER
Christmas Music Polyphony / City of London Sinfonia / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Oct/2001 ] "A christmas treat for fans of Rutter's choral music, perhaps best taken in small doses." - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001) |
