More By Artist: Tim O'Brien
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OWAIN PARK
When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park The Epiphoni Consort, Tim Reader [ Delphian / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] The Epiphoni Consort follow up on their acclaimed debut, of music by David Bednall, with a portrait album of another young choral composer on the ascendant. |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No 7 / Triple Concerto Gordan Nikolitch (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) Lars Vogt (piano) London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink (conductor) [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] "Haitink demands attention from an orchestra, in his telling pauses as much as in the playing itself and the results were revelatory … To experience Haitink conducting is to witness a master at work" Daily Telegraph (UK), 19 November 2005 |
BRAHMS
Symphony No 2 / Double Concerto Gordan Nikolitch (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ LSO Live / CD - released 15/Jan/2004 ] "Haitink revisits Brahms in these imposing and beautifully shaded new accounts" Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2004) |
LEOPOLD HOFMANN
Hofmann: Cello Concertos Tim Hugh (cello/conductor) / Northern Sinfonia [ Naxos 18th Century Concerto / CD ] "This is slick, agile playing that time and again leaves one marvelling at the daring prodigality of Hofmann's solutions to bravura cello-writing… Highly recommended - I look forward to hearing more Hofmann from Hugh" Fanfare |
BEETHOVEN
Eroica / Symphony No. 3 Ian Hart / Tim Pigott-Smith / Claire Skinner / Jack Davenport / Orchestre RACvolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 5/May/2005 ] G :- 'Ian Hart is brilliant as Beethoven, a volatile, magnetic figure of genius and uncouth charm…not to be missed.' -- Daily Mail |
GERALD FINZI
Best of Finzi (Incls music from the Cello Concerto & Clarinet Concerto) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Peter Donohoe (piano) Tim Hugh (cello) Robert Plane (clarinet) / Northern Sinfonia / St. John's College Choir, Cambridge [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Gerald Finzi made an important contribution to British twentieth-century song, choral and orchestral repertoire. His acute awareness of the frailty of existence found its musical expression not only in his song settings, but in the Cello Concerto,... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah Julia Doyle, Justin Doyle, Thomas Hobbs, Roderick Williams, Tim Mead , RIAS Kammerchor Berlin [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and its chief conductor Justin Doyle present Handel's Messiah, together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and an all-British quartet of outstanding soloists, consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 [recorded live in 2016] Katherine Watson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor) & André Morsch (baritone) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] "At first the approach seems almost too light-toned and ethereal, but soon the intimacy of these modest forces takes an ineluctable grip. Textures are clear, tempi brisk - the Sanctus positively skips." The Observer |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Rodelinda (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Le Concert d'Astrée / Jeanine de Bique, Jakub Józef Orliński, Tim Mead, Benjamin Hulett, Avery Amereau / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Nov/2019 ] With this Blu-ray of Rodelinda, one of Handel's most emotionally complex operas, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm adds to her impressive Erato catalogue of the composer's works. The imaginative production, by Jean Bellorini, was seen at the Opéra de Lille... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Songs & Dances Tim Mead (countertenor) / Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] "Reactions to this absorbing and revelatory disc will, I suspect, depend on how one responds to the "Frenchified" Purcell of François Lazarevitch's Saint-Julien musicians. I heartily approve of their imaginative, improvisatory approach, which brings |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Lucy Crowe, Andrew Staples, Tim Mead, Christopher Purves / Le Concert d'Astrae, Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2014 ] "..the fusion of dramatic mood, orchestral texture and an inspired soloist often pays off handsomely." Gramophone |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (with Bach - Cantatas) Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Tim Mead (counter-tenor) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "A performance as sophisticated emotionally as it is musically." Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2017 |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Lydia Teuscher, Ida Falk Winland, Tim Mead, Samuel Boden, Neal Davies / Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "Cohen's rejection of the generic, within a grand and ravishing overview, is what propels an overwhelming sense here that this reading deserves to be taken very seriously...The work infrequently speaks with such gracefulness, freedom or conviction." |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Abide With Me And Other Favourite Hymns Marlowe Brass Ensemble / The Choir Of St George'S Chapel Windsor Castle / Tim Byram-Wigfield [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] Vernacular hymns, etymologically songs of praise, are a particular feature of the worship of the Protestant Reformation, assuming various forms over the centuries, as Christian beliefs and practices have undergone changes. The German hymns of Martin... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata, Toccata Matthew Jones, Sarah-Jane Bradley, Tim Lowe, Annabel Thwaite [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] These four works represent all of Sir William Walton's chamber music involving both violin and piano, as well as being a microcosm of his compositional output between 1918 and 1950. They offer a fascinating glimpse of Walton's stylistic journey, from... |
PALESTRINA / VICTORIA
Roma Aeterna - Two Roman Masses New York Polyphony with Tim Keeler (countertenor) Andrew Fuchs (tenor) and Jonathan Woody (bass-baritone) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "Don't be afraid to turn up the volume on this-even without a true surround system, you'll be (most pleasantly) surrounded." (ClassicsToday 9/10 September 2016) |
GEORGE ORWELL
Nineteen Eighty-Four Radio Adaptation with Tim Pigott Smith, Christopher Eccleston & Pippa Nixon [ Audio Book / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] SPECIAL PRICE Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that... |
MISSY MAZZOLI
Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright Peter Herresthal (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic, James Gaffigan, Tim Weiss [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Grammy Awards 66th Awards (2024) Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition Nominee - Best Classical Compendium |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Hana Blažiková, Tim Mead / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 29/Apr/2022 ] "With its glowing inner vitality and penetrating observations, this is a Passion that makes a very definite statement about what this work can communicate in our times." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Choral |
GERALD FINZI
A Finzi Anthology Robert Plane (clarinet), Tim Hugh (cello), Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), James Gilchrist (tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [ Naxos / 8 CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] More than any other composer, Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) has come to embody the lyrical pastoralism so associated with English twentieth-century music. This anthology includes eight critically acclaimed recordings of Finzi's works. The themes of... |
